Netscape Communications Corporation announced that it will integrate comprehensive support for XML across its portfolio of e-commerce applications to help customers harness the benefits of XML to streamline interoperability between companies to better manage their commerce foundation in the Net Economy. Netscape’s implementation of XML will support e-commerce transactions, business processes and catalog exchanges. The Netscape CommerceXpert family of packaged applications enable Internet commerce exchange, corporate procurement, online selling and customer information services. Netscape CommerceXpert products that are scheduled to support XML include Netscape BuyerXpert, Netscape ECXpert, Netscape SellerXpert and Netscape TradingXpert. www.netscape.com
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OnDisplay announced the immediate availability of CenterStage 3.3 which provides XML support for rapid business-to-business application integration. Leveraging CenterStage’s graphical approach to heterogeneous content integration, the XML features allow trading partners to be integrated in less than one-third the time required using first generation programming oriented business-to-business integration tools. The XML support allows companies to parse, query, transform and map XML bi-directionally with ERP applications, E-Commerce applications, databases and legacy systems. OnDisplay is an active proponent in the development of XML as an emerging standard for e-business integration, specifically in the areas of content aggregation and application integration. OnDisplay is a member of several XML-related industry consortiums such as CommerceNet, Open Applications Group (OAG), and ICE, and will support XML-based E-Commerce frameworks such as Microsoft’s BizTalk and Ariba’s cXML initiatives. OnDisplay will incorporate support for these XML DTDs into CenterStage to further automate business-to-business collaboration across industry standard specifications. www.ondisplay.com
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
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
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
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