Bowstreet announces new version of Business Web Factory

[Ann Kelly <akelly@bowstreet.com>]

Bowstreet announces new version of product that enables mainstream
enterprise customers to immediately begin transition to dynamic web services


Business Web Factory 4 integrates with e-business middleware and
applications from BEA, IBM, Microsoft, PeopleSoft, SAP, Sun Microsystems and
others  


LYNNFIELD, MA, July 30, 2001 - Bowstreet (www.bowstreet.com) today announced
the availability of the Bowstreet(tm) Business Web Factory 4, which enables
enterprises to extend the value of their e-business middleware, applications
servers, enterprise platforms and data through dynamic web services
automation and assembly. New enhancements to the Business Web Factory 4
additionally slash administration costs, deepen standards support and make
developers more productive. The Business Web Factory also powers Bowstreet's
Business Web Portals that speed development and deployment of massively
customizable portals.

The Business Web Factory 4 includes new interoperability with the latest XML
web services standards; with high-performance application servers,
e-business middleware and enterprise applications from BEA Systems, IBM,
Microsoft, PeopleSoft, SAP, Sun Microsystems and others; and with web usage
analysis software. The Business Web Factory enables point-and-click legacy
systems connectivity and web services assembly and automation, so developers
don't have to code these functions line by line. 

"Web services are rapidly maturing as an e-business foundation, and the
Bowstreet Business Web Factory 4 proves it with performance, standards
support and interoperability with the leading technology platforms," said
Bob Crowley, Bowstreet's president and CEO. "Bowstreet leverages enterprise
applications to bring data and processes into dynamic web service composites
that serve the needs of key constituencies." 
 
"The Bowstreet Business Web Factory has automated web services assembly and
deployment from the start," said Kate Fessenden, research director,
Enterprise XML, for the Aberdeen Group in Boston, Mass. "This product brings
automation to an entirely new level by making virtually every step of the
development process, including legacy systems connectivity and
customization, a point-and-click undertaking. Bowstreet is confirming its
status as a web services thought leader."

Web services are Internet-resident software components that Bowstreet, BEA
Systems, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and their customers
are embracing as the future of Internet business. The Bowstreet Business Web
Factory combines web services into customized e-business applications that
non-technical business people can update and maintain, slashing the cost and
time-to-market of e-business initiatives. 

New platform support:
The Bowstreet Business Web Factory 4 provides out-of-the-box support for the
BEA WebLogic(R) E-Business Platform and Sun Microsystems' Java(TM) 2
Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM), reducing the costs of owning,
deploying and administering the Factory. Also added is support for Microsoft
Active Directory.

When deployed on BEA WebLogic Server(TM) 6.0, the world's number-one Java
technology-based application server, Bowstreet harnesses the platform's
scalability, security, logging, session management and administration
features. Customers save money by deploying and administering the Factory
and WebLogic servers as a unified combination. Bowstreet will announce
integration with other leading application servers later this year.

Support for Microsoft Active Directory is now available, in addition to
support for LDAP standard-compliant directory servers from iPlanet(TM) and
Novell. Bowstreet uses directories to store web services application
("business web") models, user profiles and their metadata.

The Business Web Factory now uses Sun Microsystems' J2EE-standard file
directory structures and configuration scheme so that J2EE technology shops
can avoid the time and cost of manual configuration. Customers who are
upgrading to Business Web Factory 4 still have the option to preserve the
Factory's original installation architecture.

Web services XML standards support: 
The Bowstreet Business Web Factory 4 adds support for six web services and
XML standards that make web services useful and interoperable across
platforms. These standards include:

·	Web Services Description Language (WSDL). The Business Web Factory
is the first dynamic web services assembly system to automatically consume
web services defined by WSDL. 

·	Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Enhanced SOAP support makes
the Bowstreet Business Web Factory 4 fully compliant with one of the
industry's most important specifications for web services interoperability.

