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SpaceWorks And Stonebridge Technologies Announce Strategic Alliance
Dallas, TX and Rockville, MD, November 30, 1999 – SpaceWorks, Inc., a leading business-to-business Web commerce software company, and Stonebridge Technologies, a leading e-business solutions consulting firm, today announced a strategic relationship through which Stonebridge will provide its e-business solutions, and leading integration services, to deliver and deploy SpaceWorks market-leading Web-commerce application to clients. Additionally, cooperative marketing activities resulting from the collaboration and joint alliance will include joint trade show participation, targeted direct mail campaigns and reciprocal Internet promotions.
Stonebridge, a full service e-business consultancy with more than 450 associates in 12 geographic locations throughout the Southeast and Southcentral U.S., offers SpaceWorks clients leading technologies and e-business solutions focused on extending enterprise resource planning (XERP) and electronic relationship management (eRM). Stonebridge’s e-business deployment expertise will enable the rapid deployment of SpaceWorks OrderManager product, which transforms the traditional supply chain into a complete Web-based marketing, selling and customer service channel. In addition, Stonebridge’s geographic business model will support SpaceWorks’s ability to quickly respond to client demand for business-to-business electronic commerce capabilities in those geographic areas. SpaceWorks recently expanded its sales presence with new locations in Dallas, Atlanta and Raleigh.
Stonebridge, which provides innovative e-business solutions, integration and consulting services, has selected SpaceWorks as its business-to-business sell-side Web commerce solution. With the addition of the SpaceWorks Web commerce application, Stonebridge will be able to offer clients a Web-based electronic commerce solution that gives their trading partners the ability to: place orders, research product specs, check inventory availability, retrieve the latest pricing and catalog information, configure products, ship products, check order and shipping status, manage credit limits and accounts, and employ Internet-based customer service.
"SpaceWorks was a natural choice for Web-based order management because of their business-to-business experience and technology leadership" stated Jim Sherriff, CEO, Stonebridge Technologies. "SpaceWorks has emerged as a market trendsetter and our alliance with them will give clients direct access to advanced business-to-business electronic commerce capabilities."
"Our alliance with Stonebridge, an expert e-readiness(tm) solutions firm, will play a key role in SpaceWorks efforts to more quickly respond to fast-growing client demand," according to SpaceWorks President and CEO, Dave MacSwain.
About Stonebridge Technologies
Stonebridge Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of e-business solutions, integration and consulting services in the Southeastern and Southcentral United States. Stonebridge delivers 90 percent or more of its engagements using local Stonebridge consultants — a unique strategy giving clients cost-effective solutions that raise productivity and reduce risks associated with e-business transformation and complex technology projects. Stonebridge solutions focus on Extended Enterprise Resource Planning (XERP), Electronic Relationship Management (eRM) and Electronic Procurement (ORM). Areas of technical expertise include: business intelligence, software integration, custom development, business applications, infrastructure development and accompanying IT services.
Stonebridge employs more than 400 associates in 12 geographic locations. Stonebridge clients span a variety of industry sectors such as telecom, high technology, financial services, electronics and energy. Clients include many blue chip companies and large organizations such as Blockbuster, Chick-fil-A, eMerge Interactive, E*TRADE, Home Shopping Network, MCI Telecommunications, Texas Instruments, Williams Companies, GTE, Golfsmith, Nortel Networks and The Weather Channel.
For more information on Stonebridge Technologies, visit us online at www.sbti.com.
About SpaceWorks SpaceWorks empowers its clients to rapidly transform their business-to-business marketing, selling and customer service operations by providing a complete integrated Web-native, e-commerce solution comprised of software, services and partnerships producing significant cost reduction, increased revenue and satisfied buyers. With SpaceWorks OrderManager, businesses set up a 'self-service' sales-to-order-to-service environments on the Internet, through private corporate intranets and over extranets. SpaceWorks customers include leading Global 2000 companies. More information is available on the Company's Web site, www.spaceworks.com.
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