News For March, 2001

Eprise Corporation and Inxight Software, Inc. announced a partnership to deliver solutions that enable organizations to increase the value, effectiveness, and manageability of their Web site content. This joint agreement enables Eprise and Inxight to market and cross-sell Inxight products with Eprise Participant Server. The Eprise-Inxight combined offering makes it easier to classify new and existing Web content so site visitors can find what they are looking for. By combining Inxight solutions with Eprise Participant Server, users will experience easier navigation through Web sites, faster access to pertinent information and increased productivity. www.inxight.com, www.eprise.com

Percussion Expands Partner Program
3/28/2001

Percussion Software announced the expansion of its partnership program to include solution partners. This partnership category will focus on collaborating with regional systems integrators (SIs), who will provide their expertise to integrate Percussion's Rhythmyx Content Manager as part of a larger system, or with the products from Percussion's technology partners. The goal of Percussion's partner program is to improve customer service to current users and generate new business for Rhythmyx. The partners being targeted - primarily regional SIs with e-Commerce experience - will extend Percussion's professional services for customer implementation. Additionally, the partner program will enable Percussion to expand its reach into numerous vertical markets, such as financial services, publishing, pharmaceutical, healthcare, cross media, government and manufacturing. Percussion is targeting mid-tier SIs to handle specific regions of the country and/or specific vertical markets in order to provide the strongest customer service possible. The Company will work with the partner to build its Rhythmyx practice with Percussion selling the software and the partner providing the service. Currently, Percussion has signed partnerships with Wellstream, Noblestar, e-Partners and Bond Technologies. www.percussion.com

ThomasTech & DocNet.com in Strategic Partnership
3/28/2001

Thomas Technology Solutions, Inc. and DocNet.com, Inc. have announced a strategic partnership agreement. The companies offer complementary services to similar markets such as publishing, manufacturing, and other industries that distribute content-rich information. Through this partnership DocNet will provide an outsourced solution to ThomasTech clients for producing and distributing documents from the Internet. ThomasTech will now be able to offer DocNet's content delivery platform for both digital and hardcopy documents. In turn, ThomasTech will provide data conversion, XML/SGML, and content management services to DocNet clients. www.DocNet.com, www.thomastechsolutions.com,

SDL Announces Partnership with Vignette
3/28/2001

SDL International announced a strategic partnership with Vignette. The partnership integrates the SDLWebFlow solution with Vignette's content management product, Vignette e-Business Application Platform. Vignette's content management system enables users to dynamically develop, control and maintain the content of their website. SDLWebFlow provides corresponding capabilities for the management of multilingual content. As a result of the partnership with Vignette, SDLWebFlow extends the content management process into the synchronization of multilingual content. SDL's customers also benefit from a suite of additional tools to fully manage the content of their host language sites and hence deliver multilingual versions. www.vignette.com, www.sdlintl.com

eBT Releases engenda 4.7
3/26/2001

eBT International, Inc. announced the release of engenda 4.7. The latest version of eBT's content management and workflow automation solution features new functionality to simplify workflow development and enhance personalization through advanced integration with BEA WebLogic Personalization Server. Included in engenda 4.7 are: Microsoft Visio Workflow Solution: Based on a prototype eBT announced last year, this drag-and-drop, graphical interface allows anyone to create workflows from within Microsoft Visio. The workflows are stored as XML, without requiring users to learn the markup language; LDAP Support; Localization tools and guidelines enable global organizations to easily configure engenda 4.7 for non-English speaking locales; and Apache support. engenda 4.7 is available immediately with prices starting at $75,000. www.ebt.com

Note that this is a very different product than entrepid, their newer content management product.

Digital Goods & Texterity Partner
3/26/2001

Digital Goods and Texterity, Inc. announced an agreement that will extend Digital Goods' Amplifi content marketing/eCommerce solution from the publisher's desktop to storefronts across the Internet. Under the agreement, Texterity's TextCafe, an automated service that converts PDF, Quark or Word files to XML and Open eBook formats, will be offered by Digital Goods to its content partners. Texterity's service bridges the digital document preparation gap between publishers' systems and Digital Goods' Amplifi Internet distribution/sales tools and services. Texterity also will make Digital Goods' Amplifi the recommended digital content marketing solution for its content conversion customers. Both companies are partners of Reciprocal, the digital rights management leader that is enabling those popular reader formats for content offered through Digital Goods. www.digitalgoods.com, www.texterity.com

Vitria to Acquire XMLSolutions
3/26/2001

Vitria announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire XMLSolutions Corporation. Vitria believes that there is a substantial market opportunity for EDI/XML integration. Given the complexity and cost of EDI software, most companies only use EDI to communicate with the top 15-20% of their trading partners. The remaining 80-85% of trading partners need a simpler, less expensive solution that leverages the emerging XML standard for information exchange over the Internet. The total purchase price for the transaction will be approximately $15 million, of which $7 million will be paid at the closing in cash to preferred shareholders, and $8 million will be used to retire short-term debt and other liabilities of XMLSolutions. The closing of the acquisition is subject to the approval of the shareholders of XMLSolutions, as well as the satisfaction of certain customary closing conditions. Vitria will account for the acquisition as a purchase and expects to complete the transaction in early April. www.xmls.com, www.vitria.com

This is a good fit since the kind of integration XMLSolutions provides arguably belongs to an application integration server anyway.

