[announce] OASIS Member News: Modulant Joins OASIS Consortium

[Andrea Bruno <abruno@modulant.com>]

MODULANT JOINS OASIS CONSORTIUM

Contributes Industry and Technology Expertise to Evolution of
Interoperability Advancements for Collaborative Commerce 

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., September 24, 2002 - Modulant, the leading
provider of semantics-based interoperability solutions, today announced
that it has become a Sponsor member of the Organization for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), a
vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving the development,
convergence, and adoption of e-business standards.

As a member of OASIS, Modulant will contribute its deep expertise in
product data exchange standards - such as ISO 10303 - STEP, PLCS, ISO
13584 - PLIB, and ISO 15926 - EPISTLE - to further the evolution of
standards that facilitate collaborative commerce. Modulant will
participate in ebXML and Universal Business Language (UBL) technical
committees to help advance the development of these standards.

Modulant will also contribute its expertise in model-based mapping
approaches and technologies to advance the development of open solutions
for data interoperability. Modulant's participation in OASIS
specifications and requirements technical committees - such as Universal
Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI), and Topic Maps /
Published Subjects - will help these committees develop solutions to
complex interoperability challenges among applications that serve the
collaborative value chain, like product lifecycle management and
logistics. 

Modulant is committed to breaking down the barriers to collaborative
commerce caused by incompatible data vocabularies. Modulant's
model-based, semantic mediation approach solves persistent data
compatibility problems with consistent, open, and computable maps that
can bridge the chasm among disparate data vocabularies. 

"This is a critical time for companies engaged in collaborative commerce
to be planning for their future interoperability needs," said Jeffrey
Pollock, Modulant's chief technology officer. "Modulant's participation
in OASIS demonstrates our commitment to providing a truly flexible and
open interoperability framework that increases the overall value of
standards in the enterprise."

"Modulant's expertise will contribute significantly to several commerce
and interoperability technical committees within OASIS," said Patrick
Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. "We look forward to Modulant's
active involvement in advancing our current work with business libraries
and approaches for interoperability among disparate data vocabularies."

About Modulant 
Modulant is the leading provider of semantics-based interoperability
solutions that improve the speed, success rate, and ROI of integration
efforts along the product value chain. Fundamentally different from
traditional integration approaches, Modulant's semantic mapping,
modeling, and mediation capabilities enable product lifecycle management
(PLM) applications to exchange information with other applications
across the extended enterprise - without requiring agreement on standard
data vocabularies or custom coding of data transformations. Modulant's
unique semantic mediation approach creates a loosely-coupled, scalable,
and highly-adaptable interoperability framework that enables companies
to significantly improve efficiency, agility, and collaboration
capabilities throughout the product lifecycle - from development through
sourcing, production, and distribution. For more information, please
visit www.modulant.com.

About OASIS
OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) 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. OASIS produces worldwide
standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business
transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability
within and between marketplaces. OASIS has more than 500 corporate and
individual members in 100 countries around the world.

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Media Contact:
Andrea Bruno
Modulant Solutions, Inc.
415-281-4551
abruno@modulant.com