Viquity Demonstrates Power of Hub Technology In ebXML Proof-of-Concept
12 December 2000
Viquity Demonstrates Power of Hub Technology In ebXML Proof-of-Concept
SAN FRANCISCO--Dec. 12, 2000--Viquity, the emerging leader for secure, reliable eBusiness connectivity services, announced its participation in today's ebXML proof of concept presentation, held in San Francisco.
Repeating last month's demonstration in Tokyo, today's presentation will provide the market a demonstration of ebXML as an open, viable standard, enabling the global use of the Internet to provide business information in an interoperable, secure and consistent manner.
Organized by The United Nations body for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), the proof-of-concept helps standardize XML-based business document exchanges and allows organizations of all sizes to conduct their business with their trading partners electronically. Viquity and a host of other industry leaders, including Cisco, Fujitsu, IBM, Interwoven, IPNet, Netfish, NTT-COM, Savvion, Sterling Commerce, Sun Microsystems and XML Solutions, are showing various aspects of ebXML, including message transport, registry and repository, and trading partner agreements. Today's presentation will occur at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, in San Francisco, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (see ebXML release at www.ebXML.org).
The proof-of-concept relied on Viquity's Dynamic Commerce Network(TM) (DCN) to act as the hub, routing mission-critical documents between business partners. Other vendors involved participated as requesters or responders of XML business documents, such as purchase orders or shipping acknowledgements, exchanged through Viquity's Dynamic Commerce Network (DCN) to run their businesses. The diversity of vendors demonstrated the ability of the ebXML standard to ensure interoperability, which results in a range of benefits, such as lower integration costs and shorter implementation times between heterogeneous vendors and among vertical industries. In Tokyo, realistic trading scenarios were shown from the retail (Global Commerce Initiative) and automotive (Automotive Industry Action Group) industries. The San Francisco proof-of-concept focuses on the automotive scenario.
"Viquity is pleased once again to participate in the development of this evolutionary technology and emerging industry standard," said Viquity's Chief Architect, Philippe De Smedt. "Demonstrating the neutrality of ebXML, Viquity is excited to work with the other vendors to demonstrate ebXML being applied to two major industries. Viquity will continue to work with today's emerging standards bodies to ensure that its products are open, scalable and secure."
The Viquity DCN provides an eBusiness platform for providing safe, reliable managed connectivity between the business systems of trading partners over the Internet. Viquity provides a secure infrastructure to support inter-enterprise supply chain, materials management, and product development collaboration. The Viquity Dynamic Commerce Network incorporates two core technologies: a guaranteed-delivery Internet document transport service, Viquity Basis(TM), and an intelligent management hub, Viquity Nexus(TM). Private commerce networks hosted on the Viquity infrastructure can rapidly add and change supply chain partners, can easily include partners of all sizes and levels of sophistication, and can inter-operate across the various emerging XML standards, existing legacy standards, and proprietary interfaces. Viquity's patent-pending security architecture enables mission-critical documents to pass safely to and from your business systems with no changes needed to your firewall.
About ebXML
ebXML (www.ebXML.org) is an International Initiative established by UN/CEFACT and OASIS in late 1999 with a mandate to undertake an 18-month program of work to research and identify the technical basis upon which the global implementation of XML (Extensible Markup Language) can be standardized. The goal of ebXML is to facilitate open trade between organizations regardless of size by enabling XML to be used in a consistent manner to exchange electronic business data.
About Viquity
Viquity is the emerging leader in providing secure, enterprise-class eBusiness connectivity services and software for actionable business documents. The Viquity Dynamic Commerce Network(TM) enables organizations of all sizes to implement internet-based trading networks, which will incorporate the same level of transactional integrity, reliability and availability as traditional OLTP applications. Founded in 1998 by recognized innovators in building large scale, complex distributed systems, Viquity is a privately held, venture-backed company located in Sunnyvale, California. Viquity can be reached at 408/747-5570, info@viquity.com, or www.viquity.com.
About OASIS and UN/CEFACT
UN/CEFACT (www.unece.org/cefact) is the United Nations body whose mandate covers worldwide policy and technical development in the area of trade facilitation and electronic business. Headquartered in Geneva, it has developed and promoted many tools for the facilitation of global business processes including UN/EDIFACT, the international EDI standard. It strongly supports the development and implementation of open interoperable, global standards and specifications for electronic business.
OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) is a non-profit, international consortium dedicated solely to product-independent data and content interchange. Focusing on product interoperability, OASIS embraces the complete spectrum of structured information standards including XML, SGML and CGM. OASIS operates XML.org (www.xml.org), the first global XML industry portal featuring the XML.org catalog of XML industry specifications.
About GCI
Founded in October 1999, the Global Commerce Initiative is the result of joint industry efforts in North and South America, Europe and Asia where, since the early-nineties, strategic collaborations have been developing between stakeholders of all sizes across the complex supply chain for consumer goods. Made possible by some of the world's best-known companies, they include the Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) movements in Europe, North and South America and Asia, together with the Voluntary Inter-industry Commerce Standards Association (VICS) in North America, EAN International and UCC, CIES, The Food Business Forum, FMI, AIM, the European Brands Association, and GMA.
About the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG)
The Automotive Industry Action Group is a globally recognized organization founded in 1982 by a group of visionary managers from DaimlerChrysler, Ford, and General Motors. The purpose: To provide an open forum where members cooperate in developing and promoting solutions that enhance the prosperity of the automotive industry. AIAG's focus is to continuously improve business processes and practices involving trading partners throughout the supply chain. Under the auspices of AIAG, volunteers from over 1,600 member companies have worked together to resolve issues critical to the automotive supply chain in a wide variety of areas.
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