GERMAN SOFTWARE HOUSE CHOOSES SOLID Web Engine FOR INTRANET PURCHASE APPLICATION

The German software house Factum Projektentwicklung und Management GmbH chose SOLID Web Engine to be deployed with intraNEWS Box, its Intranet solution for buying groups. This solution allows German buying groups to access information about products, services, and their availability and to place orders directly through their web browsers.

For their customers Factum needed an extremely care-free data management system that could be embedded into a product and distributed to numerous organizations. "After comparing SOLID Web Engine against a number of competing products, we chose SOLID Web Engine to be the data management component of the intraNEWS Box. It gives us all the benefits we were looking for: it has a small footprint, is care-free, and based on standards", says Mr. Marcus Brüggeman, CEO of Factum GmbH.

intraNEWS Box is a Web server network for German buying groups, which are associations of companies within a certain branch who have joined forces in purchasing activities. The member companies are able to achieve the benefits of high-volume purchases otherwise unavailable for small and middle-sized companies. A buying group can have from 100 up to 2000 member companies.

The intraNEWS Box system allows purchasers at individual companies to quickly look up information and order various goods and services by simply using their Web browser. All information is distributed electronically rather than by mail or fax.

Each local intraNEWS Box is connected via ISDN to a central server where shared information is hosted. The IntraNEWS Box runs on a Linux web server and the database operates on SOLID Web Engine for Linux. The application is written with Java and uses SOLID JDBC Driver to access the database. By the end of 1998 intraNEWS Boxes will be installed at more than 2000 organizations.

Factum Projektentwicklung und Management GmbH

Factum Projektentwicklung und Management GmbH, located in Dortmund, Germany, is specialized in communication infrastructure applications for buying groups . The company has been a Solid Partner since December 1997.

Solid Information Technology Ltd

Solid Information Technology Ltd is a recognized innovator of breakthrough data management technologies with worldwide distributors and partners. The company's main product is SOLID Server, an embeddable database component for mission-critical applications and industrial products. Solid was established in Helsinki in 1992 and is privately held. The company's customers and partners include ABB Daimler Benz, Encanto Networks, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, Honeywell, Kone Elevators, Nokia, Philips, PTT Post, and State of Florida. Compuware Corporation has bundled SOLID Server with its application development tool UnifAce.

Solid can be found on the World Wide Web at:
http://www.solidtech.com

Further Information

Solid Information Technology Europe BV,
Mr. Jan Hengeveld
Tel. +31 23 5666 337
Email: jan.hengeveld@solidtech.com

Factum Projektentwicklung und Management GmbH
Mr. Marcus Brüggeman
Tel. +49 231 9753540
Fax: +49 231 97535455

SOLID Server is a trademark and the Solid logo is a registered trademark of Solid Information Technology Ltd.