Month: February 2001 (Page 2 of 6)

eBT Integrates Engenda with BEA WebLogic Personalization Server
2/26/01
eBT announced integration between eBT’s engenda content management solution and BEA WebLogic Personalization Server. The integration enables dynamic composition and delivery of highly personalized Web pages, based on XML content fragments stored within engenda. With the engenda and WebLogic Personalization Server integration, personalized Web pages can be constructed from many reusable XML fragments to provide a unique view of a site’s content. Additionally, the ability of WebLogic Personalization Server to leverage engenda’s rich metadata querying capabilities allows an application to pinpoint and deliver content fragments to a spe-cific user, based on their personalized profile. The enhanced integration goes beyond simple repository service by adding the ability for WebLogic Personalization Server to query content and retrieve fragments of documents from engenda’s content repository. These fragments can be used and reused to efficiently compile complete Web pages specific to the unique needs of each site visitor, without having to compose multiple versions of the same content. engenda will ship with the BEA WebLogic Personalization Server integration in version 4.7, available in March 2001. www.ebt.com

Rational Software announced the general availability of Rational Suite ContentStudio, the new-est member of the Rational Suite product family. Rational Suite ContentStudio combines Ra-tional’s Rational ClearCase solution with technology from Vignette Corporation to address the needs of companies challenged with managing content and code in complex e- business appli-cations. Rational Suite ContentStudio helps e-business development teams effectively manage both code and content in a common repository. Rational’s ClearCase technology manages all of the artifacts within an e-development project. These artifacts include code such as Java and XML and content such as Microsoft Word documents, HTML and Adobe Acrobat files. Rational Suite ContentStudio incorporates the Vignette Content Management Server. In addition to Ra-tional ClearCase LT and Vignette’s Content Management Server, Rational Suite ContentStudio includes the Rational Team Unifying Platform (Rational RequisitePro, Rational ClearQuest, the Rational Unified Process, Rational TestManager, and Rational SoDA) and Rational SiteLoad, a web-based one-hour load-testing tool. Rational Suite ContentStudio also fully integrates with Rational’s additional product offerings including the market-leading visual modeling tool, Ra-tional Rose. Rational Suite ContentStudio provides browser-based templating integrated with Rational ClearCase to integrate code and content development and management. Rational Suite ContentStudio also unites workflows for code and content development and approval by integrating Rational ClearQuest change management workflows for code development with Vi-gnette’s Content Management Server workflows for content development and approval. This technology allows Web teams to manage site design, while content managers edit and main-tain site content, increasing productivity and eliminating unnecessary work for e- business teams. Rational Suite ContentStudio’s support of third-party authoring tools such as Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia DreamWeaver and Allaire HomeSite, gives Web teams the ability to use their desktop tools of choice. Similarly, content providers can continue to use Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, or browser-based fill-in templates. Software developers can also use their famil-iar Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) such as Microsoft Visual Studio, IBM Visual Age for Java and Borland JBuilder. Rational Suite ContentStudio will be generally available on February 28, 2001 for $4,795 per node-locked license and $8,395 per floating license, with an introductory price of $14,995 for 5 node-locked licenses. www.rational.com/products/cstudio/index.jsp

IBM announced that it has teamed with Siebel Systems, Inc. to increase productivity of call cen-ters by integrating IBM’s Content Manager, V7.1 with Siebel Call Center Version 6. The integra-tion provides a comprehensive e-business solution that enables customer service representatives to quickly access digital versions of customer interactions conducted over multiple channels, in-cluding Web, telephone, fax, e-mail, and interactive voice response systems. The Siebel Valida-tion Program evaluates and documents integrated third-party solutions by putting them through rigorous technical scrutiny to ensure the highest levels of interoperability and customer satisfaction. The IBM Content Management/CRM Services Offering can cut response times and increase productivity at customer call centers by enabling call center representatives to access customer bills, correspondences and transactions regardless of the format in which they origi-nated. http://ibm.com/software/data/cm, www.Siebel.com

UN/CEFACT and OASIS announced efforts are now underway to integrate SOAP 1.1 and SOAP with Attachments specifications into the ebXML Messaging Specification. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is designed to provide the underpinnings for messaging requirements. This development by ebXML will result in an open, widely adopted global standard for reliably transporting electronic business messages over the Internet. The ebXML Messaging Specification encompasses a set of services and protocols that allow an electronic business client to request services from electronic business servers over any application-level transport protocol, including SMTP, HTTP and others. ebXML defines a general-purpose message, with a header that supports multiple payloads, while allowing digital signatures within and among related messages. Although the header is XML, the body of the message may be XML, MIME or virtually anything digital. www.ebXML.org, www.uncefact.org, www.oasis-open.org

Documentum announced that it has joined the Siebel Alliance Program as a Premier Partner. Through this alliance, Documentum will integrate the Documentum 4i eBusiness Platform with Siebel eBusiness Applications to provide organizations with an out-of-the-box, customer-centric, e-business and content management solution. With the Web Content Management Edition of the platform, organizations can create and rapidly deploy easy-to-use solutions for developing, managing, and publishing Web content. The combined solution will enable companies to access critical business information, regardless of format or method of creation. The integration will offer organizations the ability to fully coordinate their activities between the front and back office. Workflow, document management, imaging, and Web content management will be managed within one closed-loop marketing, sales, service, and support solution. This will allow global enterprises to focus on customer delivery rather than internal coordination. For example, the integrated solution will offer users the ability to leverage data within Siebel eBusiness Applications to create a sales campaign, which can then be managed within the Documentum 4i environment and dynamically tailored based on early feedback. The ability to publish fresh content to a Web site, an intranet, or an extranet, provides customers ready access to the time-critical information they need to make an informed purchase decision. www.documentum.com

Moai Technologies, Inc. and Requisite Technology, Inc., announced a strategic partnership that will bring together Moai’s LiveExchange strategic sourcing and negotiation technology and Requisite’s catalog content management platform, including Requisite’s BugsEye catalog finding engine. This partnership will combine cataloging and online negotiation software so marketplaces, corporate procurement professionals and supply chain professionals can better manage their e-procurement needs using an integrated catalog and strategic sourcing solution. One potential application for such an integrated B2B solution includes managing supplier content and pricing through a catalog linked to multi-layer negotiation for use in marketplaces or in corporate purchasing strategic sourcing initiatives. Both companies also plan to initiate joint marketing activities to support the partnership, targeting net market makers and corporate customers seeking to establish marketplaces that leverage online catalogs and negotiated sourcing models. www.requisite.com, www.moai.com