http://www.gilbane.com/ Content Management and XML news, analysis, white papers, and conferences en-us Copyright 1993-2006 Bluebill Advisors Inc. webmaster@gilbane.com editor@gilbane.com http://www.gilbane.com/rss/gilbane_logo_rss.jpg http://www.gilbane.com 140 89 Gilbane Report logo Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:46:00 GMT Fri, 30 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Ektron announced it will add RSS syndication as a new addition to Ektron CMS300 and CMS200. With Ektron's RSS capabilities, organizations can syndicate content from a CMS200- or CMS300-empowered Web site to any RSS-aware Web site, program or content aggregator. The site owner simply gives individuals the opportunity to opt in to their RSS feed. Individuals are alerted when new content is posted. Within Ektron CMS200 or 300, the site owner identifies the specific content to be syndicated. The system dynamically creates RSS documents as end-users publish specified content. www.ektron.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2607 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2607 Wed, 28 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Inxight Software, Inc. announced the general availability of adaptors to multiple enterprise information management systems, including Documentum, Lotus Notes, Microsoft SQL Server and Plumtree. These adaptors enable Inxight SmartDiscovery customers to access data stored in these disparate systems for processing and delivery through SmartDiscovery. SmartDiscovery Enterprise Adaptors offer Inxight customers a means of integrating content inside existing information management systems into a single point-of-access solution. SmartDiscovery Enterprise Adaptors allow users to schedule updates and retrieve documents and emails from these systems. This information is then analyzed and relevant metadata is extracted to enable search, classification, entity extraction, summarization and visualization of the data. The resulting metadata can be populated back into the original system for display in existing portals or other interfaces, or can be stored in a dedicated repository and accessed by Inxight's user environment. SmartDiscovery includes Web and file crawlers that enable users to access information stored on hard drives, internal networks, and Web sites. www.inxight.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2605 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2605 Wed, 28 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Ask Jeeves, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement under which Kanisa, Inc. will acquire Jeeves Solutions, the enterprise software division of Ask Jeeves. Jeeves Solutions' search technology and analytics will enable Kanisa to offer a larger, more robust suite of customer service solutions. With the sale, Ask Jeeves will focus solely on its growing Web-wide search business. Under the terms of the agreement, Kanisa will acquire substantially all assets of Jeeves Solutions including the JeevesOne technology and its approximately 40 corporate customer accounts. Kanisa will pay a purchase price of $4.25 million, of which $3.5 million will be paid in cash on closing and the remaining in a one-year promissory note for $750,000, which is subject to certain conditions. The sale is expected to close in July 2003. www.AskJeevesInc.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2606 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2606 Tue, 27 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT The Apache Lenya development community announced the first stable release of Apache Lenya. Apache Lenya is a Java Open-Source Content Management System based on XML and XSLT and the Apache Software Stack. Its XML-centric architecture allows for content delivery targeted to the capabilities of the devices of today and tomorrow, and avoids data lock-in. Apache Lenya is built around off-the-shelf components from the Apache Software Foundation, which are familiar to thousands of technologists, and are documented extensively in dozens of books. Apache Lenya comes with Revision Control, Scheduling, a built-in Search Engine, seperate Staging Areas, and Workflow. Apache Lenya uses XML throughout. Features include a browser-based WYSIWYG Editors that validate input against a W3C XML Schema, and a publication concept that allows reuse of the information architecture of a site and brings modularity to the content level. This release of Apache Lenya is a refactored version of the codebase that has been in production for nearly three years. Wyona Ltd donated the Apache Lenya codebase (formerly known as Wyona CMS) to the Apache Software Foundation in March 2003. http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2596 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2596 Tue, 27 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT PixelMEDIA, Inc. announced it has signed a partnership with Refresh Software Corporation to sell, integrate, and support Refresh Software's SiteRefresh Content Management software. Customers can now purchase either the Hosted Service or a self-hosted SiteRefresh server license, along with turnkey integration and training services, directly from PixelMEDIA. Refresh Software's SiteRefresh provides essential content management features such as browser-based WYSIWYG web content authoring, integrated workflow, content versioning and rollback, and template-based publishing from a secure enterprise-class relational database. www.pixelmedia.com, www.refreshsoftware.