| April
1996 |
Extricity
Software, Inc. is incorporated by founders Ken Ross, CEO,
and Greg Olsen, Ph.D., Chief Technical Officer. The
company mission is to provide business-to-business
integration software solutions that allow companies to
leverage the Internet to gain efficiencies and
competitiveness by creating, managing, and automating
business processes with their customers, distributors and
partners.
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| April
1996 |
Extricity
receives its first round of financing for $3 million from
B.J. Cassin, Bay Partners, Telos Venture Partners, and
Ziff Brothers. The first round of financing is used to
develop Extricity's core technology and identify the
market opportunity.
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| May
1996 |
Extricity
establishes headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif.
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| July
1997 |
Extricity closes
its second round of financing for $5 million, which
includes initial investors B.J. Cassin, Bay Partners,
Telos Venture Partners, as well as new investor, Piper
Jaffray, taking the lead. The second round of financing is
used to finance the product launch, including completion
of field testing, development of the sales and service
channels, and delivering the first product to customers.
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| August
1997 |
Adaptec, Inc., a
$1 billion global manufacturer of network and I/O
connectivity hardware and software products, becomes the
first Extricity customer to successfully complete its
pilot implementation of Extricity Alliance software.
Adaptec chooses Extricity Alliance to fundamentally
improve the way they interact with their partners and, in
essence, implement a virtual factory.
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| October
1997 |
Extricity
formally announces its software suite of products --
Extricity Alliance. Using Extricity Alliance,
organizations can now gain the visibility, control,
responsiveness and speed necessary for managing
mission-critical business processes along an entire value
chain of customers and partners.
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| April
1998 |
Extricity
announces its support to integrate the Microsoft Site
Server 3.0 Commerce Edition - the newest member of
Microsoft's BackOffice family - to the Extricity Alliance
products.
|
| April
1998 |
Inter@ctiveWeek
names Extricity Software as one of the "10 Top
Companies to Work For"
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| May
1998 |
PeopleSoft,
Inc., a leading provider of enterprise application
software, partners with Extricity to offer the industry's
first end-to-end supply chain planning-through-execution
solution for the extended enterprise. The solution
leverages the Internet to allow organizations to work
together with the speed and efficiency of a single entity.
|
| June
1998 |
Microsoft Corp.
presents Extricity with the Microsoft Retail Applications
Developer Award for outstanding use of Microsoft
technology and providing compelling business benefits to
customers whose competitiveness depends upon leveraging
their supply chains.
|
| June
1998 |
Extricity
announces its support for the Semiconductor Manufacturing
Data Exchange (SMDX) Standard, which will enable the
company to extend its Extricity Alliance solution to the
semiconductor industry.
|
| June
1998 |
Extricity
releases Version 1.5 of its Extricity Alliance product
family. The newest version includes enhancements to the
product in the areas of process flexibility, comprehensive
process management, and secure communications.
|
| September
1998 |
Extricity closes
its third round of financing for an additional $10
million. In addition to the original investors, this round
of financing includes the investment firm of the Baan
Brothers, Vandenberg Ventures B.V.; Cambridge Technology
Capital Fund, the venture capital firm managed by
Cambridge Technology Partners; Intel Corp.; RRE Investors
(co-founded by James D. Robinson III, former CEO of
American Express); and a leading global ERP software
company.
|
| September
1998 |
Intel Corp.
makes an investment in Extricity as part of Intel's
strategy to fund companies that can help create new and
innovative uses for PCs and servers. The companies
announce they will work together to optimize Extricity
Alliance for Pentium II Xeon-based servers, and to deliver
a future version of Alliance designed for Intel's IA-64
server platforms.
|
| September
1998 |
Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's
largest contract manufacturer for integrated circuits,
chooses Extricity software products to drive a major
strategic initiative to fundamentally improve the way they
interact with their customers and, in essence, appear to
their customers as an internal manufacturing group.
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| December
1998 |
Extricity
introduces its 2.0 version of the Extricity Alliance suite
of products, delivering the industry's most comprehensive
set of offerings that tackles the biggest issues
associated with integrating disparate applications and
processes across disparate businesses and geography's.
|
| December
1998 |
Extricity teams
with IBM Corp. to integrate Extricity Alliance 2.0 with
IBM's MQSeries, a family of commercial messaging products
that enable application programs to communicate with each
other using messages and queues. The bundling of IBM's
MQSeries with Extricity Alliance 2.0 enables Extricity to
offer customers a complete business management solution
that provides increased interoperability and security.
|
| December
1998 |
Extricity is
included in InformationWeek's "Most Important
Products of ‘98".
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| December
1998 |
Fortune Magazine
names Extricity Software as one of the "Top 25
EnterpriseCompanies to Watch".
|
| January
1999 |
Extricity wins
prestigious Crossroads 99 A-List Award, presented
by the Open Systems Advisors, Inc. The Crossroads A-List
identifies the best new solutions in enterprise computing.
|
| February
1999 |
InternetWeek
names Extricity as one of the "10 E-Commerce
Companies to Watch".
|
| February
1999 |
Extricity
announces its support for Commerce XML (cXML), a new
protocol being developed by 40 leading companies, to
create e-commerce standards so information can be
exchanged online in common formats, rather than setting up
unique formats between different companies. Support for
cXML extends Extricity's leverage of the World Wide Web
Consortium-approved XML standard by enhancing the secure
electronic management of catalog and transaction
information across corporate boundaries.
|
| April
1999 |
IBM Global
Services and Extricity join forces in extending the IBM
Global Services Intranet/Extranet Partnership Services
capability to now include implementation projects for the
Extricity Alliance product family.
|
| April
1999 |
Extricity
introduces Extricity MQAlliance"! , a new software
offering for the IBM MQSeries messaging software.
