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October 17th, 2008
RivCom Consultant Published in ‘Semantic Web for Business’

A description and explanation of the technical solution used by the MYCAREVENT project to provide a single point of access to automotive repair information has just been published in a new book focusing on the application of Semantic Web technologies to solve business problems. (more…)

September 4th, 2008
RivCom Returns to Independent Operation

After four years working within the CSW Group, it has been agreed that RivCom should recommence operations as an independent organisation. (more…)

July 17th, 2008
AutoRepair.eu.com Moves to RivCom Host

The AutoRepair.eu.com site, set up by CSW Group Ltd and MUL GmbH in the follow-up to MYCAREVENT, is now hosted by RivCom Services Ltd, in parallel with the move by Jay Cousins and Antony Scott to RivCom from CSW. There are no changes in the services offered by the site, and RivCom will be working in partnership with MUL under the same arrangements as applied at CSW. (more…)

Expertise

RivCom's services are built upon our extensive expertise in the following areas:

Analysis

Business process/workflow analysis
Information analysis
Requirements analysis

Design

Architecture design
Business Process design
Graphic/typographic/page design
System design
UI design
XML design and architecture for messaging and business documents

Modelling

Business process modelling
Data modelling
Generic modelling approaches
Information modelling (including data integration, ecommerce messages, classification schemes and other complex information sets)
Taxonomy/ontology/glossary development

Project Management

Project definition and planning (including stage gates)
Project monitoring and control
Team management
Reporting

Standards development

Comprehensive involvement in numerous XML standards-development initiatives on both commercial and pro bono basis

Software Development

Java and XML-based solutions

XML Technologies

XML foundation standards
XML Schema (and DTD) development
Design and development of transformation architectures
XSLT stylesheet development for message transformations
XSLT and XSL-FO development for content delivery to end users
XHTML

Semantic Technologies and Metadata

RDF
OWL
XML Topic Maps
ISO 11179 Metadata registries

XML Standards for Business Information

News and media sector – AdsML, NewsML
Automotive sector – OASIS Format of Automotive Repair Information, CEN WS/IMA MARIA
Generic business message frameworks and vocabularies for e-commerce – xCBL, UBL

Training/Workshop leadership and facilitation

Extensive experience in designing and delivering or facilitating training and workshop sessions

Methodology

Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Agile methodology