Categoric Software Announces OEM Relationship with Aspen Technology.Business Editors LEATHERHEAD leath·er·head n. See friarbird. , U.K. & STERLING, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2002 Categoric Software, the leader in event management and alerting (EM&A) technology, today announces an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and relationship with Aspen Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AZPN). Categoric's Xalerts will be embedded as the real-time notification and event control engine inside AspenTech supply chain products. "We went out looking for multi-channel, two-way, real-time event management functionality with automated escalation, and the Xalerts engine gave us the powerful combination of features we needed," said Wes Melling, Vice President of Supply Chain Software Development at AspenTech. "Categoric are specialists in event management infrastructure technology, and the functionality, scalability and ease of integration provided by Xalerts will enable us to further increase the value delivered by our industry-leading supply chain products." Categoric Xalerts offers flexible real-time business process monitoring functionality across all applications used in the extended enterprise. It tracks business events, notifies key individuals of exceptions and permits immediate action and escalation using keyboard or voice from any communications device such as mobile phone, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). , pager or other computer. "Aspen Technology is the ideal partner to implement our technology for the process industries," says Thorgeir Einarsson, 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. of Categoric Software. "It has become a market leader in process industry software, with decades of domain expertise in some of the world's most complex supply chains. To help them run their businesses in real-time, AspenTech users can now benefit from the Xalerts engine which we believe to be the most advanced EM&A technology available anywhere." Categoric's Java-based Xalerts is built to 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. standards, is database-independent, supports JMS (Java Messaging Service) A programming interface (API) from Sun for connecting Java programs to messaging middleware such as IBM's MQSeries and TIBCO's Rendezvous. JMS is part of Sun's J2EE platform. See J2EE. JMS - Java Message Service message-based queuing, 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. , XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema). and two-way multi-channel communication capabilities. Xalerts runs on Windows NT and Unix. About AspenTech Aspen Technology, Inc. is a leading supplier of integrated software and solutions to the process industries. The company's Aspen ProfitAdvantage(TM) solution enables companies to identify and maximize profit opportunities throughout their entire value chain - from the supply of raw materials, through the production of goods, to the delivery of final products to customers. The Aspen ProfitAdvantage solution encompasses engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and e-business collaboration technologies, providing the tools that enable manufacturers to design, optimize and execute business processes in real time. Over 1,200 leading process companies already rely on AspenTech's 21 years of process industry experience to increase revenues, reduce costs and improve capital efficiency. AspenTech's customers include: Air Liquide, AstraZeneca, Bayer, BASF BASF Bar Association of San Francisco (since 1872; San Francisco, California) BASF Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemical products company) BASF Builders Association of South Florida , BP, Chevron, Dow Chemical, DuPont, ExxonMobil, GlaxoSmithKline, Lyondell Equistar, Merck, Mitsubishi Chemical, and Unilever. For more information, visit http://www.aspentech.com About Categoric Software Corp. Categoric Software, the leader in event management and alerting technology (EM&A), empowers independent software vendors and enterprise solution providers to rapidly build, integrate and deploy real-time event-enabled business process solutions vital to compete in today's multi-channel, time sensitive world. Categoric's enabling technology - open, personalized, interactive and mobile - harnesses the strength of the data contained in the extended enterprise and activates business processes to enhance speed, visibility, productivity, collaboration and customer service. Founded in 1996, Categoric is privately held with investments from Nokia Ventures, T-Ventures (the investment arm of Deutsche Telekom), BancBoston Capital, and Alta Berkeley Ventures. Categoric is at work in over a hundred Global 2000 companies, and alliance partners include Logica, Sage, LIS, Misys/ACT, Armature armature, in art: see sculpture. Armature That part of an electric rotating machine which includes the main current-carrying winding. , Artemis Project Management, Qiva, and Aldata. The company maintains corporate headquarters in Leatherhead, United Kingdom and US headquarters in Sterling, Virginia with offices worldwide. www.categoric.com |
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