News For February, 2003

Vignette Corp. launched Vignette Dialog, an application for building solutions that automate and personalize relationships across multiple touchpoints through selected communications. Vignette Dialog enables organizations to engage prospects, customers, partners and employees with automated personalized interactions through Web sites, portals, phone calls, e-mail, wireless devices and direct mail. Vignette Dialog, which leverages the intellectual property acquired from Revenio in late 2002, has a browser-based interface so business users can easily define, modify and track dialogs. Business users can access real-time reports to plan and track the costs and results of each customer interaction. Vignette Dialog interacts with existing enterprise applications, such as CRM solutions, data warehouses, SFA systems, call centers and Web sites. Vignette Dialog capabilities include interactive dialogs, event-triggered dialogs,multistep dialogs, support for multiple touchpoints, and integration with enterprise content sources. Vignette offers current customers the opportunity to be "Up and Running" within 30 days. Vignette Dialog is currently available. www.vignette.com

anacubis Launches anacubis Viewer
2/26/2003

anacubis, a division of the i2 Group (Washington DC) announced immediate availability of its web-enabled visualisation technology for online information portals. anacubis now extends the same visualisation and analysis technology used by intelligence and law enforcement agencies worldwide to online business information databases. The anacubis Viewer solution incorporates Java and XML-based technology to enable commercial information professionals to rapidly extract intelligence from complex data. anacubis Viewer automatically creates a visual representation of complex data in real-time, which can be manipulated and acted upon. It does this by automatically representing entities, such as people and organisations, pictorially as icons and shows the relationships between such entities as link types. As the user explores the online source, data is continually added to the visualisation, providing a big picture overview of a particular organisation, market or area of interest. anacubis will also launch the anacubis View Manager in March of 2003. The View Manager is a desktop application that enables users to store, manage and distribute the anacubis Views they have created within supported online information services. The anacubis View Manager will be available for download, free of charge in mid-March. www.anacubis.com

Open Text Acquires Corechange
2/26/2003

Open Text Corporation and Corechange, Inc. announced the closing of the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Corechange by a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Text. Corechange's portal software provides a window into a company's enterprise content, applications, services, and productivity tools. Coreport, the main product from Corechange, provides an enterprise access framework, deploying secure, scalable intranet and extranet portals. Benefits of integration with Open Text's collaboration and knowledge management system, Livelink, include enhancement of Livelink connectors UNITE and Doorways; application integration at the point of access - with Corechange's portal framework, Livelink will offer a horizontal solution unifying existing applications in CRM, ERP and SCM, and direct interaction with any kind of application running on any platform both web and legacy - with no change to the native application and no loss of functionality. This $4.2 million cash transaction will not result in an immediate or material financial change in guidance for Open Text's fiscal 2003 year. www.opentext.com/livelink, www.corechange.com

In our January issue "Corporate Portals - Success Kills the Market", we pointed out that Corechange was the last "pure-play" portal vendor we knew of. Anybody know of any others?

SAQQARA Ships CommerceSuite 4.5 With Support for Quark & XML
2/26/2003

SAQQARA Systems, Inc. announced the release of SAQQARA CommerceSuite 4.5 with support for Quark and XML. CommerceSuite 4.5 provides a collaborative content authoring and publishing platform that supports multiple publishing vehicles to allow suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and industry exchanges to leverage product content across multiple mediums. CommerceSuite 4.5 includes Web Services to facilitate integration with enterprise applications. CommerceSuite 4.5 integration to Quark Express via XML export enables the publishing from one database repository to all media. A custom XSLT simplifies mapping the XSD's to destination structures -- tagging the catalog data with names that are familiar to a customers' QuarkXPress team. CommerceSuite 4.5 uses XML to distribute and re-use content from the enterprise repository, and has expanded the ability to get data into and out of the master catalog by providing XML export of the entire product contents of the web catalog. SAQQARA CommerceSuite 4.5 is available immediately. Special upgrade pricing and maintenance agreements are available. www.saqqara.com

Soholaunch Announces Site Management Tool V4.5
2/26/2003

Soholaunch, Inc. announced the release of the Soholaunch Site Management Tool (SMT) version 4.5. SMT 4.5 now runs on Microsoft NT as well as Linux. Additional features include Multi-User Access, a Web Form Builder and a Photo Album. SMT 4.5 is a stand-alone, thin-client website development application that creates and manages database-driven websites through a "drag and drop" browser interface. The program, written in PHP and supporting name-based or IP environments, requires a mySQL database and installs on servers running Linux or Microsoft NT. The product has eight integrated business modules: Page Editor, Shopping Cart, Secure Login System, Custom Forms Management, MySQL Database Table Manager, eNewsletter System, Event Calendar and Site Statistics. The Soholaunch Site Management Tool is available immediately. The MSRP of the SMT Pro is $799 and the SMT Lite is $199. www.soholaunch.com

SDL International Launches FreeTranslation.com
2/26/2003

SDL Plc (SDL) announced the integration of a new range of automated translation solutions into www.FreeTranslation.com. FreeTranslation.com now offers a comprehensive range of services for any translation requirement, from personal correspondence to the localisation of corporate websites. "Click2Translate Express" is a new feature of FreeTranslation.com that provides the facility to either enhance computer-generated translation results, or to order professional translations of the original text. Click2Translate Express currently offers 2 levels of service: Edited, for improved computer generated translation, and Premium, for high quality professional translation. www.sdlintl.com

