News For September, 2003

SAP AG announced the launch of the "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" initiative, a new program designed to empower SAP partners and ISVs with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform to build new business applications. The new program builds upon the SAP NetWeaver Partner Initiative. Initial participants in the "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" program include Merant, Metreo, TimeVision, Trigo and Vertex. While traditionally SAP has certified companies for component interface compliance, this new program offers companies the entire platform for application development. Companies can achieve "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" status by offering third-party applications deployed by SAP Web Application Server of the SAP NetWeaver platform and accessible through SAP Enterprise Portal via pre-built iViews. Merant's Collage content management system and Trigo's Product Center are both "Powered by SAP NetWeaver." www.sap.com

Mediasurface Releases v4.7
9/30/2003

Mediasurface announced their latest release, Mediasurface 4.7. When creating or updating content using the CMC, Mediasurface's content contribution interface, the author can now request the generation of a summary of that content using the theme summarisation feature. Version 4.7 improves the management and monitoring of the Mediasurface Application Engine with introduction of a JMX compliant interface. Reporting on and managing a number of Mediasurface operational areas, including caches, logging and job scheduling. This release adds support for compound documents - content items that contain other content items, such as an article constructed of individual sections, which might be owned by different authors. Additionally, Mediasurface 4.7 allows authors of XML content to preview their documents through user-defined XSL templates. 4.7 offers a range of system based image manipulation capabilities, including the ability to resize, crop, reformat images within the Mediasurface application. www.mediasurface.com

Versant to Merge with Poet
9/29/2003

Versant Corporation announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to merge with Poet Holdings, Inc. Poet shareholders will receive 1.4 shares of Versant Common Stock in exchange for one Poet share. Based on Versant's stock price as of close of market on September 26, 2003 the Versant stock to be issued to Poet shareholders would be worth approximately $26 million and represents approximately 45% of the pro forma combined company's outstanding shares. Poet's Fast Objects object database complements Versant's VDS object database, which is used in high-performance large-scale real-time applications. The joint product line will offer customers the ability to manage XML and other types of hierarchical and navigational data. Versant also plans to target a broad range of applications that include data management, telecommunications, real-time integration, catalog information for supply-chain, and government and defense applications. www.versant.com, www.poet.com

Adobe Unveils Integrated Suite
9/29/2003

Adobe Systems Incorporated unveiled the Adobe Creative Suite, a new product that combines full-version upgrades of Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, and Adobe GoLive CS, incorporates Acrobat 6.0 Professional, and introduces the Version Cue file version manager. With a new editorial workflow technology that allows writers, editors and designers to work simultaneously on the same InDesign CS document, InCopy CS streamlines editorial revision and review cycles. Adobe GoLive CS offers a visual programming environment and supports CSS level-2 layout and authoring. A redesigned CSS editor helps create styles which can be rendered with a visual preview. Code-completion offers users the ability to work with tags directly from a pop-up list in the source code editor. Estimated street price for the Adobe Creative Suite Premium Edition is US$1229 and $999 for the Standard Edition. Adobe Creative Suite for Mac OS X 10.2.4, Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2, and Windows XP Professional and Home Edition, will be available in the fourth quarter of 2003 to customers in the United States and Canada. www.adobe.com

Antarctica Announces Visual Net 4.0
9/29/2003

Antarctica Systems Inc. announced the availability of version 4.0 of its Visual Net (VN) software. Visual Net's map-based visual displays convey the relevant, meaningful content that business users need. The improvements in Visual Net 4.0 are aimed at changing the user focus from dealing with the complexities of constructing complex queries to dealing with key business issues. The VN maps display all the complexities inherent in real business issues, showing multiple dimensions of both macro and micro data. This enables users to have a complete view of their business problems. Visual Net 4.0 has built in more interactivity, allowing users at all levels of the organization to manipulate and filter data to customize the information on the maps, giving users more flexibility in what they see. Visual Net is now equally adept at visualizing three types of information: numeric, textual and geographic - either individually or in combination. Visual Net 4.0 is available immediately. www.antarctica.net

iUpload Content Manager 4.1 Adds Dashboard Interface
9/29/2003

iUpload has simplified the integration of e-marketing, surveys and analytics with content management through the iUpload Dashboard. This new interface makes modules of the iUpload Application Suite accessible through one interface. Content Manager version 4.1 also contains a "cloning" feature that allows replication of an architecture any set of folders, pages and templates for reuse. The cloning feature exploits "wrappers" or templates that are optimized so that there is just one file with all navigational labels and content areas on the site to edit or translate. Version 4.1 includes new tags and attributes; and new fields exist for recommended page keywords, allowing authors to classify content that will provide integration with Site Search and Analytics Modules, and language classifications for multilingual applications. A new Macromedia Dreamweaver extension supports all iUpload tags and attributes. Existing iUpload subscribers gain access to the iUpload Dashboard and other enhancements in iUpload Content Manager version 4.1 automatically and at no additional cost. www.iupload.com

