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Panagon eSolutions, and Autonomy announced a strategic partnership to add Autonomy’s categorization and personalization technology to Panagon eSolutions’ portal products. With Autonomy technology, Panagon eSolutions will fine-tune its identification and classification tools for portal users. The added technology also allows Panagon eSolutions to address portal applications for tracking how content is used by constituents — to determine its value and establish best practices approaches in terms of leveraging key content. www.panagonesolutions.com, www.autonomy.com

Internet Commerce Corporation (ICC) announced the addition of new XML based capabilities to their Internet EC solutions. Designed for the vast number of suppliers who are not EDI- enabled, this new feature allows small and medium-sized suppliers to connect into EDI-based supply chains through the Internet. Large companies can transmit EDI data to small suppliers who can then receive and respond to this information through their browser. The XML- based service provides a client-server-like closed-loop environment, which eliminates the need to rekey information that originated with a previously received document set. Incorporating the customer’s own data management rules, this real-time document turnaround capability shortens the user learning cycle, and negates transposition errors and non-compliant document sets. ICC’s unique new feature utilizes XML to automatically pre-populate response documents. Client-side editing insures that required fields are properly filled and the document meets all business rules. A unique mapping feature allows customer-specific, familiar forms to be quickly and easily defined for browser display. With the new feature, a large company can transmit EDI and automatically have it mapped to a browser-based form such as a purchase order. The user can “respond” to a purchase order with an invoice, which is automatically pre-populated, edit it online, and transmit it back to the large company as an EDI stream. This creates a closed-loop electronic solution. www.icc.net

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

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

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