NexPrise and Sun Microsystems Form Strategic Alliance to Deliver B2B Collaborative Commerce Solutions - Brief Article

Information Superhighways Newsletter, Sept, 2001

NexPrise announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems. Under the agreement, NexPrise and Sun will jointly offer flexible, scalable, and easy-to-implement collaborative e-business solutions based on the award-winning NexPrise ipTeam platform and Sun Enterprise servers. By leveraging the NexPrise-Sun offering, public and private exchanges can realize the benefits of collaborative commerce for complex procurement and strategic sourcing; product development; and program management and execution.

The strategic alliance extends a previous commitment of Sun and NexPrise - a SunTone Certified Application vendor - to deliver best-of-breed services, software, and applications that offer dial-tone-like quality and reliability. The agreement comprises both technology development and co-marketing initiatives aimed at bringing innovative collaborative commerce solutions to new and existing customers. NexPrise ipTeam, running on Sun Enterprise Servers, is already deployed at a number of industry innovators including Boeing Rocketdyne, Covisint, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Invensys PLC.

NexPrise's collaborative commerce solution, NexPrise ipTeam, was built using Sun's Java technology, on the Sun Solaris Operating Environment (OE), and is J2EE compliant. NexPrise has adopted J2EE as the foundation for building its networked enterprise applications and services primarily because of its capability to provide flexibility and scalability, while maintaining the freedom of choice, faster time-to-market, and simplified connectivity. The NexPrise solution is a powerful means to deliver significant value to Fortune 1000 manufacturers who seek to quickly reduce product development time and costs while realizing a higher return on investment.