A2i Announces Support for IBM WebSphere Commerce 5.5; Features Tighter Integration For Product Content Management and Catalogs Within e-Commerce
Posted on: Wednesday, 9 July 2003, 06:00 CDT
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 2003--A2i, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-wide product content management and catalog solutions, today announced that its xCat system will support the new version of IBM's e-commerce platform, and also provide even tighter integration between the catalog content management capabilities of xCat and the e-commerce capabilities of version 5.5 WebSphere Commerce.
A2i has been working with IBM for over two years, and today's announcement further builds upon that close relationship. In addition to support for WebSphere Commerce 5.5, which greatly expands its capabilities for both B2B and B2C applications, A2i offers compatibility across all of IBM's strategic software products, including its DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ software, running on a variety of different operating systems, including Linux.
"A2i's platform for product content management and catalog publishing complements the capabilities of WebSphere Commerce," said Bart Lautenbach, director, WebSphere Commerce, IBM. "A2i delivers a robust solution for customers with complex product content management requirements."
"With WebSphere Commerce Version 5.5, IBM has once again demonstrated that it listens to its customers by delivering greatly expanded functionality in a truly horizontal platform for e-business," said Paul Weinberg, president of A2i. "Moreover, A2i is proud to have worked closely with IBM by integrating its own system for product content management with the platform's built-in support for product catalogs, which are core to virtually all e-business applications. The resulting combination offers further enhanced functionality for the complex product content management and catalog publishing requirements of our customers."
About A2i, Inc.
A2i develops and markets the xCat system for enterprise-wide product content management and catalog publishing. xCat efficiently creates and manages catalogs containing from thousands to millions of products in a centralized repository of product content, supports both printed and electronic output from a single data source for Web-based electronic commerce, CD-ROM-based electronic catalogs, and custom paper catalogs, and delivers performance that is 100-1000 times faster than SQL alone. A2i customers include many of the largest industrial distributors in the United States, large manufacturers such as GE Appliances and NIBCO, and others. Founded in 1993, the company has offices in the United States and Israel. For more information about A2i, please visit www.a2i.com.
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