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, 20 Nov 2008 15:57:34 GMT Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Emagine released version 3.1 of its Site & Content Management suite emagiC - now available in different languages to target the needs of specific markets. Emagine has also moved into several new markets during the first half of 2003 and is now represented through partners and distributors in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, South Africa and the USA. Emagine is currently negotiating with partners in other countries. Emagine has developed a unique view on multi-lingual software. With most software, the language is determined at install time. Within emagiC, this is done at run-time and per user. Currently, emagiC is available in English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. More languages will be added in the near future. With the built-in translation tools, anybody can create a new language version in case it is not yet available from Emagine. emagiC v3.1 also incorporates improved support for different character sets, including Unicode. www.emagiC-CMS.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2706 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2706 Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Soholaunch.com, Inc. announced the release of a client editable, single Web page publishing tool targeted to hosting companies offering domain name registration. This new Soholaunch technology allows hosting companies to offer domain name registrant clients control to actually edit the content on that single page. The client editable, single page system is designed to engage a hosting company's client from their very first purchase. When installed on the hosting companies servers this system is tied to the billing system and makes these pages available automatically. Soholaunch is a stand-alone, thin-client application that creates and manages database-driven Web sites through an "drag-and-drop" browser interface. Once installed on a Web server and directed to a database, the Soholaunch editing software is accessed and operated entirely over the Internet. The program, which supports name-based or IP environments, is written in PHP, utilizes a mySQL database, and is compatible with both Linux and Microsoft NT. www.soholaunch.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2703 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2703 Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Actuate Corporation announced that it has completed the acquisition of Nimble Technology. Nimble Technology provides Enterprise Information Integration (EII) solutions. Its data integration platform utilizes XQuery to simplify the task of data integration when building web services and applications such as enterprise information portals and business intelligence systems. By incorporating Nimble's open, XML-based data integration technology into the platform, Actuate's customers will find it easier to design Information Applications that provide an integrated view of their business. The incorporation of Nimble's capabilities will also enable the Information Application Platform to integrate readily with a broad range of XML-enabled systems. www.actuate.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2704 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2704 Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Documentum and Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that the two companies increased the level of commitment in their respective alliance programs. Key products of the Documentum 5 ECM platform have been certified to the Sun ONE Application Server, and the two companies have agreed to extend availability of Documentum Portlets for the Sun ONE Portal Server. The Sun ONE-certified products of the Documentum 5 ECM platform include Webtop and the components provided by the Documentum Web Development Kit (WDK). Webtop is an interface that allows users to access the Documentum repository and content management services from a standard browser. The Web Development Kit is a framework for rapid development of content-rich web applications. WDK is a developer's toolkit that contains a library of more than 170 reusable, pre-built components and controls that perform common Documentum content management functions. Documentum has certified all of these components and controls on the Sun ONE Application Server with a certification schedule for other Documentum products, including Documentum Administrator, Web Publisher and Digital Asset Manager forthcoming. www.sun.com/sunone, www.documentum.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2705 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2705 Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Merant announced its status as a premier partner in Microsoft's enhanced Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program. By integrating its enterprise change management product line with Visual Studio .NET 2003, Merant enables developers to leverage the common user interface to automate and control development processes and asset change practices. The program is designed to help vendors more easily integrate their products with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. By incorporating the versioning, configuration management and issue management capabilities of its products into Visual Studio .NET 2003, Merant boosts the capabilities of developers. Merant's support for VSIP will help ensure that Merant's products will be tightly integrated with Visual Studio .NET as Microsoft evolves the product. Merant will soon introduce a new version of Dimensions, which will feature even tighter integration with Visual Studio .NET 2003 as well as support for Microsoft SQL Server 2000. www.merant.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2707 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2707 Mon, 28 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT jCatalog Software AG announced a strategic relationship with Commerce One. The relationship establishes Commerce One as a global reseller for the jCatalog BuyFast solutions for procurement, MarketFast solutions for marketplaces and SellFast solutions for manufacturers and suppliers. jCatalog Software AG is a developer of catalog management, product information management (PIM) and cross media catalog publishing software. www.jcatalog.com, www.commerceone.