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| First class financial information service, based on intelligent caatoosee technology |
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By means of their new joint venture, Stuttgart-based caatoosee GmbH, international providers of net business solutions, and the publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck, are setting new standards in the field of user-oriented knowledge management.
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During a press conference, held in Stuttgart on July 5, 2000, both partners introduced contara AG. This newly established organization provides knowledge services, combining innovative data management solutions with high quality information content from Holtzbrinck publishing group.
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The core of the contara program consists primarily of information from the fields of economics and finance. This information is currently being supplied by the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group. The information from contara is directed at open platforms and online portals, as well as at company-internal intranets. Dieter von Holtzbrinck, chairman of contara AG, states "Contara offers its business customers, for the first time, the opportunity of supplying its staff with relevant information, without having to provide open internet access throughout the whole organization."
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| Individual user-oriented information preparation |
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"The intelligence of our technical platform makes it possible, at last, to supply users with active and personalized user-oriented information of the highest quality," states Guido Alt, the founder and chief executive of caatoosee GmbH.
The key to the application developed by the net business specialists from Stuttgart are the caatoosee products fast2find®reporter, and fast2find®butler. fast2find®reporter is a search engine for finding information rapidly and reliably. The secret is that the search engine not only "thinks", but continues to learn, using patterns similar to the patterns in the human brain, which come increasingly closer to the interrogation profile during each search step. In this way, information output quality continues to improve, especially with respect to the requirements of the user. Pattern matching is the key word.
fast2find®butler, on the other hand, is an intelligent profiling system, designed to supply each user with independent information, which meets his own requirements in terms of quantity, content and form. |
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| Intelligent linkage of contents and network technology |
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| The products of the newly established contara AG are initially being tested from July to September by beta-customers before being marketed. "Our initial objectives are intranets and extranets of medium-sized and larger organizations and groups, where a large number of decision makers rely on the current, specific availability of economic information." (From a statement by Edgar Benkler, Chairman of contara AG). Current plans include the broadening of contara's range to make it more appealing to smaller firms and private Internet users. The product may be compared to a daily newspaper, available on subscription. |
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| Background: caatoosee - New solutions for the net business market |
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caatoosee GmbH, based in Stuttgart, is one of the leading suppliers of platform-independent information and transaction systems for electronic business. Working for major clients, such as DaimlerChrysler AG or Deutsche Bank AG, this European group has provided customized net-business solutions during the past four years. The objective is to create links between companies, people and markets over the Internet, intranets and extranets.
This is derived from a product philosophy geared to the differing requirements of the rapidly expanding dynamic "Profile Care Management" market. "Net business solutions delivered by caatoose AG anticipate future trends in e-commerce", explains Guido Alt. "We provide our customers with intelligent and well-tested solution strategies. These enable them to react to the fluctuating market and communications conditions, so that they can take efficient advantage of the potential of e-business".
Lothar Späth, Chairman of Jenoptik AG, will take over as chairman of the board. He will provide active support to the board of the future in its growth strategy. Thus the former President of the Land Baden-Württemberg has become closely involved with a company which is achieving a leading position among European net business organizations. |
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