News For August, 2004

Open Text Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Vista Plus suite of products and related assets from Quest Software Inc. Vista Plus captures and stores business-critical information from packaged applications like Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and mySAP as well as custom and mainframe legacy environments. The acquisition expands Open Text's integration and report management capabilities as part of its ECM suite. Vista provides a platform from which to address report content found in ERP applications, and business intelligence (BI) software from Cognos, Business Objects, Crystal Reports and others. The Vista Plus Suite consists of three components, an output manager, electronic forms server and a scalable central repository. Together they control and deliver all business output to any user via multiple delivery channels. The transaction is expected to close in September 2004. The product acquisition is structured as a cash asset purchase and the purchase price is approximately $24 million. As part of the transaction, Quest employees will become a part of Open Text. www.opentext.com, www.quest.com

Hummingbird & Certus Partner to Provide Sarbanes-Oxley Solution
8/31/2004

Hummingbird Ltd. and Certus Software, Inc. announced a technology partnership to offer organizations a comprehensive solution to implement and certify internal controls to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 404 financial business processes. Hummingbird Enterprise DM creates an organized, secure environment that manages the lifecycle of financial documents from creation to destruction. Companies can capture and organize policies and procedures in secure and manageable repositories allowing users to search and access documents across the enterprise. Hummingbird will integrate Certus' Governance Suite, into Hummingbird Enterprise to provide internal controls and assurance software based on a compliance platform for SOX Sections 103, 302, 404, 409, and 906. Certus' software helps corporations document, implement and sustain internal and disclosure controls required by law. Certus' suite enables documented activities to be instituted, executed, monitored, tested and demonstrated. www.certus.com, www.hummingbird.com

ClearForest Announces Quality Early Warning Industry Module
8/31/2004

ClearForest Corp. announced release of its Quality Early Warning industry module as part of its product suite. In combination with ClearForest Analytics, the Quality Early Warning module facilitates resolution of warranty, product safety & quality issues through early discovery of component and system-level failures. By enabling organizations to systematically analyze unstructured text and enterprise data simultaneously, ClearForest facilitates unified business intelligence. Developed specifically for capital equipment, automotive & durable goods manufacturers, ClearForest's Quality Early Warning solution provides industry-specific expertise necessary to detect, analyze & reduce warranty costs by uncovering root cause & effect. ClearForest solutions may be deployed as a stand-alone analytics application supporting specific queries, visual analytics and reports, or fully integrated within existing Business Intelligence systems such as those offered by Cognos or Business Objects. Examples of unstructured text sources include web-based survey data, news articles or research as well as other electronic formats such as emails, contracts, spreadsheets and warranty claims. www.clearforest.com

Vignette Ships Enhanced Integration of Portal & Content Management
8/30/2004

Vignette Corp. announced enhancements to its integrated content management and portal solutions including capabilities for expanded presentation management, real-time delivery of information from its native sources via real-time page generation and assembly, and advanced caching. Vignette content management now provides modular dynamic content delivery to Vignette portals and other Web sites, with a page region caching mechanism for dynamic sites. New presentation management capabilities span Vignette's content management and portal applications to allow IT departments to create templates that can be customized for any number of unique sites. Vignette solutions separate control of layout, content and presentation so that static content, dynamic information, content selection rules and active applications are all assembled at request time to satisfy the Web user's requirements. The latest versions of Vignette Content Management, Vignette Application Portal and the integration modules are available and shipping to customers today. www.vignette.com

Innodata Isogen Joins Vasont Systems' Partner Program
8/30/2004

Vasont Systems announced that Innodata Isogen, Inc. joined its Vasont Important Partner (VIP) Program. The strategic alliance between Vasont and Innodata Isogen will include joint projects, marketing and sales efforts. Additionally, Innodata Isogen and Vasont are working together with customers to implement environments where external authoring and publishing tools are integrated with the Vasont Content Management System to support automated localization and single-source publishing of multilingual content. www.vasont.com, www.innodata-isogen.com

IBM to Acquire Venetica
8/26/2004

IBM announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Venetica. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth-quarter. Financial details were not disclosed. Venetica's operations will be integrated into the Information Integration group within IBM's Information Management software business and Venetica products will be available from IBM and its Business Partners. Venetica is a provider of enterprise content integration software that enables organizations to access unstructured information such as business documents, still images, digital media and Web pages, and integrate it into existing business processes. With Venetica technology integrated into IBM's DB2 Information Integrator software, IBM will ba able to deliver comprehensive information integration infrastructure. Additionally, in support of IBM's infrastructure strategy, Venetica software can also work with both IBM and non-IBM data sources, including EMC/Documentum, FileNet, Hummingbird, Interwoven, Open Text and Stellent, enabling organizations to leverage their existing content assets. Once the acquisition is completed, IBM plans to Integrate Venetica's software assets and personnel into the Information Integration group within IBM's Information Management Software group and market and sell Venetica technology worldwide through IBM direct sales and its business partners. Venetica technology will be integrated into IBM's DB2 Information Integrator family of products and complement other IBM middleware offerings, including DB2 Content Manager, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Business Integration and IBM's Workplace initiatives. www.ibm.com/software/data

