ESC Launches Electrical Distribution Industry's First XML-Based Online Billing Service.Business/Technology Editors CANTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2002 New ESC See escape character and escape key. See also ESC/P. ESC - escape DOCS Service Utilizes VorteXML from Datawatch to Enable Rapid Adoption of Online Viewing of Statements and Invoices for ESC's Electrical Distributor Noun 1. electrical distributor - electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence distributer, distributor Clients Expert Systems Consulting (ESC) today announced the immediate availability of ESC DOCS - a web-based customer statements and invoices service for the electrical products distribution market. Working closely with Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : DWCH), a leading provider of enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. , infrastructure and IT support solutions, ESC is capitalizing on Datawatch's new VorteXML Server software to automate the arduous manual process of transforming legacy data from a variety of host sources into 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. for web presentation and data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. with other applications. Electrical products distributors, without any changes to their existing IT systems, will be able to use ESC's new service to provide their customers immediate access to statements and invoices through a standard PC browser. The statements will be dynamically linked to the invoices, allowing users to review their statements and click through to view the individual invoices on the statements. Simply by clicking a link, customers will also be able to output to print, e-mail or PDF file See PDF. format. As the 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. market matures, ESC will also add the ability to share XML invoice data with other systems. "Our new XML and .NET web-based document service directly addresses our customers' escalating need to access, view, share and distribute legacy data, reports, invoices, purchase orders and spreadsheets online," said ESC Founder and President John Kroah. "This service will reduce their costs and dramatically enhance their customer service. Best of all, our clients will be able to achieve all of this without any programming or changes to their current IT systems." "We are extremely excited about ESC DOCS," said John Milotte of Dulles Electric Supply in Sterling, VA. "We are always looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to better serve our customers and this will definitely help us achieve that objective. We intend to release this to our customers in a few weeks." According to Stacey Pandeloglou, sales and marketing manager for ESC, "XML invoices and statements are the first of a number of financial documents that ESC plans to convert to XML. We also intend to roll out this solution to a number of other industries." "ESC is at the forefront of helping businesses realize the benefits of using XML to maximize the online use of legacy data and reports," said John Kitchen, senior vice president of Desktop and Server Solutions at Datawatch. "We're proud that ESC is using our new VorteXML Server software as part of their ESC DOCs solution. VorteXML will automatically transform invoice and statement output from ESC's clients into valid XML documents for immediate display on the Web - all with no user interaction. This is a perfect example of the benefits of VorteXML, as the cost of writing code to convert each client's output into XML would be prohibitive." ABOUT VORTEXML VorteXML quickly and easily converts any structured ASCII/ANSI text data (including reports, invoices, log files, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , etc.) generated from any system into valid XML using any DTD (Document Type Definition) A language that describes the contents of an SGML document. The DTD is also used with XML, and the DTD definitions may be embedded within an XML document or in a separate file. or XDR (1) (EXternal Data Representation) A data format developed by Sun that is part of its networking standards. It deals with integer size, byte ordering, data representation, etc. and is used as an interchange format. Schema on a programming-free basis. VorteXML greatly simplifies the transformation of complex business documents and HTML into valid XML. At the same time, it provides transformation capabilities that allow for complete population of the XML document. ABOUT DATAWATCH CORPORATION Datawatch Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise reporting, infrastructure and IT support solutions that help organizations increase productivity, reduce costs and gain competitive advantage. Datawatch products are used in more than 20,000 companies, institutions and government agencies worldwide. Datawatch works with VARs, integrators, consultants and independent software vendors who sell and support Datawatch products. In addition, Datawatch works with 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 customers who embed Datawatch components and technologies in their own solutions. The corporate address for Datawatch is 175 Cabot Street, Suite 503, Lowell, MA 01854-3633; telephone 978-441-2200, fax 978-441-1114; http://www.datawatch.com. ABOUT ESC Expert Systems Consulting Ltd (ESC) is a provider of software, support, integration and web application services to the distribution industry. ESC has been doing business specifically in the wholesale distribution software services market for seven years. In the last two years, ESC has broadened its market base outside its historic vertical and has begun product development on a number of innovative products and services built around Microsoft's .NET framework, Web Services and XML. ESC has offices in seven major metropolitan areas across the U.S., and offers a range of software and integration products. For more information, visit http://www.esc-online.com. |
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