BackWeb Acquires Lanacom; Integrated Tools to Raise the Value, Lower the Cost of Implementing Enterprise Push.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 8, 1997--BackWeb Technologies today announced that it will acquire Lanacom, Inc., Toronto-based developer of the Headliner head·lin·er n. A performer who receives prominent billing; a star. Noun 1. headliner - a performer who receives prominent billing star family of push software. The privately-held companies did not disclose the terms of the deal, which is signed and will close in mid-July. BackWeb also announced its plans to integrate Lanacom's Headliner tools into the BackWeb Server software, creating the market's most comprehensive solution for building customized content for enterprise push. "BackWeb has the most sophisticated technology for delivering and targeting software and rich content, and Lanacom has the best tools for corporations and users to manipulate, combine and control content from a variety of dynamic sources," said Eli Barkat, 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 BackWeb. "Both are critical for making serious push work in today's enterprise, which requires tools that give corporate IS a high level of control with a low cost of implementation." Lanacom's Headliner tools make it possible for companies and users to filter, manipulate and display customized information from web sites, newsgroups This is a list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history. As of October 2002, there are about 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, of which approximately a fifth are active. , databases and email systems in both Internet and intranet environments. The Headliner Enterprise Administration solution gives corporations a powerful, easy-to-use tool for managing both push clients and content across the enterprise. As part of BackWeb's server-based push solution, the Headliner tools will give corporate information professionals a powerful, easy way to assemble and customize intranet channels from a variety of external and internal information sources. And the combined technologies will give integrators and resellers the only solution on the market that allows them to easily create customized vertical market channels as a value-added service A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. to their intranet customers. "The combination of these powerful technologies is a big win for enterprise customers who want to use push for strategic business applications," said Tony Davis Tony Davis is the founder of Davis Business Development. Tony was born in Oklahoma City. He attended Dunbar Elementary School, Moon Jr. High, and North West Classen High School. Tony was a National Achievement Scholar, and National Merit Scholar as a 15 year old Senior. , president and CEO of Lanacom. "We're making it easier and more cost effective to implement push in an enterprise, by providing increased automation of content control and filtering, agent-based tools for extracting data from dynamic sources, tools for rapid development and the controls IS needs to easily manage content subscription and delivery on an enterprise network. And, we're giving corporations more out-of-the-box applications to run on top of the BackWeb server, and more content display options." "BackWeb is taking push into the knowledge management arena, with the ability of the combined Headliner and BackWeb technologies to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. the location, retrieval and polite delivery of information that can then be easily manipulated and combined per corporate or end user requirements," said Stan Lepeak, vice president of Advanced Information Management Strategies at the META Group. "With this acquisition, BackWeb continues its focus on making push relevant in the enterprise." Barkat noted that Lanacom adds complementary development expertise to BackWeb's R&D team and that the company will maintain Lanacom's Toronto offices as a development site. Davis will become senior vice president of product development for BackWeb, with responsibility for R&D and product management. BackWeb also announced its plans to deliver integrated products in the fall. The Headliner Enterprise Administration solution and Headliner Professional will be integrated with and sold as an option to the BackWeb Server. The BackWeb and Headliner clients will also be integrated. BackWeb will deliver additional server and tool integration by the end of the year. The integrated products will support the Microsoft CDF (1) (Central Distribution Frame) A connecting unit (typically a hub) that acts as a central distribution point to all the nodes in a zone or domain. See MDF. push delivery standard and Netscape Netcaster A component of the earlier Netscape Communicator that provided a push model delivery system based on Marimba's Castanet Tuner. Users were able to subscribe to content channels on the Internet and receive information updates in the background while working on other applications. . In the interim, BackWeb will continue to make the free Headliner client available for download for access to the preconfigured Set up ahead of time. It implies that the device or software application has been modified to suit the customer or situation. See ghosting server. web site profiles. The company will sell Headliner Professional and the recently announced Headliner Enterprise Administration solution to corporate customers who plan to upgrade to the integrated product. "With this acquisition and several strategic partnerships, we are building a set of options around the BackWeb Server," said Barkat. "The first server option will be the ability to do real-time multicast (1) To transmit data to multiple recipients on the network at the same time using one transmission stream to the switches, at which point data are distributed out to the end users on separate lines. push, with the integration of TIBCO's IP multicast A one-to-many transmission of data over an IP network. It is used for a myriad of purposes including updating routers, announcing and discovering services and streaming media. IP multicast saves network bandwidth, because packets are transmitted as one stream over the backbone and only technology. The second will be the ability to easily create custom web site channel profiles for corporate intranets, with the integration of the Headliner tools. We'll announce additional options in the coming months." BackWeb Technologies provides push solutions for companies serious about using the Internet, their intranet or their extranets in new, strategic ways. BackWeb's innovative server technology enables companies to personalize per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. channels; multicast real-time content; conserve bandwidth; and intelligently deliver any type of content, including Web pages, rich multimedia, software and corporate data. For more information visit http://www.backweb.com . CONTACT: BackWeb Technologies Debbie Lacy, 408/487-0852 dlacy@backweb.com or Wilson McHenry Company Wendy Barbour, 415/638-3400 wbarbour@wmc.com |
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