Astoria Software Licenses Boeing Software to Provide End-to-End Structured Document Management Solution for Flight Technical Operations.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2003 Astoria Astoria (ăstôr`ēə). 1 Commercial, industrial, and residential section of NW Queens borough of New York City, SE N.Y.; settled in the 17th cent. as Hallet's Cove. It was renamed for John Jacob Astor in 1839. Software Inc., formerly LightSpeed Software Inc., the leading provider of structured document management solutions, today announced it has licensed Boeing's flight operations document assembly application. Under this agreement, Astoria Software will market the aerospace industry's first end-to-end end-to-end a pattern of anastomosis in which severed ends are matched and united, in contrast with other patterns such as end-to-side or side-to-side. Usually applied to anastomosis of the intestine. structured document management solution for flight operations documentation. The application is currently being used to create and deliver Boeing's technical flight operations documentation for each aircraft the company delivers. Astoria Software will integrate the Boeing application with its leading structured document management repository (1) A database of information about applications software that includes author, data elements, inputs, processes, outputs and interrelationships. A repository is used in a CASE or application development system in order to identify objects and business rules for reuse. , Astoria, and its Web-based review and annotation 1. (programming, compiler) annotation - Extra information associated with a particular point in a document or program. Annotations may be added either by a compiler or by the programmer. application module, Astoria Review. Under the terms of the agreement, Boeing will use the integrated package that Astoria Software will produce to create, manage, assemble and deliver Boeing flight technical manuals to its operator customers. The company will also use the software package to provide document customization services. Boeing supports a worldwide fleet of 12,000 Boeing airplanes in active service at 800 operators. Astoria also will offer the package to a wide variety of customers in the worldwide air transport and other industries. "Boeing is delighted to provide technology to companies, such as Astoria Software, to serve our customers better," said Gene Partlow, Boeing Intellectual Property Business vice president. "I am pleased to join Boeing in providing its customers with the only end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for managing and delivering structured content for flight technical publications," says Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs Steding, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Astoria Software. "In today's business Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002. environment, information requirements The information needed to support a business or other activity. Systems analysts turn information requirements (the what and when) into functional specifications (the how) of an information system. are constantly changing. The Astoria repository is uniquely suited to provide the fine-grained, component-level structured document management required to effectively create, manage and deliver business critical information as change occurs. Our solution will undoubtedly offer a major competitive advantage to Boeing and its customers by providing up-to-date information in a timely, flexible fashion." Engagement Backgound The increased revenue potential from this technology, for Boeing and Astoria, was first illuminated il·lu·mi·nate v. il·lu·mi·nat·ed, il·lu·mi·nat·ing, il·lu·mi·nates v.tr. 1. To provide or brighten with light. 2. To decorate or hang with lights. 3. by the Boeing employees who developed the software. The development team created a business plan that identified Astoria as an ideal partner to help deploy this technology across multiple industries. The team submitted their plan to Boeing's Chairman's Innovation Initiative, a venture development initiative managed by Boeing Ventures. About Boeing Ventures and the Chairman's Innovation Initiative Established in September 2000 by Boeing Chairman, Phillip Condit, and managed by Boeing Ventures, the Chairman's Innovation Initiative is a Corporate Venture Capital fund that funds promising business-building ideas submitted by Boeing employees and helps turn them into operating businesses and value creating licensing opportunities. About The Boeing Intellectual Property Business Based in Irvine, Calif., the Boeing Intellectual Property Business leverages Boeing's vast amount of intellectual property -- including technology, patents and innovative talent -- to enhance economic profit through a variety of licensing, donations, and IP generation and protection initiatives. About Astoria Software Inc. Astoria Software (www.astoriasoftware.com) is the established developer of software solutions for structured document management in the enterprise. It provides packaged software See software package. solutions that manage the authoring, reviewing, and publishing processes of structured documents at the document, component, or element level. This flexible approach to managing structured information enables Astoria customers to share, re-use, and re-purpose information across one or thousands of complex documents for easy assembly and delivery. Astoria Software is a service mark of Astoria Software, Inc. Astoria Software, Inc. has applied for registration of Astoria Software before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. All other products and services mentioned herein may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. |
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