News For December, 2001

XOR Inc. announced the release of Open Content 2.0, a content management solution "without the costs and sophisticated technical support they often require." Open Content 2.0 is a simple content management tool that is modestly priced, easy to implement, and enables content owners to update web-based content in real-time. It is especially well-suited to the middle-market and individual units of the Fortune 500 that can't or don't want to invest in elaborate content management solutions that are expensive to implement and maintain. Content managers can easily add pages, create and update information, and change the navigation of a site in real-time without any involvement from the technical team. Through a dynamic workflow process, teams can create, edit, preview and approve content in a staging area before it is posted for end users. Open Content 2.0 is available on both Microsoft and Java platforms; the Java version works with popular application platforms like WebSphere, Apache/Tomcat, ATG Dynamo and BEA WebLogic. www.xor.com

TopicalNet Acquires TeraLytics
12/20/2001

TopicalNet, Inc. has agreed to purchase substantially all of the assets of TeraLytics of Sunnyvale, California. Through the acquisition, customers will benefit from the combination of TopicalNet's ability to understand and classify electronic content and TeraLytics' highly scalable data analysis technology. TeraLytics' technology analyzes detailed customer interaction data to help customers define strategies and actions, enabling them to increase revenue and customer satisfaction. www.TopicalNet.com

Ascential Announces Support for BusinessObjects Application Foundation 2.5
12/20/2001

Ascential Software Corporation announced its support for the release of BusinessObjects Application Foundation 2.5 from Business Objects. Application Foundation 2.5 offers users a framework for building dashboards and real-time analytics into their applications, enabling quick access to and easy visualization of customers' critical business metrics. DataStage accesses and extracts data from multiple data sources, including enterprise applications, XML or e-business data, Web and e-mail logs, flat files, mainframes and data warehouse environments. DataStage also allows Business Objects customers to manage and bi-directionally exchange meta data within their business intelligence environments. www.ascentialsoftware.com

Engenium Integrates Stellent's Outside In
12/19/2001

Stellent Inc. announced that Engenium, a developer of information search and retrieval tools, has integrated the Stellent Outside In Content Access technology with Engenium's Semetric intelligent information retrieval technology. Engenium embedded the Stellent Outside In Content Access technology into HireReasoning, Engenium's Semetric-powered application. Outside In Content Access automatically extracts unstructured resume content from documents in more than 225 file formats. Semetric then employs analytic techniques to understand the content of the resulting text. Semetric is a conceptual matching technology created using a blend of Machine Learning, Vector Space Modeling, dynamic indexing and other high-level mathematical models. It works by mapping relationships between each word and every single other word in large sets of documents. This association of words based on the context in which they are used creates a form of numeric "meaning" and "understanding" for the software. www.stellent.com, www.engenium.com

Latitude360 Partners with Documentum
12/19/2001

Latitude360 announced that Latitude360 is now a Documentum Technology Partner. The two companies' expanded partnership will maximize the ability of customers to fuel content to multiple enterprise applications using Documentum 4i eBusiness Platform as the central content repository. Enterprise application integrations for software such as Siebel, SAP, and Lotus Notes enable Latitude360 to deliver the content management functionality of Documentum 4i eBusiness Platform to existing enterprise applications. The Documentum eContent server integrates with these applications through customized Documentum eConnectors implemented by Latitude360. End users can access relevant corporate content from the Documentum repository through one familiar client application, such as Siebel eBusiness Applications or Lotus Notes, rather than two separate client applications. www.documentum.com, www.latitude360.com

Inktomi Announces Enterprise Search 4.3
12/19/2001

Inktomi Corp. announced enhancements to Inktomi Enterprise Search software as well as an end-to-end solution for optimizing and searching corporate content. Inktomi Enterprise Search 4.3 includes an interface for indexing metadata created in content management and classification applications, the ability to insert direct links to popular documents in search results and expanded support for database content. Additionally, the company introduced Inktomi Search Architect Edition, a solution that combines Inktomi Enterprise Search with content optimization tools to automate the process of developing easy-to-search content. Inktomi Search Architect Edition combines Watchfire Enterprise Solution with Inktomi Enterprise Search 4.3 for automating the practice of preparing content for search engine indexing. Inktomi Search Architect Edition automatically scans and analyzes enterprise content for problems that can impact its ability to be searched and quickly and accurately adds keyword metadata (such as page titles, alt tags, author tags and description tags) to improve the accessibility and ranking of that content. Inktomi Enterprise Search 4.3 and Inktomi Search Architect Edition are available immediately. www.inktomi.com/products/search

