The Bowstreet Business Web Factory 2.0 Provides New Platform for Boundless B2B.Business/Technology Editors Inside the Kaleidoscope SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2000 Line-of-business managers can instantly and exponentially expand revenue, scale their B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business relationships without limits Bowstreet (www.bowstreet.com), the leading provider 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. infrastructure for business-to-business (B2B) web marketplaces, today announced the Bowstreet(TM) Business Web Factory 2.0, a B2B platform that lets companies grow their businesses on the web in ways they've never dreamed. Non-technical businesspeople can now create and customize hundreds of thousands of online business relationships simply by pointing and clicking. With the Bowstreet Business Web Factory, companies can extend their B2B relationships on the Internet as fast as they can conceive them, deploying new business models and exponentially expanding their market reach and revenue. The Bowstreet Business Web Factory 2.0 is the first platform for creating, scaling and proliferating "business webs" - next-generation B2B building blocks that let companies form instant B2B relationships online. The Bowstreet Business Web Factory is also the best way for companies to harness the power of the Bowstreet(TM) Business Web Exchange, the first online community and trading hub for B2B relationships (announced separately today). Designed specifically to deliver unprecedented business web scalability, the Bowstreet Business Web Factory 2.0 will easily support the increasing industry demand for 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. by global companies and high-traffic dot.coms. Bowstreet net economy customers eframes.com, GetConnected.com, Handshake.com and iProperty.com join enterprise customers Crossmark, Houston Street Exchange, MoneyStar, Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL NOVL Novell, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) and S3 (Nasdaq: SIII) in adopting the Bowstreet Business Web Factory. "With the Bowstreet Business Web Factory 2.0, we're already seeing our ability to perform integrations become nearly effortless, which basically means we've got a four-lane Autobahn here," said Ajay Shah, 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. , Handshake.com. "We're confident we can scale our B2B web relationships as fast as we can identify new customers, suppliers and partners. And our non-technical managers will be able to more easily customize these B2B web relationships." The Bowstreet Business Web Factory is based on a unique blend of XML (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/. , the Internet's lingua franca lingua franca (lĭng`gwə frăng`kə), an auxiliary language, generally of a hybrid and partially developed nature, that is employed over an extensive area by people speaking different and mutually unintelligible tongues in order to for commerce), directories and patent-pending change-automation technology. It lets companies find, organize, mix, match, customize, publish - and sometimes trade - web services, which are radically new software building blocks that embody a company's core business processes. Bowstreet customers can snap these XML-based web services into their B2B web sites, creating B2B web marketplaces ("business webs") that exponentially extend their market reach and eliminate the pain of traditional custom web development. A truck manufacturer, for instance, can acquire an online bank lender's web service and propagate it across an infinite number infinite number a number so large as to be uncountable. Represented by 8, frequently obtained by 'dividing' by zero. of B2B web sites, customizing the look and feel of the lender's web service for each customer or partner with a couple of mouse clicks. The bank and the truck manufacturer become instant partners this way, and share the fruits of their enhanced presence across the web. All of this is done by business managers, not technology professionals. The Bowstreet Business Web Factory 2.0: free to start, lots of new features There are two versions of the Bowstreet Business Web Factory 2.0. The Marketplace Edition lets companies publish, acquire and deploy web services at no cost. The Marketplace Edition will be available for free at the Bowstreet Business Web Exchange. The Enterprise Edition supports an unlimited number of users. Both editions offer dramatic performance, usability and reliability enhancements, including:
-- Linux support to supplement Windows NT and Solaris as certified
platforms.
-- Enterprise Java Beans support. The Bowstreet Business Web Factory
will support and integrate Enterprise Java Beans, CORBA and IIOP
objects within the Bowstreet Business Web Factory templates that
define business webs.
