Exhibitors to Date
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems Incorporated (www.adobe.com), the leader in network publishing, offers a comphrensive line of software for enterprise and creative professional customers. Its products enable customers to create, manage and deliver visually rich, compelling and reliable content. Based in San Jose, Calif., Adobe is one of the world's largest software companies.
ALT Mobile (Incubator)
ALT Mobile provides programming tools and servers supporting the visualization, analysis, and processing of large XML data sets. Our technologies include innovations in user interface technology, parsing, code generation, transcoding, and distributed processing. Our products support the major XML technologies including DOM, XPath, XSL, schema, XML-RPC, SOAP/Web Services, XML databases, HTML transcoding, and XML security. Our developer tools are available as standalone products or may be integrated into programming tool chains. We provide both a local Java language API as well as a remote XML-RPC API enabling easy integration into your development and deployment runtime environments. We also provide vertical market XML products for the mobile internet and IRS tax filing industries. Our products are available on Solaris, Linux, OS X, HP/UX, and Windows. We support both Microsoft .NET and the Java technology platform. Visit http://www.altmobile.com for a schedule of our conference demos.
Antenna House, Inc.
Antenna House, Inc. has been developing computer software since 1984 under the slogan of ‘data usability.’ Today the company is a leader in XSL-FO with the most powerful and proven formatting software available.
Antenna House will be showing for the first time Antenna House XSL Formatter V3.2. Conforming to the W3C Recommendation for XSL-FO, Antenna House XSL Formatter is the most powerful and most compliant software available and is used in hundreds of installations worldwide. PDF output, multilingual support (including Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai), SVG support and much more are all standard features of Antenna House XSL Formatter. Formatter is available for Windows, Unix and Linux.
Formatter is available in both a standard and a lower cost Lite version and is available in standalone and server versions. The Windows standalone version is the only XSL-FO formatting software available that offers a GUI. Formatter also includes Java, .NET, C++/C, COM and Command Line interfaces. Antenna House has also added many extensions to Formatter to further increase the power of the software. www.antennahouse.com
Arbortext
Arbortext provides XML-based content creation and automated enterprise publishing software for technical publishing, reference publishing and catalog publishing applications. Arbortext improves information accuracy, freshness and consistency, streamlines publishing, and enhances information flexibility by enabling organizations to create a single source of information in XML and automatically assemble and publish it to multiple types of media: Web, print, CD-ROM and wireless devices. Arbortext’s software is installed at over 3,500 customers, including over 300 of the Global 2000 companies.
Astoria Software
Spawned from the document management birthplace of Xerox PARC, Astoria Software offers the first packaged software solution to make management of complex documents easy and affordable. A pioneer in Structured Document Management, (SDM) Astoria's software suite has been natively designed for the specific purpose of providing the fastest, lowest cost, and easiest-to-implement packaged software applications for managing the authoring, review and publishing of complex, structured product content such as documentation. This powerful softare is particularly well-suited for managing highly configurable, multi-component products.
Benefits: Automating structured document management processes with Astoria provides unparalleled business benefits. No longer must enterprises rely on content creation and management constraints that make it impossible to reuse, repurpose and update content. Instead, with a single solution, enterprises can automate their entire content management process, by creating, managing, reviewing and publishing structured XML/SGML content.
ATL Systems Inc.
On the basis of object-oriented programming technology, ATL Systems is developing the software of networks, such as the Internet, with the practical uses of open source software, such as Linux, Tomcat, and Relaxer, with consulting introduction of self-developed software and sale.
Our company is small-scale R&D-oriented company, started the enterprise focusing on sales management software, and has aimed at accumulation of the skill and technology relevant to the network and database used as the foundation.
We listed on the first that went public in the second over the counter market (it is JASDAQ now) in 1996 in Japan.
At present, application to issues, such as system configuration and consultation for the companies using the web and e-governments, is performed.
In XML2004, we'd like to present XHTML1.1-related technology and product, which we have developed this year. This web-savvy product makes it possible to handle various web documents and optimize web-accessibility.
