[announce] eBusinessReady Program Certifies 35 Software Products inFirst Year

[Beth Morrow <Beth@drummondgroup.com>]

eBusinessReady Program Certifies 35 Software Products in First Year

Program Launches Certification Seal and Website

For Immediate Release
Date: January 23, 2003

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. Jan. 23, 2003 - eBusinessReady™, an industry-neutral
software compliance and interoperability testing program under joint
partnership of the Uniform Code Council, Inc. (UCC) and Drummond Group, Inc.
(DGI), announced today it has certified 35 products since its launch in
November 2001. The products were certified to support AS1 and AS2 EDI/XML
messaging over the Internet, VICS Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and
Replenishment (CPFR), or ebXML messaging V2.0 standards.

The UCC, a not- for-profit standards organization, is the founding sponsor
of eBusinessReady, which provides the foundation for driving
interoperability testing of multiple, standard compliant software products.
DGI facilitates and manages the software testing for the eBusinessReady
program. Enterprises and supply chains are increasingly demanding tested
software solutions and the eBusinessReady program delivers a neutral third
party to assess global interoperability.

eBusinessReady has received an overwhelming response within the industry
during its launch year, said Michael Di Yeso, executive vice president and
COO of the UCC. A certified product enables companies to more easily
interface with the systems of their customers and partners and save the
costs associated with implementing incompatible supply chain solutions.
eBusinessReady helps software users simplify the procurement process and
provides them with a selection of interoperable software products that meet
their needs for price point and feature sets.

The eBusinessReady program is aimed at driving the adoption of open industry
standards by testing software compliance and interoperability testing in a
neutral, cooperative and non-competitive environment, said Rik Drummond,
chief executive officer of DGI. Software companies with certified products
will have an advantage as they provide their customers the extra benefits of
saving time and money.

More...
http://www.ebusinessready.org/pr_general.html