Bowstreet announced that it has signed marketing agreements with two channel-focused solutions partners, Partnerware Technologies, Inc. and MarketSoft Corporation. Under the agreements, the companies will offer joint software solutions that help enterprises manage their indirect partners on-line through lead management and the customization of information to ultimately execute channel programs more quickly and cost-effectively. Both Partnerware and MarketSoft will market The Bowstreet Web Automation Factory in conjunction with their partner relationship management and lead management software to the enterprise marketplace. Bowstreet, in turn, will recommend the Partnerware and MarketSoft solutions to its rapidly growing list of Fortune 500 and Internet-based customers. www.marketsoft.com, www.partnerware.com, www.bowstreet.com
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Information Architects (iA) announced that it has joined the Red Hat Independent Software Vendor Partner Program, to deliver Linux-based solutions for driving eBusiness across the Net. Red Hat’s ISV Partners Program is for independent software vendors, and provides support and access to the Red Hat Linux community. Through the ISV Partners Program, the Red Hat user community will receive product updates and advanced support of the Metaphoria Framework. Metaphoria leverages the power of XML and JAVA, enabling companies to cost-effectively create or participate in emerging B-to-B environments by automating the process of formatting and syndicating content along with complete commerce functionality, to any Website or device connected to the Net. www.ia.com
Excalibur Technologies announced a technology licensing agreement with DataChannel, Inc. The agreement gives DataChannel rights to integrate Excalibur RetrievalWare, an intelligent, Web-based, search application into DataChannel Server 4.0 (DCS 4.0). By incorporating Excalibur RetrievalWare’s search functionality, DataChannel’s XML-based portal server delivers enhanced capabilities for retrieving and categorizing all enterprise data resources for employees, customers, partners and stakeholders through a customized, personal, and secure e-business interface that delivers dynamic applications. www.datachannel.com, www.excalib.com
Kinecta Corporation (formerly ShiftKey, Inc.) introduced Kinecta Interact, the company’s core platform designed to enable businesses to automatically exchange, manage and transform distributed information. Kinecta Interact is a Distributed Information Management platform, which consists of the high-performance Kinecta Interact Server and Kinecta Interact Subscriber (upgraded versions of the company’s ShiftKey Syndication Server and SiClone Subscriber, respectively). Kinecta Interact version 3.0 includes a new user interface and several new features that enhance and extend the capabilities of the platform. The company’s Java-based, ICE- (Information and Content Exchange) compliant Kinecta Interact platform enables customers to manage thousands of unique information relationships between any number of subscribers. An application of XML, ICE provides a common format for the automatic, controlled exchange and management of online information. Kinecta Interact is composed of two components: The Kinecta Interact Server creates and manages packages of digital assets, called subscriptions, and delivers them to an online network of subscribers. These packages can be automatically and dynamically delivered at any frequency and to any number of subscribers. The Kinecta Interact Subscriber automatically receives, repurposes, and redistributes digital information into any local content repository type (database, file directory, Web server or content management system). It also incorporates Kinecta’s AdaptiveContent technology, which customizes and transforms the content changing its graphical look and feel, or repurposing it to fit into different display formats or output devices such as PDAs and WAP phones. Kinecta is also introducing a free Software Developer’s Kit, with several new APIs to allow extensibility and easier integration with content management and publishing systems. Kinecta Interact 3.0 is expected to begin shipping in March and will be available to existing and new customers at www.kinecta.com
