Contivo Announces Strategic Partnership with Envision; Channel Partnership Will Provide Contivo Automated Data Transformation Technology to Speed Integration Projects.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 2003 Contivo(R), Inc., the leading provider of automated data integration, today announced a partnership with Envision, a business and technology solutions provider. Under the partnership, Envision has selected Contivo's technology as the data modeling and integration standard for its customer's integration projects. Envision customers that require streamlined internal processes or connections with external trading partners will benefit from Contivo's automated data integration technology to achieve faster and more cost-effective application implementations. "Integration is on the top of every CIO's "to do" list, but a problem with enterprise integration is that there is no standard way to identify the semantic meaning of the data elements contained in each message," said Steve Lowy, Chairman of Envision. "With Contivo's proven automated data integration technology, we can rapidly collaborate and develop data models that can be reused, resulting in data integration projects that are completed on time and under budget." Since 1983 Envision has provided a wide array of clients, including Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations, with customized, flexible business process enablement, infrastructure development and complex integration to achieve their business goals. Envision will directly and indirectly offer Contivo products and services to clients in industries including financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and insurance, biotech and pharmaceutical, food and beverage F&B is a common abbreviation in the United States and Commonwealth countries, including Hong Kong. F&B is typically the widely accepted abbreviation for "Food and Beverage," which is the sector/industry that specializes in the conceptualization, the making of, and delivery of foods. , manufacturing, transportation and government. "Envision has a long history of providing its customers with advanced solutions through its partnerships with key industry leaders such as 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 OAGI OAGI Open Applications Group, Inc. OAGI Open Applications Group Inc. ," said Larry Lenhart, president and 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 Contivo. "By working with Contivo, Envision can now leverage our award-winning data integration solutions that have enabled companies such as HP, Agilent and Hitachi America to come closer to achieving the goal of the integrated enterprise." Contivo helps enterprises integrate data faster and more effectively than traditional hand-coded methods. Comprised of the Contivo Analyst(R) and the Contivo EIM EIM Enterprise Incentive Management EIM Enterprise Information Management EIM Enterprise Identity Mapping (IBM) EIM Enterprise Instant Messaging EIM Employee Internet Management EIM European Institute for the Media Server(TM), Contivo automates data transformation for application implementation and integration independent of middleware or integration platforms. Contivo's recently expanded capabilities and platform support enable data integration across the enterprise, extending to legacy systems and 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. . About Envision Envision is a leading provider of technology consulting and software development services. Started in May 1983, Envision has grown to support some of the most technically advanced projects in the world for clients such as Emerson, Lockheed-Martin, Anheuser-Busch and Corporate Express. Envision has built a reputation to partner with and understand its clients' businesses in order to develop strong working relationships to better solve their customers' problems. Envision delivers information technology services and solutions, consistently meeting and/or exceeding its clients' expectations for quality, cost and service. For more information, please visit http://www.envision.com/ About Contivo Contivo provides solutions that enable enterprises to quickly and dramatically reduce the implementation and maintenance time, costs and complexity of their application integration projects. Contivo's customers have experienced 40% reductions in implementation costs and have seen investment paybacks in less than 90 days. Customers and partners achieve these significant savings by utilizing Contivo's integration metadata modeling Metadata modeling is a type of metamodeling used in software engineering and systems engineering for the analysis and construction of models applicable and useful some predefined class of problems. tools and repository bringing reuse, automation and collaboration to a previously hand coded task. Contivo's products work with existing integration and middleware technologies, including emerging Web services technologies, providing our customers and partners with the ideal platform to enable an Integration Competency Center (ICC ICC See: International Chamber of Commerce ) or Integration Center of Excellence (COE See common operating environment. ). Contivo was founded in 1998 and has enterprise customers including Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , Hitachi America, HP and Viacore. Contivo's partners include Actional, BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. , Commerce One, Grand Central Communications, TIBCO Software and webMethods. Contivo is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, CA. More information about the company can be found at http://www.contivo.com/ |
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