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2600 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2600 Tue, 27 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Adobe Systems announced the immediate availability of the Adobe Acrobat 6.0 product line. Adobe also announced the immediate availability of Adobe Reader 6.0 software, an upgraded and re-named version of the widely distributed, free Acrobat Reader. Acrobat 6.0 Professional and Acrobat 6.0 Standard for Windows 98 Second Edition (Acrobat 6.0 Standard only), Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (with service pack 6), Windows 2000 Professional (with service pack 2), Windows XP Home, Professional and Tablet PC Editions, and Mac OS X v10.2.2, are immediately available in English. French and German language versions are expected to ship the first week of June and Japanese language versions are expected to ship in early July. Acrobat 6.0 Professional has an estimated street price of US$449. Registered users of Acrobat 4.0 and Acrobat 5.0 can upgrade to Acrobat 6.0 Professional for an estimated street price of US$149. Acrobat 6.0 Standard has an estimated street price of US$299. Registered users of Acrobat 4.0 and Acrobat 5.0 can upgrade to Acrobat 6.0 Standard for an estimated street price of US$99. The products also are available through Adobe's licensing programs. Acrobat Elements is immediately available for Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (with service pack 6), Windows 2000 Professional (with service pack 2), and Windows XP Home, Professional and Tablet PC Editions. The product, available exclusively through Adobe's licensing programs, begins at US$28 per seat for a 1,000 seat license. www.adobe.com/products/acrobat http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2601 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2601 Tue, 27 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Software AG, Inc. unveiled its XML Enablement capability for federal government agencies, a group of services, products and best practices that uses XML and Web Services to build "views" of information from disparate enterprise sources. These views are placed as XML documents into an Enterprise Metadata Repository (EMR) where users can request views using HTTP. Users can then retrieve the information itself from various sources as HTML or XML documents for secure publishing to internal and external systems. Software AG's XML Enablement capability supports four core processes that help agencies manage information better: Enterprise Metadata Repository, Data Services, Composition and Publishing. At the core of Software AG's XML Enablement capability is the EMR, which includes a cross-platform data dictionary and enables users to store, query and annotate information from disparate systems. Compliant with both Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) and UDDI, the EMR uses commercial off-the-shelf authoring and developing tools and supports enterprise capabilities such as versioning, check-in/check-out and impact analysis. The EMR allows users to define processes for creating new documents, and then composes the documents automatically in XML or HTML by drawing data and content from various sources. Completed documents are stored in WebDAV compliant folders. www.softwareagusa.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2602 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2602 Mon, 26 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Northern Light has emerged from the Divine bankruptcy. C. David Seuss, former CEO of Northern Light, purchased the company in Divine's 26-hour marathon bankruptcy auction held three weeks ago. After the acquisition, Seuss contacted the corporate customers for Northern Light's SinglePoint Market Research Portal that had not fled during the Divine era and assured them that their customer support would soon return. Seuss also plans to market the never before released Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine, a 64-bit enterprise search solution, featuring Northern Light's taxonomy and classification capability that uses Northern Light's clustering technology. It is unclear what the plabs are for the Northern Light Web search engine. www.northernlight.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2603 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2603 Mon, 26 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Fair Isaac Corporation and Software AG, Inc. announced a marketing partnership in the area of XML data integration and processing. The new partnership allows customers to use EntireX XML Mediator and Tamino XML Server from Software AG to send non-XML data from various sources to the ACORD SPX-compliant policy application and claims processing supported by Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor and XML Manager For Insurance. EntireX XML Mediator lets companies convert a wide range of data formats to XML and route XML data and message streams between applications and systems. It manages requests for XML data streams, converts legacy data into standardized XML formats, and sends notifications to sending and receiving parties to track the progress and success of data transfer operations. Tamino XML Server adds the native XML storage of critical transaction information and XML components necessary for advanced queries, processing, and exception reporting. www.fairisaac.com, www.softeareagusa.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2604 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2604 Thu, 22 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT SecureNet Asia Limited announced a reseller agreement with Authentica Inc. to distribute Authentica's complete range of content security solutions in China, Hong Kong, and Macau. www.authentica.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2599 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2599 Wed, 21 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Cintra Corporation UK announced MASmedia V.3, the latest release of Cintra's Smart Enterprise Suite comprising web-enabled modules that deliver Digital Asset Management, Document Management, Enterprise Content Management and Workflow in one integrated solution. Cintra is primarily targeting MASmedia at medium to large enterprise marketing departments and marketing agencies. Typically, these will be companies with large branch, dealer, distributor or partner networks such as those found in the automotive, retail, manufacturing and financial services industries. Serving as a digital media hub, MASmedia enhances collaborative working by providing integration with partners and suppliers. MASmedia provides an environment where authorised users in agencies and remote offices can access marketing assets without jeopardising sensitive corporate data. Through a branded web interface, users can communicate with other (Internal or External) team members in a "virtual workspace" that enables them to speed the deployment of marketing campaigns and product launches, while safeguarding brand authenticity. MASmedia is available now under licence or as a managed Application Server Provider (ASP) through Cintra. www.cintra.