Zycus Announces Release of AutoClass
12/19/2001

Zycus announced the release of AutoClass, a classification solution for e-Catalogs. AutoClass will assist marketers to accurately analyze spending patterns by product and supplier as well as provide a common platform for mapping different supplier and buyer plans to UNSPSC. AutoClass achieves this through a database engine that removes the concepts and then categorizes the product by statistically linking the models to product categories. The speed of automatic classification (100,000 documents per hour) enables rapid enablement. The AI based classification engine is trained on millions of product items where it separates statistically significant patterns. Built-in libraries and embedded domain intelligence help in automatic and accurate classification of the supplier’s/client’s plan into UNSPSC at a reduced cost, while version control is made possible through continuous update every two weeks. AutoClass is language and domain independent, and can process e-Catalogs on a real time basis using a web interface. www.zycus.com

Context Media and Avaltus Partner for E-Learning Solution
12/19/2001

Context Media, Inc. and Avaltus, Inc. announced a new partnership agreement in which the companies have paired to offer an end-to-end solution for the management and distribution of e-learning content. The combined solution will support the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) initiative, which provides a standard to enable the interoperability of learning materials online. Avaltus' technology, a Java/XML-based LCMS, unifies learning content across the enterprise into a data repository allowing organizations to convert massive amounts of information presently stagnating on corporate networks into interactive, stimulating and reusable learning content. www.contextmedia.com, www.avaltus.com

Watchfire Partners With Interwoven
12/18/2001

Watchfire announced that they have formed an alliance with Interwoven, Inc. The integration of Watchfire's Website Management software and Interwoven TeamSite software allows customers to automatically scan their web content for integrity issues before going live on a site. Automating manual testing benefits customers by lowering production costs and by catching issues before they are posted to a website, reducing the need to re-edit live content. By inserting an automated compliance step into the workflow process, integrity issues can be identified and fixed early in the process. The alliance will allow enterprises to incorporate Watchfire's Website Management software into their workflow process and analyze legacy content for issues that could impact site effectiveness and potentially expose the company to corporate risk. www.interwoven.com, www.watchfire.com

Requisite Launches Self-Service Content Creation & Management Tools
12/18/2001

Requisite Technology, Inc., announced the commercial release of its factory tools and paper catalog publishing capabilities. The new eMerge content management system modules are: eMerge Content Workstation, which places Requisite's catalog tools in the hands of procurement and e-marketplace customers who manage large volumes of product and service information, and eMerge Publishing XTension, which integrates Requisite's electronic content management capabilities with QuarkXPress. Requisite also announced the second generation of its eMerge Contract Manager 2.0. The new version includes enhancements to build contracts, manage customized contract information, create flexible pricing models and handle complex catalog items.www.requisite.com

Vignette Announces New Consulting & Education Services
12/18/2001

Vignette Corp. announced the availability of new global education and consulting services to help customers successfully plan, deploy and maintain Vignette V6 and the Vignette Enterprise Application Portal. Vignette has released new Web-based training on advanced technical topics, such as Upgrading to the Vignette Content Suite V6 and Advanced JSP Programming for the Vignette Content Suite V6. Vignette also introduced a free Competency Assessment and Roadmap service to help customers and partners identify enablement needs for the entire implementation team. In addition to new education services, Vignette also now offers specialized consulting services, called Advanced Services, to customers and partners who want to enhance their Internet applications around specific business objectives. Vignette Advanced Services include Vignette Globalization Strategy Service, Vignette Portal Planning Strategy Service, Vignette Personalization Strategy Service, and Vignette Performance Service. www.vignette.com/services

