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 13:08:41 GMT Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Altova Inc. announced an agreement with Borland Software Corporation, to include a special edition of Altova XMLSPY 5 within future editions of Borland Delphi Studio, Borland C++ Builder, and Borland C#Builder for the Microsoft .NET Framework integrated development environments (IDEs). www.altova.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2726 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2726 Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Hummingbird Ltd. announced that it is extending its strategic technology alliance with RedDot Solutions. Hummingbird will resell and distribute the RedDot Content Management Server (CMS), providing customers with integrated Web Content Management (WCM) capabilities to complement the Hummingbird Enterprise document management and portal technologies. In early 2003, RedDot released CMS 5.0 featuring enhanced integration of the Hummingbird document management technologies. As a result, many organizations have become mutual customers of RedDot and Hummingbird to leverage the synchronization between the two products, shared repositories and bi-directional mapping of metadata. www.reddot.com, www.hummingbird.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2723 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2723 Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Open Text Corporation and Gauss Interprise announced that a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Text will acquire the common shares of Gauss for cash by way of agreement with certain of the shareholders, who will hold 73 percent of the shares at closing after conversion of indebtedness and a tender offer for the balance of the shares. Total cash consideration for the shares is expected to be approximately US $11 million. Open Text expects that the transaction will close, subject to certain conditions, in the second quarter of Fiscal Year 04 (the quarter ending December, 2003). Together, the companies will present a combination in the market for enterprise content management (ECM) software, with Gauss adding its Web content management, and business process management solutions to Open Text's Livelink suite and its integrated collaboration and content management capabilities. Gauss' IDOM product line extends Open Text's IDOM offerings, which are designed to apply business processes to the unstructured content companies maintain in Livelink to improve collaboration. Gauss also extends Open Text's ERP connectors by adding J.D. Edwards and a variety of ERP applications on IBM AS/400 systems to existing connectors for PeopleSoft. www.gaussvip.com, www.opentext.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2725 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2725 Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Basis Technology and Endeca announced that Endeca will incorporate Basis Technology's Rosette Language Analyzers into their software for commerce and enterprise search, Endeca InFront and Endeca ProFind. The combination of the two companies' products and expertise will give Endeca's multinational customers new multilingual features, and it opens new government and commercial markets for the company's products. Endeca's enterprise search offering, Endeca ProFind, features advanced search and Guided Navigation and is able to handle both structured and unstructured information for access to all types of enterprise data and documents residing across a wide variety of repositories. The Rosette Language Analyzers are part of the Rosette Globalization Platform, Basis Technology's suite of interoperable products designed for applications that analyze and process all the world's languages. www.basistech.com, www.endeca.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2727 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2727 Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Vignette Corp. announced enhancements to its flagship portal product, Vignette Application Portal, including enhanced team collaboration functionality that enables customers to participate in information-sharing and persistent collaboration environments within their organizations. Part of the Vignette V7 family of products, the Vignette Application Portal now includes out-of-the-box functionality that allows organizations to take advantage of interactive work spaces in portal environments for use within and between organizations. Enhanced features include Collaborative portal sites, Document-sharing capabilities, Productivity portlets, Enhanced searching, and Unified management of multiple portals and collaborative work spaces. Vignette Application Portal 4.5 is available and shipping to customers. Pricing for Vignette Application Portal begins at $50,000. www.vignette.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2720 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2720 Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Stellent, Inc. announced it has acquired select assets of privately held Ancept, Inc. In addition, Ancept is a Strategic Alliance Partner of IBM's. Stellent will continue this partnership and continue to market Ancept Media Server in conjunction with IBM. Ancept Media Server, in combination with the Stellent Content Server, will enable Stellent customers to connect video content editing, management and reuse processes while allowing them to manage their digital assets in the same repository structure as the rest of their enterprise content. The initial product integration is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of Stellent's fiscal year 2004. As part of the acquisition, Stellent hired 18 Ancept employees, primarily in the product development and consulting services areas. Jeff Stromberg, Ancept's founder and president, has joined Stellent as vice president of business development. Stellent acquired select assets of Ancept for $2.0 million in cash, 100,000 shares of Stellent common stock and a potential cash earn-out over a two-year period based upon revenue performance. www.stellent.