Another play new XML play. WAVO.
DataChannel Expands XML-Based Enterprise Portal
Solution With Wavo's Real-Time News Delivery
XML-Formatted Real-Time News Service Feeds DataChannel Server
BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 1999--Bellevue, Wash.-based DataChannel Inc., the leading developer of
XML-based Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) solutions, and Wavo Corp., an industry leading Digital Media Services
Provider, Tuesday jointly announced that Wavo's NewsPak(TM) will be immediately incorporated into the next release of
DataChannel's portal solution.
NewsPak is the industry's leading solution for delivering pre-licensed, real-time news content to Web servers worldwide. It
aggregates content streams from a catalog of over 600 media sources, including CNBC, Ziff-Davis, Financial Times, USA
Today, Comtex, Knight Ridder and UPI.
Providing these streams in a richly meta-tagged XML format, NewsPak will give DataChannel customers unparalleled ability to
search, manage and personalize news information.
``Wavo NewsPak is a perfect mechanism for bringing external news into our DataChannel Server because its XML-based
format is an easy snap-in with our technology,' said Steve Jones, vice president of marketing for DataChannel.
``DataChannel Server is the only XML-based Enterprise Portal server that can deliver those news feeds in real-time to a
targeted audience through a customizable web-based user interface to any device.'
DataChannel Server is the core of the company's EIP Solutions Framework, which provides a platform for building e-business
solutions integrating data from a variety of sources. Utilizing a personalized Web interface, DataChannel portals allow users to
quickly and seamlessly search for, retrieve and manipulate strategically relevant information from heterogeneous environments.
Giving portal customers the option to incorporate external news via NewsPak is consistent with DataChannel's strategic vision
of providing the most unique, comprehensive EIP solution available.
``Wavo is pleased to partner with DataChannel, a leading developer of XML-based EIP solutions,' said Peter White,
president of Wavo Corp. ``Wavo shares DataChannel's vision that XML is the emerging standard for information exchange
over the Internet.
``From its conception, NewsPak was created to be an ideal component to portal solutions like DataChannel Server because its
XML platform allows for comprehensive filtering, selecting and repurposing of external news for a variety of uses and
audiences.' |
