Venetica, the leading provider of enterprise content integration (ECI) software, today announced that it will be exhibiting and speaking at the IBM Content Management/Websphere Portal Technical Conference being held in Chicago from May 3-5, 2004.

Eric Sall, Venetica’s vice president of marketing, will lead a session entitled “Enterprise Content Integration — Enabling On Demand Business” on May 4 from 1:00-2:15 p.m. The session will include an overview of Venetica’s ECI platform, which provides a single, bi-directional interface to all unstructured content across disparate systems, as well as highlighting a recently announced a technology and co-marketing agreement with IBM that delivers a robust solution for working with structured and unstructured information. This partnership extends the reach of business applications that utilize IBM DB2 Information Integrator and IBM DB2 Content Manager to leverage content from more than twenty common content repositories supported by VeniceBridge.

Venetica solutions support a broad range of IBM technologies, including the WebSphere application server platform; IBM DB2 Content Manager and Lotus Domino.Doc for managing and archiving critical digitized content; IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand for formatted computer output; Lotus Notes for collaborative information and knowledge management; and IBM WebSphere MQ Workflow for enterprise-wide business processes. Venetica’s technology has been deployed in IBM customer environments on multiple IBM operating systems including AIX, Linux and zOS.

For more information on Venetica, its approach to enterprise content integration and its relationship with IBM, please visit booth #308.

About Venetica Venetica is the leading provider of enterprise content integration (ECI) software. The company's flagship product, VeniceBridge®, enables multiple, disparate content repositories to work as a single unified system. By providing a real-time, virtual interface to enterprise content and business process, Venetica helps companies reduce the cost and complexity of business critical initiatives such as improving customer service, complying with regulations and consolidating operations following a merger. Venetica partners with leading software vendors and system integrators in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region to deliver solutions around the world.