Plug and Play" Solution for UCCnet Services gives Suppliers a Complete, Simple, Easy to Use Behind the Firewall Application

New EXTOL software lets suppliers synchronize product data in less than 60 minutes.

Pottsville, PA (PRWEB) March 15, 2004 ---A complete, Load and Go" UCCnet application for suppliers to implement UCCnet services was announced today by EXTOL International, Inc., a leading vendor of B2B applications. The software application enables you to enter, validate and synchronize trade item data with UCCnet services in less than an hour. The product is certified by UCC as a complete UCCnet Synchronization Suite solution, packaged with prices beginning at $2,500. EXTOL has taken this move to rapidly expand UCCnet usage to the 80% of retail suppliers who have not yet participated.

"Retailers are wrestling with a bottleneck of suppliers who are not able to on-board to UCCnet easily and quickly," says Andrew White, Research Director, Gartner, Inc., "Suppliers need to be able to access UCCnet and data synchronization services to meet with retailer mandates to participate in retail driven initiatives aligned with Global Data Synchronization. Small and mid-size enterprises are not alone in this effort and they look for 'lighter' solutions to avoid the bottleneck," he continued.

The EXTOL shrink wrapped" data synchronization solution is designed for suppliers with a limited number of products impacted by a UCCnet customer mandate to subscribe to UCCnet services. It is the identical product shipped to EXTOLs enterprise clients, with the internal integration capabilities locked. Until now, a supplier facing UCCnet deadlines was forced to choose between primitive tools lacking basic management capabilities and expensive high end products that required significant time, effort and custom coding to implement UCCnet services," stated Tony Baran, CEO of EXTOL.

This new offering removes the obstacles of cost and deployment times for the SMB enterprise without sacrificing the automation and ease of use previously available only in expensive, high-end solutions," added Dennis Bonagura, President of EXTOL. The plug and play approach enables a supplier to install the system, immediately enter, validate, register and publish trade item data in less than an hour. This gives them a UCCnet services solution under their control, provides a fixed cost solution and can be expanded for full integration with a simple license upgrade."

The product is configured to allow the supplier to key the data directly into the internal product item data catalog where it will be automatically checked for compliance and synchronized with the UCCnet services. The EXTOL SMB enterprise solution contains features for workflow approvals, email notifications, intelligent stop lighting and automated life cycle tracking. The internal product catalog has the ability to support more than UCCnet data, but also data required by other initiatives such as WWRE, RFID and other industry or customer specific requirements.

As a suppliers data synchronization requirements increase, or if they choose to take advantage of the feature rich integration capabilities of the EXTOL Business Integrator, they already have the software installed and available through a license upgrade. This is the advantage of the EXTOL Integrator for UCCnet Services.

About EXTOL International, Inc.

EXTOL International, Inc. is a leading provider of B2B integration application software for the mid-sized enterprise. EXTOL enables companies to exchange and integrate transactions and documents, regardless of form or format, between their applications and those of their partners. The EXTOL Business Integrator is an integration platform for electronic commerce applications including EDI, AS2, XML, UCCnet and the integration and management capabilities required to take full advantage of supply chain functionality. For more information go to www.extol.com

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