Software AG, Inc. and PureEdge Solutions, Inc. announced a joint marketing and sales campaign of their complementary XML products. Together the company’s products enable commercial and government organizations to more quickly and easily move important documents and transactions online. PureEdge Internet Commerce System allows users to design, deploy, complete, and digitally sign intelligent and enforceable XML documents. In an enforceable transaction, all components of an e-document are saved as a complete object – complete with layout, logic, content – using XFDL technology to ensure no component of the final document can be modified. Because both products are native XML, complete solutions for creating, processing, and archiving enforceable documents are easy to build, maintain, and integrate with other XML applications. www.pureedge.com/products/ics/index.htm, www.softwareagusa.com
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Connotate Technologies released vTag Version 2.0, a major upgrade of its web data extraction environment. Built on its XML-By-Example extraction rule generator, vTag 2.0 dramatically increases coverage of web-based data and improves speed by a factor of 150. Version 2.0 extends vTag’s current capabilities in two key ways. It extends extraction capabilities to include construction of XML relationships that span multiple linked pages, and it enables automated location of user-specific data identified by parameters supplied at the time of retrieval. Connotate is offering free upgrades for its existing customers. http://www.connotate.com
Requisite Technology, Inc. and Critical Reach Inc. announced they have signed an OEM agreement that will make rich 3D content viewable in Requisite’s BugsEye catalog finding engine. By integrating Critical Reach’s revolutionary 3D interactive content deployment technology with Requisite’s system, buyers can quickly and easily view suppliers’ interactive 3D content, such as CAD, VRML or 3D Studio. The Critical Reach technology is available now as an option with the latest release of Requisite’s BugsEye catalog finding engine. The combined capability will enable faster, more accurate product identification and selection, by providing interactivity and high bandwidth content delivery. Critical Reach’s software, the Critical Reach Service Suite, tightly links graphics to textual descriptions. Anyone with a Web-browser, such as on a Web-enabled laptop or wireless handheld, can quickly access fast, interactive 3D content from any location, without requiring any client-side plug-in or software installation. www.requisite.com, www.criticalreach.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated unveiled new technology behind the Adobe family of products that streamlines workflows saving time and money for publishers. Called XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform), this framework enhances workflows so that content can be applied seamlessly between print, Web, eBooks and other media. XMP provides Adobe applications and partners with a common metadata framework that standardizes the creation, processing and interchange of document metadata across publishing workflows. XMP will be incorporated into all Adobe products eventually and is available for developers via a software development kit (SDK). Users will benefit from XMP’s ability to contain metadata within application files. The SDK is available as a guide for integration to non-Adobe applications and contains sample source code for extracting and parsing the XMP packets. XMP was first introduced with the release of Acrobat 5.0 in April 2001. Adobe also announced that InDesign 2.0 and Illustrator 10 have incorporated XMP. XMP is scheduled to be integrated into the next generation of all Adobe applications. XMP components include a framework, schema, XML packet technology and the SDK. The SDK is available through Adobe’s Solutions Network. www.adobe.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated introduced Adobe AlterCast, a new dynamic imaging server software. AlterCast allows Web publishers to automatically generate and repurpose images and graphics within existing content management and e-commerce solutions, enabling the efficient creation of visually rich Web sites. AlterCast is built on Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator technology, while also supporting industry-standard image file formats. AlterCast automates the process of managing large image libraries. With AlterCast, graphics professionals will be able to replace text within graphics on the fly while still maintaining support for transparency, animation and layer effects.
AlterCast automatically optimizes files for delivery on any Web-enabled device, including PDAs and cell phones. By using a single image source file to generate multiple iterations, AlterCast helps reduce data storage requirements. Adobe also announced agreements with Documentum and Interwoven to integrate AlterCast with their content management systems. Adobe AlterCast is expected to ship at the beginning of 2002 in North America only. AlterCast will be priced on a per-CPU basis, with processor packs ranging from an estimated street price of US$7,500 for a one-CPU system to an estimated street price of US$60,000 for high-performance enterprise applications. www.adobe.com/altercast
Jeeves Solutions announced general availability of JeevesOne. Its first packaged, question answering software product, JeevesOne delivers cost-effective, intelligent self-service. An enterprise software application, JeevesOne delivers relevant answers and customer analytics. In addition to reducing support costs, JeevesOne will help companies deliver better products and services by learning from every question customers ask. JeevesOne is available now and priced starting at $100,000. JeevesOne supports Windows NT and Windows 2000 platforms in the first release. Support for additional platforms is under development. www.jeevessolutions.com
Stellent, Inc. announced the integration of its Quick View Plus for Windows CE technology with Casio’s new CASSIOPEIA Pocket Manager BE-300. With Quick View Plus, BE-300 users can view desktop file formats created in standard business applications, such as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, on their palm-sized PDAs. Stellent’s Quick View Plus for Windows CE enables document and attachment viewing on Windows CE-based devices, without having to access the native application. Stellent also plans to localize the Quick View Plus product for the international versions of Casio’s BE-300 and is already developing a Japanese version of the product. The BE-300 is shipping now with a suggested retail price of under $300 USD. www.stellent.com
Banter Inc. announced the release of Banter Relationship Modeling Engine (RME) 5.0. RME 5.0 is designed to be embedded in any software application that handles unstructured information and free text, providing a full suite of language analysis capabilities. RME 5.0 offers software manufacturers and integrators an expanded range of supported languages and a more refined level of accuracy through greater analytical capability and tools. RME 5.0 is positioned to analyze and understand the content of documents and messages written in everyday language, including the naturally occurring variations in expressions, spelling and grammar typically present in such text. Typical uses for RME range from e-mail analysis, chat support, online self-service and natural language information retrieval, to document classification and tagging. RME’s capabilities include Natural Language Processing (NLP) of imperfect content; analytical and statistical semantic modeling and content classification; and a unique feedback mechanism that enables real-time learning, self-maintenance and rapid, automatic adaptation to constantly changing business environments. RME has full support for UNICODE. For single byte applications, an ASCII only version is available as well. www.banter.com