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2597 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2597 Wed, 21 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT WindFire Technology announced it has entered into an agreement with EMC Corporation to integrate the companys Xtorm enterprise information management (EIM) suite with the EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) solution. EMC Centera is designed to address the information storage requirements of any structured or unstructured data. WindFires Xtorm EIM suite comprises enterprise content management, business process management and virtual repository management applications. Developed on a J2EE, XML and Unicode foundation, the integrated suite is designed to be embedded into existing business applications. WindFire is now shipping its integration adapter for the EMC Centera CAS solution, which provides a direct and bi-directional communication layer with Xtorm. www.windfiretechnology.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2598 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2598 Tue, 20 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Web4, a division of netGuru, Inc. announced an exclusive distributor agreement with Fuji Xerox Singapore (FXS). Web4 will integrate eReview, Web4's 2D and 3D collaborative viewer, with FXS' knowledge-sharing product, DocuShare. FXS will retain the exclusive rights to sell eReview in Singapore with FXS' document management suite of products in all vertical markets excluding the oil and gas industries. By integrating eReview's real-time visualization, markup, conferencing and collaboration technology, FXS will be adding interactive, real-time, native viewing of structured and unstructured data found in document types like 2D and 3D Computer Aided Design, Microsoft Office documents, raster images and Electronic Design Automation. With the help of eReview, FXS users familiar with automating and controlling their workflow processes with FXS' suite of content management products like DocuShare will now have the added ability to collaborate at any point in a document's life cycle. eReview meetings can also be saved, replayed and archived into DocuShare's work environment. FXS has also incorporated eReview in its "Knowledge Window," an integrated digital meeting space comprising Web4's eReview, 3M's Digital WallDisplay and FXS' suite of document management and knowledge management software and hardware. www.fujixerox.com.sg, www.netguru.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2592 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2592 Tue, 20 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Site Executive announced that it has partnered with Greystone.Net to provide comprehensive health information for healthcare organizations who use its CMS. Greystone.Net was established in 1996 to provide Internet and World Wide Web solutions and services for healthcare organizations. Pricing for Site Executive starts at $25,000. http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2593 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2593 Tue, 20 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT OASIS announced its members have approved the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration specification (UDDI) version 2.0 as an OASIS Open Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. UDDI enables companies and applications to dynamically publish, locate, and use Web services. Members of the OASIS UDDI Specification Technical Committee include Computer Associates, Fujitsu, IBM, IONA, Microsoft, Novell, OpenNetwork, Oracle, SAP, SeeBeyond, Sun Microsystems, Tata Consultancy Services, and others. The portfolio of OASIS Open Standards and specifications for Web services includes UDDI as well as the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL), the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Web Services Reliable Messaging (WSRM), WS-Security, Web Services Distribued Management (WSDM), ebXML, Universal Business Language (UBL), and others. www.oasis-open.org http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2594 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2594 Tue, 20 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Canto announced the availability of Cumulus Internet Client Pro. Internet Client Pro, part of the Cumulus Enterprise Edition, is based on Cumulus Java Classes and JSP technology and is especially designed for users who do not merely publish their assets but also intend to use them for marketing and generating business. Internet Client Pro enables users to create dynamic Web pages allowing visitors to search for images and documents within Cumulus catalogs using a standard Web browser, and then they can sort, select and finally download the items. Visitors can also catalog new assets, assign assets to new categories, edit and update stored metadata or check assets in and out for local processing. Internet Client Pro is flexible and customizable using high-end HTML editors. Integration with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX is fully supported, and integrations into existing workflows is straightforward. Internet Client Pro is immediately available with English, German, Japanese and French user interfaces on Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris and Linux platforms. Internet Client Pro is only available for the Cumulus Enterprise Edition. www.canto.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2595 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2595 Mon, 19 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Stellent, Inc. announced Stellent Site Studio, a new Web content management application offered as part of its Stellent Content Management suite of products. Stellent Site Studio helps companies build tens to hundreds of Web sites, enabling them to deploy these sites and maintain consistent branding, security and infrastructure across all sites being developed by their various business units. With Stellent Site Studio, companies can create libraries of Web site components, such as templates, navigation, graphics and code, which are then available to their business units when building their own sites. The reusable components allow business units to rapidly deploy their unique Web sites while complying with corporate requirements. Site Studio users also can create components using other programs, such as designing layouts in Dreamweaver, and import them into the Site Studio library for possible use by the business units. Site Studio will begin shipping June 15, 2003 and will be