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 HP's basic business purpose is to accelerate the advancement of knowledge, and improve the effectiveness of people and organizations. HP's more than 24,000 products include computers and peripheral products, electronic test and measurement instruments and systems, networking products, medical electronic equipment, instruments and systems for chemical analysis, handheld devices and electronic components. HP's HP-UX-based client/server systems offer scalability, resilience and high-availability features to meet customers long-term needs. HP works with the industry's best-in-class technology companies, ISVs, database suppliers, application developers and systems integrators to provide complete solutions in markets that demand mission-critical, Internet and high-availability applications. HP is viewed by leading market-research firms as No. 1 in commercial UNIX systems market share. The HP NetServer system family of Intel-based servers is among the top three best-selling brands worldwide. The HP NetServer system family ranges from entry-level models for small workgroup applications to SMP servers for demanding enterprise environments. Our technology road map will take HP's server business well beyond the year 2000, in keeping with its mission to lead the way to a new generation of enterprise computing for the next century with innovation and service the competition can't match. |
 Oracle Corporation is the world's second largest software company, and the leading supplier of software for enterprise information management. The company has two major businesses: one aimed at providing the lowest cost information technology infrastructure, and the other to provide business and competitive advantage through high value applications. With annual revenues exceeding $6.0 billion, the company offers its database, tools and applications products, along with related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 140 countries around the world. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Oracle is one of the first software companies to implement its model of enterprise software management through network computing capable databases and products, and the first major software company to make full-featured products available electronically on the Internet. It is the only company capable of implementing end-to-end enterprise IT infrastructure and applications solutions on a global scale. |
 BEA Systems, Inc. develops, deploys, manages, and integrates distributed middleware software solutions for enterprise-level, mission-critical applications. BEA, a public company since April 1997, is a market leader in enterprise middleware solutions for Global 5000 companies. BEA's technology creates and manages large-scale applications that support fundamental business processes, such as airline reservations, credit card processing, and customer billing, across distributed computing environments such as the Web, client/server systems, and mainframe environments - all within a single information technology infrastructure. BEA customers are organizations with sophisticated, high-end information systems with numerous, geographically dispersed users and diverse, heterogeneous computing environments. Customers are generally mainframe-reliant or have large-scale client/server implementations that handle very high volumes of mission-critical business transactions. BEA customers rely on BEA solutions because they are reliable, deliver high performance, offer a full suite of network services, scale to large environments, and are flexible to adapt to changes in a company's organization, partners, and business processes.
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 Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For its 1998 fiscal year, ended, September 30, Lucent reported record revenues of $30.1 billion, and the company employs more than 150,000 people worldwide. Additional information about Lucent is available on the company's Web site at www.lucent.com.
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 A.T. Kearney is a worldwide management consultancy and executive search firm with
4,600 employees serving clients in every industry sector worldwide. Our offices are
located in 60 cities in 34 countries in the Americas, Asia and Europe. A.T. Kearney is the
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 Qwest is an Internet communications company. Our growing range of advanced Internet applications and services are delivered -- and enabled -- by the most advanced network on earth. It is the first network designed and built for the 21st century demands of Internet-based communications. It is a new-age pathway for anything our customers can imagine, at speeds they never thought possible. Our network is also a key competitive advantage. As voice, data and image converge to form a new communications model, networks built to carry voice and small amounts of data simply can't handle the job. Qwest's Macro CapacitySM Fiber network is built, running and providing the bandwidth to change everything.
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 Ariba is a leading provider of intranet- and Internet-based business-to-business electronic commerce solutions for operating resources. The company's products efficiently connect requestors to approvers and buyers to suppliers to deliver an automated solution for improving the acquisition and management of operating resources, the goods and services required to operate a company. Ariba Operating Resource Management SystemTM (Ariba ORMSTM) enables organizations to automate the procurement cycle within their intranets, lowering the costs of acquiring and managing operating resources. Ariba.com NetworkTM, a global business-to-business electronic commerce network for operating resources, enables buyers and suppliers to automate transactions on the Internet. Together, Ariba ORMS and Ariba.com Network provide a business-to-business electronic commerce solution for operating resources that benefits both buyers and suppliers.
