News For November, 2002

Inxight Software, Inc. announced that it has enhanced its alliance with SAP AG through an expanded software licensing agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, twenty-three languages within Inxight's LinguistX Platform, a natural language text processing system, will now be made available within mySAP Enterprise Portal. Inxight also announced it has added seven languages to its LinguistX portfolio, bringing the total to twenty-three. Languages that SAP has added include Russian, Polish, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian and Turkish. Additional languages to be made available within mySAP Enterprise Portal include Hebrew and Thai. www.inxight.com

Microsoft Announces Solution for Intranets 1.5 & Groove Partner Solution
11/25/2002

Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of its newest version of the Microsoft Solution for Intranets (MSI). With the Microsoft Solution for Intranets 1.5, Microsoft is extending collaboration opportunities through companies such as Groove Networks Inc., which will release within the next 30 days a partner solution offering that integrates with the MSI technology. The Groove Networks software integrates Groove Workspace with SharePoint Team Services. The MSI 1.5 improves on the 1.0 platform with several upgrades that promote collaboration and ease of use. Chief among these is the addition of Microsoft Producer, which allows a content author to create rich-media presentations (audio or video synchronized with PowerPoint slides and other HTML elements) for on-demand viewing. Other additions include streamlined integration between the MSI 1.5 and Microsoft Content Management Server and the installation of the Microsoft .NET Framework on all servers in the solution, enabling the development of collaborative Web services. www.microsoft.com

TextCafe Version 3.0 Supports SVG
11/21/2002

Texterity, Inc. announced TextCafe Version 3.0, providing conversion of PDF into SVG pages, XML-based table of contents, and XML document search indexes. SVG provides customers with an XML-based representation of pages that are identical to the original printed page. With TextCafe 3.0, publishers can publish on-line and off-line versions of materials using standard web browsers for Windows, Macintosh and other platforms. TextCafe 3.0 provides: Automatic conversion from PDF to SVG pages, page-based word lists for indexed searches, and structural Table of Contents in XML; the ability to view SVG pages within any HTML page, using the Adobe SVGViewer; support for embedded fonts, including SVG standard font drawing instructions or Adobe Compact Embedded Fonts (CEF); atomatic extraction and optimization of all raster and bitmap images into PNG or JPEG formats; translation of line-drawingd or images into SVG vector formats; and matching between reflowable XML/OEB output, word indexes and SVG pages, enabling word highlighting and relevancy searching. www.texterity.com

Xythos Announces Updates & OEM Deal with Stellent
11/20/2002

Xythos Software announced updraded WebFile Server and WebFile Client products. The company's Intellitach technology automatically replaces email file attachments with secure links (URLs). The company's WebFile Server introduces secure file sharing within portal environments including the Plumtree Corporate Portal, Computer Associates' Clever Path, and Blackboard's Community Portal for education. When used in combination with email applications such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook the new Xythos products migrate historically inaccessible file information from PCs and department level servers into Internet file servers. Xythos software is designed for the everyday user not traditionally served by enterprise content management applications. Xythos products deliver file sharing tools that work inside the applications that users already know, making file sharing familiar even when those applications aren't WebDAV compatible. Xythos also announced that Stellent has licensed their technology.

Stellent Content Management V. 6 Now in Six Languages
11/19/2002

Stellent, Inc. announced Stellent Content Management Version 6 is now localized in English, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Spanish, enabling users to interact with the Stellent system in their native languages. Users can choose their language preference when they create user profiles in the Stellent Content Management system, and the Stellent Content Server then automatically presents the interface in the preferred language. Stellent also announced new content contribution functionalities. The new Stellent Drive module enables users to contribute content to offline folders and extends Stellent's WebDAV content contribution functionality to non-WebDAV applications, such as Framemaker, Photoshop, AutoCAD and Microsoft Office `97. This extension simplifies the content check-in and check-out process by enabling users of non-WebDAV applications to contribute content directly to Stellent and also access content managed by Stellent. www.stellent.com

