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The International Digital Enterprise Alliance (IDEAlliance) provides comprehensive support to working groups engaged in developing industry-specific applications of both vertical and cross-industry open information standards. IDEAlliance is the latest step in GCA's 35-year history of fostering the development of SGML, XML and related structured information standards. Working groups and other standards-development bodies work with IDEAlliance under a number of models. IDEAlliance also sponsors the premier XML exposition events in North America, Europe and Australia.

AIIM International is the industry’s leading global organization. At the center of an effective business infrastructure in the digital age is the ability to capture, create, customize, deliver, and manage enterprise content to support business processes. The requisite technologies to establish this infrastructure are an extension of AIIM's core document and content technologies. These Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technologies are key enablers of e-Business and include: Content/Document Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Portals, Knowledge Management, Image Management, Data Warehousing, and Data Mining. AIIM's focus over the next 3-5 years will be helping its members - both users and suppliers – make this e-Business transition.

OASIS is the international, not-for-profit consortium that advances electronic business by promoting open, collaborative development of interoperability specifications. With the United Nations, OASIS sponsors ebXML, a global framework for electronic business data exchange. OASIS operates XML.ORG, the non-commercial portal that delivers information on the use of XML in industry. The XML.ORG Registry provides as an open community clearinghouse for distributing and locating XML application schemas, vocabularies and related documents. OASIS serves as the home for industry groups interested in developing XML specifications. OASIS technical work embraces conformance, security, business transactions, repositories and other interoperability issues.

Bluebill Advisors, Inc. is a strategic consulting organization serving investors in, and senior managers of, software companies. We help investors with technical due diligence and management resources. We help software companies with business, marketing, and product strategies. We also help IT strategists and implementors keep up to date and understand technology and trends through our conference (www.ecmseries.com) and publication (www.gilbane.com) businesses. We focus on content technologies such as content management, corporate portals, e-catalogs, digital asset management, XML application and information integration, and the role of all of these in e-business.

CIP4 is an international, world wide operating standards body located in Switzerland. The purpose of the association is to encourage computer based integration of all processes that have to be considered in the graphic arts industry, in particular the specification of standards. The International Cooperation for the Integration of Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress (CIP4) is the successor of CIP3, which started in 1995 as a joint initiative of vendors for the graphical arts industry. Since then CIP3 has developed the Print Production Format which is today implemented in many applications. Even in the future CIP4 is going to extend its activities and the number of different types of members. CIP4 is about to develop and promote vendor independent standards for the graphic arts industry, such as the new Job Definition Format.

Organized in 1948, TAGA is the only global professional technical association for the graphic arts industries. TAGA, which has over 900 individual members worldwide, also maintains the industry's best permanent set of technical papers and abstracts. TAGA serves the CTO, CIO, and R&D management personnel of printers, publishers, and premedia companies, as well as engineers and scientists employed by graphic arts systems and equipment providers, ink manufacturers, and paper manufacturers. TAGA focuses on graphic arts systems, software, and computer technology developments, as well as the more traditional areas of press, ink, and paper engineering applications. The association also provides guidance and support to its 15 active student chapters around the world, including chapters in Canada, France, Sweden, Taiwan, and Wales. TAGA's Annual Technical Conference provides students opportunities to participate in several competitions as well as an opportunity to meet prospective employers. In addition, through the Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation, TAGA sponsors many scholarships and fellowships each year to deserving graphics communications students.

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empolis, a subsidiary of Bertlesmann Mohn Media Group, is a leading software developer and service provider. empolis has established itself as a highly competitive supplier in the field of knowledge and content management solutions. Based on SigmaLink its XML publishing system, empolis can now offer solutions based on products from across the empolis product range: K42 is an e-scalable knowledge server that supports Topic Maps as a way of storing, searching and retrieving corporate information. X2X (www.empolis.co.uk/products/prod_X2X.asp) is the first commercial XLink engine that enables organisations to create links that are more valuable than the information they link.

Arbortext is the leading global provider of content management software for business-to-business commerce solutions and focuses on one of the most difficult and important frontiers for Web collaboration: intellectual content.. Epic bridges the gap between subject matter experts who create information and customers/partners who demand it by applying structure automatically for personalization and delivery on multiple formats: Web, print, CD-ROM, wireless. Epic Intermarket provides a powerful and innovative way to help organisations enrich the content available in online catalogs and net marketplaces. Arbortext’s software is currently deployed at over 300 of the Global 2000 companies, including AT&T, Audi, Boeing, British Aerospace, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler, Ericsson Telecom, Ford, GM, IBM, Lucent, Nokia, Qantas, Ricoh, Sun Microsystems, International Thomson Publishing, United Airlines, Volkswagen, Volvo and West Group.

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Software AG is Europe's leading systems software company. We are e-enabling organisations to exploit the business opportunities presented by the Internet revolution. We do this by providing proven misson critical, cutting edge technology for data management and integrated XML based e-Business solutions. Software AG can provide all the functional components required to get e-Business going quickly - XML native database (Tamino), application development platform (Bolero) and integration software (EntireX). Our distribution and technology partners include IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems and innovative IT solutions providers like Extensibility, Softquad and Instranet. Customers include BP, Britannia Music, BSkyB, Cathay Pacific, Morgan Stanley, Siemens, Sony, The Chase Manhattan Bank and ZDF.

IXIASOFT develops and distributes TEXTML Server, an XML Content Server whose purpose is to store, index and retrieve XML content. IXIASOFT offers the first embeddable XML Content Server for OEMs and developers of XML applications such as B2B, B2C, CRM, WAP, and the likes. IXIASOFT's R&D efforts began in 1988 through its mother company CEDROM-SNi. As such, IXIASOFT offers a mature technology in its server development, which has evolved from 13 years of experience in the field of indexing, searching and mark-up languages. Our COM+ architecture is conceived with XML in mind and allows true integration within applications. IXIASOFT technology enables mission critical XML application deployment.

Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems Incorporated builds award-winning software solutions for Web and print publishing. Its graphic design, imaging, dynamic media, and authoring tools enable customers to create, publish and deliver visually-rich content for various types of media. The company's products are used by Web and graphic designers, professional publishers, document-intensive organizations, business users, and consumers. Adobe is the second largest PC software company in the U.S., with annual revenues of $1 billion. It employs over 2,600 employees worldwide and has operations in North America, Europe, the Pacific Rim, Japan and Latin America. Adobe's worldwide headquarters are in San Jose.

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The Gilbane Report covers the intersection of computing, content, and commerce technology & trends The Gilbane Report has been covering information technology and standards since 1993. Topics include content management, XML, syndication, e-catalogs, intranet publishing, document computing architectures, markup languages and text processing, and corporate portals. We are an educational journal and do not accept advertising or promote any product technologies. Our goal is to provide IT strategists, managers, and investors with the most accurate and unbiased information available. Our readers cross all vertical industries in 40 countries.

The "father of markup" and an expert staff bring you breaking XML-specific news in real time from dozens of sources. Plus the knowledge you need to interpret it, in the form of friendly but accurate tutorials on all aspects of XML and related technologies that affect your business and its information resources.