EASY Easylink Services Corp CL A (MM)

EasyLink Services Corporation (NASDAQ: EASY), a leading global provider of business process outsourcing services that power the exchange of information between enterprises, their trading communities and their customers, together with TradeTrans, Inc. a provider of advanced web-enabled reporting services, announced today the market introduction of EasyLink TradeSmart, a web-enabled business intelligence tool designed to increase profitability, lower operating costs, and improve real-time operating efficiencies in supply-chain activities. EasyLink TradeSmart features quick activation with little-to-no infrastructure investment. It delivers immediate and measurable results to meet the information delivery needs of individual managers, departments, and key decision makers. This alliance will tap the high-growth and middle-tier business-to-business e-commerce marketplace. EasyLink TradeSmart leverages the technology and marketing strengths of both companies by integrating EasyLink�s EDI service features with TradeTrans' TradeSmart web-enabled supply-chain business intelligence reporting services. It offers data visibility reporting of order processing, fulfillment, and financial reconciliation activities. It serves as a real-time collaboration tool among suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, and provides online performance analysis among trading partners; yielding in-depth analysis of current and past trading activities within seconds. EasyLink TradeSmart is also designed to support trading community environments in which community members access the same supply-chain business data and reports. EasyLink TradeSmart is event-driven, providing companies visibility and interaction, coupled with new collaborative operating efficiencies that extend across enterprises. Customers can expect sustainable operational savings in order fulfillment, customer management, financial tracking, and sales. In the retail sector, business intelligence tools have already provided significant savings in annual claims. Rick Gooding, EasyLink�s Executive Vice President of Transaction Delivery Services recently explained, "The release of EasyLink TradeSmart now provides our customers with the added advantage of being able to track and monitor supply chain events from initial ordering all the way through final payment. EasyLink TradeSmart will allow our customers to track their actual business data, and not just their transactions, improving their ability to manage their business processes and to control expenses." TradeTrans CEO Bill Bugbee added, "Our operating agreement with EasyLink represents an important union for both companies that addresses the growing demand for supply-chain transactions integrated with business intelligence reporting. EasyLink TradeSmart is set to lead the market in delivering value reporting and operating performance to its customers.� About EasyLink Services Corporation: EasyLink Services Corporation (NASDAQ: EASY), headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey, is a leading global provider of Document Process Outsourcing services that enable small, medium and large enterprises to improve productivity and competitiveness by transforming manual, paper-intense business processes into efficient electronic business processes. EasyLink captures, processes and delivers mission-critical information daily on behalf of businesses worldwide. EasyLink is integral to the movement of information, money, materials, products and people in the global economy; dramatically improving the flow of data and documents including purchase orders, invoices, notifications and confirmations, shipping orders, letters of credit and bills of lading, payment advices and more. Driven by the discipline of Six Sigma qualify, EasyLink helps companies become more competitive by providing the most secure, efficient, reliable and flexible means of conducting business electronically. For more information, visit us at www.EasyLink.com. About TradeTrans, Inc. TradeTrans is a privately held corporation with headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. TradeTrans' TradeSmart, features specialized business intelligence services designed to serve the specific operating information needs of companies across the supply-chain. TradeSmart employs advanced database and web presentation technology to produce customer-required analysis derived from electronic commerce transactions that TradeTrans' services facilitate. For its customers, TradeSmart features reports, analysis, and data feeds to serve their essential electronic trading information needs by addressing both specific and general customer requirements through on-line customer reporting services, spontaneous inquiry and analysis, and direct data feeds direct to its customers internal ERP and CRM systems. For more information please visit: http://www.tradetrans.net.