News For July, 2004

Microsoft Corporation announced the availability of telerik r.a.d.editor for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 (MCMS). The product represents a specially modified edition of telerik's content editor for ASP.NET, which can replace the default HTML Placeholder in MCMS. Featuring a Word-like interface, r.a.d.editor MCMS edition enables non-technical users to author and manage HTML-based content easily. Developers can seamlessly deploy the product in Content Management Server 2002 using the supplied r.a.d.editor Placeholder control, and can configure it in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. r.a.d.editor tightly integrates with MCMS and follows its security model. The editor allows users to insert and store images, media, and document files in the Resource Gallery, as well as insert hyperlinks to other Postings/Channels by simply selecting them from a treeview. r.a.d.editor can be localized and includes a multilingual spellchecker with support for Microsoft Word dictionaries. Other features include: full table editing, format stripper, thumbnail generator, skinnable toolbar and dialogs, XHTML output, etc. telerik r.a.d.editor MCMS edition is available at no cost to all customers of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. http://www.telerik.com/mcms

SSA Global Announces SSA Enterprise Content Management
7/27/2004

SSA Global announced it is enhancing its position in the product lifecycle management (PLM) market with Enterprise Content Management in their SSA PLM Suite for Discrete and Process Manufacturers. SSA Enterprise Content Management shares, manages and consolidates product data from different enterprise departments and extends the information to all organization levels. Organization members from separate departments can leverage enterprise content and engineering information and incorporate it in their business processes allowing seamless information flow. SSA Enterprise Content Management supports a manufacturer's PLM strategy to align inter-department communication with role-driven data access and visualization. The application functions as a product data navigator within an enterprise, working with various systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Product Data Management (PDM) to manage and share product-related information across departments. It also allows various users controlled access to engineering data, such as product structures, drawings, and design files. www.ssaglobal.com

Captiva Signs PVA to Resell InputAccel
7/27/2004

Captiva Software Corp. announced that it has signed a value-added reseller agreement with systems integrator PVA Inc., an Open Text Affinity Partner offering a range of Livelink-enabled content management and other customer network solutions. PVA will resell InputAccel, Captiva's document capture solution, to government, insurance, financial and clinical research organizations. InputAccel is Captiva's information capture system that transforms mission-critical data from paper and faxes into business-ready content. InputAccel ensures the integrity of incoming data and converts it into formats usable in back-end systems, including XML, image files and custom transaction formats. www.pvaglobal.com, www.captivasoftware.com

Informative Graphics & McLaren to Integrate Viewing of Engineering Documents & Drawings for the Enterprise
7/27/2004

Informative Graphics Corp. (IGC) announced that it has reached a technology partnership agreement with McLaren Software, the Scotland-based developer of Enterprise Engineer and engineering-focused, out-of-the-box content applications used in an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) environment. As a result of the agreement, Informative Graphics has begun work on a full integration of its Brava! Enterprise visualization server for McLaren's Enterprise Engineer suite, including Drawing Manager and CADLink. Enterprise Engineer manages engineering content throughout an asset's lifecycle, providing process and content integration between the enterprise and the world of engineering. www.infograph.com, www.mclarensoftware.com

Jabber Announces Product Integration with WebEx
7/27/2004

Jabber, Inc. announced plans to partner with WebEx Communications, Inc. to integrate WebEx meeting capabilities into Jabber, Inc.'s enterprise-class messaging and presence solution. Jabber, Inc. plans to introduce the integrated offering in the third quarter of this year. Jabber, Inc.'s Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP) is based upon XMPP, the IETF-approved Internet standard for presence and instant messaging. XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is a real-time communications protocol, which allows people, devices and applications to instantly communicate and exchange streaming XML data, based upon dynamic presence and availability information. www.jabber.com, www.webex.com