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2699 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2699 Mon, 28 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Ektron released Ektron CMS300 version 3.0. This version of Ektrons XML content management solution includes a new online image editor, Ektron WebImageFX, (a full-featured browser-based tool for image manipulation,) along with new Calendar and Forms Modules. WebImageFX delivers functionality similar to commonly used Windows-based graphics applications (blur, brightness, sharpen, crop, erase, draw, rotate/flip, zoom, lines, shapes, text, etc.) With Ektrons Calendar Module and Forms Module, users can create, use and manage an unlimited number of event calendars or forms within Web sites or browser-based applications. Calendar presentation parameters can be specified (height and width, viewable weekend dates, etc.,) and colors and fonts can be controlled by stylesheets. Hyperlinks are added to content within the calendar. The Forms Module delivers a new forms toolbar built into Ektron eWEP+XML. Users can create forms-based interfaces with any number of elements (drop down lists, check boxes, radio buttons, text area fields, etc.) Developers add a calendar or form by inserting a single tag into a Web page. www.ektron.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2700 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2700 Mon, 28 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Hummingbird Ltd. has renewed its licensing agreements of Inxight Software's natural language processing platform, LinguistX Platform and Inxight's document summarization technology, Inxight Summarizer. The inclusion of Inxight's technology for understanding text at its most granular level provides Hummingbird Enterprise customers with multilingual search capabilities in 21 languages. Inxight Summarizer provides an intelligent solution to many problems inherent to online searches. The solution generates abstracts of any document in a fraction of a second, enabling users to scan large sets of information faster than reading the entire text. www.hummingbird.com, www.inxight.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2701 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2701 Mon, 28 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Stratify, Inc. announced availability of Stratify Discovery System 3.0. Stratify Discovery System 3.0 combines transparent search, integrated categorization and entity recognition (such as people, locations and organizations) with taxonomy management capabilities. Discovery System 3.0 users can now leverage analytical capabilities that provide customized reports summarizing business critical information embedded in unstructured data, as well as visual discovery tools for advanced analysis and data mining. To ensure that Discovery System 3.0 is transparent to end-users it now includes a series of administrative usability and workflow enhancements to the Stratify Taxonomy Manager, Stratify's interface for managing all phases of the taxonomy lifecycle. Within the Taxonomy Manager a new security architecture integrates with enterprise identity management environments (i.e. LDAP and Active Directory) to provide granular control over taxonomies and topics. The new Stratify Discovery System v3.0 is available Q3 2003. www.stratify.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2702 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2702 Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Datox has signed an integrator agreement with the UK based company Easypress Technologies. Atomik Xport, a product of Easypress Technologies, is a solution for converting QuarkXPress files into rich XML content. Datox will provide turnkey solutions based on Easypress Technologies' products to press editors who want to generate new revenue from their QuarkXPress print content. With Atomik Xport, any content from a QuarkXPress page (text, tabular data or images) can be converted into XML. The content is extracted without the need for manual intervention and can either be published directly on the web or stored in an archive system for future re-use. www.datox.fr, www.easypress.com/products/atomik http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2695 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2695 Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT S&T Professional Resources Group, LLC, and Metavante Corporation announced the signing of an agreement to allow Metavante to market S&T's eBusiness Content Manager (eBCM), to its clients. eBCM is a "turn key" web-based content management system, which allows companies to publish all types of documents, automate forms routing, create customized department web pages and manage their organization's Intranet with virtually no programming experience. eBCM also integrates additional workflow solutions such as company procurement, time and attendance and cash settlement allowing medium-to-larger-sized companies to automate other labor intensive business processes. www.stbank.com, www.metavante.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2696 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2696 Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Documentum announced the availability of the latest versions of its web-based collaboration products, Documentum eRoom 7 and Documentum eRoom Enterprise 7. The eRoom products are collaboration applications that can be adapted to and integrated with other enterprise systems to enable team collaboration. eRoom 7 is a standalone product. eRoom Enterprise 7 leverages deeper integration with the Documentum ECM platform, to enable content and collaboration services to interoperate under a common workflow. eRoom Enterprise 7 provides a unified content repository for centralized control, retention and reuse of collaborative content and process management technologies. Enhancements to eRoom Enterprise 7, available in the fourth quarter, will add deep structured process and workflow collaboration features. Documentum eRoom 7 is available immediately in English, with French and German versions available in early September. eRoom Enterprise 7 is also immediately available, with additional functionality available in the fourth quarter of 2003. www.documentum.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2697 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2697 Wed, 23 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Canto announced that Web Publisher Pro 1.0.2 and Internet Client Pro 1.0.2 are available immediately. Web Publisher Pro a tool for publishing and marketing your digital assets on dynamically generated Web pages to the Web. Internet Client Pro enables users to upload images and other documents into Cumulus catalogs and edit metadata. This can be done with a standard Web browser. Canto's technology is based on Cumulus Java Classes and JSP technology. Web Publisher Pro is an add-on Option for the Cumulus Workgroup and Enterprise Editions; Internet Client Pro is included with the Cumulus Enterprise Edition. Cumulus Web Publisher Pro 1.0.2 and Internet Client Pro 1.0.2 are updated releases in which various bugs have been fixed. With these releases, Cantos Cumulus Web Publisher Pro and Internet Client Pro are now more stable and efficient across all platforms for which they are developed. Both updated options are compatible with IBM WebSphere. Web Publisher Pro 1.0.2 and Internet Client Pro 1.0.2 are immediately available with English, German, French and Japanese user interfaces on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris. Updates of Web Publisher Pro to Web Publisher Pro 1.0.2 and Internet Client Pro to Internet Client Pro 1.0.2 are free of charge. www.canto.