Interwoven Launches TeamCatalog
3/26/2001

Interwoven, Inc. announced the release of Interwoven TeamCatalog. Combined with Interwoven TeamSite, TeamCatalog offers a comprehensive platform to enable customers to automate both their product and Web content processes to power multiple eBusiness initiatives. With TeamCatalog, customers will be able to assemble and manage catalog content, while automating the processes necessary to ensure product information is "transaction-ready." Interwoven TeamCatalog provides a software platform for managing product data that meets the demands of enterprises, B2B marketplaces, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers, who need to aggregate, create, categorize, refresh and distribute eCatalogs. This content includes information such as product name and description, stock keeping unit (SKU) code, price, and other data, which is stored in legacy systems, databases and ERP systems such as SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle. TeamCatalog is a development-side eCatalog content management solution that is compatible with leading transactional catalog products from BEA, IBM, ATG, BroadVision, Microsoft and others. TeamCatalog features include: Easy-to-use administrative tools facilitate schedule updates, define process checkpoints, set validation criteria, and manage versions of catalog files for tracking and automatic rollback as needed; Aggregation, normalization, and rationalization capabilities make product content from one or more sources `transaction-ready' for eCommerce sites; Creation and management of multiple taxonomies, such as UNSPSC and industry-specific taxonomies. The combination of Interwoven TeamCatalog software, with B2B Edition and TeamSite software, provides the necessary content infrastructure for enterprise eBusiness initiatives. Enterprises can represent their product information accurately and merchandise their products with rich information, graphics and metadata. www.interwoven.com/products/teamcatalog

E-catalogs are big business and are at the heart of all e-commerce. This may seem obvious, but all the repercussions are less clear. One thing you can be sure of is that every content management vendor will have some kind of e-catalog story before long. There will still be a market for specialized catalog applications, but some of the weaker players won’t last long.

Open Market Sells Folio Technology to NextPage
3/26/2001

Open Market, Inc. announced that NextPage has exercised its option to purchase the Folio technology, which it had been licensing from Open Market. NextPage will pay Open Market $6.6 million in cash in the first quarter 2001, to complete the sale. Open Market began licensing the Folio technology to NextPage in June of 1999. The technology delivers advanced search and navigation of large data files as part of the Search Services component of NextPage's core NXT 3 e-Content Platform. The purchase completes NextPage's three-year product license agreement. www.nextpage.com, www.openmarket.com

Or, more accurately, back to NextPage.

Intranet Solutions Partners with LexiQuest
3/26/2001

IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced it has formed a strategic alliance with LexiQuest. Under the agreement, IntraNet Solutions will co-market LexiQuest's natural language search technology with its Xpedio Content Management system. The technology will enable IntraNet Solutions' customers worldwide to perform natural language search queries on their Xpedio-powered business Web sites. Natural language technology allows users to search for information by submitting a question to search engines, rather than key words or phrases. This process generates more relevant, accurate search results than traditional methods, and is easier to use for general business users. The new search capability will enable Xpedio customers to find and access business content on Web sites more quickly and easily. www.intranetsolutions.com, www.lexiquest.com

Documentum Releases 4i B2B Content Management Edition
3/22/2001

Documentum announced the general availability of Documentum 4i B2B Content Management Edition. This new Edition provides a standard, integrated content management platform that enables rapid development and deployment of content-rich B2B applications across a common content framework. At the heart of this edition is the XML-enabled eContent Server. Enhanced by Engagement Services, Syndication Services, Collaboration Services, and Documentum Developer Studio, this edition extends the production and exchange of content among and between organizations. The 4i eContent Server, designed for global scalability, provides content repository services, native XML component management and robust process automation. Documentum XML capabilities enable storage, validation and transformation of B2B XML schemas, including popular electronic marketplace schemas, such as cXML, and xCBL. Engagement Services is an ebXML-ready multi-protocol server that extends process automation and workflow across trading networks, enabling secure inter-enterprise content exchange. Syndication Services is a tightly integrated content distribution facility for publishing content directly from one or more repositories to an unlimited number of subscribers. Collaboration Services provides real-time project-based collaboration between employee and partner teams across the extended enterprise. And, for rapid development of content-rich B2B applications, Developer Studio is a mature development environment with a comprehensive API set compatible with all popular Web-based development standards. Now, catalog management applications can integrate structured catalog information (such as pricing and SKUs) with rich unstructured information such as images, product descriptions, datasheets, maintenance and operating manuals. In addition, with the new B2B Edition capabilities companies can accelerate product availability to market by enabling suppliers to directly maintain and manage their catalog content. On-line Contract management and strategic sourcing applications can now manage the content lifecycle around contracts, proposals, and quotations. Finally, collaborative commerce applications can exchange rich content and engage partners during design, marketing and sales cycles gaining increased time-to-market advantage. www.documentum.com

iPlanet Extends Portal Server Offering
3/22/2001

iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions extended its portal platform with the addition of four new products, including fully integrated wireless capability via the iPlanet Portal Server: Mobile Access Pack. The product lets service providers offer a full spectrum of portal services through any Internet-based device and allows enterprises to channel corporate services and applications to mobile employees. Mobile Access Pack is fully integrated with the iPlanet Messaging, Calendar and Directory Server software products. It provides support for WAP and i-mode, and the most requested wireless services such as SMS, notification and location-based services. There are two editions. Standard Edition is a completely self-contained, easy-to-install product to enable rapid portal pilot development and deployment. It includes the iPlanet Application Server 6.0: Standard Edition and iPlanet Directory Server for use only with the iPlanet Portal Server. Enterprise Edition provides enhanced availability and scalability on a J2EE-certified application platform with robust integration capabilities. Designed for customers requiring high transaction integrity and continuous up-time, it eliminates single points of failure through application fail-over and load balancing. It requires the separate purchase and installation of the iPlanet Application Server: Enterprise Edition or iPlanet Application Server: Enterprise Edition Pro. The iPlanet Portal Server product family is expanding to include additional capabilities via portal solution packs. Each pack can be installed and deployed on top of either iPlanet Portal Server edition. In addition, multiple packs may be deployed in conjunction with one another. They include: Mobile Access Pack, Secure Remote Access Pack, and Personalized Knowledge Pack. The iPlanet Portal Server Standard Edition and the Secure Remote Access Pack are available immediately. The Personalized Knowledge Pack will be available by the end of this month. The Wireless Access Pack will be available Summer 2001 and the Enterprise Edition will be available in the Fall. Pricing of the iPlanet Portal Server begins at $25,000. www.sun.com/software/sunone, www.iplanet.com

