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The IATA Agents Association of India (IAAI) plans to sign a contract with WorldSpan as one of the GDS providers for its B2B portal I-Top 8. The portal has already registered 50 members so far and hopes to expand its membership base once completely in place. Says Biji Eapen, president of IAAI, "We have just concluded our trial run with Amadeus and are now in the process of finalising the details of the contract with WorldSpan."

As reported by Express TravelWorld earlier, the B2B portal will hold payment gateways in addition to hotel reservation and car rentals. "Members will be able to create a profile for their own sub-agents and clients," adds Eapen.

Source: expresstravelworld

LUND, Sweden & COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Apptus, a global provider of Internet Yellow Pages (IYP) solutions, today announced that the major directory service of Denmark, De Gule Sider, has successfully implemented Apptus platform to launch their brand new site Allbiz.dk, a business to business directory service.

"We’re very excited and proud to accomplish our vision to develop a state of the art B2B directory. This has been possible thanks to the Apptus Theca Platform, set to give deep, precise and highly structured search results," says Patrick Mesterton, Online Marketing & Sales Director, DGS.

Allbiz.dk focuses on B2B customers and services exclusively. It is an excellent tool for small and medium sized companies when searching for new suppliers, customers or partners. In one single place Allbiz.dk provides information that is essential for development of B2B relations such as key financial figures for evaluation of companies.

The search engine behind allbiz.dk is highly flexible and capable of accommodating the most advanced search queries of our users. This has been made possible thanks to the great technical expertise at Apptus. Thanks to the flexible mind of their employees we have a solution that meets our market requirements, says Pernille Eiberg Brocks, Product Manager, DGS.

Allbiz.dk is the latest search solution that Apptus has created for DGS during the last few years. DGS has with the help of Apptus turned their site into a first-rate service which has doubled the amount of data, users and performed searches, whilst keeping the same platform thanks to the Apptus Theca® flexible and advanced solution.

For us it’s stimulating and rewarding to work closely with an advanced company such as DGS and the Allbiz.dk project, says Michael Atlevi, CEO at Apptus. It’s a company that moves in new directions on the market. Furthermore it’s a proof of the excellency of our Apptus Theca® platform. It is scalable both in volume load and complexity and handles a company in serious growth. Apptus Theca® is continually being refined and developed at a pace that ensures and strengthens our customers’ leading positions over the years.

About Apptus

Apptus is a private company, headquartered in Sweden with offices in Canada and England. As the Nordic leader within the field of search and database technology, Apptus provides solutions and products that ensure accessibility for customers with growing data sets and strong demands for search logistics, relevant results and connections to the customer's own business. Apptus primarily supplies solutions to customers within the fields of e-directory and e-commerce. Among the customers are Bokus, CDON, De Gule Sider, Eniro, Hitta, Lokaldelen and Lunarstorm. Apptus conducts research in search and database technology. Apptus’ keywords are quality, result and growth. For more information, please visit www.apptus.com.

About Allbiz/De Gule Sider

De Gule Sider® is the leading information service in Denmark with more than 374 million look ups per year in 101 telephone directories, at degulesider.dk, allbiz.dk, mobil.dgs.dk and information service 1811. De Gule Sider A/S is the largest publisher of telephone directories in Denmark with an annual number of copies exceeding more than 7 million directories. De Gule Sider employs approximately 600 people. De Gule Sider is a part of European Directories S.A. - one of Europes largest directory publishers with companies in several European countries.

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Source: (BUSINESS WIRE)

When you use the Internet to sell your old golf clubs, you've got two security challenges: making sure that the person you're selling to is trustworthy, and making sure that others don't try to steal your data while you're doing the transaction.

Now imagine that instead of a person selling golf clubs, you're Boeing, and you want to use the Internet to share the plans to a top-secret warplane with one of your business partners.

That's the challenge faced every day by Exostar, the online B2B community that serves the aerospace and defense industries. For more than a decade, Exostar has been linking aerospace companies like Lockheed Martin, BAE, and Rolls Royce with government agencies, allowing them to securely transact purchases and do collaborative projects.

Exostar's collaborative environment provides the infrastructure that allows aerospace companies to work together over the Web, but the question of certifying an individual's identity -- ensuring that they are who they say they are, and that they have the rights to access specific applications and capabilities in the community or on a member company's systems -- has been a tricky one.

Next week, however, Exostar will launch a new capability, the Federated Identity Service, that does the process of "credentialing" on behalf of Exostar's members, ensuring that individuals that attempt to use the systems of the community or its members are who they say they are -- and are authorized to use the systems they are trying to access.

The FIS service will essentially replace many of the security processes that most companies outside the community must do on a bilateral basis with their trading partners. For example, Exostar will verify the location and the identity of an individual who attempts to log on, and ensure that their connection is secure. Exostar's systems will also ensure that the individual has access rights to the applications they are using, as defined by contracts and access privileges defined by its member companies.

Using PKI technology, Exostar also encrypts the communications between the individual and the member company, and dates and timestamps all communications and transactions to ensure that they are authentic and to provide an audit trail for assessors and legal authorities.

