Never heard of Percussion but, I guess, any deal is a good deal when your stocks at $2.
PERCUSSION SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION ARCHITECTS PARTNER TO OFFER B2B
CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM
Collaborative Offering Will Enable Real-Time Content Aggregation,
Management and Distribution of Any Data in Any Format
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - October 10, 2000 - Percussion® Software, the leader
and innovator in next generation native XML content management
solutions, and Information Architects® (iA), provider of real time data
syndication and aggregation, today announced a partnership that will
allow their customers to be the first to truly manage content in real
time on the Internet.
The combination of iA's SmartCode® and Percussions' Rhythmyx® Content
Manager enable companies to integrate content from disparate data
sources and effectively manage and publish the content for various
audiences in real time. In addition, Percussion will license iA's
PDF-to-HTML converter in order to offer customers the ability to
dynamically convert Adobe PDF files into HTML.
"Percussion's Rhythmyx native XML content management solutions, coupled
with iA's SmartCode® Content Delivery Framework, will allow our
customers to be the first to manage dynamic content," said Barry
Reynolds, President and CEO of Percussion. "As the Internet grows,
businesses will increase the amount of content they have and where they
want that content moved. A flexible Java-based framework is essential
to companies adapting to new architectures, and that is just what the
Rhythmyx and SmartCode solution can offer."
Jupiter Communications predicts that online businesses will spend
upwards of $350 billion on their Internet infrastructures by 2003.
According to Forrester Research, 40% of businesses operating on the
Internet believe that maintaining the "look and feel" of their own Web
sites while guiding customers to the suppliers' Web sites is the largest
obstacle on-line retailers face.
"As the market grows and matures, so do the challenges facing businesses
in responding to the pressures and demands of their clients," said
Robert Gruder, iA CEO and Chairman. "Businesses want a flexible way to
quickly add, change, manage, and maneuver content. We believe this
combined solution offers businesses a comprehensive way to manage the
ever-increasing volume of information that otherwise would limit their
growth on the Internet."
Both Rhythmyx and SmartCode support an open, flexible architecture.
Rhythmyx utilizes XML and XSL as enabling technologies, complementing
iA's SmartCode. The integrated solution leverages next-generation XML,
XSL and Java technologies to provide companies with the means to more
effectively develop, manage and deploy Web sites that enable information
flow from any content source to any audience. No one else offers the
combination of real time syndication and aggregation of content from any
data source to any Web site or connected device -- browser, mobile phone
or PDA -- with "on-the-fly" transformation to meet the formatting
requirements of each site or device without having to repeat the
business logic.
SmartCode aggregates and transforms disparate data, including PDF files,
into standard HTML, XML or other markup languages without changing the
content. Rhythmyx dynamically assembles and targets the content to be
syndicated by SmartCode's Dynamic Syndication Server. SmartCode's
Dynamic Syndication Server will support e-business solutions between the
customer and their partners by creating partner-specific Web views from
the enriched content management system.
As B2B companies deal with a huge legacy of PDF catalogs, those
organizations seek the ability to take multiple types of content and
view it in a single, seamless view, particularly in their supply chain.
iA is the only company offering dynamic conversion of such documents
into HTML. With its XML and XPath-based visual tools, PDF conversion
enables legacy catalogs to be semantically fragmented and "blended" with
other non-PDF sources. By combining the SmartCode Content Delivery
Framework and the PDF converter with the Rhythmyx Content Manager, iA
and Percussion will enable organizations to achieve dramatic savings in
time and money by quickly adjusting their content and suppliers.
About Percussion Software
Percussion Software (www.percussion.com) is the leader and innovator in
delivering next-generation, native XML content management solutions to
fast-paced companies with mission-critical Web sites. Percussion's
flagship product, Rhythmyx Content Manager, brings the company's 6 years
of expertise in processing and transforming data and documents to new
customers requiring a more efficient way to deliver fresh content to the
Web. With its open, standards-based architecture, Rhythmyx allows
customers to integrate other critical e-commerce components to build a
"best of breed" system. Rhythmyx Content Manager received Spring
Internet World 2000's "Best of Show" for "Best Web Application
Development Software."
Founded in 1994, Percussion Software is headquartered in Stoneham,
Mass., with an office in Los Angeles, Calif., and European headquarters
in London, England. Percussion Software is a Lotus Premier Business
Partner, a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider and has development
partnerships with SAP, Oracle, IBM, Sybase and Informix. In 2000,
Deloitte & Touche recognized Percussion Software for the second
consecutive year as one of the fastest growing high-tech companies in
New England. In addition, the Boston bureau of internet.com, a news and
information resource for Internet professionals, ranked Percussion
Software second on its "20 for 2000" list identifying the greater Boston
area's 20 most promising, privately held start-ups.
About Information Architects
Information Architects® (www.ia.com) offers Internet Infrastructure
Content Delivery Solutions with its patented XML and RDF-based
SmartCode® technology. The technology is implemented in Java and is
based on the SmartCode Content Delivery Matrix composed of metadata
"nodes" that locate, route and transform distributed content. This
enables rapid creation of complex data aggregation, transformation,
re-branding, and syndication solutions, often without any coding.
SmartCode XML and XPath-based visual tools enable you to collect content
from pre-existing distributed sources and applications, and dynamically
syndicate it onto any channel or device, including cell phones, PDA's,
desktops, etc. Information Architects is a member of the World Wide Web
Consortium and is committed and to building state-of-the-art products
based on open standards. |