Blast Radius
Exhibitor description coming soon.
Cogniview Systems (Incubator)
Cogniview is an emerging software company with unique technology for processing enterprise reports. Cogniview had developed an Enterprise Reports Gateway, ERG, that automatically identifies and extracts data from mass, complex, legacy reports, and transforms them to Desktop, Databases or XML. The report's source can be any legacy or mid range computer system.
Enterprise legacy reports are a most handy, accessible, reliable and constantly updated source for organizational information. Once using Cogniview's ERG to overcome the technical challenge of automatically retrieving data from the legacy reports, it opens a wide array of possibilities to the enterprise. ERG benefits are from immediate support to departmental data needs for analytical departments like Audit, Security, Marketing, strategic planning and control, up to full enterprise data enrichment by automatically re-directing the content of the reports to the enterprise portal or data warehouse.
Cogniview intends to demonstrate ERG at the XML 2004 incubation, and invites you to stop at our desk, view the technology at work, learn how our early customers are using ERG, and share your observations, thoughts and ideas with us. We also welcome potential users and partners to stop by.
DataDirect Technologies
DataDirect Technologies is focused on data access, enabling software developers at both packaged software vendors and in corporate IT departments to create better applications faster. DataDirect Technologies offers the most comprehensive, proven line of data connectivity components available anywhere. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect Technologies to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC and ADO.NET, as well as cutting-edge XML query technologies. More than 250 leading independent software vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on DataDirect Technologies to simplify and streamline data connectivity. DataDirect Technologies is an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS).
Design Science
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
DISA
Established as a not-for-profit, the Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA) is home for the development of cross-industry electronic business interchange standards.
DocSoft Inc.
DocSoft provides solutions to organizations that recognize the competitive advantage and cost-saving potential of using eXtensible Markup Language, or XML. We offer several products and services to businesses with the need to develop, publish and maintain large amounts of technical, business and medical data. Our services, software and tools are some of the most unique available, and allow for dynamically updating, maintaining and re-purposing critical and time-sensitive data.
Drybridge Consulting (Incubator)
Drybridge Consulting offers XML consulting and integration services that make it possible for companies to rapidly deploy connections between trading partners. These services allow our clients to enjoy the cost benefits of short implementation times, easy updates, and reusable code.
Exegenix
Exegenix is an innovator in content conversion solutions. Our award-winning technology converts content into valid, richly-structured XML using PDF/PostScript as an intermediary format. This unique approach completely transforms the process of legacy/ongoing content conversion, and requires no re-keying, no dependency on consistently-formatted input, and no programming or configuration.
Exegenix conversion technology is fast, accurate, cost-effective, and scalable. Our flexible range of deployment options includes:
- The Exegenix Conversion Satellite: a rapidly-deployed client application with scalable offsite processing power
- The Exegenix Conversion System: a heavy-duty in-house server solution for data that cannot go offsite
- The Exegenix Conversion Service: a fully turnkey service for organizations that just want ready-to-load XML
GlobusData (Incubator)
GlobusData, with offices in New York and Chicago, has developed a new declarative query language and XML query engine tool that processes XML documents seamlessly. The product is called QueryXML 1.0 and it can parse scripts created in a proprietary qX language using SQL-like syntax. QueryXML reduces the need of having in-depth knowledge of XSL/XSLT and is much easier and intuitive to use then other products in the market today. Developers can integrate QueryXML into their applications and therefore build powerful native XML data access solutions. QueryXML is capable of declaring functions and supports Javascript. It can be used as a stand-alone programming or graphical tool as simply as it can be incorporated within client server or web server environments. There are no complex installation requirements and QueryXML occupies a small 40K footprint on your PC while generating almost no network traffic. QueryXML functions within any Windows platform today and a Java version will be available soon.
1060 Research (Incubator)
Company description to be posted shortly.
Idiom® Technologies, Inc.
