Open Market, Inc. announced the availability of its software solutions on BEA Systems’ WebLogic Server version 5.1 from BEA Systems, Inc. The company also announced that Open Market and BEA Systems will be engaging in collaborative selling and marketing of Open Market’s content-centric eBusiness applications layered on top of the BEA WebLogic Server. As a result, Open Market and BEA will be providing enterprises with a solution that enables them to optimize interactions with site visitors, customers, and channels. Open Market’s Content Server and associated applications — Content Centre, Personalization Centre, Catalog Centre, Integration Centre and Marketing Studio — are layered on top of BEA WebLogic Server. By selling its application suite in collaboration with its platform partners, Open Market provides customers with the flexibility, scalability and interoperability required to rapidly deploy e-business initiatives. www.bea.com, http://www.openmarket.com
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Plumtree Software announced integration between the Plumtree Corporate Portal and Interwoven’s content management software. Available now, the new Plumtree Portal Gadget for Interwoven TeamSite software, a plug-in component for integrating Interwoven’s content submission capabilities into the portal, offers customers a solution for managing, publishing and disseminating information to the audiences that use corporate portals as the gateway to their business resources. It allows users to take Web content from submission to publication on a personalized Internet desktop that also incorporates those users’ e-mail, sales leads, inventory reports and market news. The integration of TeamSite with the Plumtree Corporate Portal enables users to more quickly and efficiently manage portal content. TeamSite allows individuals or teams to develop and quality assure (QA) content in separate work areas that are virtual copies of the live portal. Content is then submitted to a staging area for merging and final QA before publishing. The new gadget can also initiate a TeamSite workflow to automatically route content for approval and/or publishing to the Plumtree portal. This process streamlines the submission process allowing faster time-to-portal. The Interwoven gadget was developed by channel partner OAO Technology Solutions, Inc. , www.interwoven.com, www.oaot.com
XYZFind Corp. released XYZFind Server 1.0, its new repository, search, and query engine for XML. XYZFind Server, which has been under development for nearly two years, dramatically reduces the effort required to store, index, and intelligently search and query XML. Trial versions for Solaris, Linux, and WinNT/2K are available for download on the company’s website at www.xyzfind.com
NQL Inc. announced the full commercial availability of the NQL ContentAnywhere system — the company’s enterprise-level content integration and management platform. The NQL ContentAnywhere system was designed to be a complete solution for aggregating data from sources including the Internet, corporate databases, legacy systems and documents and quickly delivering it to virtually any destination, including enterprise and desktop applications, corporate databases, Internet-enabled devices, wireless devices, and corporate portals. With a wide range of content management functionalities, the NQL ContentAnywhere system can address the needs of IT architects, application developers, users and web site developers with technical elegance and simplicity. It provides a platform for customizing information collection (intelligent agents), content naming (taxonomy), content aggregation (central repository) and content refreshing at appropriate intervals (intelligent cache). Features include: A drop-down menu within Microsoft Office 2000 applications that enables direct insertion of text and multimedia content from the repository without leaving the application; The ability to copy and paste or drag and drop data into any desktop application or system; Access to content by mobile devices, such as Palm VII handhelds, Pocket PCs and WAP-enabled smart phones; Integration of repository information into database applications through an ODBC driver; Embedding of content tags in HTML pages using Microsoft Internet Information Services; Sharing of aggregated content between organizations via Microsoft.NET Web Services; and personalizing content by compiling the most frequently used information into a list of favorites for quick access. www.nqli.com
diCarta, Inc. and Documentum announced an agreement for both companies to jointly market their products to deliver a contract management offering to the Global 2000 that utilizes diCarta’s B2B contract lifecycle management software, diCarta Contracts, and leverages the Documentum 4i eBusiness content management platform. diCarta Contracts together with the Documentum platform provides customers with the ability to manage revenues, track obligations and renewals, and collaborate with suppliers and customers on contract terms and conditions, as well as manage the content of these contracts and other records. www.documentum.com, www.dicarta.com
