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
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Hummingbird Communications Ltd and PC DOCS Group International Inc announced they have entered into an agreement pursuant to which Hummingbird would acquire PC DOCS Group. Each outstanding common share of PC DOCS Group will be exchanged for 0.3333 of a common share of Hummingbird. As a result of the transaction, PC DOCS Group will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hummingbird. The transaction values PC DOCS Group at approximately US$155 million, representing a 38% premium for PC DOCS Group shareholders based on the average closing prices of the two companies’ shares over the last ten trading days prior to the announcement of the transaction. Following the completion of the transaction, which is estimated to be during May 1999, PC DOCS Group will become an operating division of Hummingbird, continuing to serve and support its customers in close collaboration with the Hummingbird organization. The Boards of Directors of Hummingbird and PC DOCS Group have each unanimously approved the transaction. Ruby Osten will become Vice Chairman of an expanded seven person board of directors of Hummingbird and will retain his position as President of PC DOCS Group.
Microsoft Corp. has announced Microsoft BizTalk, a new cross-platform e-commerce framework that makes it easy for businesses to integrate applications and conduct business over the Internet with trading partners and customers. The BizTalk framework is based on XML schemas and industry standards that enable integration across industries and between business systems, regardless of platform, operating system or underlying technology. Microsoft also announced plans to incorporate the BizTalk schema into the Microsoft Commerce Platform, initiatives for the MSN network for Internet services, and future versions of Office, the BackOffice family and Windows operating systems. BizTalk makes integrating software in an internal technology environment easier and more cost-effective. Because BizTalk is a cross-platform framework, it allows software to communicate between different common object models, programming languages or shared database schemas. BizTalk is designed to enable the integration of software so that businesses can immediately increase the efficiency of their internal business systems and take advantage of e-commerce while making optimal use of existing investments in hardware and software. Microsoft plans to host a design review of new BizTalk schemas with customers, industry vendors and industry consortia in the second half of 1999. The design review will be an open forum for providing input on the BizTalk framework and will result in the publishing of all current and future BizTalk protocols. All BizTalk documents, message handling protocols and service descriptions will be maintained on the Microsoft Web site as a public resource. For more information about BizTalk, see www.microsoft.com/presspass/commerce/
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
Micro Modeling Associates (MMA), a technology consulting firm, announced a strategic partnership with Object Design. MMA will leverage Object Design’s object-oriented database management systems and tools, including eXcelon, their XML data server, to develop customized business solutions and Web applications for large corporations. As a premier member of ODI’s eXtreme Advantage Partner Program, MMA will integrate eXcelon into its enterprise knowledge management service offering for Fortune 500 businesses. MMA participated on Object Design’s eXcelon steering committee alongside companies such as KPMG and Knight-Ridder, and is now incorporating eXcelon into its own technology framework. www.micromodeling.com
UWI.Com, the provider of XML-based Internet forms for business-to-business e-commerce, announced that the company is actively seeking a strategic partnership that will take advantage of the market for the company’s solutions. The company has retained the services of PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities LLC to facilitate this strategic move. Qualified parties are invited to access the corporate profile website at or contact Mark Fahlberg at: 703/610-7550. www.uwi.com
webMethods Inc., provider of XML-based business-to-business e-commerce and integration solutions, announced that it will support Commerce XML (cXML), an open XML-based standard created to facilitate e-commerce within trading communities.webMethods is among 40 companies that have joined Ariba Technologies in the development of cXML, a suite of lightweight XML DTDs and their associated processes that define the exchange of catalog content and transaction information between buyers and suppliers. www.webmethods.com
Inso Corporation announced the availability of Version 3.1 of DynaBase, their Web content management and publishing platform. DynaBase 3.1 delivers performance improvements versus version 3.0 for content personalization and searching, while also adding new usability features and Java-based management capabilities that address the requirements of large-volume corporate and commercial publishers. DynaBase 3.1 adds support for managing and searching multiple content repositories. This enables publishers to more easily separate content for distributed authoring teams, segregate news feeds and other special data, and efficiently assemble content for searching and publishing on the Web, intranets or extranets. Publishers can now effectively manage ten times more content using a confederation of databases. DynaBase 3.1 includes a new Java API that provides full content management functionality (e.g. check-in/check-out, version control, etc.) and can be used to automate much of the Web publishing process. Full content management capabilities have also been added to Web Author, DynaBase
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