Workshare Introduces Protect 3.0 to Eliminate Microsoft Office Metadata Risks
8/24/2004

Workshare announced companies can eliminate the risk of exposing potentially damaging or sensitive metadata with its Workshare Protect 3.0. With Protect 3.0 companies gain greater control of content in their Microsoft Office documents, whether used on the desktop or shared via email, through features such as automatic metadata cleaning options, internal and external metadata policy settings and one-step PDF conversion capabilities. Protect 3.0 now cleans metadata in any Microsoft Office application including Excel and PowerPoint. Protect 3.0 Metadata Risk Reports indicate if there is no potentially damaging information in a Word document. Companies can use Metadata Policy Settings to set standard metadata policies, on a departmental or organizational level, on how and what metadata should be cleaned automatically when sending emails to internal or external recipients. Protect now integrates with Lotus Notes and Novell GroupWise as well as Microsoft Outlook. Workshare Protect 3.0 is available now with per user pricing based on volume. www.workshare.com

Hummingbird Extends Enterprise Content Management Solution for Legal Professionals
8/24/2004

Hummingbird Ltd. announced it is extending Hummingbird Enterprise with several new functionality and productivity enhancements for the legal industry. Hummingbird now offers advanced information retrieval and knowledge discovery capabilities from within Microsoft Outlook; enhanced BlackBerry support for interactive access to knowledge assets; new optimizations for centralized deployments; and e-filing capabilities. With Hummingbird Enterprise, legal teams now have access to their enterprise taxonomy, and can perform federated searches across multiple content sources, including non-Hummingbird repositories such as file systems, ODBC data sources, Microsoft Exchange repositories and Web sites, directly from within the Microsoft Outlook client. The most relevant information will be displayed in an amalgamated result set and users can drag and drop any information from the KM result set directly into their DM libraries. Result List Clustering dynamically categorizes large result sets into "clusters" so related information is found together. www.hummingbird.com

CambridgeDocs Announces Java Doc Library
8/24/2004

CambridgeDocs announced the upcoming release of the Java Document Library, which allows cross-platform Java applications to read, access and create Microsoft Word, WordML, HTML, RTF, and PDF files. The Java Document Library software development kit is for Java server-side applications that need to import or export textual or published content. Using the publishing capabilities of the Java Document Library, applications running on Windows, Linux, and many Unix versions can read and write Word, HTML, and PDF documents. The Java Document Library can also convert existing files (WordML, Word, RTF, HTML, PDF) into XML and to XSL:FO, HTML, and into RTF. The Java Document Library is a general purpose Application Framework and Java class library for incorporating document functionality into J2EE and J2SE applications. The Java Document Library provides a consistent programming interface across different document-types. It is available for download immediately. Pricing starts at $15,000 per server. www.cambridgedocs.com

Inxight Partners with Factiva, Indraweb, KAPS Group, Taxonomy Warehouse & WAND
8/24/2004

Inxight Software, Inc. announced partnerships with Factiva, Indraweb, KAPS Group, Taxonomy Warehouse and WAND to provide Inxight SmartDiscovery customers with pre-built and custom taxonomies. Inxight SmartDiscovery provides search, categorization and taxonomy management, and entity and fact extraction. Working with Inxight's taxonomy partners, SmartDiscovery customers can integrate pre-built industry taxonomies, which are able to serve as the basis for organizing intellectual capital and creating efficiencies. For organizations that use multiple taxonomies for different functions or applications, Inxight's partners provide the ability to customize taxonomies by analyzing the work processes and information stores of a particular company. SmartDiscovery's taxonomy and information categorization tools enable users to manage their taxonomies over time. www.inxight.com

SiteRefresh 5 Ships
8/24/2004

Refresh Software Corp. announced the release of SiteRefresh 5, with a J2EE Core developed in Java offering JSR-170 (level 2) features for inclusion in Service-Oriented Architectures. SiteRefresh's Open Publishing System provides interfaces, complete with source code, for Web publishing and delivery systems developed in ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, CFM, PHP, TCL, and Perl. Enhancements to SiteRefresh 5 include a 3-tier architecture, enhanced Digital Asset Management capabilities, support for both an image and file repository as well as content asset specific files and images, enhanced AssetType datafield validation, support for user-defined triggers performed on workflow transitions, originator notification and periodic review workflow settings, and, edition content can now be defined by either current or published versions. SiteRefresh Open Publishing System (OPS) is a method for the secure and controlled retrieval of assets stored in the SiteRefresh Content Repository. OPS includes a series of source code Content Retrieval Objects which engage SiteRefresh's Content Repository's open/published RDBMS schema for non-proprietary API access. Customer's chosen publishing process continue to operate without reengineering and can be used to generate content in Web, WAP, RSS, and XML. www.refreshsoftware.com

