News For September, 2002

Inxight Software, Inc., announced Inxight SmartDiscovery 3.0. Inxight SmartDiscovery expands upon Inxight's existing metatext extraction and analysis applications, adding features that include taxonomy management, enterprise-class categorization and a guided information retrieval environment. In addition, Inxight SmartDiscovery provides text analysis and retrieval capabilities that include on-the-fly entity extraction that identifies names of people, places, things and relationships from documents and groups them by category; automatic document summarization that creates intelligent summaries in a fraction of a second; a similar document finder that provides all other similar documents for a given document; concept search that organizes query results into a hierarchy of shared topics and themes; full text search that features basic keyword search and a Boolean information retrieval model for specifying the exact information needed; and multi-language support for accurately analyzing and retrieving information in 23 languages. Inxight SmartDiscovery is available immediately. www.inxight.com

Oracle Announces Alliance with Mohomine
9/30/2002

Oracle Corp. announced an alliance with Mohomine, Inc. The integration offers mutual customers a streamlined process that reduces the number of resources needed to reformat and enter resume data during the recruiting cycle. Integrating with Oracle iRecruitment and the Oracle E-Business Suite, enables Mohomine to deliver resume content parsing for documents written in various styles and formats from within a single human resources environment. Mohomine's Resume Extractor automates and simplifies the process of attribute extraction from resumes by utilizing pattern recognition technology with "learning-by- example" techniques from within a single system environment. The Oracle and Mohomine solution is able to: accept various input formats including Word, PDF, Text, HTML, RTF and email/POP access; output resumes into parsed XML, using HR-XML standards; and, integrate with Oracle iRecruitment through the Internet. www.oracle.com

Protege & Voquette Merger Leads to Launch of Semagix
9/30/2002

Following a merger between Protege Ltd and Voquette Inc., a new enterprise software company called Semagix is being launched. The new company's semantic metadata management technology "Freedom" enables organizations to classify, manage and intelligently exploit structured and unstructured content from any source. This delivers information discovery capabilities and comprehensive real-time content analysis. Under the terms of the agreement U.K.-based Protege Ltd has merged with San Mateo-based Voquette Inc. in an all-stock deal. www.semagix.com

IXIASOFT & Adobe Join Forces
9/30/2002

IXIASOFT and Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that they will join forces to co-market and integrate IXIASOFT's TEXTML Server with Adobe FrameMaker 7.0. The initiative encompasses a broad base of marketing activities aimed towards the aerospace and defense industry, concentrated mainly on the synergy that exists between TEXTML Server and FrameMaker 7.0. Development efforts are moving ahead to provide seamless integration between the two products and will enable users to produce XML content in the environment provided by FrameMaker and store and publish this content using TEXTML Server, thus creating a complete document workflow system from production to searching and publishing. www.ixiasoft.com, www.adobe.com

eXcelon Announces Release of eXtensible Information Server & Stylus Studio
9/30/2002

eXcelon Corporation announced the availability of eXtensible Information Server (XIS) 3.12. XIS 3.12 facilitates XML-based interoperability across .NET and J2EE environments while delivering faster access to data in XML business documents with XQuery support and Verity full-text search. XIS is an XML database that allows XML business documents to be dynamically extended while providing granular access to elements of information contained in the documents. XIS now manages XML business documents in the .NET environment, to complement existing support for J2EE environments. XIS promotes heterogeneous interoperability between software platforms; companies can now use XML business documents as the foundation of composite business applications that integrate systems based on both J2EE and .NET architectures. XIS 3.12 will be available within 30 days. They also announced the release of Stylus Studio XSLT Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 4.5 to enable development teams to deliver applications based on XML and XSLT faster by enabling developers to generate XSLT stylesheets automatically from HTML pages, providing advanced debugging support including XSLT debugging for SAXON and .NET processors. Stylus Studio 4.5 also includes an XQuery editor, XQuery debugger and XQuery processor. Stylus Studio 4.5 includes integrated debugging with traceability for both J2EE and .NET environments. www.exln.com