Vasont Releases Vasont 9.0
7/26/2004

Vasont Systems announced the release of Vasont 9.0, the latest version of its content management system that enables organizations to store their multilingual content once for delivery to print, PDF, CD-ROM and Web formats. Vasont 9.0 has streamlined common content transactions to reduce network traffic and process content faster, and comes with over 100 new processing options, bringing the total to 500 processing options available. Vasont 9.0 features new XSLT integration, advanced XML schema support, enhanced versioning interface, enhanced link management capability, printable content reuse reports, improved search features that allow users to filter and find content within the text of more than 200 different file formats, advanced Unicode support that allows users to "mix-and-match" any Unicode format, and enhanced reporting and control capability over global changes. Vasont 9.0 will be available in August. www.vasont.com

ABBYY Releases FineReader 7.0 Scripting Edition
7/26/2004

ABBYY announced the availability of ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Scripting Edition, a development tool that allows VARs, system integrators and corporate developers to customize the FineReader OCR application and integrate its interface and functionality into new or existing Windows applications. ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Scripting Edition is for use with document conversion, document recognition, and document imaging applications. FineReader 7.0 Scripting Edition's automation API makes it easier to integrate ABBYY OCR into document management systems, electronic archives, or any other external information system. Developers can create systems through customization, extension and automation of the FineReader application. ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Scripting Edition is available now with developer and runtime licenses. www.abbyyusa.com

Verity & Proxicom Partner to Provide Solutions to Healthcare & Life Sciences Markets
7/26/2004

Verity Inc. and Proxicom Inc. announced a strategic partnership to provide integration of Verity K2 Enterprise (K2E) search and classification technologies with Proxicom's Healthcare and Life Sciences solution offering. Initially, the two companies plan to co-market Proxicom's industry-leading Health Plan Provider Portal Solution. Proxicom's Health Plan Provider Portal is a secure, rapidly deployed, extranet portal for managing claims, benefits, eligibility, and ongoing physician education and research. The Provider Portal aims to make it easier for providers to do business with a health plan. Verity K2E's search and classification capabilities aim to provide joint customers the ability to quickly and easily search, browse and retrieve any content within the Proxicom's Provider Portal. Verity K2E also supports multiple languages to allow global healthcare centers using the Proxicom's Portal to index, classify, search and retrieve information in more than 70 languages. www.proxicom.com, www.verity.com

EMC Announces Documentum Content Storage Services
7/26/2004

EMC Corporation announced the new EMC Documentum Content Storage Services to help customers improve their information lifecycle management (ILM) strategies. Documentum Content Storage Services enables organizations to define and execute storage policies that automate the placement and movement of content across a tiered heterogeneous storage infrastructure. New content can be automatically placed on the optimal storage platform and migrated when the value of that content and related business needs change. The new offering supports all EMC storage platforms, as well as arrays from other vendors, including Hitachi, IBM, Hewlett Packard and Network Appliance. Using Documentum Content Storage Services, information can be allocated to and migrated across storage devices based on business policies that utilize standard and user-defined attributes, including content type, access control level, lifecycle state, sharing permissions, industry regulations or archiving requirements, as well as date last accessed, size, related transactions or related documents. Documentum Content Storage Services differs from hierarchical storage management (HSM) by providing allocation and migration of information based on the metadata and content services provided by the EMC Documentum ECM Platform. Documentum Content Storage Services can be utilized to complement and extend HSM solutions, and is immediately available. www.documentum.com, www.emc.com

Scientific Software Introduces Enterprise Content Manager
7/26/2004

Scientific Software, Inc. announced a new solution for enterprise content management (ECM). Scientific Software Enterprise Content Manager (formerly known as CyberLAB ECMS) is an ECM software platform that provides a secure, central repository and rich content services to create, capture, manage, archive, and re-use business critical information. Enterprise Content Manager platform capabilities span technology solutions for document management, records management, knowledge management, dynamic report building, records archival, PDF file management, automated records collection, electronic forms processing, and scanning and imaging. This is the 3rd major release after being introduced in 2001. Pricing for Enterprise Content Manager starts at $5,500 for a single server, 5-user system. Enterprise Content Manager is shipping and available to customers immediately. www.scisw.com

