XENOS TEAMS WITH IBM TO DELIVER INTEGRATED ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SOLUTION.Xenos (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :XNS (1) See XDI. (2) (Xerox Network Services) An early networking protocol suite developed at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). XNS has been the basis for many popular network architectures including Novell's NetWare, Banyan's VINES and 3Com's ), recently announced a global software remarketing agreement with 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) for the sale and distribution of Xenos' world-leading transformation software as part of IBM's enterprise content management solution. The agreement follows the successful integration earlier this year of the Xenos d2e (data to e-content) Platform(TM) software with IBM's Content Manager OnDemand V7.1. IBM customers in industries including banking, brokerage, insurance, telecommunications, and utilities can now purchase from IBM a single integrated solution that enables and drives content-based e-business initiatives, such as electronic statement presentment, online billing and online invoicing. Xenos software transforms legacy printstream formats such as IBM AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. , Xerox Metacode and HP PCL (Printer Command Language) The page description language for HP LaserJet printers. It has become a de facto standard used in many printers and typesetters. PCL Level 5, introduced with the LaserJet III in 1990, also supports Compugraphic's Intellifont scalable fonts. , as well as other legacy data, into electronic content formats, including 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. , HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. and PDF. IBM Content Manager OnDemand software provides high performance capture, presentment, and archive facilities and the infrastructure for electronic bill and invoice presentment and payment (EBPP/EIPP) and electronic statement presentment (ESP (1) (Enhanced Service Provider) An organization that adds value to basic telephone service by offering such features as call-forwarding, call-detailing and protocol conversion. ) applications. The agreement will enable IBM customers to transform printstreams into popular e-content formats, for archival into and retrieval from IBM Content Manager OnDemand. "IBM is focused on helping customers collect, manage and distribute all forms of content and link it to core business processes," said Brett MacIntyre, Vice President, IBM Content Management Solutions. "The combination of Xenos' transformation technology and IBM Content Management software enables customers to transform legacy data into e-content to support their enterprise e-business initiatives." "Organizations increasingly want to buy out-of-the-box solutions and deal with fewer vendors," said Stuart Butts, Chairman, 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. of Xenos. "The benefit of combining Xenos and IBM software has already been successfully proven with implementations at several leading organizations. We are delighted that IBM has taken the step to remarket our software worldwide as part of its offering. This exciting new phase of our alliance with IBM provides customers with best of breed transformation technology and a single-vendor touch point for end-to-end enterprise content management." Symcor Services Inc., a premier North American outsourcing services provider, is one of the first companies worldwide to implement IBM Content Manager OnDemand Version 7.1 incorporating Xenos software. "This combination provides us with the ability to rapidly transform existing printstreams into compelling electronic content that can be stored and retrieved for delivery to the Web," said Wayne Martin, CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. of Symcor. "This will enable us to enhance the communication strategies of our customers and maintain our competitive advantage." META Group, a leading research and consulting firm that focuses on business transformation, estimates that the enterprise content management market will grow by more than 25 percent annually to over US$10 billion by 2004. Andrew Warzecha, Senior Vice President at META Group, a leading research and consulting firm which focuses business transformation, commented: "Software that augments enterprise content management platforms for specific tactical requirements, such as legacy data transformation, will be vital as enterprise content management becomes an increasingly strategic infrastructure requirement for most large organizations by 2004." |
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