CECID
Enterprise Data Architect (EDA) Trial Version Released<o:p></o:p>

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Hong Kong SAR, <st1:placename w:st="on">Peoples</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Republic</st1:placetype> of <st1:place
 w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region></st1:place>
- 8 November
2006 - Center for E-Commerce
Infrastructure Development (CECID), The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
releases
a free software tool, Enterprise Data
Architect (EDA), for trial use. EDA is a desktop application that
facilitates
business analysts, system analysts and application developers to
develop an Enterprise
Information Architecture. Many enterprises face common
data interoperability problems during information exchange between
different parties, and a well-designed enterprise information
architecture
tackles the root cause of these problems. <o:p></o:p>


EDA is a powerful tool designed
to ensure
the architecture created is standardized, readily reusable, and
interoperable
at both enterprise and industry levels. The computer-aided environment
in EDA also
assists non-technical analysts, who may not have extensive knowledge of
modeling methodology to model business requirements easily. Based on
international best practices of Enterprise Information Architecture
design and
modeling, EDA produces an Enterprise Information Architecture that can
be seamlessly
translated into XML Schema, providing a framework for enterprise
systems to convert
standard business data into XML format. With this framework, data
interoperability
problems can be solved. <o:p>

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Visit our products’ webpage, http://www.cecid.hku.hk/eda.php
to
learn more about the new EDA and get the free trial version now.<o:p></o:p>
About CECID (www.cecid.hku.hk)

Established in January 2002, Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure
Development (CECID) at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype
 w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Hong
Kong</st1:placename></st1:place> conducts
e-commerce research and development with the vision of helping
organizations
increase their competitiveness in the global economy. CECID develops
e-commerce
enabling technologies, participates in important international
e-commerce
initiatives, as well as supports e-commerce standardization for <st1:place
 w:st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place> and the Asia Pacific Region. With
projects
primarily funded by the Hong Kong Government's Innovation and
Technology
Commission, CECID also takes on the mission to transfer knowledge and
technology to the community. Besides organizing forums and seminars,
the Center
licenses its R&D results through the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype
 w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Hong
Kong</st1:placename></st1:place>
to IT industry. Its acclaimed e-commerce technology, Hermes, has
penetrated
over 80 economies and won the Best Infrastructure and Communication
Application
of the Linux Business Award 2005 as well as Certificates of Merit of
the Asia-Pacific
ICT Awards 2004 and HK Computer Society IT Excellence Award 2004.<o:p></o:p>
PR Contacts for
Press and Analysts:

<st1:personname productid="Dorris Tai" w:st="on">Dorris Tai</st1:personname> (cwtai@c...)

Business Manager

Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID)

Dept. of Computer Science

The University of Hong Kong

Tel: +852 2859 2818

Fax: +852 2547 4611 

URL: http://www.cecid.hku.hk