IBM & Vignette Expand Strategic Alliance
11/19/2002

Vignette Corp. announced an expansion of its existing strategic alliance with IBM Corp. to include solutions that will help companies better manage the content of their corporate intranets. Under terms of the expanded agreement, Vignette has become a certified Web content management business partner for IBM's Dynamic Workplaces initiative. The new initiative is designed to offer a broad set of intranet-based collaborative technologies, such as e-meetings, e-learning, eHR and instant messaging. As a part of this announcement, Vignette is debuting Vignette for IBM Dynamic Workplaces, a configuration of its content management application that is tightly linked with IBM's Dynamic Workplaces offering. Vignette will also offer integration with IBM's Content Management software in the fourth quarter of this year. www.ibm.com/partnerworld/developer, www.vignette.com

iManage Releases Latest Version of Report Manager for WorkSite
11/19/2002

iManage, Inc. announced the release of Report Manager for WorkSite. The new product adds fully integrated enterprise report management (ERM) functionality for the storage and retrieval of computer-generated documents to the company's collaborative content management application suite. With iManage's integrated document management, collaboration, portal access, workflow, and knowledge management suite, end users can view and collaborate on COLD (Computer Output to Laser Disk)/ERM content, including enterprise reports, computer generated invoices, credit memos and statements, as well as business transactions represented by XML or SQL data. Integration with iManage WorkSite enables customers to extend ERM capabilities across transactions generated by customer line-of-business systems that range from in-house developed software to packages from ERP/CRM vendors including Baan, JD Edwards, Onyx, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and Siebel. The replacement of outdated archiving methods with reliable, real-time access to documents, including online query and retrieval capabilities, enables productivity gains and better customer service. Report Manager for Worksite and Worksite MP will be available in Q4 2002. iManage Report Manager is powered by Acartus. www.imanage.com, www.acartus.com

Day Announces Availability of Communique 3.5
11/19/2002

Day Software announced availability of Communique 3.5, the newest version of their content management product. Communique 3.5 Application Services provide out-of-the-box capabilities for Content Management, Portal Management, Graphics and Digital Asset Management, Business Process and Workflow. Day's Content Management capabilities provide design templates and wizards, consistent separation of design and content, separate design worlds for corporate design information and inheritance of design to sub pages. The Communique 3.5 Graphics and Digital Asset Management capabilities provide a browser-based, Photoshop-like environment. Communique 3.5 Content Services include capabilities for federated search, virtual versioning, security/access control, single sign-on, observation, indexing and serialization. Connection Services allow enterprises to leverage the content stored in enterprise systems like SAP R/3, document and file storage systems like Lotus Notes and security systems like LDAP. Communique 3.5 is a Java application and runs inside J2EE application servers or as a servlet with Web servers. Support for application servers includes IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, SunONE, Oracle 9i and ATG Dynamo. www.day.com

Wipro & Artesia Partner
11/19/2002

Wipro Technologies announced it will partner with Artesia Technologies, Inc. to deliver rich-media content management solutions to Wipro's customers. Wipro will offer its integrated solutions to media companies in North America and Europe, and will be the first partner of Artesia Technologies in the Asia Pacific region for implementing Artesia's DAM solution. Working with Artesia, Wipro Technologies will offer integrated solutions to media and entertainment customers with Digital Asset Management as a core piece of the offering. www.wipro.com, www.artesia.com

InStranet Announces Content Application Foundation V3
11/19/2002

InStranet, Inc. announced the release of InStranet v3 Content Application Foundation (CAF). A new version of its content infrastructure technology. InStranets CAF offers built-in information exchange and transformation components, programming support with a new Java Bean interface, an enhanced software development kit, and portability support for multiple data bases and application servers. InStranets solutions apply the metaphor of business intelligence to organizing content. Just as BI applications sift through data based on descriptive categories, non-technical business users need to access structured and unstructured documents based upon several levels of metadata. With the introduction of InStranets v3 CAF, the company now provides a suite of tools called "Application Exchange" that enables enterprises to integrate InStranet with Document Management (DM), Business Intelligence (BI), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). The newly offered InStranet SDK provides transparent access to all Java objects. www.InStranet.com

