RedKnife turns to Infodata for cutting-edge e-commerce solutions

RedKnife believes many e-tailers spend too much time building, maintaining and adapting to the communications protocols and formats of their suppliers’ catalogs and order-processing information. Furthermore, the company believes that because most of the interfaces continue to be proprietary and unique, the cost of developing these individual protocols is significant and can slow the launch of a new electronic marketplace.

To address this problem, RedKnife signed a contract with Infodata, which will design and implement a comprehensive systems infrastructure for processing and exchanging electronic catalog and transactional information over the web. Saying the technical talent pool in Silicon Valley has reached maximum capacity, RedKnife chose northern-Virginia-based Infodata to “design and deploy our e-business system because we believe the company will significantly reduce our time-to-market,” says Alan Fisher, CEO of RedKnife and Infodata board member.

Under the terms of contract, Infodata will use its “E-Hub” XML-based as the foundation of RedKnife’s Web infrastructure. E-Hub is a scaleable, open-architecture application framework to support the gathering, transformation and storage of content from disparate, heterogeneous systems. The technology allows users to assemble just-in-time information from a variety of sources and to encode this information in a common electronic format for easy distribution via corporate intranets, extranets or the internet.