Nokia Demonstrates XHTML Microbrowser on Standard Mobile Phone
3/21/2001

Nokia is now demonstrating an XHTML microbrowser on a standard mobile phone. The new browser is shown running on the modified Nokia 6210 and Nokia 7190 handsets. The demonstration is meant to show that important advances in consumer services can be made very quickly and implemented in real-world phone designs. Nokia plans to start incorporating the browser in its handsets by the end of this year. Nokia's WAP service delivery platforms are already designed to enable access to XML-based languages such as XHTML. The server infrastructure will be ready for testing with XHTML-handset later this year, and future releases of service delivery platforms will be deployed in time for commercial roll-outs of XHTML-based services. As is the case with Nokia's current WAP browser, Nokia will license the browser source code to other handset manufacturers, mobile phone operators, service providers, and others. Licensing information is available from www.forum.nokia.com. The new software will support current WAP content, WML, as well as the new XHTML standard, ensuring both backward compatibility and next generation services. In addition, the software is designed to be extendable, so that its functionality can grow along with the capabilities coming in GPRS networks and new phone hardware designs. The demonstration also shows the use of cascading style sheets and a new rendering engine, which together enable a GUI for content delivery. This GUI, a standard feature in the wired world, will significantly improve usability for consumers and convenience for operators. The style sheets themselves are a major advantage, as they will make it possible to easily tailor content specifically to different handsets. Nokia will collaborate with a number of companies on XHTML application technology and content creation tools. The first XHTML developer's kit from Nokia will be available this summer. An online version of the XHTML browser demonstration is available at www.nokia.com/xhtmldemo. www.nokia.com

As we suggested in Vol 9, Num 1, XHTML is going to be the web language of the future. The question is how soon it will become a requirement. We don’t think WAP will disappear very quickly, but this demonstration by Nokia says something about the future of both XHTML and WAP.

IntraNet Solutions & Corechange Form Alliance
3/21/2001

IntraNet Solutions and Corechange, Inc. announced a strategic alliance to offer content management and portal solutions worldwide. Under the alliance, the companies will integrate and market IntraNet Solutions' Xpedio Content Management system with the Corechange Coreport 3g access framework. Coreport 3g provides customers with a customizable portal interface through which they can access critical business information and applications. The integration of Xpedio enables portal users to contribute content to Web sites in a variety of formats, such as word processing documents, spreadsheets or graphics. Xpedio also automatically publishes this content to a variety of Web formats, such as HTML, XML, PDF or WML. In addition, users can access content stored in the Xpedio Content Server through Coreport 3g. The integrated product also includes Xpedio's version control feature that allows users to track and save previous versions of business files, as well as a workflow function that enables users to route content for review and approval. Through the Coreport and Xpedio technology, users can also access the corporate portal and its content from a wide array of wireless devices to get information from the portal and to transact business. www.intranetsolutions.com, www.corechange.com

MediaBin Introduces Imaging Connector to Content Management Systems
3/21/2001

MediaBin, Inc. announced the availability of the MediaBin Deployment Agent, a new option for managing and automating the production and accelerated delivery of correctly formatted images directly to web sites, or via general-purpose Web Content Management offerings from companies such as Interwoven, Vignette and others. The Deployment Agent combined with the MediaBin platform extends the functionality of web content management systems to include the aggregation, production, management, and tracking of product photography and brand images. eCommerce sites and B2B exchanges that work with thousands of images can use the MediaBin Deployment Agent to automate the production and delivery of new and updated content to their sites on a scheduled basis (e.g., daily, weekly, monthly). The MediaBin Deployment Agent can also be used to automatically regenerate all affected web images whenever a page template is changed, a task that would take hours or even days using manual processes. The Deployment Agent can also be used to generate images based on database criteria. For example, if a product line or group of products is going to be put on sale, MediaBin can regenerate all affected product images to include an appropriate sale label, such as "25% off! Today only" in an artistically-rendered translucent type face. The Deployment Agent is available for purchase as an add-on to the MediaBin platform. www.mediabin.com

Plumtree & Actuate Announce Availability of New Gadgets
3/20/2001

Plumtree Software announced availability of the Plumtree Gadget Suite for Actuate and a partnership with Actuate Corporation. Plumtree Portal Gadgets are plug-in portal components that deliver services from enterprise applications and Internet sites to the business desktop. The Plumtree Gadget Suite for Actuate is designed to integrate services from e.Reporting Suite 5, Actuate's Information Delivery capabilities, into the Plumtree Corporate Portal. Users can now access Actuate business reports and content including 401K statements, performance reports and other corporate information from the same personalized Internet desktop they use to check e-mail, sales leads and market news. Users can browse the Actuate Encyclopedia, a list of folders that contain e.Reports. Users can select which e.Reports they wish to view from the folders and can easily drill down and review the report content. Users can specify which e.Reports they wish to view and search the reports or download them in PDF, XML, or DHTML format. Users can subscribe to select channels based on associated e.Reports to find out when information is new or changed. When an e.Report is modified, subscribers are informed of any updates. Plumtree-Actuate channel partner Blackstone Technology Group created the gadgets in JSP. The gadgets are currently available. www.actuate.com, www.plumtree.com

