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KnowNow Inc., a provider of Publish-Subscribe technology for the Internet, has extended the reach of its LiveServer Event Routing Platform [TM] to enable delivery of real-time information to Pocket PC devices It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome. This is a list of Pocket PC and Windows CE devices, and companies that make, or have made, them. . By using KnowNow's new Live 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).  connector, organizations can deliver critical, real-time business information over the Internet to mobile users' PDAs. This provides a fast, easy and cost-effective way for businesses to connect mobile workers to the events and information they require.

KnowNow's Publish-Subscribe technology improves the visibility of critical business information by publishing updates instantly to browsers, spreadsheets, desktop applications and mobile devices. This allows organizations to become more agile and better able to react to the demands of their business.

The KnowNow Event Routing platform includes KnowNow LiveServer [TM] to intelligently route messages and a collection of KnowNow LiveConnectors [TM] that enhance the speed of development and integration for standard languages and protocols including HTTP HTTP
 in full HyperText Transfer Protocol

Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol.
, HTTPS (1) (HyperText Transport Protocol Secure) The protocol for accessing a secure Web server. Using HTTPS in the URL instead of HTTP directs the message to a secure port number rather than the default Web port number of 80. , .Net, 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. , ActiveX, C, C+ and now PDAs.

The company says that many customers are discovering that flexible, Internet standard An Internet standard is a specification for an innovative internetworking technology or methodology, which the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ratified as an open standard after the innovation underwent peer review.  based Publish-Subscribe technology can improve the integration of corporate systems and speed delivery of information to knowledge workers using predominately ad-hoc problem-solving tools such as spreadsheets. In contrast to the common request-response paradigm of today's computer systems, the Publish-Subscribe paradigm lets organizations implement systems that enable the delivery of events and business critical information to the people who need to know.

Finance teams can now simultaneously share and track financial results associated with customers, vendors, employees and others across the Internet, in real time. Implications for financial roll-ups and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance include automated au·to·mate  
v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates

v.tr.
1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory.

2.
, detailed audit trails for spreadsheets and other personal productivity tools.

Unlike the complex system integration required for implementing real-time capabilities into back-end financial systems, the KnowNow solution can be deployed on top of existing corporate systems, end-user applications and Internet-based architectures. With the addition of LivePDA, customers can now easily connect to mobile users using Pocket PC.

Web: www.knownow.com
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Title Annotation:technology Tools
Publication:Financial Executive
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Dec 1, 2003
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