Extricity MQAlliance is designed to work across the IBM
MQSeries family – MQSeries, MQSeries Integrator and
MQSeries Workflow – to provide a comprehensive
capability to coherently manage the flow of information
both within an organization and between organizations
throughout a value chain.
|
| June
1999 |
Extricity launches its new
AllianceSeries"! family of products, which includes
ExtricityAlliance3.0, the flagship of the Extricity
AllianceSeries, and new packaged e-business process
solutions for specialized needs of a variety of industries
and cross-industry functions.
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| June
1999 |
Extricity demonstrates
first successful customer implementation of RosettaNet
e-business standards. Extricity AllianceSeries"!
family of software products are being used to implement
the first successful interactions between Solectron Corp.
and Ingram Micro Inc.
|
| June
1999 |
Extricity receives
additional funding from Intel 64 Fund, a quarter billion
dollar equity fund that invests in emerging technologies
for next-generation servers and workstations utilizing
Intel's IA-64 architecture
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| July
1999 |
Extricity is named as one
of top ten companies developing enterprise software and
services at the third annual Enterprise Outlook conference
sponsored by Technologic Partners. Selected as one
of the e-business companies to receive the "Investors
Choice" award, Extricity Software was chosen as
"most likely to succeed" from 88 privately
financed technology companies.
|
| July
1999 |
Manugistics Group, Inc.
selects Extricity Software as its first preferred partner
under Manugistics' OAI/Net program.
|
| July
1999 |
Extricity Software
announces its continued active role in the RosettaNet
eConcert initiative by helping to demonstrate
"virtual distribution" capability between
Marshall Industries and Solectron Corp. RosettaNet
is the leading standards body consortium focused on
delivering pre-defined business-to-business processes for
the IT industry.
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| August
1999 |
Adaptec, Inc. and Extricity
Software are awarded "Best Business-to-Business
e-Commerce Application" in the 1999 RealAwards
produced by Intelligent Enterprise Magazine. The
RealWare awards recognize organizations for their
outstanding implementations of IT in the enterprise.
|
| September
1999 |
Extricity is featured in
Time Magazine in an article that focuses on phenomenal
growth and use of the Internet and its impact on business.
|
| September
1999 |
SAP AG and Extricity
Software demonstrate business-to-business collaboration at
Sapphire '99.
|
| September
1999 |
Extricity Software CEO Ken
Ross speaks on Capitol Hill and takes leadership role in
setting e-business agenda through participation in
Electronic Commerce Forum.
|
| October
1999 |
OnDisplay and Extricity
form strategic partnership to provide a comprehensive
industry solution for automating business-to-business
e-commerce interactions.
|
| October
1999 |
CompUSA selected Extricity
to provide a business-to-business E-Commerce solution
based on Rosettanet E-Business standards
|
| October
1999 |
Extricity CEO Ken Ross
speaks on Capitol Hill and takes leadership role in
setting e-business agenda through participation in
Electronic Commerce Forum.
|
| October
1999 |
PricewaterhouseCoopers and
Extricity form Strategic Alliance to drive global
mainstream adoption of Rosettanet E-Business standards
|
| November
1999 |
Extricity named in top 100
emerging companies to watch in 2000 by Computerworld
Magazine
|
| December
1999 |
Extricity
launches European operations
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| January
2000 |
"Arrow Selects
Extricity to Provide Business-to-Business E-commerce
Solution Based On RosettaNet E-business Standards Business
Editors "
|
| January
2000 |
CommerceQuest and Extricity
partner to deliver Business-to-Business integration
solutions
|
| January
2000 |
Extricity B2B software
again wins prestigious Crossroads 2000 A-list award
|
| February
2000 |
Barry M. Ariko, Former
Netscape COO and Head of Oracle Americas, is names
President and CEO of Extricity Software
|
|
February 2000
|
CommerceOne partners with
Extricity to extend CommerceOne's existing MarketSite
capabilities to offer complete end-to-end integration and
B2B process automation
|
| February
2000 |
Extricity delivers first
comprehensive B2B software platform for Net Markets
|
| February
2000 |
Extricity wins new
customers and strategic alliances to support B2B Net
Market platform
|
| March
2000 |
Need2buy.com selects
Extricity for B2B integration platform
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| April
2000 |
Extricity and eLease
partner to provide online leasing services for Net Market
and Enterprise customers
|
| April
2000 |
"Extricity introduces
Extricity B2B 4.0 to deliver the the first platform for
B2B relationship management that powers and manages the
full spectrum of interactions among businesses over the
Internet. "
|
| May
2000 |
Extricity files
registration statement for initial public offering of
common stock.
|
| May
2000 |
Extricity and
Moai partner to provide e-commerce solution for net
markets.
|
| May
2000 |
Extricity raises
$50 million in mezzanine financing from both corporate and
financial investors.
|
| May
2000 |
Verisign and
Extricity partner to offer Internet trust services for B2B
electronic markets.
|
| May
2000 |
Upside Magazine
names Extricity as one of the Hot 100 Private Companies.
|
| May
2000 |
eAI Journal
Selects Extricity as "The Year's Most Innovative
E-Business Solution" |
