News For October, 2000

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced alliances with Art Technology Group, Inc. and Interwoven, Inc. The three companies plan to integrate their respective Web development, enterprise-class content management and e-business platform products to provide Web professionals complete workflow solutions for content creation, management and multi-channel content delivery. As part of these alliances, the companies will work together to integrate their product offerings. By integrating Adobe GoLive 5.0 and Interwoven TeamSite software, content contributors will be able to easily author and manage large volumes of content while working directly within GoLive. Likewise, Adobe and ATG will integrate GoLive with the ATG Dynamo e-Business Platform -- enabling page designers to use GoLive to visually create highly personalized Dynamo pages. www.atg.com, www.interwoven.com, www.adobe.com

It will be interesting to see how this affects future versions of GoLive. Will functionality be more business focused or design focused?

Enigma Introduces Update to Transactive Content Platform
10/30/2000

Enigma, Inc. introduced CommerceSight 2.0, the second release of its B2B software platform for aftermarket sales and support of capital equipment. By providing rich product content as context for aftermarket purchasing and maintenance decisions, CommerceSight 2.0 allows manufacturers to increase follow-on sales of spare parts and services, while equipment operators benefit from higher equipment uptime and greater purchasing and maintenance productivity. Enigma's solution addresses the problem of rich-content collaboration that manufacturers with complex products sold and supported through complex channels currently face. The CommerceSight engine provides the core content delivery services for channel management and technical support applications and can be integrated with transaction and EAI applications for complete e-commerce solutions. CommerceSight 2.0 automatically packages multiple text, graphic and relational data sources into portable XML-based applications that can be dynamically delivered to Web sites, intranets, third-party applications and offline media. CommerceSight 2.0 is a unified, open standards-based B2B transactive content platform. It is comprised of several key components: Enigma's InSight and DynaWeb solutions, enabling content delivery for complex maintenance manuals and other text-intensive, high-volume product content; eIPC, an intelligent product catalog that links technical illustrations, parts lists and related text information and provides shopping cart functionality; Enigma's Xtend, a buy-side solution that allows equipment operators to seamlessly integrate best practices and policies information into manufacturer-originated product content behind their corporate firewalls; Connectors to ERP, order management and e-procurement systems that shorten the aftermarket sales cycle by providing context for purchasing decisions; and Connectors to document management and product data management systems that enable full automation of content assembly and delivery and full integration across disparate repositories and data formats. CommerceSight 2.0 is available now. Pricing begins at $150,000. www.enigma.com

See the letter to the editor in this issue from Enigma in response to an article we wrote earlier this year.

Trados Rolls Out Web-Enabled Terminology Management
10/30/2000

TRADOS Incorporated announced MultiTerm Web Access (MuWA) for Web-based terminology management environments. TRADOS MuWA further extends the Internet/intranet resource sharing capabilities of MultiTerm, TRADOS' terminology management tool. Specifically, MuWA will allow business users to distribute, access and manage their organizations' multilingual terminology databases using standard Web browsers, making it even easier and faster to translate documents from one language to another. Since companies' language translation needs are highly specific to their industries, technologies, product lines, and corporate cultures, users need efficient terminology management systems that enable them to build their own databases of terminology over time. These databases, or "termbases," will be centrally maintained with TRADOS MuWA so that all users can take advantage of the latest, most complete sets of translated terminology, available from any location. MuWA leverages Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 to enable these shared- resource capabilities through a client/server architecture. Benefits of MuWA include: fuzzy search (now also works for double-byte languages, e.g. Japanese, Chinese, Korean), simple and Wildcard searches, and easy-to-use migration tools to convert existing MultiTerm databases to XML and import the results to an SQL database. Commercial availability for TRADOS MultiTerm Web Access is scheduled for 30 October 2000. www.trados.com/muwa

Open Text Introduces Livelink 9
10/30/2000

Open Text Corporation introduced Livelink 9. Livelink 9 builds on its Web-based workflow and extending it to support integration with SCM, CRM and ERP applications through its XML interfaces. Using Livelink 9's intuitive graphical interface and workflow, it is easy to define sophisticated business processes. Livelink 9's shared workspaces support business relationships and collaboration between vendors, suppliers, customers and partner communities. Livelink 9 provides powerful metadata management capabilities. Users can easily build HTML forms to associate sophisticated category and attribute information with any object in Livelink. Coupled with advanced search capabilities, this new feature enables users to build powerful cataloguing systems for objects such as documents, drawings and images. To Improve navigation and speed, Livelink 9 incorporates pop-up menus that present a Windows-like appearance. Making use of Livelink's new XML capabilities, organizations can create custom user interfaces which offer Livelink's collaborative features within a Web site look and feel, without incurring any of the costs associated with programming. In order to protect its customers' significant investments in mission critical data, Open Text has integrated encryption software from RSA Security Inc. into Livelink 9. www.opentext.com

Software AG & Sequoia Software to Partner
10/30/2000

Sequoia Software Corporation and Software AG have announced a strategic partnership. The companies will integrate Software AG's Tamino native-XML database with Sequoia's XPS portal server, allowing businesses to move content between a portal, a database and the Web seamlessly and without the need for data conversion. To support the strategic partnership, Software AG will add XPS to the range of products it markets worldwide through its 1,500-member sales force and its extensive world-wide network of value-added resellers; Sequoia will offer Tamino licenses through its own sales force and through systems integrators, resellers and consultancies in North America and elsewhere. www.softwareagusa.com, www.sequoiasoftware.com

CPExchange Launches Privacy-Enabled Standard
10/26/2000

The Customer Profile Exchange Network (CPExchange) launched the newly authored Customer Profile Exchange standard, which creates a standard for privacy-enabled customer data interchange. The CPExchange Network, a volunteer consortium made up of over 70 e-business organizations, is offering a vendor-neutral, open standard for exchanging privacy-enabled customer information across different businesses and computer systems. Organizations with many different and separate data sources who are seeking an integrated view of customers -- such as suppliers and employees -- will utilize CPExchange. CPExchange facilitates the management and promotion of customer relationships, while profiling customer information -- appealing to all industry sectors. Few of today's supply and demand chains share a unified profile of the customer, leaving customer support, order management, lead sharing and other primary business functions working independently to grasp a customer's identity, behaviors and needs. Customer service capability is severely reduced by this lack of shared information, creating significant short and long-term IT integration costs. Customers gain a unified profile of their situation among their suppliers, enjoy better customer service, and reduce the time and complexity of interacting with companies. Significantly, it will allow customers to more easily achieve the levels of privacy they require when handling sensitive and proprietary profile information. The CPExchange Network is hosted by the International Digital Enterprise Alliance (IDEAlliance), a non-profit, vendor-neutral organization dedicated to the development and implementation of open interoperability standards. Membership in the CPExchange Network is open to any and all contributors on an annual fee basis. www.cpexchange.org

There is certainly a need for this, but we think there is a long road ahead before there is widespread use of any such standard. Many of the .coms who have been involved have more immediate problems to deal with, and there are a lot of different requirements among the various types of software vendors. Also, consumers are bound to be skeptical even with privacy protection.

