Collego Introduces Next-Generation Catalog Solution at Gartner Event; Company's Patent-Pending AToMS Engine Provides Breakthrough in Distributed Content Management for Global Businesses.Business and Technology Editors BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2001 Collego Corporation, a provider of next-generation catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. and content management software solutions for global business networks, today officially launched its flagship application, Atomic Catalog(TM). Atomic Catalog is an industrial-strength web-based catalog management application designed especially for business managers, and is the first application based on the company's patent-pending Adaptive Taxonomy taxonomy: see classification. taxonomy In biology, the classification of organisms into a hierarchy of groupings, from the general to the particular, that reflect evolutionary and usually morphological relationships: kingdom, phylum, class, order, Management System (AToMS(TM) Engine) technology. With Atomic Catalog, business managers can leverage existing product information from multiple sources to create, manage, and share custom catalogs with customers and partners around the world quickly, easily, and cost-effectively. Research firm, Gartner, selected Collego to participate in the invitation-only Emerging Technology Pavilion at the Gartner Spring Symposium/ITxpo from May 7 - 11, 2001 in Denver, CO. Gartner Spring Symposium/ITxpo is the IT industry's largest strategic executive conference, offering business leaders a look at "The Future of IT - Today." Collego will be introducing Atomic Catalog in booth no. 1000 at the event. "For today's businesses Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002. , the ability to create, maintain, and share rich, high-quality catalog content with many different customers and partners around the world is a must-have capability," said Stefan Mehlhorn, Collego 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. . "Collego is leading the way with the only distributed, multi-purpose catalog management solution that delivers the speed, scale, and flexibility that leading companies demand with the ease of use and control that business managers require. As a result, companies drive down operations and selling costs, speed time to market, and increase revenues." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Karen Peterson, Research Director of Gartner Group's c-commerce practice, "The role of content in collaborative commerce will continue to increase. Content requirements will evolve from static architectures to more flexible distributed models to enable enterprises to provide content to trading partners in different taxonomies." Mehlhorn adds, "In today's environment where time to market is crucial, IT resources are scarce, and customers and channels all have different information requirements The information needed to support a business or other activity. Systems analysts turn information requirements (the what and when) into functional specifications (the how) of an information system. , using a more traditional catalog solution is like trying to play a game of Twister in a full body cast." Atomic Catalog Delivers Value for First Customers France Telecom France Telecom, one of the world's largest providers of global telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. products and services, has been able to provide its marketplaces and e-procurement customers with a higher level of service while reducing content management time and costs by 50%. "France Telecom is extremely happy with Collego's technology and the way in which the software is performing within our environment," said Thomas Lebel, Product Manager at France Telecom. "Atomic Catalog's ability to integrate with other software products, multi-lingual capabilities, and ability to integrate well within our demanding environment shows us that this product will yield strong benefits to our customers and provide them with an extremely flexible, economic solution." OrderTrust OrderTrust, a full-service order and product-sourcing network that processes more than 200 million transactions per year for its merchant customers like 1-800-Flowers, SkyMall and Blockbuster block·bust·er n. 1. Something, such as a film or book, that sustains widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales. 2. A high-explosive bomb used for demolition purposes. 3. Video, has been able to provide its merchants with a higher level of service while reducing content management time and costs by 80%. "After a thorough evaluation of the leading catalog software products on the market, OrderTrust is standardizing on Collego software because of its unique ability to meet our productivity, service, and rapid-implementation requirements so that we can provide our suppliers and merchants with a sustained high quality service," said Derek Slayton, ProductSource(TM) Product Manager, OrderTrust. "Technology like Atomic Catalog is helping us add value and differentiate our offerings in the increasingly competitive 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 marketplace." AToMS Engine Technology Powers Atomic Catalog Collego's AToMS technology is implemented as a fast, highly flexible caching engine that leverages the scalability of traditional relational database management systems See DBMS for a shorter list of “typical”, representative database management systems. 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in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. for its underlying persistent storage. With AToMS, corporations can - for the first time - manage and mass-customize large collections of highly granular granular /gran·u·lar/ (gran´u-lar) made up of or marked by presence of granules or grains. gran·u·lar adj. 1. Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains. 2. , metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. rich information in a highly flexible environment without compromising information quality or scale. AToMS also delivers very powerful distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. and peer-to-peer capabilities that enable businesses to not only manage content in a fast, cost-effective manner within their own organizations, but also achieve these efficiencies across entire supply and demand chains. Pricing and Availability Atomic Catalog is commercially available in several editions to meet the needs of different businesses. Atomic Catalog Enterprise Server is an industrial-strength, multi-purpose, web-based catalog management application designed for enterprise customers. Atomic Catalog Partner Network Server delivers all the power of Atomic Catalog Enterprise Server plus the ability to provide suppliers, partners, and customers with secure, self-service access to an organization's catalog information. Both the Enterprise Server and the Partner Network Sever TO SEVER, practice. When defendants who are sued jointly have separate defences, they may in general sever, that is, each one rely on his own separate defence; each may plead severally and insist on his own separate plea. See Severance. are available as hosted services for companies who prefer to leverage the infrastructure of Collego or its partners. For more information on product configuration and pricing, call (781) 276-4646. Detailed Product Information See separate extended Atomic Catalog release issued today or visit www.collego.com About Collego Collego Corporation is a provider of next-generation catalog and content management software solutions for global business networks. With Collego'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. , Atomic Catalog(TM), business managers can leverage existing product information from multiple sources to create, manage, and share custom catalogs with customers and partners around the world quickly, easily, and cost-effectively. With offices in the US and Europe, Collego software solutions are available worldwide through a direct sales force and selected partners. Please visit www.collego.com for more information on the company and its products. |
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