News For May, 2004

Weborganic Systems announced Version 3.0 of PageSeeder. With this upgrade users are now able to create and manage document annotations across the full range of Adobe Acrobat clients, including older versions and the Acrobat Reader client. Other features include: an interface allowing non-technical users to create private and secure review groups featuring mail list capabilities; messaging support to allow reviewers to interact using native Acrobat commenting tools, web forms or standard email clients; the ability to lodge documents for review either by uploading or emailing attachment files; support for HTML, PDF and standard Office formats and international characters (Unicode); and availability either with a web-interface or as a middleware server and API for integration into existing document management environments. PageSeeder Version 3.0 is available immediately and can be evaluated either online or as a 30-day trial download. www.weborganic.com

Hot Banana & NI Solutions Partner
5/27/2004

Hot Banana Software Inc. and NI Solutions announced the signing of a partnership agreement to deliver Hot Banana's Web Content Management System to NI Solutions' customers and to allow joint marketing of the solution. www.hotbanana.com, www.nisolutions.ca

Accenture & FileNet Announce Digital Pen Connector Software
5/25/2004

Accenture and FileNet Corporation announced new technology that enables insurance field agents and other mobile workers to electronically perform tasks that once required mounds of paperwork. The technology, designed for use with low-cost commercially available digital pens in conjunction with FileNet Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, allows mobile workers to capture and transmit information to a central repository, where it can be put to work to initiate business processes. The Digital Pen Connector software, written by Accenture Technology Labs, captures the pen strokes, translates them into usable data, and delivers the data to the FileNet ECM system. FileNet ECM then integrates the data in a central content repository for sharing and launches business processes according to the requirements of the business. The solution provides a low-cost alternative to equipping workers with costlier pen-based devices, such as tablet computers or personal digital assistants, and should benefit industries that rely heavily on paper-based processes. www.accenture.com, www.filenet.com

Xpriori Releases NeoCore XMS-Developer for Linux Beta
5/25/2004

Xpriori announced the availability of a public beta release of Xpriori's NeoCore XMS-Developer for Linux. Available to all who participate in Xpriori's public beta program, the download is fully functional and has no time limit. Only upon deployment of solutions based on NeoCore XMS must a deployment license be obtained. NeoCore XMS is a Unified XML Information Management System/Database that can manage data and documents, as well as a variety of content types such as spreadsheets, media files, and forms in a fully transactional and access controlled environment. Support for free developer versions of Xpriori products is available on the interactive developer forum at www.xpriori.com/developers

Interwoven Announces WorkSite MP 4.0 for Collaborative Document Management
5/24/2004

Interwoven Inc. announced Interwoven WorkSite MP 4.0, enterprise-class collaborative document management software for multiple platforms. The new version features improved usability, better business-unit level configurations, and enhanced compliance capabilities. WorkSite MP 4.0 brings collaborative document management to front-office professionals (such as lawyers, consultants, and other domain experts). WorkSite MP is an Internet-based product suite that delivers collaboration and document management solutions capabilities to allow teams, departments, and divisions of large enterprises to collaborate, build, and share information and manage projects. The software is available in a browser-based interface, integrated with front-office applications such as Microsoft Office, Outlook, and Lotus Notes, or as portlets for the most widely used portals. Interwoven WorkSite MP 4.0 will be available in June. www.interwoven.com

Authentica Extends Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services
5/24/2004

Authentica, Inc. announced planned support for Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS). Authentica will partner with Microsoft to extend Windows RMS capabilities beyond the user desktop level to let organizations centrally and automatically enforce document and email usage policies within and outside of corporate boundaries. Authentica will extend the Windows RMS platform with mandatory policy enforcement, e-mail content filtering integration, network folder integration, user enrollment and initialization, and heterogeneous messaging support. Authentica protects corporate IP and other sensitive data both during and after delivery with its Active Rights Management technology. Documents and email are continuously protected and secured, even while letting others revise them. Information owners can control who can access, edit, copy/paste, forward, and print documents, spreadsheets and presentations. www.authentica.com

FatWire Software Announces Spark 6
5/24/2004

FatWire Software announced that it has expanded its integration with the BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 through the latest release of Spark 6 pCM (portal Content Management) for the BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 and the introduction of FatWire's BEA Control Bridge for BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1. Spark 6 pCM supports BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 standards, CM: SPI and JSR 168. Spark features content management and document management interfaces, and installs with four pre-built delivery portlets for job postings, corporate communications, documents and advertisements. FatWire's BEA Control Bridge provides developers the ability to create applications in BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1. The Control Bridge allows developers to access all content and assets, regardless of data type, stored in FatWire Content Server repositories. Spark 6 pCM is $25,000 per server, and is available now.www.fatwire.com