·	SAX, DOM and JDOM. The Bowstreet Business Web Factory 4 natively
understands and processes three application program interfaces (APIs) for
developers using XML in their applications. 

Productivity Enhancements:
The Bowstreet Business Web Factory 4 makes developers more productive as
they bring legacy data, applications and services to the Internet through
new point-and-click development capabilities.

Legacy systems connectivity.  
For the first time, developers can point and click to capture, consume and
massively customize legacy systems functionality in SAP and PeopleSoft
applications as well as in MQSeries cross-platform messaging middleware from
IBM. Point-and-click connectivity particularly benefits companies that lack
an enterprise application integration (EAI) platform such as those of
Bowstreet partners BEA Systems, SeeBeyond, TIBCO Software Inc. and
webMethods Inc. Also with Business Web Factory 4, developers can now
natively access and make use of CORBA and COM objects as components in their
web services applications using point-and-click adaptive integration
connectivity from Bowstreet partner Actional Corporation. 

Point-and-click Builder creation.  
Builders are patent-pending components that automate the process of
customized business web application creation, including calling web services
wherever they may reside. The Bowstreet Business Web Factory 4 includes a
new Builder Creation Wizard that lets developers create new builders simply
by pointing and clicking, enabling them to spend more time and effort on
other projects.
 
Performance. 
The Bowstreet Business Web Factory has met the scalability challenge that
the world's most important e-business applications demand. Recent Sun
Microsystems tests demonstrate that Bowstreet scales without performance
degradation through 8,000 concurrent users on 10 servers, as well as 4,800
concurrent users on a single 24-CPU Sun server. 

Web services usage analysis software. 
The Bowstreet Business Web Factory 4 now works with web usage analysis
products like NetIQ WebTrends and NetGenesis to give companies information
on how customers, partners and suppliers are using web services and
multi-company business webs. This data gives companies the information they
need to modify customer profiles and to modify web sites to drive more
successful sales, support and marketing. 

Command line administration and management. 
Business Web Factory administrators now have the option of using their
operating system's command line, in addition to the Factory's graphical user
interface, to automate the upgrading and modification of Bowstreet Business
Web Factory and web services applications.

Bowstreet the foundation for web services apps:
The Bowstreet Business Web Factory 4 is the foundation of Bowstreet's
Business Web Portal Solutions and an entire stable of emerging, packaged web
services applications for e-business initiatives such as eCRM, syndicated
storefronts, corporate intranets, partner extranets and supply chain
collaboration. Bowstreet eliminates the time and cost of developing and
managing monolithic, hard-coded e-business applications requiring multiple
development platforms.

Packaging, pricing, availability and systems support:
The Bowstreet Business Web Factory 4 is available now through Bowstreet's
direct sales force and selected system integrators. Please contact
info@bowstreet.com for pricing and licensing information. 

The Bowstreet Business Web Factory runs on the Sun Solaris(TM) Operating
Environment, Microsoft Windows NT and Microsoft Windows 2000 server
operating systems. 

About Bowstreet
Bowstreet, a recognized leader in web services, enables businesses to
transform themselves from hard-wired enterprises into agile, spontaneous
"business webs."  The Bowstreet Business Web Factory and Business Web Portal
Solutions comprise a new, dynamic assembly layer on top of middleware,
enabling enterprise components and web services to be assembled on-the-fly
by non-technical business people into mass-customized composite web
services. Bowstreet's Business Web Portals leverage the Business Web Factory
to converge separate portal initiatives (including enterprise information
sharing, eCRM, syndicated storefronts, corporate intranets, partner
extranets and supply chain collaboration), into a single, reusable platform,
enabling new revenue streams and reducing portal costs by as much as 80
percent. More information may be found at www.bowstreet.com or by calling
781-586-7100.

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Contact:	

Ann Kelly
Bowstreet
603-559-1557
akelly@bowstreet.com

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Beaupre & Co. Public Relations Inc. 		
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