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Antarctica Systems Antarctica Systems Inc. is a business consultancy company. Its mission is to help organizations get more out of their investment in Business intelligence (BI).

It was founded in 1999 by Tim Bray. External links
  • Antarctica Systems - Official Website
 Inc., developer of visualization software, has announced an original equipment manufacturing (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 ) partnership with ePlus, a provider of enterprise cost management (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.
) solutions.

Together, the companies have created a series of software products that give corporations better visibility into their procurement costs and clearly identify opportunities to reduce procurement costs. By making it easy for customers to identify concrete problems--such as excess procurement costs--contained within the data that the ePlus software collects, these new products help drive down costs.

For example, customers can identifying opportunities, consolidate purchases within suppliers, reduce costs where buyers are realizing lower than contracted prices and reduce maverick, off-contract purchases.

The new software products are based on Antarctica's VisualNet software, a map-based information visualization tool. Antarctica was founded in 1999 by search engine pioneer and eXtensible Markup Language See XML.

(language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web.

http://w3.org/XML/.
 (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.
) co-creator Tim Bray.

Web: www.antarctica.net; www.eplus.com
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Date:Jan 1, 2004
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