Gauss Interprise Integrates SpyVision
10/25/2000

Gauss Interprise announced the first phase integration of its VIP' Web content/portal management suite with its SpyVision document and line-of-business content management package. The integration of the two product suites positions Gauss Interprise as a vendor able to provide an end-to-end solution that captures all corporate content, including legacy system data, thereby enabling enterprises to seamlessly leverage their IT investments to work with next-generation Internet technology. With the integration of VIP' SpyVision components, the complementary product set acquired via a recent merger with Magellan Software, Gauss possesses the ability to not only manage multiple Web and portal authoring initiatives, but to access and serve-up corporate content maintained in SpyVision's centrally-managed digital repository. This includes back-office content often excluded from Internet-oriented solutions, such as electronic reports and scanned images, as well as audio and Windows application files. The Gauss VIP' solution is designed using the latest Java technology, thus providing platform independence, interoperability, and scalability. The end result is a measured and rational approach to achieve e-business agility, without the turmoil that can plague these critical initiatives, whether oriented toward building an intranet, extranet, or a full-featured Web presence. www.gaussinterprise.com

adXML.org Announces Release of adXML Online DTD Version 1.0
10/25/2000

The international open standards industry group, adXML.org, announced the release of adXML online DTD version 1.0. The new version is the result of a collaborated effort of the 350 companies and 500 individuals that are a part of adXML.org. The new version of the adXML standard includes a number of changes including: self-contained transport packaging, an extension for secure digital signatures, object-oriented modularity, and a streamlined creative construct to support creative data, image maps and 3rd party ad serving. The new DTD and a 100% Java implementation of an adXML development kit can be downloaded for free at www.adXML.org

As opposed to CPExchange, if the DTD was well-designed, this could be widely adopted fairly quickly.

HP to Acquire Bluestone
10/24/2000

Hewlett-Packard Company and Bluestone Software, Inc. announced the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which HP will acquire Bluestone in a stock-for-stock strategic transaction. Bluestone's software will become the integrating platform for HP's current software offerings and will serve as the core of HP's next-generation software strategy by leveraging the combined platform's advanced XML, e-services and mobile technology capabilities. Bluestone's standards-based J2EE and XML application server technology, along with their Java transaction service, will form the core of HP's middleware offering. With this solution, customers will be able to develop, integrate, deploy, and manage J2EE and XML applications and services across the enterprise, across trading community partners, and across interactions and transactions with customers using mobile appliances and devices. HP Consulting will develop a set of implementation and integration services in support of Bluestone's technologies. Under the terms of the agreement, Bluestone shareowners will receive 0.2433 pre-split shares of HP common stock for each share of Bluestone common stock. The completion of the transaction is subject to closing conditions and the approval of Bluestone shareowners. Upon completion of the transaction, Bluestone will become a wholly owned subsidiary of HP. www.bluestone.com, www.hp.com

worldweb.net Launches Expressroom I/O 2.0
10/24/2000

worldweb.net Inc. announced the launch of the beta version of its next-generation content management software, Expressroom I/O v2.0. Expressroom I/O is a 100%, Java-based, content management software system. It provides users with the control, flexibility, and power needed to produce, manage, and administer the most sophisticated enterprise Web sites with minimal technical experience. Managers of information are easily able to contribute, approve, and post content to their Web sites without the need of a webmaster or programmer. The newest version of the software, Expressroom I/O v2.0, promotes collaboration by providing advanced workflow tools that enable users to coordinate on the review and approval process of all Web site assets. Users can easily manage their content -- whether it is created in Expressroom I/O, or imported from external sources, such as Word or Quark, syndication services, live news feeds, or legacy databases -- and deliver it to multiple sources including Web pages and wireless devices. Expressroom I/O v2.0 is extensible and J2EE-compliant, giving developers the flexibility needed to integrate a complete content management solution in an e-Business platform. Among other enhancements for content management, worldweb.net has integrated state-based workflow into Expressroom I/O v2.0. Business professionals easily control how content is routed, edited, approved and published, eliminating the need for programmers to control workflow processes. Now, users can work in a graphical interface to develop workflow patterns, rather than using complicated scripting. The template-based content management solution supports versioning and roll-back technology. In addition, a reporting feature allows for e-mail notification of progress or status reports, which can be sent to a user's cell phone or pager. Expressroom I/O v2.0 will be available at the end of the fourth quarter of 2000. The client applications run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 SP5 or higher, Red Hat, Linux, and Solaris. Supported servers include Windows NT 4.0 SP5, Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux 6.2, Debian Linux, and Solaris 8. Expressroom I/O v2.0 works with various Web and Application server environments, including IBM Websphere; IIS with Resin on NT; Resin on NT, Solaris, or Linux; ATG Dynamo; BEA Web Logic; Resin with Apache on Linux; Apache with Jserv. www.worldweb.net

W3C Issues XML Schema as Candidate Recommendation
10/24/2000

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued XML Schema as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. Advancement of the document to Candidate Recommendation is an invitation to the Web development community at large to make implementations of XML Schema and provide technical feedback. Simply defined, XML Schemas define shared markup vocabularies and allow machines to carry out rules made by people. They provide a means for defining the structure, content and semantics of XML documents. The XML Schema specification consists of three parts. One part defines a set of simple datatypes, which can be associated with XML element types and attributes; this allows XML software to do a better job of managing dates, numbers, and other special forms of information. The second part of the specification proposes methods for describing the structure and constraining the contents of XML documents, and defines the rules governing schema-validation of documents. The third part is a primer, which explains what schemas are, how they differ from DTDs, and how someone builds a schema. By bringing datatypes to XML, XML Schema increases XML's power and utility to the developers of electronic commerce systems, database authors and anyone interested in using and manipulating large volumes of data on the Web. By providing better integration with XML Namespaces, it makes it easier than it has ever been to define the elements and attributes in a namespace, and to validate documents which use multiple namespaces defined by different schemas. XML Schema introduces new levels of flexibility that may accelerate the adoption of XML for significant industrial use. For example, a schema author can build a schema that borrows from a previous schema, but overrides it where new unique features are needed. XML Schema also provides a way for users of e-commerce systems to choose which XML Schema they use to validate elements in a given namespace, thus providing better assurance in e-commerce transactions and greater security against unauthorized changes to validation rules. The working group members include: Academia Sinica; ArborText, Inc; Bootstrap Alliance and LSU; Calico Commerce; Commerce One; Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA); DevelopMentor; Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC Pty Ltd); Graphic Communications Association; Health Level Seven; Hewlett Packard Company; IBM; Informix; Intel; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Lexica LLC; Lotus Development Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; Microstar; MITRE; NCR; Oracle Corp.; Progress Software; SAP AG; Software AG; Sun Microsystems; TIBCO Software; University of Edinburgh; webMethods, Inc; Xerox; and XMLSolutions. www.w3.org

Adding datatypes to XML makes it significantly more useful (and complex), especially for structured and unstructured data integration.