Ektron Releases CMS300 - XML Content Management
11/18/2002

Ektron, Inc. has launched Ektron CMS300. This browser-based system offers content management capabilities with WYSIWYG XML editing functionality. Ektron CMS300 delivers the same features found in Ektron's other content management solutions, including intuitive work areas for contributors and administrators, scalable workflow, an advanced permissions model, and an Explorer-like content folder design. It includes the browser-based WYSIWYG XML editor, Ektron eWebEditPro+XML. Ektron CMS300 runs on Microsoft Windows servers, and works with several Web application servers including Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), ASP.NET, Macromedia ColdFusion or PHP. Ektron CMS300 is priced at US$4,999 to $19,999. www.ektron.com

Autonomy & BEA Ink New Agreement
11/18/2002

Autonomy Corporation plc announced a new strategic OEM relationship with BEA Systems. Since 2001, BEA Systems has included Autonomy's technology with its BEA WebLogic Portal to provide their customers information aggregation, retrieval and knowledge management capabilities. Under the new OEM agreement, BEA will embed Autonomy's technology into its WebLogic Portal. In addition, the agreement allows BEA to expand the reach of information retrieval to external sources including relational databases and the Web. Autonomy technology is used within BEA WebLogic Portal 7.0 to automate the aggregation, analysis and retrieval of both structured and unstructured information from multiple sources. www.autonomy.com

Equilibrium Launches MediaRich Server for SharePoint
11/18/2002

Equilibrium announced the availability of Equilibrium MediaRich Server for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Servers enterprise-wide search, document management and workgroup collaboration environment. The resulting digital asset management solution generates thumbnail previews during search results regardless of the original file format, adds zoom and pan functionality, and provides automated image editing, conversion and delivery for one or multiple images. Equilibrium MediaRich for SharePoint Portal Server allows corporations to maintain revision control for a single high-quality asset, create derivatives on-demand, and deliver consistent brand assets for the Web, print, wireless and Microsoft Office applications with accurate color profiles. Equilibrium MediaRich Server for SharePoint Portal Server is now available worldwide. In North America, the product sells at the standard retail price of $3,999 for the server and a five-seat license. For corporate pricing discounts, please contact Equilibrium. www.equilibrium.com

McObject Adds XML Support to eXtremeDB In-Memory Database
11/18/2002

McObject has released an XML interface for its eXtremeDB in-memory database system. The eXtremeDB XML interface enables data exchange between eXtremeDB and other XML-enabled systems, and provides a simplified means for updating underlying database structures. McObject has created a freely downloadable example program demonstrating the integration of the eXtremeDB embedded XML interface and Web Services through SOAP interfaces. eXtremeDB XML supports the W3C XML specification but stores its contents in the eXtremeDB binary format, applying eXtremeDB's efficient in-memory storage methodology to the imported data. Stored objects retain eXtremeDB's compact layout, as well as its fast and predictable search methods and updates. With eXtremeDB XML, the database still reads and writes XML in the context of transactions. www.mcobject.com

X-Hive Launches Version 4 of Native XML Database
11/14/2002

X-Hive Corporation announced the release of version 4 of X-Hive/DB, its native XML database designed for software developers who need to process and store XML data in their applications. X-Hive/DB 4 offers performance improvements through the use of a new storage model for documents and indexes. Version 4 of X-Hive/DB also contains a new mechanism for live full text indexing of element and attribute values. The full text indexes can be used within XQuery to decrease the query execution time. X-Hive/DB 4 continues to offer the features of previous X-Hive/DB versions including a versatile and developer-friendly API, transaction mechanism, versioning, complete support for open standards, interfaces to third-party XML tools and J2EE connectivity. X-Hive/DB 4 is now available on Windows, Linux and Solaris. A free 30-day evaluation license is available. www.x-hive.com

