Partner Press Release
SAQQARA Joins RosettaNet to Help Improve Efficiencies of IT Supply Chain

For Release June 7, 1998

Sunnyvale -- SAQQARA Systems, Inc, a leading supplier of catalog management software for business-to-business electronic commerce, today announced its support of RosettaNet, a global initiative to adopt common business processes created to advance IT supply chain interaction worldwide.

RosettaNet involves key companies in the IT supply chain who have taken responsibility for helping to define and adopt these business processes. As a RosettaNet partner, SAQQARA is involved as a project leader for the architectural design of the standard. SAQQARA will be responsible for promoting the standard by enabling its catalog management software to implement the agreed upon business process.

"RosettaNet represents the beginning of new age of electronic commerce whereby fluid exchange up-to-date product information with trading partners is possible through standardization of content and transactions," said SAQQARA's CEO Sherif Danish. "This standardization will accelerate the creation and management of structured product information databases with parametric attributes to ensure each manufacturer's ability to participate in dynamic selling opportunities."