XML Conference & Exposition - December 7-12 - Pennsylvania Convention Center - Philadelphia, PA - USA

 

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Co-Sponsor Adobe Systems, Inc. - Booth #202

Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems, Inc. 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.

AGFA* - Booth #108

Most people know us as a manufacturer of consumer products such as photographic films. But Agfa is much more, we supply all kinds of high-end 'imaging' solutions. Hardware, software and digital imaging products account for an increasing part of our turnover. This is true for our consumer products, but also in the other divisions such as Prepress Systems, HealthCare and Industrial Imaging. With its wide and innovative range of products and systems, the Agfa-Gevaert Group is ready for the future.

Anexinet - Incubator Area

Anexinet, a premier solutions integrator based in Philadelphia, applies leading-edge technology to complex business challenges to simplify business processes, strengthen IT organizations and provide competitive advantage. Anexinet offers application development and integration, business intelligence and technology infrastructure services to mid-sized and Fortune 1000 companies in the mid-Atlantic region. Anexinet's experienced consultants ensure the success of each client's solutions through the company's S.A.F.E-T2 (TM) delivery model, a proven and pragmatic approach based on more than 20 years of collective best practices in business-based technology. Clients include ACE Insurance, Exelon and SEI Investments. Anexinet: Where Leading Edge Technology Meets Competitive Advantage.

Antenna House, Inc. - Booth #214

Antenna House, Inc. was founded in August of 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, as a software company, focused on data usability. Antenna House, Inc. has led data conversion Sector in Japan since August of 1984. We currently operate out of 5 international Locations and welcome New Partners from around the Globe.

Arbortext - Booth #311

Arbortext is the only global provider of XML-based software that enables the creation, editing and publishing of information to multiple media types - Web, print, CD-ROM, wireless - from a single source of content. [more]

Astoria Software - Booth #315

Astoria Software is the established developer of software solutions for structured document management in the enterprise. It provides packaged application software to manage the authoring, review, and publishing processes of structured documents at the document, component, or element level. This flexible approach to managing structured information enables Astoria customers to share, re-use, and re-purpose information across one or thousands of complex documents for easy assembly and delivery. Astoria's enterprise customers represent leading Fortune 1000 companies in aerospace, manufacturing, publishing, financial services and other industries with complex requirements that are supported by structured document management.

BEA Systems, Inc. - Booth #208

BEA Systems, Inc. is the world's leading application infrastructure software company. BEA provides the enterprise software foundation for more than 15,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. Companies turn to BEA to help them evolve their existing enterprise software applications from inflexible, redundant, legacy architectures to highly responsive, mature Web infrastructures.

Blast Radius - Incubator Area

Blast Radius delivers high-impact solutions for automating marketing, sales, and customer service. Using Internet technologies as our tool, we help industry-leading companies increase customer value and maximize return on relationships. We go further for our clients, customizing our award-winning solutions to help companies interact with and service their customers more effectively. With a focus on selected industries and a dedicated team of experts working with market-leading technologies, Blast Radius provides accelerated time to return and greatly reduced project costs.

Boeing*

Description to be added shortly.

Browsercraft - Incubator Area

Browsercraft Companion Suite is a groundbreaking software upgrade for Internet Explorer. Built with XML technology at its core, Browsercraft Companion Suite transforms how you work on the web by providing new levels of productivity, customization, ease of use, and value in one simple download. Specifically, Browsercraft Companion Suite provides the following features:

  • Powerful XML browser companion toolbar integrated with eight product modules in one simple 2.5mb download.
  • Provides a built-in XML User Interface Development Language (XUDL) supporting over 150 XML commands (properties and methods) to control both the graphical interface and functions of Internet Explorer. XML commands may be embedded in standard HTML script for powerful web-based application development.
  • Implementing XUDL, the product stops popups and animations, blocks ads, constructs toolbars, edits web pages, captures content, fills forms, manages logins, creates XML macros, builds RSS portals, and much, much more.
  • Provides five new toolbars to Internet Explorer including search and navigation, dynamic web page editing, personalization, tabbed browsing, and instant help and tutorials.
  • Adds a unique, second browser window inside Internet Explorer. XUDL development provides exciting new applications including TV-like remote controls, page sensitive help, dual window browsing, and web page synchronization.
  • Adds five new browser "favorites" types including images, archived web pages, zip files, XML RSS subscriptions, and XML macros.
  • Create your own toolbars without programming or XML file editing.
  • Provides daily application refreshing through remote XML transfer.