FAST Sells Internet Business to Overture; to Focus on Enterprise Search
2/25/2003

Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) and Overture Services, Inc. have entered into an agreement under which Overture will acquire FAST's Internet business unit for $70 million in cash, as well as performance-based cash incentive payments for up to $30 million over three years. Under the terms of the agreement, Overture will acquire FAST's Internet business unit assets including FAST Web Search, AlltheWeb.com, and FAST PartnerSite products, related intellectual property rights, as well as data centers and equipment in Sacramento (USA) and London (UK). In addition, the FAST Internet business unit personnel will transfer to Overture. Overture has also licensed FAST Data Search. The agreement is subject to standard review and regulatory processes, which the two companies anticipate will be completed by April 2003. FAST will now focus on their enterprise search solutions, which is where most of their revenue has come from. www.fastsearch.com

PricewaterhouseCoopers Releases ESAS 5.0
2/25/2003

PricewaterhouseCoopers announced the immediate availability of its Enterprise Security Architecture System (ESAS) 5.0, a web-based security knowledge management tool to help companies proactively create and promote security policies that support their organization's business objectives. The latest version combines enhancements in functionality and design with new features, including an access control model and authentication and user management function. ESAS 5.0 allows organizations flexibility on content management across the enterprise by providing targeted access to content and support distributed content management. Groups can be created for content review, maintenance and distribution. Additionally, ESAS 5.0 has a new authentication and user management function, including integrated LDAP authentication and support for third party authentication software. ESAS can be configured to authenticate users against your corporate directory using LDAP 3.0 compliant functions. www.pwcglobal.com

divine Filing Chapter 11
2/25/2003

divine, inc. announced that its board of directors has authorized divine and several of its subsidiaries to file a voluntary petition to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Today's action will be taken to protect the value and viability of divine's operations while it works to restructure its liabilities and achieve a resolution to the remaining economic issues facing the RoweCom, inc. subsidiary. divine's subsidiary divine/Whitman-Hart, is not included in this filing. Casas, Benjamin & White LLC (CBW) will assist divine's current management team in handling day-to-day operations. divine and CBW intend to continue to explore strategic options with Broadview International LLC including the possible sale of its assets to a well-capitalized buyer or buyers. divine is reporting approximately $25 million in unrestricted cash on hand to operate the business as various options are considered. divine has received a letter of intent from financial investment firm GTCR Golder Rauner LLC to acquire divine's business in its entirety. Any sale of divine's assets would be accomplished pursuant to section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code and would be subject to final approval of the Bankruptcy Court. One of divine's top priorities is ensuring that customers are protected and that they continue to receive products, services and support. divine has retained the critical staff to ensure that its operations will continue without interruption during the Chapter 11 reorganization and sale process. www.divine.com

Documentum Delivers eRoom Enterprise
2/24/2003

Documentum announced the availability of Documentum eRoom Enterprise. eRoom Enterprise extends the Documentum ECM platform with a user-friendly work environment that can be quickly deployed, enabling content-centric and collaboration-centric processes and applications. Project teams can work together in virtual workspaces, and resulting collaborative content can be captured, stored, later referenced and integrated with other enterprise content and processes. With eRoom Enterprise, Documentum ECM customers can collaborate as they create, manage, share distribute and archive content, and existing eRoom customers can take advantage of Documentum's ECM capabilities, to search, review, share, reuse and archive content created and saved within all eRoom team environments. eRoom Enterprise's structured, ad hoc and real-time collaboration features help organizations to unify, streamline and leverage collaborative efforts and collective knowledge. www.documentum.com

Interwoven Releases OpenDeploy 5.6
2/24/2003

Interwoven Inc. has released a universal code and content distribution solution powered by a new version of Interwoven OpenDeploy. Available for the first time as a stand-alone offering, the new solution delivers a secure and automated way to simultaneously distribute code and content for Internet-based applications across a worldwide corporate network. The stand-alone offering can be used in conjunction with Interwoven TeamSite software as well as other content and code management software products. To broaden the number of distribution points for OpenDeploy, Interwoven has deepened relationships with Network Appliance and Akamai Technologies. Customers using OpenDeploy can integrate their content management with their content distribution requirements. This will enable users to distribute their content, applications and Web services code directly into a Network Appliance NetCache, or into EdgeSuite -- Akamai's global Content Distribution Service. Interwoven OpenDeploy 5.6 is available immediately. www.interwoven.com/products/content_distribution

Workshare launches Workshare DeltaServer 1.0
2/24/2003

Workshare announced the release of Workshare DeltaServer 1.0. Workshare DeltaServer is an evolution of Workshare DeltaView, the company's document comparison software. The new product makes Workshare DeltaView's comparison technology available in a server-based application. Workshare DeltaServer 1.0 is an application that organisations can deploy for comparisons of Microsoft Word documents. Designed to manage the creation and distribution of comparison documents, Workshare DeltaServer can be integrated with any major application used for document storing and sharing. With Workshare DeltaServer, a comparison document is created which details and highlights all content changes that take place between Microsoft Word document versions. In addition to the creation of the comparison document, Workshare DeltaServer produces detailed document comparison information regarding file input and change statistics. Once created, the comparison document can be saved to the desired repository as a txt, html, doc or pdf file to then be viewed, shared or archived. www.workshare.com

