News For October, 2002

Fast Search & Transfer announced that Alltheweb.com, its search technology showcase, is fully adopting XHTML and CSS. In doing so, AlltheWeb is now faster to load and can be displayed consistently across a wider range of Web browsers and browser platforms. In addition, these new standards provide a future opportunity for AlltheWeb users to perform their searches on platforms such as mobile phones, PDAs, among others. FAST has also revealed several new "skins" for AlltheWeb, enabling users to personalize the look and feel of AlltheWeb. An assortment of skins have been created through AlltheWeb Alchemist, a tool FAST unveiled earlier this year, allowing technically-minded users to develop customized views of Web, multimedia, news and categorized search results from AlltheWeb via CSS. FAST plans to continually experiment and add newer skins to AlltheWeb's skins gallery as end users submit them. www.fastsearch.com

Interwoven & MediaBin Integrate Solutions
10/30/2002

Interwoven Inc. and MediaBin Inc. announced they have signed an agreement integrating MediaBin Asset Manager with the Interwoven 5 platform via a MediaBin connector. The connector was developed in collaboration with Interflow Systems Consulting. Using the solution, business users can now search from within the Interwoven software environment to discover, preview visually, transform, and utilize rich media assets stored in MediaBin. www.mediabin.com, www.interwoven.com, www.interflow.com

WebWare to Integrate with Interwoven 5
10/30/2002

WebWare Corporation announced an integration to Interwoven 5. The integrated Interwoven Solution for Media Asset Management (MAM) will enable enterprises to access their rich media assets within e-business initiatives managed by Interwoven 5, such as enterprise portals, corporate intranets, and external web properties. The connector to Interwoven 5 enables Interwoven users within the TeamSite environment to search, thumbnail, preview, transform and aggregate rich media assets into their Interwoven managed content. Interflow and WebWare engineers jointly developed the system extension that allows Interwoven users to directly access rich media and video files from Interwoven's TeamSite application. www.interwoven.com, www.webwarecorp.com, www.interflow.com

Interwoven Teams With Captiva
10/29/2002

Captiva Software Corp. announced a strategic alliance with Interwoven Inc. Interwoven will offer InputAccel, Captiva's information capture software solution, with its new TeamSite 5.5 ECM platform. The integration of InputAccel and TeamSite 5.5 allows companies to capture business-critical information and make it available to all authorized users within the organization. InputAccel reduces document processing time and costs by managing document preparation, scanning, image enhancement, indexing and quality control verification of the data extracted from paper, faxes, email and EDI streams. www.interwoven.com, www.captivasoftware.com

Avid Acquires Assets of iKnowledge
10/29/2002

Avid Technology, Inc. announced it has acquired substantially all the assets of iKnowledge, Inc., a developer of enterprise content aggregation, distribution and syndication solutions. Avid will immediately begin selling a new digital asset management and distribution offering based on the technology acquired from iKnowledge. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The new addition to the Avid family is a rich-media asset management and distribution solution that helps aggregate any digital content, in its native format, from multiple sources. Customers can add business rules to manage the content - such as to which Web site to send the media and when to send it - and distribute it via any channel, from broadband to wireless, or, ultimately, to any device, including PCs, WAP phones, PDAs, and iTV. The new enterprise solution will install within existing IT infrastructures - including those based on Avid Unity for News software - to deliver content-management and distribution capabilities that integrate into production workflow. www.avid.com

Stratify Announces Discovery System 2.0 with Taxonomy Life-cycle Manager
10/29/2002

Stratify, Inc. announced the next version of the Stratify Discovery System. The new release includes features that focus on automatically building, refining and optimizing taxonomies, consistently classifying documents with the highest degree of accuracy, and leveraging information contained in the taxonomy. In addition, the Stratify Discovery System v2.0 features a component called the Stratify Taxonomy Manager, which provides an integrated, unified interface for Total Taxonomy Lifecycle Management. The Stratify Taxonomy Manager provides a single interface that unifies all taxonomy and classification management tasks. The Taxonomy Manager enables users to easily collaborate on all taxonomy lifecycle tasks, including the ability to (1) Create Taxonomies (2) Define Classification Models (3) Test & Assess Classification Models (4) Refine and Optimize Taxonomies and Classification Models and (5) Publish Taxonomies and Classify Documents. The Discovery System supports Western European languages as well as Arabic. Stratify Discovery System v2.0 is available immediately. www.stratify.com

Inktomi Releases Enterprise Search 5.0
10/29/2002

Inktomi Corp. announced the availability of Enterprise Search 5.0. New feature highlights include: improved relevance and query, quick summaries, spell check, and administration user interface enhancements. Inktomi Enterprise Search 5.0 is available as a standalone application and is also included in a new enterprise bundle designed specifically for large, information intensive organizations. Based on a CPU and user-based pricing model, the enterprise bundle supports indexing of an unlimited number of documents across an enterprise. The new bundle includes Inktomi Enterprise Search 5.0, Inktomi Classifier 2.0, connectors for two database servers, the Inktomi Security Module as well as full linguistic support for up to four languages. Organizations with limited document requirements can still purchase the individual products on a per-document pricing model. www.inktomi.com

Interwoven Announces Connector Suite
10/29/2002

Interwoven, Inc. announced its Connector Suite, to aid integrations with other enterprise applications. Interwoven's Connector Suite software gives businesses the ability to jump-start their content initiatives from building dynamic enterprise applications to simply supporting collaboration around a new project. For Web application developers, Interwoven created TeamTurbo, which enables businesses to integrate the Interwoven ECM platform with J2EE and .Net application servers. For portal application developers, Interwoven created TeamPortal connectors, which connect with portal applications. To enable enterprises to fully leverage their document storage systems, Interwoven has created connectors that connect with repositories and databases. They include: DataDeploy, which maps to any database schema; and ContentProvider, which enables enterprises to search and browse multiple repositories from a single point of entry. www.interwoven.com/solutions/connector_suite

Corel Announces XMetaLCentral
10/29/2002

Corel Corporation announced the upcoming availability of Corel XMetaLCentral, a new server-based application that works with Corel XMetaL to manage and maintain customized XML applications. Corel XMetaLCentral is designed for organizations with tens to thousands of XML document creators and editors. When used in conjunction with Corel XMetaL, Corel XMetaLCentral deploys personalized customizations or 'packages' to these end users based on their identity, the content they are working with, and factors in their environment. Invisible to the end user, these packages can be versioned, rolled back, or staged for future deployment. Corel XMetaLCentral features and functionality includes: Browser based interface to manage XMetaLCentral server objects including user profiles, customizations and associated relationships and server operations; IT-defined rules for matching packages with documents and users; Integration with third-party workflow through adaptor objects; Versioning of packages for controlled deployments; Use of the enterprise network login mechanism to access services; Off-line Corel XMetaL authoring mode; and Server support for Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP Professional and Solaris 9. Corel XMetaLCentral will be available in November 2002. www.corel.com/xmetalcentral

