ActiveBuddy Announces BuddyScript Software Development Kit Compatibility with Intuit's QuickBooks SDK.Business Editors/High Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2002 Developers Can Now Create a Conversational Front-End to their QuickBooks-compatible Applications ActiveBuddy, Inc., the messaging industry's leading provider of interactive agent technology, today demonstrated support for Intuit's QuickBooks(R) software development kit (SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). ). Third-party developers who utilize the QuickBooks SDK can now incorporate a messaging-based front end to their applications, delivering to their users the ability to query and update QuickBooks-resident data via wireless messaging. ActiveBuddy technology allows developers to create and deploy interactive agents - such as the company's popular demonstration agent, SmarterChild, which interacted with over 9 million messaging users last year - across all platforms that support interactive text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. . Interactive agents are software applications, often called "bots bots maggots of flies which infest animals, especially horses and sheep. The term bot is also loosely used to include the invasive maggots such as those of Cuterebra and Wohlfahrtia spp. horse bots see gasterophilus. ," that interact with users over any messaging system Software that provides an electronic mail delivery system. It is made up of the following functional components, which may be packaged together or independently. Mail User Agent from public Instant Messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or (IM) services used on the desktop to mobile messaging platforms like SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. and the emergent wireless IM platform. Developers can now harness the BuddyScript SDK in combination with the QuickBooks SDK to deliver data and services to users via instant messaging or a browser interface on the desktop, or with the company's BuddyScript Connectivity Service, to wireless phones and PDAs via WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. , SMS, and email. "Intuit and ActiveBuddy both recognize that small business owners juggle many daily tasks and that they are constantly looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to streamline their operations," said Mark Bercow, vice president of the Intuit Developer Network. "Enabling the exchange of data between a BuddyScript application and the QuickBooks 2003 products will help small businesses save time and manage their resources more efficiently, allowing them to spend more time actually running their business." "The prototypical QuickBooks customer is an entrepreneur who is frequently away from the computer, and access to customer and inventory data at a remote job site provides real value," said Gray Norton, senior product manager at ActiveBuddy. "The ability to give that customer access to his QuickBooks data over messaging on a wireless device has generated an enthusiastic response from the Intuit Developer Community." An example BuddyScript application delivering sample data from QuickBooks Online is available at http://www.activebuddy.com/qbdemo/. Intuit developers can visit ActiveBuddy's developer site at www.BuddyScript.com to download the free BuddyScript SDK and view the sample application script for a template of how to access QuickBooks data. About ActiveBuddy, Inc. ActiveBuddy (www.activebuddy.com) is the leading provider of software tools and systems for developing and hosting interactive agents. ActiveBuddy software and hosting solutions enable marketers, content and service providers, and businesses to deploy interactive agents that deliver a wide range of personalized content and service across all platforms that support interactive text messaging. Leveraging the rapidly expanding global messaging audience, ActiveBuddy provides companies with a new environment to more efficiently interact with their customers and distribute information. Among ActiveBuddy's customers are Keebler, eBay, Warner Bros. Records Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is internationally known as WEA International Inc. , New Line Cinema, Ogilvy Interactive, and Lagardere Active's ElleGirl. Founded in March 2000, ActiveBuddy is based in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY, and Sunnyvale, CA. Principal investors are SoundView Ventures and Reuters. ActiveBuddy, the ActiveBuddy robot logo, SmarterChild, and BuddyScript are trademarks or registered trademarks of ActiveBuddy Inc. Intuit, the Intuit logo, Quicken, QuickBooks, QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier, Turbo Tax, ProSeries, and Lacerte, among others, are registered trademarks and/or registered service marks of Intuit Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. Other parties' trademarks or service marks are the property of their respective owners and should be treated as such. |
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