Adobe Ships Updated Form Solution
2/24/2003

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the immediate availability of Adobe Form Server and Form Designer. Through the combination of XML, HTML and secure electronic forms in PDF, the updated software enables businesses to improve data capture processes beyond the firewall. Adobe Form Server 5.0 enables anyone to receive and view the form by automatically converting an XML template to PDF and various forms of HTML, depending on the device that is targeted to receive it. From PCs to handheld and wireless devices, forms can be delivered to multiple channels without downloads or plug-ins. With improved Adobe PDF integration, the Form Server allows end users to fill out a form either on-line or off-line. Additionally, the software improves the quality of data captured by including embedded calculations and validations. Adobe's enterprise form solution also includes Adobe Form Designer 5.0, a tool for creating intelligent XML and PDF forms. The software automatically "tags" the data within the PDF document, which enables companies to leverage XML data by incorporating critical data and documents into existing enterprise systems. Adobe also shipped new versions of Adobe Output Designer 5.5, Adobe Central Output Server 5.5 and Adobe Output Pak for mySAP.com 5.5. Adobe server products are available immediately. Pricing for Adobe Form Designer starts at US$1,695. Adobe Form Server pricing starts at US$30,000 per CPU. www.adobe.com/products/server/products_purchase.html

SAS to OEM Xythos WebFile Server
2/24/2003

Xythos Software announced that it has signed a global OEM agreement with SAS. SAS will use the WebDAV-based Xythos WebFile Server (WFS) as the file management platform for SAS Drug Development and provide it to customers in the pharmaceutical, biomedical and medical device industries. With Xythos, SAS customers will use the Internet to securely access, manage, process and share all biopharmaceutical research data, analyses, reports and documents in the system. The integrated Xythos and SAS Drug Development solution helps close the gaps in the clinical development process by aggregating research data and documents from multiple, disparate sources and providing analytical and exploratory applications within a 21 CFR Part 11-enabling infrastructure. This provides researchers with a single, secure, centralized information repository where research information can be organized for regulatory submission and mined for new market opportunities, product line extensions or strategic safety assessments. www/xythos.com

Canto Releases Free Cumulus Upgrade
2/24/2003

Canto announced the availability of Cumulus 5.5.2, a free upgrade to its cross platform line of Digital Asset Management solutions for enterprises, workgroups and single users. In addition to bug fixes and improved user handling it includes enhancements in compatibility with Mac OS X Classic Mode and enhanced OPI. Cumulus 5.5.2 will be offered with an Update Installer so that the update process from earlier 5.5.x versions will be easy. Cumulus 5.5.2 offers an enhanced Pix Asset Converter which enables digital images cataloged in Cumulus to be converted into JPEG, TIFF and BMP formats, as well as conversion into RGB, CMYK and Greyscale color spaces with the simple click of a button. Changes in size per pixel, percentage and resolution are also possible. All filters released after the 5.5.1 release are now included in 5.5.2, containing filters for cataloging and reading specific metadata from EPS, PDF, BMP, IPTC, PNG, PBM and generic Unix files. The Cumulus OPI support will now also be available in connection with Server/Client AssetTransfer, a functionality of the Workgroup and Enterprise Edition. Also included is a Quark XTension update enabling users to Drag and Drop from Cumulus into Quark XPress 5.x. Cumulus 5.5.2 is immediately available for Mac OS, Windows, UNIX (Linux, Solaris) in English, German, French and Japanese. This service update will be available free for owners of Cumulus 5.5. Customers working with an older version may purchase an upgrade. www.canto.com

Microsoft Announces Rights Management Services For Windows Server 2003
2/21/2003

Microsoft Corp. announced plans for Windows Rights Management Services (RMS), a technology for Windows Server 2003 that will give organizations advanced ways to help secure sensitive internal business information including financial reports and confidential planning documents. Windows Rights Management Services will work with applications to provide a platform-based approach to providing persistent policy rights for Web content and sensitive corporate documents of all types. Beta code for Windows Rights Management Services will be broadly available in the second quarter of 2003. Using Windows Rights Management Services, applications such as information portals, word processors or e-mail clients can be built so that users will be able to easily designate both who can have access to specific content and what kinds of access rights they can have. Rights and policy are managed by the server, while clients running RMS-enabled applications allow users to apply rights with a click of a button. In addition, enterprises can enforce policy broadly and reliably by centrally delivering templates that automate the process for example, making the policy around what constitutes "company confidential" uniform and easy to manage. Because Windows Rights Management Services technology is an ASP.NET Web service built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, it can interoperate with business processes via Web services. RMS technology uses XrML (Extensible Rights Markup Language). Microsoft will release two software development kits in the second quarter of 2003. www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/rm

For more information on XrML, see our free white paper XrML and Emerging Models of Content Development and Distribution.