Canto & UniSite Combine Digital Asset and Content Management
10/29/2002

UniSite Software and Canto Software, Inc., announced an alliance to provide an integrated solution to clients faced with the challenge of managing Web content and digital assets. Enterprises, in both the private and public sectors, will be able to seamlessly access their digital assets stored in Cumulus Workgroup or Enterprise Edition from within UniSites Web content management system. The combination of these applications unites Cumulus metadata-rich asset repository with UniSites Content Manager workflow-based collaboration application for easily publishing content to Web. www.UniSite.com, www.canto.com

Vignette to Acquire Epicentric
10/29/2002

Vignette Corp. announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Epicentric Inc. Vignette will pay up to $32 million in cash and restricted stock for Epicentric. Shareholders representing a majority of the Epicentric shares have agreed to vote in favor of and have executed voting agreements approving the transaction. The acquisition is expected to close in December. With the acquisition, Vignette will increase its customer base by approximately 250 in industries ranging from energy and financial services to healthcare and telecommunications. Vignette will integrate Epicentric's portal technologies with its content management solution, enabling customers to work with a single vendor to build and deploy business applications for the Web. The Epicentric acquisition will enhance the Vignette foundation with a number of portal-based services such as security, central role management, presentation management and targeted content delivery. The combined products also will offer the ability to use and manage content where it lives, regardless of its format or repository. Full Epicentric support for Vignette V7 is slated for the first quarter of 2003. www.epicentric.com, www.vignette.com

Inxight Acquires Assets of WhizBang! Labs
10/29/2002

Inxight Software, Inc. announced that it has acquired the technology assets of WhizBang! Labs, Inc. The WhizBang! Labs technology adds important functionality to Inxight's solutions, tapping into multiple, disparate data sources to extract and present key information in the form of "facts." For example, the technology can automatically crawl a company's external Web site, accessing dynamically generated pages, classify those pages according to type (contains company address, management bios, etc.), extract the key entities (in the case of management bios, person name, title, previous companies worked for) and associate those entities into a database record. In 2003 Inxight will incorporate the WhizBang! Labs fact extraction technology into Inxight SmartDiscovery, the company's solution for automating the discovery and retrieval of unstructured text data. This enhancement, coupled with its existing features that include taxonomy management, enterprise-class categorization and a guided information retrieval environment, will enhance their Unstructured Data Management solution. Inxight will also evaluate software-licensing opportunities for the WhizBang! Labs technology. www.inxight.com

FileNET Releases New Capture Products
10/29/2002

FileNET Corporation announced general availability of Capture Professional 4.0 and Capture Desktop 4.0. The primary content capture capability for all FileNET ECM solutions. FileNET's Capture products enable customers to acquire and index both electronic and paper-based content, and distribute and manage this content based on an organization's business needs. New features in Capture 4.0 includes TWAIN Scanner support and enhanced reporting functionality as well as OCR for automated indexing and conversion to PDF functionality provided by Scansoft. Capture Desktop 4.0 and Capture Professional 4.0 are available now. Pricing starts at $2,000 per Capture scan station. www.FileNET.com

Gauss Becomes J.D. Edwards Partner
10/29/2002

Gauss announced that the company has passed all requirements to become a J.D. Edwards Certified Interface Alliance Partner. This certification confirms that J.D. Edwards has formally tested and approved the functionality of the published interfaces between Gauss' ECM suite, VIP Enterprise, and J.D. Edwards 5, OneWorld Xe, and WorldSoftware applications. The integration utilizes J.D. Edwards-published interfaces, including screen capture, hot keys, and user defined menus. This allows end-users to continue using their familiar J.D. Edwards applications to access and automate two-way exchanges of information with supporting documents and workflow processes. The combined solution has applicability across a wide variety of line-of-business operations such as Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Order Processing, Human Resource Planning, Payroll and Procurement. www.gaussvip.com, www.jdedwards.com

Ektron Releases eWebWP
10/28/2002

Ektron, Inc. released Ektron eWebWP, a browser-based WYSIWYG editor designed for text formatting. Web developers use this technology to quickly provide word-processor features to virtually any Web site user. Ektron eWebWP offers a familiar toolbar with functions including bold, italics, underline, bullet, indent, copy, paste, font type, and hyperlink. Ektron eWebWP requires no installation, loads quickly, and is available to users on all client platforms supported by the latest version of Macromedia Flash Player. Web developers easily replace text area fields with Ektron eWebWP, giving anyone with an Internet connection and a Web browser access to a word processor-like toolbar. Installation is not required because Ektron eWebWP runs on any standard browser with Macromedia Flash Player installed. At 75K, Ektron eWebWP downloads quickly. www.ektron.com

Sybase Ships Enterprise Portal 5.0
10/28/2002

Sybase, Inc. announced the general availability of Sybase Enterprise Portal 5.0. The EP 5.0 Portal Framework adds improved overall ease of use, openness and security. A redesigned and internationalized GUI includes a drag-and-drop layout, parallel portlet loading, and personalization. Portal Framework also adds support for multiple databases and application servers, including Sybase EAServer, BEA WebLogic and IBM Websphere. Portal Framework support for advanced security includes LDAP and certificate-based authentication, hierarchical role-based access, SSL encryption and multi-level auditing and alerts. EP 5.0 is available in 3 editions. Designed for the work-group, the Information Edition is focused on information and content aggregation. The Application Edition includes the same functionality plus search and a J2EE-compliant application server for creation and deployment of portal applications. Also included in the Application Edition are deployment packs to support multiple databases and application servers. Both the Information and Application additions will be available by December 2002 at prices starting under $10,000. The Enterprise Edition, geared to large deployments, adds advanced security, high-end scalability and failover capabilities. It is available now at $85,000 per CPU. www.sybase.com

Fast Search & Transfer and Momentum Solutions Partner
10/28/2002

Fast Search & Transfer and Momentum Solutions announced a VAR agreement, providing Momentum Solutions with FAST Master Reseller status worldwide. FAST Data Search will be integrated as the core technology of Momentum's enterprise content management solution, Momentum Enterprise. Momentum Solutions will integrate additional enterprise-class tools, including the FAST Data Search real-time filtering capabilities, to build a solution suite for commercial and government applications. www.momentum-solutions.com, www.fastsearch.com