included with the Stellent Web Content Manager solution, which is sold as an option to Stellent Content Server. Stellent Web Content Manager is priced from $25,000 to $100,000 USD, based on the number of contributors. www.stellent.com/products http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2586 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2586 Mon, 19 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Mercado Software Inc. announced it has released its Enterprise Search & Navigation (ESN) solution. Designed from the ground up for a web services enterprise architecture, ESN provides a solution for locating information scattered across multiple information repositories and stored in disparate data formats. ESN provides a single point of information access for users to explore all organizational information, whether it is structured, semi-structured, or unstructured content. ESN utilizes linguistic tools and hierarchical indexing that uses structure in addition to text to optimize relevancy ranking for all content types. ESN's modular architecture is adaptive to existing systems and new data sources and is customizable. Its XML and SOAP architecture simplifies integration and maintenance. The solution is scalable to any data volume and user load, and features a quick update capability that helps keep search indices fresh. www.mercado.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2587 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2587 Mon, 19 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT FileNet Corporation and Venetica announced a relationship under which FileNet will re-sell Venetica's Content Provider for the FileNet P8 Workplace, FileNet's user interface for its FileNet P8 ECM architecture. The Content Provider for FileNet P8 Workplace leverages Venetica's product VeniceBridge, and enables FileNet customers to access existing enterprise content through FileNet's common API and user interface. FileNet's VCM solution enables users to browse and search external content sources, and includes support for existing FileNet repositories, third party content management systems and custom content sources. Users can copy selected content into the FileNet P8 Content Manager or create real-time links to content residing in external repositories. www.venetica.com, www.filenet.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2588 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2588 Mon, 19 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT UCCnet, the not-for-profit organization that provides item registry and data synchronization services based on industry-developed standards, and Trigo Technologies, Inc. announced that Trigo Product Center 4 has been certified for UCCnet Foundation Services 2.1. By earning UCCnet certification in Supply Side, Demand Side (Buy) as well as Universal testing, Trigo Product Center delivers a certified solution that captures, manages, and synchronizes comprehensive product information for manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Trigo will participate in the UCCnet Foundation Services 2.2 beta program. Trigo's participation in this program will ensure that Trigo Product Center continues to provide full support for current and future UCCnet and GCI (Global Commerce Initiative) standards. Trigo Product Center 4 exceeds current GCI standards for EAN.UCC data synchronization, enabling trading partners to manage and synchronize the broadest range of product information. www.uccnet.org, www.trigo.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2589 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2589 Mon, 19 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT WebSideStory, Inc. Atomz announced an exclusive alliance to provide businesses with a solution for Web site search, content management and Web analytics. Under the agreement, the companies will integrate their products and services and work on a number of joint marketing projects. HitBox greatly extends Atomz Search's reporting capabilities to include campaign ROI tracking, up-to-the-second merchandising reports, funnel analysis, visitor segmentation and more. Atomz will also integrate HitBox intelligence into its Atomz Publish content management system, allowing companies to get detailed, real-time insight into online visitor behavior. Using HitBox reports, companies can see which content visitors prefer, which navigational paths they take, which marketing campaigns they respond to, and more. www.atomz.com, www.websidestory.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2590 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2590 Mon, 19 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Autonomy Corporation plc announced an OEM relationship with Novell. Autonomy's technology will be embedded in Novell exteNd Director, an interaction and portal server that enables IT organizations to deliver and maintain rich, personalized Web applications. Autonomy enhances Novell exteNd Director with its ability to analyze and rank concepts within unstructured information within its content management system. With the addition of Autonomy's technology in Novell exteNd Director, documents and Web pages in the content management systems can be categorized, linked and delivered wherever it is needed to provide customers, partners and employees with the relevant and up-to-date information they need to be successful. www.autonomy.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2591 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2591 Fri, 16 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT North Plains Systems Corp. announced the release of TeleScope Enterprise 7.0. TeleScope Enterprise 7.0 is designed to enable organizations to increase their ROI by expanding its use throughout the enterprise. Two major functional tools have been added to TeleScope Enterprise 7.0. The Lookup Broker option enables on-demand lookup of metadata from other data sources, such as pulling in the ISBN number based on just the book title or finding a list of episodes from the name of a particular television program. A new administrative capability has been built in to create an extensible scripting language of administrator-defined rules within the application, which simplifies "asset level" permissions within the TeleScope system. Digital Rights Management and Workflow Automation are other capabilities that are now easily configured using this new tool. www.northplains.