TripleHop's MatchPoint Integrates with Microsoft Office
8/24/2004

TripleHop Technologies announced it made MatchPoint available directly from the search menus of Microsoft Office with its MatchPoint 3.2 Office Edition. MatchPoint Office enables end users within the enterprise to perform searches through their desktop information, in addition to other disparate sources previously searchable through MatchPoint 3.2 Enterprise Edition. With MatchPoint Office, end users can now query any internal or external information source directly from within Windows. MatchPoint 3.2 Office Edition is available directly through TripleHop Technologies www.triplehop.com

Inmagic Introduces Presto!
8/24/2004

Inmagic, Inc. announced the release of Inmagic Presto! - a Web-based content catalog for accessing, sharing and re-purposing information assets. Built on the Inmagic Content Server using the Microsoft SQL Server backend, Presto! leverages the Microsoft .NET technologies to provide unified access to search, identify and retrieve content no matter where it resides. Inmagic Presto! is designed to help information-intensive organizations maximize value from their information assets and interoperate within the overall IT infrastructure. Presto! can serve as a repository for housing content from legacy systems as well as maintain metadata about an organization's content whether it resides in the Presto! database or elsewhere. In addition, Presto! automates the capture, aggregation and categorization of the content to provide integrated search in order to facilitate information discovery. Combining local control of content with enterprise-wide access, Presto! requires that content managers need only manage the lifecycle of the original content. www.inmagic.com

FileNet Releases FileNet Records Manager
8/23/2004

FileNet Corporation announced availability of the company's newest ECM product suite, FileNet Records Manager. Built on the company's FileNet P8 ECM platform, FileNet's Records Manager suite offers customers a comprehensive records management solution that is designed to help enforce compliance by automating and streamlining an organization's records-based procedures and reducing unnecessary end user participation in the processing of records. FileNet Records Manager, powered by FileNet's ZeroClick technology, is designed to solve regulatory compliance challenges and manage risk by helping organizations: organize, securely store and quickly retrieve essential company records, automatically enforce records management policies, comply with records retention policies, ensure expired records are destroyed in a legally acceptable manner, and reduce discovery and storage costs. FileNet believes its Records Manager solution offers companies an evolutionary approach to records management. The key differentiator in FileNet Records Manager is its FileNet ZeroClick solution, which is designed to enforce records management policies at the technology layer. The underlying functionality of FileNet ZeroClick is "Active Content," whereby content and business processes work together to facilitate and accelerate information exchange, and respond to business or transaction events. FileNet Records Manager is now shipping. www.filenet.com

EMC Documentum Releases Enterprise Content Integration Services
8/23/2004

EMC Corporation announced the immediate availability of EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) Services, a software product that enables users to discover, access and assimilate structured and unstructured information from multiple internal and external sources, in multiple languages, with one query. Through a single sign on, Documentum ECI Services enables integration of heterogeneous content -- from enterprise applications, databases, content management systems and groupware to Internet sources, such as web search engines, industry-specific databases, local archives, government portals and syndicated content providers. Analytics capabilities enable end-users to access and analyze the results of their queries across multilingual content sources. Documentum ECI Services is part of the EMC's virtual repository strategy that enables customers to discover and manage unstructured content wherever it resides. In developing Documentum ECI Services, EMC incorporated technology acquired from the askOnce business unit of Xerox Corporation. Documentum ECI Services can be used in conjunction with the Documentum Enterprise Content Management platform, with other content management products or as a standalone tool. Documentum ECI Services is immediately available. www.documentum.com

Hummingbird to Offer Attunity Products for Data Integration
8/23/2004

Attunity, Ltd. announced a technology partnership with Hummingbird Ltd. Hummingbird will offer the Attunity product family as an add-on component of Hummingbird Genio, the data integration component of Hummingbird Integration Suite. Hummingbird Genio is a data integration solution that spans the functional areas of data extract, transformation, and load (ETL) and EAI, for projects that might include data warehouses or data marts. Once in a consolidated data warehouse users can perform various forms of analysis upon it. Attunity Connect is a family of pre-built, standards-based adapters to mainframe and other legacy data sources, providing high-performance and native access. Attunity Stream is a change data capture product that moves data changes across the enterprise. Attunity software products run natively on Microsoft Windows, SUN Solaris, Red Hat Linux, AIX, Open VMS, OS/390 and OS/400. www.hummingbird.com, www.attunity.com

Gilbane Content Technology Works Publishes Two New Case Studies
8/23/2004

Bluebill Advisors, Inc. announced the availability of two new case studies illustrating what can be accomplished today with content management technology. The case studies were written by Gilbane Report consultants based on detailed interviews with the implementation teams at Avnet, Inc., and IDX Systems Corporation. Learn how Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a leading supplier of electronic components, embedded systems and enterprise computing products, reduced costs, improved productivity, increased top line revenue and grew market share through development and adoption of a web content management and portal application. Hear how IDX Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:IDXC), a leading healthcare information technology supplier, leveraged a single-source ECM initiative to provide top tier documentation, training and customer support resulting in improved product quality and customer satisfaction. The case studies are available at no charge at www.gilbane.com/case_studies/avnet_case_study.html, and www.gilbane.com/case_studies/idx_case_study.html. For more information on how to gain access to the Content Technology Works program, visit http://www.gilbane.com/technology_works.html.

