RightWorks Corporation announced a development partnership with Vignette to integrate Vignette’s V/5 E-business Application Platform into the RightWorks eBusiness Application Suite. The agreement enables RightWorks to offer an expanded array of catalog formats, providing companies with an enhanced, automated solution to perform transactions within the purchasing environment. Under the terms of the agreement, Vignette’s eBizXchange will drive business transactions and processes, while eContent will automate the aggregation and integration of catalog content. Because both companies support XML standards, EDI, flat files, HTML and databases, RightWorks’ customers will benefit from a quick time-to-market and accelerated supplier adoption rates. In addition, RightWorks is now licensed to resell Vignette’s eIntegrate technology with the RightWorks eBusiness Application Suite. eIntegrate will enable companies to integrate at both the application and process levels with a wide range of back-office systems including ERP, SCM, and CRM systems from Oracle, J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel and SAP. www.rightworks.com, www.vignette.com
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Percussion Software and Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. announced a joint marketing agreement to deliver native XML-based multilingual content management solutions to companies developing international Web sites. Their combined solution, which includes the Lionbridge Globalization Platform and Percussion’s Rhythmyx Content Manager, will build globalization into the content management process at the beginning of the development cycle, increasing the velocity and efficiency of converting content into multiple languages and formats. Lionbridge’s enterprise-scale workflow system automates processes and offers collaboration capabilities for all parties working on a Web site project. To begin the translation process, Rhythmyx Content Manager creates, changes, or updates the content in an Oracle database in XML, HTML, or other formats. Lionbridge servers automatically detect changes to the English content and prepare it for translation. Once the new or changed content is translated, the Rhythmyx Content Manager then creates updates to the translated Web sites based on these changes. www.lionbridge.com, www.percussion.com
Sequoia Software Corporation announced an alliance with STC. Sequoia will leverage the STC e*Xchange eBusiness Integration Suite to enhance the connectivity of its XML-pure portal server, XPS. With this expanded integration capability, Sequoia can provide customers rapid connectivity to many enterprise and e-business applications from leading vendors including SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, Oracle, Sybase, Lotus Notes, Onyx, Clarify, and BroadVision. Sequoia XPS functions as an e-business command center, interconnecting an organization’s various islands of information and processes, often with those of its customers, partners and suppliers, through a universal Web-based interface. Many of these islands are “enterprise applications” that support corporate manufacturing, financials, customer service or administrative functions. The STC eBusiness integration platform provides Sequoia customers with efficient solutions for tightly integrating XPS with their enterprise applications, eliminating the need for custom built connections, which can become costly to develop and maintain. www.stc.com, www.sequoiasoftware.com
VCIX introduced its Cortra Site Studio software to the web development market. Cortra Site Studio has been designed from the ground up using object-oriented architecture to meet the challenges of complex content aggregation, syndication and publishing on the web. Using Cortra Site Studio’s extensible object-oriented technology and its reusable component architecture, web development firms can more easily create customized solutions addressing their specific customer needs without the need to create new applications. Its intuitive, easy-to-use interface enables non-technical staff to control all aspects of a web site’s content management, without the need for programmers or skilled technicians. A wide range of objects including text, images and streaming media, can be easily published, archived, scheduled, and managed, producing a dynamic, robust and scalable site that is easy to maintain and adapt to changing business requirements. Because of these factors, Cortra lowers the cost of site creation and ownership for organizations building or redesigning their web presence. The Cortra software includes built-in support for XML and a standards-based object-oriented API. Cortra also allows users of Microsoft Visio 2000 to import UML (Unified Modeling Language) models of business processes and to automatically generate code for transforming those processes to the Web. VCIX, formerly known as Virtual Communities Inc., recently announced that it plans to exit the business of publishing community sites in order to concentrate exclusively on the development and marketing of the Cortra technology. www.vcix.com
The news industry’s technical standards body has formally ratified v1.0 of its NewsML and announced that it is ready for production use. At its Autumn Meeting in Amsterdam there was unanimous acceptance amongst the membership that the NewsML v1.0 DTD be formally released having completed a period of beta testing. An updated DTD, functional specification and accompanying examples are now available and a number of members – Agence France-Presse, BusinessWire, Press Association, Reuters, ScreamingMedia, UPI, and Dow Jones WSJ.com – have already declared their intention to utilize the new standard. The IPTC will initiate new work programs to ensure that NewsML evolves as a standard and achieves widespread acceptance. The DTD for NewsML v1.0, together with a functional specification, supporting documents and background papers can be found on the IPTC web site at www.iptc.org/NewsMLv1T.zip. The DTD is available as a rights-free standard but it remains the intellectual property of the IPTC. www.iptc.org
Rational Software announced Rational Suite ContentStudio, a new member of the Rational Suite product family that includes technology from Vignette Corp. to address the needs of e-businesses challenged with managing content and code in complex e-business sites. Rational Suite ContentStudio consists of Rational ClearCase technology, Vignette V/5 Content Management Server, and Rational Suite Team Unifying Platform (Rational Requisite Pro, Rational ClearQuest and Rational Unified Process). The incorporation of Vignette’s technology in Rational Suite ContentStudio is the result of a strategic alliance between the two companies. Rational Suite ContentStudio is designed for e-business development teams that include content contributors, who write, design, edit or approve the information that will be on the site; and software developers, who design, build, and test the code that powers the e-business system. Rational Suite ContentStudio is a product to manage content, code and other software artifacts in a common, software configuration management foundation to unify e-business teams so they can build and deploy sophisticated e-business sites quicker and with higher quality. Rational Suite ContentStudio provides browser-based templating integrated with Rational ClearCase to deliver parallel development capabilities for e-business teams. All content assets, code and other software artifacts are managed with secure version control and can then be deployed to an application server environment in unison. Rational Suite ContentStudio will be available by April 1, 2001. Rational Suite ContentStudio will cost $4,795 per node-locked license and $8,395 per floating license. www.rational.com
IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced that it has formed a strategic relationship with RESoft, Inc. IntraNet Solutions’ Xpedio Content Management system will be an integral component of RESoft’s new document management suite of products, REDocs. REDocs enables real estate owners and operators to easily manage property and portfolio information in a secure Web-based environment, as well as offer their customers, employees, partners and vendors access to real estate information through any Internet browser anytime from anywhere in the world. REDocs is sold to end users under an ASP model. REDocs users can enhance core real estate business processes such as leasing, property management, vendor procurement, acquisition, disposition and financing. Content is converted to Web formats that users can then access from any Internet-connected device. In addition, the Xpedio-powered REDocs system offers security, search capabilities, subscriptions and version management, as well as other robust business content management features. IntraNet Solutions also has granted RESoft rights to resell all IntraNet Solutions products to the commercial real estate industry in the U.S. and Canada. www.resoftinc.com, www.intranetsolutions.com
Eprise Corporation and Ektron, Inc. announced an OEM partnership whereby Ektron’s eWebEditPro WYSIWYG Web edit tool will be embedded into the next release of Eprise Participant Server. By joining forces, the two companies extend Eprise Participant Server’s support for non-technical business users. Ektron’s technology allows non-technical business professionals using Eprise Participant Server to gain a new level of sophistication in their ability to create Web content and publish it directly to their site — while working within stylistic parameters set forth by the corporate Webmaster. eWebEditPro’s familiar editing toolbar allows users to format text, create tables, check spelling, insert images, create hyperlinks and more. IT staff can maintain necessary controls by configuring the solution to ensure that the overall look and feel of the site remains intact. www.ektron.com, www.eprise.com
