Glänzende Fundamentals bie ICGE

With more than ten years in the industry, Jason Gilroy has been instrumental in establishing ICG Commerce as the recognized procurement BPO market share leader (NelsonHall report, 2004). Gilroy led the development of ICG Commerce's outsourcing competencies and oversees the company's largest strategic outsourcing relationships. Through its outsourcing services, ICG Commerce helps companies such as Avaya, Universal Packaging, Grief, Cooper Cameron and many others expand their procurement capabilities and drive significant reductions in procurement expenditures.

"I am honored to be named a Supply & Demand Chain Executive 'Pro to Know'," Gilroy said. "While more and more companies are recognizing the benefits of effective procurement, it is often difficult to maintain the staff of experts and technology needed to support all buying categories and generate maximum savings opportunities. As a result, they are turning to outsourcing providers like ICG Commerce, who can bring expertise, tools and resources to generate significant cost reductions and process improvements while allowing them to focus on their core competencies."

A recent survey conducted by leading BPO research analyst NelsonHall indicated that outsourcing the management of non-core purchasing commodities and processes allows chief procurement officers to focus their in-house talent on the most strategic activities, gain fast access to additional category expertise and tools, address more company spend and accelerate and improve the execution of procurement programs. By offering a full suite of procurement services, ICG Commerce has helped many companies leverage procurement outsourcing as a strategy to realize these benefits.

For the complete listing of Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 2005 "Pros to Know" and accompanying editorial, please see the February/March issue of the publication in print or online at www.sdcexec.com .

About ICG Commerce, Inc.

ICG Commerce ( www.icgcommerce.co m ) is a leading Procurement Services Provider exclusively focused on helping companies buy more effectively and efficiently in order to reduce costs significantly and continuously. The company offers an unmatched combination of deep process and category expertise and leading technology to delivery Sourcing, Purchase-to- Pay Automation and Outsourcing Services. ICG Commerce, Inc., a privately held company founded in 1992, is a member of Internet Capital Group's (Nasdaq: ICGE - News) network of partner companies and has been named among Forbes' Best of the Web: B2B, honored as an UPSIDE Magazine Hot 100 company and a Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies Top 100 solution provider and had its executives recognized among Supply and Demand Chain Executive magazine's "Pros to Know".

"We are extremely pleased with the progress we have made within the market over the past year," said CommerceQuest CEO Michael Forster. "The growth that we've achieved is strong evidence that our TRAXION EnterpriseBPMS is delivering significant value. In 2005, we will continue to help both new and existing customers achieve their business objectives through improved process efficiency and flexibility."

CommerceQuest announced several strategic partnerships in 2004, including a new relationship with IBM to resell Process Manager for Data (PM4Data) to enhance IBM's On Demand strategy. This joint enterprise integration platform has already illustrated benefits to customers, such as Charming Shoppes, Inc. and Standard Chartered Bank, who wanted to manage the movement of data across multi-platform environments, as well as gain visibility into disparate systems throughout the enterprise.

CommerceQuest extended its ecosystem of partners with new Value Add Solution Partners (VASP) and Technology Partner relationships. The Normandy Group, a Cognos Pinnacle partner, joined the VASP program capitalizing on the synergy between corporate performance management and business process management. In addition, a Technology Partnership was established with Mercury Interactive Corporation.

New partnerships with Mindjet and iGrafx were also announced in 2004. These relationships enable companies to complete the entire business process lifecycle with combined analysis, mapping, and execution capabilities via CommerceQuest's Universal Process Engine. By using analysis, simulation and mapping tools, enterprises typically notice a 20-33 percent improvement in cycle time and throughput; however, executing and integrating processes with the Universal Process Engine from CommerceQuest can attain an additional 25-30 percent improvement.

Globally, CommerceQuest continued to build strategic partnerships throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Trinity Expert Systems and Devoteam are two leading solution-oriented companies aligning with CommerceQuest to provide marketplace differentiation for continued growth in a highly competitive environment, as well as to enable customer success through Enterprise BPM.

Another significant company milestone in 2004 was the announcement of TRAXION EnterpriseBPMS 8.1. This product enhancement featured new capabilities within the Business Innovation Xcelerator and Business Integration Xcelerator. By combining process modeling, workflow, simulation, integration, and extensive activity monitoring and management technologies, TRAXION EnterpriseBPMS enables companies to increase value and productivity, which benefit its bottom line.

About CommerceQuest (www.commercequest.com)

Founded in 1991, CommerceQuest is the only enterprise solutions provider that enables its customers to rapidly turn business strategy into business processes by fully integrating the work that people do with software systems that optimize business performance. CommerceQuest delivers a complete set of scalable business process management (BPM) solutions that leverage existing IT investments to unite people, processes and technology in a service-based architecture that spans the extended enterprise, from the mainframe to the Internet and everything in between. More than 500 industry-leading companies rely on CommerceQuest to help them integrate heterogeneous workflow and IT systems, including many of the Fortune 500 companies such as The Home Depot, Coca-Cola Bottling, Ahold, and American Express

The number of gross RFPs sent through the StarCite Online Marketplace rose 83 percent last year to more than 266,800. These RFPs provided more than 4.8 million room night leads to hotels. On a daily basis, StarCite provides nearly $5.2 million worth of lead opportunities to hotels in its database. At the current pace, StarCite expects its Online Marketplace to deliver $2 billion in revenue opportunities to hotels in 2005. Excluded from these figures is volume of private-label sites that StarCite powers for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Omni Hotels and individual hotels.