Topologi Launches New XML/SGML Editor
9/30/2002

Topologi Pty Ltd. announced the Topologi Collaborative Markup Editor to support the lifecycle processing of large and complex XML/SGML documents, from initial conversion of unstructured source data to final validation and preview using commonly available typesetting and formatting tools. The Topologi Collaborative Markup Editor: Community Edition can be downloaded from Topologi's website for an evaluation period of up to 30 days. An introductory level registration fee for single users is US$59. An annual site license for an unlimited number of users costs US$5,000 including support. A high-end version of the editor will be released later in 2002. A plug-in to FrameMaker Server (and soon for other composition engines) is available to allow quality typesetting and PDF generation from a shared server. www.topologi.com

Antenna House Updates XSL Formatter
9/30/2002

Antenna House, Inc announced that an upgrade to its XSL-FO processor [XSL Formatter] to V2.3. V2.3 provides significant enhancements in layout function capability and multilingual formatting function capability, including implementing XSL float feature for page layout and UNICODE BIDI (bidirectionality) for mixing right-to-left and left-to-right languages. By using the XSL Formatter V2.3 PDF Option, it's possible to do layout the multilingual publications with the flexible mixture of Latin, Cyrillic, Greek alphabet, CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), HAT (Hebrew, Arabic, Thai) and output to PDF. In V2.3, links and bookmarks are automatically created in PDF using Distiller. In addition, both EPS with preview image and EPS without preview image can be embedded in PDF via Distiller. By using a Plug-in (MathPlayerV1.0), the formula written by MathML can be embedded. www.antennahouse.com

divine Integrating Content Management & Collaboration
9/26/2002

divine, inc. introduced a solution for automating the entire content lifecycle. Combining its enterprise content management, collaboration and search technologies, divine's integrated approach to managing the content lifecycle enables dynamic and timely collaboration not only as content is developed, approved, and published, but also when ideas are generated and refined and, ultimately, when key audiences interact with the content on Web sites and portals. With its integrated solutions approach, divine is helping firms address two key aspects of the content lifecycle: the idea-generation phase in which business users research and collaborate to develop and refine content; and the delivery phase when content, complemented by other technologies, is used to enable intelligent interactions through content-driven applications and business initiatives. Without effectively addressing these areas, companies will never be able to fully leverage content as a strategic corporate asset. www.divine.com

Open Text Introduces Livelink Doorways
9/25/2002

Open Text Corporation introduced Livelink Doorways, which allows users in Livelink to access and use content from other repositories within an enterprise. Livelink Doorways gives companies a content integration framework that enhances collaboration by bringing together all of a company's content, no matter where it resides, and making it available to users collaborating in Livelink. The first release of Livelink Doorways offers access to Documentum 4i and a variety of file systems, including Microsoft Windows, UNIX NFS and Oracle iFS. In later releases, Open Text expects 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. With Livelink Doorways, other content sources are mounted as containers or "doorways" within users' Livelink workspaces. Folders, directory structures and documents from these content sources are navigable from each doorway within Livelink, using the source's native hierarchical structure and respecting each user's permissions to access such content. www.opentext.com

Advent 3B2 & DMSi Team
9/24/2002

Advent 3B2 Inc. has announced an agreement with Document Management Solutions Inc. (DMSi) to jointly market and provide services and solutions for automated document production in the United States of America. DMSi will have access to the 3B2 software and its key personnel will have extended training in the product. The two companies will co-operate in advancing system solutions for clients and providing service and support. www.3b2.com, www.dmsi-world.com

iPhrase Announces Partner Program for ISVs
9/24/2002

iPhrase Technologies, Inc. unveiled its partner program for independent software vendors (ISVs). Companies that wish to integrate a self-service search platform can now partner with iPhrase. iPhrase One Step adds value to ISVs in a variety of different markets, including: Content Management, Enterprise Portals, CRM, eCommerce, EAI, Databases, and Business Intelligence/Management Reporting. Partner members will receive access to the needed tools and program support necessary to develop their software integration. These tools include: Developer versions of the One Step platform to integrate and test applications; Advanced documentation, support and education to facilitate the integration process; A standardized certification process to test and validate the scope and quality of the software integration by the ISV developer; and Marketing support to help the ISV bring their iPhrase certified integration to the marketplace. www.iphrase.com

