Content Management JCP Specification Underway to Improve Interoperability.PHILADELPHIA -- Interoperability Standard is Designed to Ease Integration and Enable Content to Be Leveraged Through ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. Applications, Content Management, Web Portals and Storage Devices, Platforms Content management software providers BEA Systems (Nasdaq:BEAS), Day Software (SWX SWX Swiss Exchange (trademark of SWX Swiss Exchange) SWX SolidWorks (3D solid modeling CAD software) SWX Splitter / Wave Division Multiplexer :DAYN), FileNet Corporation (Nasdaq:FILE), 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) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM), Open Text (Nasdaq:OTEX OTEX Open Text Corporation (stock symbol) OTEX Orientation Technico-Economique de l’Exploitation ), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ), Vignette (Nasdaq:VIGN VIGN Vignette Corporation (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) and other companies are working together under the Java Community Process Sun's system for allowing third parties to submit requests for new features to Java. JCP is a formal process that must be adhered to, and fees are involved. In 1999, Sun submitted Java to the ECMA standards body, but withdrew its J2SE specification later in the year. JCP program to devise a Java Specification Request 170 Content Repository. In a clear move to drive openness across enterprise content management, collaboration, enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. and storage, this draft specification is expected to break the proprietary back of the content management industry and help move data from proprietary silos, to open, manageable repositories of data that can be leveraged across various platforms. Designed to enable the development of content-based applications that can be deployed on top of a number of different underlying content repositories, these companies believe the technology will help better enable customers to deploy content applications faster and more cost-effectively using an open standards interface. "We are aiming to provide customers the added value that common content services enable when tied to business applications," said David Nuescheler, CTO of Day Software and specification lead of JSR 170. "Standards-based integration for the content management market will also open opportunity for customers to leverage multiple applications and allow data to be tapped and used across different systems in their organization." The JSR 170 draft specification is designed to make content management software easier to deploy, provide greater access to content-rich applications and enable businesses to more easily access and leverage both structured and unstructured data within their organization. In final ballot through the JCP and expected to be fully ratified in May, the JSR 170 specification will enable applications to standardize access to content repositories. "JSR 170 will help foster the growth of the Enterprise Content Management market by lowering content-enabled and content-centric application development costs for ISV and customer IT departments as well as lowering the integration costs shouldered by ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. vendors," said Dan Whelan, CTO for FileNet. "FileNet has contributed to the development of this standard as a member of the JSR 170 Expert Group and has incorporated an early version of the specification in its FileNet P8 Content Manager suite." "IBM and other industry leaders are ahead of the game in this effort to drive toward open standards and work toward developing a specification to enable the development of content-based applications that can be deployed on top of a number of different underlying repositories," said Brett MacIntyre, vice president, IBM DB2 Content Management. "This is all about providing customers choice and open access to data repositories throughout their organization, allowing them to more easily access information on demand. We see JSR 170 as an important industry standard and a powerful complement to IBM's content federation product and broader information integration strategy." IBM WebSphere Portal 5.1 currently uses an early version of the JSR 170 draft specification and plans to incorporate the specification in additional products currently under development. About the Java Community Process Since its introduction in 1998 as the open, inclusive process to develop and revise Java technology specifications, reference implementations, and technology compatibility kits, the Java Community Process program has fostered the evolution of the Java platform in cooperation with the international Java developer community. The JCP has more than 700 company and individual participants; more than 200 Java technology specifications are in development in the JCP program, of which 46 percent are in final stages. For more information on the JCP program, please visit http://jcp.org. About Day Software Day is a leading provider of integrated content, portal and digital asset management software. Day's technology Communique offers a comprehensive, rapidly deployable framework to unify and manage all digital business data, systems, applications and processes through the Web. Communique's content-centric architecture, and its innovative ContentBus, turns the entire business into a virtual repository, bringing together content from any system, regardless of location, language or platform. Day is an international company, founded in 1993, and listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange SWX Swiss Exchange An all-electronic securities exchange formed from the 1995 merger of exchanges in Geneva, Basel, and Zurich. The exchange offers trading in equity securities, investment funds, exchange-traded funds, bonds, Eurobonds, and options. (SWX:DAYN) since April 2000. Day's customers are some of the largest global corporations and include Audi, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Post World Net, General Electric, Intercontinental Hotels Group InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) (LSE: IHG NYSE: IHG) is a multinational company which operates several hotel brands. The largest hotel company by number of rooms (556,000 as of March 2007 [1]), its headquarters are in Windsor just outside Greater London and , McDonald's, UBS and Volkswagen. |
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