News For October, 2003

webMethods, Inc. announced special introductory offerings of webMethods Portal to help customers move strategic portal projects into production. The special promotions, which are expected to remain in effect until March 31, 2004, are designed to remove cost barriers that may inhibit companies from expediting their portal projects. The first offering, called webMethods Portal Quick Start, includes a license for an unlimited number of users and 80 hours of webMethods professional services for deployment at $175,000 per project. The second offering is an introductory offering of webMethods Portal for $25,000 per server, which represents a 50 percent savings. Both offers are available for North America pricing only. www.webmethods.com

Pindar Systems Integrates Cape Clear's Web Services Capability
10/28/2003

Cape Clear Software announced that Pindar Systems is adding Web Services capability to Agility, its multi-channel content management platform. The addition of Web Services will enable Pindar Systems' customers to simplify the integration of their various sources of content with the Agility platform. The new Web Services functionality is being added through the Cape Clear Web Services platform. www.pindarsystems.com, www.capeclear.com

OpenLink Software Delivers Virtuoso 3.2
10/28/2003

OpenLink Software, Inc. announced Virtuoso Universal Server 3.2 the latest edition of its cross platform Virtual Database for SQL, XML, and Web Services. The new release builds on prior .NET CLR integration functionality across both the Microsoft and Mono variants of .NET CLR and associated Frameworks, on all Mono-supported platforms, including Microsoft Windows. Virtuoso 3.2 also includes new XML data types; SQLX-compliant SQL-to-XML functionality; XML for Analysis; Weblog Engine Services; and additional Web Services protocol stack implementations, such as WS-Security and WS-Routing. Virtuoso also provides access to heterogeneous data sources -- Databases, XML and other documents, and Web Services through XML, XQuery, XPath, SQL, ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB, and ADO.NET. It integrates with .NET, Mono, and J2EE, enabling the creation and hosting of WSDL- compliant XML Web Services, Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, and User Defined Types, written in Java or any .NET bound language. Virtuoso 3.2 is now available. www.openlinksw.com

Factiva & Verity Partner
10/28/2003

Factiva and Verity Inc. announced an agreement to integrate a set of Factiva's industry-specific taxonomies with Verity's intellectual capital management software, K2 Enterprise. In addition, customers can gain access to Factiva's collection of nearly 8,000 content sources. Factiva will offer its content and taxonomy expertise, including strategy and implementation adaptable to the specific needs and rules of an organization - for use with Verity's intellectual capital management solution, K2 Enterprise. Factiva will offer its general business taxonomy for companies, industries, regions and subjects, as well as its recently announced specialized pharmaceutical and healthcare taxonomy. Factiva Client Solutions, including its taxonomy specialists, will now be available to assist with Verity implementations. www.factiva.com, www.verity.com

Adobe InCopy CS Available
10/28/2003

Adobe Systems Incorporated shipped Adobe InCopy CS, a full-version upgrade to the professional writing and editing program that integrates tightly with Adobe InDesign CS and the new Adobe Creative Suite. InCopy CS has a new editorial workflow technology that allows writers, editors, and designers to work simultaneously on the same InDesign CS document, InCopy CS streamlines editorial revision and review cycles, reducing the amount of time it takes to get a publication to press. Previously only available through systems integrators and third-party developers servicing large publishing enterprises, Adobe InCopy CS will now also be sold directly from the Adobe store. In-line notes and change tracking tools let editors review and collaborate more closely, while support for XML allows InCopy CS to integrate into cross-media publishing workflows. InCopy CS for Mac OS X version 10.2, Microsoft Windows 2000, and Windows XP is available in the United States and Canada for an estimated street price of US $249 for all platforms. InCopy will also be available through Adobe-authorized system integrators. www.adobe.com

ActiveState Announces Visual XSLT 2.0 for Studio .NET 2003 & 'Whidbey'
10/28/2003

ActiveState announced the release of Visual XSLT 2.0. Visual XSLT now ships with ActiveState's debugger, enabling developers to test XSLT code embedded in other applications or libraries built for the Microsoft .NET Framework without the need for special instrumentation or access to source code. Also new, the Visual Schema Mapper allows programmers to build transformations of XML files in a drag-and-drop interface, without writing code or employing XML schemas. In addition, Visual XSLT will support Microsoft's next major version of Visual Studio .NET, code named "Whidbey". ActiveState Visual XSLT combines the familiar Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 integrated development environment with XSLT-specific debugging and editing features and an interactive tool for building and testing XPath expressions. Visual XSLT licenses are $295. The program is also offered as part of the ActiveState Open Source Language Suite for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 - a bundle of Visual Perl, Visual Python, and Visual XSLT-for $495. Upgrades are $99.95 for current users. www.ActiveState.com