NCompass Labs announced that they have passed the technical integration requirements for Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 with its integrated solution, Resolution Content Connector for Commerce Server 2000. Content Connector provides business users with a full complement of content management capabilities for e-commerce applications. Content Connector enables enterprises to use the full functionality of NCompass Resolution to build dynamic, content-driven e-commerce Web sites using Microsoft Commerce Server 2000. Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 customers can build rich, targeted and personalized experience for site users Personalized content pages composed of both unstructured editorial content and structured catalog content can be created within the Commerce Server 2000 Business Desk application or directly within the Web site itself through Resolution’s Web Browser Client. Sites can be quickly deployed because of the tight integration of Resolution’s automated content publishing, workflow and content sharing capabilities with Commerce Server 2000’s product catalog, profiling engine, transactional processing, shopping card and Business Desk application. Resolution’s open, COM-based API and built-in integration with the full range of Microsoft technologies simplify integration with other e-business applications and speed deployment. Businesses that purchase Resolution with the Content Connector will have a complete enterprise content-management solution, with full access to Resolution’s rich feature set, including the COM API, template-based authoring, approval workflow, rich Web content authoring, wireless device support and multi-language support. www.ncompasslabs.com
A2i Inc. announced the availability of a new tool for aggregating electronic product content. The xCat Import Manager features A2i’s Parametric Import technology and supports the import of product information from any electronic source in any tabular or XML format. xCat is a database-driven, cross-media catalog publishing system that centralizes and structures the management of electronic product content, simplifies the catalog production process and completely automates project workflow. xCat supports both electronic and printed output from a single data source for Web-based electronic commerce, CD-ROM-based electronic catalogs and custom paper catalogs. The major impediment to creating large catalogs has been the complexity of aggregating — and normalizing — rich electronic product content. Such content aggregation has required that source data be meticulously pre-processed into a format that can be imported, a labor-intensive and manual process that is very slow and very, very expensive. The xCat Import Manager is a GUI tool that eliminates much of this pre-processing and provides a WYSIWYG interface for cleansing, normalizing and restructuring content as part of the import process itself. Two key components of this solution are: 1) Partitioning to create or reconstitute hierarchy, to merge field values, and to establish one-to-one mappings between source and destination values and value combinations. Partitions can be nested (which creates hierarchy) or combined (which merges value combinations), and 2) Field-at-a-time rather than record-at-a-time handling of data values. This makes value mapping and exception handling much more efficient since the number of distinct values for each field is usually dramatically smaller than the total number of records to be imported, and the maximum number of exceptions is the sum, rather than the product, of the number of distinct values in each mapped field. www.a2i.com
SoftQuad Software Ltd. announced the release of MarketAgility Express, a desktop application designed to allow small and mid-sized suppliers to quickly create their own customized product catalogs for Global 2000 e-procurement systems and electronic markets. Without sufficient content and supplier participation, buyers in Global 2000 companies are forced to resort to more expensive off-line purchasing. For e-marketplaces, the lack of supplier product selection makes it difficult to attract buyers, resulting in lower transaction volume, which threatens the viability of the marketplace. Outsourced catalog services are often slow and cumbersome, creating a bottleneck in the flow of timely and accurate product information to the e-marketplace. MarketAgility Express solves these challenges by allowing suppliers to quickly create and update their own catalogs, and deliver them to e-procurement systems in the right format. Based on XMetaL, MarketAgility Express is an affordable Windows-based desktop application designed for suppliers with limited technical resources. MarketAgility Express: requires no setup or configuration, creates e-catalogs from scratch or by importing Microsoft Access or Excel files, supports the creation of buyer-specific catalogs with special pricing, simplifies the categorizing of products into UN/SPSC classifications, automatically transforms catalogs into e-market format, and enables non-technical staff to manage and update catalogs MarketAgility Express is available now for the Ariba platform, supporting both CIF and cXML formats. Support for additional formats will follow. MarketAgility Express is available to e-marketplaces, suppliers and channel partners at a suggested retail price of $995 per seat. Volume discounts and partner programs are available. www.softquad.com