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2721 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2721 Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Context Media, Inc. announced the availability of Interchange PortalPLUS, which enables organizations to make portals their primary interface for accessing and managing digital content stored anywhere in the enterprise. Interchange PortalPLUS provides out-of-the box integration between Context Media's content integration software, Interchange Suite, and portal platforms, including Sun Microsystems' Sun ONE Portal Server, BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere. This allows organizations using portals in conjunction with Interchange Suite to access enterprise content stored in disparate content management, document management and digital asset management systems directly through their portal interface. Interchange PortalPLUS leverages Web services technology to provide access to and management of all forms of digital content and content management systems through a portal framework. Interchange PortalPLUS is available immediately for the Sun ONE Portal Server 6. Interchange Portal Plus for BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere will be available early in the fourth quarter of 2003. Pricing for Interchange PortalPLUS begins at $25K. www.contextmedia.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2722 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2722 Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Macromedia announced Dreamweaver MX 2004. Dreamweaver MX 2004 delivers deep CSS support in a visual development environment. Dreamweaver MX 2004 also includes SecureFTP, dynamic cross-browser validation functionality, built-in graphics editing, integration with Microsoft Word and Excel, and updated support for ASP.NET, PHP, and ColdFusion server technologies. The entire design environment is built around CSS. Dynamic multi-browser validation automatically checks tags and CSS rules for design compatibility across browsers. A built-in graphics editor using Macromedia Fireworks technology enables users to crop, resize, and edit graphics without leaving the Dreamweaver environment. Dreamweaver MX 2004 also includes advanced integration with Macromedia Contribute 2. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, available for Windows and Mac OS X v10.2.6, is expected to ship in September. Pricing is $399 for new users, $199 for upgrades from Dreamweaver MX and Dreamweaver 4, and $99 for education customers. The product is expected to be available in English in September, with Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish expected to ship shortly thereafter. www.macromedia.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2724 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2724 Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Smartwebs announced the availability of Smartwebs IRT, the company's content management solution (CMS), to empower content providers and Web professionals to maintain their Web sites or Intranet content. Smartwebs IRT is built around a workflow philosophy that avoids information bottlenecks by spreading updating responsibility across designated content authors throughout the organization. With no programming knowledge, these content authors and Web professionals can take control of their content management needs by updating or adding critical content to a company Web site or intranet on a regular basis. Smartwebs IRT offers an expandable and flexible set of tools that range from basic updating capabilities for existing pages to more complex site-building and workflow. www.smartwebs.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2728 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2728 Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Open Text Corporation introduced a new product, called Livelink UNITE Anywhere, that makes all the capabilities of Livelink accessible within any commercially available portal. Customers can create tailored window views in a portal that offer access to Livelink's collaborative tools, workspaces and content. Livelink UNITE Anywhere is an extension of Livelink UNITE, which Open Text introduced last year. Livelink UNITE provides virtual workspaces with tailored views of Livelink content for project teams and individuals working in Livelink. UNITE Anywhere takes the same capabilities and extends them into any portal. UNITE Anywhere also allows customers to deliver Livelink content in the same way to Websites or extranets not built on a portal framework. Livelink UNITE Anywhere works with any portal, including Oracle Portal, mySAP Enterprise Portal, Plumtree Corporate Portal, Vignette Application Portal, Netscape iPlanet Portal, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, as well as Open Text's own portal, Coreport. www.opentext.com/livelink/contentmanagement http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2729 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2729 Tue, 12 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Venetica announced the general availability of VeniceBridge 5.0. The release increases the types of content repositories that can be integrated with enterprise applications and extends the cross-system services available through VeniceBridge. VeniceBridge 5.0 expands its universal view to include a common inbox to disparate workflow engines such as Documentum and FileNET, and independent BPM engines such as IBM MQSeries Workflow. Target engines also include Microsoft BizTalk, Open Text, Staffware and others. In addition to documents, scanned images and media assets, VeniceBridge 5.0 makes statements, invoices and other information stored in enterprise report management (ERM) systems available. Current ERM systems include FileNet Report Manager and IBM OnDemand. The release also includes an event subscription model that can provide notification when a document or workflow change has been made. Other enhancements have been included such as support for Linux and new features for handling of geographically dispersed content sources and extremely large content such as audio, video and high-resolution images. Venetica also announced support for JSR (Java Specification Request) 170. Their implementation of the Java Content Repository (JCR) API is written against the 0.7 draft of the standard.www.venetica.