CA & Zope to Bring Open Source Content Management to Enterprises
5/24/2004

Computer Associates International, Inc. and Zope Corporation announced plans to provide customers with open source content management solutions that are compatible with relational database technology and meet enterprise demands for performance, data persistence and manageability. These collaboratively developed solutions will combine Zope's open source content management platform with CA's Ingres Enterprise Relational Database (Ingres). Zope implementations are currently supported by the open source, flat-file database, ZODB. Software engineers from CA and Zope will build an open source RDBMS persistence module that takes advantage of APE (Adaptable Persistence Engine). As a result of this new module, Zope implementations will be supportable by Ingres. The new module could also facilitate support of Zope implementations by relational database management systems other than Ingres. CA is prepared to commit significant development resources to Zope technology. CA and Zope Corporation are expected to announce availability of a Zope RDBMS persistence engine by the end of the year. www.ca.com, www.zope.com

Microsoft Previews Insurance Forms Accelerator
5/24/2004

Microsoft Corp. unveiled a preview of the Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Insurance Forms. The accelerator is designed to help insurance industry customers by tying standardized ACORD forms with XML Web services and making those forms available to participants of any of the ACORD forms programs through the use of Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 information gathering program. The accelerator comprises the ACORD forms and XML schemas designed for use with InfoPath 2003, a set of workflow transactions using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, and prescriptive architecture and code for Web services, security and digital signatures. The full release of the accelerator will coincide with the release of the Microsoft Office 2003 Editions Service Pack 1 later this year. The service pack will include several enhancements to InfoPath 2003. www.microsoft.com

Document Sciences & Xenos Partner
5/21/2004

Document Sciences Corporation and Xenos Group Inc. announced that they have entered into a cooperative marketing agreement. The partnership will enable organizations to use Xenos Group's GoXML product suite to transform legacy and disparate system data into personalized content that can be delivered by Document Science's xPression content processing software to multiple output channels, including Web, print, and email, while maintaining complete fidelity of the originating systems. GoXML is an integration and transaction processing solution for structured data such as EDI, EDIFACT, AL3, HL7, X12, XML, FIX/SWIFT and other industry standards. www.xenos.com, www.docscience.com

Plumtree Launches Retail Solutions Group
5/19/2004

Plumtree Software launched a new retail solutions group to develop, market and sell Plumtree-powered solutions to the retail industry. Staffed with sales, marketing and engineering professionals, the group is focused on working with retail-focused services and software companies to build solutions for store performance management, associate productivity and retention and supplier collaboration. By using Plumtree's portal, integration and collaboration software to build these solutions, retailers can combine data and functionality from many existing systems. www.plumtree.com

Vignette Announces Series of Organizational Compliance & Governance Offerings
5/19/2004

Vignette Corp. announced a series of technology solutions to help companies meet organizational compliance challenges, including records and document management, process controls and business productivity applications. Building on the records and document management technologies acquired with TOWER Technology Pty Ltd., Vignette now provides a series of solutions that, together or individually, can help organizations meet the audit and reporting requirements of regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Financial Services Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission, while providing the data security and accessibility required by regulations and guidelines such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Vignette's enterprise capture technology handles paper records, electronic documents, scanned images and e-mail communications, and manages the information through its life cycle, from creation to destruction. Vignette's integrated records and document management product has achieved the Department of Defense 5015.2-STD certification. www.vignette.com

Day Announces Group has Released JSR 170 for Review
5/19/2004

Day Software announced that the industry expert group has placed in public review the specification request for JSR 170. JSR 170, which has been developed according to the Java Community Process (JCP), is designed to improve the interoperability between content repositories and applications, allowing developers to work with a homogenous API for all content repositories. The JSR 170 standard will help companies manage content across the large-scale enterprise. In addition to Day, Apache, IBM, SAP, BEA Systems and Oracle all serve as members of expert group for JSR 170. Other industry participants include, Documentum Inc., Filenet Corp., and Vignette. The standard is now available for public review. The public review closes on July 19, 2004. www.jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/review/jsr170/, www.day.com

Stellent & Protiviti to Collaborate on Compliance Platform
5/18/2004

Stellent, Inc. announced it has entered into a strategic agreement with Protiviti Inc., an internal audit and business and technology risk consulting firm, to create a content management-based compliance platform. Under the agreement, Stellent will deliver and market compliance solutions based on the Stellent Universal Content Management system and supported by Protiviti subject matter expertise. These solutions, to be co-marketed by Protiviti, will offer capabilities such as audit trails; document management; project management and reporting; personalized interfaces; automated process documentation collection and process testing; secure, Web-based access by internal and external users; and records management. www.stellent.com, www.protiviti.com