SoftLock Unveils Dynamic Content Locking
10/24/2000

SoftLock.com, Inc. introduced its Dynamic Content Locking (DCL) technology that enables digital content to be packaged, secured, and distributed in real-time. Digital Content Locking is an innovative approach to digital rights management (DRM), which will allow consumers to order digital documents that are customized to their interests, packaged on the fly, and delivered within seconds. Content providers can focus on maintaining their content database rather than on the production and distribution of the final packaged product. Using SoftLock's DCL technology, content providers can generate a wide range of secure digital documents, which contain up-to-the minute information. Here's how it works: A consumer, after viewing samples of available documents and content options clicks on the buy button to begin the DCL process. After the consumer's credit has cleared, the online commerce system sends a request to the content database describing the required XML document components and the document format. SoftLock's DCL process automatically retrieves the required XML components from the database, creates the Adobe PDF document, locks and encrypts the document using SoftLock's DRM services. The report is then instantly delivered to the consumer along with the keys to "unlock" their rights to the document, which enables full viewing- all within 30 seconds. Document types which are particularly appropriate for this "late binding" process include investment analysis, company reports, and technology updates. As with SoftLock's other Digital Content Marketing services, consumers can email the secure document to friends or colleagues using SoftLock's Passalong service. Passalong is a viral marketing technique that enables content providers to encourage the follow-on sales of content while maintaining its security wrapper. Friends and colleagues can view samples of the secure document and then click to purchase. An unlock key will be emailed to them within a matter of seconds. www.softlock.com

Kurion Launches RightView Hypersyndication for BroadVision & Vignette
10/24/2000

Kurion launched RightView Hypersyndication for BroadVision and RightView Hypersyndication for Vignette. Immediately available, these RightView applications extend existing BroadVision and Vignette infrastructures to easily execute comprehensive hypersyndication tasks of application and content integration and syndication. With Kurion, BroadVision and Vignette users can integrate or syndicate applications and content faster, easier and with added functionality. And Kurion's technology is designed to be delivery, format and protocol independent, so integrating with non-BroadVision or non-Vignette sites, or sites using different delivery standards, is no longer a problem. Kurion's RightView Hypersyndication for BroadVision (RVHB) enables One-to-One Publishing customers to easily and automatically select the exact applications or content they want from source sites and then automatically modify the look, feel and presentation style of that information so it is displayed as an integrated component of the destination site. In addition, RVHB extends the capabilities of BroadVision's MarketMaker to allow members to dynamically and easily add selected applications and content -- in new formats and styles if desired -- to a MarketMaker-powered Internet exchange. Kurion's RightView Hypersyndication for Vignette (RVHV) works with Vignette's Content Management Server and enhances Vignette's Syndication Server. For customers that do not have Syndication Server, RVHV provides capabilities lacking in Syndication Server, such as application syndication, offer transformation, or the ability to grant affiliates significant flexibility. For those customers that have Syndication Server, RVHV provides the same application, transformation, and affiliate control benefits, but also automates the affiliate's process of receiving Syndication Server packages. RightView Hypersyndication for BroadVision and RightView Hypersyndication for Vignette are available immediately at an introductory price of $50,000 for the remainder of 2000. www.kurion.com

Eprise Releases Participant Server 3.0
10/23/2000

Eprise Corporation announced Version 3 of Eprise Participant Server. Eprise moves beyond tactical content management approaches focused solely on the efficiency of Web operations to offer Strategic Content Management solutions. Strategic Content Management is a comprehensive approach using software and services to help businesses efficiently plan, implement, measure, and enhance corporate Web sites that deliver significant value to the site audiences and the business. The key technical component of Strategic Content Management is Eprise Participant Server. This software application enables business users to manage not just traditional content, but also business rules, approval processes, and user interaction. The result is that implementation and ongoing change of Eprise-managed sites is easier than with products that rely on technical scripts and configuration files for similar functions. The latest release adds several capabilities including: an enhanced user interface that includes a robust visual editing capability for browser users; expanded templating options to improve manageability and performance; and enterprise level scalability enhancements including global content distribution capabilities. Eprise Participant Server Version 3 will be available next month for Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Solaris operating systems. The typical customer engagement for software and services starts at approximately $150,000. www.eprise.com

Interwoven Acquires Metacode & Ajuba
10/20/2000

Interwoven, Inc. announced definitive agreements to acquire two privately-held companies, Metacode Technologies and Ajuba Solutions. Metacode is a developer of content tagging and taxonomy technology. Ajuba is a developer of XML solutions. Under the terms of the agreements, an aggregate value of approximately $150 million in Interwoven common stock and stock options will be exchanged for the capital stock and stock options of Metacode and approximately $31 million in Interwoven common stock and stock options will be exchanged for the capital stock and stock options of Ajuba. Along with the content analytics technology acquired earlier this year from Neonyoyo, the Metacode technology will play a key role in providing the intelligence necessary for next-generation content management. The Metacode technology will enhance how customers use Interwoven solutions to create a compelling and relevant Web experience. By automatically including metadata based on customer-specific or industry-specific taxonomies, content can be readily shared and repurposed across multiple Web properties and B2B exchanges. The Ajuba team will be assimilated into Interwoven's existing technical staff. The Ajuba product line will be discontinued. www.interwoven.com

What will the content management system of the future look like? We'll see, but categorization and taxonomy tools are likely to be included in many.