Vignette Launches Records & Document Management Suite
8/23/2004

Vignette Corp. released Vignette Records & Documents, providing customers with a platform that delivers compliance, risk management and business automation within a single framework. The release of Vignette Records & Documents is a result of integrating applications secured in Vignette's recent acquisition of TOWER Technology. Vignette Records & Documents helps customers meet compliance obligations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Vignette is also committed to support the U.K. National Archives (PRO) 2002 Functional Requirements for Electronic Records Management Systems (ERMS) and will seek the National Archives' approval of Vignette Records & Documents against the PRO 2002 ERMS requirements. Vignette also announced enhanced storage and retrieval support for Vignette IDM, providing customers with an information management system to help the transitioning from paper to high-volume digital processes. Vignette IDM is a Web-enabled imaging, COLD and case management system designed to capture and manage virtually all forms of unstructured business information, including images, forms, computer-generated reports, statements and invoices, office documents, and e-mail. Enhancements to Vignette IDM include retrieval from EMC Centera storage devices and support for NetApp SnapLock for enterprise storage management for high-volume image ingestion. www.vignette.com

Informative Graphics Releases Beta Version of Brava! Enterprise ActiveX Content Visualization Server
8/17/2004

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) announced the release of its Brava! Enterprise content visualization server with an ActiveX client. The beta version will be followed by a full production release in the fourth quarter of 2004. A full evaluation of the ActiveX beta is available by request until September 30, 2004. Brava Enterprise ActiveX allows users to view native office documents, PDF files, TIFF images, AutoCAD and other CAD software drawings, as well as apply markups and annotations without changing original files. Brava Enterprise also allows organizations to share content with outside organizations for view and markup securely, without distributing files or requiring additional software. Brava Enterprise ActiveX 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, text search, and print. CSF files are viewable by all Brava products, including a free reader that can be distributed along with CSF files. www.infograph.com

Amplexor Partners with FAST
8/17/2004

Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) and Amplexor announced a strategic channel partnership. This agreement enables Amplexor to actively integrate and resell the FAST enterprise search platform (FAST ESP) with its content management solutions to organisations throughout the Benelux countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg). www.fastsearch.com, www.amplexor.com

Ektron Releases eWebEditPro+XML version 4.2
8/17/2004

Ektron Inc. released eWebEditPro+XML version 4.2. The latest version of the company's XML authoring tool integrates with content management systems and other Web-based applications to enable anyone to create "smart" forms and capture and validate data based on specific criteria from a browser. eWebEditPro+XML supports three key modes of content creation: designing an authoring template or "smart Web form"; data entry mode for business users; and data display for presenting content within Web sites and using across applications and other channels. The editor also supports the creation of Web-ready HTML/XHTML content, simplifying processes for creating and managing Web sites and intranets. Ektron's eWebEditPro+XML is a component that integrates into many Web applications, including content management systems and other applications. It offers out-of-the-box validation options and supports custom validations; spreadsheet-like calculations; calendar controls and more. www.ektron.com

IXIASOFT Releases TEXTML Server 3.1
8/17/2004

IXIASOFT announced the release of TEXTML Server 3.1 featuring the TEXTML Fault Tolerance Server (FTS). TEXTML FTS used in conjunction with TEXTML Server will ensure that two or more servers and TEXTML Document Bases installed in parallel are synchronized at all times enabling immediate access to backup servers in the case of a hardware failure. TEXTML Server 3.1 offers the fail-safe reliability of TEXTML FTS to customers that depend on uninterrupted operations of mission-critical systems. The TEXTML FTS will be available in the "Enterprise FT Edition" of TEXTML Server, or as an upgrade for existing systems. www.ixiasoft.com

Kentico Announces New CMS for ASP.NET
8/17/2004

Kentico, a new provider of Web content management solutions, has just released Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. Kentico CMS for ASP.NET was designed for Web developers who deliver Web sites to their customers or their companies. Kentico CMS provides a site editor with components for content publishing. Kentico CMS is available for purchase at www.kentico.com. Its price starts at $499 per production Web site. The development license is free. Kentico also offers partnership to Web consultancies and software companies. www.kentico.com

Etronica Releases PublishPal
8/17/2004

Etronica, Inc. announced the release of PublishPal, a website management system designed to help small organizations maintain sophisticated websites. For a subscription fee, PublishPal's customers implement their websites by logging on to the PublishPal dashboard. Specifically, PublishPal provides: Dynamic content management functions to add or edit content such as editorial, events, product information and marketing materials; Customer communications functions to manage email- and web-based newsletters, blogs and targeted marketing; E-commerce functions to cross- and up-sell products, services, tickets, ads, subscriptions and sponsored content; Search and navigation functions that automatically recommend relevant information; and Database management and analysis functions. www.etronica.com