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2585 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2585 Tue, 13 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT BroadVision, Inc. announced a significant upgrade to the BroadVision 7 suite of enterprise portal applications, which includes BroadVision One-To-One Portal, BroadVision One-To-One Commerce and BroadVision One-To-One Content. BroadVision One-To-One Commerce is a multi-channel sales portal that automates the sales process. Key features of the 7.1 release include agent-assisted service to augment BroadVision's self-service functionality, support for self-service returns and enhanced support for globalization. BroadVision One-To-One Portal is an application for deploying personalized business-to-employee, business-to-business and business-to-consumer portals. Key features of the 7.1 release include streamlined integration of external user management and content management systems and simplified management of community collaboration-focused microsites. BroadVision One-To-One Content allows organizations to manage all types of content throughout its lifecycle from creation and management through deployment and distribution. Key features of the 7.1 release include integration to other BroadVision applications, enhanced support for internationalization, and performance gains that accelerate workflow. www.broadvision.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2579 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2579 Tue, 13 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT FatWire Software announced it will acquire divine's Content Management business. As part of the divine bankruptcy auction, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Boston has approved the sale of divine's content management assets to Saratoga Partners, a New York private equity firm, who will simultaneously transfer these assets to FatWire. The sale is expected to close in the next few days. divine's content management business includes divine's Content Server, formerly OpenMarket, divine's Participant Server, formerly Eprise, and its over 300 worldwide customers. divine Content Server provides an extensible framework for growth. Customers leverage Content Server's J2EE architecture to build their own content-driven applications. divine Participant Server manages and simplifies the flow of content to Web sites by enabling business users to add, modify, manage, and publish content without the assistance of IT staff. www.fatwire.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2580 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2580 Tue, 13 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Corel Corporation and LightSpeed Software announced a strategic partnership to deliver a comprehensive content management solution for authoring, managing and publishing technical documentation. The companies have built an integration between Corel XMetaL, Corel's XML editing tool, and LightSpeed Astoria, LightSpeed Software's content management system, providing customers with a single solution. This offering is available now. The Corel/LightSpeed Software solution offers content experts a way to create reusable XML content at an element level breaking documents into small managed elements or 'chunks' that can be shared, updated, located and delivered to multiple channels. By enabling anyone within an organization to create XML content, the costly and repetitive process of converting content from proprietary document formats into XML is eliminated. The solution supports the newly-released Corel XMetaL 4, giving authors the power to create XML content within any ActiveX-compliant application, including email and Web browsers. www.LSpeed.com, www.corel.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2581 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2581 Tue, 13 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Convera announced the commercial availability of RetrievalWare 8, a new knowledge discovery platform that helps large organizations automate their knowledge management and discovery processes using an infrastructure that can be optimized for specific industry and government applications. RetrievalWare 8 integrates Convera's enterprise search with industry-specific taxonomies and new categorization and dynamic classification software, delivering techniques for searching, navigating and discovering knowledge, including hidden relationships, patterns and trends. With RetrievalWare 8, customers have a single integrated platform that categorizes and organizes all content including unstructured text, image, video and paper assets, in addition to a variety of structured data sources. Using Convera's dynamic classification software, end users can launch a search and automatically classify the results based on pre-defined or dynamically generated classifications made possible through the combination of multiple taxonomies. Convera has also certified ten partners as part of its new Taxonomy Developer Certification Program, including Access Innovations, Advanced Technology Systems (ATS), Bleuphish, Creative Technology Inc., IBM, KAPS Group LLC, Mitre, MZM Inc., SRA International Inc., and Veridian. www.convera.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2584 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2584 Mon, 12 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Mobius Management Systems, Inc. announced the availability of ViewDirect Total Content Integrator, a new product that provides access through a single interface to content stored in disparate repositories. ViewDirect Total Content Integrator enables cross-repository, cross-platform searching and retrieval of content in any format stored in silos from vendors such as FileNet and IBM as well as homegrown systems. ViewDirect Total Content Integrator is a component of the ViewDirect TCM suite of total content management solutions, including Web site, digital asset and document management; workflow and imaging; Internet presentment and payment; records management; and enterprise report distribution. ViewDirect Total Content Integrator uses SOAP over HTTP/SSL to access remote repositories and APIs across firewalls. It is interoperable with Sun ONE and Microsoft.Net. The product features out-of-the-box connectors that understand the structure of the content source, an intelligent dictionary mapping service that resolves the relationship between data in disparate repositories, and Web services for distributed searching, user profiling, content retrieval and automatic content presentment. ViewDirect Total Content Integrator is scheduled for managed release in July 2003. www.mobius.