LightSpeed & Entopia in OEM Agreement
11/13/2002

LightSpeed Software, Inc. announced that it has partnered with Entopia, Inc. to provide a classification engine that works with its Knowledge Builder tool. Entopia incorporated LightSpeed's pre-classification engine in the Knowledge Builder in conjunction with its own development of a configurable document classification tool that enables users to customize the classification and taxonomy. The Knowledge Builder is coupled with Entopia Quantum to facilitate integration of legacy content by generating a taxonomy and extracting metadata from source documents and integrating them into Entopia Quantum, where they are searchable and part of the collaboration space. The LightSpeed Software classifier engine comes with a knowledge base of about a million topics or themes. LightSpeed uses its classification technology in its own suite of Business Information tools and licenses the software both OEMs and VARs. www.LSpeed.com, www.entopia.com

InterTrust to be Acquired by Philips, Sony, Others
11/13/2002

Fidelio Acquisition Company, LLC, a company formed by Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics and certain other investors, has executed a definitive agreement to acquire InterTrust Technologies Corporation. As a result of the transaction, Fidelio will acquire all of the outstanding common stock of InterTrust for approximately $453 million on a fully diluted basis or $4.25 per share. InterTrust's Board of Directors has unanimously approved the acquisition. All InterTrust board members owning shares have agreed to tender all their shares of InterTrust common stock, representing approximately 20% of the outstanding common stock, in favor of the transaction. The acquisition is expected to close in early 2003. www.sony.com/SCA/index.html, www.philips.com/newscenter

Verity Acquires Enterprise Search Software from Inktomi
11/13/2002

Verity Inc. and Inktomi Corp. jointly announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Verity will acquire from Inktomi the assets relating to Inktomi's enterprise search software business, which includes basic search, categorization and content refinement capabilities, as well as its XML technology assets. Verity will pay a purchase price of $25 million in cash, and will also assume Inktomi's obligations under certain existing enterprise search business contracts, including customer support obligations. The companies currently anticipate closing the transaction in the next 30 to 60 days, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Verity anticipates the transaction will be accretive to earnings per share within the first six months following closing. Under the terms of the parties' agreement, Verity will gain access to Inktomi's customer base of 2,500 companies worldwide. www.inktomi.com, www.verity.com

Ancept Announces Support for Adobe Graphics Server 2.0
11/13/2002

Ancept, Inc., a provider of digital asset management (DAM) solutions announced support for the Adobe Graphics Server 2.0 imaging software. Integration of the Ancept Media Server with Adobe Graphics Server 2.0 will help graphics professionals and business users reduce image production time by enabling graphic file manipulation from any standard Web browser. This combined digital asset management and dynamic imaging solution helps clients effectively locate, prepare and repurpose digital brand imagery assets. www.Ancept.com

Documentum Announces Availability of Content Services for EMC Centera
11/12/2002

Documentum announced the immediate availability of Content Services for EMC Centera, an archiving solution based on the completed integration between the Documentum ECM platform and the EMC Centera Content Addressed Storage (CAS) solution. EMC Centera is an online storage system that ensures the authenticity and immutability of enterprise content. Content Services for EMC Centera provides a complete, optimized solution for archiving large volumes of content across an entire enterprise, by linking Documentum 5 (or 4i) with EMC Centera. EMC Centera is an online storage architecture specifically designed to address the unique storage requirements of fixed content, such as photos, videos, audio, graphics and web content. Content Services for EMC Centera enables customers to automate their business policies to securely deposit, archive and access any type of content asset in EMC Centera. www.emc.com, www.documentum.com

