REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. — Comergent E-Business System™ is Comergent Technologies,® Inc.'s sell-side e-business software solution. Release 6 expands out-of-the-box functionality and uses message-based, Web-services architecture to enable fast and easy implementations, maintenance and upgrades, resulting in lower total costs of ownership.

Features include customer, partner and customer service portals, interactive parts catalog, comprehensive price negotiation capabilities, offline catalogs, distributed partner storefronts and extremely modular architecture. These "customer- facing" software applications enable enterprises to streamline and automate selling processes and sales channels while making it easier for customers to do business with them. Release 6 allows companies to increase operating efficiencies, reduce order error rates and improve sales revenues.