Welcome to the Initiative. Make yourself at home as you learn about the next generation of business-to-business applications and how Internet Business Services are energizing the industry.
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The Internet Business Services Initiative (IBSi) is a mutual benefit, non-profit corporation formed to assist companies in providing better software solutions to the marketplace.
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The work of the Initiative is carried out through member committees, the Board of Directors and executive staff. The IBSi also sponsors periodic members-only marketing and technical forums and a series of educational seminars and events that are open to the industry.
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Formed in December 1999, the Initiative has announced a general road map for standards development, held its first membership meeting and is developing a series of educational seminars. It offers a speakers bureau with industry and technical experts, and participates in relevant trade events.
Read MoreIBSi Member Company Profiles
- Agillion
- Agillion is the first consumer-like Internet Business Service that enables small and mid-sized businesses to build high-value, highly personalized relationships with customers over the Internet. Agillion helps businesspeople by making all customer information available in a common database that sits on the Internet and is continuously updated as teams and customers interact. Inside the company, Agillion lets colleagues in all departments communicate more effectively. Outside the company, Agillion dynamically creates custom Internet pages that allow customers to directly communicate with the business and access their own information anytime, from anywhere. From its home in Austin, Texas, Agillion works to keep customer interaction at the heart of doing business.
www.agillion.com
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Bizfinity provides a better way to run your business. As a user of Bizfinity, you have the freedom to fully exploit the Internet through Web-based business management applications, online services and a rich business community interaction.
We offer small and growing businesses, powerful Accounting and eCommerce integration without having to invest in complicated and expensive IT infrastructure. Additionally, we partner with other businesses to provide a wide range of services, including: payroll, banking, benefits, telephone access, direct marketing, forms, and nationwide service and support.
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eALITY, Inc. is an Internet Business Service (IBS) helping high-growth, small to medium businesses better manage core business processes, including expense reporting, time management, purchasing, and HR administration. eality is a complete business solution, providing Web-native business applications, building a cost-effective business infrastructure and improving productivity with no additional demand placed on IT resources. Headquartered in Foster City, Calif., and privately held, eality is venture funded by Foundation Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. For more information, visit
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Web-based applications from Elite.com are superior to conventional packaged software. A subsidiary of the Elite Information Group, an established company with over 17 years' experience delivering enterprise software solutions, Elite.com develops applications that are feature-rich, secure, reliable and scalable. We deliver great services to professionals including lawyers, consultants and engineers as well as corporate managers.
Elite.com applications include Timesolv, which enables professionals to track time and expenses, invoice clients and manage billable hours anytime, anywhere. With Timesolv, customers reduce overhead and speed up their billing cycle. Worksolv, the company's project management application, provides an easy way for a customer's entire project team to work with project plans, including staff, subcontractors and clients. Worksolv and Timesolv can be completely integrated, delivering numerous benefits such as automatic invoicing upon completion of a project milestone.
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Employease provides the leading Internet Business Service for managing and communicating human resources, benefits and payroll information. For hundreds of customers, Employease provides HR and employee self-service solutions that avoid the complexity and cost of software installed "in-house." Employease has harnessed the Internet's connectivity power to replace redundant paper-based communication with efficient one-to-many electronic communications. This connectivity enables Employee Information Commerce solutions that bring employers and their service providers together via a single business-to-business network to improve the management and communication of human resource, employee benefit and payroll information.
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Freeworks.com is a unique business service that provides management and administrative solutions to individuals in small businesses. This service solves one of the major problems suffered by individuals within businesses: routine administrative processes that generate too much paperwork and take too much time. With Freeworks.com individuals in small businesses can finally harness the power of the Internet to work for them!
Our unique patent-pending workflow technology allows us to provide small and medium sized businesses a business automation solution that requires no fuss, no hassles and no set-up for FREE.
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Genient is an application service provider that enables organisations to create and rapidly deliver seamlessly integrated productivity, collaboration, and business applications and services targeted at their small business customers. Genient both offers its own applications and integrates those from partners, regardless of where they are located. We wish to become a member of IBSI to share and drive adoption of common standards, bringing a European perspective.
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At its founding in 1997 as On The Go Software, Managemark, Inc. acquired both the license to and the development team for Quicken ExpensAble, an innovative expense management solution for small-to-mid size companies. This gave the company a strong product and development team, as well as a solid investment and distribution partner in Intuit Inc.
