IXOS Software AG showed the major new developments in Release 4.0. The enhanced IXOS-DocuLink component allows holistic views of business processes in offline mode. The offline functionality allows access to business documents anytime, from anyplace. Notes users can now be integrated, allowing them to maintain a comprehensive overview of enterprise-wide business documents within familiar application environments. Version 4.0 also incorporates Java and XML technology. Release 4.0 takes advantage of the enhanced DocuLink 2.0 component that facilitates the end-to-end management of business documents from all kinds of sources within an SAP R/3 infrastructure. 4.0 uses XML to assign attributes to business documents which represent information, including metadata, in a system-independent form. Business documents can now also be accessed via XML-capable Web browsers. The ExchangeLink and NotesLink modules in IXOS-ARCHIVE 4.0 allow interactive and automatic archiving of Exchange and Lotus Notes documents. IXOS-ARCHIVE enables archiving of all documents with digital signatures, supports the current version 2.0 of ODMA, and adds a fax gateway. German and English versions of IXOS-ARCHIVE 4.0 are expected to be ready for shipment by the end of December. The availability of other international language versions is intended for the first quarter of calendar year 2000. www.ixos.com/en/press
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Netfish Technologies, Inc. made its debut with a B2B e-commerce solution that enables companies to streamline and automate their manufacturing, procurement and distribution processes with other organizations. In order to encourage rapid adoption by large value-chains, Netfish is giving away free Netfish XDI client software, allowing a single manufacturer to tie together all their trading partners without forcing additional costs on them.Based on XML and written in Java, the Netfish XDI system integrates with existing ERP systems, making it easy to automate and manage the workflows for complex transactions between trading partners with different applications, formats and systems. The Netfish XDI System requires no programming to integrate with ERP systems from vendors, and provides powerful graphical tools for creating custom workflow processes that reflect an organization
eBusiness Technologies and Visionary Media, Inc. announced a technology relationship. The two companies are working together to integrate Visionary Media’s VIEWS technologies with eBusiness Technologies’ MediaBank digital asset management solution to deliver a complete workflow management system. VIEWManager enhances MediaBank’s workflow management capabilities, streamlining print production time for clients, such as corporate marketing departments and commercial publishers. VIEWPage adds automated page-building tools tailored to developing product advertisements. www.ebt.com, www.visionary-media.com
The e-content company, a division of Interleaf, Inc. announced X-WAP (XML Wireless Application Product), a new BladeRunner application that will allow enterprises to distribute information to any wireless device, extending enterprise e-business. Through the power of eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), enterprises can now extend the reach of their intranets by transforming WML, HTML, and XML business content for presentation to wireless devices such as cellular telephones, personal digital assistants, pagers and e-books. The e-content company is debuting with demonstrations of content being served live to a variety of mobile and wireless devices including the One Touch Pocket cellular phone from Alcatel; the Palm VII PDA from Palm Computing, Inc., a 3Com Company; the Nokia 9000il Communicator and the 7110 cellular phone; the StarTac cellular phone and PageWriter 2000X digital pager both from Motorola; and the Softbook electronic book from Softbook Press. To date, wireless access to the Web has required some type of gateway filtering technology or specialized site; neither of these flexibly adapt to numerous devices each with unique capabilities such as screen size. With X-WAP, content in XML, or structured HTML, can be efficiently transformed into output, exploiting the unique features of each device. In addition, with X-WAP’s XSL creation tools, content providers have control over how their content is rendered on all these devices. As part of this release, the e-content company is announcing collaborations with leading wireless communications companies to jointly develop solutions for delivering dynamic customized content on wireless devices. To date, participants include Alcatel, Motorola, Nokia, and Softbook Press, and will be expanded to include leading content providers, aggregators, Web portals, and telecommunications carriers who are all part of the X-WAP value chain. X-WAP will be available this quarter to participants of the Early Adopter Program as a Technology Preview. www.xmlecontent.com
Web2PCS.com announced a strategic alliance with 7am.com to provide Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) news for the Web2PCS wireless portal. This alliance will allow users of the wireless portal to receive both wireless “push” and “pull” based news from multiple geographical locations. Users of the Wireless Portal can now receive headlines specific to 4 different countries including New Zealand, United Kingdom, Australia and the United States with additional country specific information to come in the near future. www.web2pcs.com
iCopyright.com, announced that it has signed two new alliances to simplify the process of obtaining reprints. Rapid Reprint and Reprint Services, sister divisions of Taylor Corporation, will fulfill reprint requests from iCopyright.com
Ardent Software, Inc. announced that it will partner with NEON Systems, Inc. This partnership complements Ardent’s DataStage Suite by providing customers with direct access to DB2 for OS/390-MVS through NEON’s Shadow Direct middleware. Shadow Direct provides direct access to mainframe-based data from client/server and n-tier environments such as UNIX and Windows NT. Together with NEON, Ardent now offers the data warehouse market’s most comprehensive selection of mainframe data access options. Ardent’s DataStage Suite includes a complete data movement and integration solution with native access to data from mainframe, Unix, and Windows NT environments; data quality assurance capabilities; and full lifecycle meta data management; all complemented by industry-leading professional services. NEON’s Shadow Direct provides direct access to mainframe data in DB2 as well as the ability to invoke DB2 stored procedures. NEON’s Shadow Direct simplifies and optimizes DB2 connectivity, thus eliminating the traditional performance bottlenecks and points of failure typical of other access methodologies. www.ardentsoftware.com, www.neonsys.com
Mediaplex, Inc. announced that it will integrate its real-time online media buying solution with the Ariba business-to-business e-commerce solution. This integrated solution will provide businesses with an automated system for placing, tracking, changing and managing online advertising placements and expenses by leveraging the approval workflow and Internet order routing capabilities of the Ariba ORMS application and Ariba Network platform. The Mediaplex-Ariba integrated solution will utilize Mediaplex’s new technology, adXML, to enable advertisers and Web publishers to transmit and acknowledge advertising insertion and change orders in real time. Mediaplex and Ariba are working together to make adXML an open standard, and are sponsoring an adXML.org Web site to provide more information. The adXML committee, which includes Boris Putanec, Ariba software architect and a primary contributor to the cXML standard, and Art Scott, Mediaplex’s adXML project manager, is also working with a number of advertising standards groups, including international groups such as FOGRA to assist with print standards in Europe. www.mediaplex.com.