CambridgeDocs - Incubator Area

CambridgeDocs Content Transformation Server allows for the conversion of content from existing formats (PDF, Word, HTML) into XML and from XML into PDF and RTF. CambridgeDocs new publishing tools let organizations harness the power of XML to re-purpose their existing content via dynamic publishing, document workflow, and web services.

Citrix*

Description to be added shortly.

Creo*

Creo is a global company with key strengths in imaging and software technology. As the world's largest supplier of prepress equipment, we are leading the transformation of the graphic arts industry. We are also active in the creative desktop market and are continuously exploring the application of our patented technology in other industries.

DataDirect Technologies - Booth #211

DataDirect Technologies is the leading provider of components for connecting software to data, providing standards-based technology that ensures consistent behavior and performance across diverse environments such as J2EE, .NET, Web, and client/server. With the most comprehensive support for ODBC, JDBC, ADO and XML, DataDirect Technologies helps developers speed development, integration and deployment.

DataDirect Connect for SQL/XML is the first database-independent implementation of the SQL 2003 XML publishing functions, which allow SQL queries to create XML documents as results. Connect for SQL/XML is designed to be easily embeddable in Java programs. DataDirect is currently developing a database-independent implementation of XQuery, which is also designed to be easily embeddable in Java applications.

Design Science, Inc. - Booth #401

Science/technical/medical (STM) publishers today are faced with the challenge of adding value to web content in order to distinguish themselves from competitors. One way is to make the math 'smart' by using MathML, the XML language for mathematics recommended by the W3C. Online content with embedded MathML makes math accessible to visually impaired readers, enables readers to use math on the web with calculation applications such as Mathematica and Maple, allows for searching of math on the web, lets students work interactively in web pages to learn math and science, and much more.

Design Science offers several tools for working with MathML:

  • MathFlow, a suite of MathML workflow tools for STM publishers.
  • MathType - The Equation Editor for Publishing
  • WebEQ - Interactive Math on the Web
  • MathPlayer - Display Math in Your Browser

Document Management Solutions, Inc. - Booth #308

Document Management Solutions, Inc. (DMSi) offers a full range of consulting, integration, optimization and training services for professionals challenged with designing and implementing XML based content management solutions.

Drake Certivo*

Drake Certivo provides products and services that accelerate the implementation of B2B standards between trading partners, and maintains partnerships and alliances with leading global e-business standards bodies.

Ektron, Inc. - Booth #105

Ektron’s well-rounded solutions enable customers to easily and efficiently deliver their enterprise content to multiple channels within the organization, reuse content throughout the entire website, and maximize the value of their enterprise content with real-time management and deployment

Electronics for Imaging*

Description to be added shortly

Fatdog Software Inc. - Incubator Area

Description coming soon.

Fujitsu* - Booth #101

Description to be added shortly.

Heidelberg* - Booth #112

Modern information technology is poised to change our everyday lives. Print media will play a decisive role in this process. And Heidelberg is setting the pace here. Strength, trustworthiness, and proximity to customers are inseparable from our name – a name that carries a responsibility and commitment, which we are determined to uphold.

Hitachi*

Description to be added shortly.

IDEAlliance* - Booth #215

IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise Alliance) is a not-for-profit membership organization. Its mission is to advance user-driven, cross-industry solutions for all publishing and content-related processes by developing standards, fostering business alliances, and identifying best practices. IDEAlliance has been a leader in information technology since 1966 (founded as Graphic Communications Association) having fostered the development and adoption of standards such as ADIS, GRACoL, ICE, JIFFI, Mail.dat, papiNet, PRISM, PROSE XML, SPACE XML, SGML, and XML.

infinity-loop GmbH - Incubator Area

infinity-loop specializes in document conversion to and from structured markup languages. infinity-loop is the maker of the well known and acclaimed converters upCast and downCast that bridge the gap between layout-centric and structured authoring by supporting RTF (Word) and standards like XML, CSS, DocBook and XHTML, respectively. XSL-FO support for both tools will be available soon.

INRIA*

Description to be added shortly.