Innodata Changes Name to Innodata Isogen
9/29/2003

Innodata Corporation announced that effective immediately it will be doing business as Innodata Isogen. The company will ask its shareholders in November to approve the change of the corporate name to Innodata Isogen, Inc. Since December 2001, when the company acquired Isogen International, a provider of content management and publishing systems, the company has steadily expanded its offering to encompass the entire content supply chain. Doing business as Innodata Isogen is symbolic of this transformation. www.innodata-isogen.com

eiStream Acquires Lexign
9/24/2003

eiStream, Inc. announced the acquisition of electronic document management and workflow provider Lexign, Inc. Lexign markets two products: Keyfile, a document management and imaging repository that was developed in 1989; and Flow, a Microsoft Exchange-based workflow automation tool. Lexign offers document tracking, management, organization and version control. The Keyfile client interface offers the look and feel of a Microsoft Windows desktop or a Web browser, depending on user preference. The Keyfile Document Server (KDS), an object database, serves and stores documents and implements business processes. Lexign Flow is a business tool that automates mission-critical business processes regardless of complexity. It may be deployed in a single department, across an enterprise or in business-to-business environments. Lexign was founded in July 2001 with the merger of icomXpress (formerly Keyfile), thinkXML and E-Lock Technologies. www.eistream.com

Interwoven Announces Support for Microsoft's .NET Framework
9/24/2003

Interwoven, Inc. announced broad support for the Microsoft .NET platform and its programming model, the .NET Framework. Interwoven's recently announced ContentServices 2.0 SDK (CS SDK) is a Web Services toolkit that interoperates with the .NET Framework. ContentServices 2.0 supports WSDL 1.1 and provides these files for developers to integrate content management into packaged applications such as portals, CRM, ERP, and custom applications. .NET developers can access Interwoven Content Services with Visual Studio .NET. Future releases of Interwoven ContentServices will expose the entire Interwoven product line as a layer of Web Services that can be used in any .NET initiative. They will enable point-and-click as well as custom integrations with .NET-based portal servers such as SharePoint, and will support the recently ratified Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) specification in order to support .NET servers. www.interwoven.com

Open Text Announces Livelink Review Manager for Acrobat
9/24/2003

Open Text Corporation said it will release a new product this month called Livelink Review Manager for Acrobat, which lets users securely execute multiple, parallel reviews of legal and regulatory documents. Livelink Review Manager for Acrobat integrates the review and comment features of Acrobat with Livelink's document management features. With Livelink Review Manager for Acrobat, users' changes are maintained in separate comment files within the repository and linked to the original document. 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 solution also adds a Review Comments tab to Livelink, giving document authors access to review history, including the names of the reviewers, a link to the associated comment files, and the dates and times when the comment files were modified. Livelink Review Manager can be installed with no plug-ins or downloads required, and works with Acrobat 5.0.5 and above. www.opentext.com

Global Moxie Releases Big Medium 1.2
9/24/2003

Global Moxie announced the release of Big Medium 1.2, a major update to the company's web content management system. Big Medium is browser-based software that enables non-technical staff to update websites without learning HTML. New features in Big Medium 1.2 include RSS news feeds, support for non-western languages and a new, streamlined editing interface that makes webpage publishing even easier. The suite of Perl scripts is $129 for web servers running Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris, BSD and other Unix operating systems. A free online demo is available. www.globalmoxie.com

Moreover Launches Enterprise Grade Weblog Search
9/23/2003

Moreover Technologies announced it has launched a real-time weblog search tool for the enterprise. The product harvests information from over 25,000 hand selected, business-critical weblogs. To overcome the issue of the variable quality of blog content the team of human editors at Moreover Technologies assigns each blog a ranking that corresponds to the reliability, integrity and caliber of the blog thus enabling users to instantly identify high value information. Additionally, each blog is tagged with a wide range of metadata including, but not limited to, the number of incoming and outgoing links to it as well as the blog's status in the wider blogging community. The aggregated blog information is also available to users as pre-configured or customized topical 'feeds'. Blog content will also be made available via Moreover's ci-metabase product -- a complete and constantly updated XML feed of all information harvested by Moreover -- allowing a completely customized solution for the enterprise. www.moreover.com