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2719 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2719 Wed, 06 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Interwoven, Inc. and iManage, Inc. announced they have entered into a agreement to merge in a stock and cash transaction valued at $171 million. The two companies have a combined customer base of over 2500 companies. iManage's strength in professional services and financial services complements Interwoven's base in manufacturing and consumer goods. iManage will benefit from Interwoven's presence in Europe and Asia Pacific, while Interwoven gains access to a network of over 150 partners, VARs, and systems integrators in North and Latin America. Both products have been developed with Java and J2EE. The combined companies plan to integrate iManage's collaborative technology with Interwoven MetaTagger content intelligence server software, to improve the ability to personalize and find relevant content, and link iManage's content repository with Interwoven OpenDeploy content distribution software, to distribute collaboratively developed documents and corporate knowledge. The new company will be named Interwoven and will be headquartered in Sunnyvale. iManage shareholders will receive $1.20 per share in cash and 2.0943 shares of Interwoven stock for each share of iManage stock. Following the expected closing in Q4 Interwoven shareholders are expected to own approximately 67% and iManage shareholders 33% of the combined company. The iManage product line is available today from Interwoven and can be purchased for an entry price of $75K. www.interwoven.com, www.imanage.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2718 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2718 Tue, 05 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Tridion has launched a new version of its enterprise content management solution, Tridion R5 version 5.1. New features include the creation of 'Virtual Folders', which allow users to save and store the results of their searches in personalised compartments. The solutions document management capabilities have also been enhanced. All document types can now be stored in a single, central source, allowing content to be repurposed for use in Intranets, extranets and websites. In addition, users can now search within unstructured (such as presentations and PDF files) as well as structured content. Upgrades to security and platform compatibility (R5 v5.1 now supports Oracle 9i) mean that the new version is more secure, reliable and scalable. Tridion is also launching two new products modules. Tridion Content Porter allows organisations to extract and re-purpose content residing in legacy systems. Tridion Word Connector 3.0 allows end-users to work directly in Word, rather than using the interface of the content management system. Documents are saved as XML components. www.tridion.com/uk http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2714 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2714 Mon, 04 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Stellent, Inc. announced a solution designed to help companies streamline their processes for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Stellent Sarbanes-Oxley Solution allows all of the various parties involved in the compliance process to create, manage, share, track, approve and archive all information pertaining to disclosures and financial reporting with minimal training, using only a browser. The solution is personalized for non-technical business users, such as auditors, accountants and chief financial officers (CFO), and features an interface that utilizes field-specific terminology and guides people through the system. The Stellent solution supports any file type, including rich media files such as earnings conference calls or videoconferences, and automatically converts content to Web-based formats, such as HTML or PDF. In addition, Stellent will collaborate with Protiviti Inc., an internal audit and business and technology risk consulting firm and an expert in corporate governance issues and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, to support customers in managing their Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. www.stellent.com/sarbox http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2708 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2708 Mon, 04 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Entology announced its support for the Interwoven 6 platform. Entology and Interwoven have been partners since 2001, and have delivered content management, portal, Web Service, and customized business solutions for mutual customers. The improved usability in TeamSite 6.0 will facilitate Entology's development of customized content management services that target a much wider user audience within an organization. Entology has deployed integrated solutions with the Interwoven product line that provide services including: taxonomy/metadata management, Web content management, advanced document management/renditioning, portal service integration, and consolidated hosting infrastructures. In addition to developing custom solutions, Entology provides a full set of standardized JumpStart, HealthCheck, and Value Assurance offerings focused on the Interwoven platform. www.entology.com, www.interwoven.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2709 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2709 Mon, 04 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) announced a2X, a proprietary company process that quickly and professionally converts printed or digital content into XML. a2X (pronounced "A-2-X", for "Anything To XML") can cost-effectively extend the value of any organization's storehouse of learning materials by making those materials available to today's Internet-using audience in the most strategically useful web format possible. a2X can accommodate virtually all common forms of printed and digital content. Supported standards include: Adobe PageMaker, FrameMaker, QuarkXpress, and Macromedia Flash files; Microsoft Word documents; PDF, HTML, and other online formats. Other capabilities found in a2X include XSL templates and a TIS-built publishing engine that transforms XML to HTML, using XSLT. Using XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects), a2X can also create accurate, print-quality PDF representations of the original printed page. www.tatainteractive.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2710 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2710 Mon, 04 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Flexity Technologies, Inc. announced the release of Internet Research Toolbar (IRT) 1.01 for Windows 95/8, NT, ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Internet Research Toolbar provides a built-in way for Internet Explorer Web browser to save, search and manage the content of Web pages. It's like having a search engine just for online information you have saved. A single click on the Internet Research Toolbar's "capture" button saves a Web page, or a selection from a Web page. Saved information can be searched by whole or partial words, project, category, record type, date saved, or by combined search criteria. And, all toolbar functions can all be performed without leaving Internet Explorer. Internet Research Toolbar also creates bibliographic citations formatted specifically for online information. With 16 MLA- and APA-compatible citation styles eight scientific and eight humanities based upon the COLUMBIA GUIDE TO ONLINE STYLE, Internet Research Toolbar simplifies the collection and management of information from online sources. A single-user license is priced at $59.95. Education, student and multi-user discounts are available. A 30-day, full-featured, free trial version can be obtained on the IRT Web site. www.internet-research-toolbar.