Bluestone Software and XMLSolutions Team to Deliver Real-Time Exchange Between EDI And XML-Based Systems; Bluestone's B2B Platform Integrated with XMLSolutions' Translation and Schema Management to Enable Enterprises to Easily Exchange Data Between EDI an.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers PHILADELPHIA and MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2000 Recognizing the escalating demand for conducting business transactions over the Internet, Bluestone bluestone, common name for the blue, crystalline heptahydrate of cupric sulfate called chalcanthite, a minor ore of copper. It also refers to a fine-grained, light to dark colored blue-gray sandstone. (R) Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:BLSW), a leader in business-to-Web and wireless technologies, and XMLSolutions Corporation, a leading provider of 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. (eXtensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. ) based infrastructure software and services, today announced an alliance between the companies, as well as plans to integrate technologies that will enable their clients to more easily exchange real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. between EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. and XML-based systems for buyers, sellers, and partners. The integrated Bluestone and XMLSolutions offering will specifically address the needs of large, Global 2000 enterprise customers who have invested in electronic data interchange See EDI. (application, communications) electronic data interchange - (EDI) The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. EDI is part of electronic commerce. (EDI) technology and now want to establish electronic trading  This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one or [ improve this article] yourself. See the talk page for details. relationships with business partners using XML for data exchange. This powerful combination will offer customers superior performance, reliability and scalability for bi-directional XML-to-XML and EDI-to-XML translation. With Bluestone's Total-e-B2B(TM), the e-business Integration Server component of Bluestone's Total-e-Business(TM) platform, companies can rapidly and reliably establish a virtual corporation with seamless, any-to-any communications between its extraprise partners, suppliers and customers, as well as internal users and systems. Bluestone and XMLSolutions will integrate Total-e-B2B with XMLSolutions' XEDI XEDI eXtensible Electronic Data Interchange XEDI XML Electronic Data Interchange Translator (EDI/XML translation), and Schema Central (schema management) software products, to create a robust e-business system for data exchange between EDI and XML-based systems. This will allow enterprises with EDI systems that previously only communicated with other EDI systems to more easily conduct business with partners using XML. "Our goal is to allow our customers to aggressively leverage existing enterprise systems to deploy new E2Ei systems over the Internet," said Daryn Walters, vice president of marketing for XMLSolutions. "Bluestone's Total-e-Business is a proven e-business foundation that will help us further facilitate our customers' communications among trading partners and internal applications such as EDI, while enabling the enterprise with the scalability our customers demand." Added John H. Capobianco, executive vice president of strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. for Bluestone Software, "As large companies take their business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets to the Internet to achieve efficiencies, they increasingly need to enable real-time collaborative e-business processing and application-to-application communications across all devices and systems. As part of Bluestone's comprehensive Internet Operating Environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. (TM), Total-e-B2B ties together disparate data sources and applications to unite business systems within a company, as well as with third-party partners, suppliers and vendors, creating a powerful, cost-effective engine for sharing data and documents for EDI, supply chain, and other 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 communications." The integrated Bluestone and XMLSolutions offerings are expected to be available in Q4 of this year. About XEDI Translator and Schema Central XMLSolutions' XEDI Translator seamlessly integrates with existing EDI trading systems. This Java-based application uses completely open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced and provides support for both X12 and EDIFACT (Electronic Data Interchange For Administration Commerce and Transport) An ISO standard for electronic data interchange (EDI) that was proposed to supersede both X12 and TRADACOMS as the worldwide standard. See EDI. EDI document translations to XML. Every X12 transaction set and every EDIFACT message, including over 3,000 of the most widely used business documents, can be translated with XEDI Translator. As large companies deploy XML-based applications, they are recognizing the challenge created by the proliferation of various industry-based XML DTD (Document Type Definition) A language that describes the contents of an SGML document. The DTD is also used with XML, and the DTD definitions may be embedded within an XML document or in a separate file. and schema standards. Schema Central delivers support for XML DTDs and schemas from a variety of sources including industry standards groups, technology vendors, trading partners, as well as in-house projects allowing companies to become XML dialect independent. About Bluestone's Total-e-B2B Total-e-B2B is the e-business Integration Server edition of Bluestone's comprehensive, J2EE- and XML-based Total-e-Business platform. Total-e-B2B is not designed to be a trading partner network; it is a pre-assembled hub-and-spoke environment for business-to-business exchange that enables companies to rapidly and reliably establish a truly virtual corporation and seamlessly distribute real-time, enterprise information throughout its global extraprise of partners, suppliers and customers, as well as internal users and systems. Bluestone's Total-e-B2B combines the following essential components: - Bluestone XML-Server for TeB(TM) - Bluestone Universal Listener Framework for TeB(TM) - Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB(TM) - Bluestone Application Manager for TeB(TM) - Bluestone Security Console for TeB(TM) - Bluestone Visual-XML for TeB(TM) About XMLSolutions Corporation XMLSolutions enables secure, real-time B2B data exchange of direct and indirect materials transactions over the Internet. By eliminating a company's XML dialect dependence, XMLSolutions removes trade barriers enabling uniform transaction among trading partners, customers, and exchanges. Included in this offering are XML-to-XML transformations, EDI-to-XML integration and over 3000 mission-critical, industry specific business documents. XMLSolutions is headquartered in Northern Virginia's technology corridor with offices in Atlanta; Charlotte; Chicago; 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 ; San Francisco; Bangalore, India; Seoul, Korea; S. Africa; The Netherlands; Denmark; Austria; Sweden; Switzerland; Belgium; Germany; France; Italy; Spain and the UK. About Bluestone Software Bluestone(R)Software, Inc., provider of Enterprise Interaction Management software, is a leader in business-to-Web and wireless technologies. Companies deploying e-business applications, like Avnet, CDNow, Food.com, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. WorldCom, Planalytics, Reliance National, and Time Inc., rely on Bluestone's Total-e-Business(TM) platform to provide comprehensive e-business platforms, Internet-class infrastructures, and robust integration services that e-business success demands. Bluestone is headquartered at 300 Stevens Drive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19113-1597. For more information, please call 888-Bluestone or 610-915-5000, email info@bluestone.com, or visit http://www.bluestone.com. Bluestone is a registered trademark, and Total-e-Business, Total-e-B2B, Internet Operating Environment, and the Total-e-B2B components listed above are trademarks of Bluestone Software, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Certain statements in this press release constitute forward-looking statements as such term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including those contained in Bluestone's publicly filed reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which may cause Bluestone's actual results, performance, or achievements or those of its customers or its industry to be materially different from the future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward looking statements. Specifically, the Company's beliefs with respect to the business opportunities presented by e-business and the Company's ability to profitably market and deploy its product solutions may prove to be inaccurate. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in these forward looking statements, the information in this press release should not be considered a representation by the Company or any other person that Bluestone's objectives and plans will be achieved. |
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