XML Global Sells Assets to Xenos
9/23/2003

XML Global Technologies, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell all of its business assets to Xenos Group Inc. Xenos will acquire XML Global's intellectual property, customer relationships, and operating assets and will retain most employees. The terms of the transaction call for Xenos to pay $1,250,000 and to issue 1,000,000 shares of common stock to XML Global in exchange for the purchased assets, including the GoXML eBusiness product line. Xenos will provide a price guarantee on the Xenos shares to XML Global such that Xenos under certain conditions may make additional cash payments to XML Global, not to exceed C$1,340,000, in the event that Xenos shares are trading below C$3.50 prior to the anniversary date of the closing. The parties hope to be able to consummate the purchase and sale by the end of December 2003. Xenos and XML Global have entered into a co-marketing agreement allowing Xenos to market and sell XML Global's products and services pending completion of the acquisition. www.xenos.com, www.xmlglobal.com

Stellent Releases Universal Content Management 7.0
9/22/2003

Stellent, Inc. announced the release of Stellent Content Management 7.0. Stellent Content Server now supports document management, Web content management, records management, collaboration and digital asset management applications from a single server, and features a new common GUI and common APIs. Version 7.0 leverages Stellent's core platform to offer built-in records management functionality that enables users to manage disposition and retention schedules for electronic and physical records. In addition, Stellent Content Management 7.0 will comply with the U.S. DoD 5015.2 standard. Stellent Content Management 7.0 includes a new, optional, high-volume repository that supports large volumes of content for imaging and digital asset management applications. Version 7.0 also offers workflow support for business processes to enable users to route forms, scanned documents and images through workflows. Additional features include: a simplified workflow interface, schema management, image conversion, directory rollover, enhanced enterprise management, expanded XML functionality, and a simplified pricing model. www.stellent.com

ATG Announces General Availability of ATG 6.1 with Upgraded Web Content Management
9/22/2003

ATG announced the general availability of ATG 6.1. ATG 6.1 contains a variety of new capabilities including an upgraded Web content management solution, integration with industry leading application servers, and enhancements to ATG's innovative Scenario Personalization technology. ATG has upgraded its Web content management solution, ATG Publishing, with several features for companies utilizing database-driven Web applications such as portals, commerce and self-service. ATG 6.1 offers tighter integration with Web application servers including IBM's WebSphere 5.0 and others. New capabilities enable customers to automate business processes in the same manner as ATG's Scenario Personalization allows customers to automate customer interactions on the Web. With the new workflow functions in ATG 6.1, companies can automate repetitive manual business processes. Industry compliance issues, sales and marketing automation, customer and employee service management, and other highly complex processes can be automated through application workflow. www.atg.com

EasyAsk Announces EasyAsk Enterprise 9
9/22/2003

EasyAsk announced EasyAsk Enterprise 9, a platform for unifying all forms of enterprise content and enabling information access across commerce, service and decision support activities. EasyAsk Enterprise 9 delivers information quickly, regardless of format or location. Users can be guided through dynamic navigation, or they may use an advanced natural-language interface to go directly to the content they seek. EasyAsk Enterprise 9 offers three different components. EasyAsk Decision Advisor provides enterprises with an internal solution for harnessing real-time information from multiple sources. It provides novice to expert business users access to information contained within and reports generated from BI platforms. EasyAsk Service Advisor facilitates a variety of enterprise information access for customer self service and call centers and within enterprise portals. For online B2C commerce and catalog merchants and B2B manufacturers and distributors, EasyAsk Commerce Advisor enables their customers to quickly find and browse through merchandise and catalogs that meet their specific criteria. www.easyask.com

iManage Announces Partnership With Kofax
9/22/2003

iManage, Inc. announced a new partnership with Kofax that will bring scanning capabilities to users of the iManage WorkSite suite. iManage has also joined the Kofax Technology Alliance Program. Ascent Capture will be tightly integrated with iManage WorkSite to provide users with a complete, out-of-the-box capture and collaboration solution. Ascent Capture automates the capture of information from documents and forms and delivers retrievable information into business applications. Documents scanned with Ascent Capture will be delivered automatically into iManage WorkSite, capturing the information alongside all project work within the repository -- such as emails, spreadsheets, reports, etc. -- keeping all content in context and readily available for access, editing, collaboration or completion. www.kofax.com, www.imanage.com