Venetica Announces Content Integration Support for Oracle9i Application Server
11/12/2002

Venetica announced support for Oracle9i Application Server. Venetica's product VeniceBridge will enable global customers to take advantage of the scalability and performance of Oracle9i Application Server when integrating portals, CRM solutions and other key applications with content distributed throughout the enterprise. www.venetica.com

eXcelon Announces Release of XIS Lite
11/12/2002

eXcelon Corporation announced the availability of XIS Lite, a fully functional version of the company's native XML database management system, eXtensible Information Server (XIS). XIS Lite is designed to enable customers with less extensive data requirements to achieve dynamic, extensible and reliable data management at a lower cost of ownership. eXcelon developed XIS Lite for companies that are using XML business documents to build the foundation for web services applications and standards-based integration networks where resilience to change is required. XIS Lite provides additional ROI to developers and architects who deploy applications on XIS Lite by providing them with the ability to re-deploy those applications on full-scale XIS without requiring modifications to application-level code. XIS Lite is available immediately starting at $995 per developer seat. www.exln.com

W3C Publishes XForms 1.0 as Candidate Recommendation
11/12/2002

The World Wide Web Consortium announced the release of the XForms 1.0 Candidate Recommendation. XForms 1.0 is the foundation for next-generation Web-based forms, by combining the ability to separate purpose, presentation, and results with the XML. Advancement of this document to Candidate Recommendation is a statement that the specification is stable. The W3C XForms Working Group invites the Web development community at large to implement the specification and demonstrate interoperability. In contrast to HTML Forms, with functional and presentation markup intertwined, XForms lets forms authors distinguish the descriptions of the purpose of the form; the presentation of the form, and how the results (the instance data) are written in XML. By splitting traditional HTML forms into three parts -- XForms model, instance data, and the XForms user interface -- it cleanly separates presentation from content. Practically speaking, XForms technologies make it possible to use forms from a PDA, a cell phone, screen reader or conventional desktop machine - without loss of functionality for the end user. XForms, while initially designed to be integrated into XHTML, may be adopted by any suitable markup language, such as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). www.w3.org

Macromedia Announces 'Contribute'
11/11/2002

Macromedia, Inc. announced Macromedia 'Contribute', a desktop application that enables anyone to update, add, and publish web content to existing websites without requiring technical skills beyond basic word processing. Contribute works with any HTML website, including those coded by hand or created with Macromedia Dreamweaver' MX or Microsoft FrontPage. Macromedia Contribute allows web developers to delegate web content maintenance while protecting the site design, code, and functionality. Contribute rolls out in minutes using encrypted connection keys and permission groups. Contribute allows users to update web content in three steps: Users browse to the web page they want to update, edit the page, and publish their updated page to the live site. Contribute also features integration with Microsoft Word and Excel. Contribute will be available for Windows in December with introductory pricing at $99. Education, government, and corporate volume licensing will be available. The product will initially ship in English, with French, German, and Japanese versions expected to be available in 2003. Contribute will be available for Mac OS X users in 2003. www.macromedia.com/go/contribute/

Oracle Announces Collaboration Suite Release 2
11/11/2002

Oracle Corp. introduced Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 2 along with two new services. Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 2 introduces real-time communication features, online meetings, instant messaging and co-browsing. Oracle also now offers a low-cost migration service and hosted collaboration services - Oracle Collaboration Suite Outsourcing. Oracle Collaboration Suite enables users to access voicemail, email and fax in one inbox, and also leverage UltraSearch, which allows users to search for corporate information within all shared files, including faxes and email. With the addition of the new Oracle iMeeting technology, online collaboration activities such as co-browsing, Web conferences, voice streaming, meeting playback and even casual communications such as instant messaging, can be consolidated and centralized. The iMeeting functionality in Oracle Collaboration Suite acts as a foundation for integrating enterprise content, commerce and comprehensive business flows. Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 2 is scheduled to be available in the first half of 2003. The price for a perpetual license of Oracle Collaboration Suite is $60 per Named User Plus. www.oracle.com

