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Commerce One Inc. (Nasdaq: CMRC) and SAPMarkets, Inc., the SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) subsidiary,
today announced they will deliver their joint e-marketplace solution for the Integrated
Business Exchange (IBX), throughout the Nordic region. The independently owned open
exchange, founded by Ericsson, SEB and b-business partners will link buyers and sellers
of goods and services across all industries and countries in the Nordic region.
IBX will run on MarketSet(TM), the joint solution recently developed by Commerce One and
SAPMarkets. As Commerce One and SAPMarkets' first joint Nordic customer, IBX will become
a leading B2B e-marketplace in the Nordic region and join the Commerce One Global Trading
Web(TM), the world's largest business-to-business (B2B) trading community.
By transacting through IBX, it is expected that enterprises throughout the Nordic region,
including Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway, will be able to conduct business with
greatly increased speed, reach and efficiency.
The advanced architecture of the SAPMarkets and Commerce One solution and their
experience in building international e-marketplaces convinced us to choose them as
partners, said Hans Ahlinder, CEO of IBX. By adopting the SAPMarkets and Commerce One
solution, we will be able to offer our clients even more effective ways of doing
business.
Bernd-Uwe Pagel, managing director of SAPMarkets Europe, said, By utilizing MarketSet,
the SAPMarkets and Commerce One joint solution, IBX offers businesses in the entire
Nordic region tremendous opportunity to drastically reduce order-to-delivery cycle times,
improve customer relationships and increase productivity.
We believe IBX is in an ideal position to revolutionize B2B e-commerce in the Nordic
region, said Paul Taylor, vice president and general manager of EMEA Operations for
Commerce One. We expect that businesses participating in this e-marketplace will benefit
from an open B2B infrastructure and solution allowing them to easily transact and
collaborate with one another regionally and on a global scale through the Global Trading
Web.
IBX is currently in negotiation with further potential investors across the Nordic region
to join forces on this exchange.
Global Trading Web
Founded by Commerce One and including leading corporations from around the world, the
Global Trading Web is the world's largest business-to-business trading community.
Comprised of many interoperating e-marketplaces, the Global Trading Web provides
unprecedented economies of scale for buying organisations, suppliers, and business
service providers worldwide.
About IBX
The IBX Integrated Business Exchange was founded in 2000 by SEB, Ericsson and b-business
partners and is one of the most powerful business-to-business exchanges in northern
Europe. The marketplace brings together buyers and sellers who want to render their
business more effective and cost efficient and interact with each other via the Internet.
Clients' products range from high-volume office supplies to critical IT appliances, as
well as consultancy services. By facilitating efficient transactions and creating a focal
point of competence, IBX provides its customers with lowered costs and competitive
advantages.
IBX currently has 20 employees and estimates to be 100 people in 2001.
About Commerce One and SAPMarkets
In June 2000, SAPMarkets and Commerce One announced the teaming of Commerce One's leading
e-marketplace infrastructure and B2B solutions with top-rated mySAP.com e-business
applications from SAP and SAPMarkets. The joint offering combines e-procurement with
collaborative services for trading communities, dramatically reducing cycle times,
improving customer relationships and increasing productivity for businesses worldwide.
The Commerce One and SAPMarkets team strategy is unique in the industry, including
product strategy, co-engineering, joint marketing, sales and support, and thus offers
enterprises and trading communities a single source for the entire range of open
business-to-business solutions and e-marketplaces. Commerce One is located in Pleasanton,
Calif., and can be reached in Europe by phone at +44 (0) 1753 483000 or via the Internet
at http://www.commerceone.com. SAPMarkets, based in Palo Alto, Calif., can be found at
http://www.sapmarkets.com. More information on SAP can be found at http://www.sap.com.
SAP AG and SAPMarkets Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements based on beliefs of SAP
management. Any statements contained in this press release that are not historical facts
are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. The words anticipate, believe, estimate, expect, intend, may, plan,
project, should and will and similar expressions as they relate to SAP are intended to
identify such forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the current views and
assumptions of SAP, and all forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and
uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially from expectations. The
factors that could affect future SAP financial results are discussed more fully in SAP
filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), including the SAP
Annual Report on Form 20-F for 1999 filed with the SEC on April 7, 2000. Readers are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak
only as of their dates. SAP undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements.
Commerce One Forward-Looking Statements
The foregoing paragraphs include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section
27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements include statements concerning
Commerce One's commitment to and expectations regarding the IBX e-marketplace, including
Commerce One and SAPMarkets' joint efforts to assist IBX's members, suppliers and service
providers in moving their business commerce onto the World Wide Web, and the expected
benefits, including an open B2B infrastructure and solution, improved efficiency and
increased reach and speed. Actual results may differ materially from those described in
such statements as a result of a number of factors. These factors include, but are not
limited to, the risk that the IBX e-marketplace may not perform with the ease and
effectiveness that is expected, the extent of use of such e-marketplace by IBX members,
suppliers and service providers, actual efficiencies and economies of scale may not be as
pronounced as those anticipated by the parties, unexpected operational difficulties,
fluctuations in operating results, the cooperation of the parties, general economic
conditions, and intense and increasing competition in the market. For a discussion of
these and other risk factors that could affect Commerce One's business, see Risk Factors
in Commerce One's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its
annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999 and its quarterly report
on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2000.