DataPower Ships XI50 XML Integration Appliance
7/26/2004

DataPower announced the XI50 XML Integration Appliance, the third member of its product family (which includes the XS40 XML Security Gateway and XA35 XML Accelerator). The XI50 provides a drop-in solution for mainframe XML enablement, wirespeed enterprise message buses, and secure enterprise application integration. XI50 Integration Appliance supports a range of popular transport protocols, including IBM MQ Series, and can perform any-to-any translation between disparate data formats. XI50 can parse, route and transform arbitrary binary, flat text and XML messages, including EDI, COBOL, CSV, ASN.1 and ebXML. DataPower's DataGlue technology uses a fully declarative, metadata-based approach. The technology enables Data Oriented Programming (DOP) paradigms to be employed without introducing bottlenecks. DataPower XI50 Integration Appliance is used as a drop-in XML enablement solution for mainframes by providing a Web services interface on one side and a native legacy interface on the other. Supported specifications include COBOL Copybook, ISO 8583 ATM messages, MQ series and proprietary record formats. DataPower XI50 Integration Appliance product is available immediately, priced from $50,000 to $75,000, depending on options and quantities. www.datapower.com

Gravitymax Releases Infomaxim 3.6
7/25/2004

Gravitymax Pty Ltd, announced the release of Infomaxim 3.6. Infomaxim is a platform for content management, with the functional flexibility to handle complex product information, and customer details, and general articles. It also offers enterprise content management with work flow, security and separated stage and production server publishing. Targeted applications range from traditional web content management, to online stores, corporate Intranets and applications. There is no server-side programming required. Version 3.6 adds a slew of new features including: Shopping Cart, Order Processing & Fulfilment, Payment Gateway Integration, Client-Side Visitor Metrics Tracking, Campaign Tracking, Query Builder & Reporting, Multi-level caching, and Email Broadcasting with View, Click and Bounce tracking. Infomaxim is built on Microsoft's IIS platform, with elements of the system utilising the .NET framework. Development is continuing toward release of a 100% ASP.NET version in late-2004. www.gravitymax.com.au

TeraText Partners with HP Federal Group
7/23/2004

TeraText Solutions, a division of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance agreement with HP. Under the terms of the agreement, HP will provide its federal sales organization with information on SAIC's TeraText Database Systems (DBS) and how it works with or complements HP's current solutions and services. TeraText DBS is a combination text database and search engine that provides the necessary functionality for storing, indexing, retrieving and delivering documents or XML-based records across an organization. The TeraText DBS is designed to manage very large, text-based collections. 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

Form Genus Releases TakeForm Dynamic Content 1.1
7/22/2004

Form Genus LLC released TakeForm Dynamic Content version 1.1 with support for web publishing and large file handling. TakeForm Dynamic Content lets end users create customizable, secure content publishing and collaboration centers called "Views" for a wide variety of personal and collaborative applications including project management, secured file exchange, organization information sites, and information publishing. TakeForm version 1.1 lets users instantly publish their views as Web sites. Web published views retain the security and functionality of the original view without the need to install a TakeForm View reader. TakeForm version 1.1 also adds improved support for large files and group management. Form Genus offers a variety of free and monthly fee based hosting plans for web published views and data archiving depending on users' needs. www.formgenus.com

Context Media Signs Partnership Agreement with Japan's Rikei
7/21/2004

Context Media, Inc. announced that Japan-based Rikei Corp. will distribute and provide content application services for Context Media's Interchange Suite to organizations throughout Japan. The agreement is part Context Media's planned expansion into the Asian market. As part of the deal, Rikei will be responsible for recruiting and managing relationships with additional distributors, working with current Context Media partner, IBM, and spearheading customer deals in Japan. www.contextmedia.com, www.rikei.co.jp

Gilbane Content Management Conference Program Now Available; Registration Open
7/20/2004

