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Hyperwave AG and Extant Asia Ltd - Sign agreement for major e-business
initiative
July 5, 2000
Hyperwave AG, and Extant Asia Limited have signed a Preferred Partnership
Agreement, which allows Extant to provide enterprise solutions based
on Hyperwave's Information Server and Portal products for the Greater
China region, - Hong Kong, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China.
Extant plans to launch a series of innovative offerings to support
and provide a total corporate management solution for government
departments, large corporations, and also for use by small to medium
enterprises ( SMEs ). This will enable organizations to have a full
range of customized solutions, taking care of their huge volumes
of routine information, documents and project management workloads.
It will also provide easy and secured communication and workflow
management within organizations and business to business ( B2B )
partners.
"We are delighted to be collaborating with Extant on what
we expect to be a highly successful partnership. We see complementary
synergies, similar strategies, values and aspirations from Extant.
This agreement will better position us in the Asia Pacific e-business
solutions marketplace," said Markus Wachsmuth, Vice-President International
Sales, Hyperwave AG.
"The combination of an outstanding product set and technical expertise
of Extant and Hyperwave allows us to build a strong value proposition
in the Asia Pacific region by providing dedicated corporate management
systems and solutions based on Hyperwave's knowledge management
platform," said David Lai, CEO and Managing Director of Extant Asia
Limited. "Extant's alliance with Hyperwave is an enhancement of
our IT total solution package for governments, enterprises, B2B
portals and eCommerce activities in Greater China.
About Extant
Asia Limited Extant Asia Limited was founded in June 1999 to capitalize
on the significant growth opportunities in the Asia Pacific Internet,
IT & telecommunication services market. Extant Asia Limited is the
Asia Pacific Headquarters of Extant, Inc. (http://www.extant.net),
whose major shareholders are : Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE:SFE)
www.safeguard.com, Exelon Capital Partners www.exeloncorp.com, a
subsidiary of PECO Energy (NYSE:PE) www.peco.com, Lucent Technologies
(NYSE:LU) www.lucent.com, Telstra Corporation Limited (ASX:TLS)
www.telstra.com and EnerTech Capital partners www.enertechcapitalpartners.com.
The company is a regional facilities-based Total Solution Provider
offering various telecommunications services to extend Extant's
worldwide ATM network into Asia Pacific, as well as a full range
of services within the field of interactive digital communication,
focusing on strategic solutions for Internet, Intranet, Extranet,
e-commerce, knowledge management, and integrated business solutions.
The company is building Asia Pacific's first integrated network
of e-service specialist.
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