This Startup that is partnering with Novell and IBM is using NDS for e-commerce...
Start-up aims to make e-commerce easy
Bowstreet to combine directory, XML
technologies.
By ROBIN SCHREIER
HOHMAN
Network World, 05/03/99
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Start-up
Bowstreet Software this week will unveil plans to build
a framework that will make it easier, faster and less
expensive for users to create business-to-business
applications over the Internet.
The framework will let clientele build customized
e-commerce applications on the fly, instead of
hard-coding programs for each business partner.
Potential cost savings
By using a directory such as Novell Directory
Services, along with the Extensible Markup Language
(XML), disparate systems can be pulled together to
easily build applications, without the usual associated
technical expertise, personnel and expense of today's
electronic data interchange applications. XML
provides a standard language for formatting Web data.
A customer might log on to a system running the
Bowstreet framework to buy a car. Using the
directory, the Bowstreet server would first
authenticate the customer then access the other
distributed back-end systems - such as financing,
prices, inventory and credit check - needed to make a
sale. The Bowstreet framework would gather all the
information and present it back to the customer on a
single screen.
"Bowstreet is using a directory exactly as it should be
used, by relying on the directory for the functions
instead of the user building them," says Jamie Lewis,
president of The Burton Group. The framework
creates an execution environment that does all the
work, he says.
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