The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced the conference program for the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies to be held at the Westin Copley in Boston, November 30 December 2, 2004. The interactive 3-day event will include everything a project team needs to know, as well as a look ahead at upcoming technologies, "new" best practices, and a broad look at technologies necessary to supplement core content management applications. The conference program is entirely focused on content technologies, and includes 24 educational sessions covering today's most critical issues for businesses planning or implementing a content management strategy. The program is organized into 6 tracks so attendees with specific interests can easily organize their itinerary. The tracks are: Content Management, Enterprise Search & Knowledge Management; Document & Records Management; Enterprise Information Integration; Digital Asset Management; and Content Technology Works Best Practices and Case Studies. The conference faculty consists of the widest collection of recognized authors and experts in content technologies available anywhere, combined with speakers from organizations representing many vertical industries who have successfully implemented content technology applications. Sponsors of the Gilbane Content Management conference in Boston include Stellent (NASDAQ:STEL), GMC Software, and Interwoven (NASDAQ:IWOV). A complete list of sponsors and exhibitors-to-date is available.

FatWire Announces Three Extensions to Content Server
7/20/2004

FatWire Software announced three new modules that integrate with software products from Kapow, Ephox and Lotus to extend the the company's Content Server product. These new modules Migration Tool, XML Manager and Domino Bridge are available immediately. FatWire Content Server's Migration Tool uses Kapow's RoboSuite software to extract unstructured and unorganized content trapped in pre-existing sites and migrate that content to the controlled Content Server repository to gain economies of scale. Content Server's XML Manager integrates with Ephox EditLive! for XML, and makes content available to non-technical business users. FatWire Content Server enhances the capabilities of LOtus Notes and Domino by enabling organizations to develop content-centric applications that access content stored in Domino and Notes. This integration allows business users to combine Web content with Lotus documents. www.fatwire.com

HTML & XHTML FAQ, and Introduction to XML Events Published by W3C
7/20/2004

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Working Group has released two publications. HTML and XHTML Frequently Answered Questions (FAQs) is written for Web content authors and designers. XML Events for HTML Authors introduces XML Events and its advantages over the 'onclick' style of event handling. Visit the HTML home page. www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq

Software AG Release Tamino XML Server 4.2
7/19/2004

Software AG, Inc. announced that its Tamino XML Server has been updated to provide accelerated data access, advanced security and expanded query and text retrieval functions. Tamino version 4.2 now offers XML-based message persistence for auditing and tracking, business document management, and a metadata repository in support of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The updates in version 4.2 will enable Tamino to better support multiple roles for enterprise integration and software developers. Enhancements for developers include Expanded XQuery and XPath and text retrieval functions, including thesaurus; additional indexing capabilities for rapid query execution; improved handling of standard XML schemas; and a re-designed and more intuitive online tutorial. Tamino XML Server version 4.2 is shipping in three editions: Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition and Developer Edition. Pricing begins at about $2,500 per-user for the Developer Edition (including maintenance), $10,000 per-CPU for the Standard Edition, and $25,000 per-CPU for the Enterprise Edition. Operating system platforms currently supported by all editions include: Windows 2003 Server Standard/Enterprise Editions, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional Server/Advanced Server, Solaris 8 & 9 (64 Bit), HP-UX 11i (PA Risc 64), IBM AIX 5L V5.2 (64 Bit), Linux for Intel (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 & Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1) and Linux for IBM S/390 and zSeries (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8). www.softwareagusa.com

Macromedia Announces Contribute 3 & Web Publishing System
7/19/2004

Macromedia announced the Macromedia Web Publishing System (WPS) and Contribute 3. WPS enables tens, hundreds, or thousands of content contributors to publish websites for internal and external communications. The WPS consists of the Macromedia Studio MX 2004, Macromedia Contribute 3, Macromedia FlashPaper 2, and new Contribute Publishing Services. The new Contribute Publishing Services server component allows web and IT managers to centrally manage users, roles, and website editing permissions. The application runs on Windows, Linux, and Unix servers and can be deployed to standard J2EE application environments. It enables administrators to centrally manage access to websites, integrate with enterprise systems via LDAP and Active Directory user directories, and track publishing activities across large numbers of websites and publishers. Macromedia Contribute 3 adds granular administrator control, flexible approval workflow, editing enhancements, WebDAV support, and incorporates their CSS engine. Preview releases of Contribute 3 and WPS are available. Contribute 3 and WPS are expected to ship for Windows and Mac OS X in English worldwide in August. Contribute ricing is $79 for upgrades, $149 for new users, and $699 for a Contribute six-pack. WPS Pricing is $2,499 for the starter 10-pack, $12,495 for the 50-pack, $24,990 for the 100-pack, and a single seat is available for $229. Current Contribute users can upgrade to a Web Publishing System seat for $109. www.macromedia.com