FormScape Announces FormScape V3
10/28/2003

FormScape announced the next generation of its document management product suite - FormScape V3, a single source for multi-channel document management and distribution capabilities. With enhancements including automated failover and logging for reliability, faster database performance for complex high-volume production systems, broader integration across systems, expanded XML support, and new user interfaces and objects, FormScape V3 delivers a lower total cost of ownership. FormScape V3 is sold exclusively through a network of more than 50 channel partners world wide. FormScape V3 is immediately available world wide. www.formscape.com

Openly Informatics Partners with Sirsi
10/27/2003

Sirsi Corporation announced a technology partnership with Openly Informatics, Inc. Sirsi has selected Openly Informatics OpenURL linking technology as the core engine for Sirsi Resolver, Sirsi's solution for OpenURL resolution and linking. Offered as a standalone product and integrated with Sirsi Rooms Context Management Solutions, Sirsi Resolver can be configured to work with all of Sirsi's online products including iBistro, iLink, Web2, and the new Sirsi SingleSearch. Using information provided by these searching tools, the Openly engine powers Sirsi Resolver to provide deep-linking access to full-text content for tens of thousands of journal articles and online services for books and all other bibliographic formats. www.openly.com, www.sirsi.com

Hitachi Data Systems & IXOS Partner
10/27/2003

Hitachi Data Systems and IXOS Software AG announced a worldwide software development and distribution agreement. Hitachi Data Systems will provide IXOS' archiving and enterprise content management software to its customers and will integrate IXOS' products into Hitachi's storage management software suite. The first result of this relationship is Hitachi Data Systems' new e-mail archiving solutions, also introduced. Delivered by Hitachi Data Systems' Global Solutions Services division and powered by IXOS-eCONserver software, e-mail archiving is available in two versions: Message Archive for Compliance, and Message Archive for E-Mail. IXOS' software will provide Hitachi Data Systems with the ability to associate meta data with stored content, enabling content to be located and retrieved based on standard document attributes, regardless of location. These attributes can include creation date, author, recipient, subject or indexed terms in a document. www.hds.com, www.ixos.com

IBM Simplifies Content Management Software
10/22/2003

IBM announced new simplified, full-functioned content management systems designed for the mid-market customer, with support for major Linux platforms, tighter integration with IBM's software portfolio, and enhanced records management and information archiving capabilities. IBM DB2 Content Manager Express is available as of October 14, 2003. It is priced at $9,375 per server and $1,063.00 per concurrent user. IBM DB2 Content Manager for Linux is available as of October 21, 2003. It is priced at $29,000 per Server and $2,500 per concurrent user and is available for RedHat, SuSe, and United Linux. IBM DB2 Records Manager version 3 is available as of September 9, 2003, and is priced at $24,000 per server and $250 per concurrent user. Though optimized for Windows 2000, applications running on any platform can be enabled to run on the Records Manager. IBM DB2 CommonStore for SAP will be available on October 31, 2003. It is priced at $29,000 per Server and $244 per Named User. IBM DB2 CommonStore for Exchange Server and Lotus Domino will be available on October 31, 2003. It is priced at $29,000 per Server, $30 per Registered User and $12,500 per Gateway. www.ibm.com/software/data/cm

Gilbane Report & Exgenex Form Lighthouse Seminars & Launch Content Management Conferences
10/22/2003

The Gilbane Report has formed Lighthouse Seminars, LLC in partnership with Exgenex to expand its conference business. Lighthouse Seminars will develop targeted events focused on content technology and industry trends, and will provide focused, content-rich and independent events that businesses are looking for by combining in-depth IT management discussions with best practices and case studies developed under the auspices of the Gilbane Content Technology Works initiative. Gilbane conferences produced by Lighthouse Seminars initially include: March 24 - 26, 2004 at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, focused technology and solutions for managing data-rich content, such as information associated with complex products found in aerospace and defense, and media-rich content, such as digital assets used in training, brand marketing, and media and entertainment applications; and October, 2004 in New York City, focused on content technology for financial service applications and marketing operations. The Gilbane Report will continue to work with existing conference partners, including Seybold Seminars, who produces the Gilbane Conference on Content Management at Seybold San Francisco, IDEAlliance, AIIM, and TechnoForum/Reed. www.lighthouseseminars.com, www.gilbane.com/CM_conference_LA_04.html, www.exgenex.com

Factiva Search Integrated into Office 2003
10/21/2003

Factiva announced that Factiva's first solution for the Microsoft Office System, Factiva Search, is now commercially available. Factiva Search, integrated with the Microsoft Office 2003 Editions, provides information workers with quick and convenient ways to gain a comprehensive view of the external business environment from within their daily workflow. It allows information workers to conduct research on Factiva's collection of thousands of sources directly from a report or presentation they're creating. For example, while drafting a competitive brief in Microsoft Office Word 2003, competitive intelligence professionals can use Factiva Search to quickly look up important industry trends from newspapers, journals, and newswires from around the world and enhance the accuracy and timeliness of their research. Factiva's platform is based on XML and Web services and is integrated into the Research Task Pane of all the Microsoft Office System programs, including Word 2003, Excel 2003, Access 2003, Outlook 2003, OneNote 2003 and PowerPoint 2003. www.factiva.com/factivasearch