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2694 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2694 Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT CambridgeDocs announced the upcoming release of a new plug-ins for Microsoft Word: PDF2Word and Word2PDF. These plug-ins, part of the CambridgeDocs XML Content Backbone, showcase the functionality of XML by achieving two-way conversion of PDF files. The PDF2Word plug-in converts existing PDF files into RTF format for editing by Microsoft Word. The plug-ins add menu items to Microsoft word, which include opening PDF files. The other menu options include the ability to save to XML, and publishing to PDF using XSL:FO (XSL:formatting objects). The PDF2Word conversion keeps images, vector graphics, and formatting aspects of the PDF file as close as possible to the original. It works with Microsoft Word 2000 and Word XP. PDF2Word will be available for download from CambridgeDocs web site immediately. It retails for $199, but is being offered for a special introductory price of $99. Word2PDF will be available during Q3 of this year. www.cambridgedocs.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2686 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2686 Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Venetica announced its plans to support integration to the Interwoven 6 Platform. Through an alliance formed in December 2001, Interwoven delivers Venetica's enterprise content integration capabilities to Interwoven TeamSite Content Server customers through its ContentProvider Integration Server allowing business users to discover and work with critical documents from within Interwoven TeamSite Content Server - regardless of how or where the content is stored. In addition, Venetica is planning to make available a Bridge for Interwoven TeamSite Content Server repositories. This will enable companies to more easily leverage content created and managed within TeamSite Content Server from various business applications and portals. www.interwoven.com, www.venetica.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2688 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2688 Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Intraspect Software, Inc. introduced the Intraspect Collaboration Solution for BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1, in conjunction with the launch of WebLogic Portal 8.1 and WebLogic Platform 8.1 by BEA Systems, Inc. The joint solution allows organizations to augment their BEA-based corporate portals with a full suite of collaboration and knowledge management capabilities to enhance corporate portals. The two technologies can allow users to create contextual communities within the BEA corporate portal that manage collaboration and knowledge around products, services, functions, expertise, customers, or other areas relevant to an organization. Intraspect's Portal Collaboration Solution for BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 will be available in August 2003. www.intraspect.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2689 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2689 Mon, 21 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Authentica, Inc. introduced PageRecall 3.1, the latest version of its secure document solution that leverages Authentica's rights management technology to protect documents both during and after distribution. PageRecall enables organizations to share sensitive and valuable content without giving up control - it ensures that the content is always secure no matter where it is distributed or stored. PageRecall 3.1 adds distributed policy management flexibility, support for Single Sign-On authentication, fast Web viewing, enhanced certificate integration with government environments, screen capture applications defeated, support for Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and multiple deployment options. www.authentica.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2687 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2687 Mon, 21 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Alfa-XP Web Software Company announced Microportals.NET, a "portal-on-demand" Web application hosting service that offers everything needed to design and operate microportal solutions in real-time, in a reliable secure environment totally controlled by the user. It is built on the latest Microsoft .NET technologies and on XML. This service is intended for users whose needs have out grown basic, simplistic Web hosting but who cannot afford high-priced content management or collaboration suites. Users can open an account and create their own microportal in a matter of minutes. Templates and wizards are provided to guide users in customization. Administration tools are made for business users, and allow for intranet or extranet setup and user management, including defining access rights for various user groups (roles), folders, pages and even individual content objects within a particular Web page. accounts include a gallery of XML-compliant, reusable WebSnippets that can be customized. Additional galleries are available for workflow management, Web syndication, group collaboration, data collection, transformation and warehousing, analysis and reporting (data mining), business process modeling, and e-commerce. Pricing starts at $20 per month for a personal edition and ranges to $25,000 per year for a 250-license enterprise edition. www.microportals.net http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2690 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2690 Mon, 21 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Interwoven Inc. announces the launch of Interwoven 6, their latest content management platform release. Interwoven 6 is "open" to all existing corporate data sources, "dynamic" to manage code and content simultaneously, "smart" to intelligently enrich content with metadata and "fast" with its technology and components. TeamSite 6.0 introduces ContentCenter - designed for fast user adoption. ContentCenter empowers all users to contribute and collaborate on content including business contributors, power users and technical developers. ContentCenter Standard (for business users) and ContentCenter Professional (for power users and technical developers)interfaces reduce the learning curve. Interwoven 6 also delivers a new customization framework - ContentServices UI Toolkit. Also, Interwoven 6 delivers a Services Oriented Architecture based on Web Services standards - Interwoven ContentServices SDK 2.0 - to enable fast and flexible integration with business applications in the enterprise. In addition, Interwoven introduced an enterprise compliance framework, "Interwoven Protect," designed to address internal governance controls and external regulatory mandates related to the creation, collaboration, and disclosure of corporate information. www.interwoven.