Year: 1999 (Page 46 of 97)

Sequoia Software Corporation announced a reseller agreement with The Windward Group. The Sequoia XML Portal is a platform upon which Windward’s technical staff will deliver customized enterprise information portals.This agreement will extend Sequoia Software’s presence throughout the western United States via Windward’s headquarters near San Jose and its affiliate offices near Seattle, San Diego and Salt Lake City. Sequoia’s XML Portal delivers personalized information snapshots assembled from any of the XML data elements managed by the portal’s patent-pending XML index. www.sequoiasoftware.com, www.wwg.com

Microsoft Corp. announced the immediate worldwide availability of Microsoft Vizact 2000, which allows users to add the dynamic and engaging features of the Web to their HTML documents. The Vizact 2000 technology allows users to add multimedia functionality such as timing, animation and interactivity to their Web documents, turning them into “active documents.” With Vizact 2000, document authors can control multimedia functionality (e.g., text, images and sound) in their documents to increase attention to key messages, enhancing readers’ understanding and retention of ideas. Via the Vizact Timeline, users can control when elements appear and disappear, the movement of elements, and the reaction of the elements to a user’s mouse. Since Vizact looks and works like the Office family of applications, new users can get up and running quickly and easily. Vizact includes professionally designed wizards and templates, giving users impressive, professional results without requiring them to master new technology. Part of Microsoft’s overall knowledge management strategy, Vizact is an example of providing knowledge workers with the right information at the right time. Vizact 2000 is available now in stores for the suggested retail price of $149. www.microsoft.com

NCompass Labs Inc. announced the opening of its U.S. center of operations in Silicon Valley. The company’s newly appointed vice president of sales, Chris Sterbenc, will be responsible for all operations at NCompass Labs USA, which is headquartered at 2155 South Bascom Avenue, Suite 210, Campbell, Calif. Also new to NCompass Labs USA is Stan Shull, the company’s vice president of business development. Previously, Sterbenc was the vice president of sales for Rainmaker Systems, a business process outsource company for large software publishers. Prior to Rainmaker Systems, Sterbenc managed the reseller channel at Edify Corporation, a provider of intelligent software agents for the Web. Prior to joining NCompass Labs, Shull was the director of business development at Boeing Enterprises, the investment arm of The Boeing Company. www.ncompasslabs.com

Interleaf, Inc. announced the appointment of Jaime Ellertson as Chairman of the Board for the Company. In addition to his current responsibilities as President and CEO, Jaime moves into this position to lead Interleaf to its next phase of aggressive growth as the Company continues to strengthen its position as a provider of XML-based content management solutions. www.interleaf.com

Xerox Corp. and INSCI Corp. announced that the two companies have signed a strategic agreement whereby Xerox will incorporate and resell the INSCI suite of COINSERV enterprise digital transaction document archive and Web delivery products. Under terms of the agreement, Xerox will resell INSCI’s products initially within North America, with planned future expansion to other geographies. Xerox has been reselling INSCI products in areas such as Latin America and Asia since 1996. www.xerox.com, www.insci.com

Kruse, Inc. is now shipping kWise, new document management software designed to address the need for a more affordable and rapidly-implemented solution for today’s increasingly fast-paced businesses. The product enables individuals with average PC skills to rapidly organize and share all their project and product related documents. kWise is a software solution incorporating advanced file viewers for more than 200 document formats including CAD engineering drawings, computer graphics, spreadsheet, text documents and video — combined with document management capabilities not found in existing file viewer software suites. It was developed for Windows 95, 98 and NT 32-bit operating systems and is fully ODBC compliant. At the heart of the product’s interface is Kruse’s kWise NavTree navigational interface, an file tree concept that makes document management available to anyone with average PC skills. This interface was developed as an alternative to the multiple screens and complex protocols needed to locate and view files with traditional document management systems. www.kwise.com

IHS Group announced it has formed IHS Enterprise Solutions Group, a division that provides information management solutions to customers worldwide. Companies that need help managing their information will be the target market for this IHS Group division. IHS Enterprise Solutions Group will manage and host product Web sites, conduct custom publishing, provide content integration, perform document management, and provide data conversion services to a wide variety of industries. In forming this division, IHS Group is leveraging the services of seven existing companies within the IHS umbrella. Together, the companies that make up IHS Enterprise Solutions Group employ over 350 people in 10 countries. The companies that make up the new group include: NexData Solutions (www.nexdata.com), IHS Information Integration (www.solutions.ihs.com), IHS Technologies (www.ihs.de), IHS Publishing Solutions (www.ihspsl.com), Technical Indexes Ltd. (www.techindex.co.uk), IHS Enterprise Solutions (www.ihs.com.au), IHS Nordic (www.ihsnordic.com). IHS Enterprise Solutions Group also includes the IHS Web Hosting facility in Englewood, Colo., and the IHS Conversion Centers in Mexico, Malaysia and India, which provide data conversion services and programmer training. www.solutions.ihs.com