Xyleme and Inxight Announce OEM deal & VAR Agreement
9/22/2003

Xyleme and Inxight Software Inc. announced that they have signed an OEM deal and a VAR agreement. Xyleme will integrate Inxight's LinguistX product into its XML repository and will distribute both Inxight ThingFinder and Inxight Summarizer. The integration of Inxight LinguistX with Xyleme Zone Server allows a technical evolution to the Xyleme solution. The new edition will take the name Xyleme Zone Server Lx, referencing the linguistic functionality made possible by integrating Inxight software. Integrating Inxight LinguistX has reduces the size of the index by about 20%, improves response precision for selected complex queries, and provides support for an extended collection of natural languages. In addition to English and French managed by the Xyleme Zone Server Classic edition, Xyleme Zone Server Lx will be able to manage Danish, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Inxight and Xyleme also reached an agreement that will allow Xyleme to distribute Inxight ThingFinder and Inxight Summarizer. www.xyleme.com, www.inxight.com

WHITTMANHART Forms Alliance with ATG to offer Portal & Content Publishing Solutions
9/18/2003

WHITTMANHART announced that it has formed an alliance with ATG. The companies are developing customer self-service solutions that combine WHITTMANHART's portal and content management implementation experience with ATG's portal and publishing solutions. ATG Publishing provides an interface for creating product catalogs, posting updated knowledge base articles, and designing targeted e-mail marketing campaigns. Combined with the ATG Portal, WHITTMANHART and ATG will deliver solutions for self-service and collaboration. www.whittmanhart.com, www.atg.com

ClearForest & Ness Partner
9/18/2003

ClearForest Corp. and Ness Technologies have partnered to develop comprehensive business intelligence solutions for the Life Science industry. The partnership will combine ClearForest's content extraction and analysis software with Ness' 17 years of expertise delivering IT solutions to Life Science companies. The partnership is focused on applying text mining and other advanced knowledge management capabilities to clients' strategic initiatives in drug discovery, clinical development optimization, competitive and business intelligence. In addition to joint product development and implementation, ClearForest will provide Ness with extensive technical, marketing and sales resources to ensure successful integration and implementation with its Life Sciences and other customers. www.clearforest.com, www.ness.com

Altova's XMLSPY 2004 Integrates with Visual Studio .NET
9/18/2003

Altova Inc. announced the availability of XMLSPY 2004 integrated with Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET versions 2002 and 2003. The new integration of XMLSPY 2004's XML development tools and utilities, directly within Microsoft Visual Studio .NET will enable the Microsoft developer community to build XML-enabled software applications for the Microsoft platform. The XMLSPY 2004 integration for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET is included in both XMLSPY 2004 Professional Edition and XMLSPY 2004 Enterprise Edition which retail for $399 and $990 (USD) per installed user. Volume discounts, Support and Maintenance, upgrade pricing, and concurrent licensing options are available, see Altova's online shop for complete price list. www.altova.com

RedDot & Logicworks Announce Hosted CMS
9/17/2003

RedDot Solutions announced that it has partnered with Logicworks to provide customers with a new hosted content management solution based on RedDot's product, RedDot Content Management Server (CMS) 5.0. The joint offering delivers enterprise-class CMS functionality at a fixed monthly cost to small to medium-sized businesses. Logicworks' infrastructure will provide value-added services that enable secure hosting, operating system patching, rapid development and deployment, upgrades, management and flexible finance options. Terms of offering are based on 12 and 24 months with option to convert to a perpetual license. The RedDot/Logicworks hosted solution is created for organizations with fixed budgets that need a full content management system or are limited with hardware resources. Logicworks' managed infrastructure supports RedDot CMS implementations with a dedicated server(s), operating system and connectivity, 24x7 monitoring, failover & redundancy options, back-up and recovery. www.logicworks.net, www.reddot.com

Interwoven Announces Self-Service Solution with iPhrase
9/16/2003

Interwoven, Inc. announced the Interwoven Self-Service Solution, enabling organizations to shift customers and employees to online channels to find information, transact business, and resolve issues. Extending an existing relationship with self-service search and navigation provider iPhrase, Interwoven also announced it will re-sell iPhrase One Step, a search and navigation solution. iPhrase's offerings complement Interwoven's content management platform, and most importantly Interwoven MetaTagger content intelligence server software, for creating, tagging, managing, and deploying business-critical enterprise content. Utilizing metadata services from Interwoven MetaTagger software and natural language capabilities from iPhrase that understands customers' intent, users are routed to the proper online application or information that enables them to serve themselves online without ever speaking with a customer service representative. The Interwoven Self-Service Solution with iPhrase can be purchased from Interwoven today. www.interwoven.com