Idiom® Technologies creates simultaneous enterprises that leverage the power of the
global content lifecycle™ to deliver business-critical information in many different forms
and languages simultaneously. Since 1998, Idiom has been helping companies such as
Adobe Systems, Baxter Healthcare, eBay, General Electric, Motorola, and Oracle become simultaneous enterprises, and achieve worldwide competitive advantage by:
- Streamlining content creation, management, globalization, and production through business process automation to speed time-to-market.
- Ensuring global content quality to improve global customer satisfaction.
- Accelerating international revenue while decreasing costs.
To learn more, contact Idiom today at +1 781.464.6000 or visit www.idiominc.com.
infinity-loop GmbH (Incubator)
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.
In.vision Research Corporation
In.vision is the leading provider of software for XML authoring of large-scale knowledge assets in Microsoft Word and SharePoint. In.vision will be demonstrating:
- A totally natural authoring experience for highly complex XML documents in Microsoft Word
- Full support for all schemas and DTDs, including DoD MSP, HL7 SPL, HR Bill, RIXML, and more.
- Compatibility with leading document management solutions.
• XML component management using native Microsoft SharePoint libraries. - Full Access Control at the document and component level using native Microsoft SharePoint libraries.
- SharePoint access control based upon document taxonomy, metadata, and organizational structures.
In.vision’s customers include an important array of government, financial, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical companies such as BankOne, UPS, United Technologies, the US Defense Intelligence Agency, the UK Ministry of Defense, and the Irish Prime Minister’s Office. For more information, visit www.invisionresearch.com
i.t.i.p. oHG
i.t.i.p. oHG develops highly specific software for the publishing and prepress industry. i.t.i.p.'s key product is InMath (R), a plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS and InCopy CS which extends their capabilites by real mathematical typesetting, and this solely by their native text editor means. At XML2004, i.t.i.p. will show a first version of a workflow with mathematical equations, based on MathML content markup.
JNetDirect
JNetDirect is an expert component software company, providing data access, security and delivery to customers with growing business requirements. We enable the connection from data to architecture to applications. JNetDirect shares an evolving vision with customers to leverage critical data assets. JNetDirect offers Java and Microsoft .Net developers a progressive suite of data modeling and delivery products. With over 2500 customers worldwide, industry leading, global organizations depend on JNetDirect's technology to build high-performance, scalable and secure applications to increase competitiveness and profitability.
Justsystem Corporation
Since the dawn of the PC era in Japan, Justsystem Corporation has kept a sharp focus on developing innovative information processing technologies. The company developed ATOK, the most prevalent Japanese natural language processing technology and has been active in nurturing innovative technologies in the Java and XML authoring arenas since their inception. With these technological assets at the core, Justsystem provides a portfolio of knowledge management and XML authoring solutions, that enable end users to unleash their intellectual and creative energy. Justsystem, headquartered in Tokushima Japan (34.03N/134.32E), is a leading enterprise software company with a long entrepreneurial history.
Mark
Logic
Mark Logic provides the first enterprise-class database specifically
for content. We allow companies to rapidly build content-centric
applications using information not easily stored in relational
databases. Today this information is locked inside content
in formats like Microsoft Word, PDF, HTML, SGML and XML. Content
Interaction Server is the platform for a new class of applications
that help create new products and services, extract value
from existing content and streamline processes.
Technology highlights include:
- XML, SGML, XPath and XQuery power parametric searches in conjunction with text search, to return contextually relevant paragraphs, sections, sentences, etc.
- Incorporates a full implementation of XQuery.
- Does not require a fixed schema.
- XQuery extensions enable transactional update at sub-document granularity.
- Massively scalable.
Mark Logic has garnered a prestigious client list including Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, U.S. Department of Defense and Elsevier. For more information, visit www.marklogic.com.
Microsoft Corporation
Company description coming soon.
Miles 33 International
Miles 33, a leading supplier of XML-based publishing solutions, will be showing the latest versions 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, comprehensive XML-based loose leaf pagination module, as well as MathML and Unicode support.
OASIS
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.
Ontopia
Ontopia is the world’s leading vendor of topic map technology.
The Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS)™ adds value in information integration and “find-ability” for web portals, content and knowledge management systems, rules-based applications, and enterprise application integration.
Ontopia and its partners across three continents offer consultancy for design, development, and deployment of solutions for a wide range of business application using the OKS, a Java toolkit for applying Topic Map functionality. It consists of:
- full-fledged Topic Map Engine
- frameworks for building Topic Map-driven browsing and editing web
applications - complete topic map query language.
New at XML 2004:
- Ontopia will launch release V2.1 featuring Vizigator™ for topic map
graphic visualization - technology sneak preview of "talking" topic map browsers
- improved support for RDF/topic map integration.
Raining Data Corporation
Raining Data Corporation (Nasdaq: RDTA), headquartered in Irvine, California, is an active participant and corporate sponsor of W3C. The company’s flagship product, the high-performance TigerLogic XML Data Management Server (XDMS) provides flexible, scalable and extensible storage and retrieval of critical business data across a variety of structured and unstructured information sources. As an operational data server, TigerLogic XDMS uses a patent-pending XML indexing and profiling technology to aggregate, store, and retrieve data of any type and from any source as XML files in the mid-tier. TigerLogic XDMS boosts productivity, integrates with existing enterprise environments, and minimizes administrative overhead when XML-enabling Web services. A provider of reliable data management and rapid application deployment solutions for developers of database applications for more than two decades, Raining Data has an extensive distribution channel and a strong domestic and international presence. Additional information about Raining Data Corporation can be found at www.rainingdata.com.
SchemaSoft
SchemaSoft has been providing software development services and licensed components to the professional software community since 1987. Notable clients include Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and Corel. SchemaSoft has developed parts of many well-known products including Microsoft Office, Windows 2000, Internet Explorer, Adobe Acrobat, PageMaker, and Illustrator.
In addition to an an experienced and expert technical staff, SchemaSoft has developed numerous software libraries that include a comprehensive coverage of file formats, XML technologies, and graphics processing functionality.
The SchemaSoft team has extensive knowledge and experience in the following areas:
- File format readers, writers, converters, and viewers
- XML standards including XSLT, XQuery, XML Schema and SVG
- Graphics, imaging, and publishing technologies
- Mobile device development
SchemaSoft actively advances industry standards as a member of the W3C and has co-authored the SVG specification. SchemaSoft is a privately held corporation located in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Software AG
Software AG, Inc. is an expert in world-class enterprise modernization and information integration. The company provides solutions that help customers protect and enhance their IT investments, while at the same time enabling them to integrate information from disparate systems in order to deliver real-time information whenever and wherever it is needed. Visit us at softwareagusa.com.
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com.
TeraText Solutions - A Division of SAIC
The TeraText® Database Systems (DBS) is the next-generation system for text. Designed to maximize the lifetime value of your text assets, this unique system is enterprise-wide and global, linking disparate information sources housed in multiple locations. It's fast. It's accurate. It's scalable - and it manages text ranging from a few gigabytes to terabyte-size and beyond, making huge text solutions both affordable and fast. The TeraText® DBS is multilingual and supports over 250 document types. The dynamic, XML-native TeraText® DBS conforms to industry standards for maximum interoperability. Its flexibility and adaptability allow it to integrate with both legacy systems and desktop applications. Its sophisticated compression technology and indexing capabilities keep indexes to a manageable size so that large data problems don't become even larger.
Thomas
Technology Solutions, Inc.
Thomas Technology Solutions, Inc., a software and systems
integrator provides content management and publishing solutions
and services to commercial publishers, industrial manufacturers
and other businesses where high volume, complex information
is the norm. Among our many clients are Elsevier, Inc., Houghton-Mifflin
Company, Hubbell Incorporated, GE Industrial Systems, Lebhar-Friedman,
Inc., and Thomson Delmar Learning.
