Autonomy Corporation plc announced the release of AXE, a technology that will enable Autonomy’s OEM customers and end-users to overcome the current obstacles in the processing of XML and extend the benefits of information exchange. AXE’s conceptual understanding enables it to automatically insert XML tags and links into documents, based on the concepts contained in the information. This eliminates all manual cost. Secondly, AXE enables XML applications to understand conceptual information, independent of variations in tagging schemas or the variety of applications in use. This means, for example, that legacy data from disparate sources, tagged using different schemas, can be automatically reconciled and operated upon. AXE is a complementary technology to the latest version of Autonomy’s core engine, the Dynamic Reasoning Engine v4.0. It will be made available both to end users and to OEMs. OEMs will embed AXE in their own products as part of the Autonomy Content Infrastructure (ACI), an architecture that enables multiple third party applications to automate the business operations on unstructured data. Preliminary metrics indicate that the AXE-enabled DRE will process XML at speeds of up to 2 gigabytes per hour, the equivalent to 200 documents per second. Operations such as tagging, categorizing and linking are carried out automatically, as hundreds of simultaneous operations occur concurrently. www.autonomy.com/autonomy/dynamic/autopage466.shtml
Day: February 14, 2001
IntraNet Solutions, Inc, and ViA, Inc., announced they have signed an agreement to provide Web content management for ViA’s wearable computers. Under the agreement, ViA will integrate IntraNet Solutions’ Xpedio Content Management system into its wearable computers, enabling mobile users to wirelessly access, manage and update business content. ViA’s wearable computers allow mobile professionals to access and utilize Xpedio while they are on the job. For example, maintenance and field personnel can view procedural information as they are working on truck fleets or airplane turnaround; energy workers can track and send meter readings back to home base; and surveyors can access and enter land information using the integrated solution. IntraNet Solutions and ViA will jointly market the ViA wearable computer and Xpedio to provide customers with a platform for getting business information to and from mobile workers. www.intranetsolutions.com, www.via-pc.com
The 2Bridge Personal Portal lets users create a personalized command center for accessing, permissioning, publishing and sharing web services, documents and rich media, providing a gateway to people, colleagues and communities. The Personal Portal Server can be managed as part of a federated enterprise network of peer-to-peer portal and content servers. The Personal Portal brings a new level of interface and front-end application functionality to browser users. This next-generation multipanel presentation and application framework expands the web browser into “browslets,” or discrete actionable spaces, each of which can be configured and personalized for distributed, shared application services enabling a new, richer form of personalized, peer-to-peer communications. With Personal Portal you can: Use panels to communicate and link devices, including the ability to send email and communicate with wireless devices such as phones or PDAs; Multicast by creating your own content that can be shared with a community of users; Stream application data and business-critical information onto your desktop; And authenticate from any JNDI source, such as LDAP, NT user database, or UNIX permissioning system. It is written in Java and XML and fully browser-based. The 2Bridge Personal Portal will be licensed to enterprises, independent software vendors, system integrators and Value-Added Resellers. www.2Bridge.com
