Dave Hollander, Chief Technology Officer, Contivo, Inc. Gives Talk at the Semantic Interoperability Conference in Houston, TX

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 2005--The Open Group is hosting the conference where Dave Hollander's presentation titled, "Vocabularies: Ontologies Specialized for Data Architecture," will explore how vocabularies specialize ontologies to address data architecture and system interoperability. They borrow from linguistics, XML Schemas and modeling to create an easy-to-use stable framework for understanding and accommodating disparate data requirements. Finally, this talk will show how vocabularies have been used in Contivo products to help organizations create, manage and deliver system interoperability.

Interoperability of business systems is the principle goal of many of today's computing technologies: EAI, EII, ETL, Web Services, SOA and the Semantic Web. Achieving interoperability requires understanding and adapting to application interfaces and the standards used for the messages that are exchanged between applications. While industry budgets are largely focused on the development of systems to move messages, the real impediment to interoperability is semantics -- analysts estimate semantics may account for up to 95% of the effort.

About Contivo

Contivo provides solutions that enable enterprises to dramatically reduce implementation and maintenance costs of enterprise-wide integration projects. The Contivo Vocabulary Management Solution (VMS) provides a central semantics-based metadata repository, development tools, infrastructure, and code generators that automate data transformation for application integration across multiple platforms. Contivo recently added capabilities and platform support that extend to legacy systems and Web services.

Contivo was founded in 1998 and has forged significant relationships with strategic customers like Hewlett Packard, Agilent Technologies, US Bank, JP Morgan Chase, MetLife, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Trade Commission, Network Appliance, Mitsubishi, Liaison, as well as strategic partnerships with companies such as Bearing Point, Capgemini, EDS, Perficient, Crowe, MphasiS, Atos Origin, Cisco, E2Open, DataPower, Cyclone Commerce, and Avolent. Investors include BankAmerica Venture Partners and Voyager Capital along with industry leaders BEA Systems, TIBCO Software, and webMethods. Contivo is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, CA. For more information, go to www.contivo.com.

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