OSLO, NORWAY, 30 MAY 2002 - Ontopia AS, provider of advanced Topic Map technology and co-creators of the Topic Map standard, today announced partnerships with leading consultants and integrators in eight countries across three continents. Partner agreements have been signed with
As a result of these agreements, Ontopia gains partners of the highest calibre to serve the needs of its customers around the world, and each of the partners gains access to Ontopia's flagship product, the Ontopia Knowledge Suite(TM), for use in applying Topic Maps to provide solutions to its customers.
Topic Maps are a standard technology that bridges the gulf between information and knowledge. Topic Maps provide a single, extensible platform for indexing information, integrating systems, and managing knowledge. Solutions built around Topic Maps extend easily from one application to another: Indexes evolve into portals; portals into knowledge bases; knowledge bases into the foundation for integrated applications. The same Topic Map data underlies and enables all of these, permitting repeated leveraging of investment. And Topic Maps are based on open, international standards, so knowledge is guaranteed longevity and vendor independence.
The Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS) is the world's most complete and robust suite of Topic Map tools. Written in 100% Java, it can be used to underpin a wide range of applications, from web portals to web services, from corporate intranets to enterprise knowledge bases, and from information integration to application integration.
"Ontopia is extremely proud to be able to announce these partnerships," stated Steve Pepper, CEO of Ontopia and Editor of the XML Topic Map (XTM) specification. "Each of these companies is among the most highly respected and experienced in their field. Every one of them has shown a commitment to applying open standards to protect and enhance the value of their customers' information. It is a great honour for Ontopia and a vindication of the quality and maturity of our Topic Map technology that so many experienced and well-respected companies are so eager to work with our software."
"Ontopia's OKS product provides a robust, scalable platform for the delivery of the real benefits of the Topic Map paradigm to customers," stated Kal Ahmed, Principal of Techquila and author of the Open Source TM4J Topic Map Engine. "Importantly, Ontopia have spent a lot of development effort in making it as easy as possible for their technology to be integrated into a total solution."
"We believe strongly that Topic Maps are the best way to connect users, information, and knowledge," stated Motomu Naito, Director of Synergy Incubate and translator of the Topic Map standard into Japanese. "Ontopia has shown its commitment to the same vision and also produced technology of unrivalled quality. We are proud to work with them."
Individual press releases have also been issued.
Ontopia, The Topic Map Company(TM), is the world's leading provider of generic topic map software. Its principals have been actively involved in developing and promoting the topic map paradigm for many years.
Ontopia's flagship product, the Ontopia Knowledge Suite(TM), currently comprises a full-featured topic map engine that supports both the ISO 13250 and XML Topic Map (XTM) specifications, and the Ontopia Topic Map Navigator, a framework for building web-based topic map delivery applications. Ontopia technology provides added value to web portals, content management systems, knowledge-based intranet applications, and enterprise application integration.
Ontopia has headquarters at Waldemar Thranes gt. 98, N-0175 Oslo, Norway. Tel: +47-23 23 30 80. Fax: +47-23 23 30 81. Visit Ontopia's Web site at www.ontopia.net.
Steve Pepper, CEO
+47-23 23 30 80
pepper@ontopia.net
Diderot Track - Aad Kamsteeg
http:/www.diderottrack.nl
Eurostep - Helena Lindström
http://www.eurostep.com
Innodigital - Jong. Kim
http://www.innodigital.co.kr
ISOGEN International - Dan Dube
http://www.isogen.com
Synergy Incubate - Motomu Naito
http://web.synergy.co.jp |
Full press release
Techquila - Kal Ahmed
http://www.techquila.com
XMLmethods.com - Pamela L. Gennusa
http://www.xmlmethods.com
For more information, see our partners page.