Mondeca Launches Topic Navigator Software
10/20/2000

Mondeca is launching its Topic Navigator software solution. The Dynamic Content Navigation program provides users with better methods to access and manage Internet-based data. This is possible as a result of Mondeca’s unique content structure as a topic network, and intuitive access to content via spatial navigation tools. No additional programming is required to use the software, and users experience no delays in accessing information. Topic Navigator features template-based content organization, content editing, powerful browsing tools, and is based on an open architecture using as XML, Topic Maps, Java, and EJB. Traditionally, companies have had few choices for intelligent web navigation. Typically, users are restricted to linear page-by-page views of information or random searches when clicking on embedded links that may lead to other web sites or dead-end searches. Neither process is intuitive or efficient. Poorly designed links, hierarchical structures, and multiple searches with no guarantee of end results are all common experiences using today’s Internet options for obtaining information. Topic Navigator is scalable, flexible, and secure. In addition, Mondeca software can be integrated with e-commerce tools to direct users towards products in internal or external e-commerce catalogs as they browse the knowledge base. Immediately available, prices for a single license begin at $20,000, with training, consulting, and maintenance extra. www.mondeca.com

Whoa! Topic Maps in another product!

Seeburger Announces XML Business Integration Server Middleware
10/19/2000

The new Business Integration Server (BIS) from Seeburger is a middleware module that maintains processes and accounts for all business and process transactions based on a customizable workflow rule set. With a graphical drag-and-drop definition of business processes, any data interchange requirement on Windows NT, UNIX and IBM AS/400 can be implemented quickly. BIS fully supports Java, XML, and existing business system technologies, including B2B eCommerce requirements: shopping, auctions, marketplaces, eProcurement and works with EDIFACT and ERP management systems. The Business Integration Server also works with ebXML, cXML, XML EDI, BizTalk and Rosettanet. Additionally, it supports classical EDI transaction formats, including EDIFACT, X.12, ODETTE or VDA. BIS has connectors to all known ERP systems, including: SAP R/3, SAP R/2, Baan, Oracle, BRAIN, infor, J.D.Edwards and Baurer. In FrontOffice, BIS works with Siebel, Intershop, Openshop and Brokat. Even legacy and proprietary systems are supported. The Seeburger middleware supports unique XML DTDs and other custom interfaces. www.seeburger.com

Poet Releases Enhanced eCatalog Software
10/19/2000

POET Software announced the latest releases of its turn-key eCatalog management software solutions for suppliers, ASPs and eMarketplaces. POET's eCatalog Suite - Supplier Resident Edition (eCS-SR) and eCatalog Suite - Service Provider Edition (eCS-SP) introduce several new features that provide enhanced pricing management, platform and database support, as well as simplified administration for ASPs and eMarketplaces. POET's flexible pricing management features provide customers with several customization options to reflect the diverse requirements of both suppliers and buyers. With contract pricing, users can create buyer-specific pricing for groups of products or on a product-by-product basis. With volume discounts or tier pricing, suppliers can define different prices based upon item quantity. In addition to custom pricing, users can also employ a calculation-based pricing method, incorporating discounts based on percentages or fixed amounts in relation to list prices. POET added new database and platform support, giving ASPs and eMarketmakers the option to run eCS-SR and eCS-SP using the POET object database or Oracle's 8.0 or 8i on Solaris, Windows NT and Windows 2000 platforms. The latest versions of eCatalog Suite-Supplier Resident Edition and eCatalog Suite-Service Provider Edition are now available. Pricing for the supplier edition starts at $60,000. Pricing for the service provider edition starts at $175,000. www.poet.com

XML Global Adds ODBC/JDBC Indexing to goXML
10/18/2000

XML Global Technologies, Inc. announced it has completed a software add-on to goXML version 2.0 that will allow arbitrary tables from any ODBC/JDBC compliant database to be indexed by goXML. GoXML is a context-based XML search system which easily and securely accepts and delivers XML based content in- house and via the Internet. The new software add-on will allow goXML to act as a broker to various relational database management systems and legacy data sources. Included with this add-on is a web conduit which permits the RDBMS/legacy data that has been indexed into a goXML index to later be accessed from source, thus ensuring only the most up-to-date information is delivered to clients. Examples of databases supported by goXML and the software add on are Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft FoxPro, dBase, xBase, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Informix, Pervasive SQL, Adabas and CSV. www.xmlglobal.com

EBT Announces Graphic Workflow Description Tool for Engenda
10/18/2000

eBusiness Technologies announced the working prototype of a new workflow tool for engenda based on Microsoft Visio which will allow customers to build workflows by creating graphic representations of the processes. The new workflow tool will streamline development by speeding and simplifying workflow creation and modification. An intuitive method for creating engenda workflow descriptions, the simple, visual editing tool will allow customers to drive their workflow processes from a diagram. The workflow diagrams will be saved in engenda as XML. engenda is currently scheduled to ship with the new workflow tool in the first quarter of 2001. www.ebt.com

RightWorks Announces Partnership with Vignette
10/17/2000

RightWorks Corporation announced a development partnership with Vignette to integrate Vignette's V/5 E-business Application Platform into the RightWorks eBusiness Application Suite. The agreement enables RightWorks to offer an expanded array of catalog formats, providing companies with an enhanced, automated solution to perform transactions within the purchasing environment. Under the terms of the agreement, Vignette's eBizXchange will drive business transactions and processes, while eContent will automate the aggregation and integration of catalog content. Because both companies support XML standards, EDI, flat files, HTML and databases, RightWorks' customers will benefit from a quick time-to-market and accelerated supplier adoption rates. In addition, RightWorks is now licensed to resell Vignette's eIntegrate technology with the RightWorks eBusiness Application Suite. eIntegrate will enable companies to integrate at both the application and process levels with a wide range of back-office systems including ERP, SCM, and CRM systems from Oracle, J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel and SAP. www.rightworks.com, www.vignette.com

Hmmm… Should Vignette have their own e-catalog solution?

Inxight Adds Features to Categorizer 2.0
10/17/2000

Inxight Software, Inc. announced the next level in automatic categorization. Inxight Categorizer 2.0 is an application that efficiently and automatically classifies unstructured data, such as web pages, e-mail, word processing documents, presentations, PDF and text into pre-defined categories to significantly improve and add value to information found on portals and corporate knowledge libraries. Using Xerox PARC and Xerox XRCE advanced language and pattern matching technologies, Categorizer takes classification beyond simple methods such as rule-based systems and pure pattern recognition techniques. Categorizer advances its technology by combining linguistic processing engines with patented mathematic algorithms and helps users to discover context through actual language. For example, the word "ground" can mean ground pepper, the ground that you stand on, or the ground for a wire. Categorizer is able to distinguish between the meaning of the three "grounds" in its context. Another example is the word "teach." Categorizer identifies and associates words that have the same meaning, depending on how the word is used, like teaches, teaching and taught. Moreover, Categorizer maintains its scalability even as the number of categories or documents grow. New features of Categorizer 2.0 include: Client API coded in Java and C; Database independence (designed for integration to any database or flat file); Added administrative tools to tune accuracy and performance; Support for most file formats including MS Office, Adobe PDF, e-mail, web pages and news feeds; Support for 12 European languages; XML compatibility which enables integration to most enterprise portal applications. Inxight Categorizer is expected to be available in December directly through Inxight corporate sales. www.inxight.com/products_sp/categorizer/index.html