GlobalSight Signs OEM Agreement with Alchemy Software
5/18/2004

GlobalSight Corporation announced that it has entered into agreement with Ireland-based software localization solution provider Alchemy Software Development for integrating Catalyst 5.0 into GlobalSight's Ambassador product. Ambassador is an enterprise software application with localization management tools. The OEM relationship combines Catalyst's translation of software applications with Ambassador's enterprise process automation. Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 allows for the creation of a localization toolkit that contains all of the linguistic and cultural material that needs to be translated. Ambassador's workflow component and enterprise architecture will enable deployment of Catalyst across large organizations, automating the creation and distribution of developer packages containing software files for software localization. The Software Localization Module will automate the creation, leveraging and extraction of files necessary for software localization; generate statistics for all actions; and enable users to track files throughout the lifecycle of the software localization process. www.globalsight.com

Gilbane Report Team Expands with Laplante as VP Consulting Services & Zoellick as Senior Analyst
5/18/2004

Bluebill Advisors, Inc. and the Gilbane Report announced the appointment of two highly respected industry veterans to meet the rapidly growing demand for the company's consulting services. Mary Laplante has joined the company as Vice President, Consulting Services, and will be responsible for the management and operations of the Content Technology Works Program, Gilbane Report webinars, white papers, and consulting projects. Mary is well known throughout the content technology industry from her extensive industry sales, marketing, and management experience, from her work as an analyst, writer, and consultant, and from her role as Founding Executive Director of OASIS. Mary's experience and exceptional management and organizational skills will help grow the Gilbane Report CTW program and consulting activities to the next level. Bill Zoellick has also joined the Gilbane Report as Senior Analyst, and will be devoting his considerable analytical and writing skills to the Gilbane CTW and White Paper programs. Bill is a highly regarded author whose books include "CyberRegs: A Business Guide to Web Property, Privacy, and Patents", and "Web Engagement: Connecting to Customers in e-Business", both from Addison-Wesley. Bill's insightful and penetrating analysis has informed his many roles as a manager, researcher, developer and author in the content and information management industry. www.gilbane.com

SAIC's TeraText Solutions Signs Agreement with Stellent
5/17/2004

TeraText Solutions, a division of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), announced that it has entered into a license agreement with Stellent, Inc.'s Content Components Division to embed Stellent Outside In XML Export, HTML Export, and Viewer technology for use in TeraText Database Systems. SAIC's TeraText Database Systems (DBS) is an information management system optimized for storing and manipulating large volumes of text and managing large structured text databases. Stellent's tools expand TeraText's existing capabilities by providing the ability to convert more than 250 proprietary file formats to XML or HTML for indexing and searching in conjunction with the TeraText DBS. TeraText technology was developed at Melbourne-based RMIT University. In July 2001, SAIC entered into an exclusive agreement with RMIT to develop and commercialize TeraText technology in North America and Europe. The TeraText DBS is sold as part of customized, integrated solutions developed and maintained by SAIC systems specialists. Applications include intelligence gathering, technical documentation, legislation management, publishing, and knowledge management. www.saic.com

Idiom Releases WorldServer Global Electronic Publishing Solution
5/17/2004

Idiom Technologies, Inc. expanded the WorldServer product family with the introduction of a new, application-specific version of WorldServer designed to meet the needs of global electronic publishing organizations. WorldServer Global Electronic Publishing enables cross-functional teams including authors, reviewers, editors, translators, localization specialists, and publishers to automate large portions of the document lifecycle, and deliver content in any format or language. With version control, an integrated XML repository, an extensible publishing framework, "preview in-context" capabilities, and search & query functions, the new member of the WorldServer product family enables "continuous translation" of complex documents. The new Idiom solution supports a variety of digital publishing formats including HTML, PDF, CHM (complied help), as well as print. And it is designed to work with authoring tools, such as Adobe FrameMaker. www.idiominc.com

Altova Releases Software Version 2004 Release 4
5/17/2004

Altova Inc. announced the immediate availability of Release 4 of its Version 2004 product line. Among the major enhancements are extended data-mapping functionality in Altova MAPFORCE 2004, a completely redesigned Altova STYLEVISION 2004, and numerous upgrades to XMLSPY 2004. The entire Version 2004 Release 4 (v2004r4) product line is available for immediate download. In addition to the new features in v2004r4, the Altova Support and Maintenance Package (SMP) now includes coverage for major software releases. New bundled packaging for suites was also announced. Altova Enterprise XML Suite includes v2004r4 Enterprise Editions of XMLSPY, MAPFORCE and STYLEVISION at a savings of almost $700 (USD) off regular price of products purchased separately. Altova Professional XML Suite includes v2004r4 Professional Editions of XMLSPY, MAPFORCE and STYLEVISION at a savings of almost $250 (USD) off regular price of products purchased separately. www.altova.com

