Qualitative Marketing Software Inc. announced the imminent availability of Centrus CIO-XML. This new version of Web-enabled data quality and data enhancement technology from QMSoft lets small to large companies integrate the Centrus brand into their E-Commerce, Call Center and CRM applications in order to get to know their customers better. Centrus CIO-XML — version 2.0 of Centrus CIO, an extensive real-time address data quality, enhancement, record matching, spatial analysis and demographic data solution for intelligently managing call center, e-commerce and point-of-sale customer interactions, is expected to be ready to ship early 1Q 2000. With the use of CIO-XML, IT professionals and database marketing managers can easily integrate multiple data sources. QMSoft hosts data sources such as household and business data files, Claritas Demographics, GDT DynaMap 2000 streets, flood maps, tax maps, and more. Additionally, CIO-XML potentially helps reduce long-term maintenance and operating costs, virtually eliminating the need for multiple and duplicative hardware and software. CIO-XML also offers a platform independent interface, allowing for it to be implemented and used in a variety of computer systems, including the remote user’s palm-top organizer. CIO-XML servers will be available on NT. Any platform that can talk HTML can use the service. QMSoft will also supply client components that handle the XML and the communications in Java, ActiveX/COM, as well as C/C++ for NT, Solaris, HP/UX, IBM AIX and Compaq Tru64. www.qmsoft.com
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Extricity Software, Inc and PricewaterhouseCoopers have formed a strategic alliance to provide a comprehensive and packaged software and services solution dedicated to supporting and deploying RosettaNet electronic business standards. Extricity Software recently announced the availability of a complete software solution named the Extricity AllianceInteract for RosettaNet. As an integrator of Extricity’s AllianceInteract for RosettaNet business-to-business software, PricewaterhouseCoopers will help high tech companies implement the RosettaNet e-business standards. PricewaterhouseCoopers and Extricity will form a dedicated team of resources focused on helping companies define and deploy RosettaNet solutions and align them with their mainstream business processes. www.pwcglobal.com, www.extricity.com
Artesia Technologies, Inc. announced the appointment of Sebastian Holst to the position of Vice President of Marketing. In the newly created position, Holst will spearhead the company’s efforts to introduce its te@ms 3.0 Digital Asset Management solution to broader audiences within the Global 2000, Publishing and Entertainment markets. In his new position, Holst will provide overall strategic direction for all of Artesia Technologies’ marketing initiatives, including product marketing, channel marketing, corporate communications, strategic alliances and advertising. Holst joins Artesia from the Inso Corporation, where he served most recently as their Vice President of Strategic Marketing. In this capacity, Holst provided marketing direction for the company’s Electronic Publishing Solutions division and was involved in the development of INSO’s new eBusiness Technologies division. Prior to joining Inso, Holst was the U.S. president for Texcel, a content management company recently acquired by Interleaf. www.artesiatech.com
Bluestone Software, Inc., announced strategic alliances with Grant Thornton LLP, modis Inc., and Technology Solutions Company to establish Total-e-Business Services consulting and implementation practices. Each organization has committed to creating an e-business practice based on Total-e-Business, Bluestone’s e-business solution that meets the exacting demands of the people responsible for e-business operations, sales, marketing, and finance. By aligning with Bluestone, the Total-e-Business Services providers will be trained and certified on the comprehensive integrated e-business platform that combines components for content management, personalization, integration, and e-commerce with Bluestone’s Sapphire/Web Application Server infrastructure and Bluestone XML Suite integration server – based upon JavaServer Pages (JSP) and XML standards. www.bluestone.com
Eprise Corporation announced the company’s next offering a robust open architecture for dynamic content management. Participant Server 2.5 is a platform that enables business professionals to create, update, and target Web-based communications via the Internet, intranets, or extranets. Operating as a Web server plug-in, Participant Server 2.5 features comprehensive, event-driven services for controlling content contribution, management, and distribution that are all accessible from easy-to-use forms in a Web browser. No specialized server scripting language is required. In addition, Participant Server offers integration agents for Microsoft Active Server Pages, Allaire ColdFusion, and Java technologies that allow developers to take advantage of these same services from their native environment. Eprise Participant Server 2.5 is available this month supporting Windows NT 4.0, Internet Information Server, and SQL Server 6.5 or SQL Server 7. Support for Sun Solaris using Netscape Enterprise Server and Oracle will be added within the next 45 days. Base pricing remains at $50,000 per Web server. www.eprise.com.
System 1 Software, Inc announced that it has designed and published a schema for the equipment finance industry based on the Microsoft BizTalk Framework. The company developed an XML schema for electronic financing credit applications that facilitates the exchange of information over the Internet. Applications for credit based on this schema can be submitted by an equipment finance professional (broker), a vendor or borrower to request funding for equipment financing from a bank or finance company lender or lessor, or broker, regardless of differing operating systems or databases. System 1 Software’s schema for the financing credit application is available online in the BizTalk Framework schema library, which is accessible at www.biztalk.org, www.system1.com
Documentum, Inc. introduced its project portal to manage team knowledge. Documentum iTeam provides an integrated, easy-to-use project space for driving distributed, cross-functional team collaboration on the Web. iTeam enables significant increases in team productivity, faster project execution and shorter time-to-revenue. Documentum designed iTeam with the intention of making it easy for knowledge workers to install and kick-off projects, assemble teams and start producing. iTeam is built upon Documentum 4i, the first content management platform designed to dynamically manage all facets of content creation and delivery for both corporate and eBusiness portals. iTeam is shipping now and is available on both Documentum 4i and EDMS 98 on Windows NT or UNIX platforms. www.documentum.com
Solbright, Inc. announced a complete XML-based infrastructure architecture for the exchange and management of data associated with all aspects of Internet advertising. Through the power of XML the costs and delays associated with routing and processing insertion orders, creative assets, invoices, and reports between web site publishers, advertisers, and agencies can be minimized by establishing the standard by which information can be exchanged across disparate business systems. www.solbright.com.
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