Borders Group Inc. Wednesday
selected Bluestone Software Inc.’s
Sapphire Web application server to power its e-commerce systems.
Borders Group (BGP) said its primary objectives were to improve its systems’ capabilities in the
critical areas of scalability, failover, fault tolerance and overall
infrastructure.
In beating out a group of over 25 candidates, Bluestone’s Sapphire tool (BLSW)
will replace an aging legacy system that currently links Borders’ primary
e-commerce Web site, Borders.com, and
the company’s in-store “special order” systems — Borders Express and
NetSPO.
The Bluestone system will tie together Borders’ ordering systems and is
designed to provide the company with the expansion headroom needed to meet
its future growth targets.
“We feel confident that Bluestone’s exceptional product and team-oriented
approach will enable Borders Group to continue to aggressively pursue our
retail convergence strategy, and to continue to lead the market in terms of
customer service and assortment,” said Mark Winterhalter, vice president
Information Technology of Borders Group Inc.