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Intershop Enfinity 2 Receives Top Marks for Superior Scalability
and Performance
in Recent Sun Microsystems Benchmark Testing
SAN FRANCISCO, December 18, 2000 – Intershop Communications,
Inc. (NASDAQ: ISHP; Neuer Markt: ISH), a leading provider of sell-side
e-business applications, today released record benchmarking results
for its flagship product Enfinity 2™. The results confirm Enfinity’s
superior performance capabilities and demonstrate that the product
can scale to accommodate the needs of fast-growing global companies.
Working together in a strategic partnership, Sun and Intershop have
created benchmarking, configuration and deployment solutions that
address the demanding and complex needs of the enterprise customer.
Enfinity 2 is the newest version of Intershop’s enterprise-class
product, which was first introduced in 1999. Since then, Intershop
has signed on more than 200 Enfinity enterprise customers, including
Shell, Hewlett-Packard, Bosch, Time Warner, and Motorola.
Results from intensive testing completed and certified by Sun
Microsystems in its benchmark laboratory in Langen, Germany, prove
that Intershop Enfinity 2 easily meets the demands of high-volume,
high-traffic e-commerce environments. In the tested configuration,
built to reflect a typical enterprise e-business scenario, Enfinity
2 processed more than 800,000 orders and more than 50 million requests
in a single day. With other configurations and additional hardware,
Enfinity 2 can produce even greater results. For perspective, the
highly trafficked Amazon.com site had 1.6 million unique daily visitors
during the first week of this year’s holiday shopping season.
“Companies looking for an e-commerce foundation must select a
solution that meets current needs, but more important, will also
be able to handle more traffic, more transactions, and more complexity,
along with global expansion,” said Stephan Schambach, CEO of Intershop
Communications. “Without a doubt, Intershop can deliver. Whether
your company is processing 50 hits a day or 50 million, Intershop
Enfinity has got you covered.”
“We rigorously tested the Enfinity product using simulated real
world scenarios, and Intershop’s solution proved it is capable of
performing in even the most demanding business environment,” said
Rene Neumann, senior manager software partner at Sun Microsystems.
“Intershop Enfinity 2 running on Sun Solaris sets a new standard
for performance, scalability and functionality in the market today.”
"This impressive validation of Enfinity's performance and scalability
from a third-party vendor is a testimony to its solid design and
innovation," said Kent Allen, research director of e-Business at
the Aberdeen Group. "Intershop Enfinity is a proven solution that
enables businesses to benefit from conducting e-commerce through
multiple channels. The market will be looking for more validation
of this kind in the coming months."
In addition to these latest benchmark results, Forrester Research’s
November TechRankings™ ranks Intershop Enfinity first among commerce
platforms. Strategic alliances with industry leading systems integrators,
including, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sapient, Arthur Andersen, EDS,
and Unisys, offer world-class integration support from over 4,000
trained consultants worldwide.
About Intershop Enfinity
Intershop Enfinity is an advanced sell-side application for global
enterprises. Designed to enable companies to sell through multiple,
complex sales channels and capitalize on Internet and traditional
selling opportunities, Enfinity is a comprehensive solution that
can be easily customized by business analysts with minimal programming
skill. Built on leading standards-based technology, including J2EE
and XML, Enfinity is designed to meet the current needs of global
organizations, scale to handle growing business volume, and evolve
to address new business requirements and selling opportunities with
a low cost of ownership. Intershop Enfinity 2 delivers more than
50 pre-packaged integrations that connect it to Internet marketplaces
and business systems – including SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle and Siebel.
Intershop Enfinity is the only packaged sell-side application for
global enterprises, enabling companies to operate in multiple international
formats.
About Intershop
Intershop Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of sell-side
e-business applications for enterprises selling through multiple
channels. Intershop's feature-rich e-business applications enable
companies to sell direct, through distributors and marketplaces,
and integrate with brick and mortar operations. Specifically designed
to support the many ways that organizations sell, Intershop's solutions
can be quickly implemented and seamlessly integrated into existing
systems, both internal and external, including other businesses,
hubs, marketplaces and exchanges. Intershop provides applications
and solutions to some of the world's largest enterprises, including
Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Motorola, Shell and Time Warner. Founded
in 1992, Intershop is headquartered in San Francisco with offices
in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Sweden, Singapore, Taiwan and the United
Kingdom and can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.intershop.com.
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This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding
future events or the future financial and operational performance
of Intershop. Actual events or performance may differ materially from
those contained or implied in such forward-looking statements. Risks
and uncertainties that could lead to such difference could include,
among other things: Intershop’s limited operating history, the unpredictability
of future revenues and expenses and potential fluctuations in revenues
and operating results, consumer trends, the level of competition,
seasonality, the timing and success of international expansion efforts,
risks related to electronic security, possible governmental regulation,
and the ability to manage a rapidly growing business. Additional information
regarding factors that potentially could affect Intershop’s business,
financial condition and operating results is included in Intershop's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in
the prospectus dated September 28, 2000, relating to Intershop’s public
offering of common stock.
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