ICE Review
As we went to press, the tradeshow scene was very busy. The ETA show was just starting and the ICE was just wrapping up.
ICE is the Internet Commerce Expo. We sent our reporters to check out this conference which serves the Internet, intranet, and extranet arenas. The Expo included 150 exhibitors and 100 educational conference sessions. Additionally, there were seven key note speeches delivered by high profile industry executives from some of the industry's traditional favorites including Open Market, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and IBM. All shared their perspectives on the Internet/Electronic commerce issues of the day.
Special Events included the Internet Town Meeting with panelists from Lotus, Intel, Visa, IBM, and Hewlett Packard. There was also an Electronic Commerce Executive Roundtable which included insight from senior executives from CommerceNet, First Virtual Holdings, Lucent Technologies, and Microsoft, among others.
The most heavily visited booth was the CrossCheck ChecksByNet(tm) debut, a unique internet solution that allows merchants to accept checks over the World Wide Web. The interactive, animated, and audio-enabled demo wowed the show attendees. According to Bob Ficarra, VP PP&D, "They were lined up 4-deep the entire three days."
Best of show for marketing, sales, and customer service went to iCat, a Seattle Internet catalog software provider. ICat is an international organization and works with companies such as UPS, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, and CyberCash. (A comprehensive list of Best of Show winners follows).
IBM was in attendance and unveiled a family of Internet commerce products for small businesses called Net.commerce. The products are designed to equip small and medium businesses with tools to become electronic businesses. Net.Commerce is available in 3 packages priced under $500.
For more information access http://www.ibm.com/CommercePOINT.
If you weren't able to attend ICE but want to stay on the cutting edge of new web technologies, there is a CD-ROM which has session transcripts, speaker slides and biographies, and product and exhibitor information. The CD is $149 and can be ordered through Canyon Interactive by calling 800-301-2341.
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Content Creation, Management, and Publishing |
MKS - www.mks.com |
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Data Warehousing, Search Engines |
WinResources Computing - www.winresources.com/default.asp |
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Electronic Payment & Settlement |
PaylinX Corporation - www.paylinx.com |
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Firewall & Security |
Microsystems Software, Inc. - www.microsys.com//gs_archive.php?emagazineIssueNumber=970902 |
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Workflow/Business Process |
BIDistribution Architects International - www.dg.com/solutions/html/dai.html |
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Push Pull Technologies & E-mail |
Autonomy, Inc. - www.agentware.com/main/index.html |
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Account, Purchasing & Administration |
ELEKOM Corporation - www.elekom.com |
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Marketing, Sales, & Customer Service |
iCAT - www.icat.com |
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Web-Enabled Order Entry Fulfillment |
TRADEex - www.tradeex.com |
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Wholesale Distribution & Supply/Demand Management |
ECWorks - www.ecwerks.com |
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