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2691 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2691 Mon, 21 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT iManage, Inc. announced a new partnership with Entology. Entology serves a global 1000 client base, and has a presence in the investment banking, pharmaceutical and real estate markets. Under its agreement with iManage, Entology will now act as resellers of the iManage WorkSite MP solution in the enterprise space. www.imanage.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2692 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2692 Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT GlobalSCAPE announced a technology integration partnership with Advanced Software, Inc. (ASI) to add the DocuComp comparison engine to its PureCMS Content Management software. DocuComp, best known as the "compare documents" feature in Microsoft Word, automatically shows managers, reviewers and other gatekeepers exactly where changes have been made on a document with redlining, underlines, and strikethroughs. The DocuComp comparison engine uses pattern matching techniques to compare any two versions of a file, reporting inserted, deleted, replaced and even moved text. PureCMS is available immediately from GlobalSCAPE based on a tiered, per-user license basis. Pricing begins at $350 per user and is available for 3, 10, 20 and unlimited users. www.globalscape.com/purecms, www.docucomp.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2682 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2682 Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT COAST Software Inc., has formally partnered with Documentum, as a Documentum Technology Partner. COAST Software will work with Documentum to implement solutions that help streamline the Web publishing process for global organizations. Customers can automate the verification of content and ensure corporate Web site standards for quality, privacy, accessibility and operational security are maintained. COAST Web Quality Central is a standalone solution that allows organizations to continually monitor their Web sites with customized scans and scripts. Integrated into the Documentum workflow, these scans and scripts can automatically verify an author's content and provide immediate feedback if any quality or corporate compliance standards are violated. www.documentum.com, www.coast.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2683 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2683 Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Corel Corporation and Xcential Group, LLC announced a partnership to provide government customers an XML application specifically designed for the creation, amendment and delivery of legislation. Xcential's LegisPro is built upon the Corel XMetaL platform to create an environment that improves efficiency and reduces the costs associated with creating and maintaining legislation and regulations. The solution ensures all XML documents are valid, allowing editors to focus on the content of the measures rather than the markup users can write valid XML content without ever seeing a tag. Moreover, it enables government customers to easily automate the publishing process. www.corel.com/xmetal, www.xcential.com/legisprowriter.pdf http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2684 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2684 Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT activePDF Inc announced a partnership with Percussion Software. According to the terms of the new agreement, activePDF will provide PDF conversion and manipulation functionality for Rhythmyx 5. Rhythmyx users can benefit from using activePDF technology to further streamline their document-automation processes. By leveraging activePDF's PDF-conversion functionality, Rhythmyx enables businesses to standardize their document format for distribution and storage, without requiring additional end-user training or costly desktop-based PDF conversion tools. activePDF also provides tools for PDF manipulation, offering functionalities for dynamic PDF form-filling and stamping of text and images on PDF documents. activeDPF is available today for Rhythmyx's Document Management Module and Web Content Management Module. Rhythmyx customers may purchase activePDF directly from Percussion Software. www.percussion.com, www.activePDF.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2685 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2685 Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Top Image Systems, Ltd. announced that is has become a technology partner of Documentum. Top Image Systems (TiS) provides an automated data capture solution, the eFLOW platform, that integrates data from multiple sources and of different types, such as invoices, freight and shipping bills, purchase orders and others, and by delivering the extracted data to enterprise applications such as document and content management, ERP, or CRM. Through the application connecting agents, eFLOW's Content Delivery module exports data to XML, text files, MS-SQL format, or to the common and standard format ASCII, and additionally exports both B/W and color images. The Export module is open, including hooks that allow any required manipulation of the exported file names. eFLOW is incapable of 'losing' form pages, due to the system's image handling, which maintains all images in the multi-TIFF format. www.TopImageSystems.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2693 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2693 Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT FileNet Corporation and ILOG announced an agreement that will combine two software products - ILOG JRules and FileNet Business Process Manager - to increase the effectiveness of business process management solutions. The agreement calls for the integration of ILOG JRules and FileNet's BPM suite -- a combination that will boost agility by supporting the fine-tuning of process change through business rule management. The FileNet-ILOG integration provides data exchange of business objects between ILOG JRules and the FileNet BPM suite. Business analysts creating process flows can invoke business rules directly from the process-modeling environment and provide access to JRules' functionality, including the product's natural language rule editing capabilities. The combined solution allows customers to easily blend their process flow controls and business rules into a single, modeled environment, empowering business users and business analysts to rapidly modify processes and business rules without complex programming or IT involvement. www.filenet.com, www.ilog.