Republica

Republica - the overviewGeneralShort description of Republica at the end of the 1Q/2000. Business area: XML-based content processing technology and services Software: several tools for building information services. All tools are designed to: be used in www and wap environments be internally fully XML-compliant Market: Republica will be a technology provider for the global b2b communications market Competitors: Corporate portal market - Ondisplay ,Datachannel , Content transformations: Spyglass  Size of the company: 34 full time employees Revenue estimate: 2000/1,5M$, 2001/3M$, 2002/5M$ Owners: Olli Ahonen 4%, MidInvest 24%, Employees 8%, Jouko Salonen 64% Management: Jouko Salonen, Mikko Paananen, E-solutions, Masters degree in Computer Science, Jyväskyl? Eetu Ojanen, R&D, Masters degree in computer Science, Jyväskyl? Board: Olli Ahonen, Jussi Nukari, Jouko Salonen Offices: Jyväskyl? Helsinki Teams: R&D+implementations Internet programming Content services XML-writers and XML-editors  Employee quality: typically masters degree in languages, programming or information technology, 1-6 years working experienceTechnologyCurrently we have seven different tools: Fetch ( fetch and bring data from the web, wide protocol-support, including secured transfer) TO-XML-WRAPPER (wraps any ascii-based format to xml, based on learning algorithms) Unifier (aggregates and unifies material gathered from different sources) Quality Controller (keeps eye on the incoming material) XML->SQL->XML Database mapper  XML Agent Server (the internal engine) plus some DB->XML, DB->HTML, DB->WML filtersTechnical specifications are available.Together all these are part of the X-Fetch suite that has been developed two years (5/98-12/99prototype), version 1.0 came out 1/2000. All tools are fully documented with complete user manuals. Already got the first deals.Solutions Based on X-Fetch and X-Fetch Components Technology  Building and maintaining multilingual information and eCommerce portal sites Internet and intranet Wired and unwired Information brokering and syndicating Personalized content Mobile agent technology Knowledge extraction from documents Structural and semantic unifying of data originating from different sources Data quality monitoring and optimization Integrating X-Fetch technology to existing information systems Converting documents from various formats to XML / SGML XHTML / HTML WML Transferring legacy data to XML and SQL based databases Building content aggregates from different types of document sources Adding integrated searching features to documentationThe Potential Market for the Solutions Based on X-Fetch and X-Fetch Components Technology  Corporate intranet portals with mobile extensions ISP-market Within 5 years the information-toys of the consumer-electronics market (we estimate, that some of the features included in our tools shall be implemented in the next generation browsers, and will be a part of the future homeportals).