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Interwoven, Inc. announced the launch of its newest partner initiative to embed application specific content management functionality with providers of eBusiness applications. Available immediately, Interwoven is offering components of its product suite to eBusiness application providers who need robust, proven content management solutions to complete their offerings. The initiative is aimed at eBusiness application providers who service the Global 2000 and have a need for a targeted content management solution customized to the unique requirements of their application suites. Two new partners to take advantage of the initiative are eBusiness application providers Art Technology Group (ATG) and BEA Systems, Inc. BEA and Interwoven have entered into an agreement to expand their existing partnership with a more comprehensive personalized eCommerce solution. This solution will provide seamless, out-of-the-box content management included with BEA WebLogic Commerce Server 3.1. This new initiative will allow end users to capitalize on the time advantage of having pre-tested and bundled solutions of applications and content management available from a single point of contact. www.interwoven.com, www.bea.com, www.atg.com

Agile Software Corporation announced the Agile Integration Server (AIS), an XML-based integration solution that makes the valuable product content held in Agile Anywhere available to a wide range of business applications and users, both internally and across the global manufacturing network. The Agile Integration Server (AIS) enables users to take every possible business advantage of their valuable Agile-based product information, utilizing it in design, planning, shop floor, field support, CRM, and order entry applications, as well as in collaborative manufacturing. By leveraging this information across the entire supply chain, Agile customers can rapidly expand the value of their Agile Anywhere-based private collaboration exchanges. The Agile Integration Server enables the integration of product information held in Agile with: Individual XML-compliant applications on a case-by-case basis, EAI solutions, or Business to Business Integration (B2Bi) solutions. AIS communicates with XML-compliant applications using HTTP and SSL, making AIS both firewall friendly and highly secure. The AIS generates XML output in several Internet-standard XML-based formats, including aXML and PDX 0.7, as well as other XML-based formats, such as RosettaNet PIPs, OAG BODs, and cXML via XSLT, allowing Agile customers to easily exchange product content with both commodity and custom sourcing networks, such as PartMiner’s Free Trade Zone and Ariba Sourcing. www.agilesoft.com

Documentum announced that a limited license version of the newly launched Documentum 4i Web Content Management (WCM) Edition will come bundled with BEA WebLogic Commerce Server 3.1 and BEA WebLogic Personalization Server 3.1 from BEA Systems, Inc. This edition will be available for download from www.bea.com later this month. The bundling of Documentum and BEA products will provide businesses with a complementary solution for building e-commerce Web sites that can serve and manage dynamic, timely, and highly personalized content. With out-of-the-box content management, customers of the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform will have an immediate solution for creating and delivering e-commerce content. The limited license version installs the Documentum products and BEA integration with a single click, and also includes sample web site content, pre-configured workflows and lifecycles. It also comes complete with a tutorial that shows how to use the Documentum products with the sample web site. The bundled solution simplifies multiple site updates, accelerates delivery of content to multiple targets, and extends content consistency across a company’s Web sites, both internal and external, making the right content available in the right place at the right time. www.documentum.com

NCompass Labs announced the release of the beta version of the Resolution Content Connector for Microsoft Commerce Server 2000. This product enables enterprises to use the full functionality of NCompass Resolution to build highly dynamic, content-driven e-commerce Web sites using Microsoft Commerce Server 2000. Resolutions’ tight integration with a wide spectrum of Microsoft technologies, including Commerce Server 2000, provides rapid deployment, low cost of ownership, and ease of use. NCompass Resolution delivers simple Web-based authoring, template-based publishing, and support for all major languages and accessibility for a diverse set of wired and wireless browsing devices. With the Content Connector, Resolution delivers integration with the Commerce Server Business Desk management application. Businesses that purchase Resolution with the Content Connector will have a complete enterprise content-management solution, with full access to Resolution’s rich feature set including the COM API, template-based authoring, approval workflow, rich Web content authoring, template switching for wired and wireless browsing devices, and multi-language support. The Commerce Server 2000 beta is at www.microsoft.com/commerceserver, and the Resolution Content Connector for Commerce Server 2000 beta version is at www.ncompasslabs.com/Products/Microsoft+Integration

