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[Celentano]

Hört sich ja nicht gerade euphorisch an:


Ariba, Vignette ink b-to-b alliance
January 25, 2001 09:45 AM ET
by Adam Feuerstein

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Ariba (ARBA) and Vignette (VIGN) have struck a strategic alliance to bundle together their e-business software for business-to-business marketplaces.

Terms of the partnership were not disclosed.


Ariba will link its online marketplace software with the community, content management and personalization applications of Vignette. The combination will allow, for instance, sellers in a marketplace to better promote or differentiate their products, while buyers will be able to personalize a marketplace`s offerings to suit its need.


Vignette opened trading today at $8.67. Ariba opened at $40.88.


MetalSpectrum, an industry-sponsored metals and mining marketplace, is already using the Ariba-Vignette alliance. The two companies plan on selling the combination to other b-to-b customers.


"Vignette`s solution enables MetalSpectrum to provide industry content and user personalization for our customers that will keep them coming back to our site," said Bill Murphy, senior vice president and chief technology officer of MetalSpectrum, in a statement. "Integrated with the commerce foundation provided by Ariba, we have all of the necessary components in place."


Ariba, of course, has always focused on building Net marketplaces. For Vignette, the partnership bolsters its relatively new push into the b-to-b market. Previously, the company focused mainly on consumer and enterprise customers.


Today`s partnership between Ariba and Vignette will raise questions, naturally, about how it affects the big "Alliance" -- the troubled b-to-b partnership between i2 Technologies (ITWO), Ariba and IBM (IBM).


Last October, i2 inked a partnership with BroadVision (BVSN) to offer many of the same personalized e-commerce capabilities. That deal was widely seen as opening the first rift in the i2-Ariba relationship.


Today, Vignette, a BroadVision rival, seems to help Ariba settle an old score.

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Vielleicht sollten sich i2 und Ariba doch trennen, was meint ihr? Oder wird Ariba doch noch von i2 geschluckt?
Was meint ihr?

[DimStar]

der redakteur weiß doch gar nicht, welche produkte vignette verkauft und was i2 macht. die haben überhaupt gar nichts gemeinsam. ständig wird über das auseinanderbrechen der ariba/i2-partnerschaft geschrieben, obwohl die partnerschaft mittlerweile bestenfalls dünn ist. all diese produktpartnerschaften werden immer mit großem tamm-tamm angekündigt, aber zu echtem neugeschäft führen sie in den seltensten fällen. das wäre anders, wenn man z.b. einige Leute von den großen Consultingfirmen trainieren würde. i2 hat fast alles von dem was ariba hat und von daher wird i2 wohl in zukunft noch einige interessantere und billigere firmen finden.