ClearForest Announces Alliance Program
9/16/2003

ClearForest announced the launch of its Alliance Partners Program. The new program provides a comprehensive set of support resources to partners who provide complementary technologies and services for integrating ClearForest software with other enterprise solutions. ClearForest alliance partners already include Endeca, MicroPatent, Alion Science & Technology, and Verity. The Alliance Partner Program is intended to support two core partner groups. Technology Partners -- who offer technologies complimentary to ClearForest's, and Integration Partners -- who provide customers with a variety of services including vertical market customization, integration with content management or related applications, development of domain-specific applications built upon the ClearForest platform, customization of Discovery Modules and related implementation and training services. www.clearforest.com

Xerox Unveils DocuShare 3.1
9/16/2003

Xerox Corporation unveiled DocuShare 3.1. The new software components include two add-on modules that make it easier for end users to share information. Built on the Dralasoft Workflow engine, the Enterprise Workflow add-on component extends DocuShare's core document approval and routing capabilities. For Web collaboration on team projects and documents, DocuShare users can integrate DocuShare Interact an add-on built on Sparrow Web technology developed at Palo Alto Research Center. DocuShare Interact allows people to create shared, collaborative Web pages for project management, reports, calendars, meetings, to-do lists, blogs, and other types of group work that needs to be published and updated on the Web. In addition, the DocuShare Developer Environment enables further development and customization of DocuShare solutions. The entry-level U.S. list price for a complete DocuShare system with 10 seats is $4,045 and a 100-seat system is $9,995. Existing DocuShare 3.0 customers with a support agreement can upgrade to DocuShare 3.1 at no charge. DocuShare 3.1, DocuShare Interact, DocuShare Enterprise Workflow and DocuShare Developer Environment will be available beginning Oct. 15. www.xerox.com

Pindar Systems Releases Agility 2.1
9/16/2003

Pindar Systems announced the availability of Agility 2.1, an update that adds new enterprise platform and application support, Java and Web ease-of-use features, and workflow/functionality enhancements. Pindar Systems has added to Agility interfaces for its Java and Web clients, and other productivity features. New workflow enhancements include event triggering on workflow state changes, auto-advance of "child" states, defined "next states," and extended auto-transition rules. New functionality features include check-in and check-out for documents and digital media assets, new capabilities for automating the creation of complex tables, and automated Enterprise Java Beans functionality. Agility 2.1 supports Adobe's InDesign 2.0 desktop publishing system, and the QuarkXpress desktop publishing product. IBM's Websphere and BEA's WebLogic application servers are supported as well as IBM's DB2, Oracle 9i and MS SQL Server 2000 database products. Agility 2.1 also now runs on the UNIX AIX/Solaris platforms in addition to Microsoft Windows 2000. www.pindarsystems.com

FileNet Introduces Content Integration Interface to BEA WebLogic Portal
9/15/2003

FileNet Corporation announced a joint solution with BEA Systems Inc. known as the FileNet Content SPI Integration for BEA. With this service provider interface (SPI), users of BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 can leverage FileNet's content management capabilities in developing dynamic and personalized Web applications. In addition, the integration leverages the upcoming JSR 170 specification, which simplifies integration with other portals in the future. The SPI is designed to provide integration without the need to replicate data between the BEA WebLogic Portal content repository and FileNet content repository. Consequently, as content is changed within FileNet, the change will be immediately reflected within the portal environment via the SPI. www.filenet.com

Vignette to Acquire Intraspect
9/15/2003

Vignette Corp. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Intraspect Software, Inc., a provider of enterprise collaboration solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Vignette will pay $20 million, comprised of $10 million in cash and approximately 4.2 million shares of Vignette stock, for Intraspect. The transaction is subject to approval from the Intraspect stockholders and customary closing conditions. The Intraspect product line includes Java-based collaboration functionality and a complete collaborative applications framework so users can customize the user interface and collaboration services flow. Services provided by the core Intraspect platform include indexing and search, security, communications, data management and subscription notification. In addition to the core Intraspect 5 platform, Intraspect offers several packaged horizontal and vertical solutions that help customers solve more complex collaborative business process needs. As part of Vignette, the Intraspect 5 platform will continue to be sold, supported and enhanced as well as offered in an integrated suite. Vignette also will integrate Intraspect technology with its content management and portal solutions. www.intraspect.com. www.vignette.com

NextPage Launches NXT 4
9/15/2003

NextPage Inc. announced the launch of NXT 4, a publishing suite for publishers and corporations to secure and deliver information on the Internet, to corporate intranets and on CD/DVD. New NXT 4 is designed for commercial publishers that provide content on the Web or through other electronic media, and for publishers of corporate reference libraries that deliver information critical for decision making to employees and clients. New license management features in NXT 4 allow publishers to apply secure license rights to content delivered on CD and to corporate intranets. Corporations that need to deliver business-critical information to end users, such as auditors, insurance underwriters or other frontline service professionals, can use NXT 4 to reduce risk of noncompliance with features such as a user interface designed for researchers, incremental updates and content networking with other offices and commercial publishers. Corporations can use NXT 4 in applications such as auditor's reference libraries, help desk knowledgebases and electronic policy and procedure manuals. NXT 4 is scheduled to ship Sept. 30, 2003. www.nextpage.com