INSCI Releases WebWare ActiveMedia 5.5
8/17/2004

INSCI Corp. announced the release of WebWare ActiveMedia 5.5, the latest version of its Web services- based digital asset management (DAM) software. New feature, ActiveSecurity, provides a metadata-driven security model. By simply updating a metadata field, administrators can change which individuals can gain access to an asset. Security management and rapid workflow capabilities are further enhanced through single sign-on capability (SSO). Also new in ActiveMedia 5.5, Task Filters are an administrative capability that enable dynamic distribution of assets to predefined user workspaces. This facilitates collaboration and automated workflow by presenting users with only those assets required for their project role or stage in the review and approval process. INSCI is introducing new Desktop Connections for QuarkXpress and Adobe InDesign and a Video Ingestion & Delivery Tool. Other key features of the new release include expanded SOAP APIs; dynamic watermarking capabilities; multiple-asset renditions; and end-user access for batch metadata editing for multiple assets. ActiveMedia 5.5 is available. www.insci.com

Macromedia Web Publishing System, Contribute 3, & FlashPaper 2 Now Available
8/16/2004

Macromedia announced the immediate availability of the Macromedia Web Publishing System, Macromedia Contribute 3, and Macromedia FlashPaper 2. The Web Publishing System (WPS) enables tens, hundreds, or thousands of content contributors to publish websites for internal and external communications using Macromedia Studio MX 2004, Contribute 3, FlashPaper 2, and Contribute Publishing Services. The Macromedia Web Publishing System, Contribute 3, and FlashPaper 2 are all available for immediate download in English from the Macromedia Online Store. Web Publishing System pricing is based on the number of business users who will use the system, with business packs that include one full developer seat with Studio MX 2004 for every ten business user seats. Pricing is $2,499 for the starter 10-pack, $12,495 for the 50-pack, $24,990 for the 100-pack, and single seats are available for $229. Current Contribute users can upgrade to a Web Publishing System seat for $109. Contribute 3 pricing is $79 for upgrades, $149 for new users, and $699 for a Contribute six-pack. Standalone FlashPaper 2 pricing for Windows only is $79 for one seat and $699 for a 10-pack. FlashPaper 2 also ships with every version of Contribute 3 on both Mac and Windows. Volume discounts and government, non-profit, and education licensing is also available. www.macromedia.com

Snapbridge Introduces FDX Cross Media Server Family of Multi-Channel Publishing Solutions
8/16/2004

Snapbridge Software unveiled FDX Cross Media Server, a multi-platform application family to improve workflow between writers, editors and production groups and reduce and complexity of archiving and repurposing newspaper and magazine content. FDX Cross Media Server integrates disparate data sources and different content formats to simplify and accelerate information assembly and delivery across multiple channels, including print, broadcast, web and wireless. FDX Cross Media Server employs Federated Data eXchange (FDX) technology, which leverages XML and Java. FDX Cross Media Server uses a browser-based interface and allows typical desktop applications to seamlessly link different types of content - text, images, PDF, and native support for XML formats including Adobe's XMP, DocBook and NITF. FDX Search and Archive Engine, the first available product in the family, provides a central repository for creating and archiving editorial content. The browser-based system lets unlimited users from any publishing group easily access and work with content and images from otherwise incompatible systems, applications and formats used to publish various newspapers and magazines. The repository supports WebDAV, and full-text Boolean searches with advanced filtering. www.snapbridge.com

ClearForest Releases Text Analytics 6.0 Platform
8/16/2004

ClearForest Corp. announced availability of its Text Analytics 6.0 platform to enable organizations to analyze unstructured text and enterprise data simultaneously. New developments include system management software, an administrative dashboard, upgrades to development tools and integrated extraction-categorization capabilities. Release 6.0 may be deployed as a stand-alone analytic application supporting specific queries, visual analytics and reports, or fully integrated within an existing Business Intelligence system such as those offered by Cognos or Business Objects. Examples of unstructured text sources include web-based news articles or research as well as other electronic formats such as emails, PDF, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint. The ClearForest Product Suite includes: ClearForest Tags for tagging and categorization of text, ClearForest Industry Modules and ClearForest Analytics designed for text analysis to add to organizations' existing business intelligence tools. www.clearforest.com

