NTC Purchases Clickmarks Software,
Makes Strategic Investment and Enters
Technology and Distribution Relationship
with Clickmarks
FREMONT, CALIFORNIA - April 9,
2002
Clickmarks, a provider of software
infrastructure products for application
development, today announced a broad
technology and business relationship
with Nippon information Technology
Consulting Co, Ltd., an experienced
systems integrator predominantly
working for the NTT (Nippon Telegraph
And Telephone Corporation) Group
companies. Under the terms of the
strategic relationship, which is
accompanied by an NTC-led investment
in Clickmarks, NTC will purchase
internal licenses for the Clickmarks
software products, and will also
distribute the Clickmarks infrastructure
products in the Japanese market.
The agreement authorizes NTC to
use, promote and resell Clickmarks
products, including its application
development environment and its
customizable pervasive portals.
NTC will use the Clickmarks Enterprise
Suite to design, create and deploy
pervasive applications for internal
deployments, and also for projects
carried out on behalf of its clients.
The agreement greatly expands the
reach of Clickmarks' mobile data
and voice solutions for wireless
carriers and enterprises in the
highly promising Asia Pacific market.
"The success that our clients
have seen in mobile data services
is based on their ability to deploy
revenue generating applications
quickly and inexpensively ",
said Mr. Hideya Inoue, Senior Executive
Vice President of NTC and former
Executive Vice President of NTT
Communications. "The Clickmarks
technology will empower us to service
our clients better by allowing us
to create pervasive applications
at a fraction of the time and cost
traditionally associated with such
projects. We share Clickmarks' vision
that business applications today
need to be able to leverage existing
e-business infrastructure and to
make computing capabilities available
across any platform, on any device
and on any network."
"The distribution agreement
with NTC will help expand the reach
of the Clickmarks products to NTC's
blue-chip clients and also within
a region that we see as central
to our global expansion strategy,"
said Mr. Umair Khan, President and
Chief Executive Officer of Clickmarks.
About NTC
NTC is a system integrator specializing
in telecommunications technology,
and provides total solutions from
system design and construction to
maintenance and operation. NTC has
been building up its expertise through
collaboration with a number of major
Japanese corporations such as NTT
(Nippon Telegraph And Telephone
Corporation) Group companies. In
the mobile communications, NTC has
been developing software for the
analog and 3G networks. NTC has
launched into a new area based on
the business vision called uBSS
(Ubiquitous Business Solutions &
Services) in an effort to solve
corporate issues and challenges
using the latest IT technologies.
NTC is headquartered in Tokyo and
has offices in Yokohama, Kawasaki,
Osaka, ShengYang in China and Hanoi
in Vietnam. For more information,
visit www.ntc.co.jp.
About Clickmarks
Clickmarks, Inc. is a leading
provider of technology solutions
for the rapid development and deployment
of e-business applications and web
services. Clickmarks’ products
represent an innovative visual approach
to Enterprise Application Integration,
enabling companies to create and
deploy functionally-rich applications
that combine information and business
processes from existing systems.
Applications developed on the Clickmarks
platform can be exposed as portlets
(for integration within portal frameworks),
EJBs and web services, and deployed
on a broad range of mobile devices.
The company’s software has
been commercially deployed at some
of the world’s largest companies,
including Vodafone Group PLC and
Telefonica. Founded in 1999, Clickmarks
(www.clickmarks.com)
is headquartered in Fremont, California.
The company is headquartered at
718 University Avenue # 202
Los Gatos CA 95032
V (408) 399-6120
F (408) 395-5404
Web site:www.clickmarks.com
For more information, please contact:
Dodi Handy, President and CEO
Elite Financial Communications Group
Tel: 407-585-1080
E-mail: dlk@efcg.net |