In 1999, the company launched ExpensAble.com to provide small-to-mid size businesses an online alternative to traditional expense reporting. Developed entirely for the Internet, ExpensAble.com quickly attracted several thousand subscribers and established the company as a major player in the fast-growing Application Service Provider market. In early 2000, On The Go Software renamed itself Managemark, Inc., with a new vision to deliver a suite of Web-savvy applications to next generation e-business portals and companies.
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The Mimeo.com Internet-based printing service is the most reliable and secure way to convert digital information into quality hardcopies. Our mission is to provide corporate professionals with the most secure, reliable and convenient way to print, bind and deliver important business documents and presentations. Mimeo.com provides the quality, efficiency, and security demanded by the world's leading corporations in the production and delivery of important business documents, and makes it accessible directly from any desktop operating from any business environment.
The Mimeo.com Exact PrintSM Software, available free online at www.mimeo.com, a secure and reliable centralized state-of-the-art production environment and a dedicated team of employees committed to changing the way that people print documents, allows individuals to use the Internet to manage the printing, binding and delivery of presentations, reports, and other vital documents -- saving time and improving quality. Business professionals can produce important documents from the office, home or while traveling, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We print and bind your documents to your exact specifications and get them delivered on time via FedEx.
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OpenAir.com is an integrated suite of Web-native Professional Services Automation (PSA) tools that efficiently and economically streamlines business processes. It enables professionals to build proposals, manage projects, analyze employee time, report and approve travel expenses, track and bill time, create and deliver invoices and outsource payroll and expense reimbursement.
OpenAir.com also offers valuable add-on services including OpenAir Connector for QuickBooks Pro®, OpenAir Connector for Peachtree®, OpenAir OffLine™ thin client for Windows®, OpenAir for the Palm® Computing Platform, and OpenAir Wireless for WAP-enabled phone users.
With our special introductory offer, the first user in a company is free, and each additional user can use all OpenAir.com modules and add-on services for the low monthly fee of only $9.95.
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QuickArrow, Inc. develops, markets, and sells a Professional Services Automation and Management solution for IT Consulting, Application Development, and Systems Integration firms, as well as the services organizations found within hardware, software, and networking vendors. QuickArrow Enterprise Consulting Suite (ECS) is a 100% web-powered Professional Services Automation (PSA) and Management solution that helps services organizations streamline internal business processes, effectively manage clients, projects, and resources, and increase revenues, profitability, and competitiveness.
ECS transforms the operations of services organizations by completely automating their operations - beginning with the sales process, extending through resource planning & scheduling, service delivery, contact management, knowledge management, etc. and ending with the seamless flow of billing & expense information into backoffice or online accounting systems - where standard invoicing and collections processes take over. A key advantage of ECS products is it's proven ability to immediately and positively impact customers' top- and bottom-lines, and grow revenue without adding additional expenses or headcount.
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Sevina Technologies is a European based company with offices in Paris and London. We are a new generation software vendor. Our mission is to provide Internet based Customer Service Suite in the short term and evolve to provide a complete platform for Web Services in the near future.
Our CSS, is completely SMEs and VSMEs oriented. It allows them to establish a quick and fully Internet Based Customer presence. From the beginning, this product has been designed and architected for the Internet. We are the first company in Europe to use Microsoft .NET framework to create and use web services in such an application.
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Trip.com is the leading online travel services and technology provider for the mobile professional market. Launched in October 1996, Trip.com quickly established itself as an industry leader through the introduction of new technology and strategic business partnerships that have personalized the travel experience like never before.
Trip.com has solidified this reputation through the development of revolutionary interactive technology products including Flight Tracker and intelliTrip, and continues to introduce services based upon feedback received from business travelers seeking new, effective and convenient tools to make the experience more manageable and enjoyable.
From the small-business owner or remote-office to the schedule-weary "road warrior" who travels all too often, Trip.com continues to meet and redefine the needs of this influential audience.
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UpShot.com is the leading, award-winning Web service that will boost your sales by helping you target the best prospects, improve the effectiveness of your sales team, and shorten the sales cycle. With UpShot.com it's easy to manage and share information about accounts, contacts, and deals-realtime and online. Use UpShot.com anytime-from anywhere with browser: nothing to buy, nothing to install. State of the art, multi-level security means your business records are safe and always available. It's that easy.
