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February 27, 2007
EEPN ADDS BEGANTO’S TIME-SAVING Need-A-Sample® AS A FURTHER TOOL FOR
DESIGN ENGINEERS
Need-A-Sample® EEPN®, the “time-saving tool
for today’s design engineer” offers a new
time-saving tool for its readers, and a new management
tool for its advertisers. Through an alliance with Beganto,
EEPN and its sister eMedia properties, EEPN2™ and
www.eepn.com, now provide direct links to Beganto’s
www.needasample.com “buy side” sampling and
tracking tool for products from sponsoring component
suppliers.
Beganto (www.beganto.com) also serves “the sell
side,” carrying sampling support through to the
design win tracking process. Bill Baumann, group publisher
of Penton Media’s Electronics OEM Group notes “The
alliance is a natural fulfillment of EEPN’s mission,
and a valuable informational and logistical supplement
to the 250,000 interactions we have with readers each
month. Beganto helps the EEPN reader get needed data
and samples from a central source – without the
need to visit dozens of Web sites or enter the same information
repeatedly”.
Sunil Grover, Beganto’s CEO, says the 100,000 primary
readers of EEPN join the 80,000 engineers enrolled in
BeON™, the Beganto Open Network. The system is
free to engineers, and to the representatives and distributors
who support a project; it’s funded by the component
suppliers who use the Beganto solution to manage and
track their new business opportunities, currently Alps,
Catalyst, Fox, Hirose, JAE, JRC, Mueller, NEC, Optek,
Rohm, Torex, and United Chemi-Con. Baumann expects the
list to grow significantly as producers of components
featured in EEPN and its eMedia satellites become aware
of the new reader service -- the 21st century replacement
for, and improvement over, the obsolete bingo card. During
its four-year lifetime, Beganto has processed over 60,000
sample requests, resulting in an estimated 6000 design
wins and 600 volume production orders.
About Beganto:
Beganto, Inc. (www.beganto.com)
provides the electronics industry a sophisticated web-based
system that gets industry participants needed information
for selecting, sampling, sourcing, and tracking products
through the supply chain. BeON™, the Beganto Open Network, welcomes engineers, buyers, distributors, and manufacturers’ representatives as members at no charge, and lets them enjoy the full features of the system. Component manufacturers become members of BeON™ through paid use of Design Winner™,
which facilitates tracking component opportunities from sampling
to the point of design win. The privately held company has
its headquarters in Fremont, California, and offices in Seattle,
India and Japan.
About EEPN
Today’s electronic design engineers are busier
than ever. Fewer staff, more projects – and less
time to learn about the products and technology they
need. EEPN is more than product listings; it’s
an information tool for using new products to solve design
challenges. Through EEPN print magazine, eepn2 digital
publication, email newsletters and www.eepn.com website,
the EEPN brand connects to customers more than 250,000
times every month. EEPN – Time-saving Tool for
Today’s Design Engineer.
About Penton Media
Headquartered in New York, the new Penton Media, Inc.
is one of the nation’s largest business-to-business
media and information companies, serving more than
six million business professionals every month. Its
market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries.
The company was formed through the combination of
Prism Business Media and Penton Media. The new company
will adopt the Penton Media brand and expects to
complete the transition to this new unified branding
by March 15. Its growing portfolio includes 113 trade
magazines, 145 Web sites, 96 industry trade shows
and conferences and more than 500 information data
products. The privately held company is owned by
U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored
by Wasserstein & Co., LP, its co-investors, and
by MidOcean Partners. For additional information
on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.
BEG6014 News Release, Beganto-EEPN Alliance
February 27, 2007
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