# Presentation: 908411

## PureEdge Solutions

*Presentation to*
- XML.gov Working Group
*February 19, 2003*

## PureEdge Overview

- Privately held software manufacturer founded in 1993 and headquartered in Victoria, BC
- Revenue growth in excess of 100% per year
- XML is the core of our products
- Products are based upon open standards
- Actively participate in the standards community
- Hundreds of implementations, millions of users world-wide
- Offices - Canada Victoria, Ottawa, Vancouver, Toronto, US – Washington DC, New England, Detroit, San Francisco, and Seattle

## Committed to Standards

**XFDL** accepted for review by the W3C.  It is an “open” Standard published at docs.pureedge.com
**XFORMS** founding member, John Boyer PureEdge’s Chief Architect wrote the Specification for the XForms Computational Engine.
**XML DSIG** Chief Architect acted as editor of the recently presented DSIG standard. A joint body of the W3C and the IETF, XML-DSIG will specify a standard syntax for representing, computing, and verifying digital signatures in XML
**XML Canonicalization** –XML Canonicalization allows both sender and receiver to derive the same message from a given XML document.

## Underlying Technology - XML

- In late 1997 PureEdge (UWI.com) decided to standardize on XML (XFDL previously UFDL)
- Common Data Structure
- Human Readable
- Standards Community
- Vendor Neutral
- Benefits of XML – Today
- Widely accepted by all major vendors
- Wealth of tools are currently available with new tools emerging
- Long term retention of records

## Leadership

## Good Records

**Data Content**
**Document Context **
**Document Structure**
**Attachments and Meta-Data**
**Bound together in a single file**
**Enforceable Signature – Digital, Electronic, Click Wrap, Digitized, Pin**
**Controlled Lifecycle**

## Adobe PDF

- Widely accepted document format
- Proprietary
- Excellent for precision presentation and static publishing
- Limited dynamic functionality
- Document manipulation requires significant programming in procedural language
- Difficult to extract data from PDF document
- Large file size that grows as document is manipulated
- Cannot control the end user experience

## Adobe SVG

- Scalable Vector Graphics
- XML language to represent graphics
- SVG drawings can be dynamic and interactive
- A valuable instrument where graphics need to be manipulated dynamically
- Limited functionality for for capturing and processing text oriented data
- SVG is primarily an XML based presentation technique
- SVG is an adjunct to PDF not a replacement

## Microsoft XDocs

- Information based on Microsoft press releases
- Will not be XForms compliant – MS does not participate in the working group and is not touting their planned compliance
- Stratified document architecture – presentation and data are separate entities
- Security – no mention of document integrity, digital signatures, or other security measures
- XDocs announcement drove Adobe down 6.4% - so the market appears to think this is a PDF competitor
- Microsoft has stated about XDocs, “XDocs is just one example of how Office products will continue to be an integral part of both formal and informal business processes”

## PureEdge XFDL ICS Products

- Open Standard XML – published at docs.pureedge.com
- Q2 2003 – Version 6 to incorporate XForms data model
- Document-centric – Full offline operation, single secure file that can be digitally signed
- Strong support for signatures including cert filtering, multiple and overlapping signatures
- Ability to parse a document with all XML oriented tools
- Computational engine allows document manipulation within the document
- Small file sizes
- Allows full control of the end user environment

## ICS Viewer – a client side application to render XML documents.
ICS Designer – a drag and drop, GUI, tool to web-enabled client interfaces
ICS Enhanced APIs – a toolset available in Java, C, C++ to interface ICS documents to backend systems – databases, workflow, and legacy applications
ICS Deployment – a tool to automate deployment of the ICS Viewer and documents

***ICS Designer*** – a drag and drop, GUI, tool to web-enabled client interfaces
***ICS Enhanced APIs*** – a toolset available in Java, C, C++ to interface ICS documents to backend systems – databases, workflow, and legacy applications
***ICS Deployment*** – a tool to automate deployment of the ICS Viewer and documents

- Building Web Enabled Applications

## Web Ap Architecture

## Robust Features

- 100% *open standard* based XML provides platform independence and long term archival benefits
- Powerful layout and alignment options that enable the *exact replication* of paper documents
- Powerful *compute engine* performs calculations as data is entered without refresh thus minimizing user input errors
*Dynamic *customization of the form’s behavior, changing entry requirements or opening or hiding sections of forms based on user input
- Section 508 – a property of an XML object

## Robust Features

*Context sensitive help* to reduce help desk calls
*Drag-and-drop signature controls* for every major vendor’s digital and electronic signatures for rapid development and deployment
- Support for *multiple and overlapping signatures* for each person in a workflow process
*Integration* with external data sources for input validation or form pre-population
- Easy integration with best-of-breed document management and workflow systems

## Select Customers

## Technology Partners

**UNISYS**

***Technology Partners***

***Integration Partners***

## Select Federal References

- OGE _[http://www.usoge.gov/home.html](http://www.usoge.gov/home.html)_
- WAWF _[https://rmb.ogden.disa.mil/](https://rmb.ogden.disa.mil/)_
- US Army ASFI _[http://acquisition.army.mil/default.htm](http://acquisition.army.mil/default.htm)_ -
- National Institute of Standards and Technology _[http://ess.atp.nist.gov/](http://ess.atp.nist.gov/)_
- Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR
- Treasury – Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- US Air Force – Enterprise wide Information Management Tools

## Next Steps

*Evaluate Your Needs*
*Create a Value Proposition*
*Get Management Buy-In*
*Develop a Contractual Framework*
*Implement*
*Follow On*

## Thanks!

*Steve Jacek – sjacek@pureedge.com*
*Account Executive*
*Federal Sales Region*
*(410) 480-1877*
*Will Gorman – wgorman@pureedge.com*
*Field Sales Engineer*
*Federal/East Coast*
*(703) 362-5534*