Arbortext Announces Epic Editor 4.2
3/20/2001

Arbortext, Inc. announced the upcoming release of the next version of its Epic Editor software, Epic Editor 4.2, which will offer expanded support for software developers who require the openness and power of JavaScript, DOM and XSL. Epic Editor 4.2 expands the ability of software developers to build on the company's Single Source Publishing Architecture to create customizations through the new enhancements. Built in support for JavaScript empowers software developers who are already familiar with it. JavaScript support is in addition to Epic Editor's existing support for compiled languages, including Java, C and C++, as well as any language that talks through COM, including Visual Basic. Epic Editor 4.2 provides a GUI-based configuration for associating scripts with events. This enhancement gives developers an easy way to add customizations to Epic Editor. In addition to fully supporting the DOM Core, Epic Editor 4.2 expands that support to include dynamic DOM Ranges and most DOM Level 2 events. Epic Editor's built-in GUI-based stylesheet development tool now uses XSL as its default native format, which extends Arbortext's support for this standard underneath its easy-to-use stylesheet design interface. Previously offered only as a technology preview, Arbortext has upgraded its support for XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects) to support the most recent XSL-FO specification and is now a standard part of Epic Editor 4.2, providing a robust way to apply style to content that's intended for paper publishing. Epic Editor 4.2 will ship in July 2001. All Arbortext customers under maintenance are eligible to receive the Epic Editor 4.2 upgrade at no charge, and the upgrade will be automatically shipped to them. www.arbortext.com

W3C Issues Canonical XML as a Recommendation
3/19/2001

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the release of Canonical XML 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. This specification defines a method for serializing XML documents such that it eliminates incidental variances in their syntax as permitted by XML 1.0. This functionality is necessary to XML Signatures, which requires documents to be consistently serialized for digital signature processing, so that these incidental variances do not invalidate the signature. Digital signatures provide integrity, signature assurance and non-repudiatability over Web data. Such features are especially important for documents that represent commitments such as contracts, price lists, and manifests. XML Signatures have the potential to provide reliable XML-based signature technology. However, various processors may introduce incidental changes into a document over the course of its processing. Canonical XML 1.0 provides a method of serializing an XML document into its canonical form. If two documents have the same canonical form, then the two documents are logically equivalent within the context of this specification. This relationship combined with XML Signature is critical for electronic commerce because it ensures the integrity of documents and protocol messages that travel between multiple XML processors. This is the first recommendation produced by the joint W3C/IETF XML Signature Working Group. Contributors include representatives from Ariba, Baltimore Technologies, Done360, IAIK TU Graz, IBM, Microsoft, PureEdge, Reuters, and the W3C technical team. The Working Group is still at work on XML Signatures, which already enjoys significant implementation, and will have more with the completion of the work on Canonical XML. www.w3.org

Radio UserLand Brings Internet Publishing to Desktop Users
3/19/2001

UserLand Software announced the release of Radio UserLand, software that brings the power of Web Services and XML to the personal computer desktop. UserLand is working with Microsoft and others to facilitate both XML-based interoperability conventions and a new generation of Web Services built on those standards. Radio is a powerful news publishing and routing tool that runs on the desktop, patterned after the easy to use "weblog" concept, and supports web services protocols such as SOAP and XML-RPC, co-developed by Microsoft, Developmentor, IBM and the open source development community. Radio comes with a built-in XML-based application that streams news from publications such as Red Herring, Wired News, Salon, CNN, Reuters, the San Jose Mercury-News, Motley Fool, Internet.Com, and from news sites such as Tomalak's Realm, AppleSurf, Slashdot.Org, XML.Com, Freshmeat and Scripting News. Thousands of compatible XML-based news feeds are available in RSS format, co-developed by UserLand and Netscape. Radio UserLand is available for free download at http://radio.userland.com/. A subsequent version to be released in Q3 2001 will be available as a commercial product. www.userland.com

Open Market Partners with Screaming Media
3/15/2001

Open Market, Inc. announced that it has formed a strategic technology partnership with ScreamingMedia. The companies have integrated Open Market's Content Server Enterprise Edition with ScreamingMedia's SiteWare, a technology platform for the aggregation, syndication, processing and integration of digital content. By using this scalable solution, joint customers can have a single, standards-based platform for managing and publishing customized, targeted content. The companies have developed an adapter to integrate ScreamingMedia's SiteWare and Open Market's Content Server Enterprise Edition. With this solution, businesses can aggregate content such as news, features, photos, audio and video from thousands of publications and filter them by using ScreamingMedia's solutions. Open Market's Content Server Enterprise Edition assembles content from a variety of sources, manages the Internet publishing workflow process and delivers dynamically personalized content or static content to users via Web browsers or wireless devices. Because Open Market's applications are built on top of J2EE application servers (BEA Systems' WebLogic Server, IBM's WebSphere Application Server and iPlanet's Application Server), enterprise customers can take advantage of an open, extensible platform for managing and delivering their information assets. www.screamingmedia.com, www.openmarket.com

J.D. Edwards Expands Reach Into Global Enterprise Content Management
3/14/2001

J.D. Edwards & Company announced the limited general availability of Content Manager, a tool that allows enterprises to manage multi-lingual content with standard desktop tools like Microsoft Office. Content Manager allows "single sourcing" – creating a single content repository that can be used by a company's network of offices, partners and customers anywhere in the world. Slated for general availability this spring, Content Manager expands on the existing enterprise content management technology with three unique features: The product allows different departments to share and reuse content components, not just whole documents, for multiple output formats such as print, web and CD-ROM; Content Manager uses Microsoft Office to manage content components; and Content Manager is designed to facilitate multi-lingual content development and publishing. With its Microsoft partnership, J.D. Edwards' Content Manager provides immediate user-friendliness and content adaptability. The product's architecture is geared to work with translation technologies such as Trados Inc., leveraging memory and terminology translation tools that result in significant cost savings. Content Manager, part of J.D. Edwards' knowledge management offerings, features data-based content with flexible metadata, intelligent searching, check-in/check-out of content, output to compound documents and HTML for web content, content relationship management, link management, revision and version control, configurable workflow and integrated translation strategy. Content Manager is also designed to integrate with existing information workflow processes for maximum efficiency. www.jdedwards.com