AltaVista Software Announces IBM WebSphere Support
12/18/2001

AltaVista Software announced the availability of AltaVista Enterprise Search and AltaVista.com search capabilities for IBM's WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal. AltaVista's integration with WebSphere Application Server allows AltaVista Software to become the user's default technology and is accessible to any application layered onto this foundation. Within the WebSphere Portal, AltaVista Software delivers integrations, or "portlets", to give customers, secure, single point access to content. The AltaVista Software search portlets provide an interface that supports simultaneous queries of multiple sources of information, including databases, documents, intranets and the Internet. Customers using IBM WebSphere Portal Server can now download the pre-integrated portlets. http://www7b.software.ibm.com/webapp/portlets/portletemarketplace, http://solutions.altavista.com

DataConcert Announces Web Service for Data Transformation
12/18/2001

DataConcert, Inc. announced general availability of Transform.DataConcert.com -- a data transformation Web Service. Built using DataConcert's Conductor Trading Partner Integration Manager, the site enables guests and registered users to convert their business data to a common set of supported formats, including CSV, EDI, xCBL and other XML vocabularies. The site allows un-registered users to submit and transform business data via a browser or the Web Services interface. Registered users can upload their own schemas, XSL Transformations (XSLT), and example data and then execute their transforms using either a browser or the Web Services interface. DataConcert's enterprise integration software is based on XML and the Microsoft .NET platform. DataConcert also provides the transformation packs that allow the bi-directional exchange of data between two disparate formats (e.g. EDI X12 to Microsoft Great Plains). www.dataconcert.com

Cytura Announces Partnership With Garcia Media
12/17/2001

Cytura Corporation announced a partnership with Garcia Media. As part of the partnership, Garcia Media has selected Contenuity V4 as the technology base for its Internet offerings. With Contenuity V4, Garcia Media can narrow the technology learning curve associated with the transition of information from print to online and minimize the financial investments required. Garcia Media will also use Contenuity V4 to deploy its own Web site by early 2002. www.garcia-media.com, www.cytura.com

Adobe Announces Acrobat Distiller Server 5.0
12/17/2001

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced Adobe Acrobat Distiller Server 5.0. The new product provides a centralized, server-based solution for high-volume Adobe PostScript to Adobe PDF file conversion. Distiller Server 5.0 gives IT and creative professionals greater control over large-scale Adobe PDF creation through enhanced document security options, sophisticated font and language support, tools for simplified administration, and support for XML. IT professionals who incorporate Acrobat Distiller Server 5.0 as part of document management systems benefit from improved support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP, granular file security options, and support for XML metadata. Acrobat Distiller Server 5.0 is expected to ship by the end of January 2002 in English, French, German, and Japanese versions for Windows NT 4.0 with service pack 5 or 6, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and in English for Sun Solaris 2.6, 7 and 8, and Red Hat Linux 6.x and 7.1. The product will be offered in 100-user and unlimited-user versions. Pricing for 100 users will begin at an estimated street price of US$5,000, with licensing pricing for larger purchases as low as US$4,250. Pricing for unlimited users will begin at an estimated street price of US$15,000, with licensing pricing as low as US$12,750. Customers who purchase Acrobat Distiller Server 4.0 between Nov. 15, 2001 and 90 days of today's announcement will be eligible for a free upgrade to Acrobat Distiller Server 5.0. www.adobe.com/products/acrdis/main.html

OASIS Technical Committee to Adopt CRML
12/17/2001

The OASIS Customer Information Quality (CIQ) Technical Committee announced that it has accepted the submission of CRML, the XML vocabulary specification that defines customer relationships. Originally developed by MSI Business Solutions Pty. Ltd., CRML provides an open, application- and vendor-independent method for describing any type of customer relationship. The OASIS CIQ Technical Committee plans to adopt CRML into its family of customer information specifications including xCIL and xNAL, which define unique customer characteristics. Under the CRML standard, a customer can be a person or an organization. CRML accommodates complex customer relationships including person-to-person, person-to-business, and business-to-business. www.oasis-open.org