Open Text to Acquire IXOS
10/21/2003

Open Text Corporation and IXOS SOFTWARE AG announced that they have entered into a business combination agreement in which a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Text will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of IXOS. The transaction will proceed via a tender offer for cash consideration of either 9 Euro per share (approximately US$10.46) or 0.2610 of an Open Text share for each share of IXOS tendered. The Open Text share will include a warrant to purchase 0.0742 of an Open Text share for up to one year after closing the transaction, with a strike price of US $41.50 per share. The cash consideration represents a 34% premium based on the three months volume weighted average prior to the announcement. Open Text has approximately 1200 employees and had revenues of US$178 million in the last fiscal year. IXOS has approximately 900 employees and revenues of US$145 million in fiscal year 2002/2003. Open Text will be organized into two divisions. The North American-based division, with operational headquarters in Chicago, will have global responsibility for collaboration and knowledge management solutions as well as North American responsibility for operations. The European-based division, headquartered in Munich, will have global responsibility for content management and archiving as well as European responsibility for operations. Gauss Interprises AG, which was recently acquired by Open Text, will also be part of the European content management division. IXOS' CEO Robert Hoog will become head of the European organization for Open Text. www.opentext.com, www.ixos.de

FileNet Releases Image Services Resource Adapter
10/21/2003

FileNet Corporation announced general availability of its FileNet Image Services Resource Adapter (ISRA), which provides connectivity from applications built on Sun Microsystems' J2EE to content managed within FileNet Image Services repositories. ISRA, compliant with and built to the J2EE 1.3/Java Connector Architecture (JCA) 1.0 specifications, provides a Java-based solution to address connectivity between application servers and legacy enterprise information systems. The solution is designed for industries that have large-scale integrated content management systems in place. ISRA offers a cost-effective way to repurpose this existing information in new ways as they begin to replace older client/server models with a kind of distributed computing in which a central server acts as an information hub. ISRA supports BEA WebLogic 8.1 and 7.0 SP2 and IBM WebSphere 4.0.4AE application servers and AIX 4.3.3 and above, HP/UX 11.0 and above, Windows 2000 and Sun Solaris 8.0 and above. www.filenet.com

Software AG Releases EntireX XML Gateway
10/21/2003

Software AG, Inc. announced the availability of EntireX XML Gateway, which enables organizations to publish Adabas data using XML and Web services. EntireX XML Gateway harnesses XML technology to enable the generation and deployment of Web services that read or update data in Adabas. The product includes a browser-based administration tool that supports the deployment of the generated Web services, as well as an adapter that enables access to Adabas (adapters to other relational database management systems are available). EntireX XML Gateway is currently available on Windows 2000 and Windows XP, as well as Sun Solaris 7 and 8; additional platforms are planned. Access to Adabas is supported on all platforms. Supported application servers include JBoss, BEA Weblogic and IBM Websphere. In addition to the adapter to Adabas, EntireX XML Gateway is also available with adapters to Oracle, other relational database management systems, and EntireX Mediator. EntireX XML Gateway is priced at $25,000 per adapter. www.softwareagusa.com

Verity Launches Japan Operation
10/21/2003

Verity Inc. announced the establishment of Verity Japan K.K. in Tokyo. Verity named Digital Garage a premier distributor of Verity Ultraseek software, formerly known as Inktomi Enterprise Search (IES), in Japan earlier this year. Digital Garage first introduced the Ultraseek product to the Japanese market in 1997. Verity Japan K.K. is located at 15th Floor, Cerulean Tower, 26-1 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-8512, Japan. www.verity.com

Venetica Announces Content Bridge for FileNet ISRA
10/21/2003

Venetica announced availability of Content Bridge for FileNet ISRA to allow organizations to access FileNet Image Services through VeniceBridge in a pure UNIX environment. The Content Bridge for FileNet ISRA is an alternative for those customers who do not want to deploy a Windows server in order to access FileNet Image Services content. www.venetica.com

Corel & Oracle Partner on XML Database Content
10/20/2003

Corel Corporation announced that it has teamed with Oracle Corp. to build and deliver a solution to enable the creation, storage and delivery of XML content and SVG Smart Graphic applications. The solution integrates the Oracle Database 10g with Corel's XML tools, Corel XMetaL and Corel Smart Graphics Studio. Corel XMetaL and Corel Smart Graphics Studio work together with the XML DB functionality in Oracle Database 10g to provide intelligent user interfaces for rich structured documents such as product documentation, financial reports, technical manuals and government legislation and regulation. www.corel.com

CambridgeDocs Announces xDoc Content Transformation Server
10/20/2003

CambridgeDocs announced the xDoc Content Transformation Server (xCTS). CambridgeDocs' xCTS combines the xDoc Conversion Server with the PDF-XML Publishing Server in an end-to-end solution for easy and automatic re-use of existing content. Inbound, the xDoc Conversion Server transforms documents from PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, into meaningful and well-structured XML. The transformation retains the "look and feel" of the document including layout, graphics, and textual content. Outbound, the PDF-XML Publishing server, customizes the transformed content with new layouts, styles or dynamic content from existing data-sources, and generates print-ready PDFs, MS Word documents or HTMLfiles. The xCTS XSLT, and XSL:FO. It can also use any XML-schema or DTD as the target or source for transformation. The xCTS works with J2EE application servers, such as TomCat, EAServer, as well as with Microsoft IIS based applications. The xCTS is available immediately and pricing starts at $15,000 per server.