EMC Expands EMC Centera
7/19/2004

EMC Corporation expanded the capabilities of EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) with new functionality that allows customers to securely archive virtually any data type from any application running on any platform. Through a new version of Centera Universal Access software and Centera's API customers can archive data from open systems and mainframe applications that are integrated to the API, or from applications running on Windows, Unix or Linux environments that use industry-standard protocols. The new Centera Universal Access Version 2.1 now natively provides support for: Network File System (NFS) including IBM iSeries via Integrated File System (IFS) using NFS, Common Internet File System (CIFS), FTP, and HTTP. Centera is also able to archive data from mainframe applications not- integrated to the Centera API through Bus-Tech, Inc.'s Mainframe Appliance for Storage (MAS) for Centera, which provides access to Centera via Enterprise Systems Connection (ESCON) or Fibre Connection (FICON) connections. www.emc.com

FileNet Releases FileNet P8 3.0
7/19/2004

FileNet Corporation announced general availability of the latest release of its FileNet P8 architecture, FileNet P8 3.0. FileNet P8 3.0 is comprised of integrated product suites that offer customers the flexibility to buy what they need to meet specific business requirements and add additional components as required. FileNet P8 3.0 is an ECM platform that is designed to enable customers to leverage Business Process Management (BPM) capabilities throughout the entire breadth of product functionality -- Content Management, Image Management, Team Collaboration, Forms Management, Records Management and Web Content Management. New features include support for two new product suites, FileNet Records Manager and FileNet Team Collaboration Manager. The solution also offers new language packs that offer the ability to download and install language-specific interfaces. FileNet P8 3.0 offers expanded operating platform support for Windows, Solaris, AIX and HP/UX. Additionally, with FileNet P8 3.0, FileNet introduces XML Web service-based access and support for Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs). FileNet P8 3.0 is now shipping. FileNet Records Manager is scheduled to ship in August 2004, and FileNet Team Collaboration Manager is scheduled for release during the fourth quarter, 2004. www.filenet.com

Mark Logic Launches XQuery Developer Site
7/19/2004

Mark Logic Corporation has launched xq:zone, an interactive Web site where developers can find everything they need to put XQuery to work. Developers can download XQuery software and tools, share XQuery solutions, participate in discussions and learn to write production XQuery code. XQuery under development by the W3C, and is designed to query collections of XML data, including vast amounts of disparately structured data that businesses work with every day, but do not fit into traditional relational databases. Visitors to the xq:zone site may download the Community Licensed version of Mark Logic Content Interaction Server. The Community version is not time limited and can be used to build production applications. The license will never expire, but is limited in the amount of data it can contain -- approximately 50 MB. However, other editions of Content Interaction Server can be extended to handle a terabyte or more of content. The site also hosts open source software projects, including sample XQuery applications and J2EE integration tools. http://xqzone.marklogic.com

W3C XML Schema Working Group Releases XML Schema 1.1
7/19/2004

The W3C XML Schema Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XML Schema 1.1 in two parts: Part 1: Structures and Part 2: Datatypes. The drafts include change logs from the XML Schema 1.0 language and are based on version 1.1 requirements. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. Visit the XML home page at www.w3.org/XML

Arbortext Partners with Chinese Integrator
7/16/2004

Arbortext Inc. announced it has entered into a systems integration partnership with AVIC Information Technology Co Ltd, a professional information technology company based in Beijing, China. AVICIT will work with Arbortext to provide sales, professional services and technical support for Arbortext applications as well as build and implement market awareness programs that highlight the importance of XML-based enterprise publishing. Since its formation, AVICIT has focused its research and practice on XML-based content management and information publishing applications in China. www.arbortext.com