Glides Teams With Hitext
12/13/2001

Glides, Inc. announced a partnership with Hitext S.A. that will enable Hitext to more effectively help their customers manage the multilingual content of their Web sites. When marketing staff use UniSite to update a section of content in the primary language, the software automatically detects the content change and triggers a workflow process that guides content owners (marketing professionals, management etc.) across each of the languages through review, approval and publishing of the updated content. XML-based technology allows translated content to be placed appropriately within the Web site. As a UniSite partner, Hitext's localization teams will become translation service providers electronically integrated into the workflow system for Web content localization. UniSite Web Center is delivered as a software service so customers pay a low monthly subscription fee for use of UniSite based on the size of their site. www.glides.com, www.hitext.com

SDL Announces Integration with Microsoft Content Management Server
12/13/2001

SDL International announced SDLWebFlow for Microsoft Content Management Server. The integration is a complete solution for managing the timely delivery of multilingual Web content across linguistic, cultural and national boundaries, and provides a unified user interface for content creation, management, localization and globalization. SDLWebFlow provides automated workflow and project management functionality to facilitate and streamline the localization and synchronized translation of multilingual web content. The combination of Microsoft Content Management Server and SDLWebFlow provides change detection and process management capabilities which automatically initiate global processes to alert translators, reviewers, legal staff, authorizers, project managers and other key personnel to ensure that correct changes are made for the right country, language and locale. SDLWebFlow for Microsoft Content Management Server is available for purchase today from SDL. For information on SDL, SDLWebFlow, and SDLWebFlow for Microsoft Content Management Server. www.sdlintl.com

Vignette & Telecom Italia Form Strategic Alliance
12/13/2001

Vignette Corp. and Telecom Italia announced a strategic partnership. Combining the Vignette Content Suite V6 and Telecom Italia hosting services, the companies intend to serve the online business needs of the top 2,000 Italian companies. Telecom Italia, through its dedicated cybercenters, will bring to market an offering including broadband access, IP services, Web and application hosting -- a complete e-business enabling platform, on which selected system integrators can develop customized solutions. This strategic alliance is focused on the IP outsourcing model, which combines the benefit of the pure ASP model -- software as a service, no internally managed infrastructure, better time to market -- with the business requirements of corporate customers -- service level agreements, business continuity and a dedicated software and hardware infrastructure. Through the partnership with TI's e-business solution, Vignette Content Suite's V6 content management applications are being delivered on a hosting basis. www.vignette.com

Interwoven Announces MetaTagger 3.0
12/12/2001

Interwoven, Inc. announced the release of MetaTagger 3.0. With MetaTagger 3.0, Interwoven delivers a complete solution to automatically capture, classify and control metadata enterprise-wide. MetaTagger 3.0 includes automated taxonomy discovery including a visual vocabulary builder, automated tagging and seamless integration with Interwoven’s Content Infrastructure products including TeamSite, TeamSite Templating and OpenDeploy software. MetaTagger examines collections of legacy content and automatically discovers a custom taxonomy, and provides a visual environment to easily search, edit and tune these custom-generated taxonomies. This provides customers with the ability to easily edit existing vocabularies or build new ones from scratch. MetaTagger’s ability to automatically tag content based on recognition, classification and pre-defined business rules, enables businesses to quickly capture and classify complete metadata for all content. Interwoven also announced new technology alliances with search vendors AltaVista, Inktomi and iPhrase. www.interwoven.com

Inktomi & Interwoven to Deliver Integrated Publishing & Searching
12/12/2001

Inktomi Corp. and Interwoven, Inc. announced an agreement to deliver a combined solution that will offer an enhanced search experience by providing access to the most current and accurate corporate content. The Inktomi-Interwoven alliance will enable Inktomi Enterprise Search to immediately index documents managed by Interwoven TeamSite and MetaTagger. The alliance will more closely link the content creation and discovery process by enabling Inktomi Enterprise Search to automatically index documents managed by Interwoven's content management software. The search engine will instantly crawl new documents as soon as they are published, allowing enterprises to maintain a more current index and ensure that users have immediate access to new corporate information. Inktomi Enterprise Search will also utilize the metadata created and captured by Interwoven TeamSite and MetaTagger solutions. www.interwoven.com, www.inktomi.com.