OnePage Unveils Aggregator & Portal Products
10/17/2000

OnePage Inc. unveiling three new products that automate the collection, dissemination and presentation of Internet-based data. Based on its information retrieval technology, the new OnePage products make content aggregation and presentation easier and more cost effective, addressing a critical information task for organizations whose employees, suppliers and customers rely on timely, relevant content. OnePage announced three software products: OnePage Content Aggregator - Designed for corporations and web properties, the OnePage Content Aggregator automates and uncomplicates the process of collecting information from disparate sources - data feeds, web content, databases, etc. - and disseminating it throughout an enterprise or web site. OnePage Personal Portal - Designed for existing portals and other web properties, the OnePage Personal Portal enables web businesses to increase user satisfaction and retention by offering a unique environment where users can create personal pages with relevant content collected from any website. OnePage Corporate Portal - Designed for corporations, the OnePage Corporate Portal combines content aggregation features and the personalized portal functionality in a single solution to ensure that employees, customers and suppliers have the most relevant information available to them at any time. OnePage is offering its software as a hosted ASP solution and as stand-alone, licensed business applications. www.onepage.com

Sequoia & STC Form Alliance
10/16/2000

Sequoia Software Corporation announced an alliance with STC. Sequoia will leverage the STC e*Xchange eBusiness Integration Suite to enhance the connectivity of its XML-pure portal server, XPS. With this expanded integration capability, Sequoia can provide customers rapid connectivity to many enterprise and e-business applications from leading vendors including SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, Oracle, Sybase, Lotus Notes, Onyx, Clarify, and BroadVision. Sequoia XPS functions as an e-business command center, interconnecting an organization's various islands of information and processes, often with those of its customers, partners and suppliers, through a universal Web-based interface. Many of these islands are "enterprise applications" that support corporate manufacturing, financials, customer service or administrative functions. The STC eBusiness integration platform provides Sequoia customers with efficient solutions for tightly integrating XPS with their enterprise applications, eliminating the need for custom built connections, which can become costly to develop and maintain. www.stc.com, www.sequoiasoftware.com

Percussion Partners with Lionbridge
10/16/2000

Percussion Software and Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. announced a joint marketing agreement to deliver native XML-based multilingual content management solutions to companies developing international Web sites. Their combined solution, which includes the Lionbridge Globalization Platform and Percussion's Rhythmyx Content Manager, will build globalization into the content management process at the beginning of the development cycle, increasing the velocity and efficiency of converting content into multiple languages and formats. Lionbridge's enterprise-scale workflow system automates processes and offers collaboration capabilities for all parties working on a Web site project. To begin the translation process, Rhythmyx Content Manager creates, changes, or updates the content in an Oracle database in XML, HTML, or other formats. Lionbridge servers automatically detect changes to the English content and prepare it for translation. Once the new or changed content is translated, the Rhythmyx Content Manager then creates updates to the translated Web sites based on these changes. www.lionbridge.com, www.percussion.com

Now is a good time to start integrating language technology with all sorts of commerce and content systems.

Rational Announces ContentStudio for Managing Code & Content
10/11/2000

Rational Software announced Rational Suite ContentStudio, a new member of the Rational Suite product family that includes technology from Vignette Corp. to address the needs of e-businesses challenged with managing content and code in complex e-business sites. Rational Suite ContentStudio consists of Rational ClearCase technology, Vignette V/5 Content Management Server, and Rational Suite Team Unifying Platform (Rational Requisite Pro, Rational ClearQuest and Rational Unified Process). The incorporation of Vignette's technology in Rational Suite ContentStudio is the result of a strategic alliance between the two companies. Rational Suite ContentStudio is designed for e-business development teams that include content contributors, who write, design, edit or approve the information that will be on the site; and software developers, who design, build, and test the code that powers the e-business system. Rational Suite ContentStudio is a product to manage content, code and other software artifacts in a common, software configuration management foundation to unify e-business teams so they can build and deploy sophisticated e-business sites quicker and with higher quality. Rational Suite ContentStudio provides browser-based templating integrated with Rational ClearCase to deliver parallel development capabilities for e-business teams. All content assets, code and other software artifacts are managed with secure version control and can then be deployed to an application server environment in unison. Rational Suite ContentStudio will be available by April 1, 2001. Rational Suite ContentStudio will cost $4,795 per node-locked license and $8,395 per floating license. www.rational.com

IPTC Membership Ratifies NewsML V1.0 & Endorses Formal Release
10/11/2000

The news industry’s technical standards body has formally ratified v1.0 of its NewsML and announced that it is ready for production use. At its Autumn Meeting in Amsterdam there was unanimous acceptance amongst the membership that the NewsML v1.0 DTD be formally released having completed a period of beta testing. An updated DTD, functional specification and accompanying examples are now available and a number of members - Agence France-Presse, BusinessWire, Press Association, Reuters, ScreamingMedia, UPI, and Dow Jones’ WSJ.com - have already declared their intention to utilize the new standard. The IPTC will initiate new work programs to ensure that NewsML evolves as a standard and achieves widespread acceptance. The DTD for NewsML v1.0, together with a functional specification, supporting documents and background papers can be found on the IPTC web site at www.iptc.org/NewsMLv1T.zip. The DTD is available as a rights-free standard but it remains the intellectual property of the IPTC. www.iptc.org

VCIX Releases Cortra Site Studio
10/11/2000

VCIX introduced its Cortra Site Studio software to the web development market. Cortra Site Studio has been designed from the ground up using object-oriented architecture to meet the challenges of complex content aggregation, syndication and publishing on the web. Using Cortra Site Studio's extensible object-oriented technology and its reusable component architecture, web development firms can more easily create customized solutions addressing their specific customer needs without the need to create new applications. Its intuitive, easy-to-use interface enables non-technical staff to control all aspects of a web site's content management, without the need for programmers or skilled technicians. A wide range of objects including text, images and streaming media, can be easily published, archived, scheduled, and managed, producing a dynamic, robust and scalable site that is easy to maintain and adapt to changing business requirements. Because of these factors, Cortra lowers the cost of site creation and ownership for organizations building or redesigning their web presence. The Cortra software includes built-in support for XML and a standards-based object-oriented API. Cortra also allows users of Microsoft Visio 2000 to import UML (Unified Modeling Language) models of business processes and to automatically generate code for transforming those processes to the Web. VCIX, formerly known as Virtual Communities Inc., recently announced that it plans to exit the business of publishing community sites in order to concentrate exclusively on the development and marketing of the Cortra technology. www.vcix.com

