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XMLSolutions Announces Vocabulary Builder for E-Business

MCLEAN, Va., May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- XMLSolutions Corporation, a worldwide provider of strategic enterprise-to-enterprise, XML-based products and services, announces the immediate availability of Vocabulary Builder for E- Business. Vocabulary Builder is a program designed to bridge a company's existing business vocabulary to today's e-commerce language while maintaining contextual definitions on both ends.

Ron Shelby, eGM CIO, stated, ``The first step of a successful electronic commerce endeavor is to maximize corporate vocabulary and semantics.''

XMLSolutions' Vocabulary Builder allows companies to do exactly that: conduct business using the same syntax it has always used by XML-izing existing business vocabulary, semantics unchanged, so that the company can communicate electronically. Vocabulary Builder extends business operations across the Internet without revolutionizing core business processes.

With expertise in strategic metadata management, XML application development, and e-business implementations, XMLSolutions utilizes Schema Central(TM) and the proven META-X(TM) Methodology to identify corporate metadata crucial to the successful implementation of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and e-business initiatives.

``To correctly implement a B2B e-business initiative, companies must first understand their own corporate vocabulary and then start to converse electronically with their business and trading partners,'' stated Paul Sanborn, Director of Consulting at XMLSolutions. ``If the two companies are not speaking in the same business language (e.g., where part_nbr is the same as ITEM_NO in different application system), their e-commerce initiatives are destined to fail.''

The Vocabulary Builder program pinpoints strategic business information and executes a crucial step in developing e-commerce solutions. Creating Document Type Definitions (DTDs) that represent key business information is a primary function of Vocabulary Builder. The implementation of the Vocabulary Builder process closely follows the XMLSolutions' META-X Methodology, which is broken into five phases: Metadata, Exchange, Transformation, Administration and eXecution. Each phase is addressed for the Vocabulary Builder process:

    -- Exchange:    This phase focuses on mining the key metadata from
       existing legacy systems.  Queries are run against database tables to
       extract naming standards, corporate entities, attributes, elements and
       semantics.

    -- Transformation:   The key metadata extracted from legacy systems is
       converted into XML DTDs and presented via Schema Central(TM).  These
       XML DTDs can be immediately utilized as a foundation of metadata
       starter sets for critical business projects.  Because most EAI and
       electronic commerce projects utilize XML, the DTDs can be easily
       leveraged in this form.

    -- Administration:   In this phase, XMLSolutions provides the necessary
       policies and procedures to support ongoing project planning and
       management to support e-commerce initiatives and bring corporate
       information to the Internet.

    -- eXecution:   XMLSolutions prepares a comprehensive marketing
       presentation that demonstrates the metadata and corporate DTD findings.