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December 20/27, 1999

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Online Procurement Meets E-Business Purchasing
Peregrine will link expanded management suite to IT vendors' online catalogs

By Clinton Wilder

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    Most businesses need to buy things, and the growth of business procurement on the Web has prompted some software vendors to add online-purchasing capabilities to their application suites. At the same time, procurement-software leaders such as Commerce One Inc. and Ariba Inc. are working with those software companies as their business models migrate from packaged apps to services-based online networks.

    The latest is Peregrine Systems Inc., which has unveiled Get.Resources, an online-procurement application to be available in February. Get.Resources will be part of the renamed Get.It suite, which includes Peregrine's modules for asset, facilities, and fleet management, as well as management of internal services. Under a Peregrine alliance with Commerce One, users will access Commerce One's MarketSite network of supplier catalogs through the Get.Resources HTML interface. Then they can use other Get.It modules to track the assets they buy online with Get.Resources.

    Peregrine will also link buyers to the online catalogs of IT vendors Compaq, CompuCom, Dell Computer, Inacom, and Software Spectrum. "For IT products, the purchase price is only 25% of the total life-cycle cost," says Joe Pucciarelli, area VP of E-solutions at Peregrine.

    Commerce One has similar gateway-type deals with application sellers such as PeopleSoft, SAP, and Walker Interactive. "You will definitely see other asset-management software companies doing this," says David Yockelson, VP of E-business strategies at research firm Meta Group. "It's beneficial to their users to integrate procurement with other processes."


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