Banyan Systems Inc is embarking on Redwood, a three-year development effort to mobilise and integrate its various products to enable organisations to find, share and manage information in the emerging extended enterprise marketplace, which it sees as encompassing remote and mobile workers, inter-enterprise networks and electronic commerce technologies. Redwood will include three core elements. Click to Information will be based on the StreetTalk global directory to provide what it hopes will prove an improved means to access and use information and resources throughout the extended enterprise. Business on Mail will be based on Banyan BeyondMail and Intelligent Messaging and will provide the basis for building and extending multivendor line-of-business workflow applications by combining electronic mail and client-server databases. And Self-Managing Networks will be based on the Banyan Distributed Enterprise Management Architecture and will automate routine management tasks and provide planning and design tools for a more proactive approach to network and systems management, the Westborough, Massachusetts company says. The Banyan strategy will involve strategic partnerships where third parties have technology the company needs. We think the Internet will be the most common pipeline for companies to communicate with one another and with customers, Bob Martin, Banyan’s director of product strategy, told Reuters, adding Internet is central to our vision of the extended enterprise.