Xythos Announces Records Management & Scanning Solutions
10/20/2003

Xythos Software announced the introduction of two new software products specifically designed to help organizations respond to federal and state regulations requiring improved information compliance capabilities. Both new products work with the company's line of WebFile Server software. The new Xythos WebFile Records Manager (WRM) software has been specifically designed to ease the cost of compliance with regulations such as HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, and a variety of state level information access regulations. The WRM allows users to dynamically create and manage physical and electronic documents in the same system, develop uniform retention schedules and is 100% WebDAV compatible. The company's new WebFile Scan Manager (WSM) software helps automate the process of adding physical documents and records into the WebFile Server simplifying the process of developing comprehensive multi media compliance solutions.

Mobius Earns iView Certification for SAP Enterprise Portal
10/20/2003

Mobius Management Systems, Inc. announced that the Mobius ViewDirect Connectivity Business Package has received iView certification for SAP Enterprise Portal 5.0. The ViewDirect iView is a component of ViewDirect TCM, a software suite for content management. When integrated directly into an SAP user's enterprise portal, the ViewDirect iView provides authorized users with easy access to enterprise content. The ViewDirect iView is integrated with the ViewDirect TCM repository and other business systems to enable enterprise employees, customers, and business partners to search, view, download, and print documents, reports, and images in any format without logging on to a separate application and without leaving the enterprise portal environment. ViewDirect TCM includes an SAP-certified interface to SAP R/3 ArchiveLink that supports all major SAP R/3 archiving scenarios. ViewDirect TCM provides archiving and output management services for the SAP R/3 environment, integrating SAP and non-SAP documents in a single repository and providing flexible viewing options both within SAP and with ViewDirect TCM viewing clients. www.mobius.com

Interwoven & SBI Launch Brand Portal Solution
10/20/2003

Interwoven, Inc. and SBI and Company (SBI) announced the availability of a Brand Portal Solution designed to help enterprises build, manage and steward their brands. Developed jointly, the Brand Portal Solution combines Interwoven MediaBin Asset Server software with SBI's expertise in brand strategy and technology implementation consulting. The Brand Portal Solution is a single place for brand managers and their constituencies, such as marketing and advertising agencies, distributors and channel partners, to build, leverage and distribute brand assets. The solution provides marketing departments of all sizes the ability to control the marketing content development, management, and distribution process. The Interwoven Brand Portal Solution integrates with portal applications from BEA, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Plumtree and SAP via Interwoven's service-oriented architecture, a Web service-enabled, next generation interface to all Interwoven services. Interwoven Brand Portal Solution can be purchased from Interwoven today. www.sbiandcompany.com, www.interwoven.com

FileNet & Microsoft to Deliver FileNet ECM Solutions on .NET
10/20/2003

FileNet Corporation and Microsoft Corp. announced plans to implement a series of new development, sales and global marketing initiatives to provide customers with optimized FileNet enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that are built on Microsoft .NET. As part of the alliance, FileNet will work closely with Microsoft to broaden FileNet's support for .NET by extending its use of Visual Studio .NET and enhancing its product offerings to include the .NET Framework, the Microsoft Office System, smart client technology and XML Web services. In addition, Microsoft and FileNet will collaborate on a plan for FileNet to adopt new technologies including SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and the upcoming version of SQL Server, code-named "Yukon." In addition, the two companies will collaborate to bring these offering to customers through a series of joint marketing and sales campaigns, aligned with Microsoft's go-to-market programs and vertical industry initiatives. www.filenet.com, www.microsoft.com

IBM & Adobe Join Forces to Deliver Enterprise Document Services
10/20/2003

Adobe Systems Incorporated and IBM announced that the two companies have signed an agreement to develop solutions to help customers improve data capture, document generation and delivery across the enterprise, by creating intelligent, digital document processes. As part of the expanded agreement, the two companies will further integrate technologies across IBM's portfolio of software offerings, beginning with IBM's DB2 Content Manager and DB2 CommonStore for SAP, and moving to integration with IBM's WebSphere and Tivoli software brands. The first phase of IBM and Adobe's software agreement has been the integration IBM DB2 Content Manager with Adobe Form Server, Form Designer and Reader, allowing forms to be created, managed and processed within DB2 Content Manager environments. The joint solution will integrate capabilities for intelligent Web-based forms giving organizations and governments the ability to automate their existing paper-based processes. www.ibm.com, www.adobe.com

