Dazel to enable all corporate applications to seamlessly deliver information to intranet users via web.AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1996--DAZEL Corp. Monday announced new web capabilities extending its industry-leading Output Management Framework to enable organizations to leverage their investments in client/server computing with the power of the intranet and web technology. The DAZEL Output Server, which enables the Output Management Framework for client/server environments, will soon allow existing applications to reliably deliver information directly to the web. A new destination, MetaWeb, will extend the reach of the Output Server beyond current hardcopy and electronic destinations to corporate users, providing comprehensive publish and subscribe (1) To provide a source of information that users select from and then receive on a regular basis or when certain events occur. The service can be public or private, free or paid, and information can be provided via e-mail and the Web or by means of proprietary applications. capabilities. The new MetaWeb destination goes beyond delivering to a web server repository, directly to people. In addition to web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. through the Output Server, MetaWeb allows users to subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; specific information relevant to their needs. This enables corporate applications to deliver information directly to users. The publish and subscribe combination provides organizations with a powerful end-to-end delivery solution by turning any application into a web publisher, and ensuring the information is delivered to the appropriate users. While web technology provides a very powerful information sharing See data conferencing. capability, until now there has not been a way to ensure that the right information gets to the right people every time. For the first time, MetaWeb will directly link information to its subscribers, providing rapid and reliable delivery via the web. For example, an accounting department running an SAP R/3 application can publish "Sales Reports" to MetaWeb. The DAZEL Output Server receives the information and performs any necessary document transformation, then delivers the document to MetaWeb. Each of the sales managers across the country will immediately be notified that the new report is available. To view the report, they simply click on its link in their personal browser. The web server then contacts MetaWeb, the publish and subscribe server, to retrieve and display the report. "DAZEL is a comprehensive solution for managing output in the client/server arena due to their server-based approach and seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. with client/server applications and environments," said Chet Geschickter, principal, Hurwitz Consulting. "The World Wide Web is the next evolution of client/server and this represents a natural extension of DAZEL's core competencies, adding value by allowing organizations to leverage the web to deliver information content automatically, and with reliability." "The initial opportunities for corporations seeking to exploit the web are dependent on technology that allows them to seamlessly establish intranets as vehicles for delivering corporate information," said Robert Fabbio, president and chief executive officer of DAZEL Corp. "MetaWeb is a natural extension of the DAZEL Output Server's focus on application deployment, the third wave of client/server. The Output Server's end-to-end information delivery from legacy and production applications will now include the Internet, the Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises fourth wave of client/server, in the Output Management Framework." DAZEL Eases Incorporation of Intranets into Existing Output Infrastructures 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. a recent study, Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. estimates that over half of all large corporate sites will have deployed intranets by the end of 1998. While intranets offer many benefits including more timely availability of information and cost reduction, companies attempting to distribute or publish information on intranets face major problems. These include difficulties in publishing information in a web-compliant format, creating demand for the information once it is published and delivering information directly to its intended users. With DAZEL's approach, desktop users and back office applications will automatically be enabled to publish information to the web by simply directing output to MetaWeb, via the DAZEL Output Server. The DAZEL Output Server provides centralized control and management of and unified access to printing, faxing, paging, e-mail and file transfer, in a client/server enterprise. "By embracing the Output Management Framework, we'll be able to easily integrate intranet publishing capabilities into our business-critical client/server applications in a seamless, manageable and cost-effective manner," said Gary Mancini, director of publishing technology at R.R. Donnelley and Sons, a $4.5 billion publishing company. "Additionally, with MetaWeb, we'll be able to target the distribution of that information according to our intranet end-users' needs, so that they'll receive just the information that's important to them." Scaleable, Heterogeneous, Centrally Managed Output Infrastructure By incorporating the Output Server with MetaWeb, client/server applications will be able