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2676 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2676 Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Intraspect Software, Inc. introduced the Intraspect Solution for Portal Collaboration designed for portals including BEA, Oracle, SAP, SunOne, Sybase, and Vignette. This solution enables organizations to augment their corporate portals with a full suite of collaboration and knowledge management capabilities quickly, seamlessly, and cost effectively. The Intraspect Solution for Portal Collaboration enables portal users to create shared "communities" to collaborate on areas relevant to the organization including strategic accounts, products, business processes and other topics of interest. These communities provide online workspaces to manage documents and content, discuss issues and strategies, make decisions, track tasks, and share status inside and across teams. Advanced security technology enables users to also perform many of these functions outside the firewall with both clients and partners, and it was designed so end-users can easily and safely create and manage their own communities. The solution is integrated with portals through partner-specific portlets and includes single sign-on capability for enhanced ease of use. Intraspect's Solution for Portal Collaboration will be available in August 2003, starting at $75,000 including software and implementations services. The PMO/Project Delivery module can be included for an additional $125,000 per server. www.intraspect.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2677 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2677 Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT WebWare Corporation announced the release of WebWare ActiveMedia 4.5 digital asset management software suite. ActiveMedia Enterprise 4.5 and ActiveMedia Access 4.5 are the latest versions of the ActiveMedia software family, an extensible, out-of-the-box platform for integrating rich media content into web content management systems, sales and marketing portals, multi-channel content distribution systems, and e-commerce portals. The release features RetrievalWare software from Convera media processing engine that includes natural language search dictionaries for the pharmaceutical and financial markets. Other new features in the 4.5 release include greater integration with Adobe Graphics Server, a redesigned user interface built on J2EE, distributed file processing, release of Microsoft Office integration plug-ins that enable the seamless submission of Microsoft Office documents, and a comprehensive installer. ActiveMedia Enterprise 4.5 and ActiveMedia Access 4.5 are currently available. www.webwarecorp.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2678 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2678 Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Adobe Systems Incorporated announced new graphical design software for creating intelligent electronic documents. Leveraging PDF for presenting information and XML for processing data, the new form design software will enable organizations to design and deploy intelligent forms in PDF or in an XML Data Package (XDP). The new XML/PDF form designer software builds on Adobe's XML architecture that supports end-to-end document processes. It provides all the capabilities needed to design forms with precision, including the ability to easily define business logic and incorporate existing or user-defined XML schemas. By enabling form designers to include user-defined XML schemas they can use XML vocabularies specific to particular verticals or cross-industry standards. Forms can be deployed in PDF and then processed as PDF is today, or delivered as an XML Data Package (XDP) to be processed as XML. XDP files are simply XML files that contain XML form data, XML form templates, PDF documents and other XML information. They can be integrated with enterprise applications XML tools and web services. The new form designer will be available for beta testing during Q4 2003. www.adobe.com/enterprise/xml.html http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2679 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2679 Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT IBM announced it has acquired all the outstanding shares of Presence Online Pty Ltd (doing business as Aptrix), a privately-held, Australia-based provider of web content management software. Financial terms were not disclosed. This acquisition will help accelerate IBM's plans for the Lotus Workplace Content Development offering, a product that will be built based on the Aptrix technology. The Lotus Workplace Content Development software is available immediately. The acquisition has been finalized by IBM and Aptrix. Aptrix's employees and operations, including offices in London and Massachusetts, will be integrated with IBM Software Group's Lotus business unit. IBM anticipates that the Aptrix technology will soon come to market under the newly announced Lotus Workplace portfolio. www.ibm.com, www.aptrix.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2680 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2680 Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT telerik announced the release of r.a.d.designer a componentware CMS built as an ASP.NET control. The product provides a completely visual environment for construction and content management of web-sites using a template-driven approach. r.a.d.designer has an open, extendable architecture, which allows developers not only to plug and reuse existing web-controls (menus, charts, content rotators), but also to enhance the core functionality of the system. telerik r.a.d.designer is meant to deliver the fundamental content management functions of a web-site. It is responsible for creating layouts, building individual pages based on those layouts, and filling the pages with content to be visualized. Everything beyond that depends on external web controls. The architecture of r.a.d.designer allows developers to reuse the components they have already written or purchased, like menus, charts, polls, news, etc. r.a.d.designer is available in 2 run-time (domain-based) editions and 3 royalty-free editions: "Standard" license (1 domain/web-site) is $395, "Professional" license (5 domains/web-sites) is $995, "1 Developer" license is $795, "4 Developers Team" license is $1795, "Enterprise" license (unlimited developers) is $2695. www.telerik.com/raddesigner http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2681 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2681 Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Gauss and MDY Advanced Technologies, Inc. announced the first phase of a partnership to integrate VIP Enterprise, Gauss' Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software suite, with FileSurf, MDY's Electronic and Physical Records Management Software (RMS) certified under Version II of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 Standard. Joint customers will be able to leverage VIP Enterprise to streamline operations by making content accessible for use across business processes, applications, and locations, while FileSurf enables them to reduce the costs of regulatory compliance by automatically classifying, retaining, and protecting this content as corporate records. Under the terms of the initial phase of the partnership agreement, Gauss and MDY will initiate joint marketing and sales efforts and introduce each other into their respective customer bases. The companies expect the integration of the two software solutions to be completed in early fall of 2003. www.gaussvip.com, www.mdy.