Vignette & FileNET Team on Applications for Process-Intensive Businesses
10/10/2000

FileNET Corp. and Vignette Corp. announced they have formed a partnership to integrate FileNET Panagon eProcess technology with the Vignette VSeries for e-business applications. Together, FileNET and Vignette plan to deliver complete e-business solutions to companies with complex customer interaction processes. The companies have multiple common customers in the financial and insurance industries. The two software companies will roll out a family of integration modules beginning in early 2001 that will combine FileNET's eProcess and eContent infrastructure with the Vignette V/5 Content Management Server, Vignette V/5 Lifecycle Personalization Server and Vignette V/5 Relationship Marketing Server to create interaction-intensive applications such as Web-based loan processing and risk management. FileNET will integrate through the Vignette Application Foundation layer to create its own suite of applications targeting the financial services and insurance industry. The applications will add intelligent response and eMarketing features to FileNET's process management platform, providing customers with up-sell and cross-sell opportunities. www.FileNET.com, www.vignette.com

Microsoft Exchange 2000; Tahoe Beta Available
10/10/2000

Microsoft Corp. announced that the Exchange 2000 product line is now generally available to customers, developers, partners and ASPs worldwide. The following are among the new features and enhancements for Exchange 2000: Instant messaging with presence information. Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server enables workers to schedule, manage and participate in multiparty voice, video and data conferences. The Outlook Web Access client gives users convenient access to e-mail, appointments and contacts from any Internet-connected PC. Enhancements include additional Outlook behaviors such as drag-and-drop capability and improvements by tenfold in scalability and performance. An extended platform for unified messaging makes possible a single inbox for the management of all important business communications including e-mail, voice mail and fax. Exchange 2000 also supports voice profile for Internet messaging (VPIM), enabling interoperability between separate voice mail systems. The announcement includes related products: Local Web Storage System, Mobile Information 2001 Server, a new server application code-named "Tahoe," and a new visual development tool code-named "Office Designer" -- which all take advantage of the new Web Storage System, a native XML information repository. "Tahoe," delivers a flexible portal solution, enables users to easily find, share and publish information. Key design functionality of "Tahoe" includes: Search and organization; "Tahoe" includes an out-of-the-box Digital Dashboard-based portal providing one-step access to business-critical information. Using Web Parts, the portal can be customized with information and resources most valuable to users' jobs. The search technology simplifies finding and aggregating information from across the company's other "Tahoe" servers, Exchange public folders, file servers, intranet servers and Internet servers, as well as Lotus Domino databases. Documents can be checked-in and checked-out, sent through an approval process and published to the "Tahoe" portal from within Office 2000, "Office 10," a Web browser or the Microsoft Windows Explorer. Built on the Web Storage System, "Tahoe" provides developers with a set of services for building Web-based collaborative applications using common tools and interfaces. Exchange 2000 Server, Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server and Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server are available in the following languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. Evaluation versions are at www.microsoft.com/exchange/productinfo/eval.htm. The "Tahoe" beta is available at www.microsoft.com/servers/tahoe. General "Tahoe" availability is scheduled for the first half of 2001.

IT & EC Industries Announce RosettaNet Implementation
10/10/2000

More than 60 companies with headquarters in Asia, Europe and the Americas are gathering to announce success in implementing global e-business process standards within the IT and electronic components (EC) industries. Organized around "10.10.2000," a milestone marking production-system implementation of RosettaNet standards, this gathering of supply chain partners and solution partners represents substantial industry-wide participation and velocity. Approximately 80 percent of IT and EC Board Member companies have connected with trading partners to implement RosettaNet Partner Interface Processes (PIPs). RosettaNet PIPs are system-to-system XML-based dialogs critical to aligning business processes in the supply chain. Working in concert with trading partners are solution providers who deliver system integration, software development and consulting services; RosettaNet membership contains nearly 150 Solution Partner companies that are committed to speeding adoption of RosettaNet standards. The creation this month of a Semiconductor Manufacturing (SM) Board extends the reach of RosettaNet through the design and manufacture of semiconductors used in a wide range of computer and electronic systems. RosettaNet will also roll out a new PIP assembly line methodology designed to accelerate development and input processes. www.rosettanet.org

Percussion & Information Architects to Offer B2B Content Delivery
10/10/2000

Percussion Software and Information Architects (iA) announced a partnership that will allow their customers to manage content in real time on the Internet. The combination of iA's SmartCode and Percussions' Rhythmyx Content Manager enable companies to integrate content from disparate data sources and effectively manage and publish the content for various audiences in real time. In addition, Percussion will license iA's PDF-to-HTML converter in order to offer customers the ability to dynamically convert Adobe PDF files into HTML. Rhythmyx utilizes XML and XSL as enabling technologies, complementing iA's SmartCode. The integrated solution leverages next-generation XML, XSL and Java technologies to provide companies with the means to more effectively develop, manage and deploy Web sites that enable information flow from any content source to any audience. Together they offer the combination of real time syndication and aggregation of content from any data source to any Web site or connected device -- browser, mobile phone or PDA -- with "on-the-fly" transformation to meet the formatting requirements of each site or device without having to repeat the business logic. www.percussion.com, www.ia.com

Context Media Integrates Content Through Dreamweaver
10/10/2000

Context Media, Inc., announced a new technology promotion agreement between the two companies, Context Media will enable Macromedia Dreamweaver and Dreamweaver UltraDev users to easily acquire compelling, syndicated rich-media content through the Context Media Interchange Platform, and automatically integrate this content into their Web pages and applications. For the 70 percent of professional Web developers who already use Macromedia Dreamweaver this feature will make it even easier to create compelling, sticky web sites by easily adding syndicated audio, video and animated content elements into their Web development process. The Interchange Platform aggregates rich media content from creative development companies, giving them the ability to create new sources of revenue by providing a powerful new way to license, manage and distribute their assets to partners and affiliates. The Interchange Platform goes beyond simple encoding, logging, tagging, streaming and syndicating of rich-media content assets. Instead, it gives companies the ability to draw on the strengths of all those basic processes and build on them to create new business models and generate new sources of revenue from high-value content assets. Using XML, Context Media is helping companies create, manage and distribute Intelligent Content that can deliver value to multiple points and on multiple platforms. www.contextmedia.com

