The revamped store also offers a travel service, a photo center, and an expanded list of products and services previously not available online. The Wal-Mart site runs in an HP environment with an Informix database. Users can employ the solutions individually or in combination to obtain a total ERP solution, move just one function to the Internet, or create a Web-based collaborative trading community. American Software's e-Collaboration Solutions include Logility Voyager XPS, which provides for collaboration among trading partners.
All solutions are available now.
The iMerge application allows businesses to search multi-vendor online catalogs regardless of the format in which they are published. In other news, Commerce One announced that it is joining Cisco's application hosting program, through which it will deliver its BuySite software. CCS features include normalization and rationalization of supplier content, Web-based administration tools for catalog and contract updates, proactive buyer alert for content and contract updates, spot buying and sourcing for new business opportunities, advanced parametric search capabilities, and enablement of indirect supply chains. The content managed by CCS may be accessed through a secured Internet connection or locally via an Intranet that is protected by a firewall. Expected availability of CCS is the first quarter of 2000.