Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Edict Systems and iSoft Form an Alliance to Deliver Large
Companies the Long Promised 100% e-Business Connected Trading
Community
DAYTON, Ohio and ADDISON, Texas, April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Edict Systems, Inc., a wholly owned and sole operating
subsidiary of Advant-e Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: AVEE
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and a leading provider of Business- to-Business Trading Community
Solutions today announced it has formed an Alliance with iSoft
Corporation, a leading provider of business community connectivity
solutions. The companies plan to jointly market and deliver
larger companies heavily invested in previous e-Business initiatives,
such as EDI, with the long promised solutions to easily and
cost-effectively transact with 100% of their trading community.
Under the terms of the Alliance, Edict Systems will market
the iSoft Commerce Suite product family to its customers and
their trading communities. Edict Systems will also integrate
iSoft Commerce Suite into EnterpriseEC® an Electronic
Trading Network (ETN) that provides customers with a web-based
interface to track and manage trading communities and transactions.
Edict Systems customers now have the ability to purchase certified
peer-to-peer software supporting standards such as EDI-INT
AS2 directly from Edict Systems to support mandates by leading
retailers and other large buying organizations, and with the
same software, connect to EnterpriseEC® for connections
to other trading partners who do not yet support peer-to-peer
connectivity. EnterpriseEC® is also suitable for low volume
trading partners who desire a managed connectivity solution.
iSoft will market Edict Systems solutions to their customers
who have acquired the iSoft Commerce Suite for connectivity
solutions who also require additional services to connect,
integrate, manage, and expand their trading partner relationships.
These services are targeted at companies who want to maximize
the value of their e-Business initiatives by conducting electronic
commerce with more of their trading partners. A key element
of this Alliance will be Edict Systems providing iSoft customers
with Trading Community Ramping services to assess each targeted
trading partner's e-Business readiness and offer them an appropriate
cost-effective solution to their individual needs.
"iSoft is the recognized performance leader in secure,
reliable communication infrastructure for the enterprise by
leveraging the Internet communications standards, stated Kevin
Johnson, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for
Edict Systems. "We found iSoft Commerce Suite to be the
most scaleable and robust enterprise gateway for larger companies
and chose it as our gateway engine within EnterpriseEC®
to deliver our solutions that integrate, manage, and expand
trading communities. Our combination of capabilities further
positions both of us to provide end-to-end solutions for our
customers and their trading partners regardless of their size,
technical capabilities, or internal resources."
"Edict Systems is a proven leader in expanding trading
communities for larger companies with their trading community
ramping services and Web EDI solutions to enable the previously
paper-based supplier transactions," added Mike Tomnitz,
Vice President of Alliances for iSoft. "We are pleased
to assist our customers with making connections to 100% of
their trading community using our iSoft Commerce Suite as
the enterprise gateway and Edict Systems capabilities to expand
the connections to all trading partners."
For
more information please contact Edict Systems sales at solutions@edictsystems.com,
iSoft sales at sales@isoft.com or
contact the following company executives:
Edict Systems, Inc., a wholly owned and sole operating subsidiary
of Advant-e Corporation, headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, is
a leading provider of Hosted Trading Community Management
Solutions. Edict System's services connect, integrate, manage,
and expand the use of e-Business transactions within and between
enterprises. Such services include Hub Services that assist
large companies with expanding connections to more suppliers
while increasing the integration of the transactions into
internal systems. The ongoing Hub Services provide companies
with application tools for document tracking, management,
and reporting of the enabled transactions using EnterpriseEC®,
an Electronic Trading Network (ETN). EnterpriseEC® also
provides managed connectivity, VAN connectivity, Web EDI enablement,
and support for emerging e-Business standards such as EDI-INT.
Edict Systems also supports e-Business Integration technologies
such as Data Translation and Application Integration both
as hosted services and as software solutions. To implement
the various software and services, Professional Services are
also available to customers. For more information, please
visit www.edictsystems.com .
iSoft Corporation ( www.isoft.com ) provides software and
services for moving and managing critical business enterprise
information internally and externally over the Internet. iSoft's
flagship product, Commerce Suite, delivers the profile management,
communication, security and quick deployment necessary to
build a successful Internet-based trading community. iSoft's
communication solutions are being employed by prominent company's
around the world, including Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Sunbeam,
L'Oreal, Epson, and Clorox.
The information
in this news release includes certain forward looking statements
that are based upon assumptions that in the future may prove
not to have been accurate and are subject to significant risks
and uncertainties, including statements to the future financial
performance of the company. Although the company believes
that the expectations reflected on its forward looking statements
are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations
or any or its forward-looking statements will prove to be
correct. Factors that could cause results to differ include,
but are not limited to, successful performance of internal
plans, product development and acceptance, the impact of competitive
services and pricing, or general economic risks and uncertainties.
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