Eprise & Ektron Join Forces on Content Management Solution
10/10/2000

Eprise Corporation and Ektron, Inc. announced an OEM partnership whereby Ektron's eWebEditPro WYSIWYG Web edit tool will be embedded into the next release of Eprise Participant Server. By joining forces, the two companies extend Eprise Participant Server's support for non-technical business users. Ektron's technology allows non-technical business professionals using Eprise Participant Server to gain a new level of sophistication in their ability to create Web content and publish it directly to their site -- while working within stylistic parameters set forth by the corporate Webmaster. eWebEditPro's familiar editing toolbar allows users to format text, create tables, check spelling, insert images, create hyperlinks and more. IT staff can maintain necessary controls by configuring the solution to ensure that the overall look and feel of the site remains intact. www.ektron.com, www.eprise.com

IntraNet Solutions Partners with RESoft
10/10/2000

IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced that it has formed a strategic relationship with RESoft, Inc. IntraNet Solutions' Xpedio Content Management system will be an integral component of RESoft's new document management suite of products, REDocs. REDocs enables real estate owners and operators to easily manage property and portfolio information in a secure Web-based environment, as well as offer their customers, employees, partners and vendors access to real estate information through any Internet browser anytime from anywhere in the world. REDocs is sold to end users under an ASP model. REDocs users can enhance core real estate business processes such as leasing, property management, vendor procurement, acquisition, disposition and financing. Content is converted to Web formats that users can then access from any Internet-connected device. In addition, the Xpedio-powered REDocs system offers security, search capabilities, subscriptions and version management, as well as other robust business content management features. IntraNet Solutions also has granted RESoft rights to resell all IntraNet Solutions products to the commercial real estate industry in the U.S. and Canada. www.resoftinc.com, www.intranetsolutions.com

Poet Sells Content Management Suite Product Line to Sorman
10/5/2000

The Content Management Suite (CMS) product line of POET Holdings, Inc. was sold to Sorman Information AB, Vaxjo, a Swedish company. The agreement provides that Sorman will assume the intellectual property rights for CMS worldwide except for the United States, Canada and South Korea and the obligations associated with the European CMS customer base. Sorman has a six month exclusive option to assume the intellectual property rights for the United States and Canada. The agreement includes a license fee arrangement which would provide license revenues to POET based upon future CMS sales by Sorman within the next three years. In addition, Sorman has entered into a license agreement for the POET Object Server Suite (OSS). www.poet.com

Hmmm… Why? The intense competition at the high-end, or to concentrate on e-catalog solutions? We suspect both.

O2 Essential Marketing Technologies to Acquire Content Management System
10/4/2000

O2 Essential Marketing Technologies announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of a proprietary electronic Content Management System (eCMS) from affinity-based content provider ChannelSpace Entertainment. The electronic Content Management System (eCMS) works with virtually any knowledge source to automate manual processes such as Web production (with audio, video, image and text content from thousands of contributors), auditing, access control, site review, and accounting. O2 will hold eCMS as a subsidiary. This forthcoming acquisition occurs as part of a larger effort to position O2 as a top provider of technologies that enable content rich, interactive Web experiences. Building upon its core 3D shopping technology, which uses proprietary digital photography and programming to produce a fluid full-range rotational view of selected products, the addition of eCMS offers O2 the unique ability to offer complete end-to-end solutions spanning traditional content, broadcast, and commerce. This combination of strong technology and innovative marketing tools provides O2 with a strong base from which to grow their business. Internet users require more personalized content, yet the people associated with maintaining and adding that content can be prohibitive. The essential nature of the eCMS technology is as a cost-effective content management application that is targeted to small- to mid-sized companies that either do not have large IT staffs or cannot afford the large upfront license and monthly maintenance fees associated with competing products. Also announced today was the appointment of Jeff Laskowski to General Manager of the forthcoming eCMS division of O2. www.o2emt.com

Madge.web & Magnifi to Provide Content Management & Marketing Collaboration
10/4/2000

Madge.web, a subsidiary of Madge Networks N.V. has entered into a strategic alliance with Magnifi. The alliance will provide businesses with premium service, rich content management solutions and project management tools to support the end-to-end marketing process -- from strategic planning and creative development to program execution and assessment. Madge.web has also agreed to make an investment in Magnifi by the end of the fourth quarter. Magnifi's workflow, brand and asset management extranet solutions are tailored to the marketing environment, enabling global marketing teams to collaborate online with each other, their agencies and partners around the world. In addition, companies can digitally store massive volumes of marketing material online, such as TV commercial footage or print advertising designs, for worldwide, client-secure retrieval. These services help companies to streamline brand management and marketing campaigns and reduce time to market. As part of the strategic alliance, Madge.web will integrate Magnifi's solutions into its global, managed infrastructure, the "Overnet." These content management solutions are designed to complement Madge.web's other services for all stages of the rich content value chain (encompassing content creation, management and marketing). These other services, which are also integrated in Madge.web's Overnet, include virtual private networking, managed hosting, encoding services, content distribution including streaming media, and Internet advertising solutions. Under the alliance, Madge.web is also Magnifi's exclusive partner in Europe for sales and support, enabling Magnifi to expand their services to the region. First services resulting from the alliance are planned for availability by the first quarter of 2001. www.magnifi.com, www.madgeweb.com

Content management for marketing. The content management need/market is big enough that we'll see a lot more such targeted solutions.

Excosoft Announces Availability of Excosoft Content Manager
10/4/2000

Excosoft AB announced the availability of Excosoft Content Manager, a fast, flexible and scalable document management system. Excosoft Content Manager is the first of three of the company's planned packaged offerings, which also includes Excosoft Web Publisher and Excosoft Documentation System. A common feature of each offering is that they all leverage the latest Web technology to enable organizations to create, update, reuse, repurpose, and publish business critical information. Available immediately, Excosoft Content Manager enables businesses to cost-effectively communicate and coordinate information across globally distributed business units, as well as with their customers, partners, and suppliers. Excosoft Content Manager manages vast amounts of unstructured information with support for creation, administration, storage, publishing, and workflow. Excosoft Content Manager is a standards based content management system, which being designed to integrate with existing systems can be deployed quickly and easily. Moreover, the modular architecture of Excosoft Content Manager can be easily tailored to meet the specific requirements of an organization for performance and functionality. www.excosoft.com

ATG & BEA to Incorporate Interwoven Components
10/3/2000

Interwoven, Inc. announced the launch of its newest partner initiative to embed application specific content management functionality with providers of eBusiness applications. Available immediately, Interwoven is offering components of its product suite to eBusiness application providers who need robust, proven content management solutions to complete their offerings. The initiative is aimed at eBusiness application providers who service the Global 2000 and have a need for a targeted content management solution customized to the unique requirements of their application suites. Two new partners to take advantage of the initiative are eBusiness application providers Art Technology Group (ATG) and BEA Systems, Inc. BEA and Interwoven have entered into an agreement to expand their existing partnership with a more comprehensive personalized eCommerce solution. This solution will provide seamless, out-of-the-box content management included with BEA WebLogic Commerce Server 3.1. This new initiative will allow end users to capitalize on the time advantage of having pre-tested and bundled solutions of applications and content management available from a single point of contact. www.interwoven.com, www.bea.com, www.atg.com

One wonders what Interwoven's strategy is for balancing OEMing their technology (not just here) and direct sales. At some point there will be channel conflict.

