Republica
| About us | 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, 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 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). |
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| Industry Focus | Software, Software Design |
| Business Type | Trading Company |
| No. of Employees | 11 - 50 People |
| Annual Sales Range(USD) | US$1 Million - US$2.5 Million |
| Legal Representative(CEO) | mr. Jouko Salonen |
