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SAN JOSE, CA -- SAQQARA(R) Systems Inc., a leading provider of product content management software and services today announced the release of SAQQARA CommerceSuite 4.0(TM), a comprehensive and collaborative content authoring and publishing solution that allows suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and industry exchanges to leverage product content as a strategic asset for increasing revenue and decreasing costs. With an improved Web-based user interface, SAQQARA CommerceSuite 4.0 supports collaborative content authoring and publishing in a global enterprise environment to combat escalating content management needs where product content is massive in quantity and constantly changing. Suppliers can now effectively deliver timely, detailed, and accurate product content within these environments to customers and channel partners. With CommerceSuite 4.0, administrators may define content management workflows to allow globally located product content managers to jointly participate in catalog authoring, maintenance and publishing by following their prescribed management processes for content updates and catalog publishing. A content controller enhances this management process with synchronized catalog content updates across multiple servers and content sources. Authoring specialists at multiple locations can now edit content and label with activation dates for an automatic update on one or more catalog servers. Updates can now occur at any time from any location, resulting in timely, accurate catalog content. SAQQARA CommerceSuite 4.0 also includes: -- Online Web storefront to support buyer registration and authentication, persistent shopping cart maintenance. -- Personalized catalog views with tailored content and pricing based on customer profiles and buyer requirements. -- Shopping cart information easily integrated with supplier order management systems to track buyer demand and speed product delivery. -- Punchout and RoundTrip support enables buyers to use existing e-procurement applications to source and procure product according to their business processes. -- Multi-language capabilities deliver content in the preferred language of the buyer. -- Analysis tool to monitor and analyze product content browsing to increase product availability and sales while managing inventories. All features of SAQQARA CommerceSuite 4.0 are designed to enhance the supplier-buyer relationship. Buyers are automatically guided to replacement products, up-sell opportunities and complementary products -- the buyer never has to leave the storefront in search of an alternate product, resulting in maximized revenue. In addition, product searches are facilitated by keyword text searches and SAQQARA's patented Step Search(R) parametric search technology. Catalog Availability as a Web Service SAQQARA CommerceSuite 4.0 employs operating system neutral SOAP and XML technologies, allowing catalogs to be offered as ready-to-use Web services to dynamically link with enterprise applications across the Internet, facilitating access to and use of catalog information by worldwide manufacturers and distributors. "SAQQARA's commitment to its clients and their success is evident with this CommerceSuite release," said Dave Holden, manager of e-Commerce Applications and Services, Eastman Chemical Company. "SAQQARA, with its proven technology and experience, has enabled Eastman to create, manage and deploy product differentiating catalogs that will meet the language and distribution channel needs of international customers. Content and customer management is complex, and SAQQARA CommerceSuite eloquently addresses that complexity. Not only is product content a strategic asset, but so is SAQQARA CommerceSuite." Added Dan Poirier, vice president of sales and marketing, SAQQARA, "Success for suppliers and buyers hinges on the timely delivery of comprehensive, accurate, and differentiating product information in a format that meets the unique needs of each customer and distribution partner. With CommerceSuite 4.0, SAQQARA has made a significant investment in addressing these success factors, demonstrating that we are firmly committed to our clients' success by providing them with the superior tools needed to manage content in a globally diverse and complex business arena." In addition to SAQQARA CommerceSuite, SAQQARA's comprehensive, end-to-end product content management solutions include SAQQARA ContentWorks(TM) -- a complementary enterprise-class application that automates product information aggregation and transformation from disparate data sources into usable, consistently formatted data that can be leveraged into any commerce channel. For more information visit www.saqqara.com