Pindar Systems Launches Agility 2
11/11/2002

Pindar Systems announced the launch of Agility 2, adding new enterprise platform and application support, Java and Web ease-of-use features, and workflow/functionality enhancements to its multi-channel content management platform. New workflow enhancements include event-triggering on workflow state changes, auto-advance of 'child' states, defined 'next states', and extended auto-transition rules. New features include check-in and check-out for documents and digital media assets, new capabilities for automating the creation of complex tables, and automated Enterprise Java Beans functionality. Agility supports Adobe InDesign 2.0 and QuarkXpress. IBM's WebSphere and BEA's WebLogic application servers are supported as well as IBM's DB2, Oracle 9i and MS SQL Server 2000. Agility 2.0 now runs on the UNIX AIX/Solaris platforms in addition to Microsoft Windows 2000. Agility 2's object-based EDGE data management technology allows users to link objects, the basic building blocks of the data structure, into an infinite variety of taxonomies. Each object can include an unlimited number of attributes. Agility 2 will be available commercially in early January 2003. www.pindarsystems.com

Open Text to Introduce Content Integration for eRoom
11/7/2002

Open Text Corporation announced it will extend the capabilities of its content integration platform, Livelink Doorways, to eRoom repositories and applications. The solution will give eRoom customers the ability to utilize eRoom and Livelink together, and allow users to access content and features in eRoom from Livelink. By supporting eRoom with Livelink Doorways, Livelink acts as a central point for enterprise content management and collaboration, while providing access to the data and elements residing in eRoom. Along with the new Doorways solution for eRoom, Open Text will also provide a set of conversion tools through its professional services organization to allow eRoom users to upgrade to Livelink and its collaborative capabilities. Livelink Doorways offers access to Documentum 4i and a variety of file systems, including Microsoft Windows, UNIX NFS and Oracle iFS. Open Text also plans to add connectors for Hummingbird DM and DOCS Open, Lotus Notes and Domino, and other repositories, as well as provide a means for partners and customers to develop connectors to their own unique repositories. www.opentext.com/livelink

Ektron Announces Version 3.0 of Ektron eWebEditPro & Ektron eWebEditPro+XML
11/7/2002

Ektron, Inc. has released version 3.0 of both Ektron eWebEditPro and Ektron eWebEditPro+XML. With the release of version 3.0, Ektron eWebEditPro offers: improved support for style sheets (CSS) and style classes; improved content filtering; enhanced spell check capabilities; a new ASP.NET server control; and a new eWebEditPro toolbar button allowing users to edit within Microsoft Word 2000 or greater. Ektron eWebEditPro+XML version 3.0 includes: Schema and DTD validation; XML tag attributes can be edited in WYSIWYG mode; XML config file can be loaded on the fly; Full XML document support; and Multiple schema support as well as use of namespaces. www.ektron.com

Atomz Adds Flash Content Management
11/6/2002

Atomz announced that it has added the Flash Content Management Solution (Flash CMS) to Atomz Publish, the companys Web content management application. Jointly developed with Fluid, Flash CMS allows non-technical individuals to edit and publish Macromedia Flash content in real-time within Atomz Publish in the same way they currently manage HTML, text, images or PDFs. Atomz Publish with Flash CMS is easily and rapidly deployed, and is browser-based so content can be created, changed or updated anywhere, anytime. Flash CMS is now available to all new and existing Atomz Publish and Atomz Promote customers. There is no additional charge for Flash CMS within Atomz Publish, and it supports both Flash 5 and Flash MX. Customers seeking to deploy this functionality may need to make some configuration changes to their Flash files, a process for which Fluid can provide support. www.fluid.com, www.atomz.com