Inventive Designers nv - Booth #109

Inventive Designers is a software house founded in 1994. The company has developed three software products that are sold worldwide. Their newest product Scriptura is a cross-platform and XSL-based document design and generation solution. With Scriptura, Inventive Designers is expanding their expertise and focus to XML based solutions. In addition, the company provides consultancy services for their XML-enabling Line-of-Business applications. As a W3C member and active participant, Inventive Designers takes part in the XSL working group to help the development of new XML standards. Inventive Designers is a Lotus Business Partner, an IBM Business Partner, and an Advanced Member within IBM’s Partnerworld for Developers Program (formerly known as PID) in the IBM Rochester Lab with established longterm relationships. Inventive Designers is also member of XPlor International, the worldwide association of users and suppliers of products and services that create, modify, and deliver customized information using a variety of document technologies.

In.vision Research - Booth #410

In.vision Research provides the leading full-lifecycle XML production solution based upon native Microsoft applications. Xpress AuthorTM for Microsoft Word meets the most rigorous XML authoring requirements while providing a natural Word experience. This .NET add-in ensures that a document conforms to the most rigorous Schema or DTD as the author types and provides extensive Metadata automation. Xpress XMLTM for Microsoft SharePoint, allows organizations to meet the most rigorous XML component management requirements through native SharePoint Libraries! This In.vision/Microsoft partnership appeals to large organizations that require an enterprise-wide standard that can sit on every desktop.

iOpsys*

iOpsys utilizes Microsoft Business Solutions to enable mid market companies to realize powerful productivity and financial benefits. iOpsys delivers solutions focused on building business value through integrated management tools, applications and services. iOpsys provides systems design and customization, business intelligence, digital dashboard and application hosting solutions.

Korean National Computerization Agency (NCA)*

Description to be added shortly.

Media Entities, Inc. - Incubator Area

Media Entities is a leading provider of software solutions and services to publishers. We focus on helping publishers integrate XML tools into existing workflows, implement entirely new XML-based content and document systems. We can also provide XML conversion services.

Microsoft Corporation - Booth #102

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is a leader in innovating technology that has transformed the way we work, play, and communicate. At the center of this innovation, Microsoft Office has evolved from a suite of personal productivity products to a more comprehensive and integrated system. Building on the familiar tools that many people already know, the Microsoft Office System now includes programs, servers, services, and solutions designed to work together to help address a broad array of business problems.

Miles 33 - Booth #402

Miles 33, a leading supplier of XML based publishing solutions, will be showing the latest version of their OASYS product. OASYS is a full featured composition and pagination system supporting an end-to-end XML publishing workflow. The latest version includes a fully integrated XML editing environment and comprehnsive XML based loose-leaf pagination module. Also supported is pagination of illustrations, tables, footnotes, endnotes, multinotes, sidenotes and shouldernotes. PDF bookmarking, linking, article threads, document defaults and document information can be defined directly within the OASYS style.

NEC*

NEC aims to provide optimal solutions to its customers. Innovation is the key to our ongoing success. After all, our company has been at the cutting edge of research and development in its field for over a century. We are committed to serving the specific needs of our various customers. In order to remain the leading solutions provider for broadband networking and mobile Internet, we are focusing on two key domains—IT-Network integrated solutions and semiconductor solutions. In the process, our customers are empowered to unleash creativity, seize new opportunities and achieve their goals.

NexPress*

Digital and information technologies enhance the value of the printed page for printers, ad agencies and marketing professionals. NexPress offers world-class color production printing solutions and services to help build your business. Together we can increase response rates, lower obsolescence and warehousing costs, and achieve quicker turn-around times. NexPress: Enabling new services, higher value and greater success.

National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)*

Founded in 1901, NIST is a non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration. NIST's mission is to develop and promote measurement, standards, and technology to enhance productivity, facilitate trade, and improve the quality of life. NIST carries out its mission in four cooperative programs:the NIST Laboratories, the Baldrige National Quality Program, the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and the Advanced Technology Program.

OASIS* - Booth #409

OASIS is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts.

ObjectBuilders - Booth #210

ObjectBuilders, Inc. of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania was founded with one Vision: To extend the evolutionary concepts seen in hardware assembly, and desktop productivity, to mission-critical business applications, to reduce the costs of application integration, development and maintenance.

