Category: Marketing & e-commerce (Page 68 of 77)

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

Information Architects and IllusionFusion! announced a strategic alliance to help companies build effective businesses on the Internet. The strategic alliance will combine Information Architect’s patented Java-based Metaphoria content aggregation and syndication capabilities with IllusionFusion!’s digital studios – graphics, animation, Internet, live production and sound – to develop products and programs for clients that combine sophisticated content aggregation and personalization with rich new media. iA’s flagship offering, the Metaphoria Virtual Web Server, is JAVA based Internet technology that provides powerful aggregation and syndication of any digital information from anywhere it resides, including from multiple sources. The Metaphoria Virtual Web Server enables data residing in mainframes, client server systems, web servers, Internets and Extranets to be combined and viewed from any internet accessible devise such as a PC, PDA, WebTV, Palm VII or WinCE device. The core components of the Metaphoria Virtual Web Server provides content management, syndication, publishing, e-commerce, and bi-directional Legacy and Client Server systems integration via the Web. Resource Description Framework (RDF) standard is at the core of iA’s Metaphoria Syndication Server. RDF provides a robust, flexible, and efficient platform for content syndication. www.illusionfusion.com

Netfish Technologies, Inc. made its debut with a B2B e-commerce solution that enables companies to streamline and automate their manufacturing, procurement and distribution processes with other organizations. In order to encourage rapid adoption by large value-chains, Netfish is giving away free Netfish XDI client software, allowing a single manufacturer to tie together all their trading partners without forcing additional costs on them.Based on XML and written in Java, the Netfish XDI system integrates with existing ERP systems, making it easy to automate and manage the workflows for complex transactions between trading partners with different applications, formats and systems. The Netfish XDI System requires no programming to integrate with ERP systems from vendors, and provides powerful graphical tools for creating custom workflow processes that reflect an organization

Formark Ltd. and UWI.Com, announced a strategic partnership. Formark has integrated UWI.Com’s InternetForms Commerce System with Open Text’s Livelink Intranet to create LiveForms, an XML application that enables Livelink users to automate business processes and undertake e-commerce on Livelink supported intranets and extranets. Formark’s LiveForms brings secure, legally-binding InternetForms to Livelink users, and provides a range of features. Formark LiveForms support: role-based workflow distribution; multiple electronic signatures; easy to use designer and database connectivity; ability to work offline; and legally-binding records. UWI.Com’s InternetForms Commerce System is a suite of products based on XFDL (Extensible Forms Description Language), an XML protocol for legally-binding transactions on the Internet. Formark LiveForms targets business process automation where sophisticated XML e-commerce forms with built-in calculations, data validation, and user confirmation and external database connections are required. www.formark.com, www.uwi.com

Running Start Inc. announced the release of ArticleBASE, an integrated content management, workflow, and dynamic publishing system designed for medium-sized to enterprise-class companies to centrally manage distributed digital content such as text, graphics, video, and audio files and publish it to the Web. Developed under the Apple WebObjects 4 platform for optimum scalability and platform independence, ArticleBASE can run on Windows NT, Sun Solaris, and Mac OS X Server operating systems and supports industry-standard databases including Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL, and Informix. Running Start’s technologies include ArticleBASE, a digital content management, workflow processing, and dynamic publishing system; and RSCommerce, an e-commerce solution. www.running-start.com

Persistence Software announced a partnership and product licensing agreement with webMethods, Inc. to deliver a transaction processing hub for business-to-business e-commerce. Combining the productivity of an EJB application server with the flexibility of an XML-based business-to-business integration server gives customers the ability to integrate business systems across enterprise boundaries. The combination of Persistence PowerTier and webMethods B2B enables developers to create dynamic real-time supply and demand chains that leverage the Internet to integrate the business systems of diverse suppliers, customers and partners worldwide.The integration of the two products enables ubiquitous, real-time e-commerce services. Customers get the high-performance processing power and forward caching of data provided by PowerTier, along with the broad support for emerging XML-based B2B protocols, data mapping and transformation, rich security, and reliability provided by webMethods B2B. PowerTier customers can now leverage interoperability with e-commerce standards including XML, RosettaNet, FpML, cXML, OBI, OAG, ACORD, Microsoft BizTalk and legacy EDI. www.webMethods.com, www.persistence.com

Computer Sciences Corporation announced support for a new e-commerce framework specification developed by CommerceNet. CSC will support the eCo Framework ) both internally and through an ongoing client education and awareness program. These efforts are being coordinated by CSC’s e-business practice which focused upon building excellence in XML technology and establishing best practice information architectures by working with clients and industry organizations. The eCo Interoperability Framework provides a single common protocol through which eCommerce systems can describe themselves, their services and their interoperability requirements. The eCo Framework Working Group, which developed the specification, includes key industry players such as 3Com, American Express, American Power Conversion, ASC/X12, Berkeley National Lab, Cisco Systems, Commerce One, Compaq, CSC, Ontology.Org, GEIS, Harbinger, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Intuit, ISO, Microsoft, Mondex International, NEC, Netscape, Novell, Royal Bank of Canada, Sun Microsystems and UWI.com, as well as experts in XML, OBI, OFX, OTP, XML/EDI, RosettaNet, and CBL.

CCAES.COM announced the release of the QuickData Server, a parametric search engine for electronic component information. The QuickData Server supports the QuickData specification for business-to-business electronic content exchange defined by the SI2 standards committee. QuickData enables customers and component information end users to make simultaneous queries on component information to multiple suppliers over the Internet, receiving real time business-to-business responses. The QuickData Server and the recently announced QuickData Client products are available immediately from CCAES.COM. The QuickData Server integrates to the existing data warehousing inter structures including Oracle Version 7 and 8. Both products integrate with the existing data mining products from CCAES.COM to import content from existing data sheets and engineering tooling systems, exporting content to data warehousing systems. www.ccaes.com