Altova Releases RIXML Templates
2/21/2003

Altova Inc. announced the availability of ready-to-use templates for the Research Information eXchange Markup Language (RIXML). The new RIXML templates, in conjunction with AUTHENTIC 5's recently announced free software licensing model will enable faster adoption of XML content editing for the financial community based on the RIXML standard. The RIXML standard was developed by RIXML.org, a consortium committed the development and implementation of a standard for investment research. RIXML provides a structure for breaking down and classifying investment research so that users can access investment research in a customizable format through standard filtering criteria. Currently, financial services firms that publish research are using their own proprietary solutions. Therefore, this industry-wide standard facilitates a smoother exchange of information from producer to consumer, whether the information flows directly or via a third-party aggregator or vendor. www.altova.com

Plumtree Announces Extranet Portal Package
2/20/2003

Plumtree Software announced the availability of the Plumtree Extranet Portal Package. This package currently includes the Plumtree Corporate Portal with Plumtree Search, Plumtree Content Server and Plumtree Collaboration Server, and a framework for integrating charts and graphs from Microsoft Excel. Customers of the Plumtree Extranet Portal Package also receive one week of professional services, training, and the first year of maintenance and support. The Plumtree Extranet Portal Package is currently priced with the following options: $50,000 for 1,000 external users; $90,000 for 5,000 external users; $90,000 for unlimited anonymous users; $100,000 for 1,000 external users and unlimited anonymous users; or $140,000 for 5,000 external users and unlimited anonymous users. www.plumtree.com

Want to know what is really happening in the enterprise portal market? See our controversial January report on "Corporate Portals - Success Kills the Market" (The link is to an introduction, the full report is for subscribers only.)

Percussion & Buystream Partner
2/18/2003

Percussion Software and Buystream announced a partnership to combine their content management and web analytics solutions. Rhythmyx customers will now be able to manage their content efficiently while measuring its effectiveness. The advantage to this integration is providing the line-of-business users, rather than the technical users, with the statistics to make sure the right content is delivered to the proper audience. Armed with statistics on the meaningful content, Rhythmyx customers will be able to make the appropriate changes quickly using Rhythmyx' Active Assembly, a graphical layout tool for arranging content without technical assistance. Buystream Perspective is built specifically for integration into content management systems. The template-driven structure of content management systems makes it easy to integrate Buystream's data-tag technology. Buystream's data collection technology, data tagging, automatically inherits information such as "author," "title," and "date" from each template. Buystream Perspective can then produce reports that enable business managers, content contributors and editors to understand how effective the content is in context of their business processes and desired outcomes. www.buystream.com, www.percussion.com

XACML Ratified as OASIS Standard
2/18/2003

OASIS announced that its members have approved the Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) as an OASIS Open Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. XACML allows developers to express and enforce policies for information access over the Internet. The OASIS XACML specification was developed by Entrust, IBM, OpenNetwork, Quadrasis, Sterling Commerce, Sun Microsystems, and other members of the OASIS Extensible Access Control Markup Language Technical Committee. XACML is the latest addition to the OASIS portfolio of security standards. It joins another recently approved OASIS Open Standard, the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), as well as emerging specifications advanced within OASIS such as WS-Security, Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML), Digital Signature Services (DSS), and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). www.oasis-open.org

Interwoven Awarded Patent on Content Management Technology
2/18/2003

Interwoven, Inc. has been issued a U.S. Patent for its "System and Method for Website Development," the core technology within its content management product, Interwoven TeamSite software. Patent (#6505212) describes Interwoven's method of using branches, workareas, staging areas, and editions to develop and manage content and all revisions. This patent includes 13 claims covering, among other things: A system for asset management comprised of multiple workareas, each configured to maintain a virtual copy of content as it would appear when published; A staging area; Branches and sub-branches (for different projects or initiatives) that contain individual workareas, staging areas, and editions; The use of a hierarchical file system and an object repository for representing and hosting content and its structure; Virtualization of all content regardless of location as well as Web and application servers; And the combined concepts of file history, versioning, comparison, and merging as it relates to content, provide an archive of all individual changes as well as collections of changes so they can be versioned and audited. www.interwoven.com/products/patents.html

Altova Offers Free XML Document Editor
2/18/2003

Altova Inc. announced that their XML document editor product, AUTHENTIC 5, will now be offered to the public through a free software license. AUTHENTIC 5 is a customizable, light-weight, and easy-to-use XML document editor, that allows business users to create and edit content through a web-enabled interface that resembles a word processor. AUTHENTIC 5 features full support for standard internet protocols and file transfer interfaces, including WebDAV, HTTP; a browser plug-in that enables a business user to access and edit XML content on the Web, spell checking capabilities in 14 languages including a medical & legal dictionary, real-time document validation, built-in templates for over 15 industry standard XML content formats including NewsML, NITF, DocBook, and more. AUTHENTIC 5 can be used in conjunction with XML content repositories, including Oracle XML DB, Microsoft CMS 2002 via the AUTHENTIC Content Management Server Placeholder Control Edition, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Software AG Tamino Server, IXIASOFT TextML Server, XML Global GoXML DB, Lightspeed Interactive Astoria, X-Hive/DB, iLevel Software Insite Server, NeoCore XMS, and others. www.altova.com/download