Vignette & Epicentric Announce Portlet Library
9/23/2002

Vignette Corp. and Epicentric Inc. announced the availability of the Vignette V6 Portlet Library for Epicentric Foundation Server. The portlet library enables joint customers to integrate and access Vignette-managed content across multiple Web sites and portals through the user interface of the Epicentric Foundation Server. The Vignette V6 Portlet Library for Epicentric Foundation Server includes a set of content management and delivery portlets that facilitate content contribution, workflow, and site and channel management from Vignette V6 to the Epicentric portal. In addition, the portlet library leverages Epicentric Foundation Server security, customization and administration tools within Vignette V6. www.epicentric.com, www.vignette.com

Sun & Avaltus in Enterprise Learning Content Management Partnership
9/23/2002

Sun Microsystems announced an agreement with Avaltus Inc., a provider of enterprise Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS), that enables customers to combine a standards-based learning management and learning content management solution using the Sun Enterprise Learning Platform and the Avaltus Jupiter LCMS Suite. This new solution also promotes both content and technology standards that can provide more flexibility to organizations in tailoring learning environments for their employees. The solution supports the Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), a set of interrelated technical specifications. These specifications enable the reuse of Web-based learning content across multiple environments and products by establishing the integration between learning management and content management systems. www.avaltus.com, http://sun.com

SimStar Announces Alliance With Interwoven
9/19/2002

SimStar Internet Solutions officially announced its alliance with Interwoven, Inc. The alliance, which provides SimStar with access to Interwoven resources, such as Interwoven TeamSite software and Interwoven OpenTransform, is designed to strengthen the company's delivery capabilities for its behavior-based pharmaceutical e-marketing solutions. The collaboration will serve to enhance SimStar's processes for content management, workflow, knowledge management, and content conversion. www.simstar.com

CambridgeDocs Discloses Strategy
9/17/2002

CambridgeDocs (was XYZ Technologies, Inc.) disclosed details on the company's long-term product and architectural strategy, the XML Content Backbone. The company will focus on unstructured content such as that contained in Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, plain text and HTML documents. The XML Content Backbone is a software platform that will integrate the unstructured content from disparate systems across the enterprise and from the extended enterprise. The XML Content Backbone will be able to migrate, integrate, route, and assemble content from document management systems, content management systems, groupware systems, desktop applications, and publishing systems using any industry XML standard such as DocBook, RIXML, HR-XML, NewsML, LegalXML or any custom application XML schema. The first CambridgeDocs product will address the need to convert Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, and HTML documents into "meaningful" XML and where the meaning of XML is defined by the particular needs of the user. www.cambridgedocs.com

Tridion Releases R5 Products
9/17/2002

Tridion, has launched a range of products to help businesses control content from and across multiple channels. Tridion R5, the enterprise solution, comprises a series of offerings enabling companies to create, manage, distribute and deliver all forms of content to any target source. Tridion Client Connector enables users to create content with their preferred desktop application e.g. MS Office. Tridion Content Porter allows existing content to be imported and converted to XML, while Tridion Business Connector allows content from existing ERP, CRM or document management systems to be re-purposed. Tridion Content Manager manages the full lifecycle of the content. With in-depth use of XML and XML schemas it allows information to be assembled and re-used. It also incorporates multi-lingual capabilities. Tridion Content Distributor can dispatch content to any delivery platform. Tridion Web & Application Server Integration offers a delivery infrastructure to Web and application servers. Tridion Portal Server Integration offers integration with portal vendors, while Tridion Print Integration allows the production of customised print publications. The products are available from October 7th, 2002. www.tridion.com

Arbortext Focuses on Life Sciences
9/17/2002

Arbortext, Inc. announced a focus on the life sciences industry that includes new product capabilities and new applications. This initiative enables pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers and biotechnology companies to bring new and revised products to market faster while complying with complex regulatory requirements. The new applications are a combination of Arbortext core products, partner integration and consulting services. Arbortext's Epic software provides a way for organizations to create, manage and publish complex business and technical documents, such as new drug applications, product information (package inserts, leaflets and labels), and written documentation of procedures that support the methods, facilities and controls used in the preparation, processing and packaging of pharmaceutical and medical products. Some of the new product capabilities to support this initiative include: Change tracking, Enhanced API including support for Active-X, Stronger integration with Documentum's content management system, and Digital signatures and watermarks. www.arbortext.com