FileNet Announces FileNet Records Manager
10/16/2003

FileNet Corporation announced the introduction of FileNet Records Manager, a new records management suite that is designed to offer comprehensive lifecycle management of records from creation to disposition. FileNet's Records Manager will be based on a single, integrated, scalable repository featuring the ability to create and manage file plans, retention schedules, and security. It also offers reporting and auditing tools to enable organizations to meet any number of regulatory reporting requirements. FileNet Records Manager is designed as a tightly integrated solution within the FileNet P8 architecture. The FileNet Records Manager suite is designed to address specific needs around issues of complying with reporting provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and is designed to meet the U.S. Department of Defense's 5015.2 records management standards requirement, as well as the U.K.'s National Archives 2002 revised functional requirements. FileNet Records Manager is scheduled for availability during the second quarter of 2004. www.filenet.com

Open Text Releases Livelink CADManager
10/16/2003

Open Text Corporation announced the availability of Livelink CADManager which gives architects and engineers a system for managing large volumes of interrelated CAD drawings for major design projects. The new product provides an integration between Livelink and CAD applications from Autodesk, Inc. Livelink CADManager supports Autodesk's AutoCAD 2000i, AutoCAD 2002 and AutoCAD 2004. With Livelink CADManager, Livelink becomes a knowledge management repository for design projects, serving as a central point for managing all working drawings, as well as data about drawings and their relationships. Livelink CADManager gives users an easy-to-browse directory structure, the ability to apply detailed metadata to drawings, advanced search capabilities, and check-in/check-out features to control drawing revisions. Access to Livelink is provided through a menu structure in AutoCAD. Open Text also plans to introduce Livelink CADManager modules for Autodesk Inventor 3D mechanical design software, Bentley Systems' MicroStation and SolidWorks. www.opentext.com

Vignette Enhances Business Process Management
10/15/2003

Vignette Corp. announced that it has delivered enhanced business process management capabilities in Vignette's content management, portal and integration products to support organizational compliance with regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA and Basel II. By deploying the Vignette V7 family of products, organizations can accelerate and enhance their compliance programs. With Vignette V7, organizations can enhance their ability to comply with regulations by streamlining the procedures that consolidate information from multiple internal sources, manage the security of that information, and analyze the effectiveness of their business processes. www.vignette.com

EMC to Acquire Documentum
10/14/2003

EMC Corporation and Documentum, Inc. announced a definitive agreement for EMC to acquire Documentum in a stock transaction valued at approximately $1.7 billion. Documentum stockholders will receive 2.175 shares of EMC common stock for each share of Documentum common stock. Based upon the EMC closing stock price of $14.45 on October 13, 2003, the transaction is valued at approximately $1.7 billion. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of calendar year 2004. When completed, EMC expects to take a charge in the quarter the transaction is closed for the value of Documentums in-process research and development costs and other integration expenses. Upon completion of the acquisition, EMC intends to operate Documentum as a software division of EMC headquartered in Pleasanton, California, led by Dave DeWalt, Documentum's current CEO. Documentum's sales, marketing and services will remain focused on selling and servicing Documentums products and solutions. www.EMC.com, www.documentum.com

IBM to Acquire CrossAccess Technology
10/14/2003

IBM announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the software assets of CrossAccess Corporation. The acquisition is expected to close later this month. Financial details were not disclosed. CrossAccess is a provider of infrastructure software that enables corporations to access information stored in mainframe databases and make it available for use with new business applications. The acquisition is meant to strengthen IBM's enterprise information integration capabilities, a key strategic priority for its Data Management efforts and the company's on demand computing initiatives. With CrossAccess technology integrated into DB2 Information Integrator software, IBM will be able to deliver a comprehensive enterprise information integration infrastructure. Once the acquisition is completed, IBM plans to integrate CrossAccess' software assets and personnel into the Data Management Software group, narket and sell CrossAccess technology through the IBM sales force, and integrate CrossAccess technology into IBM's DB2 Information Integrator software. http://www.software.ibm.com/data

Convera & Nexidia Partner
10/14/2003

Convera and Nexidia announced a new partnership that will add phonetic audio search as an optional component to Convera's RetrievalWare search and categorization platform. Nexidia's technology embedded within Convera's search platform will ensure RetrievalWare can search audio and video the equivalent of 30 hours of audio information in less than one second. Nexidia's phonetic searching pinpoints spoken words in word or phrase formats by analyzing the phonetic content of indexed audio or video files based on the similarity of sound. RetrievalWare's new audio search feature will enable customers to search for spoken words without converting the audio to text through speech-to-text software or human transcription. Nexidia's technology adds high precision to RetrievalWare's phonetic search capability, identifying not just dictionary words, but also slang terms and code words. In addition to retrospective search, Convera will offer Nexidia technology for real-time monitoring of audio, matching capabilities already offered by Convera's Profiling feature for processing textual content. www.nexidia.com, www.convera.com