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If you're a fast growing company, the last thing you need is the burden of building and maintaining an in-house accounting department. Virtual Growth™ provides a comprehensive, outsourced bookkeeping and accounting solution that helps small and mid-sized companies stay focused on their core mission - growing their businesses.
Our Virtual Accountant™ service combines web-based, enterprise class financial software with our trained bookkeepers and accountants who do your bookkeeping. You get 24/7/365 access to your financial information along with knowing your books are done right, and in a timely fashion.
"I was desperate to get a clear snapshot of our financials and had to get myself out from under the 2 to 3 hours of daily bookkeeping chores. And then it happened...I began to relax. I was able to see my first true picture of our financials - a balance sheet, cash flow and P&L that were so accurate it was like a dream." Elizabeth Talerman, CEO, Agile Industries
"Virtual Growth provides a great outsourced solution for companies that don't have an internal accounting department." Scott Daniels, CEO, Ad One
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Works.com provides business commerce technology and services that enable top e-commerce sites and merchants to deliver an online Purchasing Management Application (PMA) and indirect goods Marketplace to their midsize business customers. By using the PMA and Marketplace, midsize businesses can increase control and lower the cost of purchasing. The Works.com Marketplace currently provides access to more than 100,000 indirect goods, including computer products, office supplies, business machines, furniture and industrial supplies for maintenance, repair and operations (MRO). Headquartered in Austin with offices in Chicago and London, Works.com is funded by Bowman Capital, Hummer Winblad, Merrill Lynch, Presidio Venture Partners, W.W. Grainger and Trellis Partners. Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital is a member of the Works.com board of directors.
www.works.com
Sponsor Members
- Cognizant Technology Solutions
- Cognizant Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: CTSH) is a leading provider of custom software development, integration and maintenance services that links e-business with core information systems for companies worldwide. It delivers high-quality, cost-effective, full life-cycle solutions to complex software development and management problems.
The Cognizant's delivery processes have been assessed at SEI-CMM level 5, validating its robustness, top quality, quick time-to-market, reduced risks, and high productivity-the key to successful deployment of e-business applications. Its 3,200 employees are committed to partnerships that sustain long-term, proven value in order win in today's global marketplace. Since its formation in 1994, Cognizant has never lost a client due to failure to perform. Cognizant is the top IT services provider in Business Week's Hot 200 list and has been named as one of the "Best Small Companies" by Forbes two years in a row.
Cognizant's ASP-centric solution set comprising Co-development, Testing and Application Management, helps reduce time-to-market and increase reliability of ASP solutions. Backed by robust SLAs, these solutions also help the ASP garner substantial cost benefits.
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Founded in May 2000, Grand Central is developing a network-based platform that enables the new era of application and web service collaboration. By leveraging emerging technologies in Internet-centric application development and deployment - including XML data representation and SOAP - Grand Central provides infrastructure that allows businesses to easily and securely create collaborative data relationships with their customers and partners. As a service offering, Grand Central provides the foundation necessary to enable and manage new inter-organization web services on a low entry cost, as needed basis.
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Jamcracker provides IT and Business Services over the Internet to small and mid-size companies. It also aggregates and integrates best-in-class ASP services for their customers.
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Lawson Software provides Web-addressable, role-based Self-Evident Applications® (SEAs), transaction engines and e-business extensions to power financial, human resources, procurement, distribution and enterprise relationship management solutions. The company built its business by providing innovative software solutions to complex organizations worldwide. For more than a quarter of a century, Lawson has delivered leading-edge business management solutions that offer unsurpassed performance, reliability and cost-effectiveness. The Lawson @Business Service Provider Platform offers service providers a robust technology platform, plus pre-configured solutions and tools specifically engineered for a hosted environment. It will allow LawsonTone™ ASP and BSP partners to quickly develop and deliver 'Powered by Lawson™' e-services to their selected target markets. Lawson @Business is designed to be flexible enough to meet the varied development needs of service providers, and fully scalable to meet the functionality requirements of end-user organizations, with an emphasis on the needs of fast-growing companies.
Headquartered in Saint Paul and London, Lawson Software serves its worldwide base of more than 3000 customers through direct sales, support and affiliate locations on every continent. The privately held company recorded revenues of more than $313 million in fiscal year 2000, and has a staff of 2,000 worldwide.
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Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- The Network Is The Computer™ -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to ".com" their business. With $13 billion in annual revenuew, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at: www.sun.com