Interwoven Acquires Assets from Records Management Firm
8/16/2004

Interwoven, Inc. announced the acquisition of the assets of Software Intelligence, Inc., a provider of records management (RM) systems. Software Intelligence's RM product will be renamed Interwoven Records Manager, and will enable companies to manage paper documents, electronic documents and e-mail under a single unified records system. Interwoven purchased the assets of Software Intelligence for approximately $2 million in cash and stock. Interwoven Records Manager will initially be integrated with Interwoven WorkSite, the company's document management and collaboration solution. Enterprises will be able to establish and implement a single, coordinated management and retention strategy for records across all types of media, including paper, e-mail, scanned images and electronic documents, at the client, project, folder or box level, in their original context. The solution gives end users ways to access and manage both electronic and paper files from a single interface in the context of their work. Retention policies can be assigned automatically based on client and project with no additional action or classification required. www.interwoven.com

FeedStream Launches FLUiD CMS 4.5
8/12/2004

FeedStream Inc. announced the launch of FLUiD CMS 4.5, the latest version of their Web Content Management System (CMS). FLUiD CMS 4.5 is an XML-based CMS that simplifies creating and managing a professional Web site. Sites are developed using the FLUiD CMS 4.5 template so they are easy to navigate and optimized for search engine ranking. The word processor interface used within FLUiD CMS 4.5 is a Web-enhanced version of the OpenOffice.org Writer authoring component. Because it is based on Open Source standards it guarantees that your content will never be locked into proprietary formats. In addition, FLUiD CMS 4.5 uses XML publishing templates that separate content from site design. The software is available as a single author license, starting at $449 US. Multi-user packs are also available for larger authoring teams, at a discounted price. www.feedstream.com

Step Two Designs Releases Content Management Requirements Toolkit 2.0
8/12/2004

Step Two Designs announced the release of version 2.0 of the "Content Management Requirements Toolkit" - fully-revised, and almost twice the size. In addition to the expanded range of requirements, the Toolkit now provides a comprehensive guide to writing CMS scenarios, as well as a detailed overview of the whole selection process. The Requirements Toolkit now contains 133 fully-developed CMS requirements, across five main categories: content creation, content management, publishing, presentation, and contract & business. These requirements are ready to be cut-and-pasted into your content management tender or RFP. www.steptwo.com.au

Wolfram Research Releases Technical Documentation Solution
8/10/2004

Wolfram Publicon, a new integrated software solution for composing sophisticated technical documents, is now available from Wolfram Research. Created for the growing number of academic researchers, students, and industry professionals who need to create or publish documents with technical content, Publicon produces platform- independent files that can be exported to HTML, XML, LaTeX, or custom Publicon formats. Publicon incorporates math typesetting technology with additional templates for chemical equations, special characters, and symbols to produce publication-quality documents. Mathematical notation from a Publicon document can be copied and pasted for computation in Mathematica, allowing readers meaningful and dynamic interaction with the text. Publicon is available for Windows and Mac OS X. The suggested retail price is USD $149. http://www.wolfram.com/publicon

Phoenix Systems Integration Releases Lotus Notes Connector for Documentum
8/10/2004

Phoenix Systems Integration announced the release of Phoenix Notes Connector - a solution that brings together the enterprise-class messaging, calendaring and scheduling capabilities of IBM's Lotus Notes with the global and enterprise-wide content management solutions of Documentum. Phoenix Notes Connector Features / Functionality include: the ability to archive from Lotus Notes folders; document types available for archive are configurable; archived messages retain header, footer, formatting and color information; and e-mail and attachments can be stored in the same, or separate, Docbase locations. Users can: navigate to Docbase locations to save e-mail and/or attachments; version documents with newer attachments; "Send and Archive" with a single command; search using Documentum's "Find" tool, including full-text search ability; navigate to Docbase locations to find e-mail and/or attachments; and attach multiple documents at a time. The connector is available for Documentum versions 5.0 and above and Lotus Notes versions 6.0 and above. Pricing is available upon request. www.phoenixsi.com

Interwoven E-mail Management Solution to Encompass Lotus Notes
8/9/2004

Interwoven, Inc. announced that it is extending its e-mail Management solution to support businesses using Lotus Notes. The new E-mail Management for Notes solution is an addition to already available solutions for Microsoft Outlook and Novell GroupWise. Interwoven's E-mail Management solution is based on Interwoven WorkSite 8, a collaborative document management system. The solution offers relief to organizations challenged with addressing records retention policies and removing the risks created by e-mail and documents disassociated and split between multiple repositories. The new E-mail Management for Lotus Notes solution helps provide for better records keeping and knowledge management by delivering distributed access to a virtual engagement workspace that provides a single view into the full scope of matter or project-related content. www.interwoven.com

Microsoft Announces Web Part Toolkits & Web Services Toolkit for SharePoint Products
8/9/2004

Microsoft Corp. announced two new Web Part toolkits and a Web services toolkit for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies that enable them to connect systems from multiple vendors using XML Web services standards. Available at no charge on GotDotNet.com, and complete with source code, the two Web Part toolkits represent additions to Microsoft's array of XML Web Parts by facilitating the integration of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services sites with information line-of-business applications from SAP AG and other vendors. Microsoft's WSRP Web Part Toolkit for SharePoint Products and Technologies leverages the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) specification created by the OASIS to enable developers to build portlets that interact with other portal sites regardless of the business system they use. The WSRP Web Part Toolkit includes a ready-to-install "consumer" component that displays WSRP portlet services provided by a variety of vendors within Web Part pages hosted by Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Microsoft also is providing a WSRP Web Services Toolkit for SharePoint Products and Technologies that explains and provides examples for creating and deploying WSRP-compliant producer Web services. Microsoft also released its Web Part Toolkit for SharePoint Products and Technologies for SAP iViews. www.microsoft.com