Convera Releases 20 Domain-specific Semantic Cartridges
10/28/2002

Convera announced the release of twenty domain-specific semantic network cartridges to enhance enterprise search accuracy, relevancy and personalization. The plug-and-play cartridges, which come from Convera's recent acquisition of Semantix Inc., allow customers to work with vocabularies more relevant to their specific business or industry. The new pre-packaged cartridges plug into Convera's RetrievalWare enterprise search, retrieval and categorization solution, and join Convera's existing selection of cartridges that support a wide range of languages. The twenty semantic network cartridges, supported by RetrievalWare's concept-based searching method, include thousands of terms and concepts unique to the following industries: Army, Biology, Chemistry, Computers, Electronics, Finance, Food Science, Geography, Geology, Health Sciences, Information Science, Law, Mathematics, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), Petroleum Natural Gas & Petrochemicals, Pharmacology, Physics, Plastics, Rubber, and Telecommunications. www.convera.com

Nionex & Advent 3B2 in Agreement
10/27/2002

Advent 3B2 GmbH and Nionex have entered into an agreement whereby both companies will co-operate in selling and integration of their respective products. Nionex specialises in Content Management and Knowledge Management solutions and Advent has developed 3B2 to take the output from such Content Management Systems and provide customised solutions for the publishing of the material in any format, whether in printed form or electronic means such as web sites. www.3b2.com, www.nionex.com

iManage Announces New European Partnerships
10/24/2002

iManage, Inc. announced two new European partnerships to provide support for its collaborative content management suite of applications. Marvel Communications SA of Switzerland, a provider of Web solutions, Internet communications and e-business, and Delta Systemtechnik Horn GmbH (Delta-Sys) of Germany, a provider of project-oriented application programming for medium and large organizations, have both signed partnerships with iManage. These new iManage partners will assist their clients with planning and implementing the iManage WorkSite suite which delivers document management, collaboration, portal access, workflow, knowledge management and business process automation in a single solution on a scalable and secure Internet platform. www.marvel.ch/, www.delta-sys.de, www.imanage.com

Factiva Expands Relationship with Inxight
10/24/2002

Inxight Software, Inc. and Factiva have expanded their relationship to include a new software licensing agreement. The expanded relationship includes Factiva integrating Inxight's text categorization and entity extraction solutions into its new Factiva Fusion content enhancement tool. Factiva has licensed Inxight's entity extraction technology to identify and extract information, such as company names, from documents and group them by categories. Similarly, Factiva has licensed Inxight's categorization solution to automatically analyze, code and classify text data according to Factiva's taxonomy, Factiva Intelligent Indexing. www.inxight.com, www.factiva.com

Mediasurface Acquires Reef
10/24/2002

Mediasurface announced that it has acquired selected assets of Reef SA/NV, a North American focused Content Management vendor. Under the agreement Mediasurface purchased the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of all three Reef product lines, including InternetWare: The core Reef product a Web Content Management suite with a customer base in North America; EveryWare: Web content transformation - takes content and converts it on-the-fly to any Internet access device (e.g. WAP phones, interactive TV, screenreaders, PDAs); and QuickStart: a Web Content Management solution offering functionality for the small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) market. www.mediasurface.com

Volantis Partners with BEA
10/24/2002

Volantis Systems Ltd. has been named as a three star partner for pervasive Internet (multi channel) solutions by BEA Systems Ltd. The partnership will provide organisations with a platform for the management and delivery of web applications across multiple channels and connected devices. The partnership covers sales, marketing and technology development, ensuring the rapid integration of Volantis' solution, Mariner, with the BEA WebLogic Server and BEA Portal Server. The combined offering provides customers with an immediately deployable multi-channel infrastructure. www.volantis.com

Conviveon Announces Content Management Appliance
10/23/2002

Conviveon Corporation announced availability of its Conviveon Access Appliance, an integrated hardware and software content management solution. The Conviveon Access Appliance integrates a web server, application server and database server on a single piece of hardware, and comes pre-installed with Conviveon Access Server, an XML-based content management and integration software platform. The entry-level appliance, CAA100, is a 1U "pizza box" server ready to plug directly into a network, enabling web designers and users to start taking advantage of its capabilities immediately. Oracle and SQL Server options are also available, as are a variety of hardware alternatives. www.conviveon.com

SiteScape Releases Content Delivery Agents Citrix NFuse Elite
10/23/2002

SiteScape Inc. announced that it has released a number of new collaborative Content Delivery Agents (CDAs) for the Citrix NFuse Elite access portal server. SiteScape's CDAs, which are individual, customizable components that "plug into" an existing back-end system to present tailored views of data to the portal desktop, allow NFuse Elite portal customers to access the basic collaboration, knowledge management and business process improvement features. SiteScape's CDAs for Citrix NFuse Elite are free of charge and are immediately available for download from SiteScape's website. www.sitescape.com/next/download.html

FileNET Announces Support for Universal Application Network
10/23/2002

FileNET Corporation announced its support for Universal Application Network - a standards-based, vendor-independent application integration solution - launched by Siebel Systems, in conjunction with other application software vendors, integration server vendors and systems integrators. FileNET plans to provide out-of-the-box connectivity between FileNET ECM and Universal Application Network. Based on XML and Web Services standards, Universal Application Network enables organizations to integrate applications such as FileNET's ECM solutions, and helps organizations avoid being locked into vendor-specific architectures. FileNET and Siebel Systems will deliver an enhanced integrated solution that combines the best practices drawn from both Siebel Systems' business process library and FileNET's approach to Enterprise Content Management. www.FileNET.com

Quasar Launches Cross-media Content Management System
10/22/2002

Quasar Technologies has launched GetReady, a content management system that provides cross-media publishing capability, and plans to market it worldwide. GetReady provides visual search, a knowledge engine, automatic table management, intelligent workflow, interactive editing workspace, full IPTC and Metadata support as standard. For text and image editing, the product integrates with Adobe InCopy, InDesign, Graphics Server GoLive and Photoshop, relying on InDesign for layout and design. www.quasar-tech.com

Vignette Announces Vignette V7 Applications
10/22/2002

Vignette Corp. unveiled the Vignette V7 family of content management applications that offer a mix of out-of-the-box and configurable capabilities packaged to meet departmental or enterprise requirements. Vignette Content Management Group Suite 7 is designed for departments that need a content management solution to power one Web site or portal, as well as predefined workflows, content types and the Vignette Command Center. Vignette Content Management Business Suite 7 is designed for organizations with multiple mission-critical Web sites and portals that leverage content residing throughout the enterprise. It includes additional features such as a graphical workflow creation, multisite management and a graphical integration workbench. Vignette Content Management Enterprise Suite 7 will unify the content management processes across an entire enterprise. This suite will contain advanced reporting, adapters to integrate unstructured content into portals and Web applications, and a set of software development kits. The Vignette Content Management Group Suite 7 and Vignette Content Management Business Suite 7 will be available by the end of the year. Vignette Content Management Enterprise Suite 7 is scheduled to be shipped in the first half of 2003. www.vignette.com

