Republica - the overview

General

Short 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, RD, Masters degree in computer Science, Jyväskyl? Board: Olli Ahonen, Jussi Nukari, Jouko Salonen

Offices: Jyväskyl? Helsinki

Teams:

RD+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 experience

Technology

Currently 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 filters

Technical 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 documentation

The 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).