Supply Chain Management. (Technology Tools).C-Bridge, an E-enterprise consulting and services provider, has merged with eXcelon Corp., an eXtensible markup language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. (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. ) provider, to create what the companies say will be a "holistic" approach to collaborative data and supply chain management. The combined company, known as eXcelon, is headquartered in Burlington, Mass., and has more then 3,000 customers around the world. EXcelon doesn't try to compete with Oracle, Commerce One, Ariba and other major software providers for e-commerce systems. "Those systems are in place -- Oracle, Ariba, SAP," says Richard Putz, eXcelon's chief marketing and strategy officer. "What we do -- and SAP is working closely with us -- is try to help this customer with Oracle manage the collaboration process. How do I take the data without having to rewrite that data? What we're doing is enabling existing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. systems. "Often, you have an environment with multiple systems, and some are home-brewed, and they're disparate, across the supply chain. We found that customers wanted to move closer to [real time] without disrupting those systems, and we saw that you could lay systems over the environment to help make that happen." Among its products are Stylus stylus: see pen. (1) A pen-shaped instrument that is used to "draw" images or select from menus. Styli (the plural of stylus, pronounced "sty-lye") come with handheld devices that have touch screens, such as PDAs and video games. Studio, an XML developers' toolkit; XIS, an extensible information server; and ObjectStore, a data management performance product. Putz adds: "We have accelerators that feature digitized workflows. We take those and lay them into the platforms. The eXcelon platform uses service-based architecture, and a key thing we do is allow measurement, based on what's important for the customer." Says Larry Alston, chief technology officer, "The unique thing that Cbridge has is rapid diagnostics. The technology allows us to do that in a transactional way, and the upfront part is very important. We have the ability to have a conversation with a business partner, define their [issues] and help them prioritize pri·or·i·tize v. pri·or·i·tized, pri·or·i·tiz·ing, pri·or·i·tiz·es Usage Problem v.tr. To arrange or deal with in order of importance. v.intr. ... We are retooling back-end systems to take on high-value business processes -- that's what our tools do." Alston adds that eXcelon is "very opportunistic opportunistic /op·por·tu·nis·tic/ (op?er-tldbomacn-is´tik) 1. denoting a microorganism which does not ordinarily cause disease but becomes pathogenic under certain circumstances. 2. " about how it supports various data-sharing protocols like EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. , cXML, BizTalk and RosettaNet. |
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