Inclusion Releases Intra.Net Version 4.4
10/22/2002

Inclusion Technologies, Inc. announced release of the Intra.Net Information Management System 4.4, with enhanced tools for improving organizational effectiveness. With a new set of tools for managing common business processes, customers can now establish routing mechanisms that match organizational work flows, view document change histories, and rate them for easier approvals and distribution. Version 4.4 offers administration tools and low maintenance requirements that make it possible for individual departments, administrators, or resource managers to set up the Intranet and manage their own content, calendars, contacts and access privileges. Inclusion Technologies provides its secure platform as both a licensed product for use within customer data centers, and as a fully scaleable ASP solution for immediate deployment. www.inclusiontechnologies.com

LightSpeed Releases Version 4.0 of Astoria
10/22/2002

LightSpeed Software, Inc. announced the release of Astoria 4.0, a major new release of their content management system. LightSpeed Astoria is an XML-based content management solution that works with current authoring tools to provide fine-grained control over valuable information assets. LightSpeed Astoria manages the collaborative authoring process, providing access control, versioning, flexible information and component reuse, meta-data tagging, workflow and distribution to the Web, PDA's, paper and CD-ROM. LightSpeed Astoria 4.0 features include enhanced compatibility with current versions of XML and SGML authoring tools, including Arbortext Epic 4.3, Corel XMetaL 3.0 and Adobe FrameMaker 7, inclusion of advanced review and workflow features, as well as performance and scalability improvements. LightSpeed Astoria's integration with Altova's authentic 5 enables remote authoring of structured XML content through a standard Web browser. www.LSpeed.com

Ektron Releases CMS200 version 2.0
10/22/2002

Ektron, Inc. announced the release of Ektron CMS200 version 2.0. Ektron expands its multilingual, browser-based content management solution to Microsoft ASP.NET, Macromedia ColdFusion and PHP, in addition to the existing support for Microsoft ASP. CMS200 runs simultaneously on various Web application servers. For sites running on multiple application servers, this new "multi-platform" capability allows developers to standardize on Ektron CMS200. For migration from ASP to ASP.NET, Ektron allows for the conversion of various sections over time, rather than a one-time full site rollout. Ektron CMS200 includes Ektron eWebEditPro. Beyond newly added support for multiple application servers, CMS200 version 2.0 adds improved tracking for library items, enhanced reporting, new site previewing support, better content scheduling and new capabilities for tiered, delegated administration. Prices start at US$3,000. www.ektron.com

Adobe Announces PDF Document Server
10/21/2002

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the Adobe Document Server, which enables enterprise customers to automatically generate and customize Adobe PDF files and forms. Adobe Document Server is built for easy integration with existing ERP and CRM systems, Content Management Systems, document management systems, and databases. The software lets companies automate document creation and assembly for technical manuals, brochures, proposals and policies, as well as create custom electronic forms with pre-populated fields, and produce business reports that contain charts and graphs dynamically generated from data in a database. With support for APIs for Java, Perl, COM and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) environments, programmers can develop scripts for automating the creation of Adobe PDF documents. Adobe Document Server also supports Extensible Style Language Formatting Objects (XSL-FO). Adobe Document Server is expected to be available by the end of 2002, with pricing starting at US$20,000 per CPU. www.adobe.com/products/server/documentserver/main.html

Percussion Partners with Advanced Software
10/21/2002

Percussion Software announced a technology integration partnership with Advanced Software, Inc. (ASI). Percussion will embed ASI's DocuComp comparison engine into the next release of Rhythmyx Content Manager, expected in early 2003. DocuComp, best known as the popular "compare documents" feature in Microsoft Word, will enable Rhythmyx users to simplify the content review, localization and approval processes involved with authoring and publishing Web content. This will reduce the time needed to process content modifications and approvals as well as improve the workflow efforts of content creation teams. The DocuComp comparison engine uses sophisticated pattern matching techniques to compare any two versions of a file, reporting inserted, deleted, replaced and even moved text. ASI's DocuComp comparison technology operates in cross-platform application environments and is accessible through a C, C++ or Java application programmer's interface. Licensees can embed the DocuComp technology into any web-based enterprise application to compare HTML, XML or SGML. www.docucomp.com, www.percussion.com

Progress to Acquire eXcelon
10/21/2002

Progress Software Corporation and eXcelon Corporation jointly announced they have signed a definitive agreement pursuant to which Progress Software will acquire eXcelon in an all-cash transaction for a purchase price of $3.19 per share or approximately $24 million in the aggregate. The acquisition has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of Progress Software and eXcelon and is subject to the approval of eXcelon's stockholders. The acquisition is expected to close within 90 days, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions. All of the directors, certain officers and the largest stockholder of eXcelon, holding approximately 9% of eXcelon's outstanding common stock in the aggregate, have entered into stockholders agreements with PSC agreeing to vote in favor of the merger. www.exln.com, www.progress.com

Applied Semantics Launches Contextual Targeting Pay-For-Performance Ad Serving
10/21/2002

Applied Semantics, Inc. launched AdSense, which dynamically generates advertisements comprised of conceptually relevant search terms and pay-for-performance search results targeted to real-time web content viewed by an online user. AdSense is powered by Applied Semantics' CIRCA technology, a semantic engine that understands and extracts the key concepts on any web page. The foundation of CIRCA rests on the use of an ontology of millions of concepts and relationships between concepts, enabling it to 'read' any web page and build a profile of the key meanings on the page. CIRCA makes it possible to match the key concepts on any web page with the most relevant advertiser in real-time. AdSense crawls web pages, determines key meanings represented on the pages and selects the most effective pay-for-performance search terms. AdSense integrates into any online advertising media type and size, replacing existing advertising displays without the need to redesign or reformat web pages. www.appliedsemantics.com

Banta Integrated Media Enhances B•media
10/18/2002

Banta Integrated Media announced new functional enhancements to its B•media enterprise Digital Content Management software platform specifically designed for catalogers, publishers and marketers. Bmedia 3.1 allows users to publish entire data directories or single assets by selecting a publishing target to send Bmedia content to. New administrative tools simplify the management and maintenance of complex corporate security, permissions and access models. An administrative interface makes it easy to set up complex publishing routines. Thumbnails and previews are automatically created upon check-in of QuarkXPress documents, providing users with visual validation of spreads and layouts. Whiteboarding has been enhanced to enable users to "pour" whiteboards into open QuarkXPress documents to automate page composition and preserve and reuse static elements. User-defined tag names can be applied to text in metadata fields to pass style information QuarkXPress and Web documents. Complex, multilevel keywords have become much easier to manage and use and keywords can be supported in multiple languages. In addition to standard reporting capabilities, users can capture attribute information about any selected asset(s), creating a reusable file for viewing, printing, and Web display. www.banta-im.com

