Alliances.

• Position: Announcements

Welcome Real-time of Aix-en-Provence, France, a provider of smart transaction software, has signed an agreement with Cards etc. of Sydney, Australia, to develop a number of large-scale smart card implementation processes.

Zyman Marketing Group, an Atlanta-based provider of strategic marketing services, signed an agreement with Groove Networks Inc. of Beverly, Mass., a provider of decentralized software for business collaboration. The agreement permits offering of the Zyman Marketing Desktop, which will operate on the Groove Networks platform.

Microsoft Corp. has signed a three-year relationship agreement with Bank One Corp. worth more than...