![][1] CyberSource, the global leader in digital commerce services, and INTERSHOP Communications, one of the world’s leading vendors of electronic commerce software, today announced the signing of an agreement to integrate INTERSHOP’s award-winning eCommerce solutions with CyberSource’s digital commerce services. This agreement joins two industry leaders who will combine best-of-breed digital commerce services and software for solutions to meet the growing demands for complete and sophisticated e-commerce applications.
INTERSHOP’s products enable merchants, service providers and others to create and host complete electronic commerce solutions in business-to-business or business-to-consumer environments. As part of the agreement, INTERSHOP will incorporate CyberSource technology and services to expand the back-office management functions with advanced features such as fraud protection, secure payment methods and electronic software distribution.
“The partnership with CyberSource adds tremendous value to INTERSHOP’s comprehensive turn-key eCommerce applications,” stated Jeff Watts, Vice President, Marketing at INTERSHOP. “As one of the first packaged eCommerce software vendors to support CyberSource, INTERSHOP will offer complete solutions with enhanced transaction features for all businesses dealing with intangible, digital items like software, music, video and other products.”
“We are excited about working with an industry leader such as INTERSHOP,” said Bill McKiernan, president and CEO of CyberSource. “This relationship brings together award-winning products from INTERSHOP and CyberSource’s leading e-commerce technology and services to deliver merchants a scalable, flexible and complete set of electronic commerce applications.”
About INTERSHOP Communications
INTERSHOP Communications, Inc., a world leader in electronic commerce software, is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Germany, France and the UK. Founded in Germany in 1992, INTERSHOP develops, publishes and distributes eCommerce solutions including the Sybase SQL Server 11 database. Value Added Resellers and large Internet Service Providers, such as Deutsche Telekom, have chosen INTERSHOP as their core-technology to build thousands of online stores for small, medium and large businesses. INTERSHOP’s standard products, single-site INTERSHOP Online and multi-site INTERSHOP Mall, include all components to design and operate complete businesses on the Internet. INTERSHOP solutions are implemented successfully in business-to-business and business-to-consumer environments. Current customers include manufacturers, distributors, retailers and service-based businesses. For more information, call INTERSHOP at 800-736-5197 or send e-mail to [email protected] or visit H.plINK .
About CyberSource’s Services
CyberSource Corporation provides the full range of essential commerce services to conduct secure, electronic distribution of software and other digital products via the Internet. CyberSource’s advanced, global services include credit card processing in 21 currencies, fraud screening, sales tax/VAT calculation, export control, territory management, secure digital goods distribution, a trusted Rights Registry, and EDI links for physical goods fulfillment. By outsourcing Internet commerce services to CyberSource, customers reduce their time-to-market and can focus their efforts on marketing their sites and products, while avoiding the backoffice infrastructure and complexities required for digital commerce.
About CyberSource Corporation
CyberSource Corporation is a global provider of Internet transaction processing and electronic fulfillment services to digital products. More than 180 major software publishers, distributors and resellers have turned to CyberSource for its portfolio of commerce services which are optimized for digital product distribution, as well as for Cybersource’s rapid-start program which enables merchants to process transactions online in less than a week. CyberSource’s customers include Adobe, AutoDesk, Borland, Egghead, IBM/Lotus, Microsoft, Netscape, Symantec, Programmer’s Paradise, Reader’s Digest, Tandem, and Wall Data. Founded in 1994, CyberSource is a privately held company headquartered in San Jose, California and maintains offices in the United States and Europe.
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