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GRIDNODE SETS THE AGENDA FOR LEVERAGING ENTERPRISE PEER WEB SERVICES TO ACHIEVE TOTAL BUSINESS INTEGRATION WITH ROSETTANET STANDARDS
Company Exhibits Real Business Scenarios Enabled with Peer Web Services and RosettaNet Standards – Defines Comprehensive Approach to Fuel Widespread Deployment of eBusiness Initiatives among Small and Midsized Enterprises
REDWOOD CITY, CA, May 13, 2002 – GridNode, a global software company and leading provider of eXtended enterprise Businessware (XB), today defined a comprehensive approach for implementing enterprise Peer Web Services. Exhibiting its innovative solution, that leverages Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology and web services, at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in Santa Clara, CA on May 13 – 16, GridNode is the first company to demonstrate supply chain collaboration using a Peer Web Services model. In addition, GridNode showcases RosettaNet implementation scenarios to drive greater application interoperability within the high-tech industry.
Many companies, especially small and mid-sized enterprises, have responded to industry calls to participate in collaborative demand and supply chain management with cynicism. Prohibitive costs and lengthy implementation downtimes have discouraged enterprises from automating their business-to-business (B2B) interactions. Hence, more reliable and cost-effective technical paradigms that bring a faster return on investment will lead more enterprises to consider best-of-breed product offerings in their B2B integration strategies.
“To date, the industry has focused on defining an approach to web services that requires development tools and extensive coding,” said Chee-Tong Leow, Managing Director of GridNode. “Our customers have indicated that they are looking for business ware that provides a platform for business users to manage web services. GridNode offers a cost-effective solution with which Peer Web Services can be easily deployed, thus giving our customers the ability to leverage existing IT investments and see a rapid return on investment.”
The GridNode Difference: Enterprise Peer Web Services for Total Business Integration
The GridNode software, GridTalk™, is the only P2P-based enterprise-class solution on the market today that can meet the mission-critical needs of B2B integration for the world’s leading companies. GridNode is able to differentiate Peer Web Services by delivering the ability for seamless system-to-system integration that is robust and cost-effective.
Turning Existing Applications into Enterprise Peer Web Services
GridTalk™’s unique approach combines support for common protocols, such as SOAP, WSDL and UDDI, with the transactional integrity and security features required for enterprise-level functionality.
Leveraging P2P Model for Dynamic Web Services
Providers / Consumers
The conventional web services model is client-server based. This restricts the functionality of both the client as Consumer and Server as Provider of services. Using the P2P architecture, GridTalk™ allows each party to act as a peer with duo simultaneous roles as a Provider and Consumer of Web Services.
Proven Security for Enterprise Peer Web Services Integration
Security is a key factor in creating a viable Web Services solution. Developed with state-of-the-art security technology from RSA Security, GridTalk™ provides proven PKI features that ensure the identity and authentication of the Provider and Consumer, as well as enhance data integrity and security through encryption and digital signatures.
Support for RosettaNet eBusiness Standard
With the support for the RosettaNet ebusiness standard and Peer Web Services, GridTalk™ enables greater interoperability to any business partners, regardless of the backend application.
For more background on how organizations can enable enterprise-level Peer Web Services, see the white paper: Total Business Integration: Peer Web Services at www.gridnode.com.
About RosettaNet
RosettaNet is an independent, non-profit consortium dedicated to the collaborative development and rapid deployment of open Internet-based business standards that align processes within the global high-technology trading network. More than 400 companies representing over $1 trillion in annual information technology, electronic components and semiconductor manufacturing revenues currently participate in RosettaNet’s Standards development, strategy and implementation activities. A complete list of member companies and more information on RosettaNet is available at www.rosettanet.org.
About GridNode
GridNode provides businessware for extended enterprise management and Web Services. Using a highly-optimized, distributed architecture for B2B integration and collaboration, GridNode's peer-to-peer (P2P), XML-based product suite enables critical supply chain data to be exchanged, synchronized and analysed in real-time via the Internet infrastructure, reliably and efficiently. GridNode's software complies with latest industry standards and enhances existing enterprise information systems, such as ERP, SCM and CRM. GridNode also offers a robust and affordable RosettaNet Basics-compliant solution for enterprises of any size to connect directly to their trading partners. GridNode has offices in US, Singapore and Taiwan. More information about the company and its products can be found at www.gridnode.com.
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