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2711 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2711 Mon, 04 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Documentum announced the availability of new Language Packs, which simplify and accelerate concurrent implementation of localized Documentum products in many languages. Most enterprise software solutions require phased deployments, as localized product releases are often delivered long after the original language release is available. Now, with the Language Packs available with the Documentum 5 ECM platform, client user interfaces and documentation can be simultaneously produced and delivered in seven languages -- English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. The Language Packs enable global organizations to deploy Documentum -- based solutions in multiple, localized versions at the same time. To accommodate customer requirements for languages other than the seven that Documentum currently offers, the company has launched a new Partner Localization Program. Two partners have committed to delivering localized Documentum products. DELT ICT SERVICES BV, based in the Netherlands, has started providing Dutch versions of the Documentum products, and DocuSoft Corporation, headquartered in Tianjin, China, will provide simplified and traditional Chinese versions later this year. www.documentum.com/products/platform/globalization/index.htm http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2712 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2712 Mon, 04 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT Insightful Corporation announced InFact 2.5, a product upgrade to its text analysis software targeted primarily at defense intelligence and pharmaceutical markets. InFact 2.5 is designed to deliver a new relationship search capability using a new user interface and Java API that enables integration with other applications and portal-based solutions. The release also provides increased precision and recall. With the new release, the user can constrain relationship search results by entity type. The new API allows integration with third party visualization tools enabling graphical discovery of relationships. InFact is designed to help researchers analyze unstructured data to find critical information quickly. Utilizing linguistic search and information extraction techniques based on full sentence parsing, InFact helps researchers achieve a degree of understanding beyond key word and entity search. InFact 2.5 is now available for Sun Solaris. www.insightful.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2713 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2713 Mon, 04 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT BEA Systems, Inc. announced the general availability of BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic 8.1, which is designed to provide a single point of access to enterprise information for portals, web applications and business processes. BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic 8.1 supports the new versions of the BEA WebLogic products, including BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1. Using BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1, the common development environment of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, data architects and administrators can turn enterprise views of data into BEA WebLogic Workshop controls. BEA also has improved the distributed query engine of BEA Liquid Data 8.1 in order to deliver scalable, complex join processing transactions. Lastly, BEA has expanded the data source support in the product, and new feature support for BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 and BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1 has been added. BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic 8.1 is available as an add-on to BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic Server 8.1, BEA WebLogic Integration and BEA WebLogic Portal. BEA products can be downloaded, or customers can receive development versions of the products at no charge as part of the BEA dev2dev subscription program. http://dev2dev.bea.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2715 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2715 Mon, 04 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT JDA Software Group Inc. announced that it has acquired substantially all of the remaining assets of Engage Inc. for $3.0 million in cash. Using Engage's digital asset management and ad layout capabilities, JDA clients will be able to produce localized customer communications in less time and at reduced costs. As the successful bidder in a Chapter 11 auction, JDA gained all intellectual property for Engage's four current product lines that target retailers, agencies, newspapers and corporations as well as all equipment. JDA expects to spend up to an additional $800,000 for assumed liabilities, which will bring the total cost of the Engage acquisition to approximately $3.8 million. JDA has extended employment offers to approximately 30 former Engage sales, development, services and support associates. JDA will close Engage's headquarters in Andover, Mass., and establish a more appropriately configured office in the nearby area. For the nine months ended April 30, 2003, Engage's total unaudited revenues were $8.2 million, which included $2.3 million in software licenses, $3.1 million in maintenance revenue and $2.8 million in services revenue. www.jda.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2716 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2716 Mon, 04 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT W3C announced the advancement of "XForms 1.0" to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 29 August. More flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, the new generation of Web forms separates purpose, presentation, and data. The XForms specification is written for authors and implementers alike. Visit the XForms home page. www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2717 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2003/8/content_management_news.html#2717