Modulant Joins OASIS Consortium; Contributes Industry and Technology Expertise to Evolution of Interoperability Advancements for Collaborative Commerce.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2002 Modulant, the leading provider of semantics-based interoperability solutions, today announced that it has become a Sponsor member of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), a vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. As a member of OASIS, Modulant will contribute its deep expertise in product data exchange standards -- such as 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. 10303 - STEP, PLCS, ISO 13584 - PLIB PLIB Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau PLIB Program Library PLIB Personal Library PLIB Portable Library PLIB Public Library PLIB Physical Library , and ISO 15926 - EPISTLE -- to further the evolution of standards that facilitate collaborative commerce. Modulant will participate in ebXML and Universal Business Language (UBL (Universal Business Language) A format for exchanging data from one XML business language to another. Based on ebXML Core Components, UBL is designed to provide a common language that acts as an intermediate vocabulary so that one XML vocabulary can interoperate with ) technical committees to help advance the development of these standards. Modulant will also contribute its expertise in model-based mapping approaches and technologies to advance the development of open solutions for data interoperability. Modulant's participation in OASIS specifications and requirements technical committees -- such as Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (standard, protocol) Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration - (UDDI) The service discovery protocol for Web Services through which companies can find one another to conduct business. This standard was unveiled by Ariba, IBM, Microsoft, and 33 other companies in September 2000. (UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) An industry initiative for a universal business registry (catalog) of Web services turned over to the stewardship of OASIS in 2002 as the version 3 specification of UDDI was released. ), and Topic Maps Topic Maps is an ISO standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge, with an emphasis on the findability of information. The standard is formally known as ISO/IEC 13250:2003. / Published Subjects -- will help these committees develop solutions to complex interoperability challenges among applications that serve the collaborative value chain, like product lifecycle Product lifecycle or product life cycle is the course of a product's sales and profits over time. The five stages of each product lifecycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. management and logistics. Modulant is committed to breaking down the barriers to collaborative commerce caused by incompatible data vocabularies. Modulant's model-based, semantic mediation approach solves persistent data compatibility problems with consistent, open, and computable maps that can bridge the chasm among disparate data vocabularies. "This is a critical time for companies engaged in collaborative commerce to be planning for their future interoperability needs," said Jeffrey Pollock, Modulant's chief technology officer. "Modulant's participation in OASIS demonstrates our commitment to providing a truly flexible and open interoperability framework that increases the overall value of standards in the enterprise." "Modulant's expertise will contribute significantly to several commerce and interoperability technical committees within OASIS," said Patrick Gannon, president and 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 OASIS. "We look forward to Modulant's active involvement in advancing our current work with business libraries and approaches for interoperability among disparate data vocabularies." About Modulant Modulant is the leading provider of semantics-based interoperability solutions that improve the speed, success rate, and ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). of integration efforts along the product value chain. Fundamentally different from traditional integration approaches, Modulant's semantic mapping, modeling, and mediation capabilities enable product lifecycle management (PLM (Product Life cycle Management) A comprehensive information system that coordinates all aspects of a product from initial concept to its eventual retirement. Sometimes called the "digital backbone" of a product, it includes the requirements phase, analysis and design ) applications to exchange information with other applications across the extended enterprise -- without requiring agreement on standard data vocabularies or custom coding of data transformations. Modulant's unique semantic mediation approach creates a loosely-coupled, scalable, and highly-adaptable interoperability framework that enables companies to significantly improve efficiency, agility, and collaboration capabilities throughout the product lifecycle -- from development through sourcing, production, and distribution. For more information, please visit www.modulant.com. About OASIS OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, 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. conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. OASIS has more than 500 corporate and individual members in 100 countries around the world. Note to Editors: Modulant, the Modulant logo, and Contextia are trademarks of Modulant Solutions, Inc. |
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