SiteScape Announces Enterprise Forum 7.0
11/5/2002

SiteScape Inc. announced the availability of SiteScape Enterprise Forum Version 7.0. SiteScape Enterprise Forum 7.0 provides numerous new features and enhancements, which fall into three categories: increased integration, enhanced usability, and enterprise scalability. With this announcement, SiteScape Forum 7.0 now runs on a choice of SQL complaint databases, including Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Oracle 8I and FrontBase. SiteScape 7.0 adds collaborative tasks, reminders and bookmarks. SiteScape Enterprise Forum 7.0 makes it faster and easier to manage large document file systems and folders via two key document management features: round-trip edit (automatic check-in/check-out and versioning) and drag and drop upload. SiteScape Enterprise Forum 7.0 is immediately available on the NT platform for download. Support for Unix and Linux will follow within 60 days. www.sitescape.com

Xenos Releases d2e Platform 5.2
11/5/2002

Xenos announced the release of version 5.2 of its Xenos d2e Platform software. Major enhancements to the Xenos d2e Platform contained in release 5.2 include additional support for advanced Adobe PDF features for document fidelity, high-quality complex graphical output, enhanced security features and faster viewing across the Web. Other major advances include capability for scalable, dynamic web-based document presentation in PDF and HTML with multi-threaded processes using Xenos' Java API, a new ActiveX component providing easier integration into Windows applications and web services, extended functionality for complex print to print applications, and enhanced character support for the European and Asian markets. www.xenos.com

Merant Launches Merant Collage 3.1 with Oracle 9iAS Support
11/4/2002

Merant announced the latest version of its Web content management solution, Merant Collage. Offering support for BEA WebLogic, Oracle 9iAS and Microsoft XP environments as well as performance enhancements, Merant Collage 3.1 enables companies to rapidly design, develop, deploy and manage Web site code and content on large enterprise-class projects. Collages ability to tightly integrate with software configuration management (SCM) tools, including the Merant PVCS product family, provides a collaborative environment that helps application developers and Web design teams build Web applications and dynamic Web sites. Merant Collage 3.1 offers expanded deployment control and flexibility, including the ability to deploy assets residing outside of the Collage repository, to associate custom commands with deployment at multiple points of time and to execute custom commands on deployment servers. Merant Collage 3.1 also enables forms building in content contribution editor through support for form control elements including text fields, password fields, radio buttons and check boxes. Merant Collage 3.1 is available now. www.merant.com

Context Media Introduces Intershare, a Web Services Client
11/4/2002

Context Media, Inc. announced the release of Intershare, a Web Services software client to provide organizations universal desktop access to enterprise content. The new software client -- which works in tandem with Context Media's Interchange Suite -- gives users the ability to access and use content stored in commercial or homegrown content management or digital asset management systems. Content access is enabled by simply clicking the "Open File" or "Insert File" command and importing content to the desktop. Intershare is a compliant implementation of SOAP 1.2. SOAP acts as the communication layer for the access and exchange of information between Context Media's products. Intershare presents an enterprise-wide content catalog on the user's desktop, with seamless point-and-click accessibility. To the user, accessing enterprise content is the same as accessing a shared file system or disk drive on a local computer. For example, a user working in Microsoft Office PowerPoint can use the "Open File" or "Insert File" commands to directly import a graphic stored in separate, disparate content management systems, such as Vignette or Interwoven, without leaving PowerPoint. The user needs to have no knowledge or understanding of the ECM/DAM storage system, its location or operation. www.contextmedia.com

Documentum to Acquire TrueArc
11/4/2002

Documentum announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire privately held records management vendor TrueArc Corporation. In the all-cash transaction for TrueArc stock, Documentum will pay approximately $3.6 million. Documentum will not issue any of its common stock in this transaction. The acquisition is expected to close later this quarter, after the appropriate legal approvals have been finalized and customary closing conditions met. Documentum and TrueArc are existing technology partners. Their current integration, currently sold by TrueArc, provides the ability to implement records management and retention rules for Documentum customers. After the acquisition closes Documentum will deliver a new version of an integrated offering, updated with the latest releases of both products, compliant with the DoD 5015.2 records management standard. www.TrueArc.com, www.documentum.com