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2573 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2573 Mon, 12 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Plumtree Software announced the general availability of the Plumtree Portlet Framework for PeopleSoft, which allows portal managers to create portlets for displaying, searching and updating data from any PeopleSoft 8 system. The Framework can integrate virtually any PeopleSoft service into the Plumtree Corporate Portal without coding. Customers can create applications within a Plumtree portal based on services from PeopleSoft as well as services from other systems, including the search, content management and collaboration capabilities offered as part of the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite. The Portlet Framework for PeopleSoft provides a graphical environment for creating new Plumtree portlets against any standard or custom PeopleSoft Component Interface (CI). Plumtree also offers frameworks for building portlets for SAP R/3 and Siebel. These portlets can be embedded within portal applications that combine resources from many existing systems, as well as new services for collaboration, content management and search that systems such as PeopleSoft may lack. www.plumtree.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2574 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2574 Mon, 12 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Ipedo introduced the latest version of its XML Information Hub, incorporating several new product enhancements to facilitate the growing use of XML in Web and Web Services applications. The Ipedo XML Information Hub 3.3 now features integrated content conversion, rules-based auto-organization, a universal XQuery engine and enhanced XML Views for Web Services. The Ipedo XML Information Hub - with its Integration Manager, XML Database and Web Express modules - combines integration with information management capabilities to make information available on demand, enabling organizations to unify their data and content sources and combine them for use in multiple applications. For example, pharmaceutical companies can speed drug research by aggregating and mining genomic and clinical data from multiple online sources; financial institutions can combine data from multiple back-end sources into new compliance documents for regulatory review; and manufacturers can combine relevant pieces from product documentation for presentation in customer and partner portals. www.ipedo.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2575 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2575 Mon, 12 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Interwoven Inc. introduced a solution that helps organizations eliminate excess and underutilized servers, allowing CIOs and IT managers to reduce the costs of managing and maintaining a complex IT environment. The Interwoven Server Consolidation solution combines Interwoven technology - Interwoven OpenDeploy Server Consolidation Edition for distribution management bundled with an Interwoven content server for snapshotting, change management, and versioning functionality - in addition to consulting expertise. The Interwoven solution serves as a traffic control hub and is capable of consolidating thousands of business initiatives driven by different business organizations or departments while simultaneously supporting their particular requirements such as deployment schedules, security, and maintenance demand procedures. The Interwoven Server Consolidation Solution is available today, and includes Interwoven client services experts who can provide an initial five-day assessment of redundant or underutilized Web, application and file servers. These assessment services are also available through Interwoven partners IBM Global Services and Accenture. www.interwoven.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2576 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2576 Mon, 12 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity K2 Developer (K2D) release 5.0. The new version of its platform is for ISV's that need to add discovery, organization and personalization capabilities to e-business applications such as content management, CRM, supply chain management, portal infrastructure, online commerce, and other enterprise-level programs. An important part of this latest release of Verity's OEM technology is the Verity Organization Developer's Kit (ODK), a set of APIs that can be integrated into enterprise applications whose performance and value will benefit from content organization and recommendation capabilities. This release of K2D also includes enhanced capabilities of Verity's Recommendation Engine, including recommendation of queries, category recommendations, federated recommendations, Open Navigation and Dynamic Taxonomies. Interfaces are now available to allow the editing of any entity, which enable ISVs complete control over the information managed within the Recommendation Engine. www.verity.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2577 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2577 Mon, 12 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Autonomy Corporation plc announced an agreement with CNSI, an IT innovations provider to government agencies and businesses worldwide, to provide enterprises with effective and intelligent information management and delivery systems. www.autonomy.com, www.cns-inc.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2578 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2578 Mon, 12 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Open Text Corporation said it is introducing new Livelink features that will provide end-to-end support for Adobe's solutions for integrating documents across business processes and throughout the lifecycle of critical documents. The new offerings integrate Livelink, Acrobat 6.0, and Adobe PDF technology, to support the collaborative management of PDF documents in Livelink. The integration provides a process for managing multiple, parallel reviews of an Adobe PDF document, allowing users to concurrently review an un-modifiable PDF version of a document and record their comments and suggested changes in Livelink. All commenting actions are recorded in the Livelink audit trail. The input from reviewers can then be assessed and consolidated by editors, who are the only ones with access to the original, which is securely protected in Livelink. The integration also provides controls to guard against the misuse of documents. Open Texts Adobe PDF solutions are integrated with Livelinks task management, notification, audit and report features, as well as Livelinks workflows. www.opentext.com, www.adobe.