Dralasoft & Xythos Partner
5/13/2004

Dralasoft, Inc. announced that Xythos Software has chosen to partner with them to provide integrated workflow/document management solutions for enterprise use. The solutions will provide a way for organizations to access, distribute, route, process, and review documents and other file-based information according to the users pre-set rules and standards. Xythos has customized Dralasoft Workflow, Dralasofts BPM product, for use with its WebFile family of products. The new solutions will leverage a range of Xythos/Dralasoft applications including Xythos WebFile Server (WFS) and Client Technology; WebFile Document Manager, WebFile Classification Manager, and WebFile Records Manager; WebFile Client and WebFile Scan Client; as well as Dralasoft Workflow Engine, Workflow Manager, and Workflow Studio. www.dralasoft.com

Comprendium Releases ContentGateWay 2.1
5/13/2004

Comprendium announced the immediate availability of ContentGateWay 2.1. This version of its content integration solution extends product functionality, while making it simpler to use. Building on Comprendium's Content Services Platform concept ContentGateWay 2.1 includes additional application and infrastructure platform support; enhanced security, scalability and availability features; and a number of end-user enhancements. ContentGateWay 2.1 enhances support for essential enterprise functionality, including load balancing, clustering, caching, and replication. ContentGateWay2.1 provides a unified interface to all content repositories (e.g. XML, Java, .net) by supporting any available protocol such as Corba, SOAP, JMS, RMI, and SMI Comprendium's optimized content protocol. With the new Virtual View users no longer need to know where content resides, since all integrated repositories are available. They can also easily build their own content GUIs or integrate them into existing applications through the availability of content access visual content components (e.g. taglibs, ActiveX). ContentGateWay is based on J2EE and includes a SOAP-based interface. www.comprendium.biz

Hot Banana & SitePosition Partner
5/12/2004

Hot Banana Software Inc. and SitePosition announced a partnership to co-market Hot Banana, a Web Content Management System, built from the ground up in harmony with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) best practices. Websites with content that has previously been inaccessible to search engine spiders, due to Macromedia's Flash!, or dynamic or database-driven content, can now admit search engine spiders and crawlers to access all publicly-available web content, no matter how deep. Hot Banana's ability to parse and index all existing and updated web content, information and data enables any website to achieve a balance between organic search engine rankings and a paid-ranking strategy with Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. Hot Banana is built on Macromedia's Cold Fusion MX Server, can leverage the features available to a J2EE application server, and can be deployed on IBM's WebSphere or Macromedia's JRUN. Hot Banana's database engine is Microsoft's SQL Server, and Hot Banana is .NET-, XML-, and Web Services-ready. Web server performance is taken into consideration by caching database queries, creating persistent Web page objects, and producing cached, XML-based navigation structures. www.hotbanana.com, www.siteposition.ca

Extensis Announces Portfolio 7.0 for Windows
5/12/2004

Extensis Inc. announced immediate availability of its Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution, Portfolio 7 and Portfolio Server 7 for Windows (Macintosh versions will be available in May). Portfolio enables small-to-medium sized organizations to multiple workgroups in global 2000 companies to organize, retrieve, repurpose, and distribute digital files. Portfolios new AutoSync functionality allows users to assign tasks to Portfolio Server, enabling automatic synchronization. NetPublish is an add-on module that automates the process of turning Portfolio catalogs into full featured websites. Other features include One Click CD/DVD archiving, Batch Image Conversion that allows users to convert image files to JPEG or TIFF format, with controls for resolution, size and color mode, and Round-trip embedding of IPTC and XMP metadata into JPEG and TIFF files. Portfolio 7 is available at an estimated street price of $199.95US with a single NetPublish license. Upgrades are available for an estimated street price of $99.95US. Portfolio Server's estimated street price is $3,499.95US. Upgrades to Portfolio 7 Server are available for an estimated street price of $1,999.95. NetPublish Server licenses can be purchased for an estimated street price of $1999.95US. www.extensis.com

Documentum Launches Application Logo Program
5/11/2004

Documentum announced its Application Logo Program that provides Documentum partners with resources and guidance for developing offerings based on the Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform and helps customers easily identify Documentum-accredited solutions for extending their use of the platform. The Application Logo Program provides partners with design standards, architectural support and development best practices for developing out-of-the-box applications, integrations and solutions based on the Documentum ECM platform. Partners in the Application Logo Program earn a "Designed for Documentum" designation for a specific offering by conforming to a stringent set of design specifications and other criteria established by Documentum in collaboration with its partners and customers. Currently, 12 offerings that have earned the Designed for Documentum designation are available with additional offerings currently being evaluated. www.documentum.com