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 Founded in 1993, BroadVision, Inc. is the leading supplier of application solutions for one-to-one relationship management and e-commerce across the extended enterprise. BroadVision One-To-One applications provide the robust and scalable architecture, secure transactions, and high-performance operations required for mission-critical business uses in retail/distribution, financial services, high technology, travel, and telecom industries. The BroadVision One-To-One suite of Internet software applications enables companies to personalize communications, transactions, services and support to match the needs of employees, partners and customers. BroadVision is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. and maintains an extensive network of subsidiaries and licensed re-sellers in North and South America, Europe and Asia.
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 ClearCommerce provides integrated transaction processing solutions
for businesses that are serious about e-commerce. ClearCommerce software features the most
robust Internet fraud protection and greatest ease of
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 Engineering Animation, Inc. is the leader in Internet-enabled visual process management, collaboration, analysis and communication solutions for extended manufacturing enterprises. EAI's e-Vis.comT and VisEPMT solutions help manufacturing companies drive down costs while improving business practices, efficiency, quality and time-to-market. EAI has extensive experience in working with manufacturing companies, and has more than 1,000 customers, including half of Industry Week's 100 largest manufacturing companies. Leading manufacturers such as AlliedSignal, Boeing, Case, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrsyler, Ford, John Deere, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Lucent, Motorola, Toyota, Volvo, Xerox and many more have turned to EAI to remain competitive in the new Millennium. The use of EAI's solutions has helped save its customers hundreds of millions of dollars by eliminating errors early in the design process and ensuring efficient engineering and manufacturing processes. The Company maintains its corporate headquarters and technology center in Ames, Iowa and has offices worldwide.
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 FreeMarkets is a business to business e-commerce company that creates custom online markets for buyers at Global 1000 corporations. FreeMarkets helps buyers of custom components and materials, near-commodities, services, and energy reduce their costs by maximizing competition among high-quality suppliers in real-time online markets. These online markets are fundamentally changing the game in industrial markets -- increasing openness and efficiency, focusing competition on total factor productivity versus sales relationships, increasing buyer power, and will ultimately force supply industry consolidation to the most efficient producers. |
 i2 Technologies is the market leader in APS
software for streamlining the supply chains of Fortune 5000 companies. Deployed at
hundreds of companies around the world, i2's solutions harness sophisticated planning
engines for use in managing the supply chain, and in supporting decision-making.
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 InterWorld Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise commerce software solutions for sales, order management, account management and fulfillment. The company develops, markets, and licenses high-performance, mission-critical enterprise commerce applications focused on the selling chain. The InterWorld Commerce Exchange family of products includes a state-of-the-art platform, enterprise applications, robust tools and universal business adapters. InterWorld’s products have been adopted by Global 2000 manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Founded in 1995, InterWorld is a privately-held company headquartered in New York, NY, with offices in major U.S. cities as well as Australia, Europe, and Japan.
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 Security First Technologies, or S1, is recognized as the leading provider of Internet-based applications that are designed to help innovative organizations deliver integrated services online. S1’s end-to-end solution enables organizations to capitalize on new revenue opportunities and strengthen existing customer relationships. S1 combines superior functionality with a broad range of applications to provide the most comprehensive set of Internet-based solutions designed to meet the unique needs of financial institutions.
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 Questra Corporation is an Internet systems integration firm committed to helping companies gain a competitive advantage by leveraging the Internet to transform key business processes, operations, products and services. We are dedicated to delivering customer-focused results that provide true business value. Our team of talented professionals offers a depth of experience and expertise unmatched in the industry. We work side-by-side with our customers to define Internet business strategies and implement solutions that help them thrive in today’s information-based economy. Questra provides a range of services that includes e-strategy consulting, package implementation, systems integration and software development. Our practices focus on e-Commerce, e-Customer Relationship Management, Business Intelligence, e-Services and e-Appliances.
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