Global expansion of meeting initiatives of corporate customers also prompted a doubling of StarCite’s hotel/venue database in 2004. StarCite added 19,000 Europe, Middle East and Africa properties from the database of Meetings & Conventions, owned by Northstar Travel Media, and more than 600 Regus Group plc. venues. At year-end, StarCite offered the industry’s largest online marketplace with more than 77,000 suppliers.

Deepens Deployments in Fortune 1000

In 2004, StarCite increased and deepened deployments of its process and technology to a growing number of Fortune 1000 customers within the high tech, financial services, pharmaceutical and travel industries. Among its clients are Aetna, Aventis, American Cancer Society, Amgen, AT&T, Burger King, Cephalon, Inc., Chubb Insurance, Cisco Systems, Investors Group, Kawasaki Motors, Lehman Brothers and Motorola.

On the supplier side, StarCite integrated its technology with Daylight Software, thus streamlining the RFP process for suppliers and planners. StarCite technology also began powering meeting sites for Dolce International and tourism offices of Hong Kong and Guatemala.

Online Registrations Grow 54%

StarCite further expanded use of its leading attendee management tools in 2004 to more than 1 million transactions. It also extended the value of these tools by integrating with additional online booking solutions offered by GetThere and TRX PNR Data Acquisition.

StarCite also garnered two awards; one for its marketplace model, and a second for stellar business growth. In its debut on the Philadelphia 100 list of fastest growing companies, StarCite ranked 17 th in 2004. InfoCommerce Group also selected StarCite as one of 50 “Models of Excellence.”

“For the past five years, we’ve built, enhanced and acquired innovative new technologies and perfected our strategic meetings management processes,” said John Pino, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of StarCite, Inc. “Last year, the work began to pay off as we deployed or deepened penetration of our processes in some of the largest corporate meetings initiatives, expanded integration and powering of supplier sites and expanded globally. We look forward to intensifying our sales, deployments and proven solutions in 2005 as we expand and help our clients transform meetings management procurement and processes.”

About StarCite, Inc.

StarCite, Inc. provides the most comprehensive suite of applications and services to the $300 billion meeting and events industry. StarCite helps drive efficiencies and cost savings to both corporate buyers and suppliers. More than 400 corporate, association and third-party meeting buyers rely on StarCite’s Enterprise Meeting Solutions for workflow, procurement, supply chain management, spend analysis and attendee management. Thousands of industry suppliers rely on the StarCite Online Marketplace, Supplier Marketing Programs and Enabling Technologies to increase meeting revenues. Its StarCite International division represents destination management companies and other premier international travel suppliers using both technology and traditional means. StarCite is based in Philadelphia. Investors in StarCite include Internet Capital Group; Maritz Travel Company; Seaport Capital; Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.; and TL Ventures. For more information about StarCite, or its technologies and services, please visit www.StarCite.com. Investors in StarCite include Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE); Maritz Travel Company; Seaport Capital; Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.; and TL Ventures.






 
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Geschenke der Shortseller nutzen

denn die günstigen Angebote sind keine Dauererscheinung.

Wenn Ihr einmal die vorangeangen Postings lest, könnt Ihr relativ leicht erkennen, dass bei den Beteiligungen von Internet Capital doch erhebliche Erlössteigerungen anstehen. Statt der von mir angedachten anteiligen Erlöse von 140 Millionen sehe ich jetzt eher 160 Millionen (ohne Blackboard). Bei einem Kurs-Umsatz-Verhältnis von sieben, was bei Werten wie Starcite oder Linkshare, die großen Einfluss auf diese 160 Millionen haben, noch sehr niedrig ist, ergibt sich ein Wert von 1.020 Millionen. Mit Blackboard von 1070 Millionen. Momentan liegen wir zwischen 250 und 300 Millionen - also bei einem Viertel des Fair Value. Wer da nicht zugreift, ist selber dran schuld. Arm dran sind alle, die sich von Laberhänschen wie diesem Blockboard von einem anderen Board, der nur Prasen drischt, von einem Einstieg bei sieben Dollar abhalten lässt. Das hat der schon bei vier Dollar versucht und wenn wir bei 12 Dollar stehen und auf 11 zurücksetzen wird er das auch noch in einem Vierteljahr tun. So sind halt die Verzocker aus der Blase der New Ecomomy, blind vom Frustaustoben.

sollte es in dem vorstehenden Artikel heißen.

Noch etwas Neues vom Blockwart:

Die Blockwart-Dumpfbacke

von einem anderen Board versucht ihren Frust aus ihren Verzockereien zu New Economy-Zeiten weiterhin durch Dummsprüche ohne Inhalt abzureagieren.

Ob sie damit Anlegern, die bei 4 Dollar nicht eingestiegen, als sie ähnlichen inhaltslosen Schwachsinn von sich gab, hilft, könnt Ihr sicher selbst beurteilen. Nun versucht sie ein ähnliches Spielchen auf Kosten der Anleger halt bei 7 Dollar. Wer unanständig ist, ändert sich eben kaum, so sind nun einmal Egomanen. Wenn Internet Capital auf 12 Dollar gestiegen ist und auf 11 zurückfällt, könnt Ihr dieses unanständige und auf unendlicher Verzockerei beruhende Hi-Regard-Spielchen in einer neuen Auflage erleben.