Intelisys announced that IEC-Enterprise, Version 4.0, supports full-scale interoperability between all buyers and suppliers, regardless of the data protocol. A long-time proponent of open standards on the Internet, Intelisys built an architecture that facilitates a broad buying community by enabling fluent data exchange of documents in many formats including any variant of XML. Intelisys is also working with Microsoft Corp. to accelerate the adoption of business-to-business electronic commerce. The companies plan to integrate Intelisys’ operating XML definitions with the Microsoft BizTalk Framework to define schema for communicating business-to-business e-commerce transactions. www.intelisys.com.
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Input Software, Inc. demonstrated Dynamic Dialogue, a new technology that is designed to redefine how complex business transactions – such as loan applications, mutual fund purchases, insurance claims, and complex product purchases – are conducted on the Web. Input Software’s new XML-based software product DynamicInput, based on Dynamic Dialogue technology, will help solve this problem by replacing today’s static Web forms with personalized, intelligent interactions. DynamicInput creates richer e-commerce customer interactions, which will lower abandon rates and lead to increased sales for e-businesses. DynamicInput moves transaction intelligence out to the customer’s browser. As a result, it provides both personalized content, which ensures the user is only asked questions that make sense in the context of previous answers, as well as personalized presentation formats to meet specific customer or partner needs. For example, first time users will benefit from conversational `question and answer’ formats, while repeat customers with a higher degree of aptitude may prefer form-like styles that allow rapid entry of information. DynamicInput is an extension of Input Software’s InputAccel information capture software, which is used today to connect external information with internal enterprise data systems and Web sites. The beta release of DynamicInput is scheduled for the first quarter of 2000. www.inputsw.com
IntraNet Solutions, Inc. following the recent acquisition of InfoAccess, Inc., announced the appointment of Vern Hanzlik to the position of vice president of sales and Tom Freeman to the position of vice president of worldwide alternate channels. In addition, Dan Ryan, vice president of marketing, will assume business development responsibilities in conjunction with his overall marketing responsibilities for both IntraNet Solutions and InfoAccess. Jim Culbertson will continue as president of InfoAccess. All individuals will be reporting directly to chairman, chief executive officer and president, Robert Olson. www.intranetsolutions.com
OASIS announced public availability of the XML Exchange Table Model Document Type Definition. Published as OASIS Technical Memorandum TR 9901:1999 www.oasis-open.org/html/techpubs.htm, the XML Exchange Table Model DTD is an XML expression of the exchange subset of the full CALS Table Model DTD (www.oasis-open.org/html/a502.htm. The OASIS XML Tables Technical Committee includes participants from the following OASIS member companies: Arbortext, Crane Softwrights, DataChannel, ISOGEN, Mulberry Technologies, Sun Microsystems and others. www.oasis-open.org
InfoAccess Inc announced a partnership with Open Text Corporation to provide the Transit Central EDM (electronic document management) advanced Web publishing functionality to Livelink. The Transit Central/Livelink combination lets Livelink users continue their focus on collaborative knowledge creation and management, using Transit Central to automate the process of publishing that knowledge in HTML, XML, or other formats. With its customizable templates, Transit Central provides Livelink users with the ability to publish information to the Internet, intranet or extranet, or back into Livelink-managed repositories — all with the approved corporate `look and feel.’ The embedded Transit Central/Livelink solution functions transparently while users publish documents to the Web as it goes through the Livelink workflow process, and then automatically publishes a Web site. Open Text is the exclusive reseller of Transit Central EDM for Livelink www.opentext.com, www.infoaccess.com
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InSystems Technologies, Inc. announced the availability of Calligo Engine. Calligo Engine enables ISVs to provide their customers, who need to shorten time-to-market and improve productivity, with the ability to create, modify and generate complex, multi-formatted documents from their desktops without assistance from their IT departments. Documents could include personalized correspondence, contracts, policies, sales proposals and customer statements that are virtually error-free and personalized for the recipient. Calligo Dispatcher, an optional add-on that enables high volume batch processing for documents, is also available with Calligo Engine. Calligo Engine will be sold through InSystems InSymmetry Alliance Program, which recruits ISVs, VARs and Systems Integrators worldwide. www.insystems.com
Lutris Technologies announced the inclusion of Enhydra, the Open Source Java/XML Application Server, on the Red Hat Application CD that ships with Official Red Hat Linux 6.1. Enhydra 2.2 is an Open Source application server that includes XMLC, XML Compiler. XMLC is a development tool that uses the popular Internet standards, XML and Document Object Model (DOM), for the creation of dynamic Web applications. Red Hat is the first commercial vendor to distribute Enhydra. Lutris realized that a complete Open Source Internet server platform was missing a critical piece: an application server. Enhydra provides the final part of this equation, the Open Source Java/XML application server for building Internet applications. www.enhydra.org
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