TRADOS Language Server Receives Documentum Accreditation
5/11/2004

TRADOS Inc. announced that its TRADOS Language Server for Documentum has received the "Designed for Documentum" logo designation. The Designed for Documentum accreditation can be earned by offerings developed on the Documentum ECM platform, as part of the new Application Logo Program. TRADOS Language Server for Documentum is an integration that adds multilingual and localization capabilities into the Documentum ECM platform. The system integrates with Documentum repositories and workflows to enable companies to manage their localization processes from inside the Documentum system. www.trados.com, www.documentum.com

Documentum Delivers New Portlet Development Toolset & Portlets
5/11/2004

Documentum announced the availability of a new portlet development toolset, new Documentum web content management portlets and enhancements to Documentum's existing portlets. The new Documentum portlets are a set of embeddable application components that deliver out-of-box content management capabilities to any portal that supports Java Specification Request 168 (JSR 168). The new Documentum web content management portlets add to Documentum's existing family of portlets for enterprise document management and collaboration. All of the portlets provide single sign-on functionality. The new WDK for Portlets, Documentum portlets and new Documentum web content management portlets are immediately available for use with portal servers from BEA, SUN and IBM. A set of developer and customization documentation is provided and additional materials, customization code and sample portlets are available through the Documentum Developer website's Component Exchange. www.documentum.com

Vignette & Partners to Provide Audit and Business Efficiency Tools
5/11/2004

Vignette Corp. announced that it has released a comprehensive set of tools to help organizations measure and improve business efficiency. Organizations interested in the Vignette Efficiency Audit will work with experienced third-party consultants to gather their business requirements, review overall vision and justification, conduct a gap analysis, monitor use of existing investments, and develop best practices. Upon completion of the audit, Vignette and the respective partner will provide a customized report that provides a detailed picture of areas throughout the organization where efficiencies can be increased, along with customized recommendations on how to improve overall information technology performance. Organizations will have an opportunity to see potential return on investment and total cost of ownership estimates for each option based on individual definitions. Vignette partners Acquity Group and Rapidigm are the first to offer the Vignette Efficiency Audit. In addition, Vignette has developed the Vignette Efficiency Assessment and the Vignette Efficiency Evaluation. Both programs are available at no additional charge upon completing the registration requirements. www.vignette.com

Captiva Signs Software Licensing Agreement with FileNet
5/10/2004

Captiva Software Corp. announced it has signed a software licensing agreement with FileNet Corp. FileNet will use Captiva's PixTools/Scan and PixTools/View products and bundle Captiva's ISIS scanner drivers within its products. With PixTools' Scan and View products and the bundling of ISIS, FileNet has the ability to support new scanners and evolving features such as support for color images, multiple data streams and distributed scanning. The ISIS technology also ensures support for a variety of industry scanners. PixTools/View toolkit is a full-featured API that provides all the necessary image viewing and printing functions including image display, rotation, scale, scale-to-gray and annotation. PixTools/Scan toolkit supports ISIS, driving peak performance from every scanning device and providing access to the full range of available scanner features. www.filenet.com, www.captivasoftware.com

Tarari Releases RAX Content Processor
5/10/2004

Tarari Inc. announced the immediate availability of its latest XML Silicon technology -- the RAX Content Processor, which incorporates an in-silicon implementation of Random Access XML (RAX). RAX allows complex XML document analysis to be completed in "near-zero" CPU time and can process millions of XPaths per second. Random Access XML (RAX) enables network switch, server, blade, and appliance vendors to create new applications such as gigabit message classification and routing, high transaction rate publish and subscribe systems, advanced SOAP message processing, high performance XML security firewalls and real-time telecommunications billing solutions. Tarari is proposing that RAX be accepted as an industry-standard just as DOM and SAX have garnered many supporters within the W3C community. OEMs, ISVs and corporate developers interested in evaluating the Tarari RAX Content Processor should purchase the Tarari XML/Web Services Development Kit which consists of two Tarari RAX Content Processors on PCI cards, Random Access XML Agents (plus Encryption/Decryption Agents) and API documentation. www.tarari.com/rax

Documentum Delivers ECM for HP Integrity Servers & HP-UX 11i
5/10/2004

Documentum announced that it has certified key components of the Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform for HP Integrity servers and HP-UX 11i on the Intel Itanium 2 microarchitecture. www.documentum.com

PureEdge Delivers XML E-forms for IBM Lotus Workplace 2.0
5/10/2004

PureEdge Solutions Inc. announced that its secure XML e-forms are now available for integration with IBM Lotus Workplace 2.0 and IBM WebSphere Portal. PureEdge's framework provides IBM users with the ability to integrate XML e-forms-based processes with back-end systems, and expands their on-demand capabilities by bringing a rich client to the forefront. Extended WebSphere Portal support is offered through PureEdge WebForm Server and the PureEdge Viewer, enabling XML-based forms with validation, formatting, layout and offline capabilities. PureEdge provides portlet support for zero footprint forms and for inter-portlet communication, using click-to-action data sharing functionality to leverage forms data to and from other portlets. PureEdge forms-based business process solutions are based on XML, Web Services and Java. www.pureedge.com

