BroadVision Outlines Strategic Product Roadmap and Vision.Comprehensive 12-Month Plan for Continued Innovation REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- BroadVision, Inc. (Pink Sheets:BVSN BVSN Broadvision, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), a global provider of e-business solutions, today announced a comprehensive product roadmap for the next 12 months. The roadmap includes a breadth of new products including an advanced e-business framework with modular 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. , agile development See agile software development. toolsets, a companion implementation methodology, a vertical application, and an on-demand strategy. Additionally, the company announced the general availability of QuickSilver quicksilver: see mercury. (1) (QuickSilver Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.qstech.com) A mobile communications company that specializes in a reconfigurable logic chip for cellphones and PDAs. See adaptive computing. 3.0, the newest version of BroadVision's world-leading e-publishing solution. "As organizations invest in their next generation e-business applications, they need solutions that can differentiate their online presence and are cost-effective to deploy and maintain," said Dr. Pehong Chen, 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. . "They want to leverage the time to market advantage of packaged application functionality while developing customized components that will set their e-business strategy apart. The new solutions we are announcing today will help them meet all of these goals." The details of the comprehensive 12-month roadmap are as follows: BroadVision Kona[TM] e-business Framework The Kona e-business framework uniquely brings together the fast time-to-market of packaged applications with the flexibility of custom developed solutions. Central to this framework is BroadVision's fundamental intellectual property in personalization and self-service technologies, which provide organizations with a set of open, flexible and configurable services for developing compelling e-business applications quickly and efficiently. Kona's extensive out-of-the-box capabilities for business and technical users, standards-based approach, and support for both Open Source and commercial Web infrastructure components drive the highest levels of performance with the lowest total cost of ownership. BroadVision Kona[TM] is available today. Kona Application Services See ASP and Web services. Library Integrated with Kona is a library of flexible and modular web services, which enables more robust e-business applications: * e-Commerce: solutions for transacting business online through 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 and B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B. channels. BroadVision's Commerce Services powers the entire sales process A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. from lead generation to sales execution to customer support and provides unique merchandising and personalization capabilities. * Portal: solutions to create unique environments where organizations interact and collaborate with visitors through personalized views of information, resources and business processes stored in diverse internal and external legacy information systems. * Content Management: solutions to give business users control over the quality of information as they create, manage and publish content to e-business applications. * Process Management: complete solution to develop and deploy user-centric self-service processes as well as task-centric workflow processes. Organizations can mix and match services from this library to bring together the right combination of functionality for their e-business applications. All BroadVision Kona Application Services are generally available immediately, with incremental releases scheduled for availability throughout 2007. BroadVision Kukini[TM] e-business Development Toolset Kukini is a new standards-based toolset that enables agile application An Agile Application is the result of Service Oriented Architecture and Agile Development paradigms. An Agile Application is distinguished from average applications in that it is a loosely coupled set of services with a decoupled orchestration layer and it is development and facilitates more effective collaboration between business and IT professionals throughout the e-business evolution process. It transforms web site construction's tedious tasks such as page layout :For the Wikipedia policy about articles layout, see Wikipedia:Guide to layout. Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements (content) on a page. , site navigation, data presentation, report generation, etc. from difficult hard-coded programs into straightforward assembly of 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. patterns. Incorporating 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. standard formats, rich Web 2.0-based user experiences and packaged as an extension module to the popular Eclipse interactive development environment, Kukini leverages Kona's core capabilities such as the BroadVision Process[TM] technology and yet is independent of the Kona engine. BroadVision Kukini[TM] is scheduled for general availability in the second quarter of 2007. BroadVision K (2) Methodology[TM] -- The Kona-Kukini Combination The combination of Kona and Kukini dramatically speeds up development cycles, resulting in significant productivity improvements to customers. To help our customers harness these benefits, BroadVision has developed the K (2) Methodology based on best practices accumulated from over 14 years of e-business project experience. The methodology emphasizes a "time-boxed" approach, iterated throughout all phases of a project's 4D (discovery, design, development, deployment) lifecycle. It further promotes the configuration and assembly of reusable Kona objects and Kukini patterns to deduce the amount of hard coding To hard code or hard coding (also, hard-code/hard-coding, hardcode/hardcoding) refers to the software