SoftQuad Announces XMetaL 3
12/11/2001

SoftQuad Software, Ltd. announced XMetaL 3, a major upgrade to its XML content creation software. The new version features ease-of-use and collaboration capabilities for content authors and provides developers with an XML editor with a rich development environment that supports the W3C XML Schema. New features include: Revision Marking; Preview in HTML and PDF; Enhanced integration with Microsoft Office; and support for WebDAV. XMetaL 3's new developer features include: XMetaL Forms Toolkit; Java API; and support for both W3C Schema and DTDs. XMetaL 3 will be available in January 2002. New users can purchase XMetaL 3 for $495 (U.S.) per single user license; an upgrade is $195 (U.S.). XMetaL is sold directly and through authorized resellers. Volume discounts, site licenses, partner programs and on-site training are all available. www.softquad.com

Virage Delivers Video Publishing Product
12/11/2001

Virage, Inc. announced VS Publishing, a product for publishing web-based rich media. VS Publishing is built upon the company's video application platform. The new publishing solution offers a streamlined workflow with simple editorial control and greater web site programming capabilities. VS Publishing is available from Virage as either in-house software or as a hosted service. VS Publishing provides content owners with production and programming tools to create and deliver dynamic rich media programming to one or more web sites. The Virage solution give producers, editors or webmasters a web-based interface for selecting, building and posting content highlights from an archive or recently broadcast event onto any part of a web site in a matter of minutes. Virage also announced the release of VS Webcasting, a product that allows corporations to self-produce live and on-demand webcasting events such as executive communications, human resource broadcasts and market announcements. www.virage.com

Altova Announces XML Spy 4.2 Suite
12/11/2001

Altova, Inc. announced the release of the XML Spy 4.2 Suite, a comprehensive product-line of easy-to-use software tools, facilitating all aspects of advanced XML application development. The XML Spy 4.2 Suite consists of the XML Spy 4.2 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the XML Spy 4.2 XSLT Designer, and the XML Spy 4.2 Document Editor, a tool-set for all XML application development. XML Spy 4.2 Suite adds support for the newest XML technologies, including SOAP. XML Spy 4.2 Suite also adds support for advanced Microsoft XML parser technologies (MSXML4). XML Spy 4.2 Suite is designed to maximize the productivity of today’s software professionals by supporting all of the newest XML standards and technology platforms in a timely fashion at low-costs to the developer. The XML Spy 4.2 Suite is available immediately for download and purchase. www.xmlspy.com

Innodata Announces Acquisition of ISOGEN
12/10/2001

Innodata announced that it has acquired ISOGEN International from DataChannel, Inc. for approximately $1.3 million. The purchase price consists of an initial cash payment of approximately $650,000 and two promissory notes, each for $325,000, payable on April 30, 2002 and September 30, 2002, with interest. ISOGEN is based in Dallas, Texas, and has offices in Austin, Minneapolis and Bellevue, Washington. ISOGEN International specializes in sophisticated consulting and training in the knowledge-processing technologies of XML, SGML and other standards. ISOGEN International's 44 employees will operate as a new division of Innodata under George Kondrach, who co-founded ISOGEN International in 1991 and who will serve as the new division's President. www.innodata.com

Atomz Unveils New Features for Atomz Publish
12/10/2001

Atomz announced that Atomz Publish has been enhanced with several new features, including infinite versioning and visual version comparison, spell checking, increased integration with Atomz Search, scheduled updates and content inclusion. With Atomz's new infinite versioning capability, documents and templates within Atomz Publish can be stored and versioned indefinitely, and Web-content administrators can go back to any historical version of a file using the Revive, Revert, and Compare utilities. Atomz Search customers who use the Incremental Indexing feature can now link this feature directly into Atomz Publish. When Atomz Publish users make a change to any page, they can now schedule the page to go live on the Web site at a particular time. Publish previously offered the ability to approve the document for a particular time and date, but the actual deployment of that page depended on a site-wide publish to occur. www.atomz.com

