Ariba, InterWorld to offer e-business supplier solutions
The e-commerce software makers announce a marketing and technology alliance to provide online selling and collaborative trading software.
Under the terms of the agreement, InterWorld will integrate its sell-side Commerce Exchange technology together with the Ariba Network product. The combined offering is targeted towards suppliers who want a business-to-business e-commerce environment for online sales and order processing with integration into the Ariba Network marketplace.
Ariba and InterWorld will also jointly invest in marketing and sales tools to promote the combined Ariba and InterWorld package to each other's customers and customers' suppliers. In addition, the two companies will develop a competency center to demonstrate the capabilities of buyer-seller integration to customers.