Blue Hammock Expands into Data & Content Management
10/17/2002

Blue Hammock Inc. announced added service offerings with Data and Content Management. The company terms these offerings, "Information Assets," defined as leveraging and improving an organizations' data and content so that it will deliver critical business information. The company has formed alliances with Trillium Software and Interwoven, Inc. in an effort to support these new service lines. www.trilliumsoftware.com, www.interwoven.com, www.bluehammock.com

WebWare Announces Adobe Graphics Server 2.0 Automation Support in MAMBO V.4.0
10/17/2002

WebWare Corporation announced that Adobe Graphics Server 2.0 will be fully supported in WebWare MAMBO, Version 4.0, the new edition of WebWare's enterprise-level digital asset management software. A unique feature available in the combined solution is the ability to manage, preview and transform individual layers in an Adobe-format compound file. Users at a remote location may call up a graphic stored in a WebWare content repository and view it on a standard Web browser. If the document is comprised of different layers, users will view all separate layers as an animated GIF thumbnail, essentially allowing them to "see" into a file without opening it. They may then re-order or make other layers invisible, and see how the newly reconstituted file will look. Adobe Graphics Server 2.0 will be bundled with WebWare MAMBO Version 4.0. Pricing has not been announced. The J2EE-compliant WebWare upgrade will be available early in Q1, 2003. www.webware.com

Isogen & empolis Sign Alliance Agreement
10/16/2002

Isogen International announced it has formed a new business alliance with empolis content management GmbH. Under the agreement, Isogen GEN International will provide integration and implementation services for the sigmalink content management system and other XML products from empolis. The companies are also looking to jointly sponsor XML courses this fall from the Isogen curriculum at empolis locations in Europe and the United States. www.empolis.com, www.isogen.com

Palm Embeds Stellent Technology Tungsten
10/16/2002

Stellent, Inc. announced that Palm Inc. has embedded its Outside In Wireless Export technology in the new Tungsten Mobile Information Management (MIM) Solution. The Tungsten MIM Solution offers enterprises a complete and secure wireless email and groupware access system using the Palm i705 handheld and the Palm m500 series handhelds with the Xircom 802.11 module. The Stellent Wireless Export technology will enable Tungsten MIM users to view email attachments on their Palm handhelds without having to perform a HotSync operation with their desktop environments via a cradle or transfer the native file to the Palm handheld prior to viewing. Palm's Tungsten MIM Solution is scheduled to begin shipping on Oct. 28, 2002. www.stellent.com, www.palm.com

Canto Announces Web Publisher Pro
10/16/2002

Canto announced "Web Publisher Pro", a new Option that allows users to publish Cumulus catalogs and to market digital assets on dynamic web pages in the Internet. The new Option is based on the Cumulus Java Classes and is designed for users who do not merely publish their assets but also intend to market them, as is the case in marketing departments, ad agencies, publishing houses, PR departments, and also in museums, mail-order-houses and other user groups. The integrated ordering system enables users to choose a preferred method of asset delivery-download, email, or physical fulfillment. Separate management of users and groups has now been implemented, based on the Cumulus database so that no additional installation and licensing efforts are required. Customizations and integration with existing databases of other suppliers (e.g. mySQL) can be easily realized. Web Publisher Pro will be available in the second half of November 2002 with English, German and French user interface on Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris and Linux platforms. A batch cataloging license of Web Publisher Pro will be available for $1495. Upgrades for existing Web Publisher installations will be also offered. www.canto.com

Interwoven Incorporates Systinet for Web Services Infrastructure
10/15/2002

Systinet announced that Interwoven, Inc. has selected Systinet to power Web services for its TeamSite Front-Office 5.5 software, which allows business users to collaborate on shared documents and submit content from a variety of desktop applications. Systinet WASP is also embedded in the Content Services SDK, which provides secure SOAP Web services functionality for provisioning Interwoven Enterprise Content Management functions to applications such as portals. The Systinet WASP suite of products is a solution for building, deploying, securing and managing Web services. Systinet WASP Server for Java and WASP Server for C++ are Web services runtime environments that support SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, and WSDL 1.1. www.systinet.com, www.interwoven.com

Soholaunch Announces Linux-Based, Website Creation & Management Tool
10/15/2002

Soholaunch, Inc. announced the release of the Soholaunch Site Management Tool (SMT), a thin-client website development application that creates and manages database-driven websites through a "drag and drop" browser interface. Soholaunch SMT is written in PHP and installs on servers running a Linux operating system and a mySQL database. Soholaunch's license allows for source code editing by the licensee as well as sharing of modifications and enhancements via the company's developers' network. Soholaunch has signed a distribution agreement with Red Hat, Inc. for a free evaluation copy of the SMT to be included on the Linux Application CD packaged with the new Red Hat 8.0 OS release. The Soholaunch Site Management Tool is available immediately at Soholaunch.com and is priced at $799 for the SMT Pro and $199 for the SMT Lite. Until December 31, 2002 there is an introductory special on-line pricing of $299 for the SMT Pro and $49 for the SMT Lite. www.soholaunch.com

Autonomy Announces Collaboration Solution
10/15/2002

Autonomy Corporation plc announced the release of Autonomy's Collaboration and Enterprise Networks (CEN). CEN makes it possible for organizations to capture, visualize and manage employee expertise and make knowledge available throughout the enterprise regardless of location. Autonomy's software generates profiles implicitly and explicitly. As users interact with content, the system understands the concepts within the content and automatically develops a profile or adjusts it as the users work projects change. In addition, because Autonomy understands conceptually user profiles and content, it will link together employees that are working on similar projects even though it may not sound like they are doing related work. CEN allows enterprises to get an overview of what information they have, who is working on or using that information, and who the experts are on particular topics within the organization. CEN's ability to profile network traffic through "mapping and visualization" (color-coded views of where information is located and how much is there) delivers a picture of activities on a daily basis. www.autonomy.com