IQ Group & Venetica Partner
2/17/2003

Content IQ, the content management division of The IQ Business Group, and Venetica announced a partnership agreement under which Content IQ will be a value-added reseller in South Africa for Venetica. The IQ group has operations in Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, Boston and Atlanta in the USA and in London in the UK. www.venetica.com

Versim Announces XML Differencing Plugin for Altova XMLSpy
2/17/2003

Versim Technologies announced the availability of the Versim XML Differencing Plugin for Altova XMLSpy. With the Versim Plugin, XMLSpy users can easily identify the differences between XML documents, both on the file system or remotely addressable via URL. The Versim Plugin is fully integrated with XMLSpy, and allows you to navigate backwards and forwards through documents, verifying, accepting or rejecting changes that are presented to you. The Versim XML Differencing Plugin is available to download as a fully functional 30-day evaluation. www.versim.com/cgi-bin/view/download

Zope Releases Zope 2.6.1
2/16/2003

Zope Corporation announced the release of Zope 2.6.1, the latest version of the open source application server. The new release is the first to contain a majority of enhancements from the Zope community. Zope 2.6.1 has improved internationalization and translation support for page templates and enhanced full-text indexing, with faster results and better handling of world languages. System administrators will appreciate the improved OS signal handling and log rotation support. High volume web sites will benefit from improved object cache control, providing better performance with lower memory usage. With this release, Linux and Solaris binary builds now include Python 2.1.3 with large file support, providing pre-packaged support for large site deployments. Zope 2.6.1 can be downloaded from www.zope.org

ThomasTech Partners with Documentum
2/12/2003

Thomas Technology Solutions, Inc. has entered into a partnership agreement with Documentum. ThomasTech builds content management and publishing solutions for industrial manufacturers and commercial publishers. The company will integrate Documentum's software, along with other applications, into the end-to-end technology solutions it provides to clients worldwide. ThomasTech is one of a few Documentum partners offering data conversion and pre-press services, thus providing a complete range of content management capabilities to clients. www.thomastechsolutions.com

iMakeNews Launches Blogging Service for Businesses
2/12/2003

iMakeNews announced the launch of its Weblog management or 'blogging' service, DirectBlog. The new service enables businesses to harness the power of Weblogs, which provide untapped channels for e-marketing, knowledge management, sales and collaborative communications. Through DirectBlog, organizations will be able to publish and e-mail customized and personalized Weblogs to segmented groups. DirectBlog will be available to companies and iMakeNews' reseller network in April 2003. DirectBlog provides iMakeNews customers and channel partners with all of the technical abilities of a 'blog, along with the features and flexibility of iMakeNews' e-marketing services. Individuals already using the firm's Web-based content management, design, subscription management, data analysis, and other tools can extend their application to 'blogging. Through a single user interface, they can create, maintain and e-mail 'blogs on a "one-to-one" basis. www.imakenews.com

InStranet Delivers Content Automation for Contact Centers
2/12/2003

InStranet, Inc., provider of Content-Based Applications for the Enterprise, announced the release of its new Contact Centers In-Line Application, an enterprise software application designed to automate the content-rich processes of creating, distributing, monitoring, evaluating and managing product and support documents for contact centers. Using a content engine in combination with user-profile security rules, CCIL automatically filters agent content access based on customizable factors such as: job title, market focus, product specialty, contact center site, awareness level, training rating and language. With CCIL, critical documents and content can be found quickly using the integrated search capability. Furthermore, documents can be segmented using an algorithm to ensure that content is "smart" and provides an agent exactly the right information at the right time. CCIL is easily linked to CRM systems and other business channels through InStranets J2EE-based applications exchange infrastructure. www.InStranet.com

Vignette Unveils Unified Portal Suites
2/11/2003

Vignette Corp. announced the general availability of its new series of Vignette Portal Suites, part of the Vignette V7 family of products. The Vignette Portal Group Suite, Vignette Portal Business Suite and Vignette Portal Enterprise Suite offer organizations of all sizes out-of-the-box functionality designed to give them unified management of their online properties. Customers can take advantage of Vignette Portal Suites in three suite packages tailored to different needs. Each suite supports XML, J2EE, .NET and Web Services to leverage existing information and systems. Each suite is also compatible with the others, allowing organizations to expand to additional functionality in the future. Through a newly launched program, Vignette offers current customers the opportunity to be 'Up and Running' with a new Vignette Portal Group Suite implementation within 30 days. Vignette Portal Suites are now available and shipping to customers. Licensing costs for Vignette Portal Suites begin at $150,000. www.vignette.com

IXIASOFT Announces Beta Integration Kit for MS Content Management Server 2002
2/11/2003

IXIASOFT announced the public availability of the beta version for the IXIASOFT Integration Kit for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. IXIASOFT will make available the Integration Kit for TEXTML server. The integration enables Content Management Server 2002 developers and system integrators to deploy sites that take advantage of TEXTML Server's XML search technology. Combined with Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, which produces and publishes XML content natively, TEXTML Server accelerates the development of XML search capabilities. The integration kit consists of .NET Composite Controls that can be dragged and dropped from the Visual Studio .NET toolbox into a Content Management Server 2002 site being developed. These customizable controls will enable developers to provide search and sort functionalities on postings based on the content of placeholders, properties and custom properties. The Integration Kit is available for developers and system integrators from the IXIASOFT website. The IXIASOFT support team is available to offer assistance for the installation and configuration of the Kit and explain its functionality. www.ixiasoft.com

