BigMachines.com Efficiently Builds Hosted B2B Application for Industrial Machinery with Interwoven Content Management Solutions.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2000 TeamSite Templating Allows Software Developers and Customers to Quickly and Easily Add Customized Content, Including Product Graphics, Descriptions and Pricing Interwoven in·ter·weave v. in·ter·wove , in·ter·wo·ven , inter·weav·ing, inter·weaves v.tr. 1. To weave together. 2. To blend together; intermix. v.intr. , Inc. (Nasdaq:IWOV), the leading provider of enterprise-class content management solutions, today announced that BigMachines.com has successfully implemented Interwoven TeamSite to manage content used throughout its hosted Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the software application and eProcurement tools. The BigMachines.com Internet Sales Channel(TM) provides its customers industry-specific selection and configuration tools integrated with an eBusiness engine that dramatically increases their worldwide presence and selling efficiencies. Using Interwoven TeamSite software, BigMachines.com has been able to compress the time frame for content publishing five-fold. "From day one of our launch, we've wanted to be a fast mover mover /mov·er/ (moo´ver) that which produces motion. prime mover a muscle that acts directly to bring about a desired movement. in the industrial machinery B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business space," said Vic Alston, co-founder and vice president of engineering at BigMachines.com. "To do that, we needed a way to speed the process of creating and delivering up-to-date information through our various solutions. Interwoven has freed us from relying on a cumbersome cum·ber·some adj. 1. Difficult to handle because of weight or bulk. See Synonyms at heavy. 2. Troublesome or onerous. cum , manually-driven quality assurance system. Now we can deliver fresh content on a daily basis, instead of once a week." "We expect Interwoven TeamSite to continue to play a central role in helping us realize our plans to continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. lead the way in eBusiness for Engineered Systems for industrial machinery customers around the globe," Alston added. "With its open architecture, vast flexibility and infinite scalability, TeamSite will allow us to quickly extend the BigMachines.com Internet Sales Channel across multiple languages and currencies." BigMachines.com selected Interwoven TeamSite to provide a system for rapidly developing and managing BigMachines.com Web content and code in multiple, parallel development streams. BigMachines.com will take advantage of TeamSite's advanced workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. to create a smooth development and approval process that will support its goal of maintaining a content-rich and up-to-date product offering. Interwoven Bridges Demands in eBusiness for Engineered Systems BigMachines.com regularly needs to develop and maintain Web content and code, often supporting its customer base through multiple, parallel development streams. Through Interwoven TeamSite, BigMachines.com can create a smooth development and approval process that supports its need to continually add robust functionality to its BigMachines.com Internet Sales Channel offering. BigMachines.com eSales, a component of the BigMachines.com Internet Sales Channel, enables machinery manufacturers to sell their complex products directly from their own eCommerce Web site. In addition, through patent-pending architecture, open XML See Office Open XML. technologies and solid business partnerships, the BigMachines.com Internet Sales Channel connects suppliers to multiple B2B eMarketplaces, such as the BigMachines.com Marketplace and vertical-specific exchanges such as PaperExchange.com and Infrastructureworld.com, and to broader, buyer-focused technology platforms such as Ariba and Commerce One. In November, BigMachines.com plans to make TeamSite Templating available to suppliers via the BigMachines.com Internet Sales Channel offering. This will allow suppliers to quickly and easily add their own content - while retaining their own branding - through a simple, browser-based interface. TeamSite Templating will further enhance suppliers' ability to add and update their own content to the BigMachines.com eBusiness engine and it will allow BigMachines.com to more rapidly scale its business by turning content updates over to sellers. "Businesses are quickly realizing the competitive advantages of empowering the people who actually hold corporate knowledge to contribute this content to the Web," said Joe Ruck ruck 1 n. 1. a. A multitude; a throng. b. The undistinguished crowd or ordinary run of persons or things. 2. People who are followers, not leaders. 3. Sports a. , vice president of marketing at Interwoven. "With TeamSite Templating, BigMachines.com can make content contributors out of the suppliers themselves, giving them an unprecedented time to market backed by control over their eCommerce offerings and branding." Interwoven Alliance with webMethods "We are also very please to hear about Interwoven's recently announced alliance with webMethods because we have chosen to integrate webMethods' business-to-business integration (B2Bi) into the BigMachines.com Internet Sales Channel," added Alston. "The integration of the two products will allow us to provide our customers with easier re-purposing of internal corporate content into our product offering." About BigMachines.com, Inc. and BigMachines.com AG As the leader in eBusiness for Engineered Systems (EES See Skipjack algorithm. ), BigMachines.com is revolutionizing the buying and selling of industrial machinery via the Internet, taking B2B commerce beyond commodities and standard catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. products. BigMachines.com develops and provides a hosted Internet software application for suppliers of complex products with industry-tailored configuration tools integrated with an eBusiness engine. BigMachines.com is a global company, incorporated in the U.S. as BigMachines.com Inc. and in Europe as BigMachines.com AG. The company has brought together a unique combination of Internet software developers and machinery engineers from around the world, with locations in Silicon Valley, 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 , Chicago and Munich. About Interwoven Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq:IWOV) is the leading provider of enterprise-class content management solutions. Its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , TeamSite, controls the development, management and deployment of business-critical Web sites. Interwoven solutions are based on an inclusive content architecture that empowers all content contributors and leverages diverse Web assets including XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , Java, rich html, multimedia and database content. TeamSite is available for the Sun Solaris operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. and Microsoft NT and Windows 2000 platforms. For more information on the company and its software solutions, visit the Interwoven Web site at www.interwoven.com or e-mail info@interwoven.com. |
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