Suncorp selects VeniceBridge Content Integration Platform; VeniceBridge Fundamental to Enterprise-Wide ECM Strategy.Business Editors, High Tech Writers CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 2002 Venetica, the leading provider of content integration solutions, today announced that Suncorp, Australia's sixth largest bank and equal second largest insurance company, has selected VeniceBridge(TM) for content integration across the enterprise. Like most large organizations, Suncorp has disparate sources of content across the enterprise and was 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. a content integration framework to unite them. Suncorp has multiple repositories While acknowledging services such as [ROAR: [1]] and [OpenDOAR: [2]] it is perhaps necessary to provide a list of individual repositories described in more detail within wikipedia here. for storing content, such as credit and insurance applications, claim forms, policy statements and workers compensation documents. This is the result of the acquisition of AMP's GIO GIO Giovedì (Italian: Thursday) GIO Government Information Office GIO Geographic Information Officer GIO General Insurance Ombudservice GIO Government Information Online GIO Government Insurance Office general insurance business in Australia, sustained growth and varying technology investments within individual business units. As Suncorp has become more diversified diversified (di·verˑ·s , with growth in personal and commercial lines and the addition of workers compensation, there is a greater need to provide an enterprise-wide solution for content integration. Enterprise Applications Require Access to Content Suncorp made a strategic decision that they needed a comprehensive J2EE-based integration framework to leverage their current content repositories as well as those yet to be chosen across the company. As the solution that could best address this challenge, VeniceBridge was chosen to provide a single point of integration to their underlying content systems and make that content available to their enterprise applications. Integration Layer Key to Technology Strategy The Suncorp project specifically required the extension of their middle-tier integration layer to allow future content repositories to be chosen independently of application development. VeniceBridge will become an endorsed product for content integration across the organization. "Achieving a separate integration layer was one of the critical requirements for our technology direction moving forward," said Jamie Cornes, Solutions Architect at Suncorp. "Only Venetica was able to meet our needs related to establishing a single point of integration among our various repositories, which directly translates into the ability for our enterprise applications to more easily access and work with these disparate sources of content." "As organizations struggle to create more effective 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. strategies, they're beginning to recognize the importance of content integration to that strategy." said Stuart Levinson, 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. , Venetica. "Suncorp's selection of VeniceBridge is yet another illustration of this growing demand among large, global companies. We are very excited to have Suncorp join the growing list of Venetica customers." The BPA BPA British Paediatric Association. Group, a Venetica partner based in Brisbane, Australia, will provide local support for the Suncorp project. About Suncorp Suncorp is one of Australia's 25 biggest companies and the largest listed corporation in Queensland Queensland, state (1991 pop. 2,477,152), 667,000 sq mi (1,727,200 sq km), NE Australia. Brisbane is the capital; other important cities are Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Townsville, Rockhampton, Cairns, and Ipswich. with a sharemarket value of around $6.7 billion. Suncorp is Australia's sixth largest bank and second largest insurance company, with total assets of more than $31 billion and funds under management exceeding $9.2 billion. The Group was created on 1 December 1996 when the Queensland Government owned Suncorp and QIDC entities were merged into the publicly listed Metway Bank. The Group recently made its first major acquisition with the purchase of AMP's GIO general insurance business in Australia. The Group's main businesses are banking, insurance, investment and superannuation Superannuation An organizational pension program created by companies for the benefit of their employees. Notes: Funds deposited in a superannuation account will typically grow without any tax implications until retirement or withdrawal. products with a focus on retail consumers and small to medium size businesses. Visit http://www.suncorp.com.au About Venetica Venetica is the leading provider of content integration software. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , VeniceBridge(TM), provides the infrastructure and tools that portals, web content management, collaborative applications, customer relationship management and other key applications use to access and exchange content throughout the enterprise and among trading partners. At the heart of VeniceBridge is a single, bi-directional interface that enables an application to quickly integrate with the multiple, disparate repositories that store documents, images, reports, rich media and other relevant content. VeniceBridge can then associate that content with a business process or topic, or deliver and exchange the content with other applications in real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. . Venetica partners with leading software vendors and system integrators See systems integrator. in 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 the Asia-Pacific region to deliver solutions around the world. For more information on Venetica please visit http://www.venetica.com About The BPA Group The BPA Group provides leading edge solutions to help organisations manage business information and processes more productively. Our company has experienced sustained growth, based on successful implementations at large corporation, government and senior government organisations. Headquartered in Brisbane, we have offices in Sydney and Melbourne. Established in 1994, The BPA Group has attracted industry experts in information management with experience gained in Australia, Europe, Asia and North America. For more information on the BPA Group visit http://www.bpagroup.com.au |
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