Open Text Releases FirstClass 8.0
8/9/2004

Open Text Corporation's FirstClass division announced the release of FirstClass 8.0, a major evolution of the company's suite of integrated communication and messaging capabilities. The release includes both the FirstClass Business Edition and the FirstClass Education Edition, which is tailored to meet the requirements of FirstClass' education customer base. FirstClass 8.0 new features include advances in system security and manageability, in performance and scalability, and in collaboration and customization capabilities. The new FirstClass Directory Services (FCDS) module facilitates the integration of FirstClass into corporate meta-directory environments including LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory. FCDS enables bi-directional user administration between FirstClass and meta-directories, as well as providing access to FirstClass directories from end-user client applications. FCDS also provides single sign-in support through external authentication. FirstClass 8.0 will be available on a wide variety of computing platforms, including Microsoft Windows (95, 98, NT, 2000, and XP versions), Apple Macintosh (OS 8, OS 9 and OS X versions), HTML/Web, and Linux. FirstClass 8.0 is available for free to all customers who are members of the FirstClass Support and Maintenance Program. www.opentext.com

Factiva Search & Track Tools Available for BEA WebLogic Portal
8/4/2004

Factiva announced the availability of search and tracking tools for customers of BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1. The new Factiva tools are designed to integrate with BEA's portal via standards-based portlets. BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 is designed to enable customers to integrate Factiva content using the JSR168 standard for portlet integration. This allows BEA's customers to download and integrate business information from Factiva and other BEA partner Web sites into their own BEA WebLogic-based portals and wireless browser devices in a virtually plug and play mode. www.factiva.com

GlobalSight Signs OEM Agreement with Mediasurface
8/3/2004

GlobalSight Corporation announced that it has entered into agreement with enterprise content management software provider, Mediasurface, for integrating end-to-end Web content creation into GlobalSight's Ambassador product. The new functionality will be sold as an add-on module to Ambassador. This joint global content management solution combines localization automation software with Web content development and management technology. While Ambassador will continue to integrate with other content management solutions, organizations that have not deployed a CMS now have the option of deploying a fully integrated end-to-end environment that enables authoring and multilingual content management. www.mediasurface.com, www.globalsight.com

Tablus Updates Enterprise Content Security Solution
8/3/2004

Tablus, Inc. announced the latest version of their content security solution, Content Alarm 1.1. Content Alarm monitors all outgoing traffic at the network perimeter and accurately identifies sensitive content leaving the network in email or email attachments, HTTP posts, FTP transmissions and other traffic protocols. Content Alarm employs an advanced Linguistic Analysis Engine to determine if data leaving the network matches any content that has been designated as protected. Because Content Alarm monitors content transmission instead of document access, it can detect a wide range of violations, e.g., if paragraphs of a strategic plan are pasted into an outgoing email message. Content Alarm looks at all traffic exiting on multiple protocols, not just email. Completely non-intrusive and transparent to end-users, Content Alarm tracks email attachments, FTP file transfers, HTTP posts and more. Sophisticated policy tools support audits of all or only selected activities. For example, certain transactions, such as data transmissions to a specific destination can trigger an audit. Content Alarm 1.1 is currently available. www.tablus.com

Endeca Releases Endeca ProFind 4.5 & Endeca InFront 4.5
8/3/2004

Endeca announced the immediate availability of Endeca ProFind 4.5, a new version of the company's enterprise search and navigation platform. Endeca ProFind combines search, Guided Navigation and Content Spotlighting capabilities to help organizations integrate and take advantage of structured, semi-structured and unstructured enterprise data. Endeca ProFind 4.5 includes several new features designed to improve relevancy, customize the discovery process and further simplify administration and management. These features include: personalization, a seach application wizard, expanded relevancy ranking capabilities for unstructured data, enhanced classification and taxonomy management, new administration tools, and a new web-based interface to simplify administration and maintenance of Endeca implementations. Endeca also announced immediate availability of Endeca InFron 4.5, a new version of their commerce search, navigation and merchandising solution. www.endeca.com

