TIAN Introduces Web Services for eBusiness Infrastructure.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2001 TIAN Tian or T'ien (Chinese; “Heaven”) In indigenous Chinese religion, the supreme power reigning over humans and lesser gods. The term refers to a deity, to impersonal nature, or to both. Software Company, Inc., the leading provider of Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. for Intelligent eBusiness Infrastructure, announced today a new suite of TIAN(TM) Web Services for decentralized de·cen·tral·ize v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities. , highly distributed business computing environments. TIAN Web Services inject intelligence across any eBusiness dealing with complex database applications and large volumes of content. These businesses typically embrace a very large pool of web site content (links, URLs, video, voice, pages, etc.), a wide variety of users (many anonymous) with varying behavior, and content residing on many computers and data centers distributed at various points in a global network. Extending Quality of Service to Quality of Experience Over the last few years, enterprises have invested heavily in building eBusiness infrastructures. Largely for Quality of Service reasons (download times, load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them , performance, etc.), they have created decentralized network environments. Now that eBusinesses have made this investment, the focus has shifted to achieving a core business mandate of increasing profitability, improving employee productivity, enhancing customer and partner experiences, and strengthening relationships with vendors, employees, and other stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. . TIAN Web Services extend Quality of Service to Quality of Experience (maximizing 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). , increasing productivity, customizing User Experiences, improving eBusiness metrics, and more). Accelerating Quality of Experience means delivering dynamic content from the edge of the network, injecting intelligence across Internet infrastructures, moving enterprise information and business logic from outside the enterprise to the regional and distributed edges, and empowering the value chain players to offer higher-margin services. About Web Services The TIAN suite of context-aware Web Services is designed to be deployed on top of an existing eBusiness without "unhooking" existing investments in applications or infrastructure. TIAN Web Services provide detailed business intelligence, increase employee productivity, strengthen the relationship between users and other eBusinesses, and decrease the costs of managing and presenting digital assets. "As eBusinesses push business and presentation logic toward the edge, new models are emerging for distributing what is relevant in the context of each user interaction to the edge of a transaction network," says Christian Gheorghe, TIAN 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. . "TIAN recognizes the need to enhance the Quality of Experience without sacrificing key Quality of Service attributes. TIAN Web Services help eBusinesses achieve Quality of Experience goals in today's highly distributed and decentralized Internet. TIAN complements any infrastructure or point solution investment. Since TIAN Web Services run natively as network infrastructure, businesses don't have to unhook any existing software to benefit from TIAN Web Services." TIAN Web Services TIAN's flagship service, IntentDirect(TM), enables eBusinesses to understand the context of each user's session (where context = content + behavior + device + time + location + business rules), infer user intent, and dynamically repackage re·pack·age tr.v. re·pack·aged, re·pack·ag·ing, re·pack·ag·es To package again or anew, especially in a more attractive package. re·pack web content from any location into a relevant, run-time User Experience. IntentDirect reduces click-to-find ratios and increases click-to-buy ratios, allowing eBusinesses to increase revenue, decrease content presentation costs, improve productivity, and enhance User Experiences. TIAN RelevanceDirect(TM) generates reports for crucial metrics such as site path analysis (on anonymous and authenticated users), most/least requested content, click-to-find ratios, behavioral groupings, and intent scenarios. eBusinesses can then compare those results to their competition. By evaluating and understanding who is using the web site, what each user is trying to accomplish, and how this compares with the metrics from competitors' sites, eBusinesses learn how to improve click-to-buy rates, decrease click-to-find ratios, and provide the most relevant content for each user. eBusinesses use RelevanceDirect to translate this knowledge into significant ROI increases across their entire site. TIAN CacheDirect(TM) automatically determines the most relevant content and pre-populates it at the eBusiness edge, saving bandwidth and storage costs. CacheDirect is compliant with the Edge Side Includes (ESI (Edge Side Includes) A markup language for Web pages that enables elements of a Web page to be dynamically assembled in servers distributed throughout the Internet. ) standard, and de-layers content into fragments, which are defined by the ESI standard markup language markup language Standard text-encoding system consisting of a set of symbols inserted in a text document to control its structure, formatting, or the relationship among its parts. The most widely used markup languages are SGML, HTML, and XML. . CacheDirect removes the burden (and significant cost) of determining which content to deploy at the edge of the network. TIAN TranscodingDirect(TM) dynamically and automatically tailors content for the appropriate touch-point (PC and browser, PC and email, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). , cell phone) without the need for maintaining unique content for each device type. TranscodingDirect reduces the enterprise costs associated with building, managing, and maintaining content (or sites) specific to touch-points. TIAN has joined forces with Ericsson/Hewlett-Packard (EHPT EHPT Ericsson Hewlett Packard Telecommunications ) to introduce BillingDirect(TM), a Web Service that enables enterprises to price, bill, mediate, and settle payments at the edge of a network, not just from a headquarters server. Since modern business models push billing and mediation out to the edge, BillingDirect resolves the complexities of monetizing web content that is decentralized and distributed into fragments across a global business network. "We're pleased to have TIAN as a partner, and as a member of our alliance program," says Bruce Dines, EHPT USA CEO. "Service and content providers are 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. value-added services like those that TIAN offers. Service and content providers are also looking for services that allow them to price, bill, and account for content usage. EHPT delivers those services. Together, EHPT and TIAN deliver a comprehensive, turnkey solution for generating (and accounting for) higher-margin income inside complex Internet infrastructures." About TIAN Software Company, Inc. TIAN Software Company, Inc. is a Denver, Colorado-based company delivering Web Services and Intelligent Infrastructure for highly distributed, decentralized eBusinesses. In today's "always on" Internet, TIAN Web Services deliver Quality of Experience to companies with large numbers of users and high volumes of content distributed across servers, data centers, regional edges, and highly distributed edges. TIAN Web Services conform to Verb 1. conform to - satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?" fit, meet coordinate - be co-ordinated; "These activities coordinate well" business, industry, and technical standards, including ESI, J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. , SOAP, and ICAP (1) (Internet Content Adaptation Protocol) A high-level protocol for requesting services from an Internet-based server. iCAP provides a common format for requesting services using standard HTTP messaging. . For more information, visit the company's web site at http://www.tiansoft.com or call 303/894-0600. |
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