ELECTRONIC COMMERCE UPDATE

November/December € 1996

iCat Software Mass Markets E-Commerce Solution

The iCat Software Corp., (Seattle, Wash.; www.icat.com) has signed an agreement with Tech Data, a PC products distributor, to distribute iCat's Electronic Commerce Suite.

The iCat Electronic Commerce Suite permits companies to do business on the Internet by entering product information and selecting from over 250 templates to automatically format and generate complete electronic catalogs. HTML-savvy users can fully customize these templates to control the look and features provided by their catalogs. Transaction processing is supported on any Internet server, along with powerful searching, built-in electronic shopping cart functionality, tax and shipping calculations, and secure credit card processing.

The software allows rich product information, including text, graphics, videos, sounds and Adobe Acrobat files, to be collected, organized and presented to shoppers. Products can be organized into any number of catalog sections, and sophisticated merchandising capabilities, such as cross-selling related products, are supported. Shoppers visiting catalogs produced with the iCat software are treated to browsable navigation, search capabilities, convenient shopping carts, and the choice of secure payment options.

The iCat software supports Macintosh, Windows 95, Windows NT, Sun Solaris, Sun-OS, Digital Alpha, SGI, AIX and other popular UNIX platforms.

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