Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., the largest licenser of photocopy reproduction rights in the world, was formed in 1978 to facilitate compliance with U.S. copyright law. CCC provides licensing systems for the reproduction and distribution of copyrighted materials in print and electronic formats throughout the world. The company currently manages rights relating to over 1.75 million works and represents more than 9,600 publishers and hundreds of thousands of authors and other creators, directly or through their representatives. CCC-licensed customers in the U.S. number over 9,000 corporations and subsidiaries (including 90 of the Fortune 100 companies), as well as thousands of government agencies, law firms, document suppliers, libraries, academic institutions, copy shops and bookstores.
- Industries: business services,
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: workflow collaboration,
- Region: World
Internet Commerce Systems, Inc. (ICS) is dedicated to providing the entire food industry with the most cost efficient, effective and proactive method for bringing together buyers and sellers.Ê ICS FoodOne gives chains, wholesalers and retailers real-time information and on-line ordering capability for new product introductions, special buys and promotional offers by manufacturers, producers and suppliers. ÊICS FoodOne levels the playing field and gives grocery and convenience store retailers the ability to communicate and make buying decisions in real time. It enables manufacturers, producers and suppliers to communicate instantly to all or selected retailers, speeding the sales process and improving speed-to-shelf. The team that created ICS FoodOne includes men and women who formerly held executive-level positionsÊ at such organizations as Safeway, Supervalu, Procter & Gamble, Sara Lee, Ralston-Purina, Con Agra, Dial and the Grocery Manufacturers of America.More than 125 manufacturers, 3,000 retailers and a number of wholesalers and chains now actively use ICS FoodOne to communicate, buy and sell Ð and more are joining them every day.
- Industries: food industry, food
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Region: World
Founded in 1995, IMX¨ Exchange is a neutral Internet-based, electronic marketplace servicing the wholesale mortgage industry. The IMX Exchange solution brings together mortgage brokers and lenders in an online trading community that reduces the time and cost required for search, comparison, pricing and locking of mortgage loan transactions. Just as NASDAQ¨ brings stock buyers and sellers together in a live trading arena, IMX Exchange links today's successful mortgage brokers and lenders. Based on proven technology that has traded assets of over $1.8 billion and counting since the fall of 1997, IMX Exchange leverages the power of the Interent and e-commerce. The result is the ability for forward-thinking brokers and lenders to connect in real-time.
- Industries: wholesale mortgage, financial services, financial services,
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: exchange, exchange,
- Region: World
IndigoPool.com, a Schlumberger company, is a new e-business portal for the upstream oil and gas industry. It provides a global, neutral, networked marketplace for clients to securely trade oil and gas properties, prospects and data. It is being rapidly expanded to offer all relevant information and services required by A&D managers for the facilitation of asset transactions. Our goal is to create a single workspace where a portfolio or exploration manager can consult asset-related information, gather data and intelligence, analyze them, and then execute informed decisions. IndigoPool.com combines the best of Web and Internet technologies with business process innovation to deliver increased efficiency and value to its clients.
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: business directory
- Region: World
Industria Solutions, Inc., is a B2B e-commerce company created to streamline the procurement of fluid processing materials. Industria will deliver substantial efficiencies to manufacturers, distributors and customers across a broad range of industries, including chemical, oil and gas, pulp and paper, power generation and pharmaceuticals.
- Industries: chemical, oil and gas, pulp and paper, power generation, pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Region: World
Instill provides a suite of e-Business solutions for foodservice operators, distributors, and manufacturers that help them lower costs and grow their businesses. Instill's services for foodservice operators include, Instill Purchase Web, an innovative e-procurement service for enhanced control and management of foodservice purchasing, Instill Purchase Insight, a consolidated purchase information service for monitoring contract compliance and capturing rebates. Instill Market Intelligence is an Internet-enabled service for manufacturers, providing market-share data across industry categories and segments.