FatWire Software Launches UE Studio 2.0
9/16/2002

FatWire Software announced the release of UE Studio 2.0, the latest edition of its development tool to build and automate Web applications. An add-on to FatWire's enterprise-level dCM software UpdateEngine, UE Studio 2.0 offers expanded functionality to maximize developer efficiency, and ease the application backlog. UE Studio 2.0 provides tools to two types of users: programmers, who develop content centric applications and "power users," who understand and support the content management system but do not necessarily have programming skills. The new JSP (Java Server Page) Builder gives developers the ability to automatically generate JSP pages which displays the managed content within a framework that includes navigation as well as provides a foundation for laying out the look and feel of the site. The new Page Builder generates static HTML pages for solutions that do not require dynamic access to content, and the new Data Import Tool imports all types of structured content into the UpdateEngine managed content repository. www.fatwire.com

Open Text Introduces Content Management Offering For Livelink
9/16/2002

Open Text Corporation is extending Livelink to offer integrated Web content management. The new offering will tie content management into Livelink's knowledge management and collaborative capabilities. Information from other applications such as databases, document management repositories and other enterprise applications can be dynamically extracted and integrated into the website. Content Management for Livelink will also be fully integrated with Livelink's collaboration tools, enabling workflows to be used for content approval processes, and providing access to real-time collaboration with Livelink MeetingZone. Content Management for Livelink will include: Content authoring and creation, Multilingual site creation and management, Content approval and staging, Content distribution and syndication, and Content delivery and personalization. Content Management for Livelink will also provide out-of-the-box integration with application servers and personalization engines, such as BEA's Weblogic and IBM's Websphere. www.opentext.com

Ektron Releases CMS100 Version 2.0
9/16/2002

Ektron, Inc. announced the release of Ektron CMS100 version 2.0. In addition to supporting Microsoft ASP and Macromedia ColdFusion, the new release supports Microsoft ASP.NET and PHP platforms. Ektron's browser-based content management solution provides core content authoring and publishing capabilities for US$499. Ektron CMS100 offers a familiar word processor-like editing toolbar and intuitive interface for content publishing by non-technical users. Web professionals can easily configure and customize the solution to maintain control over navigation, look and feel, and other site infrastructure. Beyond added support for ASP.NET and PHP, Ektron CMS100 now offers user-controlled dynamic navigation, whereby non-technical content contributors create dynamically generated navigation based upon content in the database. Additional enhancements include improved style sheet support, new search functionality, a new interface for editor configuration, and improved branding capabilities. www.ektron.com

Ipedo Introduces Dynamic Information Suite Version 3.2
9/12/2002

Ipedo introduced the latest version of its Ipedo Dynamic Information Suite, featuring several product enhancements to support the growing use of XML in content-driven applications. The Ipedo Dynamic Information Suite Version 3.2 introduces: Virtual documents that can include references to any arbitrary pieces of content in other documents or in other systems through XML views; Full text search integrated with XQuery; Indexes that are automatically managed and optimized based on use and query patters on individual XML documents and document collections; and support for user-defined hierarchies within document collections. The Ipedo Dynamic Information Suite Version 3.2 will be available starting in the fourth quarter of this year for Windows 2000, Windows NT, Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux. Pricing is on a per-CPU basis. www.ipedo.com

X-Hive & Arbortext Announce Co-Marketing Alliance
9/12/2002

X-Hive Corporation and Arbortext, Inc. announced they have signed a co-marketing agreement. X-Hive Corporation and Arbortext will work closely together to develop and market a seamless integration between X-Hive Corporation's native XML database, X-Hive/DB, and Arbortext's Epic software. This integration will enable X-Hive/DB users to edit and publish XML documents with Epic, and Epic users to take advantage of X-Hive/DB to manage XML documents. www.x-hive.com, www.arbortext.com

