OASIS Member News: XyEnterprise Announces Web Services Development Kit for XML Publishing

["Joy Blake Scott" <joy@longleafpr.com>]

XyEnterprise Announces Web Services Development Kit for XML Publishing

READING, MA - Mar. 18, 2003 - XyEnterprise, the leading developer of XML
content management and enterprise publishing software, announced today a new
Web Services Development Kit for its XML Professional Publisher (XPP)
software line. This new Web Services interface makes available the rich XML
publishing capabilities of XPP to Web interfaces, portals, and application
integrations, providing rapid deployment of automated XML publishing
solutions in environments as diverse as corporate IT services to consumer
“publish on demand” applications.

The new Web Services offering exposes the proven standards-based
composition, transformation and rendering capabilities of the XPP software
through a SOAP/XML interface. This API provides easy access for customers
and developers, enabling them to build customized end-user interfaces in
support of distributed XML publishing services. Web Services also supports
the growing deployment of XPP as an embedded batch processing engine able to
transform XML content to PDF, print, and Web output on demand.

XPP Web Services extends the “autoprocessing” model which XyEnterprise
customers have relied on for over 10 years to deliver millions of electronic
and print publications and provides unique capabilities not found in other
applications. End users and their customers will benefit from the ability to
connect remotely to trigger and monitor complex publishing events. Partners,
integrators, and service providers will benefit from the ease of application
development and support, while leveraging proven standards.

The XPP Web Services interface has been delivered to early adopters who have
created unique XML publishing environments in rapid fashion. Said Bart
Terryn, technologist for XP2, “The ability to use standard Internet
connectivity to access and leverage the proven automated publishing
capabilities of XPP has a significant business impact. Not only can
customers and developers deploy a solution quickly, they can deploy the same
solution either remotely or locally in a platform-independent way.  They
also know that underneath, the solution uses the long-standing strengths of
XPP in XML publishing environments - autoprocessing, standards support,
complex typography, and robust PDF output.”

Rich Pasewark, vice president of Sales and Marketing at XyEnterprise,
stated, “XPP Web Services changes the rules for automated publishing
solutions and leaps ahead of competitive applications. Publishers, product
support/technical information groups, e-commerce applications and,
increasingly, IT management, are required to support a wider variety of
customers and users, products and markets, business models, and geographies.
XPP Web Services enables each user to create black box publishing and
transformation environments and expose this functionality through tailored
interfaces and integrations specific to their organization or consumer
profile.”

Examples of the potential application of XPP Web Services include dynamic
content assembly and publishing from a Web Content Management system, remote
creation and publishing of customized and localized product documentation,
commercial publishing interaction through Web interfaces, catalog production
with dynamic database integration, and IT server-based processing of XML to
PDF in applications similar to solutions already implemented by XyEnterprise
customers such as IBM (NYSE: IBM), Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW),
LexisNexis™, i2 Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ: ITWO), and The Boeing Company
(NYSE: BA).

XPP Web Services are offered as an add-on to the existing line of XPP
software. More can be learned about XPP and Web Services at upcoming
XyEnterprise Webinars scheduled for March 27 and April 2. To enroll in a
XyEnterprise Webinar, please go to
<http://www.xyenterpriseevents.webex.com/>.

About XyEnterprise

Xyvision Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (XyEnterprise) is the leading provider
of single source, multi-channel XML publishing solutions.  Its XML content m
anagement software - Content@ - and its automated XML publishing engine -
XPP - power sophisticated solutions for global leaders in the publishing,
technical documentation, financial, government, and e-Learning arenas.  Its
customers include Boeing, Bureau of National Affairs, Gulfstream, IBM,
Thomson and Thomson, Sun Microsystems, LexisNexis, and many others.  For
more information, please contact XyEnterprise at 781.756.4400 or
www.xyenterprise.com <http://www.xyenterprise.com/>.

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Joy Blake Scott
President
Longleaf Public Relations
Phone: 303-639-6069
Fax: 303-639-9062
joy@longleafpr.com