Covisint e-business exchange for theautomotive industry on SunPalo Alto 14 May 2001 Covisint, an e-business exchange for the automotive industry, has selected Sun as the primary Unix platform to power its web, application and database servers powering their data centers in both the United States and Europe.
Open standards are an important part of the Sun and
Covisint relationship since the technical hurdles
to support a global exchange - to plug in (and
link) new business partners, suppliers, customers
and business processes dynamically - are only
overcome through a commitment to them and a
flexible IT architecture. Over time, Sun and
Covisint believe a set of global open standards
will emerge for the meaning, format and
presentation of information that can be leveraged
to enable truly ad hoc integration. In the
meantime, an exchange can provide sufficient
integration, interoperability, and standardization
to meet the needs for accelerated business
collaboration and significant operational
efficiency gains.
It is the openness of the exchange that will be the
key to its survival. This is because integration
challenges are extensive. There are many layers
required in an exchange's business systems
integration. Applications need to interoperate.
Participants need to smoothly integrate. New
functionality/business processes resulting from the
exchange need to be integrated, and ultimately,
multi-exchange integration will be required.
Covisint, LLC is a global,
independent e-business exchange providing the
automotive industry with leading collaborative
product development, procurement and supply chain
tools that give its customers the ability to reduce
costs and bring efficiencies to their business
operations. Developed by DaimlerChrysler, Ford,
General Motors, Nissan, Renault, Commerce One and
Oracle, Covisint is currently located in
Southfield, Mich. Covisint Europe is headquartered
in Amsterdam. The company has also established an
office in Tokyo.
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