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Cyclone Commerce and Oracle Plan to Expand the Rapid Deployment of Internet Trading CommunitiesCompanies Plan to Enable Creation of Secure and Reliable Global Commerce Connections Between Trading Partners in a Matter of DaysSCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 1 / -- Cyclone Commerce®, the leading provider of solutions that create Open Business Connections for business-to-business eCommerce, and Oracle® (Nasdaq: ORCL - news), the largest provider of software for eBusiness, today announced an alliance whereby the companies plan to extend the trading community capabilities of Oracle Consulting's business network architecture. This alliance will give Oracle additional means to deploy massively scalable and highly secure trading communities faster than ever before by integrating Cyclone Interchange® with the Oracle9i technology product line.The business network architecture is Oracle Consulting's reference architecture incorporating Oracle9i technology with partner solutions to create a complete infrastructure for conducting eBusiness. The business network architecture was designed specifically to support Oracle's E-Business Suite, but it is fully capable of incorporating any third party or legacy application. ``Customers need scalability -- and this means rapidly enabling a critical mass of suppliers, buyers and distributors, as well as interconnecting with other trading communities,'' said Mark Salser, senior vice president of Oracle's Advanced Technology Solutions. ``Oracle Consulting's business network architecture was designed to provide customers with a comprehensive yet simple technology approach for creating scalable and secure eBusiness trading communities. Cyclone's Trading Community Management platform is the ideal complement to our approach.'' By implementing Oracle Consulting's business network architecture and using Cyclone Interchange, customers obtain a complete B2B solution. Cyclone provides interoperability with the variety and generations of integration solutions that today's trading communities require to generate immediate business impact. Cyclone Interchange supports all major data formats including XML, EDI, spreadsheets and flat files, as well as all messaging standards including but not limited to OAG, EDI-INT, AS1, AS2, EDIFACT, ebXML and RosettaNet. ``There has been so much hype in the marketplace, but in this case, 'more' actually is 'more,''' said Phil Myers, president and COO of Cyclone Commerce. ``You take Oracle's superior Oracle9i infrastructure and add more -- more standards, more interoperability, more security and more choice -- to enable companies to establish secure online trading communities faster than ever before.'' About Oracle Oracle Corporation provides the software that powers the Internet. For more information about Oracle, please visit www.oracle.com. About Cyclone Commerce Cyclone Commerce is committed to creating Open Business Connections that allow companies to reach outside the enterprise to quickly and securely connect to anyone, anyway they choose. By empowering companies to move beyond hardwired connections, Cyclone's suite of products helps to establish and manage collaborative Internet eCommerce communities. Cyclone's customers include Compaq, Procter & Gamble, Bergen Brunswig, Gillette and Pfizer. Cyclone also powers the marketplaces and services managed by Neoforma, GNX, UCCnet and IBM. CONTACT: Media, Melissa Lohnes of Sterling Hager, Inc., +1-415-591-8400, or melissa@sterlinghager.com, for Cyclone Commerce, Inc.; or Jeff Kukowski of Cyclone Commerce, Inc., +1-480-627-1800, or jkukowski@cyclonecommerce.com. OracleMobile 415/401-4000 jmorgan@tenthdimension.com top of page |
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