Sane Releases NetTracker Data Conduit for Vignette
12/10/2001

Sane Solutions announced the availability of the NetTracker Data Conduit for Vignette. The NetTracker Data Conduit for Vignette provides direct integration between the NetTracker eBusiness Edition and Vignette's content management platforms, giving customers the ability to extract the valuable customer insight contained within the customized content served by Vignette and load it directly into NetTracker's dynamic Web summaries for e-business intelligence. The NetTracker Data Conduit for Vignette is available immediately, starting at $10,000, and includes on-site professional services including installation, configuration and training. www.sane.com

Jacada Adds XHTML with Release 7.1 of Interface Server
12/10/2001

Jacada Ltd. announced general availability of the Jacada Interface Server 7.1, which adds XHTML generation capability to Jacada's integrated user interface development and deployment environment. The Jacada Interface Server provides a common user interface layer for both new application development and existing legacy systems. Release 7.1 enables users to generate both Java source code and XHTML graphical user interfaces from a single design from a "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" (WYSIWYG) development environment. Pricing for the Jacada Interface Server 7.1 depends on individual configurations. Pricing starts at $4,500 per Interface Developer Kit and $30,000 per server for deployment. www.jacada.com

eContent 2.0 Adds New Content Management Features
12/10/2001

Jcorporate Ltd. announced that it is shipping a new release of eContent. Based on Java, eContent 2.0 includes enhancements to its web content management capabilities, and is now based on both Expresso and Struts, the two dominant OSS Java Web application development frameworks in use. eContent Release 2.0's new features shift content control to line-of-business users with an improved web browser-based user interface that allows users and developers to publish, maintain and update their Web content efficiently. eContent 2.0 now offers XML content management. Other eContent Release 2.0 features include enhanced workflow management, Struts integration, JavaServer Pages (JSP) template-based content presentation and deployment, enhanced meta-data handling and database publishing, customizable functionality for large and complex web sites, and enhanced virtual team collaboration. eContent v2.0 runs on Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows NT/2000/XP, MacOS and other platforms and is available for shipment immediately. www.jcorporate.com

Tridion ships DialogServer 4.4 in 5 languages
12/7/2001

Tridion announced that it would begin shipping an updated version of its core product, Tridion DialogServer 4.4. The paramount improvement in version 4.4 is the internationalisation and localisation of the software. This version launches Tridion DialogServer as fully localised in 5 languages: English, German, French, Spanish and Dutch. In addition to choosing the language of the interface, users can decide on a regional setting. This determines the way Tridion DialogServer handles sorting, number formatting, date formatting and validation. Language and Locale can be chosen on a per user basis and can be changed on the fly without interrupting the edit session. Microsoft SQL 2000 server has also been added to the list of supported platforms of Tridion DialogServer. www.tridion.com

XML Global Introduces Central Version of GoXML
12/7/2001

XML Global Technologies, Inc. announced the release of GoXML Transform Central, an extended e-Business transaction platform. GoXML Transform Central expands the capabilities of GoXML Transform Foundation by providing dynamic transformation solutions in Web Service environments. GoXML Transform Central is a modular and scalable platform that enables integration with back-end systems, partners, suppliers and customers using both business analyst and developer interfaces. Central also allows data transformations to be published as Web Services thereby permitting trading partners to more easily and efficiently transform and exchange crucial business data. GoXML Transform Central incorporates a variety of enabling technologies based on open standards for registries, message services and core component management. xmlglobal.com

Inktomi Announces Alliance with Documentum
12/6/2001

Inktomi Corp. announced an alliance with Documentum to deliver an integrated, scalable solution for accessing information across the enterprise and within Documentum 4i eBusiness Platform. The Documentum-Inktomi alliance provides enterprises with an integrated solution for finding, sharing and using all forms of content with customers, partners and employees regardless of where the information is located within the network. This integrated solution utilizes the Documentum user and role-based security system, enabling a single user profile to control both content management and retrieval access privileges. Inktomi's natural language search is compatible with hundreds of file formats, multiple languages and both structured and unstructured repositories such as databases, portals, content management systems, collaboration applications, security systems, file systems and Web servers. The integrated Documentum-Inktomi solution is available immediately. www.documentum.com, www.inktomi.com

