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CoVia and OpalSoft Partner to Extend Multi-Tier Collaboration
Technology and Services to the Enterprise
Partnership creates impressive results for lifeprint,
SF-based career counseling and placement innovator
 Mountain
View, Calif., (August 22, 2001) -- CoVia Technologies, Inc., the leading
provider of multi-tier, collaborative customer connection solutions,
and OpalSoft , a leading e-Business integration consultant and software
developer, today announced a strategic channel partnership. Under
the terms of the partnership, OpalSoft will sell and implement CoVia's
product line, delivering to its customers a sophisticated suite of
technologies for extending their customer collaboration capabilities.
The CoVia product suite is an important complement to OpalSoft 's CRM
and eBusiness practice. CoVia's solutions enable organizations to
deploy powerful, collaborative ecosystems for customers, affiliates
and partners. CoVia empowers business users at multiple organizational
levels to dynamically create and manage customer connections, and
to leverage those connections to proactively drive critical business
relationships. Business professionals can author and deliver information,
products and services to their customers and partners with elegance
and speed. lifeprint, a San Francisco-based career counseling and
placement service, is the first customer of the new partnership.
Using CoVia's InfoPortal and Vortal products, OpalSoft deployed a
comprehensive client-service solution for lifeprint. As a result,
lifeprint can provide private client sites for corporate clients,
as well as private recruiting sites to assist the human resources
manager in performing key job functions. Ease of use and cost of ownership
were of particular importance to lifeprint. Vortal has enabled lifeprint
to maintain a sophisticated Web presence that provides personalization
and rich content without the traditional overhead associated with
such systems. The deployment also includes products from MarketFirst
as well as a custom Oracle database. Both systems are integrated with
the CoVia suite, so lifeprint can take a seamless approach to its
individual and corporate customers. "Building longer-lasting
and more effective relationships with our clients is critical to our
business," said Kathye Citron, Executive Director of lifeprint.
Working with CoVia and OpalSoft has given us powerful, scalable, automated
tools to achieve this goal. It's making an incredible difference in
the diversity and vibrancy of the resources we can provide for our
clients."
"CoVia's customers continue to validate the power of our technology
with broad, innovative implementations across their own business relationship
networks," said John Mracek, CoVia's President and CEO. "The
partnership between CoVia and OpalSoft will create a tremendous resource
for those customers as they create an even wider array of collaborative
ecosystems to meet their own specific business needs." "lifeprint
is a perfect example of how CoVia is helping companies engage more
deeply and more persistently with their customers. In difficult economic
times, companies face particular pressure to maximize customer convenience
while maximizing the profitability of those customer relationships,"
said John Mracek, CoVia's President and CEO. "Our relationship
with OpalSoft increases our ability to deliver sophisticated solutions
that allow companies to optimize critical customer and partner relationships."
"We're very pleased about our partnership with CoVia," said
OpalSoft CEO O. P. Choudhary. "We believe that every company
with long-term client relationships needs collaboration systems that
extend deeply into those relationships. Solutions such as CoVia's
will become an essential component of every relationships management
solution."
About Opalsoft
OpalSoft, Inc. is a software development and services consulting company,
focused on the e- Business integration market. The company was founded
in 1997, and is headquartered in San Jose, California. OpalSoft works
with the leading technology companies nationwide and provides its
Fortune 500 clients with systems integration and consulting services
in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management
(CRM), e-Business, data warehousing & Business Intelligence Applications. OpalSoft clients include Broadbase software, CISCO, GE Global Exchange Services,
Hewlett Packard, Icarian, Kaiser Permanente, LabCorp, Telesynergy,
and Visa, just to name a few. Its technology expertise includes XML,
Java, and ODBMS technologies as well as traditional EAI. For more
information, visit www.OpalSoft .com or call 408-267-2211.
About CoVia
CoVia gives business managers the agility to simply and dynamically
deploy collaboration, content and application services across customer
connections. At the same time, CoVia enables deeper interaction with
targeted groups or individuals and dynamic enhancement of company
and partner value propositions. CoVia provides users with creation,
management and delivery solutions for multi-tier, collaborative customer-specific
connections. These connections are made quickly and simply, and can
be extended multiple tiers to include clients, channels and business
partners. CoVia also facilitates the numerous, complex interrelationships
that occur between different constituents in the customer ecosystem.
Throughout the customer lifecycle, CoVia's solutions reduce acquisition
and retention costs while enhancing the value of each business relationship.
CoVia powers implementations by Intuit, ADP, American Airlines, SAP
AG, Wells Fargo, The First American Corporation and many others. For
more information, please visit www.covia.com
or call +1-650-428-1800.
Press contacts
CoVia Technologies, Inc.
David Wright, dwright@covia.com, (650) 567-1052
OpalSoft, Inc.
Sharad Sharma, SharadS@opalsoft.com,
(408) 267-2211
CoVia is a trademark of CoVia Technologies Inc. All other trademarks
named herein are the property of their respective owners.
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