New Search Engine from Hiawatha Island targets Metadata
3/14/2001

Hiawatha Island Software, Inc. released Hi-Search, a metadata-only search engine technology that yields significantly faster and more accurate matches than today's full text search engines. Hi-Search operates independently or in conjunction with full-text search engines and portals. It is the first search tool to provide database-like, "fielded" searches for all metadata- and XML-packaged documents on a network, an intranet or the Internet. Key features of Hi-Search include: Rapid Fielded Search; Support for Web Documents, Microsoft Office Documents, & XML Packages; Automated Scheduling; HTML Index Builder; XML Catalog Builder; and Web Search Interface Support. Hi-Search Server pricing starts at $2,995.00. GSA pricing is available. A Software Developer's Kit (SDK) is also included. Hi-Search Server requires Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 4 or greater) or Windows 2000. Minimum hardware requirements are a PC with Pentium 75 MHz (or equivalent) or greater; Pentium II 500 MHz processor or better recommended; SVGA (256 color) graphic display capability. www.hisoftware.com

Enfish Launches Improved Enfish Onespace, Version 3.0
3/14/2001

Enfish Technology, Inc. announced the launch of Enfish Onespace Version 3.0. Version 3.0 of Enfish Onespace enhances the Microsoft Windows operating system by adding a customizable desktop that is automatically personalized for each user as it installs. Enfish Onespace creates a cross-referenced index that gives users easy access by subject to all their e-mail, tasks, appointments, favorite websites, contacts and documents in one secure, convenient place. The major functional areas of Enfish Onespace have been separated into easy-to-use modes, which are represented by toolbar buttons on the top of each page. Selecting one of the modes will take users to specific areas that will help them get the most out of Enfish Onespace. Each mode now features an action bar to enable users to quickly share, or respond to, an item. Performance has been greatly improved with faster loading of the application and pages. An improved architecture refreshes data as it changes, creating a more seamless environment. Users can select their preferred search engines for Internet-based searches. Users can retrieve email addresses and send correspondence quickly and easily with a new Rolodex feature that brings instant access to important contact information. Enfish has added several shortcuts to version 3.0 to make sending e-mail even easier, including an action button on top of every page for sending, and a mail drop-down arrow displaying all contacts for quick and easy selection. Enfish Onespace Version 3.0 is available from select partners and the Enfish web site. Enfish Onespace was initially available as a free download from the company's web site. With the release of the enhanced Version 3.0, Enfish Onespace will now be available for $69.95. Current users of Enfish Onespace will be given the opportunity to upgrade to Version 3.0 at no charge. Enfish works with partners to customize Enfish Onespace for specific companies and integrate Enfish Onespace with enterprise portal and Customer Relationship Management solutions. www.enfish.com

Inktomi Unveils New Search Software
3/14/2001

Inktomi Corp. announced significant enhancements to the Inktomi Search/Web service, providing its customers with a more advanced software infrastructure for delivering highly relevant, comprehensive search results to Internet users. Inktomi now incorporates new relevance modeling, content blending and Internet crawling technologies into its Web search platform to offer users continually enhanced search relevance, easier access to the most accurate search results from multiple content sources and a fresher, broader search index. Built upon Inktomi's core relevance and link, text and click analysis technologies, the enhanced relevance modeling also measures statistically significant samples of search results and compares them with human judgment. Inktomi offers new content blending capabilities that combine query results from disparate databases, serving the most relevant results up front. Content blending allows directory categories, standard Web pages and other premium content to be ranked in order of relevancy without being segmented by file type, making it easier for users to find the link they want. Inktomi's new distributed crawling architecture scans the Web more frequently, revisiting missed content and refreshing updated pages more often. Inktomi recently announced it is also working directly with content providers to ensure its database has the most current collection of Web documents, including hard to crawl pages such as those containing XML or dynamic content. www.inktomi.com

BEA Expands Content Management Partnerships to 11 with New Interface
3/14/2001

BEA Systems, Inc. announced an expanded group of content management partners that integrate with BEA WebLogic Personalization Server through a newly published interface. The expanded partnerships help businesses reduce both the time and cost for e-commerce and mobile-commerce content development and management. Now content management systems from Documentum, Interwoven, eBT, eGrail, Eprise, FatWire, FileNET, Gauss Interprise, IntraNet Solutions, Openpages and Starbase can help automate content production, personalization and delivery on the BEA WebLogic Personalization Server. With the expanded number of partners using BEA's newly published content management service provider interface, BEA WebLogic customers have a greater choice of content management solutions. BEA currently bundles versions of Documentum 4i Web Content Management Edition and Interwoven Content Express for BEA to help provide businesses with an e-commerce solution that addresses virtually all aspects of content personalization. In addition, BEA WebLogic customers now can choose from the following list of integrated content management packages: eBT's engenda, eGrail's Publishing System, Eprise's Participant Server, FatWire's UpdateEngine5, FileNET's Panagon Platform, Gauss' VIP Platform, IntraNet Solutions' Xpedio, Openpages' ContentWare, and Starbase's eXpressroom. The new content management service provider interface, which allows BEA partners to integrate with BEA WebLogic Personalization Server in a standardized format, is available through the BEA Star Partner Program. All 11 content management partners are members of the recently announced BEA Star Partner Program, which is designed to foster strong alliances between BEA and its partners with program initiatives tailored to their specific business models and needs. www.bea.com

Openpages & KPMG Consulting Form Enterprise Content Management Partnership
3/13/2001

Openpages, Inc. announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with KPMG Consulting, Inc. The two companies have formed a global partnership to provide enterprise content management solutions to KPMG Consulting customers worldwide. The partnership pairs KPMG's Consulting experience in Internet-based business solutions and systems integration with Openpages' enterprise content production products. The worldwide partnership will help companies conducting e-business obtain a long-term competitive advantage through automating the enterprise content production process–empowering users to more efficiently manage content assets and deploy content to Web sites, print and wireless channels. To speed the roll-out of such joint implementations, Openpages and KPMG Consulting will collaborate on extensive training for KPMG Consulting professionals and establish a practice around ContentWare specialization for the design and implementation of content management solutions. ContentWare will be deployed at KPMG's U.S. Solution Centers in Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colo.; Liberty Corner, N.J.; Mountain View, Calif.; and McLean, Va. and the Openpages practice will be rolled out worldwide. www.kpmgconsulting.com; www.openpages.com

