Partner Press Release
Intel and E2open Validating Key RosettaNet Program

E2open Delivers Production Hub supporting RosettaNet Automated Enablement

For Release April 19, 2005

Redwood City

PR Contact: Lorin Kennedy, 650.381.3772,  lorin@e2open.com

E2open today announced it is in production to validate the new RosettaNet Automated Enablement (RAE) standards and specifications, which are intended to drastically cut the costs and accelerate the time it takes to integrate trading partners including small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). E2open is participating in the validation of RAE because of the technical readiness of its software to support XML Schema-based Partner Interface Processes® (PIPs®) as well as forms-based graphical presentation, the key elements of the new RAE standard. E2open’s RAE capabilities, leveraging the free E2open B2B Client and E2open Integration Platform, are now generally available to help customers integrate with trading partners worldwide using the RosettaNet standard.

Intel and E2open are validating the new RAE standards and XMLSchema-based PIPs by on-boarding five Intel suppliers in Asia, North America, and Europe. Leveraging E2open’s RAE-enabled hub, these SME suppliers have joined RosettaNet and are actively participating in the RAE validation with Intel and E2open.

“Working with E2open and leveraging RAE, we’ve been able to take advantage of our existing RosettaNet investment to integrate with small- and medium-sized suppliers,” said John Cartwright, Supplier B2Bi Manager, Intel. “E2open has worked closely with us to validate RAE and we look forward to leveraging our validation work with RAE to on-board even more suppliers around the globe.”

RAE is a RosettaNet program that defines new XML-Schema based PIPs as well as a new approach to RosettaNet integration that makes use of simple, human-readable “forms” to exchange data. E2open’s free B2B Client and Integration Platform support these new capabilities and E2open was able to leverage them for use in the RosettaNet validation process with Intel and its suppliers.

E2open has proven experience on-boarding more than 6000 trading partners around the world. E2open’s software-as-a-service approach to B2B integration enables companies to integrate 100 percent of their trading partners, regardless of size and IT capabilities, at a 50-80 percent savings over traditional approaches to B2B integration, making E2open the ideal software vendor to provide RAE-supporting technologies. Broad-scale trading partner integration is required to fully enable processes such as multi-tier visibility and vendor managed inventory that help companies improve visibility and control of their distributed global supply chains.

“RAE is a new technology and standard for enabling companies to reach the goal of enabling one hundred percent of their global supply chain networks,” said Mark Schenecker, E2open’s vice president of interoperability and standards and a key contributor to the RAE program. “Based on our extensive experience, we believe RAE has the potential of significantly reducing the cost and time to integrate trading partners which will result in greater adoption of the RosettaNet standard.”

About E2open, Inc.

E2open (www.e2open.com) is the leading provider of software-as-a-service to manage inter-company processes such as inventory management, order management, demand/supply synchronization and multi-tier visibility, integrating trading partners across multiple tiers of distributed global supply and demand networks. Over 6,000 companies worldwide currently use E2open for greater supply chain visibility and control through accurate, timely and cost-effective access to information. E2open is the industry's only solution to combine inter-company process management functionality, event management tools, performance management capabilities and an open B2B integration platform delivered in an on demand model, resulting in lower total cost of ownership and shorter deployment cycles. A privately-held company, E2open's largest customers include Hitachi (HIT), IBM (IBM), LG Electronics (LGEAF.PK), Matsushita Electric Industrial (MC) (Panasonic), Seagate Technology (STX), Solectron (SLR), and Wistron.