Agilent to Sell CyberLAB Enterprise Content Management System
7/15/2004

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Scientific Software Inc. (SSI) announced an exclusive agreement for Agilent to market, sell and support SSI's CyberLAB Enterprise Content Management System (ECMS). Agilent will market the product under its new family name, Agilent Cerity, to the pharmaceutical, chemical, petrochemical, forensic, environmental, homeland security, and food and beverage markets. CyberLAB ECMS is a Web-based electronic library that collects, organizes, indexes, stores, archives and shares electronic records, from raw analytical instrument data and reports to compliance records, MS Office documents, PDF documents, molecular drawings, pictures and video. CyberLAB automatically extracts searchable metadata from each of the files, and provides search capabilities and embedded viewers for many file types. Under the agreement, Scientific Software maintains intellectual property rights to CyberLAB ECMS and will continue to focus on new product development as well as work with technology partners to develop integrations with enterprise applications. www.agilent.com/chem/CerityECMS, www.scisw.com

IBM to Acquire Alphablox for Information Management Apps
7/14/2004

IBM announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Alphablox Corporation. The acquisition is expected to close later this month. Financial details were not disclosed. Alphablox's operations will be integrated into IBM's Information Management software business. Alphablox software enables customers and business partners to embed analytics -- such as customer buying trends -- into existing business processes, and makes information available to users and applications. As a result, the software helps organizations boost business insight by accessing data from across the enterprise and then enables the presentation of that information to be viewed in a customized way. With the acquisition of Alphablox, IBM is strengthening providing developers with the ability to build business applications that will enable them to gain multiple views of real-time information from a variety of data sources. Alphablox software can work with both IBM and non-IBM data sources, including Oracle, Microsoft and Sybase. Alphablox technology will be integrated into IBM's middleware portfolio of offerings in several areas. www.ibm.com/software/data

SAP Buys A2i
7/13/2004

SAP AG announced that it has acquired substantially all of A2i, Inc. to broaden the master data management capabilities of the SAP NetWeaver integration and application platform. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. A2i, Inc. develops and markets xCat, a platform for enterprise-wide product content management and cross-media catalog publishing. The A2i xCat solution will become a fully integrated part of the SAP NetWeaver stack. Available in the fall of 2004 as an update to the 2004 version of SAP NetWeaver, SAP Master Data Management (SAP MDM) will incorporate new capabilities gained from the acquisition of A2i's xCat suite. Specifically, xCat will support for enterprise-wide product content management (PCM), more powerful data aggregation and harmonization and improved Web-based electronic catalogs for both sell-side and procurement deployments. The enhanced solution will also add entirely new functionality in the areas of search, intelligent image and document management and print catalog publishing. www.sap.com/solutions/netweaver

Bluestream Releases XStreamDB 3.1
7/13/2004

Bluestream Database Software Corp. announced the release of its XStreamDB 3.1 native XML DBMS. XStreamDB 3.1 is a native XML database management server optimized for storage and retrieval of XML documents and data. It features a transaction architecture, the XQuery query language with update extensions, XML Schema support, and full-text indexing and search. XStreamDB 3.1 is a device and operating system independent platform Native XML database server built on Pure Java that requires minimal administration. The included XStreamDB Explorer application can be used for ad hoc queries and browsing the database. The WebDAV connector provides for file and folder views of documents in the database, making them accessible to XML editors such as Blast Radius, XMetaL and Altova XMLSpy. www.bluestream.com

Stellent Acquires Content Management Solutions Provider in Mexico
7/12/2004

Stellent, Inc. announced it has acquired Content Management de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., a content management solutions provider who has offered sales, support and training services for Stellent products across Mexico and Central America since 2001. Stellent purchased the company for $750,000 in cash and certain contingent considerations based on revenues generated in Mexico over a two-year period. www.stellent.com

