SAP AG announced that it will work closely with Microsoft Corp. to develop new content specifications for key e-commerce functionality. The collaboration will focus on developing new XML specifications for the SAP Business Framework and Microsoft’s BizTalk framework. The BizTalk framework will provide the foundation for SAP and Microsoft to help accelerate semantic interoperability — a common business language — by providing schemas for catalog and business document interchange between SAP and Microsoft applications. The interchange will be based on the SAP Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI) and the Microsoft COM infrastructure areas, extended by tight integration into the Microsoft BizTalk Server. Both companies will initially focus on the integration of buy- and sell-side business processes and will define XML schemas for catalog and business document interchange between SAP and Microsoft applications within the next six months. The specification that is created will be used to integrate the SAP Business-to-Business Procurement solution and the Microsoft Commerce Server. The newly created XML specification will provide streamlined, accelerated and easy-to-use business processes and eliminate current system boundaries, help companies create more online business, and increase the opportunity to communicate and cooperate with other companies. www.sap.com
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PeopleSoft Inc. announced they have selected Microsoft technologies and standards to develop key elements of the PeopleSoft Business Network (PSBN), including PSBN’s role-based Enterprise Portal and a series of Community Applications. PSBN is an electronic business network of Internet business solutions that will deliver a broad range of relevant information, including applications and content, to a large number of end users through an Enterprise Portal. Announced in November 1998 and scheduled for availability later this year. The two companies also announced that PeopleSoft plans to collaborate with Microsoft on the XML-based BizTalk framework for application integration and e-commerce. www.peoplesoft.com
DataChannel, announced that its XML Framework, portfolio of XML software solutions and services, will support Microsoft’s BizTalk to enable cross platform electronic commerce over the Internet. www.datachannel.com
Level 8 Systems, provider of messaging middleware and enterprise application integration (EAI) solutions, announced support for Microsoft Commerce Interchange Pipeline (CIP) and the BizTalk framework in its upcoming EAI product, Geneva E/A Integrator.Geneva E/A Integrator (“Geneva”) is a Windows NT Server-based enterprise application integration product that supports XML based messaging and workflow integration across heterogeneous platforms and applications. Geneva, integrates with Windows Distributed interNet Applications (DNA) architecture technologies including MTS and MSMQ, XML, HTTP, and other middleware technologies. Geneva will be officially launched at the end of March. www.level8.com
webMethods Inc., announced support for both XML-based BizTalk, Microsoft’s vision for cross-platform electronic commerce, and the next generation of the Microsoft Commerce Interchange Pipeline (CIP). Additionally, webMethods announced availability of cross-platform interoperability between its webMethods B2B products and current and future releases of Commerce Interchange Pipeline, including the version of CIP currently available with Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition. www.webmethods.com
Vitria Technology, Inc. announced it will integrate its complete XML-based Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) with the Microsoft’ Commerce Interchange Pipeline (CIP). Vitria BusinessWare allows companies to build graphical models of their business processes, and then directly execute these models, managing the flow of business events and information and harnessing transparently the underlying applications. www.vitria.com
Active Software, Inc., provider of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) software products, announced support for Microsoft Commerce Interchange Pipeline (CIP) and BizTalk Server. Active Software’s ActiveWorks Integration System will integrate BizTalk Server with disparate front and back-office applications, providing a solution to conduct business with partners and consumers over the Internet. Microsoft BizTalk Server will provide the tools and infrastructure to enable richer business process integration within and between companies and will make it easy for customers to use BizTalk by incorporating the standard XML schema and protocols defined by the BizTalk framework. www.activesw.com
Interleaf, Inc. announced the availability of BusinessWeb 2.0 and BusinessWeb Plus 2.0, Web-enabled e-content solutions. BusinessWeb and BusinessWeb Plus combine Web technology with Interleaf’s document management, distribution, workflow and Web viewing software to provide secure, Web-enabled access to Interleaf WorldView Press document collections and Interleaf RDM document repositories. BusinessWeb and BusinessWeb Plus enable browser search, retrieval and viewing of intranet-based corporate document repositories and electronic collections from a Java-enabled browser. The BusinessWeb viewing solution resides on the client, while BusinessWeb Plus uses a thin-client Java applet solution. Interleaf has integrated advances in its Xtravert Java viewing technology. The Xtravert technology allows users to more easily search through text in Web documents, and for users of BusinessWeb Plus, replaces the WorldView Java Viewer with Java viewing technology, expanded user interface and better text and graphic rendering techniques. Both solutions now offer document printing support for Postscript or PCL printers. www.interleaf.com
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