Saqqara Announces ContentWorks 3.0
10/15/2002

SAQQARA Systems, Inc. announced the release of Saqqara ContentWorks 3.0, an automated product content management solution. WorkFlow and AutoExecution work together to significantly reduce administration time for catalog updates by automatically adding catalog updates based on delta processing. Taxonomy-to-Taxonomy mapping of product information from one catalog hierarchy is automatically converted to another. XML Import/Export of cleansed product, customer data or ERP item masters enables use by other enterprise applications or trading partners on both the supply side and the channel side. Specifically designed for buy-side implementations, the 2nd Source Substitution feature recognizes that an item is a duplicate item from a second supplier, and automatically merges the information into a single item, without losing the fact that it is available from two sources. Saqqara ContentWorks 3.0 is available immediately. Special upgrade pricing and maintenance agreements are available to current CommerceSuite customers. www.saqqara.com

iPhrase Announces One Step 4.0
10/14/2002

iPhrase Technologies, Inc. announced the availability of One Step 4.0 with Interaction Advantage. The new platform also supports multiple languages, improves business intelligence through expanded reporting and improves business user control through the introduction of Web-based administration tools. The One Step 4.0 platform combines conceptual understanding, multi-source retrieval, dynamic presentation, and the application of business rules to provide improved interactions. iPhrase One Step 4.0 is tolerant to language, spelling and usage, and provides a feedback loop that tells the user how the question was interpreted. One Step 4.0 offers APIs for integration into content management systems and existing keyword/vocabulary tools, and the solution has been upgraded to include Java and COM front-end APIs for use with e-commerce platforms and Web architectures such as BEA WebLogic portal. iPhrase One Step also offers standard connectors for use with Interwoven MetaTagger and TeamSite and for Netegrity Siteminder. www.iphrase.com

CrownPeak Forms Strategic Alliance with Genex
10/14/2002

CrownPeak Technology announced a strategic alliance with Internet consulting and development firm Genex to provide hosted content management services to Genex and its clients. Genex will integrate CrownPeak's Advantage CMS hosted content management tool as a content management solution for select client engagements. The relationship is Genex's first with an application service provider. www.genex.com, www.crownpeak.com

Stellent Launches Lotus Notes Initiative
10/14/2002

Stellent, Inc. announced its Lotus Notes initiative. The initiative includes the release of the new Stellent Lotus Notes Integrator that offers customers a migration or integration path between Lotus Notes and Stellent Content Management. The Stellent Lotus Notes Integrator provides companies with a solution for automatically replicating or migrating Lotus Notes database content into the Stellent Content Management environment. It automatically converts the proprietary Lotus Notes document format into RTF, HTML or XML. Stellent Lotus Notes Integrator can be used in situations where Stellent Content Management coexists with Lotus Notes or where companies are completing replacing Notes. In the first scenario, Lotus Notes Integrator will automatically replicate Lotus Notes documents or emails into the Stellent system, which would be used for document management, Web publishing, content collaboration and content distribution. In the second scenario, Lotus Notes Integrator would be used for the one-time migration of Lotus Notes documents into the Stellent Content Management system. Stellent Lotus Notes Integrator is currently shipping and is priced at $50,000 USD. www.stellent.com/lotusintegration

Plumtree Launches Content Management Product
10/14/2002

Plumtree Software announced Plumtree Content Server 4.0, a portal content management system. As an engine for creating and publishing Web content within the portal, Content Server allows everyone in the business to contribute information to the portal, and every line-of-business to manage the branding and publication of that content to portal pages and related Web sites. Content Server is based on the 2001 acquisition of Hablador, and is the most recent product in Plumtree's new line of servers, which also includes Collaboration Server, Studio Server, Search Server and Single Sign-On Server, Powered by Oblix. Content Server publishes content to the portal organized in Plumtree's enterprise-wide document directory or in community directories maintained for different work-groups or business units. Content Server can also publish content as Gadget Web Services, components embedded within a portal page, and a wide range of administration tools are surfaced in the portal as Gadget Web Services. Content Server relies on the portal's security scheme, and indexes its content using Plumtree Search. Content Server is expected to be generally available in November 2002. www.plumtree.com

NeoCore Releases Insight
10/14/2002

NeoCore Inc., developer of the NeoCore XML Information Management System (XMS), has released NeoCore Insight, an information exploration tool that provides instant access to database information. NeoCore Insight allows businesses greater understanding about the information stored in the XMS database without need for application development. The power of the underlying engine is exposed by a number of access methods, including charting, creating user-defined gauges that can be set into a "dashboard", and revealing patterns within the information, without technical knowledge of the data's structure or indexing. NeoCore's additional complementary technologies include a recent integration with Altova's XMLSPY 5, which enables database access and manipulation of XMS from within the XMLSPY development environment, and planned upcoming integration with an Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) tool. Insight is available immediately. www.neocore.com

InStranet Releases Secure Report Distribution Manager V2
10/14/2002

InStranet, Inc. announced the release of the latest version of its Secure Report Distribution Manager product, an application designed to converge Business Intelligence and Enterprise Content Management. SRDM v2 enables BI managers and non-technical business users to search for and distribute reports to the appropriate recipients across the extended enterprise, whether those users are at headquarters, in branch offices or retail outlets, or within partner or customer organizations. With SRDM v2, users can access a single centralized location for all reporting information, whether those reports originate from a BI platform, desktop reporting tools, CRM applications, or mainframe and AS/400 platforms. www.InStranet.com

Mobius Acquires Cytura
10/11/2002

Mobius Management Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired technology and certain other assets of Cytura Corp. Cytura software delivers Web site management, document management and digital asset management in a single platform. It gives business managers and non-technical employees the ability to create, personalize, transform, manage and publish content. Cytura technology will be integrated with the Mobius ViewDirect TCM software suite to deliver a comprehensive integrated solution for enterprise content requirements. Mobius paid Cytura $2.2 million in cash for the acquired assets. In approximately one year, Mobius may be obligated to pay Cytura up to an additional $800,000, depending on the price of Mobius common stock over the next thirteen months. www.mobius.com

Soft Experience Releases Catalogue 4.0
10/11/2002

Soft Experience has released Catalogue 4.0 - Files Metadata Miner. Catalogue 4.0 is a Windows utility to automatically gather file metadata and to generate HTML/XML/RDF reports. Collected metadata includes: Microsoft Office, Star Office and OpenOffice.org summary information; summary information of any Windows 2000 file; HTML document title and meta tags according to Dublic Core schema (IETF RFC 2731); Adobe XMP metadata; user-defined information of any Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org document; Macintosh comments of any Macintosh file stored on NTFS volumes; PDF Document information; and IPTC-NAA fields for JPEG/TIFF images. The program can generate directly HTML, CSV, Word or XML reports of collected metadata, and is able to apply appropriate XSL transformations to build any text/csv/html/xml report. Language support includes English, French, German, and Portuguese,and you can modify or add your own user interface language. http://peccatte.karefil.com/Software/Catalogue/CatalogueENG.htm

