OnePage Delivers Portlet and Web Service Building Tool for IBM WebSphere Portal Customers; Company Joins IBM Portlet Provider Program

Business Wire, Nov 13, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2001

OnePage, Inc., a leading provider of tools for building portlets and Web services, today announced that it has joined the IBM (NYSE:IBM) portlet provider program and is now offering IBM WebSphere(R) Portal customers its OnePage Content Connect Studio software, a comprehensive solution for creating and managing portlets and integrating them into corporate portal platforms and UDDI registries.

OnePage Content Connect Studio combines revolutionary technology with a highly intuitive user-interface and enables companies to eliminate the manual scraping and scripting processes that currently slow down and add to the expense of any portal implementation. Using OnePage Content Connect Studio, organizations are able to create portlets rapidly from HTML Pages, databases, datafeeds, applications and flat files and easily publish those portlets into any existing enterprise portal, wireless solution or to Web services UDDI registries.

"Tools that enable and ease the development cycle for portlets are very important to the ongoing success of portals," said Larry Bowden, vice president, e-portals solutions, IBM. "As more large enterprises adopt portal strategies, tools such as One Page Content Connect Studio will be valuable in building and managing the personalized, specific portlets each corporation will need."

"We believe OnePage has the best available technology and working with IBM we have a formidable solution for customers," said Michael Marubio, COO of OnePage. "We are extremely excited to market our products to the IBM customer base and look forward to a productive relationship going forward."

WebSphere Portal exploits the power and scalability of the WebSphere Application Server, IBM's core technology for Web-based applications. The portal software enables companies to build state-of-the-art, next generation portals that offer users a personalized, secure, single point of interaction with people, content, applications and processes. WebSphere Portal also supports a wide variety of pervasive devices enabling users to interact with B2E, B2B, and B2C portals anytime, anywhere, using any device, wired or wireless.

OnePage Content Connect Studio also can be used to build Web service elements for WebSphere Portal. At Solutions 2001, the IBM Technical Developer Conference in San Francisco, IBM demonstrated the dual ability to publish WebSphere Portal portlets to a Web services directory and also to search the directory and add a Web service as a new portlet for use in WebSphere Portal.

Web services are becoming a significant method for making information and applications available via the Internet and portals will allow customers to integrate Web services both as sources of data and remote applications. Customers will be able to use WebSphere Portal to set up distributed enterprise portals that will allow dispersed employees and partners to share portlets of all types using Web services.

OnePage Content Connect Studio is available immediately for the IBM WebSphere Portal environments.

About OnePage, Inc.

OnePage software converts Web-accessible data into reusable information components portlets -- for portal-building and wireless initiatives. OnePage software decentralizes content responsibilities, offering dramatic relief for IT Departments currently burdened with adapting hundreds of information sources for use in enterprise portal environments. OnePage decreases deployment costs and increases adoption and customization rates for any portal solution.

OnePage is backed by Vulcan Ventures, the investment organization of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Allen & Company, the New York investment bank, and Texas Pacific Group, a leading private equity firm based in Fort Worth and San Francisco. The company's management team comprises experienced Valley veterans.

Note to Editors: WebSphere is a trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, others countries, or both.