Catalog International Ships Cat@log 2.6.SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1998-- Cat@log 2.6 extends back-office business systems integration and streamlines development with full-scale support of SAP-based 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 and stored procedures In a database management system (DBMS), it is an SQL program that is stored in the database which is executed by calling it directly from the client or from a database trigger. When the SQL procedure is stored in the database, it does not have to be replicated in each client. Catalog International (formerly known as The Vision Factory) today announced that Cat@log 2.6 is shipping. Cat@log is the company's highly productive, open front-end application for creating custom Internet commerce sites that are fully integrated with existing back-end systems. Cat@log 2.6 extends this integration with back-office business systems and streamlines development with its support for SAP R/3 and stored procedures. Heavy competition in the electronic marketplace creates a need for companies to keep their sites current by offering real-time updates for all site information, such as product pricing, availability and order status. The only way to keep sites "up-to-the-minute" current is through tight integration with the back-end business system. Cat@log 2.6's full support for SAP R/3 and stored procedures automates these complex, yet routine, actions through real-time connection with back-office systems. Support for stored procedures and SAP R/3 also helps companies retain their original IT investments by allowing the Web front-end to use the business systems already in place at the enterprise. This allows for painless pain·less adj. Free from complication or pain: a painless operation. pain  less·ly adv. migration to the Internet without requiring costly duplication of systems, giving customers a good return on their investment. With Cat@log 2.6, developers can implement this close integration with back-office systems with a minimum of programming. Cat@log 2.6 significantly reduces development time and costs by greatly reducing the need for programmers to write and maintain code. "To be competitive, Internet commerce companies must keep their sites 'up-to-the-minute' current, which requires a very close connection between their back-office business systems and their storefronts," said Mark Hoffman, director of product management at Catalog International. "This level of integration keeps them ahead of the competition, as well as saves them money by reducing the cost of site development and maintenance along with lowering the cost of transactions while providing better customer service. You could say having a front-end fully integrated with the business systems is crucial to the operation of a successful e-commerce Web site." Cat@log is a highly productive, open front-end application for creating custom Internet commerce sites. Cat@log enables creation of a storefront, shopping basket and transaction services by accessing existing product and customer databases, wrapping the tables and fields with commerce objects and controls, and then fine-tuning the presentation with standard 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. commands. Cat@log 2.6 is available now for a suggested retail price starting at $7,950. The Enterprise version of Cat@log 2.6 licensed for unlimited catalog items and support for SAP R/3 is $29,950. The design environment runs on Windows 95, 98 and NT and the runtime environment A configuration of hardware and software. It includes the CPU type, operating system and any runtime engines or system software required by a particular category of applications. See runtime engine. runs on Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and Unix server A medium to large-scale computer system in a network that runs under Unix. Unix servers are widely used as application servers and database servers and are available from a variety of vendors, including Sun, IBM, HP and others. platforms. Catalog International, located in Scotts Valley, Calif., is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. established in 1995 to serve the emerging Internet commerce marketplace. The company develops and markets software and services for professionals designing and operating high-volume Internet-based commerce sites. Cat@log, the company's 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. , sets the standard for creating and maintaining sophisticated Web-based catalogs, supporting thousands of items and dynamically updating pages to reflect relevant database changes. The company has formed strategic alliances with leading technology companies including Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, CyberCash, Taxware, 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) , and Pandesic LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . For more information contact the company at 831-461-2100 or visit their Web site at http://www.catalogint.com/. Cat@log is a trademark of Catalog International. 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