Signaling a new era in institutional financial management, Integral today launched CFOWeb.com a business-to-business e-commerce portal for capital markets. CFOWeb.com will give CFOs, treasurers and fund managers free, direct access to sophisticated, powerful analytics and the ability to create, manage and maintain investment portfolios that are tailored to their specific needs. CFOWeb.com also gives investment banks and financial services providers an immediate online presence, dramatically increased deal flow and expanded geographic reach. CFOWeb.com helps financial services providers leverage the increasing opportunity presented by Internet delivery of products that is impacting nearly every vertical market. Participating in CFOWeb.com enables providers to either augment their own existing e-commerce site or to leverage CFOWeb.com as a rapid time-to-market e-commerce alternative. The innovative portal dramatically increases financial services providers’ deal flow and allows them to offer their products to a wider range of prospective customers, regardless of company size or location, in a dynamic online environment. CFOWeb.com will become an international network of banks, consultants, dealers, and independent service providers. CFOWeb.com is not a company, but an array of products and services delivered by industry providers to provide maximum value to end-users. The technology underlying CFOWeb.com is based on the Integral’s enterprise Java technology and XML. The core of the Integral platform is the Integral Internet Financial Server (IFS), an intelligent financial server capable of modeling financial instruments and events including front to back office trading and risk management processes provided by the financial institutions. Users and providers can register for CFOWeb.com at www.cfoweb.com. www.integral.com
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POET eCatalog Suite, an out-of-the-box solution for extracting, managing and distributing supplier catalog data over the Internet for B2B eCommerce, is now available from POET Software. With POET eCatalog Suite (eCS), suppliers can now automate the traditionally labor-intensive process of assembling catalog information to send to buyers and content aggregation websites. POET eCatalog Suite is the essential supplier link to the Internet market. POET’s eCS solution addresses the growing demand for electronic catalog data and permits suppliers to automate the interaction with buy-side procurement software from companies like Ariba, and eMarkets like Ariba Network. Furthermore, even though buyers and eMarkets may require data in different formats-based on dialects of XML specific to a vertical market or procurement application-POET eCatalog Suite insulates the supplier from mastering these various dialects by transforming the data on the fly into the appropriate delivery format. As a result, POET eCatalog Suite enables any supplier to deploy an eCatalog solution that works with the growing ranks of Internet buyers and marketplaces — today and as B2B eCommerce evolves — without having to become experts in XML. By extracting the catalog data from an existing IT system and storing it in a separate master catalog, users can edit their data to make it useful to buyers-a process called data normalization. After the data is normalized, custom catalogs can be generated for each buyer or marketplace according to a unique profile. The catalog is then transmitted via the Internet where it can be loaded into a customer’s procurement software or to an eMarket of aggregated content using the appropriate dialect of XML. POET eCatalog Suite is written in 100% Java. And costs $30,000. www.poet.com
Webridge, Inc. announced the signing of a technology alliance agreement with AGENCY.COM. The alliance will allow Webridge’s Express applications for e-commerce, partner relationship management and knowledge portals to be offered to AGENCY.COM clients. In addition to recommending and deploying Webridge solutions for clients, AGENCY.COM has launched its corporate knowledge management portal built on Webridge’s Express Framework. The intranet site, which is the central repository for the storage and retrieval of AGENCY.COM knowledge assets, is based upon the concept of “rooms,” which are information portals centered around well-defined topics or classifications. Rooms will provide the foundation for organizing all of the Intranet content and for creating communities of people who share information, common interests, and needs with one another. www.agency.com, www.webridge.com
Information Architects Corporation, and Thoughtmill Corporation announced they have entered a partnership to deploy iA’s Metaphoria Virtual Web Server technology to Thoughmill’s clients and partners. Metaphoria Virtual Web Server provides 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. www.ia.com, www.thoughtmill.com
ORI Inc.announced the availability of the ClarientXML Server solution to provide real-time XML publishing capabilities for Lotus Notes and Domino 5.0. The new offering will give Lotus Notes users a tool to accelerate e-business development within their organizations. The ClarientXML Server enables corporations to publish existing information or documents residing in Lotus Notes and Domino databases in XML. It allows Lotus Notes and Domino 5.0 servers to communicate using XML, interpret XML documents and perform various Lotus Notes database-related functions. ClarientXML Server accelerates the development of business-to-business e-commerce applications and supply chain management applications for large corporations by facilitating structured communications between computers. www.objres.co, www.lotus.com
UWI.Com announced a free addition to its InternetForms Commerce System (ICS) that enables enterprise users to securely sign XML e-commerce documents using smart cards and Netscape digital certificates. InternetForms Commerce System provides options for creating verifiable records through digital signatures, including third-party support for Netscape signatures, and support for Microsoft CryptoAPI, Entrust, and PenOp signatures. Through partnerships with VeriSign, Datakey, Entrust, Netscape, PenOp, GTE CyberTrust, and Digital Signature Trust, UWI.Com offers methods for securely removing paper from business processes. www.uwi.com
Active Software, Inc., provider of eBusiness integration software products, and Art Technology Group,Inc., developers of e-commerce and online personalization applications, announced the formation of a strategic alliance to enable businesses to deliver Internet Customer Relationship Management (ICRM) solutions integrated with enterprise applications, including Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP. ATG offers the Dynamo suite of e-commerce and personalization software products for enabling large-scale e-commerce solutions that extend customer relationships across the enterprise. ATG will develop, market and resell a Dynamo Adapter for Active Software’s ActiveWorks Integration System. The Dynamo Adapter for Active Works allows businesses to draw customer information from multiple data sources enabling a seamless flow of information throughout the extended enterprise. www.activesw.com, www.atg.com
Commerce One, Inc. announced the Commerce One Common Business Library (CBL) 2.0, an XML specification for the cross-industry exchange of business documents such as purchase orders, invoices, product descriptions, and shipping schedules. Commerce One CBL 2.0 is a set of XML building blocks and a document framework that allows the creation of reusable XML documents for electronic commerce. Using the CBL 2.0 document framework, businesses can conduct electronic commerce by exchanging business documents of different types. To enable companies to preserve their investment in existing standards such as traditional EDI, CBL 2.0 provides a transition path to XML-based commerce capability. Based on a broad range of Internet and commerce-related industry standards and specifications, CBL 2.0 is endorsed by the Microsoft BizTalk initiative, OASIS, the UN/CEFACT Techniques and Methodologies Working Group, and CommerceNet and its eCo Framework Project and Working Group. To encourage its industry-wide adoption and development, CBL 2.0 is free of charge and available immediately from e-commerce document repositories including XML.org, BizTalk.org, CommerceNet and Commerce One MarketSite.net. www.commerceone.com
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