Informative Graphics Releases Brava! Enterprise 5.0 for Documentum Webtop & Digital Asset Management Clients
5/10/2004

Informative Graphics Corp. (IGC) announced the release of its Brava! Enterprise 5.0 view and markup software for Documentum Webtop and Digital Asset Management (DAM) clients, delivering viewing versatility for online access to documents, images and CAD engineering files. Brava 5.0 for Documentum creates and views IGC's new "content sealed format" (CSF), which incorporates the Visual Rights security framework. Visual Rights gives authors selective and persistent security controls over their content. Markups can be burned-in to CSF files, and a new block-out function (redaction) allows users to hide specific file content from view and text searching. CSF files are viewable by both Brava Enterprise and the free Brava! Reader. Brava 5.0 for Documentum also supports occasionally connected or offline computing, permitting Documentum users to save selected files in CSF format to their local machine, and then disconnect from the Brava Server to work offline. www.infograph.com

Ovid Announces Service to Build, Host Custom Branded Portal Sites
5/10/2004

Ovid Technologies announced the availability of its Portal Advantage Service to help societies and publishing partners, independent journal publishers, foundations, and corporations to build customizable portals. This content management service enables customers to make their published content available online as well as offer rich medical content and resources to support their users' information research and collaboration needs. Ovid's Portal Advantage Service includes full design, hosting and content selection from Ovid's repository of bibliographic databases, journals and book content as well as third-party data resources (e.g. news feeds, CME, society content). In addition to specialized content, the service provides collaboration, customization, and community features. Ovid is offering three platform levels of the Portal Advantage Service. The levels include: Express, Professional, and Preferred solution packages. www.ovid.com

Northern Light Unveils Version 2.0 of its Enterprise Search Engine for Linux
5/10/2004

Northern Light announced that it has released a new version of its high performance enterprise search engine for Linux and Solaris. The new version includes: support for Linux, support for database indexes over 50 million documents, support for over 150 queries per second from a single software installation on a single server, Document Relevancy Booster for using editorially selected collections and specially weighted metadata to manage results list placement, and an integrated spell checker. "With Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine software at an entry level price of $2500, a $1000 computer, and a free operating system, an enterprise can process 14 million search queries a day." Other features include a configurable crawler, content filters for HTML, XML, MS Office, PDF, a 17,000 node subject taxonomy encompassing all human knowledge, a classification engine trained to automatically classify arbitrary unstructured content to the taxonomy, a clustering engine for organizing results from queries on the fly into subject categories, and sample user interfaces in PHP and JSP. The Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine for Linux can be downloaded for a 30-day free trial. www.northernlight.com

Captovation Announces Integration Between eCapture & SharePoint Portal Server 2003
5/7/2004

Captovation announced direct integration support between their eCapture software, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. With eCapture's integration, SharePoint users can scan and index paper documents directly into a SharePoint repository. The integration is facilitated through an eCapture Data Provider (EDP) which transfers document images from eCapture and places them into a SharePoint repository. The eCapture component's ecIndex, ecAutoFile Server, ecCommit Server, ecImport Server, ecNet Server and Captovation Check Capture are all capable of performing a document commit (archive) into SharePoint. Captovation's direct integration support for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 utilizes Web Services to link eCapture users with a SharePoint Portal Server system. XML is used to structure the data between an eCapture system and SharePoint. The integration includes a SharePoint Template Manager, which allows an administrator to define field mappings between eCapture and SharePoint. On a per template basis, an administrator specifies the URL of a SharePoint Portal Server. After connecting, the SharePoint Template Manager retrieves all available user lists and respective field names. The administrator then correlates field names in SharePoint with available fields in eCapture. Upon commit, the images are converted to either Multiple Page TIFFs or PDFs. www.captovation.com

SAP & Adobe Announce Interactive Forms in SAP Solutions
5/6/2004

SAP AG and Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the joint delivery of Interactive Forms based on Adobe software as part of the SAP NetWeaver open integration and application platform. The solution is available today with mySAP Business Suite. The offering is aimed at automating and streamlining paper-based communications that companies rely on to increase business agility. Both will sell, support and provide implementation services for the delivery of Interactive Forms in mySAP Business Suite. With the availability of Interactive Forms, SAP customers will be able to further enhance data capture and streamline the dissemination of business-critical form processes. Whether government to citizen, business to business, or business to consumer, SAP customers can reach a much broader set of users inside and outside the firewall using Interactive Forms. www.adobe.com, www.sap.com