OpenLink Releases Virtual Database for SQL, XML, & Web Services
2/11/2003

OpenLink Software, Inc., a provider of universal data access and enterprise information integration middleware, announces the commercial release date of Virtuoso 3.0 -- the latest edition of its cross platform Virtual Database for SQL, XML, and Web Services. The new release enables transparent and concurrent access in real-time to heterogeneous data sources that include ODBC/JDBC/OLE DB/.NET- accessible databases, XML documents through XML, XPath, and XQuery, and data-set oriented Web Services. It also integrates transparently with runtime environments for distributed computing such as Microsoft .NET, Mono, and J2EE, enabling the creation and hosting of WSDL-compliant XML Web Services, Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, and User Defined Types that are written in Java or any .NET bound language. Virtuoso 3.0 is currently available in public beta form for the following platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and UNIX. It will be commercially available during the first week of March 2003. Virtuoso 3.0 is available for download. www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso

Equilibrium Launches MediaRich Image Server 3.0
2/11/2003

Equilibrium announced the availability of Equilibrium MediaRich Image Server 3.0. MediaRich 3.0 is server-based templating software that automates image production and enables the dynamic delivery of visual assets to the Web, wireless and print media. New features in version 3.0 include the ability to generate thumbnail previews for searching images and multi-page documents created in Microsoft Office applications such as PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Internet Explorer. MediaRich 3.0 also supports native-CMYK images to preserve the CMYK data when performing operations directly onto the image. MediaRich 3.0 supports the creation and extraction of ZIP archives, which is useful for companies that allow customers to save images directly from their site. MediaRich 3.0 has a new COM interface for administrative functions such as cache clearing and dependency checking. With added support for virtual file systems and FSNet plug-in, MediaRich 3.0 accesses image source files by defining a number of virtual file systems, which indicates the root of a file tree on a system or network. The FSNet plug-in can implement HTTP and FTP access via standard URLs by defining virtual file systems named 'http' and 'ftp'. This even has support for Microsoft's "integrated" authentication method. www.equilibrium.com

Topologi Releases Collaborative Markup Editor 1.1
2/10/2003

Topologi has released version 1.1 of their Collaborative Markup Editor. An XML/SGML markup tool aimed specifically at large document processing environments, version 1.1 delivers new features, performance enhancements and improvements to the interface. Enhancements include: HTML repair and HTML-to-XML conversion, enhanced support for remote peer to peer users, RTF style mapping and importing to XML, comprehensive tools for whitespace handling line wrapping and character encoding, bookmarks for ad-hoc navigation in large files, extensive search and replace and search, a Java class mini-browser, validator and API for better scripting, support for all modern schema languages, and support for Linux and Macintosh OS X. http://www.topologi.com/products/tme/features.html

Corel XMetaL 4 Now Available
2/10/2003

Corel Corporation announced the availability of Corel XMetaL 4. Corel XMetaL 4 is a new platform that extends XML content editing to virtually any Windows application, including email and Web browsers. The Corel XMetaL 4 platform provides customizable XML editing solutions that support dynamic validation for both DTDs and W3C Schemas. Corel XMetaL Author is a customizable XML editing environment that makes it easy to create valid and well-formed XML documents. Corel XMetaL for ActiveX is an editing interface that developers can embed into any ActiveX-compliant Windows application, including Web browsers. Corel XMetaL Developer is a centralized development environment for creating Corel XMetaL customizations and applications. Designed as plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Corel XMetaL 4 Developer also lets developers create and edit Cascading Style Sheets (CCS) and includes the Corel XMetaL Forms Toolkit. Corel XMetaL Central provides a server-based XML environment management tool that simplifies the deployment and maintenance of customized XML applications across an organization. Corel XMetaL 4 is now available through the Corel Licensing Program. Base Pricing ($US) before volume discounts is as follows: Corel XMetaL Developer Full $999, Upgrade $599; Corel XMetaL Author Full $499, Upgrade $199; and Corel XMetaL for ActiveX Full $499, Upgrade $199 (alternative concurrent pricing options also available). www.corel.com/xmetal4

Interwoven to Integrate & Resell iManage WorkSite MP
2/10/2003

Interwoven, Inc. announced an alliance with iManage to deliver a fully integrated collaborative document management solution for the enterprise. The solution, "Interwoven Collaborative Document Management Solution (CDM) powered by iManage WorkSite MP," enables enterprises across a variety of industries to facilitate collaboration on projects and teams. The solution enables non-technical individuals to set up a "virtual" project workspace for teams quickly. Capabilities include: Collaboration - Shared project folders, calendars, e-mail discussion threads, task lists, and outstanding issues tracking; Document Management - Ad-hoc and highly-regimented document management according to established security protocols; and Reporting - Complete reporting capabilities on projects, documents, and workflow status, with out-of-the-box report views. Interwoven expects the new offering to be generally available by the end of Q1 2003. The new solution will be available worldwide and will be localized to English (US and England), French, and German. The system is Unicode-based and supports documents in any language format. www.interwoven.com/solutions/cdm, www.imanage.com