Agile Announces Agile Integration Server
10/3/2000

Agile Software Corporation announced the Agile Integration Server (AIS), an XML-based integration solution that makes the valuable product content held in Agile Anywhere available to a wide range of business applications and users, both internally and across the global manufacturing network. The Agile Integration Server (AIS) enables users to take every possible business advantage of their valuable Agile-based product information, utilizing it in design, planning, shop floor, field support, CRM, and order entry applications, as well as in collaborative manufacturing. By leveraging this information across the entire supply chain, Agile customers can rapidly expand the value of their Agile Anywhere-based private collaboration exchanges. The Agile Integration Server enables the integration of product information held in Agile with: Individual XML-compliant applications on a case-by-case basis, EAI solutions, or Business to Business Integration (B2Bi) solutions. AIS communicates with XML-compliant applications using HTTP and SSL, making AIS both firewall friendly and highly secure. The AIS generates XML output in several Internet-standard XML-based formats, including aXML and PDX 0.7, as well as other XML-based formats, such as RosettaNet PIPs, OAG BODs, and cXML via XSLT, allowing Agile customers to easily exchange product content with both commodity and custom sourcing networks, such as PartMiner's Free Trade Zone and Ariba Sourcing. www.agilesoft.com

Documentum & BEA Unveil Bundled Web Content Management
10/3/2000

Documentum announced that a limited license version of the newly launched Documentum 4i Web Content Management (WCM) Edition will come bundled with BEA WebLogic Commerce Server 3.1 and BEA WebLogic Personalization Server 3.1 from BEA Systems, Inc. This edition will be available for download from www.bea.com later this month. The bundling of Documentum and BEA products will provide businesses with a complementary solution for building e-commerce Web sites that can serve and manage dynamic, timely, and highly personalized content. With out-of-the-box content management, customers of the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform will have an immediate solution for creating and delivering e-commerce content. The limited license version installs the Documentum products and BEA integration with a single click, and also includes sample web site content, pre-configured workflows and lifecycles. It also comes complete with a tutorial that shows how to use the Documentum products with the sample web site. The bundled solution simplifies multiple site updates, accelerates delivery of content to multiple targets, and extends content consistency across a company's Web sites, both internal and external, making the right content available in the right place at the right time. www.documentum.com

NQL to Offer Enterprise Content Management Platform
10/3/2000

NQL Inc. announced that it is preparing an enterprise content management platform for release in the first quarter of 2001. As an out-of-the-box enterprise solution, the NQL IQ ContentAnywhere software will be targeted toward large-scale clients such as solution providers, VARs, portal companies and e-integrators, as well as vertical markets. NQL deployments already underway include licensing of the core technology called Network Query Language and IQ Series applications that represent various elements of the content management platform. NQL IQ ContentAnywhere software collects content from both the Internet and corporate networks through agents, which are powered by the company's core technology. The platform consists of content aggregation and delivery layers, an intelligent content cache, and a taxonomy. The taxonomy describes content in terms of categories, access names, information sources, lifetime, and a collection schedule. For desktop PC users, the platform enables insertion of all content types into mail messages, word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation systems, to name a few examples. For lesser-known applications, a desktop content browser is provided for users to select content by name and copy to a clipboard and paste into applications. For application developers, NQL IQ ContentAnywhere software provides APIs for Visual Basic and Java. Automated communications between applications, systems and organizations are accommodated by web services such as Microsoft.NET. For web sites on NT servers, NQL IQ ContentAnywhere software provides filters that enable new tags for content that can be embedded in HTML pages for on-the-fly acquisition. The platform also provides content viewers for mobile devices such as connected Palm devices, pocket PCs and WAP smart phones. www.nqli.com

We are always suspicious of "out-of-the-box" software, especially "enterprise" software, but we look forward to a new entrant in the content management space.

Alpnet Releases Globelix
10/3/2000

ALPNET, Inc. announced the release of GLOBELIX, a fully integrated translation database system. A client-server application for enterprise-wide globalization and localization management, GLOBELIX allows companies to get their products faster to worldwide markets by significantly reducing the time it takes to translate product information. GLOBELIX connects an unlimited number of translators and users in a globally networked environment, offering significant advantages over first-generation translation memory and productivity tools, which provide isolated functionality on a workstation level. GLOBELIX also allows linking of language resource data in an unlimited number of languages and allows searches of language combinations in all directions. The technology can be integrated into most enterprise applications, like content management, ERP systems, and corporate Intranets. GLOBELIX allows translators, authors and information users to connect to a central database and share localized content over the Internet and VPNs. GLOBELIX uses Oracle's 8i engine as the translation database backbone. It provides the functions of alignment of text and management of language resource data on various component levels. A complete Unicode-based model, GLOBELIX is SGML/XML-optimized and compatible with most other business document formats. It can easily be integrated within corporate workflow systems, content management and authoring systems, and other enterprise application systems. The GLOBELIX Editor is a thin Java-based 'client' software program that allows translators to utilize all the power of the GLOBELIX technology on their remote workstation without having to load and maintain the hefty functionality on their local PC. www.alpnet.com

Could be a good fit for a content management vendor who uses 8i.

Adobe & Interwoven to Integrate TeamSite & GoLive
10/2/2000

Adobe Systems Incorporated and Interwoven, Inc. announced an alliance to integrate their respective Web development and Web content management products. The first joint development effort of the alliance will focus on Adobe GoLive 5.0 and Interwoven TeamSite software. The integration of GoLive and TeamSite will allow content contributors to easily author and manage large volumes of content while working directly within GoLive 5.0. From within GoLive, users can take advantage of enterprise-class content management features such as metadata tagging, locking and submission. The GoLive and TeamSite extension, leveraging the extensible architecture of GoLive 5.0, provides Web contributors with an integrated environment to build compelling dynamic sites in less time. Additionally, TeamSite's hybrid architecture currently enables users of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and Adobe Illustrator to take advantage of advanced content management features such as asset auditing, Smart-Context QA and secure deployment. www.interwoven.com, www.adobe.com

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