Percussion in Partnership with Olidium
10/8/2002

Percussion Software announced a partnership agreement with Olidium, who will integrate its technology with Percussion's Rhythmyx Content Manager and offer the products in tandem to customers. C3Liaison is an Internet-based platform allowing customers, suppliers and trading partners to collaborate, manage and share an extended network of business processes and inter-enterprise applications. The C3Liaison suite of applications comprises a portal framework and seven applications: catalog manager, sourcing, procurement, fulfillment visibility, asset management, collaborative inventory and maintenance, repair and engineering (MRE). Olidium supports Sun Solaris, Linux, and Microsoft Windows 2000 operating systems; as well as Oracle, IBM DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server databases. It has been built to be integrated with legacy ERP systems and other vertical applications. C3Liaison will integrate with Rhythmyx Content Manager V4.5 to update and repurpose content via Olidium's Rhythmyx Publisher Plug-in. This integration will occur in three main areas of Olidium's C3Liaison suite: Portlets, Catalog Manager and Documentation. www.percussion.com, www.olidium.com

Interwoven Announces TeamPortal for IBM WebSphere Portal - Express
10/8/2002

Interwoven, Inc. announced TeamPortal for IBM WebSphere Portal - Express, to complement WebSphere Portal - Express recently announced by IBM. The offering will enable customers to quickly and easily get portal initiatives up and running as well as provide the ongoing management of portal content, documents, and code. Interwoven TeamPortal for IBM WebSphere Portal - Express will be available on October 31st in conjunction with IBM's availability of WebSphere Portal - Express. www.interwoven.com

Factiva Announces Categorization Tool
10/8/2002

Factiva announced Factiva Fusion, a content enhancement tool that categorizes and creates relationships between critical business content sets, according to a taxonomy. Factiva Fusion structures content for retrieval and contextual integration into portals, intranets, and other business applications. Factiva's experts work with customers to tailor Factiva Intelligent Indexing, reducing the time needed to create a unique classification scheme. The solution does not seek to replace existing portals, intranets, and content management systems, but to complement and enhance their performance by consistently organizing the content within those repositories. With Factiva Fusion's developer's kit companies can invoke Web services to supply enhanced information that supports specific job functions (e.g., Finance, Marketing, etc.) Fusion incorporates an editorial interface for content collection and taxonomy management, and a pre-defined search interface for out-of-the-box access to unified content. Factiva has strategic partnerships with EIP application providers such as Microsoft, IBM, and Plumtree. www.factiva.com

MediaBin Content Connector Available for Microsoft Content Management Server
10/7/2002

MediaBin Inc. announced the early availability of the MediaBin Content Connector for Microsoft .NET. The connector utilizes a new set of Web Services, built around the Microsoft .NET Framework, that enables Content Management Server 2002 users to access and publish approved digital assets from the MediaBin Asset Manager server. The integration streamlines the process of locating, placing and formatting image assets for Web publication. Companies can also better ensure proper brand and product representation over time by synchronizing renditions of images and documents published via Content Management Server with corresponding source assets managed within the MediaBin server. When combined with the Web content management capabilities of Content Management Server 2002 and the document management capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, the integration creates a Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution. www.mediabin.com

Endeca Launches ProFind for Enterprises
10/7/2002

Endeca announced the immediate availability of its enterprise search solution, Endeca ProFind. Built on the Endeca Navigation Engine, Endeca ProFind enables users to navigate through enterprise data to find the precise document or piece of information they need, quickly and efficiently. In addition to helping users find what they are looking for, Endeca ProFind creates "information portals" that help users discover information that they didn't know was there. For example, an engineer looking for information on jet engine boosters can navigate through documents and parts data using Guided Navigation revealing a specific "product upgrade" that she otherwise may not have known existed until she actually went to order the part. As Endeca ProFind helps the engineer refine her search to find the information she needs, it also presents the engineer with an "information portal" that includes other documents on jet engine boosters and other related parts specifications and information that may be of interest. With Endeca ProFind, the engineer not only pinpoints the information she wants, but has the opportunity to discover related information. www.endeca.com

Stellent Launches Content Management Suite for State & Local Government
10/7/2002

Stellent, Inc. announced the release of a content management product suite customized specifically for state and local e-government initiatives. The new Stellent eGovernment Solution provides government agencies with a set of applications that address the broad range of e-government programs agencies are implementing. Stellent's new product suite addresses the needs of government-to-citizen (G2C), government-to-employee (G2E), government-to-government (G2G) and government-to-business (G2B) applications. www.stellent.com/government

iXmatch to Provide Search for Microsoft Content Management Server
10/7/2002

iXmatch Inc. announced that its search software, iXfind, has been integrated with Microsoft Corp.'s new version of one of its .NET Enterprise Servers, Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, to provide customers an option for advanced search functionality. iXfind allows people to search structured and unstructured data across all areas of a Web site or network, including documents, catalog content, product details, and support information. iXfind provides advanced search functionality, including dynamic clustering, best bet content recommendations, document profiles, and auto-categorization. iXfind's server controls allow customers to quickly deploy it with Content Management Server 2002. The software crawls, indexes, and classifies the content to make it searchable, with no further maintenance. The goal is to provide Content Management Server 2002 customers with advanced search functionality out of the box. www.ixmatch.com

Ektron in Technology Relationship with Microsoft
10/7/2002

Ektron, Inc. announced a formal technology relationship with Microsoft Corp., whereby Ektron supports integration of Ektron eWebEditPro and eWebEditPro+XML in Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. Ektron eWebEditPro, a browser-based, multilingual XHTML content editor, offers "word-processor-like" capabilities to non-technical users and significant customization options for Web developers. eWebEditPro+XML extends the functionality of eWebEditPro by adding a WYSIWYG XML authoring environment. Ektrons technology complements features in Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, especially in the area of XML. For example, Microsoft adds a new XML data store, making content more readily accessible for other purposes, such as repositioning to various devices and enhanced searching. Additional Ektron features for Microsoft include extensive compatibility with Microsoft Word, advanced style sheet (CSS) control with style classes, advanced table and image functionality, and support for content authoring and spell checking in any Windows-supported language. Currently, Ektron eWebEditPro dialogs are available in 15 languages. www.ektron.com

Corel Announces Corel 10 with XML Support
10/7/2002

Corel Corporation announced that Corel Ventura 10 is now available. A page-layout and publishing application, Corel Ventura 10 provides tools designed specifically for the creation of highly-formatted and visually-rich business documents with new features such as XML import, Publish to PDF, and enhanced graphics support. Together with Corel XMetaL 3, Corel Ventura 10 enables enterprise customers to quickly and easily create and professionally publish XML content. The XMetaL interface enables anyone within an organization to create XML. Corel Ventura 10 is available for the suggested retail price of US$699. Registered customers of Corel Ventura 7 or 8 may purchase Corel Ventura 10 at the suggested upgrade price of US$249. www.corel.com/ventura10

