Bowstreet Portlet Factory for WebSphere Added to IBM Portlet Catalog as Part of Reseller Agreement.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TEWKSBURY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2003 Kroger and Wackenhut Are First to Select IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) WebSphere Portal and Bowstreet Portlet A small window on a portal page. Portlet technology allows a portal page to be customized more quickly either internally by the development team or by the end user. Portlet technology can come as an adjunct to a portal server or as optional interfaces to ERP applications. Factory As a Result of Worldwide Agreement Bowstreet(TM), the leading provider of development tools for adaptive J2EE applications, announced today it has signed a reseller agreement with IBM. IBM will resell Bowstreet Portlet Factory for WebSphere(R) to accelerate the development of customized J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. portlets for WebSphere Portal. Kroger and Wackenhut are customers of the joint IBM and Bowstreet offering. The agreement between IBM and Bowstreet enables IBM's worldwide sales organization to resell Bowstreet Portlet Factory in conjunction with WebSphere Portal. "Integrating Bowstreet Portlet Factory with WebSphere Portal can help accelerate our customers' ability to develop, deploy, manage, and maintain highly adaptive portal applications that change as quickly as their businesses do," said Larry Bowden, vice president of Portal and Lotus Products, IBM. Kroger, one of the largest retail grocery chains 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 the Wackenhut Corporation, one of the largest U.S.-based providers of security services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the , are two of the growing list of customers that are selecting Bowstreet Portlet Factory for WebSphere. The Wackenhut Corporation has already started to reap the benefits of the Bowstreet Portlet Factory for WebSphere solution. The Wackenhut Corporation became a member of the Group4 Falck family in 2002, with more than 230,000 employees operating in over 80 countries. The Group required a corporate portal An internal Web site (intranet) that provides proprietary, enterprise-wide information to company employees as well as access to selected public Web sites and vertical-market Web sites (suppliers, vendors, etc.). to help assimilate its acquired businesses, increase employee productivity, and aggregate content and processes. Wackenhut is in the process of rolling out the portal in pilot form to six countries. "Bowstreet Portlet Factory for WebSphere truly delivers on the promise of rapid portal development," said Rick Tower, director of development, Wackenhut Corporation. "Bowstreet Portlet Factory fits into our IBM WebSphere environment, and with the gain in productivity, our staff is in a better position to satisfy the increasing demands of our clients." Bowstreet Portlet Factory for WebSphere extends the WebSphere Studio development tools by providing automation functionality that simplifies the development and maintenance of highly customized, dynamic portal applications, thereby helping development teams increase productivity and reduce time to implementation. "Together, IBM and Bowstreet deliver an unsurpassed portal solution coupled with the ability to rapidly create and deploy customized portlets," said Tony Copeland, vice president of business development, TechFlow, a consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a that focuses on providing midsize corporations with eBusiness solutions. "We have long enjoyed a successful partnership with IBM. With Bowstreet, we can help our customers address the specific challenges of ongoing portlet development as part of the overall IBM solution." "Enterprises planning to build next generation portal applications choose IBM's WebSphere Portal for its performance and scalability, and Bowstreet Portlet Factory for its ability to streamline the development process and lower development costs," said Michael George, 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. , Bowstreet. "While Bowstreet has enjoyed a close partnership with IBM over the years, our new relationship dramatically expands the sales opportunities for Bowstreet, and provides IBM with a greater competitive advantage in the portal market." About Bowstreet Bowstreet(TM) is the leading provider of development tools for the creation and maintenance of adaptive J2EE applications. With Bowstreet's award-winning automation framework and patent-pending reusable software components, development teams can rapidly build adaptive portlets, Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , or J2EE Web applications that stand-alone or integrate directly into an existing infrastructure. Unlike with traditional RAD tools, Bowstreet-built applications are inherently designed for maximum adaptability, allowing for the creation of multiple iterations from a single model without the need for costly reprogramming Reprogramming refers to erasure and remodeling of epigenetic marks, such as DNA methylation, during mammalian development[1]. After fertilization some cells of the newly formed embryo migrate to the germinal ridge and will eventually become the germ cells . The Bowstreet development framework is used by more than 50 companies including Calpine, Cisco, Dupont, GM, John Crane John Rene Crane is Head Writer, Executive Producer and occasional performer on Fox's Saturday late night sketch comedy program, MADtv. He is married with two children. Career , Northwestern Mutual, and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. . Bowstreet is headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts and has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. www.bowstreet.com. Bowstreet is a trademark of Bowstreet, Inc. All other company names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or owners. |
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