Percussion Software Introduces Lyrix
10/14/2003

Percussion Software introduced its newest software product, Lyrix, a content integration solution for the reuse of Domino content in other enterprise applications. Lyrix is targeted at users of Lotus Domino that are deciding between co-existence and migration for each of their Domino applications. Built on a Web services architecture, Lyrix provides organizations with a range of options allowing them to choose the right future for each of their Domino applications. For each application, Lyrix enables organizations to choose co-existence with Domino by continuing to create content in existing applications while simultaneously reusing the content in other applications, or migration of Domino content to other applications systematically. In addition, if selecting to migrate, Lyrix does not force a migration of all content into a new central repository. Lyrix automatically transforms all unique Domino attributes into standard XML and xHTML, and also maintains content relationships. Pricing for the Lyrix Starter Package is $34,000 (USD). Lyrix is available now for immediate delivery. www.percussion.com

Stellent Announces Data Transformation Web Service
10/14/2003

Stellent, Inc.'s Content Components Division announced the release of the Outside In Transformation Suite, bringing together established data transformation components into a new server architecture accessible as a Web service. The Outside In solution converts native files to XML, HTML, wireless or image formats, enabling access to information stored in more than 250 proprietary file formats from a broad range of devices, such as desktop computers, browsers and wireless devices. The components of the suite include Outside In HTML Export, XML Export, Image Export and Wireless Export. The server architecture features automatic fault protection, support for multiple simultaneous transformation processes and an extensible architecture that provides third-party transformations with the benefits of process isolation and a single client API. The Web services SOAP interface is provided in addition to existing C and Java APIs. www.stellent.com

W3C Publishes XForms 1.0 as Recommendation
10/14/2003

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the release of the XForms 1.0 Recommendation. XForms 1.0 is the foundation for next-generation Web-based forms, combining the ability to separate purpose, presentation, and results with XML. In contrast to HTML forms, in which functional and presentation markup are 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--XForms separates presentation from content. This separation allows for reuse, device independence, and acessibility. Practically speaking, XForms technologies make it possible to deliver the same form to 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). XForms uses XML Events, another W3C technology, to define XML-based declarative event handlers that cover common use cases, so that the majority of XForms documents can be statically analyzed. The XForms Working Group includes W3C Members and invited experts from Adobe; CWI; Cardiff; Helsinki University of Technology; IBM; Mozquito Technologies; Novell; Oracle Corporation; Origo Services; PureEdge; SAP; Sun Microsystems; and x-port.net Ltd. www.w3.org

Entopia Introduces Enterprise Social Networks Analysis for K-Bus
10/14/2003

Entopia, Inc. unveiled Entopia Enterprise Social Networks Analysis, a diagnostic tool that enables managers to optimize information flow. By combining Entopia's dynamic expertise location with its visualization techniques, Entopia's latest application identifies the social networks within the enterprise related to a specific topic. These "people maps" illustrate the subject matter experts, information bottlenecks and disconnected communities with an enterprise. Entopia Social Networks Analysis is a solution built upon Entopia K-Bus, its enterprise knowledge infrastructure technology. Entopia Enterprise Social Networks Analysis harnesses the existing content in, and user activity around, various enterprise-wide repositories for use by the human resources, sales, mergers and acquisitions, compliance and customer support teams to identify experts, build teams, improve communication, identify displacement problems and avoid work duplication. Entopia Enterprise Social Networks Analysis software is currently in beta testing. www.entopia.com

Topologi Updates its Collaborative Markup Editor
10/13/2003

Topologi announces the 1.1.6 release of its Collaborative Markup Editor. Along with several interface improvements for both Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, Topologi announced new support for very large file handling. From original conception, Topologi has committed the Collaborative Markup Editor to addressing the needs of SGML and XML publishing production environments. However, feedback to date has been that working with 8-10 megabyte files is still not enough for many users. The editor's core has been extensively reworked in version 1.1.6. Using memory profiling techniques, users can make final edits to million-line (50 megabyte) files without performance problems. Other improvements in this release include improved interactive diagnostics of markup syntax errors, support for Java 1.4.2 features such as mouse wheels and improved file chooser, Schematron 1.1.6 compliance, allowing better datatyping, improved support for RTF import of foreign languages including Chinese, built-in hex and image previewer, and faster load times. The Topologi Collaborative Markup Editor is available as a 30 day evaluation download or as a licensed purchase for US$60 at www.topologi.com

Plumtree to Offer J2EE Version of Portal Software
10/13/2003

Plumtree Software unveiled plans to offer a J2EE version of its portal software by the middle of 2004, designed to run with Java application servers hosted on UNIX, and later, Linux. Plumtree plans to continue developing the .NET version of its portal alongside this new J2EE version. The 5.0J version of the portal software is expected to have the same features, functionality and server architecture as the 5.0 Windows product but will have a re-designed Java kernel, and will use many J2EE components and specifications including JDBC for access to multiple databases, JMX for management and monitoring of the portal server, JNDI for naming and directory services, and JNI for JVM communication. In addition, both J2EE and .NET versions of the portal are designed to support the new Java portlet standard JSR 168. The 5.0J portal design draws on the J2EE application server, but uses the same HTTP-based Web Services Architecture as the Windows portal for communicating with other systems and the same parallel processing technology for communicating with a large number of Web services simultaneously. Plumtree plans to test application and Web servers including Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and Sun Java System Application Server, running on Sun Solaris and IBM AIX operating systems. Plumtree currently plans to offer Linux support later in 2004. www.plumtree.com