With FIS, Exostar resolves many of the security issues faced by supply chains that want to do business online. Back in the heyday of Internet fever, many industries and organizations attempted to build "B2B exchanges" and online communities, using the successful eBay as a model. In the end, however, few succeeded, partly because eBay's trust model was insufficient to secure high-dollar business transactions and collaboration.

"The key for a community like this is to define who you are," says Vijay Takanti, vice president and security program director at Exostar, which serves more than 40,000 companies worldwide. "There has to be a standard for certifying your identity and to verify that I have a contract with you. If you can't do that, all the other capabilities of the community are useless."

In essence, Exostar's PKI certificates allow users to come and go into authorized systems of their trading partners, much as a passport allows a person to be authenticated and tracked in the physical world. The system is significantly cheaper than bilateral exchanges of certificates or multifactor authentication schemes such as smart cards.

"We're linking over 40,000 members, so we can achieve economies of scale that no one company could achieve with its partners," Takanti says. And because Exostar's member are outsourcing the authentication process, they can reduce or eliminate their investment in in-house remote access or "guest access" technologies, such as network access control (NAC), which some companies are attempting to use with their suppliers and trading partners.

There's only one problem with the Exostar service: you have to be a member to use it. That means FIS can only help companies in the aerospace and defense industries, although similar communities are operating in industries such as pharmaceuticals and financial services, Takanti observes.

"For a community of interest, where there's agreement on standards for authentication and credentialing, this model makes great sense. I think we may see it applied in other industries," Takanti says.

Source: darkreading.com

Website helps local suppliers enter retail stores across China

BEIJING, April 22 / -- eFuture Information Technology Inc. ("eFuture"), a leading front-end supply chain management software and service company in China and Beijing Wangku Hutong Information Technology Co., Ltd. ("Wangku"), one of China's leading retail business-to- business ("B2B") e-commerce service providers, today announced the launch of a 100-day public testing pilot of http://www.jindian.com.cn/ ("China Jindian"), a jointly-designed B2B website for small to medium-size suppliers and retailers.

"In Mandarin Chinese, 'Jindian' literally means 'enter the store,' which is exactly our goal," said Mr. Adam Yan, eFuture's chairman and chief executive officer. "Over 80 percent of local suppliers do business directly with local retailers. With China Jindian, we are leveraging our strong relationships with China's retail clients to help local suppliers enter retail stores across the country. This exciting development simplifies the supply chain and will also help our over 700 retail clients, which use over 500,000 suppliers and include many of China's top 100 retailers, expand their procurement sources, increase procurement efficiency and reduce procurement cost."

The China Jindian online platform provides a searchable database of subscriber-posted listings focusing on the retail and consumer goods industries. On the website, suppliers can post listings with product descriptions, contact information, location and in some cases videos showcasing the suppliers' factories. The postings are separated by category, brand and location and searchable by retailers, who can post requests for products and suppliers, store information and details about new store openings.

"Our leading position in e-commerce, team of over 100 partners, which have over 2,000 salespeople, and network of more than 200,000 member clients are an ideal complement to eFuture's supply chain management capabilities and relationships with China's top retailers," said Mr. Haibo Wang, Wangku's chief executive officer. "There are millions of small to medium-size retailers and suppliers in China that, while wanting to do business in the national retail market, simply don't have the medium to meet and exchange information with national retailers. China Jindian's user-friendly and reputable e-commerce platform ensures efficient communication and opens the door for future generations of retailers and suppliers in China to succeed."

About Wangku Hutong Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Wangku, through its http://www.99114.com.cn/ website, is a leading provider of B2B e-commerce service solutions focused on helping suppliers to utilize the Internet rather than traditional Industry Yellow Pages. 99114.com.cn is a B2B portal and procurement link connecting manufacturers, distributors, resellers and retailers. Wangku initiated its "Yi Wang Tong" service (a one- stop enterprise B2B e-commerce service package), which integrates the functions of accessing websites, promotion, interaction, authentication and transaction.

As one of the leading B2B e-commerce service enterprises in China, Wangku has received significant industry attention, and has been awarded one of China's "Top-100 Commercial Websites," "Top-100 Web 2.0 Websites" and "Top- 100 B2B e-Commerce Websites" for its success in the field of e-commerce.

For more information about Wangku, please visit http://www.99114.com.cn/ . About eFuture Information Technology Inc.
eFuture is a leading provider of front-end supply chain management software and services in China. eFuture provides one-stop-shop software and service solutions to manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, logistics companies and retailers in China's front-end supply chain market, especially in the retail and Fast Moving Consumer Goods (''FMCG'') industries. eFuture currently serves more than 900 clients, including Fortune 500 companies, over 700 retailers and over 200 distributors operating in China. eFuture is also one of IBM's premier business partners in Asia Pacific and is a strategic partner with Oracle, Microsoft, JDA, Motorola and Samsung Network China. The company has over 600 people and 20 branch offices across China.
For more information about eFuture, please visit http://www.e-future.com.cn/ .