Lightspeed Introduces iEngine
3/13/2001

Lightspeed Interactive, Inc. introduced iENGINE, a new XML-based platform. With this platform, Lightspeed enables companies to access, maintain and dynamically deliver personalized, up-to-the-minute content to anyone – anytime – anywhere. Lightspeed combines their iENGINE with their interface design to provide a rich user experience. Lightspeed's platform differentiates itself by allowing an organization to dynamically deliver content to a broad range of delivery mechanisms, such as Web, print, CD-ROM, or wireless through a common platform, increasing company productivity and reducing business costs. Lightspeed Interactive has developed and delivered personalized Internet software solutions targeted at sales support, e-learning, e-commerce, vertical portals, product marketing and product support for large, blue chip technology companies. www.lspeed.com

NCompass Labs Releases Resolution 4.0 & Content Connector for Commerce Server
3/13/2001

NCompass Labs Inc. announced the release of NCompass Resolution version 4.0,and Resolution Content Connector for Microsoft Commerce Server 2000. Version 4.0 extends Resolution's capabilities by enhancing Resolution's scalability, versioning and site-maintenance features. Key Resolution 4.0 enhancements include: a new dynamic server clustering feature that allows multiple NCompass Resolution servers to be clustered; extensible object properties and content meta tagging; significantly improved team collaboration with the ability to track content, object and code revisions on all site pages; expanded archiving to include dynamic site archiving to increase site management; and integration with Microsoft .NET - Resolution 4.0 integrates fully with Microsoft's .NET enterprise servers including Commerce Server 2000, Windows 2000 Advanced Server and SQL Server 2000. Resolution 4.0 is available on March 31, 2001. Resolution Content Connector enables enterprises to use the full functionality of NCompass Resolution to manage Web content for e-commerce sites built using Microsoft Commerce Server 2000. The out-of-the box integration between Resolution's automated content publishing, workflow and content-sharing capabilities and Commerce Server's product catalog, profiling engine, transactional processing, shopping cart, and Business Desk application allows businesses to quickly deploy powerful e-commerce sites. Content Connector offers full-featured content authoring, versioning, deployment, templating, workflow, site management, wireless device support, an open COM-based API and more. www.ncompass.com

Adobe Introduces Acrobat 5.0
3/12/2001

Adobe Systems introduced Adobe Acrobat 5.0 software, a major upgrade. With Acrobat 5.0, Adobe is enabling organizations to reduce cycle times and increase the efficiency of business processes across their extended enterprises of customers and partners. Acrobat 5.0 offers a number of key benefits that enable business, graphic arts and IT professionals to excel in this new Network Publishing environment where they must work efficiently at Web speed. Tight Web integration based on WebDistributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) and Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) allows teams to simultaneously share comments on Adobe PDF files from within a browser. Support for XML makes it simple for users to integrate data, such as metadata and forms data in Adobe PDF files, with back-end systems. And stronger integration with enterprise deployment tools enables IT professionals to auto-install and maintain Acrobat 5.0 over a network to thousands of multi-user or lockdown desktop systems. Acrobat 5.0 software for Windows 95 OSR 2.0, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 with service pack 5 or 6, Windows ME and Windows 2000, and Macintosh OS 8.6 (all Web-based capabilities are not available due to Apple OS limitations), 9.0.4 and 9.1, is expected to ship in the United States and Canada in the second quarter of 2001 for an estimated street price of US$249. Registered users of earlier Acrobat software versions can upgrade to Acrobat 5.0 for US$99. French, German and Japanese versions of Acrobat 5.0 are expected to be available shortly after the initial release. Information about other language versions, as well as pricing, upgrade and support policies, is available online. www.adobe.com

We’re especially interested in the XML metadata and the InterTrust DRM software as they would both be useful for us!

Glides Partners with iLanguage to Offer Web Globalization Solution
3/12/2001

Glides Inc. announced that iLanguage will become an integrated translation provider for Glides’ UniSite customers. As a result of the partnership, iLanguage translators will become fully integrated into UniSite’s XML-based automated workflow process, which manages the editing, review, translation and Web content publishing process. Based in Los Angeles, iLanguage specializes in translating to and from English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean for eCommerce, news, finance, entertainment, sports, and other Web sites. The partnership combines Glides’ UniSite workflow and content management software service with iLanguage’s translation and localization capabilities. UniSite’s workflow manages the entire translation process, including automated content exchange with translators at iLanguage. By delivering content directly to iLanguage’s translation workbenches, Glides’ XML-based workflow ensures the highest level of transparency, consistency and accuracy for Glides’ clients. www.ilanguage.com; www.glides.com

IntraNet Solutions Announces Xpedio 4.6
3/8/2001

IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced the release of Xpedio 4.6, the latest version of its Xpedio Content Management system. Xpedio 4.6 includes a Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compliant Enterprise JavaBean (EJB). The new EJB enables companies to easily integrate Xpedio's content management capabilities into e-business applications built on J2EE application servers, such as commerce sites, corporate portals, customer relationship management applications and net markets. Xpedio 4.6 will be available March 21, 2001 and is priced from $50,000 to $240,000 USD. www.intranetsolutions.com

