2001 Press Releases
Glovia in the news
Glovia Breaks e-Commerce Boundaries With Powerful, Flexible Platform for Global Multi-Language Transactions.
Glovia Leverages its Industry Expertise to Preconfigure glovia.hub to Meet the Complex Requirements of Automotive, Telecommunications, Electronics and Capital Equipment Manufacturers
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - June 28, 2001 - Glovia, the business-to-business e-commerce subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, today announced the launch of glovia.hub, a private digital marketplace platform designed to take the pain out of global e-business by seamlessly linking market-makers to suppliers and customers regardless of language, currency or operating system. glovia.hub will be available for beta testing next month and generally available September 2001.
glovia.hub combines three key elements for successful hub deployment, a strong back office suite of highly scalable ERP technology, combined with multi-language e-commerce buy and sell-side technology and high performance secure message routing Interstage technology from Fujitsu. This technology enables global business execution where companies can transparently transact business regardless of differences in language, currency, or installed backend legacy applications.
glovia.hub is targeted at companies attempting to execute their business globally. Up until now the language of commerce has defaulted to English. With glovia.hub's unique real time translation technology, orders can be entered in one language and seen in any other language. Other benefits include the ability to aggregate sales and demand within a single organization, to merge products and services as one offering, and to generate quotations that reflect multi-plant collaboration. With glovia.hub, buyers see one view of the company, while sellers see a 360 ° view of product and service capability.
"Enterprises realize that conducting meaningful B2B commerce involves far more than just posting a catalog and taking orders from your domestic customers," said William Brandel, research director of e-business at Aberdeen Group. "Trading partners are often scattered across the globe, and need strong purchase planning and post-order support."
In addition to its ready-to-go functionality, glovia.hub's component-based architecture gives companies the flexibility to pick and choose from a variety of pre-packaged modules. Available components will include: e-Selling, to manage customer requirements from quote to shipment; e-Buying, to manage supplier relationships from RFQ to purchase order delivery; and e-Logistics, to manage and optimize resources.
"We designed glovia.hub to address the needs of Fortune 1000 companies who desire the productivity gains of streamlining and collapsing the buy and sell business processes into collaborative business processes with customers and suppliers," said Matt O'Malley, CEO and President of Glovia International. "We believe our e-commerce and enterprise applications, coupled with the dynamic Interstage B2B infrastructure technology environment, deliver the global business capability that the world's leading corporations need to gain a competitive advantage. A major strength of the technology is the speed of implementation that can start to yield a return on investment within 6 months."
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About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of Internet-focused information technology solutions
for the global marketplace. Its pace-setting technologies, best-in-class computing and
telecommunications platforms, and worldwide corps of systems and services experts make it
uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite possibilities of the Internet to help its customers
succeed. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of
$49.6 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001. Internet: http://www.fujitsu.com/
About INTERSTAGE
INTERSTAGE, a product of Fujitsu Limited, is offered as an infrastructure platform
for B2B e-commerce solutions with support for the latest standards including RosettaNet, ebXML,
SOAP, and UDDI.