Open Text & Siemens Business Services Announce European Alliance
7/12/2004

Open Text Corporation announced an alliance with Siemens Business Services, a subsidiary of Siemens AG. Siemens will combine its range of IT services, including consulting, systems integration and IT systems management, with Open Text's Livelink Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software. As part of the partnership, Open Text becomes a Siemens premier partner, providing its full range of Livelink-based solutions. Siemens Business Services becomes a Premier Business Alliance Partner of Open Text, with the ability to deliver management consulting, system implementation, software customization and project-based reselling for Open Text solutions. The agreement also allows all affiliates of Siemens Business Services worldwide to participate in the contract. www.siemens.com/sbs, www.opentext.com

Captaris Launches Enterprise Content Integration & Information Delivery Solution
7/12/2004

Captaris, Inc. announced the launch of Interchange, a solution to combine content integration with information delivery. Captaris Interchange, built on Microsoft .NET architecture, provides integration with enterprise business applications through a rules-based workflow engine that provides information processing and formatting and allows multiple concurrent delivery options including fax, email, HTML, XML and SMS. Interchange will initially be available in North America through select distribution channels in Q3 2004. www.captaris.com

Language Weaver Upgrades Translation Software
7/12/2004

Language Weaver, Inc. announced general availability of its application software upgraded to version 2.2. New or improved features include: A friendlier, easier-to-read and more informative web client for the client-server application; Translation job queuing when using the web client for the client-server application; Optional web client user authentication; Multithreading, which enables users to process translations up to 20 percent faster on a dual-CPU system; Transliteration control for applicable language pairs, which allows users to independently toggle display of unknown words and transliteration of unknown words; and Browser support for Netscape 7.1 and higher, in addition to Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and above. Language Weaver has upgraded all language pairs to be compatible with the new application software. Those customers upgrading from a previous version will need to replace their language pair CDs, which are available from Language Weaver at no additional charge. Language Weaver has also adopted a new numbering scheme to make it easier for customers to identify the compatibility of application versions with the language pair software they use as they move forward. www.languageweaver.com

Conviveon Announces Version 6.0 of SiteConnect Server
7/12/2004

Conviveon Corp. announced Version 6.0 of SiteConnect Server. The new version incorporates built-in shopping cart functionality with customizable fulfillment workflow capabilities. SiteConnect's new shopping cart functionality is integrated with its content management, collaboration, and e-marketing functionality. SiteConnect Server 6.0 now allows the creation of enhanced RFQ functionality and more traditional e-commerce solutions. Version 6.0 also includes a new XML based interface for providing dynamic content on existing web sites using existing technology, including Microsoft .Net, PHP, Cold Fusion, and Active Server Pages. Also included are new features for ranking search results by relevancy and the ability to index documents attached to a content record. Additional enhancements to SiteConnect Server include upgraded multi-lingual content management and development capabilities, and expanded options for content organization. The new version of Conviveon SiteConnect Server is available now. www.conviveon.com

Extreme 2004 Program Available - New Gilbane Subscriber Discount
7/7/2004

Extreme is a technical conference devoted to markup, markup languages, markup systems, markup applications, and software for manipulating and exploiting markup. Papers at Extreme this year discuss: Topic Maps; Overlap; Querying XML; RDF; XSLT; quality assurance, error correction, and error prevention in XML documents; Ontologies; XML software; and case studies from government, industry, and academia. Gilbane Report Subscribers get $100. discount! Enter "Gilbane" in the "Coupon Code" box on the registration form. https://nt6.bnt.com/gca/extreme/2004/regform.asp, www.extrememarkup.com

Gilbane Content Technology Works Announces Case Study Webinar
7/7/2004

Join the Gilbane Report's Mary Laplante and Tina Steil of Meredith Corporation at a Gilbane Content Technology Works webinar to learn how Meredith's Creative Library enables the company to increase revenues and decrease costs. The Creative Library is an enterprise digital asset management solution that serves as a resource for Meredith's many publishing and marketing businesses. The seminar will be held Thursday, July 29 at 3:00 PM EDT and is hosted by Artesia Technologies. Click here for more information and to register., www.artesia.com/webseminar/gilbane_form.html

