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webMethods, Inc., announced support for the FpML standard (Financial Products Markup Language: www.fpml.org), an open XML-based protocol that supports financial derivatives, e-commerce and data sharing between applications. Led by J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the FpML standard will facilitate seamless Internet-based integration for a wide range of client services, allowing the financial services market to take full advantage of Internet connectivity while lowering operational risks. www.webmethods.com

Infinity, A SunGard Company, announced it has contributed the Infinity Network Trade Model to the Microsoft Windows Distributed interNetworking Architecture for Financial Services (Windows DNAfs) Advisory Council. The Infinity Network Trade Model will form the basis for industry standards definitions for Risk Management and Derivatives schemas and interfaces. Infinity has joined the Microsoft STP / Windows DNAfs Advisory Council and taken responsibility for leading the council’s risk management and derivatives Competency Centers as a result of the work and expertise they provide to the initiative. The objective of the Microsoft Windows DNAfs initiative is to promote standards within the financial services industry that address the key obstacles to straight-through-processing: business-to-business connectivity and application-to-application integration between new and legacy systems. www.infinity.com

Systran Software Inc. announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Berlitz International Inc. to offer full professional human translation services on the Internet in addition to its already existing Machine Translation Services. www.systransoft.com, www.berlitz.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

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.

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