Percussion Chooses Oracle Application Server 10g as Strategic Platform
9/15/2003

Percussion Software announced that it has chosen Oracle Application Server 10g as a strategic platform for its Rhythmyx 5 ECM system. The combination of Rhythmyx 5 and Oracle Application Server 10g will addresses enterprises' need for flexible content management solutions that facilitate content reuse across multiple delivery channels, including Web sites, enterprise portals and mission-critical Internet and other enterprise applications. www.percussion.com

Xythos Supports Oracle Application Server 10g
9/15/2003

Xythos Software announced that its WebFile Client will support Oracle Application Server 10g, a middleware offering that simplifies the management of applications running in a grid computing environment. Together, the products help simplify the process of publishing and managing any type of content by leveraging WebDAV and exposing the portal content management features of Oracle Application Server 10g directly within the Windows Explorer desktop environment. Users can edit and publish content and associated metadata, version files, and set access controls directly from their preferred desktop applications, helping to simplify the publishing process. In addition, the WebFile Client also introduces offline file synchronization. The WebFile Client for Oracle Application Server 10g is expected to be commercially available beginning in October 2003.

Arbortext Partners with Data Conversion Laboratory
9/15/2003

Arbortext, Inc. announced a new partnership where Arbortext will offer data conversion services from Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL). Including DCL data conversion services with Arbortext applications gives organizations access to more comprehensive solutions as they build and implement XML-based publishing applications. www.dclab.com, www.arbortext.com

Entrieva & Northern Light Partner
9/15/2003

Entrieva, Inc. and Northern Light Group LLC announced the signing of a marketing and technical co-operation agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will integrate the Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine with Entrieva's Semio classification engine so that a customer of either would have the option of using the other component seamlessly. The companies further agreed to work on joint sales and marketing opportunities together. www.entrieva.com, www.northernlight.com

INSCI Announces WebWare Acquisition
9/10/2003

INSCI Corp. announced the acquisition of WebWare. The acquisition was made for cash and stock. Further terms of the transaction will be disclosed on Form 8K to be filed with the SEC by the end of the month. This transaction is anticipated to accelerate the development of the next generation of ActiveMedia SOAP/J2EE platform. WebWare ActiveMedia software brings INSCI a digital asset management platform for integrating rich media contentsuch as images, illustrations, layouts, slide presentations, video and animationinto content management systems, web publishing systems, and e-commerce portals. This complementary technology is expected to broaden INSCI's product suite, which is designed for the capture, long-term preservation and web presentment of such content as banking and financial statements, explanations of benefits (EOBs), claim images, and e-mail. The resulting expanded enterprise solution manages wide-ranging business contentfrom documents to e-mail, graphic images to video. www.webwarecorp.com, www.insci.com

RedDot Expands Multilingual Support & Content Translation Functionality
9/10/2003

RedDot Solutions announced that it has expanded its support of multilingual web development with the latest version of its Translation Editor. The RedDot Translation Editor assists organizations with managing the translation of content between multiple languages and enables organizations to automatically default to the primary language during a translation. RedDot offers native support for English, French, Spanish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese and Polish languages. The RedDot multi-language project structures are centrally administered allowing administrators and editors to manage the different language variants. Organizations can use the RedDot system to design sites that display the same information in multiple languages. The solution also provides for characteristics such as UTF-8/UTF-16, all ISO character sets and SHIFT-JIS for Asian character sets. www.reddot.com

Atomz Announces Enhancements to Software Suite
9/8/2003

Atomz announced that it has added a series of new features and functionality to its Web-native software. Nearly a dozen new enhancements work together to improve the ease-of-use, security, customization and reliability of its suite of products. Context menus of the content management solution's Rich Text Editor now allow users to right-click their mouse to Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete and Select All. Administrators using Atomz Publish now have a greater ability to control the exact format of automatically generated file names. Web teams working on collaborative projects will benefit from the upgraded WebDAV support for Macromedia Dreamweaver. Search Restrictions is a new feature in Atomz Search that is useful for Web sites that wish to limit the viewing of search result content in some manner. Atomz Promote now enables multiple site search promotions to be rotated across a particular keyword or key phrase. Search Personalization has been added to Atomz Search. Atomz Promote can now be utilized in conjunction with the categorization feature of Atomz Search. www.atomz.com