to reliably deliver information for viewing or final-form output across an organization's geographically dispersed network infrastructure, including corporate intranets. With the same level of reliability found in a mainframe environment, DAZEL's Output Server provides the capabilities to centrally manage the six key areas of output management -- job and queue, delivery, configuration, event, accounting and inventory, and privilege -- for business-critical client/server applications. The DAZEL Output Server maintains a central repository of output destinations and provides a full complement of system administration capabilities, giving MIS a central point for managing and controlling all output destinations and domains. Additionally, with the shipment of Output Server 2.5, organizations are now able to configure multiple interoperable output domains, providing organizations with a scaleable and secure environment where output resources can be modeled according to business processes and shared across geographically dispersed locations. (See related press release, DAZEL ships Output Server 2.5.) The DAZEL Output Server integrates into the existing client/server infrastructure, providing an open, heterogeneous solution that is destination independent, allowing the output services to support the infrastructure as it grows. DAZEL maintains that client/server output must be both platform operating system and destination independent, supporting multiple operating system versions, as well as multiple output destinations. Unlike 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) PSM's AIX-only DCE (1) (Distributed Computing Environment) Software from The Open Group that allows applications to be built across heterogeneous platforms in a network. DCE includes security, directory naming, time synchronization, file sharing, RPCs and multithreading services. implementation, the DAZEL Output Server is currently available for heterogeneous environments, and offers the only Output Management Framework to extend beyond the print-only paradigm. The DAZEL product family is comprised of the DAZEL Output Server, for SunOS, Sun Solaris, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , IBM AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. and NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers SVR Noun 1. SVR - Russia's intelligence service responsible for foreign operations, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and the exchange of intelligence information; collaborates with other countries to oppose proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and 4 platforms; DAZEL Express, a graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to client, which support Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). Motif platforms; DAZEL Gateway, an access interface, for mainframe, NetWare, VAX (Virtual Address eXtension) A venerable family of 32-bit computers from HP (via Digital and Compaq) introduced in 1977 with the VAX-11/780. VAX models ranged from desktop units to mainframes all running the same VMS operating system, and VAXes could emulate PDP models and more; and DAZEL SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). for application developers. For more information on DAZEL products, including MetaWeb, refer to DAZEL's home page at http://www.dazel.com or call 512/306-7300 or 800/357-8357. About DAZEL The DAZEL Output Management Framework is a server-based environment that provides centralized management and control of and unified access to printing, faxing, paging, e-mail and file transfers, in a client/server enterprise. Fortune 500 organizations today are using DAZEL to manage business-critical applications including high-volume printing and reliable distribution of information such as customer invoices, payroll checks, and manufacturing bills of material. DAZEL brings the access and control of the mainframe environment to the distributed client/server enterprise. DAZEL Corp. is the leader in output management for the client/server enterprise. Founded in 1991 by Fabbio, who also founded Tivoli Systems, DAZEL is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation with headquarters in Austin. DAZEL Corp. has direct sales offices located in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Chicago, Washington, and San Francisco and authorized VARs and Systems Integrators throughout the United States and Europe. DAZEL has been endorsed as the output management solution of choice by industry leaders including Tivoli, New Dimension Software, PLATINUM technology, NCR, Computer Associates, Oce (formerly Siemens Nixdorf Printing Systems), Dynasty, BMC (BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, www.bmc.com) A leading supplier of software that supports and improves the availability, performance, and recovery of applications in complex computing environments. and Powersoft Corp. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Additional information about DAZEL is available at http://www.dazel.com. DAZEL and DAZEL Output Server are registered trademarks, and MetaWeb, Output Management Framework and Publish and Subscribe Server are trademarks of DAZEL Corp. Other company names and product names referenced herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective corporation. CONTACT: Lois Paul & Partners, Boston Laura Beck, 617/238-5705 e-mail: laura_beck@lpp.com or DAZEL Corp., Austin Pat Colpitts, 512/306-7300 e-mail: pcolpitts@dazel.com |
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