First Trading Partner Usinternetworking
PC Connection goes Live with First Trading Partner, Usinternetworking.
SEATTLE, WA – April 24, 2001 – Hubspan, an e-business infrastructure provider, today
announced that PC Connection, a leading direct marketer of information technology
products and solutions went live with its first trading partner, Usinternetworking (USi),
the leading Application Service Provider (ASP). PC Connection is using the Hubspan
service to rapidly and efficiently respond to customer requests for PunchOut/Round Trip
enablement.
PC Connection is a $1.54 billion company renowned for providing customers with award
winning service and outstanding support.PunchOut/Round Trip capability leverages the
technology investments USi and other buyers have made in procurement systems such as
Ariba, Commerce One, SAP and Oracle by making it easy to access PC Connection?s
website directly from their buy-side system. With a single connection to the Hubspan
network,PC Connection can quickly, easily and cost-effectively satisfy multiple customer
demands for real-time integration.
Hubspan integrated PC Connection and USi in just a few weeks at a fraction of the time
and cost it would have taken to build a single customer connection in-house. The ability to respond quickly to customer requests for integration will further support PC Connection’s dedication to providing exceptional customer service and integration will provide PC Connection with improved process efficiencies.
“Hubspan is proud to provide PC Connection’s first live trading partner integration” said
Rick Luebbe, chief executive officer, Hubspan. “PC Connection is an excellent example
of a Fortune 1000 company leveraging the flexibility and versatility of the Hubspan
service to respond quickly and cost-effectively to their customer?s connectivity needs.”
About PC Connection
PC Connection, Inc., a Fortune 1000 company founded in 1982, is a rapid-response
provider of information technology products and solutions. The Company offers more
than 100,000 brand-name products through its staff of technically-trained outbound sales
account managers and catalog telesales representatives, its comprehensive web sites at
www.pcconnection.com and www.macconnection.com and its catalogs PC Connection (1-800-800-5555) and MacConnection (1-800-800-2222). Through its full-service Distribution and Custom-Configuration Center, PC Connection can deliver custom-configured computer systems overnight.
About Hubspan
Hubspan is a hosted infrastructure that allows companies to exchange supply- and
demand-chain information with their trading partners. The company’s connectivity
solutions allow clients to easily leverage their existing infrastructure and connect to all
trading partners regardless of technical sophistication. Hubspan’s service also helps
bridge communication barriers and technology gaps (protocols, standards and business
rules) between business partners and across their entire trading community, as well as
provides the infrastructure to enable full supply chain collaboration. Through one connection to the Hubspan service, businesses can reach any trading partner quickly and cost effectively while also greatly reducing the cost and impact of maintenance and change, resulting from disparate standards and emerging technologies. Additional information can be found at www.hubspan.com.
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