Open Text Acquires Artesia
8/3/2004

Open Text Corporation said it will acquire Artesia Technologies, Inc. "Close of the transaction is imminent." The acquisition expands Open Text's rich media integration and management capabilities as part of its ECM suite, and provides a platform from which to address the content management needs of media and marketing professionals. Artesia provides customer organizations and their marketing and distribution partners with the ability to easily access and collaborate around a centrally managed collection of digital media elements. Applications include: Production Asset Management - Content reuse and collaboration at the center of creative process for digital media content; Brand Asset Management - Control over and reuse of the digital media elements used in marketing campaigns; Distribution Asset Management - Streamlining the distribution of digital media and digital marketing materials to the supply chain; and Rich Digital Media Asset Management - Enhances content management and collaboration by extending search, retrieval, viewing and analysis to rich digital media content and its associated metadata. The transaction is not material to the financial results or operations of Open Text. The acquisition will be discussed during Open Text's fourth quarter earnings conference call, scheduled for Tuesday, August 31, 2004. www.opentext.com, www.artesia.com

Atomz Announces Major Upgrade to Atomz Commerce
8/2/2004

Atomz announced the second major upgrade this year to its Atomz Commerce solution. Atomz Commerce integrates search, promotion, e-marketing and content management capabilities to create a Guided Commerce experience for customers. Managed Relevance is the foundation of the merchandising platform and provides fine-grained control over page query relevancy based on user-controlled interfaces and algorithms. This affords retailers enhanced control over the delivery of search results enabling them to present products in order of importance. Merchandising Controls allow direct control over relevancy information based on any type of metadata, such as inventory, margin, SKU, brand, price, and ratings. Merchandisers are given the flexibility to immediately adjust site rankings and relevancy to drive product sales. Large Capacity Search offers capacity to handle millions of SKUs while providing interruptible crawling and indexing. Guided Commerce Query Management generates relevant results based on broad search terms to help visitors find the products they are looking for. Automated Metadata Creation looks at a Web page and automatically generates metadata to create a multi-faceted search. Relational Metadata Queries allows sophisticated queries to be performed on product metadata based on specific attribute information. www.atomz.com

Verity Releases TeleForm 9.0
8/2/2004

Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity TeleForm release 9.0, the latest version of the company's high volume content capture solution. Verity TeleForm is a software solution that replaces manual data entry with paper-to-digital processing. This is the first TeleForm release under the Verity corporate banner since the company completed its acquisition of Cardiff Software. The new enhancements are: Microsoft SQL-Verity TeleForm integration; Support of Microsoft VBA to facilitate customization of application-specific business rules; Security enhancements that include expanded Microsoft LDAP support, password-protected PDF file exports, and strengthened protection for file transfers; Simplified troubleshooting and support through TeleForm's modules for Reader and AutoMerge Publisher that can now be handled as Windows services; and Improved recognition and throughput from higher performing RecoFlex multi-engine recognition technology. TeleForm is available in three product families, TeleForm Desktop, TeleForm for Workgroup, and TeleForm Enterprise. www.verity.com

Interwoven, Kofax, & BCS to Offer Integrated Capture and Collaborative Document Management
8/2/2004

Interwoven, Inc., Kofax, and BCS Systems announced the companies have teamed to offer an enterprise information capture and collaborative document management solution. BCS Advanced Capture integrates Kofax Ascent Capture, Interwoven's content management capabilities, and any enterprise business application to maximize access to important documents within the business context. It also provides visibility of information subject to regulatory compliance initiatives. With BCS Advanced Capture, Interwoven users are provided with the ability to capture documents and contextual metadata, apply web navigation elements and place the documents in the ECM repository. Advanced Capture also works with many multi function centers to provide distributed transaction capture across the enterprise. Upon arrival to the Interwoven repository, documents can be assigned to pre-defined workflows and routed to appropriate business processes. Ascent is a modular application that can be used right out-of-the-box to meet the needs of a specific department, or expanded to meet the complex needs of a high-volume enterprise. Ascent can extend the basic application to handle complex forms processing tasks, as well as information capture directly from remote offices. HostConnect integrates ERP, CRM, line of business and mainframe applications with Interwoven WorkSite MP. Additionally, Object Bundler provides clients with a regulatory compliance application that can provide a virtual electronic snapshot of business documents. www.kofax.com, www.bcssys.com, www.interwoven.com

Surety Joins Documentum Alliance Program to Integrate Data Integrity with Documentum's ECM Platform
8/2/2004

Surety, LLC announced a partnership with Documentum that will enable companies to protect their intellectual property, defend evidence in court and comply with regulatory mandates by validating their electronic records. The combined solution will enable customers, third-party auditors and government regulators to prove the date and time and content integrity of any object created in the Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform independent of an organization's internal system controls. As part of the partnership, Surety will build an integration of its AbsoluteProof data integrity solution with the Documentum ECM platform, and will make the combined solution available to companies in the pharmaceutical, legal, and government markets. www.documentum.com, www.surety.com

GlobalSCAPE Releases CuteFTP Server
8/2/2004

GlobalSCAPE announced the release of CuteFTP Server, a software application that allows individuals to host their own FTP servers from home. A free 30-day trial of CuteFTP Server is available immediately and it has a standard list price of $49.99 per single-user license. The professional version, SecureFTP Server, is available for businesses and has a standard list price of $349 per single-user license. www.globalscape.com

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