Objective Systems, Inc. - Incubator Area

XBinder translates an XML schema specification into equivalent computer language source code to encode/decode XML messages. The source code produced by the compiler consists of type definitions and encode/decode functions. This provides a complete Application Programming Interface (API) for working with all of the message definitions contained within an XML schema specification. In addition to the compiler, a run-time library of common encode/decode functions is also part of the package. This library contains routines to encode and decode the base XML schema simple types (integer, string, hexBinary, etc.). The XBinder compiler assembles a series of calls to these functions to accomplish the encoding or decoding of more complex message types.

Ontopia - Booth #115

Ontopia was created to bring knowledge, information, and process management solutions to the market through the development of outstanding quality topic map software.

Open Group*

Open Group vision is Boundaryless Information Flow achieved through global interoperability in a secure, reliable and timely manner.

Oracle*

Description to be added shortly.

PCI - Booth #103

Founded in 1994 and based in Washington, DC, PCI is a leader in integrating complex content solutions for publishing companies. A privately-held systems integration and software development company with operations in the United States, Canada and Europe, PCI builds solutions that reduce costs and create new revenue opportunities for publishers. PCI’s flagship product, iCPS, is a cross-platform application that allows automatic or manual extraction of magazine content from QuarkXPress or QPSCopyDesk with translation to XML and other formats.

Plumtree*

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree’s mission is to create a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with different systems and work together. Plumtree’s Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources from traditional systems together on the Web, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform for delivering these Web applications to broad audiences. Plumtree’s independence and its Web Services Architecture allow this solution to span rival platforms and systems, maximizing customers’ return on their existing investments.

Ponton Consulting - Incubator Area

Ponton Consulting has developed an XML-based messaging software that was extended as an ebXML 2.0 compliant Message Service in 2003. "Ponton X" is our solution suite for message-based B2B integration of software applications, users, individual and business partners. Particularly in the field of electronic data interchange, it is possible to achieve an easy and flexible integration of business partners. The Ponton X components have a proven track record in international use. In addition to the Ponton X products, We support our international customers with B2B integration and consulting services. Over 70 customers from North America and Europe use our message service for ebXML-based supply chain integration.

Printcafe*

EFI's Printcafe line of products includes software solutions designed specifically for the printing industry supply chain. Its enterprise resource planning and collaborative supply chain software solutions enable printers and print buyers to improve productivity and lower costs. Procurement applications for print buyers integrate with EFI software solutions designed for printers to facilitate Web-based collaboration across the print supply chain.

Progressive Information Technologies - Booth #307

Headquartered in Emigsville, Pennsylvania, Progressive Information Technologies has been a leader in the information management and publishing services industry for more than 50 years. The company offers its flagship content management software called the Vasont Cross-Media Publishing System and provides a full range of publishing services that includes:

  • data analysis and DTD writing,
  • data conversions,
  • editorial and design services,
  • project management,
  • composition and prepress services,
  • and the creation and production of electronic products.

Progressive Information Technologies helps companies organize and prepare their content for electronic, Web, wireless, print, Braille and accessible publications.

Ravka, Inc. - Incubator Area

Ravka is small a startup software company We are presenting our XML query engine. It is a simple to learn and to use tool, which use SQL-like syntax for querying XML data. Free beta version is currently available as a component or as a web service.

Sponsor ReportLab - Booth #415

ReportLab solves the problems of high volume, highly personalised document production, from a glossy prospectus tailored to each potential investor that must meet high standards of looks and legality to complex derivatives contracts which irrevocably encrypt the details of each trade in realtime.

Retrieval Systems Corporation - Booth #406

Retrieval Systems Corporation [RSC] is an experienced Data Architect and Information Management company, specializing in content, document, and knowledge management services. We've designed, developed, and implemented solutions involving SGML and XML, along with related web technologies, standards and tools since 1984.

Sarvega, Inc. - Booth #403

Founded in 1999, Sarvega is the leading provider of Web Services Infrastructure solutions. Sarvega's patent-pending XML EventStream OS (XESOS) is the most comprehensive XML processing technology, enabling products such as the XPE 2000 appliance, to deliver wire speed performance, security, and content-based routing for mission-critical XML Web services. The largest and longest-running XML appliance deployments in the world run Sarvega products for their 24/7 reliability, ease of management, and sustained performance. To learn why Fortune 500 companies like 3Com and Fujitsu have selected Sarvega, stop by booth 403, or visit us @ www.sarvega.com.

Seeburger*

SEEBURGER is a leading global solution provider for cross-enterprise business process integration (Business-to-Business Integration).