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2582 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2582 Mon, 12 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT iUpload is expanding its offering to include a suite of e-Business tools that help organizations optimize the marketing potential of their web presence. The iUpload Application Suite adds to content management, other functions necessary to run a successful e-Business web site: a permission-based, e-mail marketing module, a site search and indexing function, an online survey manager, and an interactive chat and discussions forums manager. The announcement is the first result of technology integration following the companys acquisition of WebPartz in March, 2003. Organizations will use the iUpload Application Suite to elevate brochure-ware web sites into interactive e-Business sites by activating any of the iUpload Application Suite modules. Because the iUpload Application Suite is net-native, subscribers are able to activate modules without having to install hardware or separate software applications. Customers can use modules that form the iUpload Application Suite individually or in combination. All modules in the iUpload Suite are currently available. Access to these new modules is via subscription starting at a rate of $85 per month per module. www.iupload.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2583 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2583 Tue, 06 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) announced it has released Net-It Central 6.0, the latest version of its Web-publishing automation software. Net-It Central 6.0 includes document markup and annotation, CAD drawing publish and view support, and gains in publishing speed and fidelity -- all of which are based on the company's Brava! 4.0 view and markup technology. With Net-It Central, multiple authors can contribute files created in Windows-based office applications directly to an intranet or extranet just by saving the document file. Net-It Central publishes a rendition of the original file, giving administrators control over what documents can be read, annotated, printed, or downloaded. The rendition is automatically published, transferred and indexed onto the Net-It Central site server, and made available for search and retrieval. Net-It Central's flexible functionality can create stand-alone document libraries online, augment existing intranets/extranets, and serve as a Web publishing engine that can be used to extend existing document/content management systems, such as Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. www.infograph.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2571 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2571 Tue, 06 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT i4i announced the release of x4o. x4o is a major upgrade to i4i's S4/TEXT - XML in Word product. x4o is a complete XML content authoring solution for Microsoft Word. It includes two modules: x4o Designer- an XML template design tool that allows the user to develop their own DTDs, formatting templates and template text in the familiar Microsoft Word interface, and x4o Author- XML authoring in Word with an optional WebDAV connector. x4o is available now for Word 97, Word 2000, and Word XP. x4o runs on Windows 98, NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. x4o is multi-lingual. There are user and developer version available. www.i4i.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2617 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2617 Mon, 05 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT The Stibo Group announced its name change to Stibo Catalog, Inc. According to a company spokesperson, the name change better reflects the company's narrowed focus on cross-media publishing and content management software and solutions. The company also recently announced the general release of STEP 4.6, the latest evolution of its product information management, content management, and production software. STEP 4.6 delivers a collaborative software platform to receive rich and complex electronic data from suppliers in a variety of file formats and store it in a media-neutral relational data repository. The data can be organized, accessed simultaneously by multiple workgroups, then incorporated into multiple output formats such print catalogs, CD-ROM, web catalogs, portals, exchanges, or other printed media. www.stibocatalog.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2565 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2565 Mon, 05 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT XAware, Inc. announced XA-Suite Release 3.0 for Java with Enterprise Information Integration (EII) capabilities. Release 3.0 is now available and includes advanced features for data transformation, information security and simplified access to enterprise applications such as Siebel and SAP. XA-Suite Release 3.0 includes new features for streaming large XML documents, XML to XML mapping to simplify schema transformation, functoids for flexible data manipulation and business rules, and increased support for stored procedures with relational databases. Other features are included. XA-Suite for Java Release 3.0 is priced from $5,000 to $50,000 depending on processor and connectivity requirements. Release 3.0 is available for evaluation at www.xaware.