IXIASOFT & Ektron Partner
2/10/2003

IXIASOFT and Ektron, Inc. announced a strategic partnership. Under this alliance, the companies will co-market and offer integration for IXIASOFT's TEXTML Server and Ektron eWebEditPro+XML. TEXTML Server is a XML content server designed for software developers who require storing, indexing, and searching capabilities for their applications. Ektron eWebEditPro+XML is a WYSIWYG, browser-based XML editing tool designed primarily for non-technical professionals. Web developers use Ektron's technology to create a smart Web form environment that is intuitive for users. These technologies bring together XML authoring, storage, and serving capabilities. End-users work in a browser-based, word processor-like environment to create XML content, without even realizing they're doing so. Content is stored in an XML database and made available for retrieval and publishing. As part of this technology partnership, IXIASOFT and Ektron will coordinate sales and marketing efforts. IXIASOFT and Ektron are both technology partners with Microsoft, offering their technologies to expand the benefits of Microsoft Content Management Server. www.ixiasoft.com, www.ektron.com

Entopia Introduces K-Bus
2/10/2003

Entopia, Inc. unveiled Entopia K-Bus, a software platform that connects the information, people and resources of an organization through a multi-faceted metadata layer that is transparent to end-users. The result is relevant information -- on demand -- that considers not only the semantic value of content and information, but also the social activity around it and its organizational context. Coupled with enterprise repositories, applications and business processes, and built on J2EE architecture, the K-Bus solution builds knowledge assets out of existing content while information continues to reside in its original repositories such as file shares, email servers, Quantum (Entopia's content management and collaboration suite), document management repositories, the intranet, the extranet and the Internet. The K-Bus enterprise knowledge infrastructure (EKI) automatically creates intelligent metadata by 1) semantically indexing content and data; 2) tracking the context, popularity and social activity surrounding this data in real-time; and 3) adding organizational and personal context. This metadata is the key to the "knowledge" available in the enterprise and. Entopia K-Bus is currently in beta testing. General availability of Entopia K-Bus will begin in May 2003. www.entopia.com

divine Updates Content Server
2/10/2003

divine, inc. announced the availability of Version 5.0 of divine Content Server. New features include: divine Content Server DocLink, which makes saving documents to and retrieving documents from Content Server as simple as working with local files in Microsoft Windows Explorer; divine Content Server Asset Filters, which automatically transform content from common document types (such as Microsoft Word or Excel) into HTML or XML when a document is saved to Content Server; divine Content Server Autoclassifier, a taxonomy and classification capability that leverages technology divine acquired from Northern Light; enhanced globalization features; and expanded support for Web services. Content Server runs on J2EE application servers such as BEA WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Oracle9i Application Server and Sun Microsystem Inc.'s Sun ONE Application Server. www.divine.com

Microsoft Renames "XDocs" to "InfoPath"; Supports CDA
2/10/2003

Microsoft Corp. InfoPath , the new Office family application formerly code-named "XDocs," now supports Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), a national XML standard for the healthcare industry. Built on XML, Microsoft InfoPath streamlines the process of gathering information through rich, dynamic forms and ensures that customers can reuse information across their organization. With InfoPath, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and HMOs can capture vital information about patients within an InfoPath form that they create, validate the information for accuracy, and save it in a CDA-compliant file, which can be read and used by other back-end systems, such as hospital information systems, document management software, portals or other organizations. A physician filling out a patient's diagnosis form could query an external knowledge base to identify the appropriate medication covered by the patient's insurance, check for potential interactions with the other medications in the patient's file, and submit the order to the patient's local drugstore for the pharmacy to fill - all from within InfoPath. www.microsoft.com/office/preview/infopath

Artesia Intgerates TEAMS with Centera
2/6/2003

Artesia Technologies, Inc. announced the integration of its TEAMS digital asset management solution with the EMC Centera solution, a content addressed storage (CAS) system designed exclusively for fixed content. The Artesia-EMC Centera integration enables users to draw upon EMC Centeras online access to fixed content in conjunction with Artesias functionality for managing and repurposing all types of digital content. The operation of this integrated system is enabled by a unique identifier, which is stored within Artesias TEAMS as part of the assets core metadata, and automatically directs users to the stored asset available within Centera. www.artesia.com, www.emc.com

Interwoven Releases MetaTagger 3.5
2/4/2003

Interwoven Inc. has released MetaTagger 3.5. MetaTagger is now a stand-alone product that can be used in conjunction with Interwoven TeamSite content management software. MetaTagger 3.5 now enables businesses to extend the benefit of metadata to any repository. Content management systems, document archives, file servers, and databases can all be processed through MetaTagger's out-of-box capabilities and API. Interwoven introduces the MetaTagger Studio as part of the MetaTagger 3.5 platform. The Studio simplifies the development of enterprise taxonomies by providing a systematic, process-driven approach for discovering, editing, testing, refining, and promoting taxonomies and thesauri. MetaTagger now supports over 150 different file formats, and can extract document properties from Microsoft Office to preserve existing metadata and process media formats such as TIFF and MP3. Customers can use industry taxonomies in finance, hi-tech manfacturing, health care and medical, government, energy and industrial, and general business. Additional vertical market vocabularies can be imported from industry sources. MetaTagger 3.5 is available immediately and supports French, German, Spanish, and Italian. www.interwoven.com/products/content_intelligence