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2671 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2671 Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Xythos Software announced that its WebFile Server and CleverPath portlets have been certified ca smart with CleverPath Portal from Computer Associates International, Inc. Xythos Software's WebFile Server portlets help users access and manage file information directly from within the CleverPath Portal environment, accelerating the centralization of business information at the earliest stage of its life cycle so that it can be more effectively shared and protected. Xythos Software's WebFile Server portlets provide the flexible file sharing tools required for distributed work environment including content check-in/out, version control, file logging, and controlled access "tickets" for secure external collaboration. CleverPath Portal integrates information and applications into a personalized, intelligent and engaging environment that can be accessed from a web browser, mobile phone or wireless PDA. http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2672 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2672 Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity Ultraseek release 5.1. A highlight of Ultraseek 5.1 is Layout Manager, a graphical user interface that reduces the administrative effort needed to design and deploy multiple search interfaces and results pages. It is designed to give administrators the ability to easily control all aspects of look and feel as well as search options, including results display, default collections, categories, passage-based summaries and spell suggest. Layout Manager allows delegation of this activity to business-line managers. Reporting Manager offers administrators insight into users' search behaviors and changes in search patterns to permit improvement of search relevance and usability. Detailed analysis reports can be generated on a wide range of search processes to help administrators and business-line managers improve the search relevance on their Web sites, including top search queries, queries yielding no results, top requested documents and query trends.Verity Ultraseek 5.1 also supports new file formats, including Star Office 6.0, OpenOffice 1.0 and .zip documents. www.verity.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2673 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2673 Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Microsoft Corp. announced that SharePoint Portal Server 2003 customers will now be able to customize their portal sites (in addition to Windows SharePoint Services sites) with Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003. Users will be able to: create custom Web Part pages, based on the drag-and-drop functionality of reusable Web Parts, which connect to information or applications elsewhere in the organization; use Web Part connections to build solutions that span multiple Web Parts pages; add, edit and configure Web Part zones - even without starting FrontPage; save custom Web Parts to a site catalog for reuse; use live XSLT Data Views to bring external data into SharePoint Portal sites; deploy data-driven pages on new Web sites using Web packages and reusable collections of Web pages; and create Web logs, issue-tracking lists, and news and reviews sites with just a few mouse clicks, and post them to the Web using just their browser. The features in FrontPage 2003 that enable customization of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 are found in the Microsoft Office System Beta 2 Technical Refresh, which also includes the latest versions of both products. The final release of the product will be in summer 2003; pricing will be announced at that time. http://officebeta.microsoft.com/officeupdate http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2674 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2674 Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT ERP5 and Collaborative Portal Server teams announced that they would join forces to provide a global Information System exclusively based on Open Source/Free Software. Collaborative Portal Server (CPS) is a content management and collaborative work system published under GPL license. ERP5 is an Entreprise Resource Planning (ERP) system published under GPL license. The Alliance of ERP5 and CPS will provide corporations with seamless integration of collaborative and quantitative information systems based on the Zope Open Source/Free Application Server. ERP5 allows to track quantitative information and implement management workflows. ERP5 features covers trading, invoicing, accounting, manufacturing, supply chain, stock, customer relation and product design. CPS allows a group of users to share documents in multiple versions, implement administrative and publication workflows and create a single point of access to corporate information and services. The ERP5/CPS Alliance will allow users to share basic technology building blocks such as common user authentication, distributed data synchronisation, and uniform internationalisation. It will also provide a common access to ERP workflow tasks from CPS portal page and CPS administrative and publication tasks from ERP5. www.nuxeo.com/en, www.nexedi.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2675 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2675 Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Cadmus Communications Corporation announced it has launched ArticleWorks, a content delivery and digital rights management system that enables publishers and other content providers to deliver content on demand in either printed or secure electronic formats. The ArticleWorks system includes two content delivery services: RapidCopy is a turnkey solution for ordering, tracking and delivering single or multiple copies of the print version of a document. RapidCopy offers a range of features including e-commerce and a service module with reporting features; RapidRights is an application for securing a document with multiple options for accessing the content. RapidRights encrypts and locks a PDF file to a user's computer and requires no special readers, plug-ins or additional software. www.cadmus.