SAS Institute announced the availability of Enterprise Reporter software, Release 2.5. Enterprise Reporter allows IT departments to meet end-user reporting needs within one end-user reporting suite. This ensures data consistency across enterprise reporting, reducing the time IT departments spend trying to resolve inconsistencies between reports produced from data warehouses with different end-user reporting tools. New XML support improves end-users’ ability to share information by allowing them to push intelligence in one report into another user’s XML application. The new release of Enterprise Reporter exploits the XML standard with the SAS Document Viewer, a Windows application that allows users to browse, print and e-mail XML-based files. Users can create a report in XML and then push that information into other applications in the XML format. This is the first step in providing full document exchange between the server and any client application in the next generation of Enterprise Reporter. SAS Institute has included the Batch Builder in Enterprise Reporter, Release 2.5. The Batch Builder creates predefined reports in batch mode on the report server. Enterprise Reporter, Release 2.5, is compatible with Version 8 of the SAS System. www.sas.com
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Mediaplex, Inc. reported that the open standards initiative, adXML.org, launched in December 1999, has achieved an earlier-than-anticipated milestone with the upcoming launch of its first beta test. This initial release was designed by Mediaplex and subsequently enhanced by adXML.org’s nine subcommittees, represented by 46 participating companies from a wide range of industry sectors. Established as a vendor-neutral global organization, the mission of adXML.org is to define and advance a common XML-based vocabulary for automating the buy/sell transactions of the advertising industry. Subcommittees have been defined for both traditional and new media as well as digital asset management software. Subcommittees for traditional media include print, TV, radio and outdoor; subcommittees for new media include online, e-mail, set-top box/broadband and the virtually untapped wireless market. The self-describing adXML is a common language that describes data structures and types for cross-business communication and supply chain management among advertisers, agencies and publishers. The technology initiative offers significant time- and cost-efficiencies by enabling real-time automation of all advertising business transactions, including insertion and change orders, requests for proposals and bids, inventory and rate cards, and even creative content. www.adxml.org
IXOS Software AG announced a new ASP initiative, initially targeted at small and medium-sized enterprises. IXOS aims to help them gain access to efficient eBusiness document management and archiving through the deployment of IXOS products by ASP hosts. The ASP initiative is a major extension to the existing sales and delivery channels of IXOS and enables the Company to address both existing and new market segments in an additional dimension. In selecting ASP partners, IXOS plans to focus on successful hosts of the SAP R/3 application. www.ixos.com
IBM, Lotus, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Inc., Psion and Starfish Software announced today they have founded The SyncML Initative. The SyncML Initiative develops and promotes an open industry specification for universal data synchronization of remote data and personal information across multiple networks, platforms and devices. SyncML is an XML-based data synchronization protocol designed to create the optimal mobile computing experience by supporting enhanced data synchronization, including e-mail, calendar, contact management information, enterprise data stored in databases, Web-based documents and new forms of content from systems available in the future. The SyncML Initiative is open for industry partners to join in developing the specification. The SyncML specification will enable the creation of interoperable wireless and wireline data synchronization products across corporate servers, Web servers, computers, laptops, PDAs, handheld computers, mobile phones and other mobile devices, regardless of platform or manufacturer. The founding members of The SyncML Initiative have identified the following goals to achieve the successful development and adoption of an industry-wide data synchronization standard: Leverage existing open standards for structured data representation and industry object types; Operate over wireless and wireline networks; Support a variety of transport protocols; Support arbitrary networked data; Provide data access from a variety of applications; Connect mobile devices regardless of platform or manufacturer; Use existing Internet and Web standards and technologies; And provide easily accessible code for enabling support for the specification The SyncML Initiative will leverage XML, MIME, the vCard and the iCalendar to represent Internet Data, email information, personal contact information and calendaring information. Extending beyond currently available data synchronization technologies, SyncML will enable synchronization among wireless and wireline networked data, computers, laptops, handheld computers, PDAs, mobile handset and other mobile devices. www.syncml.org
BrainDock.com announced a new service to deliver content and applications to WAP enabled smart phones and other wireless information devices. BrainDock.net will serve as a wireless Application Service Provider (wASP), providing a complementary suite of services to BrainDock’s existing electronic software distribution business. Launching in May 2000, BrainDock.net will provide a broad spectrum of content and services to wireless device users. BrainDock.com does not sell to consumers directly, but provides e-tailers with the tools to build online storefronts and a choice of products to full the store. BrainDock performs transaction processing, credit card validation and provides a secure download. Strategic member e-tailers include Psion PLC, Widget Software Ltd., NWT.com, 21store, Palmtop Italia, and Azimuth. The launch of BrainDock.net will provide developers with another avenue to bring their value-added offerings to market, providing e-tailers with a broader audience for sales of products and services. www.braindock.com
NetPace launched an integrated B2B platform, enabling business-to-business commerce across industries. NetPace’s B2B Framework Server (NFS) at is a complete XML-based, platform independent process for supply chain management automation. As part of the B2B NFS, NetPace has also released a working prototype demonstrating a typical supply chain process in the automotive industry. Contrary to traditional applications that use Web Server-specific solutions for data exchange over the Web, this framework uses XML as its native data format. The XML framework allows the application to run on any available platform and allows integration with the existing ERP solutions such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, and others. B2B NFS is open enough to be implemented in virtually all types of industries. The prototype simulates a real world scenario and demonstrates how NFS can help trading partners to leverage the Internet, increasing business efficiency. www.netpace.com
Panagon eSolutions, and Autonomy announced a strategic partnership to add Autonomy’s categorization and personalization technology to Panagon eSolutions’ portal products. With Autonomy technology, Panagon eSolutions will fine-tune its identification and classification tools for portal users. The added technology also allows Panagon eSolutions to address portal applications for tracking how content is used by constituents — to determine its value and establish best practices approaches in terms of leveraging key content. www.panagonesolutions.com, www.autonomy.com
Internet Commerce Corporation (ICC) announced the addition of new XML based capabilities to their Internet EC solutions. Designed for the vast number of suppliers who are not EDI- enabled, this new feature allows small and medium-sized suppliers to connect into EDI-based supply chains through the Internet. Large companies can transmit EDI data to small suppliers who can then receive and respond to this information through their browser. The XML- based service provides a client-server-like closed-loop environment, which eliminates the need to rekey information that originated with a previously received document set. Incorporating the customer’s own data management rules, this real-time document turnaround capability shortens the user learning cycle, and negates transposition errors and non-compliant document sets. ICC’s unique new feature utilizes XML to automatically pre-populate response documents. Client-side editing insures that required fields are properly filled and the document meets all business rules. A unique mapping feature allows customer-specific, familiar forms to be quickly and easily defined for browser display. With the new feature, a large company can transmit EDI and automatically have it mapped to a browser-based form such as a purchase order. The user can “respond” to a purchase order with an invoice, which is automatically pre-populated, edit it online, and transmit it back to the large company as an EDI stream. This creates a closed-loop electronic solution. www.icc.net