FAST Search Searches Flash Content
9/12/2002

Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced that Macromedia Flash content and applications can now be searched by users of its search technology showcase site www.alltheweb.com, and by FAST's worldwide portal partners who utilize FAST Web Search. www.fastsearch.com

Atomz Announces Enhancements
9/10/2002

Atomz announced numerous enhancements to its Atomz Publish and Atomz Search applications. Among the enhancements announced by Atomz is support for Macromedia Flash content, including Macromedia Flash MX, within Atomz Search. Atomz Search supports the indexing and crawling of Macromedia Flash content and applications. Other enhancements announced by Atomz include: Advanced Phrase, Acronym and Synonym Support (Atomz Search); Advanced Template Management (Atomz Publish). Related Content Display (Atomz Publish and Atomz Search); Forms-Based Authentication (Atomz Search); Advanced Search Templates Management (Atomz Publish and Atomz Search); Time-To-Search Display (Atomz Search); and Media Manager (Atomz Publish). www.atomz.com

Grey Zone Releases SecureZone 5 for Xserve & Mac OS X
9/10/2002

Grey Zone Inc. announced the immediate availability of SecureZone 5 for Apple's Xserve and Mac OS X Server version 10.2. Grey Zone's solution offers Xserve users essential features required of Extranets, such as access control, content management, personalization, and presentation. Grey Zone's software is an end-to-end solution that provides a foundation for extranets as well as corporate intranets and public web sites. www.greyzone.com

EMC & Documentum Announce Centera and Documentum Integration
9/10/2002

EMC Corporation and Documentum announced they have completed integration between Documentum's ECM platform and the EMC Centera Content Addressed Storage (CAS) solution. The two companies also announced plans to provide Documentum 5 with extended fixed content management (FCM) features based on 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. Centera integration with Documentum's ECM platform provides a total solution for managing, distributing, exchanging and storing large volumes of content across an entire enterprise. www.EMC.com, www.documentum.com

Documentum Announces Documentum 5
9/10/2002

Documentum announced Documentum 5, the latest version of its ECM platform. The Documentum 5 platform offers: Enhanced usability and deployability to enable widespread adoption of content management; Expanded enterprise collaboration that can be extended to any business process; Fixed content management, to manage images, reports and records; Advanced trust, security and compliance services to provide protection of content assets; and a standards-based development environment for easy application development. Documentum 5 offers unified content services for enterprise document management (EDM), web content management (WCM), digital asset management (DAM) and now fixed content management (FCM) -- records, reports and scanned images -- in a single, integrated platform. www.documentum.com

WebWare Announces Product Launch Solution
9/10/2002

WebWare Corporation announced the introduction of the WebWare Product Launch Solution. Based on WebWare MAMBO digital asset management technology, the Product Launch Solution is an outsourced service hosted by WebWare that reduces the time it takes for a company to bring a product to market. The solution is completely web-based. The Product Launch Solution enables secure digital distribution over the Internet of both in-process and ready-to-use marketing collateral to global recipients in advance of a launch. Such items might include video and audio content, 3-D graphics and compound documents such as data sheets, sales presentations, marketing white papers, official logos, product shots, print advertisements (in multiple sizes and formats), product messaging, and marketing support materials. The solution features: Cross-media support for managing multiple media and production file types; Simple file upload and cataloging process; High-availability, enterprise security; full back-up; and Rapid ramp-up with minimal organizational distraction. This is the first in a series of WebWare Business Solutions planned by the company. Pricing and availability will be announced shortly. www.webwarecorp.com

CrownPeak Releases Publisher Advantage CMS
9/9/2002

CrownPeak Technology announced the release of Publisher Advantage, a special publishing industry edition of Advantage CMS, its ASP-based content management solution. Developed in response to the specific needs of the publishing industry, this special version of Advantage CMS offers a series of enhanced capabilities: greater user manageability and control over content and digital assets, infinitely configurable workflow, improved proofing tools, integration with ad serving components, e-mail newsletter creation and management, performance monitoring, increased report management capabilities, and an exclusive "content similarity engine." In addition, Publisher Advantage delivers enhancements in the areas of directory management, e-mail marketing and ad serving. www.crownpeak.com