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2670 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2670 Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Autonomy Corporation plc and Virage, Inc. announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which Autonomy will acquire Virage for a purchase price of $1.10 per share in cash. The transaction reflects a fully-diluted cash purchase price of approximately $24.8 million, and a net cash purchase price of approximately $13.3 million adjusted for Virage's expected cash balance as of September 30, 2003. The Boards of Directors of Autonomy and Virage have approved the transaction, and stockholders representing approximately 40% of Virage's outstanding shares have signed agreements to vote their shares in favor of the transaction at a special stockholders meeting to vote on the transaction. The transaction is expected to be completed late in the third quarter of 2003. Autonomy expects the transaction to be accretive to earnings per share within six months of closing, and expects to have a cash balance of approximately $110 million following completion of the transaction. Combined Autonomy and Virage products are expected to be generally available during the first quarter following completion of the transaction. www.autonomy.com, www.virage.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2666 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2666 Wed, 09 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Banta Corporation and WAVE Corporation announced a strategic partnership to provide a complete range of software products for managing multi-channel publishing processes, including print, Internet and variable publishing channels. WAVE has acquired the intellectual property and assumed the future product development and technical support for B-media, Banta's enterprise-class content management software platform. This new partnership enables Banta to continue marketing and selling B-media software, while assuring existing customers receive a high level of software support. In addition, Banta will now offer its customers MediaBank, WAVE's asset management application, as well as the company's other print-related software products. www.banta.com, www.wavecorp.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2667 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2667 Wed, 09 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Inmagic, Inc. announced the release of XML support within its product line, DB/TextWorks with the release of DB/Text WebPublisher PRO v7.0 and related products. Inmagic's newly announced XML-based products allow customers to edit over the Web, including online validation lists. The upcoming release of DB/Text for Libraries v6.0, which runs on the DB/TextWorks platform, utilizes XML to provide corporate end-users with direct Web access to account information and self-service features such as self-renewal and checkout. In addition, DB/Text WebPublisher PRO utilizes SOAP. The new features in DB/TextWorks, WebPublisher PRO and DB/Text for Libraries complement the announcement earlier this year of Inmagic Content Server, Inmagic's enterprise level content management solution built on Microsoft SQL Server. www.inmagic.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2668 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2668 Wed, 09 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT A2i, Inc. announced that its xCat system will support the new version of IBM's e-commerce platform, and also provide even tighter integration between the catalog content management capabilities of xCat and the e-commerce capabilities of version 5.5 WebSphere Commerce. In addition to support for WebSphere Commerce 5.5, which expands its capabilities for both B2B and B2C applications, A2i offers compatibility across all of IBM's strategic software products, including its DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ software, running on a variety of different operating systems, including Linux. www.a2i.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2669 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2669 Mon, 07 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Percussion Software and Watchfire announced a partnership to integrate Watchfire Compliance Connector (WCC) with Percussion's Rhythmyx 5 Enterprise Content Management system (ECM) incorporating website content quality, privacy and accessibility testing into the Rhythmyx workflow. In addition, the firms will conduct joint marketing and sales activities. Watchfire Compliance Connector is designed to enhance content management systems by testing Web pages managed by the CMS for quality, privacy and accessibility issues. Watchfire Compliance Connector for Rhythmyx 5 incorporates automated compliance standards into the Rhythmyx workflow to help identify and correct more problems up-front. Pages that fail any of the pre-defined compliance tests are automatically passed back to the content creator during the workflow approval process. www.watchfire.com, www.percussion.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2659 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2659 Mon, 07 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Inxight Software, Inc., announced the release of Inxight ThingFinder 3.5. The latest version of its 'entity extraction' software enables developers to extend the value of their applications, including information categorization, link analysis, data mining, business intelligence and CRM, by providing a means of quickly retrieving the most important pieces of information contained in large volumes of text the people, places, companies and other "things" contained within. New features and enhancements to the product include improved accuracy and speed, new relevancy ranking capabilities, the addition of support for three new languages and enhanced data normalization features. The latest version of ThingFinder provides new language support for Arabic, Farsi and Simplified Chinese. ThingFinder also supports English, French, German and Spanish. ThingFinder includes new relevance ranking capabilities that provide users with a score reflecting each entity's importance to a document as a whole. Inxight ThingFinder 3.5 is available immediately in a software development kit format. The ThingFinder functionality will also be made available in SmartDiscovery, Inxight's enterprise search and information discovery solution, later this year. www.inxight.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2660 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2660 Mon, 07 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT SiberLogic and Corel announced a public evaluation of a browser based XML Authoring Environment. The solution combines Corel's ActiveX XMetaL editor and SiberLogic's Author Dashboard. It provides access to the SiberSafe XML Content Management System (CMS) without having to install any software on your machine. The environment allows authors, casual contributors and reviewers to participate in the XML based technical content production process without having to learn about XML technology. Both the SiberSafe CMS and XMetaL XML editor are accessed via the browser. There is a dockable toolbar for direct access to most often used tasks, such as create a new document, edit existing content, review to do list, etc. Power users have access to the desktop interface to manage document sets and reusable content. They can also configure workflow, grant object-level access permissions, define document templates, and manage publication and deployment of approved content. www.siberlogic.