IBM to Acquire Tarian
11/4/2002

IBM announced it has signed a definitive agreement with Tarian Software to acquire all assets of the company. Tarian is a privately held provider of e-Records management software based in Ottawa, Canada. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter, 2002. Financial details were not disclosed. The acquisition is meant to strengthen IBM's Enterprise Content Management offering, a fast-growing segment of its Data Management portfolio and a "key strategic priority for the company". Once the acquisition is completed, IBM plans to: Integrate Tarian business operations and personnel into the Data Management Software group; Market and sell Tarian technology worldwide through an integrated IBM and Tarian sales force; and leverage Tarian technology across the entire IBM software portfolio - including IBM Content Manager, DB2 database and Lotus software. www.software.ibm.com/data

FileNET Includes iViews for mySAP Enterprise Portal
11/4/2002

FileNET Corporation announced that its ECM software now includes iViews that have been tested and certified for integration with the mySAP Enterprise Portal. As part of its FileNET ECM for mySAP Enterprise Portal offering, FileNET has delivered a series of customized iViews, or mini-portal applications, which enable users to access enterprise content and participate in business processes from within an SAP solutions-based environment. FileNET's iViews for mySAP Enterprise Portal are available as standard or customized components that adopt the mySAP Enterprise Portal personalization and integration capability. FileNET's integration for mySAP Enterprise Portal is available now and is free of charge for FileNET customers. Customers can request the integration by accessing www.filenet.com/enterpriseportal

matterCast Announces SVG Based e-Publishing Solution
11/4/2002

matterCast Inc. announced the beta release and demonstration site for its SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) based e-Publishing and collaboration solution for serving Adobe PDF content on the web. The first in a series of planned releases aimed at automating the digital content supply chain, matterCasts SVG Document Server allows for the immediate and controlled online distribution of PDF content in SVG format, combining the presentation quality of PDF, the structural features of XML, the web based features of HTML and the collaborative features of a networked environment. matterCast has launched an SVG Demonstration Site to highlight some of the capabilities of its SVG solutions. The site provides samples of SVG content converted from PDF served from matterCasts SVG Document Server, and viewed through matterCasts SVG viewer. In addition, the site allows for the importing of your own PDF content into the SVG Document Server. http://demo1.mattercast.com/docserver, www.mattercast.com

SDL Announces Click2Translate.com
11/4/2002

SDL International announced the launch of www.Click2Translate.com, their new online translation site. Click2Translate offers a diverse range of translation services on the Internet, providing a secure, fast and economical way to obtain translations online. Click2Translate offers 3 levels of translation service: Professional human translation, Edited translation and Automatic computer-generated translations. These offer customers the opportunity to obtain the appropriate level of translation according to their desired quality and budget. Click2Translate offers over 90 language combinations across its three service levels. www.sdlintl.com

NXN Announces Alienbrain 6.0
11/4/2002

NXN Software announced the availability of NXN alienbrain 6.0 Source Control Pack for programmers. The package configuration is optimized for software development teams and provides functionality for version control and configuration management (SCM). The NXN alienbrain 6.0 Source Control Pack features intelligent SCM-functionality such as branching, branch merging, sharing, pinning, structural history, atomic get, command line tools and change reporting. The clients include a bundled license for Araxis Merge Professional and offer integration with both Microsoft VisualStudio .NET and Metrowerks CodeWarrior. A standard Source Control Pack contains five NXN alienbrain 6.0 Developer Clients and one Code Server. NXN alienbrain 6.0 adds configuration management features to its asset management core. The NXN alienbrain 6.0 Source Control Pack is now available at $2990 per package. An evaluation package is available www.nxn-software.com

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