Ektron Releases eMPower 3.5
12/6/2001

Ektron, Inc. announced the immediate availability of eMPower 3.5, the newest version of its Web content management application designed for small- to mid-sized organizations, corporate and departmental intranets/extranets, hosts and portal environments. New Features in eMPower Version 3.5 include: eWebEditPro 2.1 with new features including an international language utility, extended style sheet support and override option, and styles drop-down list; JavaScript Syndication; Macromedia Dreamweaver and Ultradev Extensions; Display Tag so any information in the database can be displayed maintenance-free and with any HTML/CSS formatting (ie; sitemaps, teasers, and reports.) Displayed information changes as content gets added, deleted, updated, or as viewing privileges are modified. and Turnkey Hosting. www.ektron.com

SDL & Gauss Cooperate
12/5/2001

SDL International announced a strategic partnership with Gauss Interprise AG. The pan-European agreement includes tight integration of SDL's WebFlow solution with Gauss' content management solution, VIP ContentManager (Versatile Internet Platform). SDLWebFlow extends the VIP Content Management Solution with capabilities for the management of multilingual content. The key benefit to customers combining the two solutions will be the ability to manage the operation of websites in almost any international language. www.sdlintl.com, www.gauss.de

Mediasurface Releases Mediasurface 4.0
12/5/2001

Mediasurface plc announced the release of Mediasurface 4.0. Mediasurface 4.0 includes options for the delivery of a customer’s dynamic content as a standard feature of the core product using the J2EE and XML, and provides flexibility to fix departmental or line-of-business needs for content management functionality. This delivery capability can stand alone or be run within an application server environment. Mediasurface 4.0 is agnostic with regard to the choice of delivery engine. In addition to the standards and core technology advances in Mediasurface 4.0, new business user functionality includes the content management console, a Web-based control panel that enables users to create and manage content and includes WYSIWYG capabilities and image browsing as standard. It allows authors to graphically view the current status of content items in the overall workflow and to handle approvals and content sign-off dynamically and rapidly. www.mediasurface.com

Mohomine Launches OEM Unstructured Data Management Software
12/5/2001

Mohomine Inc. announced the general availability of mohoClassifier v2.0, an OEM-able product targeted at enterprise application vendors and for usage in government applications. mohoClassifier v2.0 (mC), provides a modular solution that is integrated into applications, such as portals, document management, content management, customer relationship management, sales force automation, catalog and human resource management software applications. mC classifies information in emails, file systems, intranets and extranets, including the Internet. For Mohomine, extraction and classification are core competencies, providing scalability, accuracy and speed, along with simplified integration. mohoClassifier v2.0 is available now for English and Western European languages, with additional language support due in Q1 2002. mC can be licensed for usage in applications or ASP solutions as licensed software, or integrated into an existing application as a custom enterprise application. Pricing varies by OEM application. An evaluation version of the mohoClassifier v2.0 may be requested. www.mohomine.com

SAQQARA Announces ContentWorks 2.5
12/4/2001

SAQQARA Systems Inc. announced the release of SAQQARA ContentWorks 2.5, a product content management solution. SAQQARA ContentWorks 2.5 is a completely Web-based solution that enables product content creators, in any location, to build and maintain a product content repository using a content transformation wizard and content editor. ContentWorks features a new auto-classification engine for improved efficiency and accuracy that employs a content transformation wizard to guide the engine according to key words and phrases identified during product content input. Using training content and a taxonomy, product classification becomes automatic. As more descriptive terms are provided during training, accuracy increases. The Web-based content editor revises product information within the repository -- adding and deleting records or revising attributes. SAQQARA ContentWorks 2.5 is available immediately. Special upgrade pricing and maintenance agreements are available to current CommerceSuite customers. www.saqqara.com

