Company Description
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, 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
Republica 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).