Ipedo Announces New Multi-Source Enterprise Information Integration (EII) Capabilities
9/8/2003

Ipedo announced their software platform now handles concurrent assimilation of complex information sets from Oracle 9i, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server and Web Services. The information integration was done using Ipedo's XML-based views and query technologies. With this new capability, Ipedo allows enterprises to create custom information views on demand. The XML-driven EII capabilities of the Ipedo XML Information Hub go beyond integration and allow custom assembly and persistence of information, in the variety of industry standard formats. The testing was done using the Ipedo XML Information Hub 3.3 with Oracle 9iR2, DB2 Universal Database v3.1, MySQL Pro v4.0, SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition, and a public Web Service from Google. Information was integrated using XQuery to quickly aggregate real-time business information across multiple sources, leveraging Ipedo's XML Views, Web Services Views, Content Conversion and Universal XQuery Engine capabilities. www.Ipedo.com

Gilbane Report to Administer Industry Initiative to Promote & Disseminate Content Technology Best Practices
9/8/2003

The Gilbane Report announced that it has agreed to administer an industry initiative to be known as The Gilbane Content Technology Works Program. Under the auspices of this program, best practices and success stories will be documented, assessed and published. Founding partners represent leaders from every segment of the content technology marketplace including enterprise infrastructure, content management, portal, XML databases, search and categorization, digital asset management and content integration. Gilbane Content Technology Works founding partners include Software AG, Sun Microsystems, Artesia Technologies, Atomz, Context Media, Convera, Vignette, and WebWare. Material will be developed in collaboration with enterprises able to share their experiences and will be written in "the enterprise's voice." Final editorial review and the essential components of these works will be established by the enterprises whose stories we relate. In order to develop this valuable information at no cost to the consumer, leading content technology vendors have been invited to subsidize the expense of developing and distributing content technology best practices. Vendor partners do not determine which enterprises we collaborate with and will be subsidizing success stories that do not include their technology. The first collection of success stories and best practices will be rolled out through all of our channels during the 4th quarter of 2003. www.gilbane.com/technology_works.html

IXIASOFT & Ingeniux Partner
9/8/2003

IXIASOFT and Ingeniux announced a new technology partnership to integrate TEXTML Server with Ingeniux Content Management System (CMS). Combining these two XML technologies will provide customers with a comprehensive XML-based Web content management solution. IXIASOFT's TEXTML Server is an XML content server designed for software developers who require advanced storing, indexing, and searching capabilities for their applications. Ingeniux CMS provides a complete Web content management and publishing system for developing, managing and deploying Web content throughout the enterprise. Ingeniux CMS empowers non-technical users to contribute to and manage the Web publishing process. Adding TEXTML Server, a native XML repository, to Ingeniux Content Management System will extend its functionality by providing users with advanced searching and publishing capabilities. The joint product offering is aimed at organizations who wish to take full advantage of a pure XML architecture. As part of this technology partnership, IXIASOFT and Ingeniux will collaborate on and coordinate sales and marketing efforts. www.ixiasoft.com, www.ingeniux.com

Vivisimo Announces Release 4.0 of Clustering Engine
9/4/2003

Vivisimo announced the upcoming Release 4.0 of its Clustering Engine, which organizes internet or intranet search results on the fly into meaningful folders. The Clustering Engine now integrates a fully compliant XSLT processor, allowing administrators to customize the end-user interface. Corporate information managers can customize the installation by adding company or industry-specific knowledge such as synonyms, acronyms, abbreviations, spelling variants and type-of relations as XML declarations or via a web-based interface. Or they can select Vivisimo's built-in knowledge bases for news, science, government, medicine, and others. Using XSLT, regular expressions, and an enhanced conversion framework, the Vivisimo Clustering Engine can extract meta-data and convert any type of data sources to XML. New versions of Vivisimo's Content Integrator, Enterprise Publisher and Software Development Kit are included in Release 4.0. Customers and OEMs now get an integrated solution that solves the twin challenges of organizing information and providing a single entry point to multiple information sources. www.vivisimo.com

XyEnterprise & Right Hemisphere Partner
9/4/2003

XyEnterprise and Right Hemisphere have announced an integration of their products to support the use and re-use of CAD data and technical content across enterprise creation, management, and delivery environments. This integrated solution will serve engineering, training, and technical documentation creators and users throughout the aerospace, military, and product manufacturing sectors. The solution components include XyEnterprise's Content@ content management and workflow software and Right Hemisphere's Deep Server VIS technology. The integration of Deep Server with Content@ creates a complete technical content and graphical information delivery solution. This solution promotes efficient re-use and re-purposing of graphics and text content used to support and maintain complex products. This integration also promotes the creation and delivery of next-generation training and support materials, derived from the source CAD and technical documentation data sets. Right Hemisphere solution is available now. www.xyenterprise.com, www.righthemisphere.com