Microsoft Expands Content Management Server Offerings
10/9/2003

Microsoft Corp. announced plans to offer new versions of Content Management Server (CMS) 2002, including a Standard Edition (SE) for medium-sized businesses and an enhanced CMS 2002 Enterprise Edition (EE) that provides compatibility with Windows Server 2003 and is localized into three new languages. In addition, Microsoft will be updating the content integration pack for enterprises looking to integrate CMS 2002 with the newly released Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. The new features in the Content Management Server 2002 Connector for SharePoint Technologies include the abilities to publish CMS content directly from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and to integrate document libraries. A beta version of the Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Connector for SharePoint Technologies is available today at http://www.betaplace.com/; the final version will be released by the end of 2003. Pricing for CMS SE will start at $6,999 ERP per CPU. It will be limited to 15 content contributors and also will offer a Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Connector for SharePoint Technologies. Future versions of Content Management Server 2002 Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition will support French, Japanese and German. www.microsoft.com

Equilibrium Launches MediaRich Server for SharePoint Portal Server 2003
10/9/2003

Equilibrium announced the availability of Equilibrium MediaRich Server for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 as a digital asset management (DAM) solution for mid-sized to enterprise corporations using Microsoft Office 2003. The new version extends Microsoft Office 2003's collaborative experience with brand management and image automation. The resulting DAM solution 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 2003 applications. Equilibrium MediaRich Server for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides previews of CMYK images, vector images, and layered Photoshop files along with related metadata, and reads and writes BMP, WBMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, PCT, TIFF, PDF, TGA, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop PSD or EPS files with accurate ICC color profiles. Equilibrium MediaRich Server for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (beta) is now available. Companies may download a 15-day evaluation of Equilibrium MediaRich for SharePoint Products and Technologies at www.equilibrium.com.

Antenna House Updates XSL Processor
10/8/2003

Antenna House, Inc announced their XSL-FO processor [XSL Formatter V3.0] is now available. XSL Formatter is a software to format XML documents for production-quality printing and output to PDF. Some of the key features of V3.0 as compared to V2.X are: V3.0 is significantly faster then XSL Formatter V2.X, V3.0 has newly developed SVG support to retain the vector information for the output module thus meeting the increasing demands for SVG delivery and viewing, and the V3.0 formatting engine has been developed from scratch to be able to format "any" size of document. This overcomes the V2.X limitation of approximately 4,000 pages in a single document. V3.0 is able to format about 10 times as much as V2.X. System Requirements: Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/Server2003, or Sun Solaris 8, 9 (Sparc version), or RedHat Linux 8.0 or later, SuSE Linux 8.1 (libstdc++.so.5 required). www.antennahouse.com

Ektron Updates eWebEditPro+XML & eWebEditPro
10/7/2003

Ektron announced version 4.0 of Ektron eWebEditPro+XML and eWebEditPro. Version 4.0 includes a new Design Mode feature which automates the manual step of creating XML structure and supporting documents, including XSLTs and schemas. eWebEditPro+XML's new Design Mode builds an abstraction layer that hides the complexities of XSLTs and schemas. Developers can give non-technical users this tool to create environments for data input and validation. Using a new Drag and Drop toolbar, the user creates a Web page that resembles a form. With the tool, the user can position elements to define and design the layout of XML data, and use simple dialogs to define criteria for data validity. Additional new features in both Ektron eWebEditPro+XML and eWebEditPro Version 4.0 include enhanced form field editing (for standard HTML page editing) and support for Ektron WebImageFX, a browser-based image editors. Pricing starts at $299 for 10 users, with enterprise pricing available. www.ektron.com

TripleHop Announces MatchPoint 3.0
10/6/2003

TripleHop Technologies announced MatchPoint 3.0, its new enterprise contextual search software. MatchPoint 3.0 combines statistical and semantic analysis to give users increased sensitivity to the context of their query including the user profile and existing enterprise knowledge. MatchPoint 3.0 enhances the sensitivity of a query as it factors in the context of the search. MatchPoint automatically generates a contextual thesaurus as it crawls and indexes enterprise documents, and uses this thesaurus to disambiguate and expand the user query based on existing enterprise knowledge, the user profile and the customer's work process. MatchPoint's index architecture gives users immediate access to new documents. The product uses a distributed architecture to create as many "Search Services" as necessary. Each Search Service can have several indexes and each index can be partitioned. User queries are launched into multiple indexes and sub-indexes, and the results are merged through the MatchPoint Federator. This distributed architecture helps handle terabytes of data without substantially degrading response time. www.triplehop.com