Gauss Named Advanced Business Partner by IBM
3/6/2001

Gauss announced they have been named as an Advanced Business Partner by IBM through the end of 2001. The IBM Advanced Business Partner designation is part of the PartnerWorld program, which consists of three membership levels – Member, Advanced and Premier. This approval is for the Systems and Services track, which is available to all IBM Business Partners approved to market IBM eServer, IBM Network Integration, Point of Sale, Printer Systems and Storage Products in the United States and Canada. The program recognizes loyal IBM Business Partners for their commitment to building IBM product certifications or equivalent skills and dedication to customer satisfaction processes. Advanced status is awarded to a select group of IBM Business Partners, and they must earn renewal of the designation each year. Approximately 15% of IBM Business Partners-Systems in North America have qualified for Premier or Advanced recognition in 2000. www.gaussinterprise.com

CoVia Introduces Vertical Community Portal Solution
3/6/2001

CoVia announced the general availability of Vortal, the newest addition to CoVia's suite of enterprise portal solutions. CoVia Vortal enables companies to quickly create industry specific, personalized portals that can be entirely managed by non-technical users who can quickly produce, update and sustain fresh, relative content for any targeted community – all without IT support. Supporting such features as self-registration and password protected access, Vortal enables any organization to add "MyOrganization"-like functionality to their publicly facing web sites in less than 30 days. Using iChannel content syndication and delivery technology, Vortal delivers organization and industry specific news content and information directly to targeted users desktops and enables them to customize their view to suit their particular objectives and interests. Organizations can intersperse company content with syndicated news feeds included with the Vortal application to produce a robust information destination for customers, prospects and partners. Since Vortal also uses many self-service technologies developed as part of the InfoPortal platform, managing and updating the site can be done by anyone capable of operating a web browser. No specific experience or knowledge of XML, HTML or other programming languages is required for day-to-day users to keep the site fresh and valuable. The result is low cost of ownership and more relevant and timely information delivered directly to customers. CoVia Vortal is available now. For additional information, please visit www.covia.com

Open Market Announces Content Server Enterprise Edition
3/5/2001

Open Market, Inc. announced a new product family, Content Server Enterprise Edition (CSEE), adding new e-marketing and business-to-business integration (B2Bi) capabilities to its content management and delivery system. CSEE is designed, developed, and deployed as Java components built on Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers now including the IBM WebSphere Application Server, as well as BEA WebLogic Server and the iPlanet Application Server. CSEE is based on two approaches. The first, called the PowerAssets information architecture, maximizes the value of an enterprise's content by extending its use and re-use for a broad range of e-business initiatives, including catalogs, personalization, self-service applications, and e-marketplaces. The PowerAssets information architecture treats enterprise content, such as images, articles, product information, and audio files, as dynamic independent content objects that can be extended for multiple applications by non- technical users. PowerAssets enable enterprise content to be kept in a "presentation neutral" format so it can be easily reused across multiple Web sites and delivery devices as well as facilitating efficient XML document exchange to trading partners. Open Market's second approach is based on J2EE application servers, Java components, Java Server Pages (JSP) templates, and XML-based services. Because CSEE solutions are built directly on leading J2EE application servers, customers benefit from fast development of content-driven Internet applications using mainstream Java technical tools, simple integration with legacy systems, and technologies. Open Market's Content Server Enterprise Edition is available now. Each product is priced individually on a per CPU basis. Pricing begins at $29,000.00 per CPU. Customers add modules based on business needs and purchase additional CPUs based on scalability requirements. www.openmarket.com

Sequoia Partners with Bantu to Provide Instant Messaging
3/5/2001

Sequoia Software Corporation announced a partnership with Bantu, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based provider of instant messaging and presence management technology for enterprise applications software and services companies. Sequoia is integrating Bantu's instant messaging application, Bantu Messenger, into its XML-pure portal software product, XPS. Once combined, Sequoia customers will have the option of providing users with a confidential mechanism for instant messaging with other portal users, as well as the millions of individuals using Bantu and other popular instant messaging platforms such as ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! In addition to enhancing the collaborative capabilities of XPS, Sequoia selected Bantu Messenger because it protects user confidentiality, encrypts all messages, integrates presence detection and instant messaging seamlessly into the XPS portal, and is interoperable with other instant messaging systems. www.bantu.com, www.sequoiasoftware.com

Blue Martini Software Ships Blue Martini 4 Suite
3/5/2001

Blue Martini Software, Inc. announced that it is shipping its Blue Martini 4 suite of products. The tightly integrated suite consists of four new applications: Blue Martini Marketing, Blue Martini Commerce, Blue Martini Channels and Blue Martini Service. Blue Martini Marketing, a comprehensive marketing solution that allows companies to create a unified picture of customers, analyze customer behavior for patterns and insights, and implement those insights through personalization and outbound marketing. Blue Martini Commerce, an e-commerce application for selling direct to businesses and consumers via multiple touch-points such as a website or mobile device. It offers companies out-of-the-box capabilities that provide a solid foundation for effective selling. Blue Martini Channels, a complete channel management application that helps companies to manage profitable relationships with partners, and drives sales through partner extranets, or portals, and online marketplaces. Blue Martini Service, a customer service application that enables companies to drive revenues and achieve customer satisfaction through their customer service representatives (CSRs) over the phone or on the web. The Blue Martini 4 suite provides 24-by-7 availability, legacy integration and ease of management. The Blue Martini 4 suite offers visual tools and pre-built adapters for integrating external systems through Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), XML, CORBA, Microsoft's COM/DCOM and IBM's MQ Series interfaces. It provides integration with SAP, Agile, Oracle, PeopleSoft and Siebel. The Blue Martini 4 suite and its four applications are currently available. Each application is available separately or all four can be purchased as an integrated suite. Pricing starts at $250,000 per application. www.bluemartini.com