-- Support for additional XML schema definition languages, such as
Microsoft's XML-Data Reduced (XDR), the preferred syntax for
Microsoft's BizTalk framework, and the World Wide Web
Consortium's (W3C's) XML schema definition language. Because it
is natively XML, the Bowstreet Business Web Factory supports all
existing and emerging XML schema definition languages and all
schemas written in those definition languages, including the
Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) 1.0 specification,
RosettaNet and future Wireless Markup Language (WML) standards.
-- Integration with the Bowstreet Business Web Exchange. The
Bowstreet Business Web Factory is the best way to harness the
power of the Bowstreet Business Web Exchange. Companies will be
able to find, acquire and customize web services from the
Exchange and publish web services to it. More than 30 companies
have already committed to publishing their web services to the
Exchange. Version 2.0's enhancements prepare companies to absorb
the increased demand for web services the Bowstreet Business Web
Exchange will foster.
-- Developer productivity tools, such as web-based learning aids,
tutorials, JavaScript(TM) support, QuickStarts for creating
common business webs, and customizable Builders (the "genetic
code" for business webs).
"With the Bowstreet Business Web Factory 2.0, our customers will profit from the web services revolution we're starting," said Bob Crowley For the software, see . For the computer specialist, see . Bob Crowley (born in Cork, Ireland) is a theatre director, scenic and costume designer. He is the brother of director John Crowley. , president and CEO of Bowstreet. "They will publish and acquire business processes as quickly as they like, and support an unlimited number of business partners over the web." How it works Using the Bowstreet Business Web Factory, information technology professionals create "automation templates" that enable customized functionality and processes to be built into web sites. In contrast to explicit hard-wired programming done using traditional tools, loosely coupled See loose coupling. "Builders" within the automation template call the various processes, data and appropriate web services at runtime. Once built, line-of-business managers create and manage user profiles that drive the behavior of these automation templates, creating a customized web experience for each and every partner or customer. The Bowstreet Business Web Engine is the heart of the Web Factory. It manages all metadata in corporate directories and generates customized business webs on the fly at runtime based on the user profile. The Web Engine supports DSML (Directory Services Markup Language) A set of XML tags that defines the contents of a directory. Developed by Bowstreet, Inc., Tewksbury, MA (www.bowstreet. connections to all major directories, including those from IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : IBM), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL), Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ) and Sun/Netscape (Nasdaq: SUNW/NYSE: AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ). DSML is the emerging standard for representing directory services contents - including data about web services - in XML. Packaging, pricing and availability The Bowstreet Business Web Factory 2.0 Enterprise Edition will be generally available in Q2 2000 through Bowstreet's direct sales force and selected system integrators. It supports unlimited concurrent users. Average deployments cost from $250,000 to $1 million. The Marketplace Edition, free to qualified businesses and software professionals when it goes live in Q2 2000, will let companies create custom web sites and publish web services for a small number of partners on the web. Migration from the Marketplace to the Enterprise Edition is seamless, enabling companies to quickly and easily enhance business webs with the Enterprise Edition's high performance and availability options quickly and easily. System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. The Bowstreet Business Web Factory runs on the Linux, Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT and Sun Solaris server operating systems. It requires one of these directory services: Netscape Directory Server, IBM SecureWay Directory IBM SecureWay Directory, was the very first Directory Server offering from IBM. The product has come a long way and the its latest release is called IBM Tivoli Directory Server. IBM Secureway Directory wasn't changed until the Release 5.1 was then known as IBM Directory Server. , Microsoft Active Directory, Novell NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services or Oracle Directory Server. About Bowstreet Bowstreet provides the XML infrastructure to automate the creation of dynamic and customized B2B web marketplaces that enable new business models, extend companies' market reach and generate new revenue. These "business webs" link an infinite number of customers, suppliers and partners in minutes instead of months and at a fraction of the cost of today's web development methods. Founded in January 1998, Bowstreet was ranked as one of the top e-commerce start-ups in the country at the Enterprise Outlook Conference, and has raised $90 million from leading venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] , global investment banks and strategic corporate investors. For more information, visit www.bowstreet.com or call 603-436-9100. Bowstreet is a trademark of Bowstreet.com Inc. All other company names and products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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