TAG Business Tools Broadens Industry Leadership Role As Company Adds UDDI Business Registry
For Release October 15th, 2003
Austin, TX and Natick, MA –
TAG Business Tools today announced it has expanded its role as an innovator of B2B e-commerce solutions by adding a UDDI Registry service for companies engaged in B2B e-commerce.
“The key to the success of B2B is a highly reliable business registry housed in a commercial data center and run by a professional organization, said Tom Gindrup, President of TAG Business Tools.
The Server running the UDDI Registry is managed by DellHost in the Sprint Data Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The facility is a state-of-the-art datacenter with a Tier 1 fiber-optic network. By having the UDDI Registry server located in this datacenter, it is directly connected to the industry-leading Sprint OC-48 Internet backbone that can provide unsurpassed network connectivity.
“This UDDI Registry lists the transactions and access points of every company directly engaged in e-commerce within the Promotional Products Industry. Every transaction that flows between trading partners uses a UDDI Registry to locate its destination. It is absolutely essential that such a critical facility be housed in a bullet proof data center”, said Pat Benoit, V/P Development at the Mesa Group.
Our expanded role in B2B further demonstrates to our current and prospective customers that TAG Business Tools is committed to non-proprietary, e-commerce and that we will provide solutions that implement e-commerce that extend beyond software.
“TAG Business Tools continues to be a key ePromostandards Alliance supporter and enabler,” said Gene Geiger, ePSA Chair. “TAG is the only company to implement the ePSA Transport standard using UDDI for routing. They are helping the small companies which make up our industry to implement at low cost, all without compromising quality or reliability. Their software tools have been vital to our progress to date.”
”ePSA is leading the Promotional Products industry to embrace e-commerce," said Melvin Hyler, Director of Technology of JII Promotions and member of the ePSA board. “Without a doubt, these XML-based standards will continue to drive speed, quality, and cost reduction within our industry and beyond.”
A complete list of member companies and more information on ePSA can be found at www.epsa-labs.com.
About ePSAA self-funded, non-profit organization, ePSA is a consortium of companies within the Promotional Products industry working to create and implement industry-wide, open e-business process standards. These standards form a common e-business language, aligning processes between supply chain partners on a global basis.
About TAG Business ToolsTAG Business Tools is the industry’s leading B2B software company offering its customers low cost, highly reliable, Internet-centric, non-proprietary, e-commerce software solutions and services. Based in Austin Texas, TAG Business Tools has developed and installed the TAG Transaction Switch™ and the TAG Transformer™, two software packages that dramatically reduce the cost of B2B e-commerce. The TAG Transaction Switch™ implements the RosettaNet standard adopted by ePSA.
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For further information please contact:Peter Hawtrey
V/P Operations
TAG Business Tools
Tel: +1 508.655.4224
Cell: +1 508 446 0796
phawtrey@tag-tools.com