Contivo Introduces First Desktop Tool for Automating Common Vocabulary Creation -- Contivo Builder 2.0; Tool Unifies Disparate Enterprise Data; Introductory $499 Price Designed to Help Companies Quickly Get SOA Back on Track.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Contivo, the leading provider of automated data integration solutions, today announced Contivo Builder 2.0, the first desktop tool to allow companies to create common vocabularies by converting disparate data into usable system files. As enterprises deal with the increased complexity of the SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. environments needed to support 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. , they are finding that their organizations have created data in service silos that cannot be commonly accessed throughout the system. For example, various "customer" records might be labeled under a dozen different names, including "client, partner, user, buyer," etc., making it impossible to offer seamless customer fulfillment and support. Contivo Builder 2.0 is an inexpensive and simple desktop tool that allows IT to reconcile such data within the enterprise through the automatic creation of common vocabularies based on semantics. It is compatible with most middleware, enterprise applications and Web services software. At an introductory price of $499, Builder allows companies to quickly get SOA initiatives back on track. "IT organizations are struggling to achieve system interoperability because they must increasingly meld legacy resources with new Web services application contexts, and establishing the linkages is often overwhelmingly complex," said Peter O'Kelly, senior analyst at Burton Group. "A tool like Contivo Builder can help organizations unify their information infrastructure for more efficient and reliable Web services implementations." With Contivo Builder 2.0, data design can be performed with just one tool, which greatly reduces costs and increases efficiency and other benefits of tight collaboration across all levels of development teams. With Contivo Builder's ease of use, business managers can be directly responsible for the service that their SOA is implementing and avoid mistakes that occur when the data structures are being re-invented instead of being re-used. "Web services are incredibly complex, with a myriad of internal and external players all bringing their own vocabularies to the party," said Keith Feingold, 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. "Contivo Builder provides 'the missing link' for successful SOA because it facilitates the automation of significant portions of the development process, while reducing complexity that comes with having to synchronize and understand data from various sources." Contivo Builder 2.0 will now support W3C XML Schema An XML schema from the W3C. It is a superset of DTD, which is the standard SGML schema. Unlike DTD, W3C XML Schema is written in XML syntax, which although more verbose than DTD, can be created with any XML tools. , ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 11179 naming conventions, ISO/EIC core components technical specifications, 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 Java Transforms. Contivo Builder 2.0 will be available in December 2005 and is priced for the desktop at $499. About Contivo Contivo provides solutions that enable enterprises to dramatically reduce implementation and maintenance costs of enterprise-wide integration projects. The Contivo Vocabulary Management Solution (VMS (1) (Virtual Memory System) A multiuser, multitasking, virtual memory operating system for the VAX series from Digital. VMS applications run on any VAX from the MicroVAX to the largest unit. See OpenVMS. ) provides a central semantics-based metadata repository, development tools, infrastructure, and code generators that automate data transformation for application integration across multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. . Contivo recently added capabilities and platform support that extend to legacy systems and Web services. Contivo was founded in 1998 and has forged significant relationships with strategic customers like Hewlett Packard, Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. 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Investors include BankAmerica Venture Partners and Voyager Capital along with industry leaders BEA Systems, TIBCO Software, and webMethods. Contivo is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, CA. For more information, go to www.contivo.com. Trademarks: Contivo and Contivo Analyst are registered trademarks, and Contivo VMS is a trademark of Contivo, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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