Over 300,000 Business Week Online Registered Users Gain Access to Co-Branded
Versions of the Intraware IT Knowledge Center Resources
ORINDA, Calif., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Intraware, Inc., (Nasdaq: ITRA) the leading IT e-Marketplace for Web-based software and services, and Business Week Online, today announced an alliance that provides Business Week Online's 300,000 registered users full access to Intraware's centralized IT resources that contain technical information, articles, and interactive knowledge tools designed exclusively for IT decision makers. As a result of today's announcement, Business Week's Online registered users can now access a full co-branded version of the Intraware IT Knowledge Center(SM) services via a link on Business Week's Online Technology Service site located at http://www.BusinessWeek.com/technology/index.html .
"Business Week's alliance with Intraware is extremely valuable because Business Week is the world's best-selling and most widely read business publication, both online and in print, with 300,000 online registered users and a circulation of over 1 million readers," said Peter Jackson, President and CEO of Intraware. "This alliance gives Intraware access to all of these highly qualified registered users -- adding to our already robust membership base of over 170,000 IT professionals. "
"A major focus of Business Week Online is tracking and evaluating technical and business developments and providing extensive information on technology products," said David Smith, Vice President and General Manager, Business Week Online. "As a result, we recognize Intraware as an important ally in helping us meet this objective. Today's alliance provides Business Week Online registered users with valuable IT research resources which will significantly improve their technology decision-making."
Business Week Online registered users can now access the full co-branded working versions of Intraware's IT tools and services to ramp up quickly on leading-edge Internet technologies, and to facilitate and support key decision points in the planning, adoption and deployment of technologies. Intraware's tools shorten the evaluation time needed to select new enterprise software by enabling users to quickly determine the software vendors in a particular category, to quickly grasp key technical issues in a specific product space by reading high-level evaluation summaries, or to set up and monitor a "watch list" of software that allows users to stay informed of upgrades or new releases of software that are made available. Each of Intraware's unique services is designed to save members time and money by enabling them to more efficiently manage their enterprise software investments. Some other features include:
- Free tracking services for business software updates and patches
- An interactive software research and locator tool for enterprise
software
- An advice service addressing business technology questions
- Executive summaries of enterprise software evaluations derived from the
Intraware Compariscope(R) service -- an online tool that delivers
objective, web-based software analysis tailored to individual
requirements
- The Intranet Library collection of product documentation, research,
white papers, news and articles specifically targeted to the IT
professional
About Business Week Online
Business Week Online is the Web site of the world's most widely read business publication. A two-time National Magazine Award nominee for General Excellence in New Media, it appears both on the Web (at www.businessweek.com) and on America Online (at Keyword: BW). BW Online includes every story printed around the world each week in Business Week magazine (subscription only), past issues of Business Week magazine dating to 1991 (subscription only, with five years free online to subscribers), and a large amount of free, Web-only material presented in seven channels: Daily Briefing (business news), S&P Personal Wealth (investing), Global Business, Technology, Small Business (Frontier), Best B-Schools, and Careers. Thus, Business Week Online offers a rapidly growing, worldwide audience of students, managers, and corporate executives the news, tools, and advice they need to manage their professional and personal lives. Business Week and Business Week Online are units of the McGraw-Hill Companies, a world leader in publishing and financial data.
About Intraware
Intraware, Inc. is the leading IT e-Marketplace for Web-based software and services. The company enables IT professionals worldwide to efficiently and cost-effectively research, evaluate, purchase, download, and update business-class software online. As a business-to-business e-commerce company, Intraware provides software through its premier online purchasing service, intraware.shop, comprehensive IT information and interactive research services through the Intraware IT Knowledge Center, and software update management services through Intraware SubscribNet.
Intraware's unique spectrum of innovative Internet-based services has attracted strategic relationships with industry-leading vendors including Allaire, Bluestone Software, Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, Informix, Infoseek, Macromedia, Novell, PeopleSoft, Sun-Netscape Alliance, Sybase, and Vignette. Intraware is a publicly held company with headquarters located at 25 Orinda Way, Orinda, California 94563; 925-253-4500; FAX 925-253-4599; http://www.intraware.com.
For more information, contact Carole Sinclair of Intraware, Inc., 925-253-6707, or carole@intraware.com; or Fiona Hughes of Dave & Bairey Communications, 925-672-9547, or fiona@dbcomm.com, for Intraware, Inc.; or Robert Pondiscio of Business Week Online, 212-512-6311, or robert_pondiscio@BusinessWeek.com.
NOTE: Intraware, Inc. Intraware, Compariscope, and SubscribNet are registered trademarks or service marks, and NetInsights, IT Knowledge Center, Radarscope, and intraware.shop are among the trademarks and service marks, of Intraware, Inc. All other company names, product names, service marks and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.
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