CambridgeDocs Addresses Need for XML Content Integration
with New Backbone Strategy and Future Products |
Multi-billion dollar markets including
Content Management, Document Management,
Enterprise Information Portals, and Web Services
intersect content integration using XML
technology
BOSTON –
September 17, 2002 - As
an initial step to its entry into the
fast-growing market for XML content integration
software, CambridgeDocs (www.cambridgedocs.com)
today disclosed details on the company's
long-term product and architectural strategy,
the XML Content Backbone. The company will focus
on unstructured content such as that contained
in Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, plain text and
HTML documents, accounting for a significant
percentage of the legacy content found in large
organizations.
“Since only a small fraction of the content
produced by a given company is structured data,
we strongly feel that we can successfully
execute upon a strategy for semi-structured or
unstructured content,” commented Irfan Virk, CEO
of CambridgeDocs. “As we begin to carve out an
identity in this virtually untapped market we
will keep a laser beam focus on unstructured and
semi-structured documents with the goal of
becoming the world wide leader in the migration
to, and management of, XML document
technologies.”
CambridgeDocs will be developing products
towards a long-term strategy that it calls the
XML Content Backbone. Conceptually speaking, the
XML Content Backbone is a software product
platform that will serve to integrate the
unstructured content from disparate systems
across the enterprise and from the extended
enterprise. The XML Content Backbone will be
able to migrate, integrate, route, and assemble
content from document management systems,
content management systems, groupware systems,
desktop applications, and publishing systems
using any industry XML standard such as DocBook,
RIXML, HR-XML, NewsML, LegalXML or any custom
application XML schema.
The XML Content Backbone will achieve this
integration by first converting all types of
unstructured content to “meaningful” XML to get
on the backbone. These "packets of content" can
then be routed and delivered to repositories for
migration, for syndication, for publication, and
for Web Services.
"Enterprise interoperability is the name of the
game these days as budget-challenged customers
seek ways to do more with less," said Steve
Weissman, president of research firm Kinetic
Information LLC. "Any solution that can get
their existing systems to work better together
therefore is a solution well worth looking at."
“One of the few areas that continues to grow
throughout this prolonged industry slump,”
stated Rizwan Virk, Chairman and CTO of
CambridgeDocs, “is the idea that enterprise
applications need to be able to work together
seamlessly. XML is a critical technology that
allows interoperability of disparate systems and
is being adopted by almost every industry. Our
tools will work with any industry-specific XML
standard and will provide a critical step in
preparing enterprises for Web Services."
Over the next three years, CambridgeDocs will
develop and ship a series of products that are
geared for the XML Backbone. “Each product that
we develop for our XML Backbone strategy has to
provide standalone value to our customers, while
simultaneously providing substantial leveraged
benefits for those customers who adopt more than
one part of our strategy,” said Kedron Wolcott,
Vice President Engineering of CambridgeDocs.
“Since many of the customers we have talked to
need to get their unstructured legacy content
into meaningful XML, we decided to focus on that
piece of our strategy first.”
The first CambridgeDocs product will address the
need to convert Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, and
HTML documents into “meaningful” XML and where
the meaning of XML is defined by the particular
needs of the user.
About CambridgeDocs
The CambridgeDocs mission is to develop a
coherent XML Content Backbone for bringing order
to the "content chaos" that exists in most
organizations. CambridgeDocs products allow for
interoperability of content that was created in
different formats by utilizing newly emerging
XML standards. Founded in January 2002 as XYZ
Technologies Inc., the company is lead by a team
of experienced entrepreneurs with extensive
backgrounds in managing documents and
unstructured corporate data in government,
financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical,
aerospace and defense and education/e-learning.
CambridgeDocs is headquartered in Boston,
Massachusetts. For more information visit our
web site at
www.cambridgedocs.com.
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