Month: June 1999 (Page 6 of 7)

Novera Software, Inc announced the latest release of the Company’s Novera software suite (formerly known as jBusiness). Novera 4.5 adds XML support, along with a new IBM WebSphere module, to extend enterprise applications to the Web. Integrating applications between customers, partners and suppliers is a time-consuming and expensive process. Novera 4.5 eases this process by encapsulating corporate data locked inside of relational databases, mainframe applications and packaged applications to create standards-based Enterprise Business Objects. Novera then allows these business objects to be exposed as XML to any Web application, providing organizations with a standard format for communicating business information (such as attributes of an order placed over the Web) with partners and suppliers. By combining XML with its EJB- and CORBA-based Enterprise Business Objects, Novera provides the distribution and management capabilities needed for enterprise-class business-to-business electronic commerce applications. Additionally, Novera 4.5 allows the same Enterprise Business Object to be exposed as Java Server Pages (JSP), Java Beans and/or Java Servlets, providing customers with the flexibility to use and reuse the Enterprise Business Objects in any Web application. This reusability translates into significant cost savings and faster time-to-market for organizations looking to deploy multiple Web applications. Novera 4.5 is available immediately from Novera Software. www.novera.com

UWI.Com announced that the InternetForms Commerce System has successfully completed the Entrust test program to achieve Entrust-Ready branding. Users can now take advantage of Entrust Technologies’ robust PKI solutions to digitally sign and secure UWI.Com’s open, verifiable, and legally-binding XML InternetForms. The open architecture of UWI.Com’s InternetForms provides interoperability with every major vendor’s digital security products, including digital signatures, smartcards, and biometric tokens. www.umi.com

BroadVision, Inc. and OnDisplay announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance. Under the terms of the agreement the two companies will jointly market their products, targeting businesses that are deploying e-business portals as a way to gain customers through their online channels. An e-business portal merges e-commerce capabilities and an information-centric portal to produce a vertical destination where customers have access to information they require to make intelligent purchasing decisions. www.ondisplay.com, www.broadvision.com.

PaylinX Corporation announced a partnership agreement with BroadVision, Inc. This partnership is timed with BroadVision’s release of a new family of market-focused applications designed for rapid deployment and dynamic personalization of high transaction Internet commerce sites. The PaylinX enterprise commerce payment-processing platform enhances BroadVision’s retail and business e-commerce application solutions. The PaylinX/BroadVision integration will enable shared customers to install an off-the-shelf and ready-to-use solution for real-time and batch credit card authorization, settlement and reporting. PaylinX provides enterprise payment processing — enabling credit card transaction processing that spans electronic commerce, point-of-sale, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, catalog sales and call centers. www.paylinx.com, www.broadvision.com

The Sun-Netscape Alliance reaffirmed its support for the RosettaNet consortium and other key organizations including CommerceNet, XML.org or OASIS that are helping to define the industry’s XML standards for business-to-business electronic commerce processes. The Alliance also described its plan to integrate XML support across its family of e-commerce applications for commerce exchange, online procurement, online selling and online bill presentment and payment. In a related announcement, RosettaNet announced its commitment to providing an XML standard for live product implementations by February 2, 2000. The Sun-Netscape Alliance, which has executive representation in the consortium, is supporting this timeline and has agreed to collaborate with the other RosettaNet board members to align business processes to support the organization’s XML standard. Commerce Exchange Netscape ECXpert, an application that enables the exchange of commerce information between business systems of the partners, supplier and customer, will provide an XML interface for sending and receiving XML documents, including support for implementing RosettaNet eConcert Partner Internet Processes. Online Procurement and Selling Netscape BuyerXpert will leverage XML features within Netscape EXCpert to help link a company’s internal procurement function with the procurement system of its external suppliers. Netscape BuyerXpert supports XML as a standard mechanism for catalog content exchange. Netscape SellerXpert, a business-to-business online selling application, will support XML by leveraging Netscape ECXpert’s capabilities. The Alliance plans to unveil its complete XML strategy for online selling in the near future. Online Bill Presentment and Payment Netscape BillerXpert today standardizes on XML for all data loading including membership, account data and billing data as it is translated from print streams. The Alliance plans to expand its use of XML within Netscape BillerXpert for greater interoperability with other applications and greater flexibility in meeting customized presentation needs in vertical markets. www.sun.com

RosettaNet announced a number of participants in eConcert – the implementation phase of RosettaNet. In an initiative that will define supply chain transactions using between 75 and 100 standard XML-based partner interface processes (PIPs), or computer-to-computer dialogs, 15 companies have committed resources to four-to-six-month pilot programs that will test processes for updating catalogs and purchasing products. The announcement involves implementation of nine PIPs that will eventually comprise e-business production systems. The selected implementers have formed partnerships of two to six companies to begin pilot implementations. These early adopters recognize the value that RosettaNet’s standards bring for themselves, RosettaNet members, and every other company in the IT supply chain. Purchasing processes currently being piloted consist of computer dialogs relating to requests for pricing information, inventory level, and order status and management of purchase orders. Arrow and Intel have formed one partnership to test purchasing processes, while IBM, Inacom, CHS, Ingram Micro and MicroAge comprise a second group to so the same. As part of the eConcert implementation phase, three milestones were established by the RosettaNet board members regarding the pilot implementation of PIPs by the various company partnerships. The first milestone, when three selected partnerships will have successfully completed the pilot phase of one or more PIPs, is scheduled for June 25, 1999. Five more partnerships will follow at the second milestone on August 9, 1999. Finally, eConcert will come to fruition on February 2, 2000, when all the eConcert member companies will use PIPs in their everyday production routines.The complete set of PIPs will address six high-level business activities

Quintessent Communications, Inc. announced the availability of their XML based Message Adapters. These XML based Message Adapters, together with the QConnect Platform and a suite of Interconnect Applications, provide a Tele.Commerce solution for telecommunications back-office electronic commerce. Quintessent also announced the release of QConnect Studio, an XML based tool-set that efficiently modifies Quintessent’s off-the-shelf Message Adapters to meet the changing requirements of trading partners. Back-office e-commerce for the telecommunications market, Tele.Commerce, requires carriers to electronically bond with trading partners in order to intelligently exchange high volumes of transactional ordering data. The XML based Message Adapters are first to utilize XML as a meta-language to define and generate the electronic data interchange (EDI) streams for trading partner interexchange. This significantly improves how carriers build, translate, validate and modify their e-commerce data transmissions, allowing business analysts within the carrier to efficiently manage message content and make ongoing changes to business rules without reprogramming EDI. The result is quicker implementation of interexchange and information requirements while lowering the cost of ownership for the single Tele.Commerce solution. www.quintcom.com