Startup hosting supply-chain apps
Startup Viquity is making its debut with a hosted supply-chain application that relies on format-neutral XML to let manufacturers share sales forecasts and place orders directly into a supplier's back-end system.
Startup Viquity is making its debut with a hosted supply-chain application that relies on format-neutral XML to let manufacturers share sales forecasts and place orders directly into a supplier's back-end system.
Industry consolidation among software vendors pioneering the use of XML is continuing apace in the US, with WebMethods flagging its intention to buy Active Software and Vignette announcing it would acquire OnDisplay.
Cisco Systems is going after customer-contact centres and unified messaging markets with its new Internet Communications Software Group.
CenterBeam, a systems integrator that installs and remotely manages Windows-based office LANs for small to mid-sized businesses, is teaming with Network Associates to provide a hosted security service for its customers.
The FBI says it is investigating the string of attacks that knocked out several e-commerce and news Websites in the past few days, but warns the investigation may take time as law enforcement agents gather high-tech evidence.
Hewlett-Packard last week nailed a few more boards into its e-services platform strategy by announcing plans to build two Internet portals where trading partners can meet online to share critical business data.
About three dozen e-commerce vendors, from old-line electronic data interchange software firms to up-and-coming electronic catalogue suppliers, are backing an effort to standardise Extensible Markup Language (XML) elements for online purchases. Spearheaded by online catalogue hotshot Ariba Technologies, the first draft of Commerce XML (cXML) is due next month. The new specification will define the shape of purchase orders, order acknowledgements and other core business documents.
Avesta Technologies is ready to begin shipping an upgraded version of its Web site monitoring tool that caters to companies running World Wide Web servers for electronic commerce and other extranet applications. The company's new software, IPnetWatcher 1.2, can now check on how well Web site security applications, such as those based on digital certificates or Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0, are working.
Network Associates this week will unveil a grand plan to integrate its antivirus offerings. By the end of this month, the vendor intends to ship corporate desktop software called VirusScan 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The new software will combine Dr. Solomon's virus-detection and cleaning technology with McAfee's hostile applet detection.
In this age of viruses and sexual harassment lawsuits, content-filtering software plays a crucial protective role. But just try to get it to work with your firewall or gateway. Getting it to do so could soon become much easier. A proposed set of APIs would let virus checkers and Web-filtering software run on any gateway or firewall supporting the Common Content Inspection API (CCIA).
Check Point Software Technologies last week unveiled upgrades to its VPN-1 virtual private network family of products.
Many NT firewalls flunk basic security tests, group says