Authentica Announces Secure Gateway
10/7/2002

Authentica, Inc. announced Authentica Secure Gateway, its new enterprise e-mail security software. Authentica Secure Gateway allows organizations to systematically protect all outgoing messages without any changes to their internal e-mail workflow or extra steps or training for users. It combines e-mail encryption with a universal interface to content scanning products, including those from TrendMicro, SurfControl, MailMarshall, Tumbleweed and Clearswift MIMEsweeper. It gives corporations who have standardized on Microsoft Exchange the ability to secure e-mail in line with content filtering policies. There are no special software requirements for senders or recipients and Authentica Secure Gateway can securely deliver any file format. Authentica Secure Gateway is available immediately. Pricing starts at $32,500 (USD). www.authentica.com

Microsoft Launches Content Management Server 2002
10/7/2002

Microsoft Corp. is launching Content Management Server (CMS) 2002, part of the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server family, which also includes BizTalk Server, Commerce Server and SharePoint Portal Server. Microsoft has invested in Content Management Server to provide deeper integration with Microsoft .NET and support for industry standards, resulting in a more extensible and flexible Web content management solution. Integration with the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET provide developers with an environment to rapidly build and assemble content management-enabled Web applications and content-driven Web services. Integration with Microsoft Office improves business user productivity by allowing content creation and direct Web publishing from Microsoft Word. Also new in Content Management Server 2002 are: deep integration with Visual Studio, native support for managing XML content and XML Web services, and faster time to deploy. Content Management Server 2002 will retail for $42,000 per CPU (reseller prices may vary) and will be generally available by the end of the year. www.microsoft.com/cmserver

SOFTWIN Announces Support for DocBook DTD
10/7/2002

SOFTWIN introduced document conversion to XML format conforming to the DocBook DTD and a DRM solution. The new output option for content conversion (XML DocBook) is now available on intuitext as well, SOFTWINs free online conversion service. SOFTWINs intuitext provides a wide range of output options: XML with custom DTD, HTML, OeB, Adobe eBook Reader, and proprietary ebook formats like Gemstar and OeB Baker &Taylor. SOFTWIN also announced its DRM solution, enabling the secure distribution of online and offline content through Internet, email, and CD-ROM. SOFTWINs solution targets the entire range of publishing agents, with an emphasis on management of periodic content delivery (journals, updates, newsletters) following complex rules in a controlled manner. www.softwin.ro, www.intuitext.com

Vignette Announces V6 Adapter for Unstructured Content
10/4/2002

Vignette Corp. announced the availability of a new Vignette V6 Adapter for Unstructured Content that enables organizations to more easily integrate unstructured content into portals and Web applications developed with Vignette V6. Rather than treating unstructured content as monolithic static files content aggregation agents created using the V6 Adapter for Unstructured Content are able to look inside the content, discern unique patterns in the information and aggregate only what is relevant, such as specific news information intended for an employee intranet. Because of its pattern-recognition-based approach to content integration, the V6 Adapter for Unstructured Content is able to adapt to changes in the format or location of content. The Vignette V6 Adapter for Unstructured Content enables organizations to not only extract content from enterprise content sources, such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel and popular desktop applications, but also makes it possible to input data from a variety of sources into these applications. The Vignette V6 Adapter for Unstructured Content is available and included with the purchase of the Vignette V6 Content Suite. www.vignette.com

Documentum to Acquire eRoom
10/3/2002

Documentum announced an agreement to acquire privately held eRoom Technology, Inc. Documentum will issue approximately 7.7 million shares of its common stock and pay approximately $12.6 million in cash for all of the outstanding shares of eRoom's capital stock, based upon eRoom's current capitalization. In addition, Documentum will reserve approximately 1.7 million shares of its common stock for issuance upon exercise of eRoom stock options being assumed in the acquisition. The acquisition is expected to close in December 2002, subject to customary closing conditions. The joint Documentum and eRoom solution will offer a broadened spectrum of structured, ad hoc, real time and anytime collaboration functions, integrated with Documentum's ECM platform. Customers will have access to tools for content-centric and collaboration-centric applications, each supported, leveraged and extended by the other. Following completion of the transaction, Documentum will sell the eRoom products and the ECM platform, through the combined sales channels. www.eroom.com, www.documentum.com

Pipeline Interactive Releases eZ Publisher
10/2/2002

Pipeline Interactive unveiled a new content management tool for Web site managers. Called, "eZ Publisher," the new release makes Pipeline's proprietary content management system available to a much broader range of users. The new system enables Web site publishers, both technical and non-technical, to easily manage Web site content. It also allows managers to assign publishing rights based on individuals, departments or even countries. eZ Publisher modules include content, graphics, news, events, calendar, employment, FAQ, contacts, display and links, products, documents, and site map. The system can be deployed across intranet, extranet and Web sites. Because it allows users to manage multi-lingual sites, it can also be used to develop localized sites. The package is available in ASP and ColdFusion. www.pipelineinteractive.com

Context Media Introduces Interchange Suite 3.0
10/1/2002

Context Media, Inc. announced the release of Interchange Suite 3.0, its enterprise content management software solution. Interchange Suite 3.0 allows distributed and disparate digital asset and content repositories to remain distributed, while giving users a single, unified way to access the content these repositories contain. The suite is comprised of three software applications. The Interchange Suite components can work together or on their own. The Interchange Suite web services-based applications include: Interchange Content Server - the core web services suite that categorizes, manages and powers access to enterprise content; Interchange Integration Console - discovers content stored in various distributed and disparate content, document and digital asset management systems across the enterprise; and Interchange Distribution Console - provides services that allow companies to deliver content across the enterprise and to external parties. All services and features are enabled in a web services environment interoperable with Sun One and Microsoft.Net initiatives. Interchange Suite ships with support for Sun Solaris, Linux and Microsoft Windows 2000; application server support for BEA, iPlanet, JBoss, Oracle 9iAS and IBM Websphere; and database support for ODBC and JDBC compliant databases. www.contextmedia.com

Autonomy Announces Legacy Compatibility Module
10/1/2002

Autonomy Corporation plc announced the release of Autonomy's Legacy Compatibility Module (LCM). LCM enables companies to leverage existing legacy systems and transition to an advanced information management technology. LCM, based on Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), builds a bridge between legacy systems and Autonomy's technology to allow all enterprise data to be accessed within new, contextual automated systems. LCM can connect directly to popular legacy indexes and a variety of formats including legacy index files, legacy categories, topics and taxonomies. LCM provides the ability to manually edit and supervise legacy methods for backward compatibility. Autonomy's IDOL integrates unstructured, semi-structured and structured information from multiple repositories through an understanding of the content. www.autonomy.com

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