OASIS Technical Work Attracts Major Organizations from Europe and North America

Accenture, Business Logic Corporation, Cincom Systems, election.com, Engage, Identrus LLC, Intel, IVIS Group, Novell, OpenNetwork Technologies, SAA Consultants, SeeBeyond and Unisys Join OASIS

Boston, MA, USA, 6 June, 2001 - OASIS, the XML interoperability consortium, continues to attract major technology suppliers and users to support in its work. Thirteen organizations - including some of the largest high technology companies in Europe and North America - have joined the roster of OASIS members, contributing technical talent to advance XML specifications. These new sponsors coincide with the expansion of the OASIS technical agenda to include development of XML-based standards for elections and voter services, security, electronic business transactions and more. New sponsors, Accenture, Business Logic Corporation, Cincom Systems, election.com, Engage, Identrus LLC, Intel, IVIS Group, Novell, OpenNetwork Technologies, SAA Consultants, SeeBeyond and Unisys, as well as 9 new Contributors and 40 new Individual members, joined OASIS within the last three months.

"It's exciting to see participation from all facets of the industry-from major IT vendors to international consultancies to specialized service providers for vertical industries. They all come together to do work at OASIS. It's important to note that OASIS support within the European community continues to grow," observed Laura Walker, executive director of OASIS. "We welcome all these new members and look forward to their contributions."

The new sponsors join more than 170 OASIS member companies that collaborate to advance industry-standard specifications for interoperability.

About OASIS
OASIS is the international, not-for-profit consortium that advances electronic business by promoting open, collaborative development of interoperability specifications. With the United Nations, OASIS sponsors ebXML, a global framework for electronic business data exchange. OASIS operates XML.ORG, the non-commercial portal that delivers information on the use of XML in industry. The XML.ORG Registry provides as an open community clearinghouse for distributing and locating XML application schemas, vocabularies and related documents. OASIS serves as the home for industry groups interested in developing XML specifications. OASIS technical work embraces conformance, security, business transactions, repositories and other interoperability issues.

IVIS
"IVIS pioneered the business use of XML in designing and developing tesco.com, the world's largest on-line grocery store. Two years on, we continue our leadership with solutions that allow enterprises to profit from all the information they generate, receive and collate from customers, suppliers, employees, other partners, products and processes," said Qusai Sarraf, CEO of IVIS Group. "Global enterprises are spending billions of dollars on technologies such as CRM, ERP, supply-chain management, content management and e flavours of these, yet are often dubious about their real worth. We sit above this confusion, so that you can profitably understand your customers and partner with suppliers through rich information. This is why we are passionate about standards and we look forward to contributing our international business perspective to the work of OASIS."