MarketSite - open business-to-business marketplace
portal for electronic procurement built on the Commerce One MarketSite
platform. It is a Web-based, open-platform, fee-per-transaction network
of Commerce One, designed to interoperate with various buying and selling
applications. MarketSite.net has supplied transaction and content management
services to buyers and suppliers since March 1998.
Key features:
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Open platform- to multiple buying and selling applications
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Breakthrough XML technology - for interoperability with existing trading
communities and applications
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Managed content - for buyers and suppliers
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Automated transaction support - real-time automated buying and selling
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Business Services - integrated commerce capabilities from multiple providers
(e.g., freight, tax and payment) with a single point of access for all
trading partners. Supports new business processes for all trading partners,
alleviating individual application integration
Hosted Applications - for buyers and suppliers of any e-commerce
readiness
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enables buyers and sellers using various software applications to connect
seamlessly and conduct transactions
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linking horizontal, regional, and vertical marketplaces
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low cost of entry / make money while buyers are saving money and sellers
are making money
Financial
Backers
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Canaan Partners
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Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Venture Partners
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Foundation Capital, L.P.
Customers
Link to Marketsite
This report was completed in October 1999 for the class
International
Electronic Commerce taught in
the program of Management
Of Global Information Technology at the Kogod
School of Business
at American University
in Washington D.C.
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