- Industries: foodservice industry, food
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Region: World
InterXion operates a Virtual Dealing Room (VDR) on the Internet where buyers and sellers of telecommunications capacity (telephone minutes or bandwidth) can meet and trade. Offers and requests can be posted in the dealing room, based on criteria like destination, quality, volume, prices and contract length. The Virtual Dealing Room offers an easy and comfortable way for buyers and sellers to compare each others offers. What takes months in the traditional way is now accomplished in a fraction of time with our fast, inexpensive and flexible solution. On acceptance of an order, InterXion guarantees that the buyer can start sending traffic within 30 minutes, provided you are connected to the switch. The system removes all interconnection problems, enabling you to buy and sell capacity quickly and in a guaranteed way, and allowing you to improve the speed and quality of customer service whilst reducing your costs.
- Industries: telecommunications,
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: exchange,
- Region: World
InvestorForce.com is the leading business-to-business exchange and community within the institutional asset management industry. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston, Investor Force, Inc. is a part of the Internet Capital Group's (Nasdaq: ICGE) network of business-to-business e-commerce companies.Welcome to InvestorForce.com, the preeminent source for empowering institutional investors on the Internet.On March 20, 2000, we changed our name to InvestorForce.com (formerly PlanSponsorExchange.com). Our mission is to be the on-line force for the institutional investing community. Users have access to resources that improve personal productivity, allow them to transact and make investment decisions and exchange ideas with other institutional investors in the U.S. and worldwide. By creating strategic alliances with premier technology and information partners, InvestorForce.com has become the institutional investment industry's first interactive web site dedicated to empowering institutional investors.InvestorForce.com was launched as PlanSponsorExchange.com in June of 1999, with a mission to facilitate peer interaction and research among the plan sponsor community. Since that time, the user community has grown to include a broader base of institutional investors including corporate, public, and Taft Hartley pension plan sponsors, as well as endowments, foundations, defined contribution and other investment professionals. By leveraging the availability of emerging technologies, InvestorForce.com has been able to create an experience that fulfils the broad base of user needs.If you are a trustee, committee member, staff representative or other professional who is responsible for overseeing institutional fund assets, please take a moment to register and open the door to a comprehensive site created to serve your investment, operational and fiduciary needs.
- Industries: institutional asset management industry, financial industry, investment industry, financial services
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Region: World
iParts.com, Inc.,(www.ipartsonline.com), was founded in July, 1999 to create an eCommerce solution for the distribution of electronic and electro-mechanical components. We are focused on the contract electronics manufacturing industry, worldwide. iParts is creating a global, secured, electronic supply chain that deals exclusively with complex bills-of-material management, procurement, logistics, and credit.We are a hosted application service provider (ASP). Our application software is linked to our clients' legacy ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems to provide an integrated view into multiple heterogeneous databases, data security, distributed data processing, as well as SSL-encrypted client-server data transfer.
- Industries: contract electronics manufacturing industry, electronics industry, electronic components industry, electronics, electronic components
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Region: World
uBid.com is a leading auction house on the Internet where shoppers compete to win excess, refurbished, and limited merchandise through live-action bidding. Customers visit uBid's Internet 'storefront' where they browse a continuously-evolving inventory of products and compete with other shoppers by bidding on these products, just like at a live auction. We recently partnered with Cahners Business Information, and St Joseph Equipment, Inc. to create a co-branded website, ironmall.com that provides auction services for construction equipment. Ironmall.com will allow businesses to auction products over the Internet more efficiently. Our auction capabilities and nationwide reach will create a centralized marketplace for the construction equipment industry.
- Industries: construction equipment, construction, surplus
- Commerce Types: B2B, B2C
- Commerce Services: forward auction
- Region: World
IronPlanet is the full-service, Internet marketplace for the used construction equipment industry. We're changing the way equipment is bought and sold. Every piece of equipment that is listed on IronPlanet undergoes a detailed, standardized inspection. An independent third party, DynCorp, a world-renowned technical and inspection services provider, performs all inspections. Lloyd's of London insures the inspections. In addition, we offer services such as secure payments and transportation. Buying and selling equipment has never been easier!
- Industries: heavy equipment, construction equipment
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: forward auction, product catalog
- Region: World