Centra Unveils Version 7.1
5/5/2004

Centra Software, Inc. announced a series of enhancements to its core software platform, Centra 7. Centra 7 version 7.1 features greater integration for contextual collaboration with Microsoft Office, provides integration with Public Switched Telephone Networks (PSTN), streamlined pre- and post-meeting attendance and management capabilities, enhanced Knowledge Center reporting, increased enterprise-class administration features and enhanced branding capabilities. Created to support Centra's four solution sets, Enterprise Application Rollouts, Sales Effectiveness, Collaborative Learning and Customer Acquisition, Centra 7 version 7.1 lets users monitor the progress of application training programs, facilitates project team meetings and provides a way for sales people to conduct customer meetings and online demonstrations. High-touch events like Centra-powered online Web seminars are now easier to setup, attend and record. Centra 7 version 7.1 makes it easier for learners to build their own blended learning programs. www.centra.com

SchemaLogic & Meta Integration Technology in Agreement
5/5/2004

SchemaLogic and Meta Integration Technology announced they have formed a technology alliance where SchemaLogic customers will be able to utilize over 50 additional adaptors to create a shared, cross-system, "active" metadata repository. Meta Integration Model Bridge connects to databases or information models from IBM, Oracle, Sybase, SAS, Business Objects, IBM Rational, Computer Associates, OMG and W3C. SchemaLogic provides a framework for shared metadata based on an active repository, a unified information model, collaborative change management with impact analysis, notification and approval, plus the synchronization of approved changes to subscribing systems using XML, SOAP and Web Services. This provides a holistic view of information assets including content, data and XML: who is responsible for each asset, how they're organized (structure and semantics) and the relationships among them. Information architects, database analysts, content system managers and developers can see and control metadata definitions, taxonomies, hierarchical lists and vocabularies in one repository, available throughout the enterprise. www.metaintegration.com, www.schemalogic.com

Ricoh Introduces GlobalScan Frameworks for Documentum & Interwoven Worksite
5/5/2004

Ricoh Corporation introduced GlobalScan frameworks for Documentum and Interwoven Worksite for use with existing Ricoh Aficio Multifunctional Products (MFPs). Using Ricoh's Aficio MFP combined with GlobalScan Sever software and the framework to Documentum, paper-based documents can be scanned for delivery to the Documentum doc-base. By combining Ricoh MFPs, GlobalScan and the Interwoven WorkSite frameworks, users can convert paper documents into a variety of file formats including PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint. They can then distribute electronic files directly to worksite databases with a single scan. www.ricoh.com

Arbortext Ships Arbortext 5.0
5/5/2004

Arbortext, Inc. announced it is shipping Arbortext 5.0, its latest product release that expands the publishing software suite's functionality and ease of use. Arbortext 5.0 features four major new products and many enhancements, including: Styler, a new development tool that allows designers to create stylesheets to drive automated publishing from a "single source of style" to print, PDF, Web, HTML Help, and wireless devices; Contributor, a Web-based XML editor that runs in a browser and requires no desktop installation. Contributor provides simplified XML editing; Companion, an add-in for Microsoft Word 2003, Companion simplifies the development of XML authoring applications for Word; and DCAM, an optional component of Arbortext's E3 publishing server that lets authors create and manage the hundreds or thousands of inter-document and intra-document links that typically exist in a large collection of information, and it supports the publishing of dynamic documents that contain links. www.arbortext.com

IBM & Synkron A/S Partner
5/4/2004

IBM has entered into a strategic portal partnership with Danish CMS vendor, Synkron A/S. By integrating the Synkron.web CMS into IBM's WebSphere technology, enterprise customers can now get content management coupled with portal functionality. www.synkronweb.co.uk

QRS Announces QRS QuickSync
5/4/2004

QRS Corporation announced QRS QuickSync, a solution designed for retail suppliers that need to syndicate their item information to data pools such as QRS Catalogue, which can then publish that data to UCCnet services. QRS QuickSync is part of QRS' data synchronization solution suite, which includes QRS IMPACT and QRS Catalogue. QRS QuickSync is pre-configured to meet the needs of retail suppliers. The solution offers an introduction to a complete enterprise product information management solution, such as QRS IMPACT. QRS QuickSync syndicates product data to data pools such as QRS Catalogue. If the supplier needs to publish product data to UCCnet services, QRS Catalogue can then publish that data to UCCnet services. QRS QuickSync features include a flexible data model, data cleansing and normalization capabilities, product information in multiple formats, integration with existing internal systems and applications. and an option to syndicate to UCCnet services via QRS Catalogue Release 4.0. www.qrs.com

