PeopleSoft Portal Solutions to Deliver News Headlines; Moreover.com Offers Timely and Relevant News to Portals.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2000 PeopleSoft Inc. (Nasdaq: PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ) will now be delivering Headline News Links from Moreover.com to the PeopleSoft Portal Solutions. This agreement will enable Moreover.com to deliver timely, targeted news headlines to users of the PeopleSoft portals and PeopleSoft MarketPlace. Moreover.com's dynamic news application, called "webfeed," will aggregate internet content into manageable news categories. The application will then feed fresh industry headlines from thousands of web-based sources to PeopleSoft portals and PeopleSoft MarketPlace, offering customers easy web-top access to relevant and up-to-date news. "Corporations are going to depend more and more on PeopleSoft's Portal Solutions to keep their customers, employees, and suppliers focused, current, and empowered," said Nick Denton Nick Denton (born August 24, 1966[1]) is the founder and proprietor of Gawker Media. Nick Denton was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times. Denton is openly gay. , chief executive officer of Moreover.com. "Moreover is designed to achieve this with industry-specific headline feeds that keep pace with the web's expansion." The Moreover.com technology will provide the PeopleSoft portal with continuous "snapshots" of breaking industry news from more than 2,000 sources. Headlines update automatically every 15 minutes and link to full-text articles on the original publisher's site. PeopleSoft portal users can integrate webfeeds through a variety of open formats, including 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. , JavaScript, and several variations of 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. , providing a flexible option for portal and web administrators. Moreover.com's rich, business-oriented content combined with the flexibility of PeopleSoft's Portal Solutions will allow PeopleSoft customers to create highly relevant and personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. webfeeds on company, competitive, and industry news. Moreover.com expects to offer PeopleSoft portal users an increasing number of categories and sources as the company continues to expand its business-oriented content. "Moreover.com's personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. capabilities, rich content and technical flexibility will provide business oriented o·ri·ent n. 1. Orient The countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia. 2. a. The luster characteristic of a pearl of high quality. b. A pearl having exceptional luster. 3. information to our customers," said Rick Bergquist, PeopleSoft's chief technology officer. "By providing the Moreover "webfeed" content within our three pre-built portal solutions, PeopleSoft continues to demonstrate the open nature of its portal technology to empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems our customers and increase productivity across the organization." PeopleSoft Portal Solutions feature open and flexible technology that allows organizations to aggregate any internet content such as XML, Java, and HTML. The solutions offer customers a quicker return on investment with such features as sample roles; pre-built navigational hierarchy; search key words for enterprise content; company directory; e-mail; and calendars; as well as company news and events. About Moreover.com Moreover.com is the most comprehensive news aggregation service on the Internet, using proprietary technology to index news and other fast changing web content from more than 2,000 online sources. The company's products - web-style information feeds dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. "webfeeds" - are distributed across a fast-growing network of 60,000 websites, intranets, software platforms and search engines. Moreover.com has offices in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , London and 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 . About PeopleSoft PeopleSoft Inc. (Nasdaq: PSFT) is a leading provider of eBusiness applications that enable people - customers, employees, and suppliers - to power the internet. PeopleSoft's pure internet Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, and Enterprise Management solutions provide the industry's most open and flexible e-commerce platform. PeopleSoft employs more than 7,000 people worldwide, including 2,400 eBusiness consultants. More than 4,500 organizations in 107 countries run on PeopleSoft eBusiness applications. PeopleSoft and the PeopleSoft logo are registered trademarks. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright (c) 2000 PeopleSoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2000 Moverover.com. All rights reserved. |
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