Vignette Corp. announced the general availability of StoryServer 5.0, the newest version of the company’s product. New features include: Enhanced performance and scalability. StoryServer 5 can provide 30% to 150% improvement in system throughput and scalability — Financial grade security. The standards-based security architecture of StoryServer 5.0 is built on a pervasive security layer using SSL, digital certificates, industrial-strength encryption technology and LDAP-based user management. — And, enriched personalization capabilities. StoryServer 5.0 enhances personalization services with a new recommendation agent, based on the latest version of Net Perceptions Recommendation Engine. The new recommendation agent enables a wider range of personalized recommendations with response times that are up to ten times faster than its standard-setting predecessor. Also, StoryServer 5.0 has been extended to provide out-of-the-box support for enterprise applications that utilize either COM objects or Enterprise Java Beans (EJB). This capability enables rapid deployment of e-business applications where integration with transactional business logic hosted in application servers such as IBM’s WebSphere Application Server, Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS), Oracle’s Application Server, and BEA’s WebLogic is critical. StoryServer 5.0, available from Vignette and certified resellers, is being shipped to current customers at no cost. www.vignette.com
Plumtree Software announced a partnership with Interwoven, Inc. The two companies have agreed to co-market and co-sell a joint solution that helps customers share Web and enterprise resources between corporate Web sites and corporate portals. The joint solution expands the number of enterprise application components, Internet services, and Web content that can be syndicated to and from the Plumtree Corporate Portal, and managed by Interwoven TeamSite. Plumtree’s new syndication technology allows Plumtree Portal Gadgets to be widely exported to partners and suppliers. Together, these complementary technologies allow customers to maximize the effectiveness of all Web and enterprise application resources across the extended enterprise. Plumtree Portal Gadgets represent dynamic enterprise application components or Internet services, which can, for example, be used to display sales figures from a database, inventory levels from a supply chain application, unread messages from an e-mail system, or market news from the Internet. Plumtree can now, through its syndication technology, periodically export gadgets as XML objects to TeamSite. TeamSite can then manage each gadget update through a workflow approval process. The portal can thus export gadgets directly to TeamSite or to customer or partner sites, across the Internet, managed by TeamSite. www.interwoven.com, www.plumtree.com
STEP UK Ltd. announced the launch of X2X the XML XLink engine. X2X allows for the creation, management and manipulation of link information. X2X allows linking between documents and information resources without needing to change either of the ‘source’ or ‘target’ documents that are being linked. X2X removes the requirement to insert link information inside document content. The Links are not stored in the document. X2X has an extensible architecture to allow resources to reside in any data repository. X2X stores links independently of any documents and provides facilities to dynamically insert external link structures into documents on demand. X2X stores all the link information within an ODBC/ JDBC enabled database, e.g. Oracle or SQL Server. X2X is developed in Java for cross platform operation. X2X is implemented using fundamental linking concepts and understands links defined using Xlink and Xpath. X2X is currently supported on Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0 and Red Hat Linux 6.0. Support for Sun Solaris and Hewlett Packard UX will soon follow. www.stepuk.com
eBusiness Technologies announced DynaBase 4.0, a new release of their XML-enabled Web content management and dynamic delivery solution. DynaBase 4.0 delivers Web publishing capabilities that will enable e-businesses to reduce their time to market, lower operating costs, increase opportunities to generate sales and enhance customer relationships. Among the new features of DynaBase 4.0 are: Web Builder, a set of XML tags that enable sites to build dynamic, personalized content without complex scripting or programming; Web Manager Pro, a Java-based application designed for managers and content contributors that enables remote content management access; Web Author, an easy-to-use, browser-based content contribution client designed for knowledge and non-technical users; Web Starter, a fully functional sample Web site that includes examples of the most common e-business applications built with the Web Builder tag set; and Web Tracer, a browser-based application that enables users to debug and monitor their scripts in real time. DynaBase 4.0 includes server- and client-side components. The server-side components run on Windows NT 4.0 and Sun Solaris 2.6. The DynaBase Web server plug-in runs under Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6 and IIE 4.0. The client components, which provide access to the content management and production capabilities of DynaBase, run on Windows 95/98/NT (Web Manager), Mac 8.1 (Web Author) and Sun Solaris 2.6 (Web Author). DynaBase 4.0 will be available in March 2000 with prices starting at $60,000. www.ebt.com