ThomasTech has been working with XML, and its precursor SGML, for more than a decade. Our XML capabilities help companies standardize their diverse information and store it in a central data repository in order to utilize it in a content management or product catalog system. Solutions include:
- Data and workflow analysis
- Data conversion
- DTD and schema development
- Integration of XML-based authoring and editing software
Founded in 1961 and headquartered in Horsham, Pa., with additional offices in London, UK, ThomasTech is a wholly owned subsidiary of Thomas Publishing Company, LLC. For more information, visit www.thomastechsolutions.com.
TopQuadrant (Incubator)
TopQuadrant is a leading consulting company specializing in Semantic Technologies and Semantic Web Solutions. As a "trusted intermediary", we help nterprises envision, architect, plan and realize ontology-enabled systems and applications. TopQuadrant’s Semantic Solutions Services Consulting Practice provides Architects, Modelers and Developers to support customer needs throughout the Semantic Solution Lifecycle: from solution concept to solution deployment. TopQuadrant's innovative method for designing business capabilities is based on Solution Envisioning using Capability Cases. Our tools and methods accelerate decision making, IT strategy, solution design, architecture development and project planning. For ontology development, our TopBraid (R) environment is aimed at the management of ontology merging and instance set creation.
TopQuadrant will be demonstrating three Semantic Applications:
- TopBraid, a multi-user environment for entering instance information into Semantic Web ontologies
- Semantic Quiz, an extensible application that provides an open learning environment based on RDF and OWL
- Government pilot for an FEA Capabilities and Reuse Manager
TRADOS
TRADOS products and services enable our customers to get their products to international markets faster, with higher quality, and at lower cost. Our solutions intelligently manage the localization of products and content for global markets. We accelerate global initiatives throughout an entire organization: sales, marketing, support, finance, manufacturing, legal.
With TRADOS, globalization becomes THE competitive advantage in worldwide business. Our industry-leading solutions help organizations reduce operational and marketing costs by millions of dollars, while increasing the number of markets they reach. TRADOS customers also have accelerated time-to-market by six months while slashing translation costs by 70%.
Vasont Systems
Headquartered in Emigsville, Pennsylvania, Vasont Systems is a leading provider of content management software and data services backed by more than 50 years of experience in the information management and publishing industry. Its flagship Vasont® content management system enables organizations of all sizes to create, manage, and store their multilingual content once for multi-channel delivery to print, PDF, CD-ROM, and Web formats. Fortune 1,000 companies and organizations from a variety of industries, including manufacturing, technology, publishing, government, and healthcare, use Vasont to manage and produce multilingual technical documentation, product manuals, and reference materials. www.vasont.com.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Research is best known for its flagship software Mathematica®, the world’s only fully integrated technical computing system used by over a million scientists, engineers, programmers, and students. Now Wolfram Research is transforming the way the world publishes technical content with Wolfram Publicon®, leveraging Mathematica technology in a structured document composition system.
Publicon provides an easy-to-use and customizable graphical interface for creating publication-quality technical documents integrating text, searchable typeset equations, graphics, hyperlinks, endnotes, and references seamlessly within a structured, platform-independent and presentation-ready format. While Publicon documents stand on their own, they readily translate to and from various XML formats including MathML, while also supporting clean export to LaTeX.
A combination of Publicon with various binding technologies available for Wolfram products offers scalable enterprise solutions for integrating XML into electronic document and record management systems for sites requiring strict document management protocols, particularly for content rich in mathematical and chemical notation.
XML CoP/SICoP
Networking of U.S. Federal Government Communities of Practice (CoP) Using XML. The U.S. Federal Government has at least six major communities of practice using XML that network with one another to foster more collaboration. This exhibit provides an opportunity to meet with representatives of those CoPs and is also coordinated with their Town Hall on Wednesday, November 17th, at which the 6 major XML-based CoPs will summarize their activities and network with one another and interested conference attendees.
XyEnterprise
Xyvision Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (XyEnterprise), headquartered in Reading, MA, employs nearly 100 high technology professionals. Through regional offices located in North America, Europe and Australia and through a global reseller network, XyEnterprise provides its content management, enterprise publishing and information delivery solutions to corporations worldwide.