Republica

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).