A broad coalition of business and technology companies announced the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) Project, a cross-industry initiative designed to accelerate and broaden B2B integration and commerce on the Internet. American Express Co., Andersen Consulting, Ariba Inc., Bowstreet, Cargill Inc., Clarus Corp., Commerce One Inc., CommerceQuest Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., CrossWorlds Software Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Descartes, Extricity Software Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Great Plains, i2, IBM Corp., Internet Capital Group, Loudcloud Inc., match21, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Microsoft Corp., NEON, Nortel Networks Corp., NTT Communications Corp., Rational Software Corp., RealNames Corp., Sabre Holdings Corp., SAP AG, Sun Microsystems Inc., TIBCO Software Inc., Ventro Corp., Versata Inc., VeriSign, VerticalNet Inc. and webMethods Inc. are among the first to endorse and collaborate on UDDI. Growth of B2B commerce on the Internet faces challenges in scaling to universal adoption due to the multitude of technologies and standards used by businesses and e-marketplaces. UDDI will address these challenges by providing two things: First, UDDI defines a platform-neutral set of specifications to enable businesses to describe themselves and indicate their preferred means of conducting e-commerce transactions. Second, UDDI includes the shared operation of a globally distributed UDDI Business Registry. Through the UDDI Business Registry, companies publish information describing how they conduct commerce and search for other businesses that provide the capabilities, Web services or products they need. The goal of the UDDI Project is to offer the basic infrastructure for dynamic, automated integration of all e-commerce transactions and Web services. Similar to the impact HTML had for consumers on the Internet by providing a common Web site publishing format that fueled the Internet explosion, UDDI aims to make business-to-business commerce adoption universal by providing businesses with a common mechanism to publish Web services on the Internet. The UDDI Project is an open industry initiative in which any organization can participate and implement the specifications. The specifications build on core Internet standards — including TCP/IP, HTML and XML — and are independent of any underlying platform, language, object model, business application or marketplace. It is the intention of the UDDI members to transition the specifications to an industry standards body in the next 18 months. The open draft of the UDDI specification can be found at www.uddi.org. The final specification will be available shortly after public comments and feedback are incorporated. The UDDI Business Registry provides an implementation of the UDDI specification. Any company can access the registry on the Internet, enter the description of its business, reach a UDDI site, or search through all business services listed in the UDDI registry. There is no cost to access information in the registry. Although based on XML, the registry can also describe services implemented using HTML, Java, CORBA, Microsoft Windows DNA, or any other type of programming model or language. The registry is implemented as a Web service and thus can be discovered, integrated and programmatically invoked using XML like any other Web service. Beta implementations of the UDDI Business Registry will be available from Ariba, IBM and Microsoft within 30 days. These implementations will interoperate with each other, ensuring that information registered at one site is shared with all other operator registries. Other interoperable implementations are expected in the future. www.uddi.org

BroadVision and H&Q Asia Pacific announced the formation of a new company, a Business Services Provider (BSP) to deliver B2B mobile commerce (m-commerce) services to the worldwide wireless market. The joint venture is the first initiative to integrate the explosive wireless market with the global enterprise B2B market. The new company will develop and rapidly deliver a new generation of “small but smart” e-business applications and services that will integrate an enterprise with its mobile workforce and its mobile business end-users. The new company is a joint venture between BroadVision, H&Q Asia Pacific, ACCESS Co. Ltd., a supplier of browser technology for non-PC devices, including NTT DoCoMo’s i-mode phones, and ITOCHU TECHNO-SCIENCE Corporation (CTC), a system integrator and services company, and ITOCHU Corporation, the global company that promotes positive business development in the B2B and wireless fields. The venture will base its offerings on BroadVision One-To-One e-business applications and the company’s next-generation XML content management and XSL device-independent rendering technologies. The new company, tentatively named B-Mobile Corporation is slated to be established October 1, 2000 to provide a service for Internet-based business transactions via wireless networks such as mobile phones and PDAs. The company will also begin development of new applications for mobile B2B e-commerce by combining BroadVision’s technology and ACCESS’s mobile-enabled browser system for the use of client companies inside and outside Japan. The new company will be based in Chiyoda-ward, Tokyo. www.broadvision.com, www.access-us-inc.com, www.ctc-g.co.jp

Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Vignette Corp. announced a comprehensive global agreement, including joint sales, marketing and engineering services, that will provide e-business hardware and software solutions for companies to build successful online businesses. The companies have agreed to jointly develop e-business solutions initially targeting the fast-growing new media and telecommunication markets, including wireless. With this agreement, Sun and Vignette have significantly expanded their relationship to deliver solutions based on Sun’s Sun Enterprise servers, Solaris Operating Environment platform and Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology, and the recently announced Vignette V/5 E-business solutions. Companies will be able to leverage Sun’s Java technology to integrate their existing applications with other third-party applications, including the iPlanet Application Server, through Vignette’s recently introduced V/5 E-business applications. As part of the agreement, the Vignette solution will be incorporated into Sun’s iForce Ready Centers, which will enable customers to gain hands-on experience to help them deploy scalable, extensible portal infrastructures combining e-commerce, relationship management, personalization, content management and workflow features on an e-business platform. www.vignette.com, www.sun.com