Plumtree Ships Products to Support WSRP & Proposed JSR 168 Portlet Standards
9/3/2003

Plumtree released new software to support Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) from OASIS and the proposed final draft of the Java Specification Request 168 (JSR 168) portlet standard. For both standards implementations, Plumtree's support extends to versions 4.5, 4.5WS and 5.0 of the Plumtree Corporate Portal. Currently in proposed final draft, JSR 168 is developed though the Java Community Process with contributions and support from an 18-member Expert Group (EG). It is a portlet standard for portal computing designed to establish a common interface for portlets. Final release of the standard is expected later this month. Plumtree plans to update its container with any changes made in the final release of the JSR 168 standard. In any implementation of JSR 168, the portal communicates with a container, which contains the actual JSR 168 portlet. The Plumtree Container was designed to run on many application servers and Web servers including Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere. www.plumtree.com

Trade-Ranger to Release Content Platform 2.0
9/3/2003

Trade-Ranger Inc. has announced plans to release new and expanded capabilities through its Content Platform 2.0. Powered by i2 Content Management solutions from i2's latest software release, i2 Six, Trade-Ranger's new offering provides improved features and functionality, standardization, flexibility, cost/adoption efficiencies, scalability and usability. Through the utilization of i2 Content Management solutions, part of the i2 Supplier Relationship Management suite, Trade-Ranger's Content Platform 2.0 allows suppliers to upload and publish catalog content, while enabling them to build and maintain product information. It also offers a catalog and content search tool that permits buyers to locate products and suppliers in real-time. Some of the updates in which customers will benefit include multi-language support, bulk file uploads, multiple auto-approval rules, newly developed templates, and the ability to export in multiple formats. www.trade-ranger.com, www.i2.com

ViewCentral & Brainshark Form Alliance
9/2/2003

Brainshark, Inc. and ViewCentral Inc. announced a strategic marketing and sales alliance. Together the companies will jointly market ViewCentral Collaboration Management Solutions and the Brainshark Communications Platform. The Brainshark Communications Platform enables customers to create, manage, and share rich-media communications by combining audio, visuals, and business documents which can be viewed on-demand. ViewCentral Collaboration Management Solutions enable companies to automate and manage all collaborative event processes including scheduling, registration, online payments, communications, follow-up and reporting. Brainshark and ViewCentral are also both integrated with leading Web conferencing providers WebEx and Microsoft Live Meeting (PlaceWare). www.brainshark.com, www.viewcentral.com

Interwoven Announces Availability of MediaBin Asset Server 3.0
9/2/2003

Interwoven, Inc. announced the availability of Interwoven MediaBin Asset Server 3.0 software, an integrated digital brand management solution incorporating a services-oriented architecture (SOA). On June 27, 2003, Interwoven completed its acquisition of MediaBin. MediaBin Asset Server 3.0 software includes a new Web Services-enabled connector for Interwoven TeamSite content server software that automatically ensures that published renditions of digital assets are always properly formatted and up-to-date across all Internet-based applications. Interwoven MediaBin 3.0 can be purchased from Interwoven today at an entry price of approximately $100K. www.interwoven.com

Altova Updates Tools; Introduces MAPFORCE 2004
9/2/2003

Altova Inc. announced the availability of the new Altova 2004 XML development tools product line, designed to meet the needs of building advanced XML and Web services applications. The new Altova 2004 product line consists of updates to existing products, XMLSPY 2004, AUTHENTIC 2004, and STYLEVISION 2004, and introduces a new product, MAPFORCE 2004. MAPFORCE 2004 is a visual data integration tool, which auto-generates custom data mapping code in multiple output languages such as XSLT and Java, to enable programmatic XML-to-XML or database-to-XML data transformations. Altova's new MAPFORCE 2004 provides a 2-step XML-based approach to enterprise data integration. Using MAPFORCE 2004, data architects can programmatically convert data into XML from any database by drawing visual mappings from relational databases to any data model expressed in XML schema. MAPFORCE 2004 will then auto-generate the software program code required to programmatically marshal data from the source database to the target XML schema. Next, data can be transformed from one XML format to another, by visually drawing mappings between different XML schema data models. MAPFORCE 2004 is available for a free 30-day trial download or purchase for $499 for a single user license. www.altova.com

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