Sybase Announces Enterprise Portal 2.0
3/5/2001

Sybase, Inc. announced Sybase Enterprise Portal 2.0 (EP), which extends portal functionality to mobile and wireless users, business partners and e-marketplaces. The new portal functionality uses Sybase's wireless technology along with new business-to-business application integration, XML/EDI transformations and globalization. Key components include a J2EE-compliant application server, LDAP directory support, an integrated security framework, concept-based searching and a powerful data server with data synchronization capabilities. Sybase EP supports the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). Sybase EP includes bi-directional mobile messaging capabilities that enable users to both queue outbound messages and receive messages delivered from the network. These messaging services include store-and-forward messaging queuing; push messaging for communications from the network; and user authentication and encryption. Messages can be used to alert users or to initiate an action, such as data synchronization. XML/EDI transformation enables non-EDI-enabled business partners to be quickly integrated into the enterprise's processes. Enterprise integration adapters allow collaborative data to be directly served into data management systems or applications. Sybase EP's content management features allow portal users to quickly add, categorize and deploy information for end users. The customizable presentation services allow portal users to interact with applications in their preferred manner. Sybase EP also provides advanced features like automatic currency conversion and language translation. www.sybase.com/ep

Semio Corporation Releases Integration Toolkit
3/5/2001

Semio Corporation announced the availability of Semio Integration Toolkit. The toolkit is a software development kit and partnership program designed to support the integration of Semio's content categorization technology into corporate portals and customized applications – such as personalized content delivery or communities of interest. By using Semio's toolkit, partners and customers quickly build applications that can organize and manage virtually unlimited amounts of unstructured digital information. The Semio Integration Toolkit offers application interfaces to Semio's Tagger software, which organizes large amounts of corporate data by finding conceptual and practical relationships between any digital document stored on a server. These interfaces enable partners and customers to build solutions with automated cataloging and categorization of unstructured information, offering faster access to the right information in today's complex business environments. With the release of the Integration Toolkit, partners and customers have multiple possible integration points with the Semio categorization solution. Some partners use the XML generated by Semio Tagger as input for publication and syndication processes. The API published with the Integration Toolkit lets portal vendors and others create tightly integrated solutions leveraging Semio's automated categorization capabilities. The Semio Integration Toolkit documents the Semio Integration API and the Semio Bundler API, as well as the XML and database formats. It includes sample applications, source code, database, and text corpus, as well as detailed documentation. The Semio Integration Toolkit requires Semio Tagger 4.1 and is available now. www.semio.com

Portal Wave Announces New Products
3/5/2001

Portal Wave, Inc. announced three new products that allow enterprises to build EAPs that connect multiple internal systems and connect partner applications. Portal Wave XML B2B Server allows information and transaction exchange across enterprises via XML. Portal Wave Visual Development Studio provides a visual development environment for building Wavelets, plug-in software modules that run within the portal. Portal Wave Application Portal Server (APS) 2.0 is an upgrade to the initial version that enables companies to integrate enterprise solutions into a common e-business platform with a single Web interface. XML B2B Server is an XML messaging server that provides guaranteed, secure delivery of business information and transactions over the Internet in the form of XML documents. Delivery is guaranteed via message queuing and XML return receipt. A simple log allows users to monitor the delivery status of documents such as purchase orders, invoices and inventory levels. XML B2B Server offers support for HTTP and HTTPS for secure document delivery and uses the same browser-based EAP interface for managing and monitoring delivery status. It supports industry standards for XML exchange between partners and is compliant with RosettaNet standards. EAPs provide functionality through Wavelets, plug-in software modules that encapsulate business logic and can provide value from displaying syndicated Internet content to coordinating complex B2B functions across multiple enterprise applications. Visual Development Studio is a Java-based product that leverages the latest JavaBean technology and Java Swing classes. Its main feature is the separation of the user interface from business logic. The new XML B2B Server leverages the enhanced EAP functions now available in APS 2.0. The 2.0 upgrade features an improved user interface that uses style sheets. From selecting content to determining how it appears, improved personalization features allow users greater flexibility to customize their own portal. XML B2B Server, Visual Development Studio and APS 2.0 are available now. www.portalwave.com

OASIS Releases XML Conformance Test Suite, Second Edition
3/5/2001

OASIS, together with NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, announced that the second edition of the popular OASIS XML Conformance Test Suite would be publicly available March 15, 2001. The new OASIS conformance test suite, updated to be in sync with XML Second Edition, includes more than 1,000 new tests. Users and vendors may download the OASIS XML Conformance Test Suite Second Edition from the Consortium's web site, www.oasis-open.org beginning March 15. www.nist.gov, www.oasis-open.org

Microsoft Delivers XML-Based Protocol for Cross-Platform Analytics
3/2/2001

Microsoft Corp. made available a beta version of the XML for Analysis software development kit and an updated XML for Analysis protocol specification. This is an online analytical processing protocol that enables the transfer of information between analytical databases and client applications, regardless of the computer language used to write the application. Leveraging XML, SOAP and HTTP, XML for Analysis is a new protocol that is designed to standardize the data access interaction between a client application and an analytical data provider (OLAP and data mining). With input from more than 50 vendors, XML for Analysis is a vendor – and platform – independent extension to Microsoft's OLEDB for OLAP and OLEDB for Data Mining protocols. Developers are now able to provide analytic capabilities to any client on any device or platform using any programming language, such as the Microsoft Visual Basic development system, C++, C# and Java. A beta version of XML for Analysis is available for download at www.microsoft.com/data/xml/XMLAnalysis.htm

Open Market & Caput to Jointly Market EJB Solutions
3/1/2001

Open Market, Inc. announced a relationship with Caput. The relationship is intended to enable e-businesses to quickly implement an integrated, solution for content, community and commerce. Caput's solutions generate traffic and loyalty to web- sites. Open Market's solutions are designed to allow those companies to convert these prospects into customers by allowing them to take maximum advantage of their content as a marketing and sales tool. Content can be personalized to customer segments or individual customers. The application platforms offered by the two companies consist of a set of Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) components. The software is written completely in the Java and XML programming language and the architecture adheres to the Sun Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification. This enables both Caput and Open Market solutions to run on the same application server, offering an environment intended to optimize integration, scalability and fail-over. www.caput.com, www.openmarket.com

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