development practice of embedding input or configuration data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object, or fixed , which delegates laborious chores to "role players", freeing the more scarce high-end resources to focus on the inevitable but more challenging "one-off" programming tasks. Field implementations of the K2 Methodology have demonstrated substantial time to market gains and convincing cost savings across a wide spectrum of e-business initiatives. The BroadVision K2 Methodology[TM] will be generally available in the second quarter of 2007. BroadVision eMerchandising[TM] -- A New Solution for Boosting Online Sales The first BroadVision vertical solution, eMerchandising[TM], gives merchants an innovative solution to boost online sales and strengthen customer relationships. Merchants can create a variety of cross- and up-sell opportunities including mix-and-match discounting, tiered-discounting, quantity/cost combination discounting, companion discounting and other creative incentive programs. In light of widespread and high shopping cart abandonment rates, eMerchandising[TM] delivers ever-needed benefits to shoppers with attractive value and to merchants with increased sales. Personalization capabilities allow targeted messaging, encouraging shoppers to take advantage of offers most germane ger·mane adj. Being both pertinent and fitting. See Synonyms at relevant. [Middle English germain, having the same parents, closely connected; see german2. to the items selected. An intelligent arbitration engine ensures that shoppers are always given the most advantageous discounts in real-time as shopping continues. eMerchandising[TM] integrates seamlessly with BroadVision Commerce 7.x and Kona Commerce platforms, as well as any non-BroadVision commerce engines. BroadVision eMerchandising[TM] is scheduled for general availability in April 2007. BroadVision e-business Solutions On-Demand Based on strong market needs, BroadVision also announced the formation of the BroadVision On-Demand (BVOD BVOD Broadcast Video on Demand BVOD Business Video on Demand )[TM] business unit, headquartered in Beijing, China. BVOD's on-demand solutions -- easy to setup and operate via personalized self-service without costly upfront investments and lingering maintenance overhead -- deliver compelling value to our customers immediately and continuously. CHRM CHRM Certificate in Human Resources Management (Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario) [TM] (Collaborative Human Resource Management), developed using Kona-Kukini in record time and with tremendous cost savings as BVOD's first offering, has proven to be an impressive showcase for the K2 Methodology. This on-demand solution provides superb visibility and agility for all members of our customers' organizations to collaborate more productively in each phase of the HR management lifecycle, creating a strategic competitive advantage through the efficient management of human assets. CHRM[TM] is scheduled for general availability in the second quarter of 2007. BroadVision QuickSilver[TM] 3.0 BroadVision QuickSilver[TM] provides powerful features for creation and publishing of lengthy, complex documents supporting multiple output formats (including HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. , and Postscript) and automatic publishing of personalized content to BroadVision Portal solutions. QuickSilver 3.0, available immediately, delivers a number of new features including Unicode support and improved support for XML authoring. Conference Call Reminder The company will host an Investor/Analyst Call at 10:00 AM PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there today, March 7, 2007, dial-in information is: 866-463-5401, pass code 426315#. Login information is also posted on www.broadvision.com/investor. During the call, Dr. Chen will discuss the 2006 results in more detail and review the company's roadmap for the future. This call will be available via playback at www.broadvision.com for 90 days following the call. Information Concerning Forward-Looking Statements Information in this release that involves expectations, beliefs, hopes, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties. All forward-looking statements included in this release, including, but not limited to, the availability of new product and solution offerings, are based upon information available to BroadVision as of the date of this release, and BroadVision assumes no obligation to update or correct any such forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results could differ materially from BroadVision's current expectations. Various factors and risks associated with BroadVision's business are discussed in its most recent annual report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and in BroadVision's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. About BroadVision Driving innovation since 1993, BroadVision is a global provider of e-business solutions. Our modular applications and agile toolsets, built on a robust framework for personalization and self-service, power mission-critical web initiatives that deliver unparalleled value to diverse customers worldwide. Hundreds of organizations, serving over 50 million registered users -- including Audible.com, Baker Hughes, Cardinal Health, Citibank, Hilti, Japan Airlines, Renault, Sears, Sony, Standard Chartered Bank Standard Chartered Bank (LSE: STAN, HKSE: 2888 ) is a British bank headquartered in London with operations in more than fifty countries. It operates a network of over 1,600 branches (including subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures) and employs almost 60,000 , Vodafone, U.S. Air Force, Xerox and Yomiuri Shinbun -- rely on BroadVision as their platform of choice for e-business. For more information about BroadVision, Inc., call 650.331.1000, email ir1@broadvision.com or visit www.broadvision.com. BroadVision is a trademark or registered trademark of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States and other countries. |
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