Easypress Announces XML/Quark Roundtrip
9/9/2002

Easypress Technologies announced Atomik Roundtrip 1.0 -- software to provide full, bi-directional XML support for QuarkXPress versions 4 and 5. Atomik Roundtrip will enable users to import XML into QuarkXPress and faithfully re-export it. With a single click, users can update the QuarkXPress document if the source XML document(s) change and update the source XML document(s) if the QuarkXPress document changes. XML content can be added to QuarkXPress documents through a drag and drop process or by using the Atomik Roundtrip Placeholder technology to import individual XML elements or collections of XML elements into predefined templates. A Documentum integrated version of Atomik Roundtrip will be available during the fourth Quarter of 2002. Direct support for other content management systems will follow. Product is expected to ship at the beginning of October 2002. The suggested retail price for a single user licence of Atomik Roundtrip 1.0 will be (pounds)3,495, $4,495 or (euros)5,662. The suggested retail price for a 10-user licence of Atomik Roundtrip 1.0 will be (pounds)9,950, $13,500 or (euros)16,119. www.easypress.com

Element K Introduces Tool for Integrating e-Learning With Enterprise Applications
9/9/2002

Element K announced KnowledgeHub Web Services, a capability providing a solution for the integration of e-learning services with enterprise business applications. This integration enables clients to provide e-learning services as part of their larger company business environment and leverage existing enterprise applications and technology investments. Through Element K's new KnowledgeHub Web Services, Element K's hosted e-learning solution can be easily and rapidly integrated with both web applications and core "behind-the-firewall" business functions such as ERP, learning management, and HR systems. KnowledgeHub Web Services enables clients to automate administrative activities such as student management and content assignment, and provides services for remote authentication and other integration points. www.elementk.com/downloads/webservices_whitepaper.pdf

Artesia Technologies Launches Asset-centric Workflow
9/9/2002

Artesia Technologies unveiled TEAMS, version 4.4. The new version's enhancements for collaboration and workflow are designed to redefine the definition of an asset through the inclusion of new information capturing the entire lifecycle of the asset. The core features of TEAMS 4.4 are newly integrated Asset-centric workflow capabilities that enhance the collaborative aspects of Artesias enterprise architecture for managing digital assets. This includes the ability to immediately determine where an asset has been used throughout its history, who has participated in its usage, review or licensing, and the nature of these projects or processes that have utilized the asset in one form or another. Organizations are able to eliminate the need for the separate, proprietary workflow tools associated with each production processes. By embedding many aspects of workflow within the asset itself, where it resides alongside other attributes governing format, rights and permissions, and other business information, TEAMS 4.4 can ensure that this information is readily available and actionable not only to the specific user and their co-workers. www.artesia.com

Xerox Introduces DocuShare 3.0
9/5/2002

Xerox Corporation introduced DocuShare 3.0, its Web-based document and content management software. Incorporating features that meet the needs of both small businesses and global enterprises, the new software is designed to deliver performance and simplicity starting at less than $4,500. DocuShare 3.0 provides a complete document management solution fostering better office collaboration among workers in document-intensive environments. Built on an all-new Java platform, DocuShare 3.0 runs on Windows, Linux and Solaris systems. The software will be sold through Xerox direct sales representatives, agents, concessionaires, Xerox Business Partners and Teleweb sales channels. The entry-level list price for a complete DocuShare system with 10 seats is $4,145, and a 100-seat system is $9,995. Worldwide availability begins Sept. 30. www.xerox.com/docushare

ebXML Messaging Service Specification Approved as OASIS Standard
9/5/2002

ebXML Messaging Service Specification version 2.0 has become the newest OASIS Standard, completing a recent election by the consortium's membership at-large. The ebXML Messaging Service standard, which provides a secure method for exchanging electronic business transactions using the Internet, carries forward work initiated by OASIS and the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT). To attain status as an OASIS Standard, ebXML Messaging Service v2 was first approved by its development team as an OASIS Committee Specification. After being implemented by a minimum of three organizations, it then underwent a 90-day open review, before the final balloting of OASIS members. ebXML Messaging is one of a suite of specifications that enables enterprises of any size and in any geographical location to conduct business over the Internet. www.oasis-open.org

