FatWire Software Chosen as Content Management Standard at Kohler Co.; Multi-Site Capability of Content Server Appeals to Kitchen and Bath Design Leader.Business Editors MINEOLA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2004 FatWire Software, the leading provider of strategic enterprise content 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, today announced that its Content Server content management solution has been chosen to power the Web sites of Kohler Co., the global leader in products for the kitchen and bath. Running on the BEA WebLogic A software suite from BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (www.beasys.com) that is used to deploy Web and SOA applications. The core product is BEA WebLogic Server, a J2EE application server. application server with an Oracle database, FatWire's Content Server will be the corporate standard for building and managing dozens of Web sites for the entire Kohler family of businesses which create products that set the standard in kitchen and bath, engines and generators, furniture and accessories, cabinetry and tile, as well as resort, recreation and real estate. "FatWire's Content Server solution allows us to empower the end users within Kohler's various businesses with the ability to quickly manage and deliver content. This compresses the edit, approval and publishing time frame from a few days to a few hours," said Mark Mitchelson, Systems Project Leader for E-Business Systems at Kohler Co. "No other content management solution offers the flexibility and scalability of Content Server. Given the number and diversity of the sites we will deploy, it was essential to have a solution that allows us to gain the efficiencies to drive down cost and time it takes to deploy each subsequent site. Fat Wire also provides us with the ability to add dynamic publishing and personalization to an online catalogue component in the future." 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. John Murcott, Vice President of Products and Strategy at FatWire, "the implementation of FatWire Content Server is already well underway at Kohler. Five legacy sites, including www.destinationkohler.com , were converted in 2003 and twice that many are scheduled in 2004 as the Content Server technology is rolled out across the enterprise." Kohler Co. has formed an internal competency center to develop best practice architectures and corporate standards for all divisions of the company to follow as they build and launch their sites with FatWire Content Server. About FatWire Software FatWire Software is the leading provider of strategic enterprise content management (ECM) solutions. Global 2000 companies use FatWire's solutions to rapidly deploy content-driven business initiatives, such as intranets, extranets, portals and corporate Web sites. Unlike other ECM solutions, FatWire combines content management, content delivery, and site management into a single solution. FatWire has approximately 400 customers including J.P. Morgan Chase, Capital One, the European Space Agency European Space Agency (ESA), multinational agency dedicated to the promotion, for exclusively peaceful purposes, of cooperation among European states in space research and technology. , and Alstom as well as strategic partnerships with BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , 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) , Computer Associates, and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. . Founded in 1996, FatWire Software is headquartered 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 and operates offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, and Asia-Pacific. For more information about FatWire Software's award-winning products and services, visit www.fatwire.com. |
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