FatWire to Integrate DocuComp Comparison Technology
2/4/2003

FatWire Software announced a technology integration partnership with Advanced Software, Inc. (ASI). FatWire will offer ASI's DocuComp feature with FatWire's UpdateEngine dCM software. Docucomp's comparison technology provides FatWire clients with new features to enhance the content management process. DocuComp, best known as the "compare documents" feature in Microsoft Word, will provide FatWire's enterprise customers the ability to simplify content review, localization and approval processes involved with authoring and publishing Web content. The DocuComp comparison engine uses sophisticated pattern matching techniques to compare any two versions of a file, reporting inserted, deleted, replaced and even moved text. www.DocuComp.com, www.fatwire.com

Software AG Introduces PowerLynX
2/4/2003

Software AG, Inc. announced the availability of PowerLynX, an interactive client communications management solution. PowerLynX enables organizations such as financial institutions and government agencies to create, customize, send and manage electronic communications with clients. PowerLynX uses XML to transform static documents into interactive communications that can be created dynamically and distributed through email, Web portals, wireless devices and any other existing channels. PowerLynX presents a consolidated view of client communications, even though the content of the communications might have been drawn from different systems throughout the organization. Organizations can track client responses, as well as determine the cost of communicating with each client through multiple channels. PowerLynX combines modifiable document templates with database content and distribution list information to create personalized interactive documents that can be sent over the Internet. PowerLynX is based upon XML and Web Services, integrates with existing security systems, and incorporates current encryption and authentication technologies. PowerLynX for Windows is available now. A UNIX-based version is planned for delivery later in 2003. www.softwareag.com

IBM Announces DB2 Information Integrator for Content
2/4/2003

IBM announced new software designed to help customers access, integrate and analyze all forms of information across and beyond the enterprise. The new integration software allows businesses to access and integrate both structured and unstructured information, as if it were stored in one place, including XML, email, multi-media, Web Services, and competitive data sources such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases. The new software offerings, the DB2 Information Integrator and DB2 Information Integrator for Content, are the first products available to customers based on IBM's Xperanto project. The DB2 Information Integrator is tailored to the SQL-based developer community and the DB2 Information Integrator for Content supports a content management programming model. While both offerings provide federated access across both structured and unstructured data, each has tailored features that support the programming model of the developer community they support. DB2 Information Integrator software provides rich XML support both for accessing and integrating XML documents as data sources and generating XML documents as a query result. The new software is also tightly integrated with IBM's WebSphere Business Integration software. The DB2 Information Integrator and DB2 Information Integrator for Content are currently available in beta for customers. www.software.ibm.com/data

MetaMatrix Announces OEM Deal with SAP
2/4/2003

MetaMatrix announced an OEM agreement with SAP AG to embed the MetaMatrix Server within SAP NetWeaver, SAP's new Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA). This alliance will enable SAP customers to integrate information from enterprise information sources, business applications, databases, and SAP solutions and to present an enterprise-wide view of real-time information. The MetaMatrix integration technology provides a single point of information access for applications, Web Services, and portals. The MetaMatrix Server enables data to remain in its original format and location, allowing organizations to use existing assets in new ways, such as exposing the data through Web Services and sharing it across the enterprise. Instead of creating a new database or data stage to support a call center, for example, the call center application can gain access through the MetaMatrix Server to an integrated view of information from many different, incompatible systems. www.MetaMatrix.com

Stellent Enhances XML Support
2/3/2003

Stellent, Inc. announced expanded XML conversion capabilities for Stellent Content Management. Using Stellent, business users contribute content in its native file format for conversion to XML, and an XSL style sheet is automatically applied based on metadata criteria. Once the new XML document is created, it is automatically validated and made available for integration with other applications or for Web presentation. Since the XSL style sheets are managed inside the Stellent Content Server, functions such as library services, workflow and security can be applied to them. Stellent also provides an XSL for automatic conversion to the DocBook format. In addition, Stellent's new validation feature verifies the XML conversion with the Document Type Definition (DTD) specified in the user-defined XSL. If a conversion fails, Stellent Content Management creates a workflow that enables users to identify the cause of the conversion error. www.stellent.com

Veridocs to Offer XMLdocs Free for Single Users
2/3/2003

Veridocs announced that it will offer XMLdocs, an XML authoring and document management system, at no cost to single subscribers. XMLdocs Beta Version is available free for a limited. XMLdocs Version 1, slated for release in March 2003, will be available on a hosted basis. Using XMLdocs, organizations can create XML document templates for everything from press releases and product descriptions to knowledge-based articles and help documents. Using these templates, non-technical users write XML documents using the XMLdocs Editor's intuitive, word-processor-like interface. Documents can then be exported for publication on a Web site or elsewhere through a simple Web Service. www.xmldocs.com