Kofax Announces Support for IBM's DB2 Content Manager Express
5/3/2004

Kofax announced support for IBM's DB2 Content Manager Express Edition V8.2. The Ascent Capture integration module for DB2 Content Manager Express offers users access to a production capture solution, including document, data and Internet-based distributed capture, that helps input information into IBM's content management solution. IBM's DB2 Content Manager Express software is designed to help medium-sized organizations implement a holistic digital content management infrastructure. Through the integration of Ascent Capture, these organizations can now collect large volumes of forms and documents, transform them into retrievable electronic information, then deliver it into IBM's DB2 Content Manager Express. Ascent can also capture e-documents and XML streams as well as enable front-end integration with enterprise applications. www.kofax.com

Vasont Integrates with Adobe FrameMaker
5/3/2004

Vasont Systems announced that its Vasont SG content management software now seamlessly integrates with Adobe FrameMaker and its XML capabilities through its Vasont Universal Integrator (VUI) software extension. Designed for small editorial groups with limited resources, Vasont SG is a low-cost version of the Companys content management software that helps users more efficiently create, manage and repurpose their complex content, including technical documentation, product or users' manuals, and reference materials, to print, Web, CD-ROM, and wireless formats. The VUI streamlines the writing and editing process by providing a simple editorial interface so that authors and editors can access Vasont SGs content management functionality from the toolbar menu of FrameMaker. Additionally, Vasont SG tracks all reuse, repurposing, and versioning of content, even as changes are made through FrameMaker enabling small editorial groups to create, manage and publish their content from a single source. www.vasont.com

Authentica Announces Professional Services Group
5/3/2004

Authentica, Inc. announced the formal introduction of its Professional Services Organization. The group now offers a full suite of implementation and custom consulting services to Authentica's enterprise customers. Authentica's Professional Services enable customers to maximize the benefits of their E-DRM solutions by offering: fixed-fee packages that provide rapid deployment and training for customer-specific business solutions for workgroups, departments and enterprises; extended analysis and consultation to help customers fully customize and integrate their E-DRM solutions within their enterprise infrastructure. These services include applications integration, custom security policy models and workflow enhancements. www.authentica.com

Service Integrity Launches SIFT XML Visibility Software 2.0
5/3/2004

Service Integrity announced the general availability of the SIFT XML Visibility Software, 2.0. SIFT 2.0 from Service Integrity is a monitoring and analysis solution that provides deep visibility into XML and Web services. It can be used to relate the business meaning of messages with the underlying IT data flow, providing a business context. The high-speed, low-overhead inspection of XML and Web Services traffic provides organizations with a detailed understanding of service levels and real time insight into the business context of messages and transactions. SIFT 2.0 XML Dialect Factory provides insight into industry-specific communications using ACORD, IFX, OTA, RETS and CDISC. Libraries of common messages and the business meaning behind specific fields in the messages can be accessed to understand the XML stream in real time. SIFT 2.0 supports XML, SOAP and WSDL as well as WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging and WS- Coordination. SIFT operates on application servers including Microsoft, IBM, BEA and JBOSS, as well as other J2EE-compliant servers. SIFT XML Visibility Software, 2.0 is available immediately and may be purchased online effective April 26, 2004. www.serviceintegrity.com

Adobe Acquires Q-Link Technologies
5/3/2004

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that it has acquired Q-Link Technologies, Inc., a provider of business process management software. The acquisition provides Java-based workflow technology that will be integrated with the Adobe Intelligent Document Platform to help customers reduce document processing cycle times, eliminate bottlenecks and integrate business processes more easily and efficiently across the extended enterprise. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, although Adobe said the acquisition will not have a material financial impact on the company. A privately held company based in Tampa, Florida, with customers in government, financial services, manufacturing and telecommunications, Q-Link provides a J2EE component based workflow architecture that enables developers to visually assemble complete applications. From workflow to forms, UI design, rules, web services, integration and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Q-Link offers a solution to build process-driven applications. www.adobe.com

SAQQARA Introduces CDM for e-Procurement
5/3/2004

SAQQARA Inc. announced SAQQARA Commerce Data Management (CDM) for e-Procurement. SAQQARA CDM is a managed service that enables enterprises to reach their spend management (ESM) objectives by providing and maintaining commerce data. CDM for e-Procurement replaces SAQQARA's Catalog Management Solution (CMS). SAQQARA manages the entire catalog management process including supplier engagement, content acquisition, content transformation, exception management, filtering, and an aggregated supplier catalog for use through e-procurement systems. SAQQARA CDM for e-Procurement works transparently with e-Procurement systems from Ariba, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. Features include supplier enablement and on-boarding of catalogs, supplier management, product content management, catalog management and an optimized purchasing interface. SAQQARA CDM for e-Procurement will be available in Q2. Pricing is based on platform access and per-supplier charges. www.saqqara.com

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