ePlus Announces e-Commerce Catalog Content Framework
12/4/2001

ePlus, Inc. announced the availability of ePlus Content Framework, an extensible schema for the creation and management of eCommerce-enabled product catalogs. The ePlus Content Framework contains pre-defined product classifications, and enables users to match their business requirements by adding to or modifying the existing structure. The ePlus Content Framework provides a schema consisting of over 44,000 structured product classifications that facilitate the creation of user-friendly, intuitive, easy-to-navigate catalogs. ePlus Content classifications cover a wide range of commodities, attributes and coding to pinpoint and narrow the search for goods in a wide range of categories - from electrical and automotive equipment, to medical and hazardous material supplies, consumer goods, and more. The schema simplifies complex product information to enable easy creation of digital catalogs. Organizations can cross-reference product data with common terminology and standards such as the UN/SPSC or other pre-developed categorization scheme, ensuring standardized, reusable data. www.eplus.com

Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 Supports Oracle9i
12/4/2001

SERENA Software, Inc. announced that Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 has been certified with Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS). From self-service enterprise portals to high-traffic eStores and Internet Web sites, Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 and Oracle9iAS deliver a complete set of middle-tier services for Web code and content management. Serena designed Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 to work with Application Servers, such as Oracle9iAS, to simplify the process of developing and deploying dynamic Web environments. Additionally, Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 integrates with Oracle9i Database to provide UNIX customers with a single metadata repository. Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 provides the infrastructure to manage both software code and Web content from a single point of control. Serena ChangeMan WCM incorporates change management tools along with content creation facilities. www.serena.com

Cytura Announces Contenuity Version-4
12/3/2001

Cytura Corporation announced Contenuity Version-4, its XML-based enterprise content management platform. Contenuity is the centerpiece of Cytura’s content management strategy, combining document management, Web services and a portal platform with end-user functionality. Business users can ingest any type of analog or digital information, and manage all aspects of extended content management without scripting code. Contenuity is architected using technologies like XML, SOAP, and WSDL. A robust Extensible Object Engine, in combination with relational database tables and an LDAP directory structure, provides technology that can support a scalable, extendable, personalized, internationalized, Web application platform. The Contenuity platform is available for $150,000.00 base price. Cytura’s pricing model is customer driven for instances requiring development, training or business continuity processor licensing. www.cytura.com

Idiom & ATRIL to Deliver Translation & Globalization Solutions
12/3/2001

Idiom Technologies, Inc. and ATRIL announced a joint development partnership to share core technologies and competencies in order to develop products to serve the needs of the globalization marketplace. The partnership creates a centralized, shareable, enterprise-level translation memory (TM) system. TM allows translators to reuse previously translated text. An enterprise-level TM enables companies to treat translations as a corporate asset and leverage all previous work done by in-house personnel or external vendors and freelance translators. Idiom has integrated the new TM technology, as well as ATRIL's Deja Vu linguistic technology components, with its WorldServer Web infrastructure software. ATRIL will benefit from the partnership by offering the new enterprise-level translation memory and terminology database as a stand-alone server in ATRIL's new Deja Vu X product family. The new Deja Vu X Remote Server will allow customers to share translation resources across their offices worldwide. Groups of translators will be able to concurrently access a centralized repository of translations and glossaries over the Internet. Using XML, Deja Vu X users at companies of all sizes will be able to access both local and remote server TMs transparently. www.atril.com, www.idiominc.com

Documentum Announces Acquisition of Bulldog
12/3/2001

Documentum announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Digital Asset Management technology of the privately held Bulldog Group. Documentum now offers a full spectrum of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) capabilities as one integrated platform - Web Content Management (WCM), Enterprise Document Management (EDM), XML Component Management and Digital Asset Management (DAM). Bulldog's current Digital Asset Management offerings will be made available through Documentum's channel of sales, services and support. Beginning in the first quarter of 2002, Documentum will introduce four new ECM offerings: Media Server, Media-Enabled Web Content Management Edition, Marketing Content Management Edition, and Digital Asset Management Edition. Documentum plans to further integrate the deep Digital Asset Management capabilities of the Bulldog technology into its platform. Documentum also announced the establishment of its Canadian Headquarters in Toronto. www.documentum.com, www.bulldog.com

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