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2663 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2663 Fri, 04 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Xenos Group Inc. announced the signing of a non-binding letter of intent pursuant to which Xenos is to acquire substantially all of the business assets of XML-Global Technologies, Inc. Xenos will acquire XML Global's intellectual property, customer relationships and will retain all employees. The transaction is subject to execution of a definitive agreement and all requisite regulatory and shareholder approvals. It is anticipated that the transaction will close on or about September 30, 2003. Further details will be made available upon the execution of a definitive agreement. www.xenos.com, www.xmlglobal.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2658 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2658 Thu, 03 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Xyleme announced the general availability of version 3.1 of Xyleme Zone Server, its native XML content mart that can be used to load, store, integrate, query, syndicate and deliver large volumes of XML data. Key features of version 3.1 include: an optional module for creating views that semantically associate the documents in the repository with high-level user or application views; the launching of Xyleme Development Kit (XDK) which is accessible through Web Services, SOAP or Java applications; an optional module for notification by email of changes to the content in the repository; optimized performance; and advanced linguistic functions, including spellcheck, phonetic correction, proper handling for accented words, automatic correction of typing errors, support for compound words, and morphology. Xyleme also announced the opening of its UK office, based in London. www.xyleme.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2661 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2661 Wed, 02 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT ISYS/Odyssey Development Inc. announced the release of ISYS 6.02, which supports full-text searches of Macromedia Flash files. Based on the .swf file format, the multimedia development software is frequently used to develop visually rich Web sites and presentations, often including animated components. Available for its core solutions -- ISYS:desktop, ISYS:web and ISYS:spider -- ISYS 6.02 indexes text held in Flash files and also navigates through the files to index HTML or other document formats to which Flash files point. Additionally, ISYS can index and retrieve Flash files held on local file servers, or via ISYS:spider, which can capture and index Flash files found on external Web sites. www.isysusa.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2662 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2662 Wed, 02 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Mediapps announced the new 2003 version of its Net.Portal software, including all intranet applications in one entreprise Suite. Net.Portal 2003 is not simply a corporate portal but also represents a comprehensive and out-of-the-box "Intranet Suite". Following Office Suites and ERP Suites, the Intranet Suite avoids the use of multiple enterprise software applications and the inherent cost and disparate user interfaces. Net.Portal 2003 includes all the features required for a corporate intranet (portal, personalization, content and document management, collaboration, workflow, project management, etc.) in one single product. All applications are consistent, using the same graphical interface and sharing the same data. www.mediapps.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2664 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2664 Tue, 01 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Software AG, Inc.announced that version 4.1.4 of its Tamino XML Server includes a new indexing tool for performing metadata searches on non-XML documents such as Microsoft Office and Sun StarOffice. Other text retrieval enhancements in Tamino XML Server 4.1.4 include phonetic document searches and retreived text highlighting. Tamino's Non-XML Indexer plug-in module works with Tamino to extend the set of searchable metadata - such as author, creation date, date last modified, or file size - that is associated with non-XML documents. The module can create indices for standard document formats such as Microsoft Office (including Word and Excel), StarOffice (including Writer and Calc), OpenOffice, Plain text files (UTF-8), MPEG Audio (often known as MP3 files), RTF (Rich Text Format) and ZIP files. Tamino XML Server 4.1.4 is available now for Windows 2000/XP Pro, Linux (Intel systems and S/390) HP-UX, Sun Solaris 8 and IBM AIX 5.1 and 5.2. Later this month Tamino will also run on Sun Solaris 9. Separately installable on Tamino, the Non-XML Indexer plug-in module can be downloaded from the Tamino Developer Community. http://developer.softwareag.com/tamino http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2656 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2656 Tue, 01 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT eMotion, Inc. announced the acquisition of Artmachine. The company also announced the completion of a $2.5 million round of financing. Most of Artmachines current staff will be relocating to eMotions headquarters in San Francisco, California where eMotions CEO, Richard Fisher, and other key finance and marketing executives are based. eMotion plans to use the financing to facilitate the integration of eMotion and Artmachine technologies onto its next generation platform, to enhance customer support and marketing initiatives, as well as to expand the North American sales team. www.emotion.com, www.artmachine.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2657 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2657 Tue, 01 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT Hummingbird Ltd. announced the acquisition of Valid Information Systems Limited (Valid). Founded in 1989, Valid is a privately held company that is in the compliance and records management market in the United Kingdom. Hummingbird acquired the shares of Valid for initial consideration of British Pounds 10 million (US dollar 16.5 million) in cash and additional consideration of British Pounds 8 million (US dollar 13 million) in cash payable over 2 years, based on performance targets. Valid will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Hummingbird, continuing to support and maintain all customer implementations. Hummingbird will continue to sell the Valid products in the UK without interruption. The existing Valid management team and employees will remain with their current responsibilities and positions. www.hummingbird.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2665 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/7/content_management_news.html#2665