FAIRFAX, Va., May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- webMethods, Inc. , the industry's first Web services infrastructure company, today announced that the webMethods Item Synchronization solution successfully completed the most recent UCCnet 2.3 interoperability testing and is now certified by Drummond Group. Drummond Group, Inc. is a vendor-neutral consultancy that performs objective interoperability testing on behalf of UCCnet. webMethods has consistently achieved Drummond Group certification for every version of UCCnet since becoming a UCCnet Preferred Alliance Partner in 2000.
UCCnet 2.3 is the latest version of the organization's universal foundation for standards-based e-commerce. With this latest certification, webMethods customers will now have the most up-to-date features that UCCnet offers, including catalog item subscription, item link, request for catalog item notification, pricing and price brackets. UCCnet 2.3 has also been updated for hard-line class extension attributes.
"This latest certification ensures that our customers have the best-in- class solution to seamlessly integrate their back-end systems with services offered by UCCnet," said Kareen Renaudin, vice president, Industry Solutions, webMethods, Inc. "webMethods' standards-based Item Synchronization solution allows our customers to rapidly integrate with UCCnet and enables them to benefit from secure, cost-effective, real-time information exchange."
As a UCCnet Preferred Alliance Partner, webMethods provides integrated collaborative commerce solutions to the expanding UCCnet community. The UCCnet alliance program certifies partners to provide best-in-class knowledge, resources and tools that enable UCCnet subscribers to implement GLOBALregistry and data synchronization services quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively.
About UCCnet
The UCCnet registry improves the accuracy of an organization's supply chain product and location information. Suppliers provide product, location, and trading partner information to the UCCnet registry. UCCnet data synchronization services then check the data for compliance to EAN.UCC standards and validate the data with demand side partners, ensuring that all trading partners are using identical, updated, EAN.UCC standards-compliant data. Visit http://www.uccnet.org/ for more information.
About Drummond Group, Inc.
Drummond Group, Inc. is a vendor-neutral consultancy that drives the adoption of technical standards for supply chain optimization through interoperability testing and competitive supply chain strategies. DGI started interoperability testing in 1996 and has built a worldwide reputation for expertise, value and integrity using the DGI Interoperability Compliance Process(TM). DGI collaborates with the standards community, software companies and industry groups to align horizontal infrastructures with the needs of industries such as retail, grocery, healthcare, transportation, government and automotive. Visit http://www.drummondgroup.com/ for more information.
About webMethods, Inc.
webMethods is the industry's first Web services infrastructure company. webMethods' innovative integration, Web services, portal and analytic solutions enable more than 1,100 enterprise customers worldwide to run, measure and optimize their business. Recognized in 2003 as the fastest growing software company in North America by Deloitte, webMethods is headquartered in Fairfax, Va., with offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan. More information about the company can be found at http://www.webmethods.com/.
webMethods is a registered trademark, and Global Business Visibility is a trademark, of webMethods, Inc. in the USA and certain other countries. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.
This press release may contain various remarks about the future expectations, plans and prospects of webMethods that constitute forward- looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of U.S. securities laws. The actual results of webMethods may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including those discussed under the heading "Factors That May Affect Future Operating Results" in the Business section of webMethods' Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2003, and in the "Management's Discussion and Analysis" section of webMethods' Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2003, which are on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and may be accessed at http://www.sec.gov/ or webMethods' investor relations web page at http://www.webmethods.com/investors/. webMethods disclaims any obligation to update or correct any forward-looking statements made herein due to the occurrence of events after the issuance of this press release.
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UCCnet 2.3 is the latest version of the organization's universal foundation for standards-based e-commerce. With this latest certification, webMethods customers will now have the most up-to-date features that UCCnet offers, including catalog item subscription, item link, request for catalog item notification, pricing and price brackets. UCCnet 2.3 has also been updated for hard-line class extension attributes.
"This latest certification ensures that our customers have the best-in- class solution to seamlessly integrate their back-end systems with services offered by UCCnet," said Kareen Renaudin, vice president, Industry Solutions, webMethods, Inc. "webMethods' standards-based Item Synchronization solution allows our customers to rapidly integrate with UCCnet and enables them to benefit from secure, cost-effective, real-time information exchange."
As a UCCnet Preferred Alliance Partner, webMethods provides integrated collaborative commerce solutions to the expanding UCCnet community. The UCCnet alliance program certifies partners to provide best-in-class knowledge, resources and tools that enable UCCnet subscribers to implement GLOBALregistry and data synchronization services quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively.
About UCCnet
The UCCnet registry improves the accuracy of an organization's supply chain product and location information. Suppliers provide product, location, and trading partner information to the UCCnet registry. UCCnet data synchronization services then check the data for compliance to EAN.UCC standards and validate the data with demand side partners, ensuring that all trading partners are using identical, updated, EAN.UCC standards-compliant data. Visit http://www.uccnet.org/ for more information.
About Drummond Group, Inc.
Drummond Group, Inc. is a vendor-neutral consultancy that drives the adoption of technical standards for supply chain optimization through interoperability testing and competitive supply chain strategies. DGI started interoperability testing in 1996 and has built a worldwide reputation for expertise, value and integrity using the DGI Interoperability Compliance Process(TM). DGI collaborates with the standards community, software companies and industry groups to align horizontal infrastructures with the needs of industries such as retail, grocery, healthcare, transportation, government and automotive. Visit http://www.drummondgroup.com/ for more information.
About webMethods, Inc.
webMethods is the industry's first Web services infrastructure company. webMethods' innovative integration, Web services, portal and analytic solutions enable more than 1,100 enterprise customers worldwide to run, measure and optimize their business. Recognized in 2003 as the fastest growing software company in North America by Deloitte, webMethods is headquartered in Fairfax, Va., with offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan. More information about the company can be found at http://www.webmethods.com/.
webMethods is a registered trademark, and Global Business Visibility is a trademark, of webMethods, Inc. in the USA and certain other countries. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.
This press release may contain various remarks about the future expectations, plans and prospects of webMethods that constitute forward- looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of U.S. securities laws. The actual results of webMethods may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including those discussed under the heading "Factors That May Affect Future Operating Results" in the Business section of webMethods' Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2003, and in the "Management's Discussion and Analysis" section of webMethods' Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2003, which are on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and may be accessed at http://www.sec.gov/ or webMethods' investor relations web page at http://www.webmethods.com/investors/. webMethods disclaims any obligation to update or correct any forward-looking statements made herein due to the occurrence of events after the issuance of this press release.
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