Software AG & Active Data Exchange to Provide Enterprises Content Distribution
9/4/2002

Software AG, Inc. and Active Data Exchange, Inc. announced a strategic sales and technology alliance to provide a content distribution management solution across multiple enterprises. Active Data Exchange's content distribution management solution, Active Data Syndicator version 4, embeds Software AG's Tamino XML server. The result of the Software AG - Active Data Exchange alliance is an end-to-end solution that enables companies to create new revenue streams by taking advantage of existing content. Software AG's Tamino XML server and Active Data Syndicator both store, process and deliver XML. The time required to aggregate and transform existing content is decreased, resulting in faster distribution of vital information to internal and external customers. Software AG has agreed to distribute Active Data Syndicator in North America. www.softwareagusa.com, www.activedataX.com

Plumtree Receives Unsolicited Offer
9/4/2002

Plumtree Software, Inc. announced that it has received an unsolicited conditional offer from the Sutter Opportunity Fund 2, LLC to acquire all outstanding shares of Plumtree common stock in exchange for $2.00 in cash and a promissory note due in five years. The offer came in the form of a letter dated September 3, 2002 from Sutter Capital Management of San Francisco to Plumtree CEO John Kunze. Plumtree's Board of Directors will evaluate the terms of the offer in due course. Prior to receiving the letter, Plumtree had no contact with Sutter Capital Management. www.plumtree.com

TopicalNet Acquires Lightspeed Interactive
9/3/2002

TopicalNet, Inc. has agreed to purchase substantially all of the assets of Lightspeed Interactive, Inc. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The new company will be named LightSpeed Software, Inc. Lightspeed Interactive is the fifth company TopicalNet has acquired since April 2001 in its strategy to assemble a complete, automated content acquisition, content management, collaboration and delivery product for mid-market customers. It started by acquiring Internet Profiles Corporation (I/PRO) in April 2001 for its online audit and analytics capabilities. In October of 2001 TopicalNet purchased Collectively Sharper and its content integration technology, followed in December by Teralytics and its tools dedicated to analyzing customer interaction data. In June of 2002, TopicalNet purchased Wego Systems and its ReadyPortal portal development and collaboration product. By combining Lightspeed Interactive's content management products with TopicalNet's XML based Search, Classification/Metadata, Portal/Collaboration and Analytics technologies, customers manage both internal and external content from research and acquisition through the creation, delivery, collaboration and repurposing process. The corporate headquarters will be relocated from Woburn, Mass. to San Francisco. www.TopicalNet.com

Obtree & BEA Partner
9/3/2002

Obtree Technologies Inc. and BEA Systems Inc. announced the integration of Obtree's content management solutions with the BEA WebLogic Platform 7.0. Under the terms of agreement, the two companies have combined their technologies, allowing developers to integrate Obtree's personalized content on the BEA WebLogic Platform. Obtree's integration into the BEA WebLogic Platform delivers content dynamically into the portal or application framework that corresponds to the rights and interests of a particular user. Rather than store content in a repository for delivery to the portal according to a predefined framework, Obtree personalizes content delivery to fit user profiles. Obtree enables users to edit or update the content provided them in real-time through the portal interface. www.bea.com, www.obtree.com

Agari Targets Publishing with Media Star 2.2
9/3/2002

Agari Mediaware, Inc. announced the introduction to the publishing industry of Media Star 2.2. Agari's Media Star product suite allows the integration of publishing applications, non-intrusively, without making changes to existing applications or content. With it publishers can perform federated search, retrieval, and processing of content across geographically dispersed applications, link distributed content such as layouts, photos, artwork, pricing, rights, sales, and distribution data, and integrate systems acquired through mergers and acquisitions. The Agari product suite provides a solution for automating content value chain business processes (content creation, transformation, management, distribution, and consumption). Agari's Enterprise Business Asset System connects content that is often dispersed across departments, business units, and partners so that it can be used across the enterprise. The metadata can be transformed between various formats on the fly, eliminating the need for centralized, common metadata schemes. www.agari.com

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