RenderX Announces XEP.NET
7/7/2004

RenderX, Inc. announced the availability of XEP.NET -- an XSL formatter component for the .NET environment. XEP.NET employs XML-based processing to convert user documents into high quality typeset publications, including PDF and PostScript formats, for high volume printing and electronic distribution. Created for networked deployment and distributed processing, XEP.NET is based on the same core software as RenderX's Java version -- XEP. In the future, RenderX will maintain both applications with identical functionality; any enhancements to features will be released in both the Java and .NET products at the same time. With this release, RenderX updated both XEP and XEP.NET with new features including support for kerning both XSL FO text and SVG text, page master selection which fully conforms to the XSL specification, improved treatment of overflow conditions, new extension elements, SVG color naming capability, and support for markers in SVG. www.renderx.com

Mathsoft Partners with Documentum
7/7/2004

Mathsoft announced it will join forces with Documentum to enable calculation management capabilities that combine engineering information generated in Mathcad software with business processes automated by the Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform. Customers will now be able to use Documentum to store, search, retrieve and reuse Mathcad-generated calculations and results. They will be able to integrate calculations and results into Documentum-powered workflows and business processes, including auditing trails, engineering change orders (ECOs), ISO 9000 quality certification procedures, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance efforts, and Six Sigma quality assurance processes. The integration will specifically enable the Documentum ECM platform to read and process Mathcad calculation worksheets using XML. As a result, the combined system will treat the documents as structured chunks of content - calculations, graphics, methods, assumptions, data and results. The integration will be part of a Mathsoft service engagement. Implementations will start at $10,000. www.documentum.com, www.mathsoft.com

Infodata Upgrades AnnoDoc; Integrates with Documentum
7/7/2004

Infodata Systems Inc. announced an upgrade of AnnoDoc 1.5.3. This release provides integrations for use with Documentum Webtop 5.2.5 (SP1), Documentum Desktop Client 5.2.5 (SP1), and Documentum Compliance Manager 5.2.5 (SP1). With AnnoDoc, the enterprise has the means to maintain control over their internal content review processes. AnnoDoc incorporates a security model to support activity level permission settings, and enables parallel review of content to promote workflow processing. Infodata's upcoming Annotation Suite 2.0 Compliance Edition product, scheduled for release in September 2004, leverages AnnoDoc technology and will provide versioning of annotations, distinction between annotation authors and annotation owners, searchable annotations, annotation consolidation, annotation object security, expanded support for annotating Microsoft Office documents, and access to multiple repository services. www.infodata.com

GlobalSCAPE Announces PureCMS 3.0 & SnapEdit
7/6/2004

GlobalSCAPE announced the availability of PureCMS 3.0. PureCMS 3.0 supports customization of complex workflow and approval processes, automates the management of a site's navigation, provides granular administrative control, expands the use of templates, and enables multi-server publishing. PureCMS 3.0 is available immediately from GlobalSCAPE based on a tiered, per-user license basis. Pricing begins at $395 per user. GlobalSCAPE also announced the availability of SnapEdit, its new entry-level Web content management tool. SnapEdit enables Web site administrators to provide non-technical individuals with a way to create new information and replace out-of-date or inaccurate information on Web sites in real-time. SnapEdit works with any shared or dedicated hosting environment and can be installed by the site administrator. Individuals log in to SnapEdit from a browser, find the Web page they want to modify in the file manager and make changes through its What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editor. They can also copy and paste content into a Web page from Windows applications. When finished, they save changes and they are published to the live Web site. Site administrators can control which Web pages and assets can be modified to preserve site design and navigation. SnapEdit automatically creates backups of modified pages to enable a quick return to previous versions. SnapEdit is available immediately. Pricing ranges from $99 for 3 users to $499 for an unlimited number of users managing one Web site. ISP and enterprise license pricing, supporting an unlimited number of users and Web sites, is available beginning at $1,500 per server. www.globalscape.com/snapedit, www.globalscape.com/purecms

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