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2566 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2566 Mon, 05 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Context Media, Inc. announced the integration of its Interchange Suite enterprise content integration software with Adobe Graphics Server 2.0. Adobe Graphics Server, which automates the creation and repurposing of graphics for print and the Web, is integrated directly with Interchange Suite's Web services-based Integration Console. The integration of the two solutions will help customers reduce the time and costs of finding, creating, storing and accessing enterprise content and digital images. Context Media also announced its support for Adobe XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform). Adobe's XML-based XMP framework provides a standard for the creation, processing and exchange of metadata across publishing workflows. In addition to Adobe's XMP framework, Context Media's XML-based products are compliant with SOAP 1.2. www.contextmedia.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2567 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2567 Mon, 05 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT WebWare Corporation announced an agreement with systems integrator Ascertane to join the WebWare family of systems integrators for the WebWare ActiveMedia digital asset management software product line. Ascertane combines its industry experience and software development expertise with tools like WebWare's ActiveMedia to deliver customized enterprise solutions for media and entertainment, retail, and life sciences companies. Ascertane and WebWare will partner in deploying WebWare's ActiveMedia enterprise digital asset management solutions, including WebWare's award-winning ActiveMedia Enterprise. www.ascertane.com, www.webwarecorp.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2568 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2568 Mon, 05 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Documentum announced that it has joined forces with BearingPoint, Inc. to offer the Corporate Governance and Compliance solution to help organizations meet impending deadlines for compliance with the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Through a combination of Documentum's enterprise content management and collaboration technology and BearingPoint's financial services and content management experience and methodologies, the solution can assist corporations in planning, assessing and implementing procedures needed to meet the mandatory requirements for internal controls and certification of financial statements. The solution is immediately available through Documentum and BearingPoint. Designed for public companies striving to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, the jointly developed Documentum/BearingPoint Corporate Governance and Compliance solution includes processes, controls and technology components that can be implemented independently, or as an integrated solution with new and existing technology. www.documentum.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2569 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2569 Mon, 05 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Arbortext, Inc. announced Arbortext 5. Featuring three major new products and many enhancements, Arbortext 5 is designed to help medium and large enterprises eliminate the substantial costs and pain associated with the implementation of content systems to create and share information. This new version provides the business user with direct access to XML content across the enterprise, which protects document integrity and enables them to quickly and easily create applications for publishing dynamic content to multiple types of media. Additionally, Arbortext 5 augments the XML editing capabilities of the Enterprise and Professional versions of Microsoft Office 2003. Contributor, Styler and DCA Manager are the three new products that will be available with Arbortext 5. The Arbortext 5 product suite will be available Winter, 2003. www.arbortext.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2570 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2570 Mon, 05 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Xenos announced that it has developed XML2PDF Merge. It provides automated online merging of XML formatted data into PDF documents for Internet distribution, viewing and printing. Insurance and financial services companies require fast, simple, on-line solutions for their agents and customers to access and complete forms in real-time for policy and account applications, quotes, requests for information or trade confirmations. Xenos XML2PDF Merge provides an answer to these requirements. XML2PDF Merge implements ACORD forms standards. In a typical insurance application process, a customer meets with an insurance agent to purchase a new policy. The agent, connected to the insurance company's network, fills out an application for the customer by entering all the required data on a Web form. This data is captured in XML format by the insurance company, processed and approved. Xenos XML2PDF Merge software fills in the fields on the PDF form with the appropriate XML data. The PDF document is then immediately returned to the agent over the Internet. www.xenos.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2572 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2572 Fri, 02 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT SDL plc announced its acquisition of the Lomac organization one a provider of translation and localization services to the Central and East European (CEE) market. Lomac operates in six countries within the region, providing translation and electronic publishing of technical documentation, software and web-content. The investment will enhance SDL's local language office infrastructure within the CEE region and increase the companys capacity to support a larger proportion of this market. www.sdlintl.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2563 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2563 Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT Conchango and Tridion are partnering to provide companies with a comprehensive solution to manage 'content' in order to drive multi-channel commerce. Tridion's contributes its enterprise content management software (Tridion R5), which helps businesses control information from- and across multiple channels, and retail technology specialist, Conchango brings its experience of exploiting the potential of this information and marrying it with a commerce engine. The two companies will work together to help businesses manage and re-use content across various customer channels. www.tridion.com/uk, www.conchango.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2564 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/5/content_management_news.html#2564