Smartdraw.com - Booth #209

VisualScript XML is the first visual scripting tool for XML. Visual scripting allows you to program XML statements into graphical symbols, then simply "drag and drop" the symbols to sketch the flow of a business process. Then the software translates that sketch into an XML script!

Founded in 1994, Smartdraw.com rose quickly to become the leading provider of easy-to-use business graphics software. With the launch of VisualScript XML, the company extended its product line to the XML developer market. Profitable since its founding, the company attributes its success to one fundamental design principle: Keep it simple.

Snapbridge Software, Inc. - Incubator Area

Snapbridge Software, Inc. provides the industry's only comprehensive, standards-based data federation solution, replacing the need for much of the custom code in critical enterprise initiatives such as customer care, risk management, supply chain, and others. Founded in 2001, Snapbridge has assembled a world-class team of engineers and management from top companies including SUN, TIBCO, BEA, SAP, iXL--including members of the teams that defined XML and Java. Snapbridge is working with a number of leading companies in financial services, telecom, travel, media and other industries. The company is headquartered in San Diego and is privately held, with investment backing from JP Morgan Partners and Mission Ventures.

Software AG - Booth #310

Software AG, the XML company, is a leading global provider of system software and services enabling enterprise data integration and management. Software AG's products control the central IT processes of thousands of renowned companies worldwide including Delta Airlines, Citibank, Merck and Sony. Software AG develops products and solutions that support the XML (Extensible Markup Language) standard. XML simplifies the exchange of documents and data as well as the integration of cutting-edge Web applications into traditional IT architectures. Software AG works with such sales and technology partners as IBM, Sun, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, BEA and Stellent.

Sun Microsystems, Inc.*

Description to be added shortly.

Sybase*

Sybase delivers open-architecture solutions that provide the liquidity and mobility necessary to create the Unwired Enterprise. Sybase solutions integrate platforms, databases, and applications (liquidity), and extend those applications to mobile workers through mobile and Wi-Fi technologies (mobility). With Sybase, companies can attain maximum value from their data assets by getting the right information to the right people at the right time and place.

Co-Sponsor Thomas Technology Solutions, Inc. - Booth #303

Thomas Technology Solutions, Inc. is a software and systems integrator providing content management and publishing solutions and services to commercial publishers and industrial manufacturers. ThomasTech builds solutions by combining industry-leading third-party software, custom-developed components, and value-added integration, implementation, and production services. Our systems integration services employ tested and proven methodologies to ensure successful system design and implementation, and aid in developing realistic project budgets, goals, and timetables.

ThomasTech helps customers create, manage, and deliver their content in a way that can help reduce operating costs, retain customers, and increase revenue. Our customers include many of the world's leading publishers such as Elsevier, Energy Intelligence Group, Gale (a Thomson Learning Company), Lebhar-Friedman, Inc., Medical Economics, Merriam-Webster, Sosland Publishing Company, and Oxford University Press.

3Ksoft Co.,Ltd. - Booth #407

3Ksoft company has improved prominent XML algorithm and Architecture and solved (N-1)! combination problems. use the XML-programming that is faster than the HTML-programming. It¡¯s don't need programming and hard-coding. Any time, Any place, genuineness use the XML-browser easily on internet . It need pass without XSLT and custom format(.XSN). so easy use the XML-browser automatically on internet. It uses the standard formats of W3C document and web-form HTML, XML, XSL, DTD, Schema, DOM. 3Ksoft (3Ksoft means "The Key to the Kingdom of Knowledge") is the company that spread the internet XML web browser.

WAM!NET*

At WAM!NET, we've built a business around helping our global base of customers to connect and collaborate with their clients and trading partners in a secure, global digital environment. Today, whether in the printing and publishing, corporate, advertising, retail, government, entertainment or healthcare markets, our portfolio of fully managed networking, data storage, application hosting and professional services allow customers to revolutionize the way they produce, share, store and manage their digital assets and content.

W3C* - Booth #117

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.

WS-I* - Booth #416

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I)is an open industry effort chartered to promote Web Services interoperability across platforms, applications, and programming languages. The organization brings together a diverse community of Web services leaders to respond to customer needs by providing guidance, recommended practices, and supporting resources for developing interoperable Web services.

Yellow Dragon*

Description to be added shortly.

* Companies involved in Interoperability Demos [See Details]

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