OpenPages Announces Sarbanes-Oxley Express 2.0
10/6/2003

OpenPages introduced Sarbanes-Oxley Express 2.0 a framework that supports companies' corporate governance strategies. SOX 2.0, a Web-based suite of enterprise applications, addresses both the specifics of Sections 404 and 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, as well as ongoing modifications and additions proposed by the SEC and other regulatory organizations. Version 2.0 extends SOX with enhancements that address Section 302, which requires officers to sign statements verifying the completeness and accuracy of financial statements. Specifically, 2.0 includes a fully articulated Survey capability. Sarbanes-Oxley Express 2.0 is built on the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) framework, and runs on top of the OpenPages 4.0 Enterprise Edition OP4 Platform. The OP4, a J2EE-compliant environment, combines a set of services, including document and content management, collaborative and automated workflows, and multi-channel publishing. www.OpenPages.com

EMC International to Resell Arbortext in Latin America
10/6/2003

Arbortext announced it has entered into a Reseller Agreement with EMC International Group (EMC) to provide sales and support for customers in Latin America. EMC is Arbortext's first reseller for this region and has offices in Chile, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. www.emcintl.com, www.arbortext.com

Interwoven TeamSite Content Server 6.0 & Web Services Kit Now Available
10/6/2003

Interwoven, Inc. announced the general availability of its TeamSite 6.0 Content Server software. This announcement follows the official launch of the product in July of this year. The new release of Interwoven's core content management offering extends content management access to all business users and enables them to maintain control and distributed ownership of content across the enterprise. Also launched in July and shipping today is Interwoven ContentServices SDK 2.0, a Web Services-based toolkit that provides access to 160 content management services such as task management, workflow, user access, project configuration, and versioning from J2EE and .NET applications. www.interwoven.com

Documentum Announces Linux Support for Documentum 5
10/6/2003

Documentum announced that it plans to offer support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Documentum 5, the latest version of the company's ECM platform. Documentum has joined the Red Hat Advanced Software Partner program to support its Linux development and support efforts. Documentum's support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be made in a phased-approach, with Web application support available later this year. www.redhat.com, www.documentum.com

KineMatik & Open Text Partner
10/6/2003

KineMatik, a provider of enterprise Collaborative eR&D (CeR&D) solutions, and Open Text Corporation said they would provide their integrated software solutions to Irish biotechnology research institutions to help scientists manage information and collaborate on research projects. KineMatik and Open Text will donate licenses of their software to two Centers for Science, Engineering & Technology (CSETs) in Ireland. The centers include the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre at University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland, where scientists will be conducting research into drug treatment and pharmaceutical products whose applications can include treatments for Crohn's disease, and the Royal College of Surgeons' National Center for Human Proteomics in Dublin, where researchers will study technologies and proteins that can successfully treat diseases of the heart. KineMatik's eNovator is integrated with Open Text's Livelink product. www.kinematik.com, www.opentext.com

CambridgeDocs Announces xDoc XML Converter 1.7
10/1/2003

CambridgeDocs announced the xDoc Converter 1.7, an update to its xDoc Converter product. The xDoc Converter is a tool for migrating unstructured content from Microsoft Word, HTML, and Adobe PDF documents into any XML schema (XSD) or DTD for improved searching and indexing across the enterprise. The new release includes the Microsoft Excel Driver, which can be used to transform Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, and XP spreadsheets into XML. xDocs modular architecture enables the Microsoft Excel driver to produce ppXML, which can be then be further transformed into HTML, XSL:FO, PDF, or Microsoft RTF. "Visual Rules By Example", which allows an end user to "highlight" a phrase or some text in a visually rendered version of the original document is also in the new version. The ability to convert XML and XSL:FO into Microsofts Rich Text Format is also in this release. This capability makes it possible, for example, to convert a PDF file into XML and then convert the XML into RTF for editing and opening within Microsoft Word. www.cambridgedocs.com

Network Associates Delivers McAfee PortalShield for SharePoint Portal Server
10/1/2003

Network Associates, Inc. announced the availability of McAfee PortalShield 1.0 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server. McAfee PortalShield offers virus protection for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001, 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. McAfee PortalShield is integrated with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) for policy management and enforcement, enterprise-wide visibility, rapid software deployment and distribution of the latest virus definitions. Each time a document is written to or read from the document libraries, the McAfee PortalShield software scans the content and compares it with a list of known viruses and suspected virus-like behavior. McAfee PortalShield also scans for content within the document or Webpart using the rules and policies defined within the McAfee PortalShield software. Lexical and content management capabilities enable McAfee PortalShield to apply these rules and policies to over 280 document types such as Acrobat Reader and Microsoft Word. Using McAfee PortalShield rules, document download and upload actions can be prevented, and alerts sent to the administrator if the documents contain banned content. McAfee PortalShield is currently available through Network Associates channel partners and its direct sales force. www.networkassociates.com

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