Open Text Corporation announced the certification and availability of Livelink Archive for SAP R/3. This new product offering enables organizations to leverage their existing investments in SAP products by extending SAP R/3 with Livelink’s collaboration, document management, library and search capabilities. Current Livelink customers can leverage their existing Livelink infrastructure, eliminating the expense of purchasing separate repository hardware and software for their SAP R/3 documents. Livelink Archive for SAP R/3 uses SAP’s ArchiveLink communication interface to enable customers to: Archive SAP R/3 images and business documents in Livelink and retrieve them from SAP/R3; Copy desktop files to the Livelink repository and intelligently link them to an R/3 business object or transaction using the SAP R/3 office applications; Store incoming documents, such as fax and scanned images, in Livelink and view them from a SAP R/3 business process; Store outgoing documents in Livelink and hyperlink fields to other archived documents and an index page; and create secure access to SAP R/3 documents archived in Livelink. www.opentext.com/livelink
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Pageflex, Inc. and Xerox Corporation announced an agreement today under which Xerox will sell Pageflex’s 1:1 personalization and customization software offerings on a worldwide basis through Xerox sales channels. Persona outputs optimized VPS format, which is specifically designed for driving Xerox’s DocuColor 2000 Series digital presses, thereby allowing these devices to operate at full engine rated speed. Persona also offers PostScript and Native PDF output. By offering Persona on a worldwide basis, Xerox is able to provide customers with basic personalization and customization solutions using the same core technology. Persona uses NuDoc, Pageflex’s XML-based composition engine, which uses design templates with “spring-loaded” text and image containers that dynamically adjust page layouts based on the sizes and shapes of the variable text and images flowed into them. Pageflex products import data from any ODBC-compliant database and use XML as the data format between databases and page composition. www.pageflexinc.com, www.xerox.com
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation, representing cross-industry agreement on an XML-based language that allows authors to create two dimensional vector graphics. A W3C Recommendation indicates that a specification is stable, contributes to Web interoperability, and has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its widespread adoption. Web designers have requirements for graphics formats which display well on a range of different devices, screen sizes, and printer resolutions. They need rich graphical capabilities, good internationalization, responsive animation and interactive behavior in a way that takes advantage of the growing XML infrastructure used in e-commerce, publishing, and business to business communication. SVG 1.0 builds on other W3C specifications such as the Document Object Model (DOM), which allows for easy server-side generation and dynamic, client-side modification of graphics and text. SVG 1.0 also benefits from W3C technologies such as CSS and XSL style sheets, RDF metadata, XML Linking, and SMIL Animation, which has also advanced to Recommendation. SVG implementations are not limited to static tools. Database-driven, dynamically created graphics are a natural fit for SVG. www.w3.org/
Factiva announced its sponsorship of an international research project conducted by TFPL. The research project will seek to identify how organisations are using taxonomies to construct their “Information Architecture”. TFPL defines “Information Architecture” as a coherent set of strategies and plans for information access and delivery inside organisations. The research – based on case studies of organizations, and vendor questionnaires and interviews – will examine the balance between software and human intervention related to the application of taxonomies within content management systems, and whether customer needs are being met by vendor offerings. Any companies or organisations wishing to be involved in this research through offering case studies or sharing their experience on taxonomies/information architecture are invited to contact TFPL. www.tfpl.com, www.factiva.com
Stellent, Inc. (formerly IntraNet Solutions), announced the release of Outside In XML Export 2.1. The product automatically converts more than 225 file formats to XML, enabling easy access to business information stored in legacy files, proprietary office applications and graphics. Version XML Export 2.1 includes support for a wide range of new and updated file formats, including Microsoft Office XP; Corel WordPerfect Office 2002; Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition 9.6; Sun StarOffice Write 5.2; Microsoft Visio 2002; Adobe Acrobat 5.0; and Adobe FrameMaker MIF 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0. XML Export integrates into applications, such as indexing, search systems and content management. XML Export preserves and exposes the content, structure and format of native business documents during the conversion to XML, enabling customers to further transform the documents for other applications or into presentation formats such as HTML and Wireless Markup Language (WML). XML Export 2.1 is currently shipping.
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iMarkup Solutions Inc. announced the general availability of Version 2.0 of its iMarkup Workgroup Server. Developed to address the needs of enterprise users collaborating on the Web, iMarkup Workgroup Server 2.0 provides new enhancements to its core product. PDF support enables groups of users to apply annotations, free form drawings and sticky notes to all documents saved in PDF format without having to purchase Adobe Acrobat to run on every workstation. Voice annotations allow collaborators to explain information verbally when it is too difficult to communicate the level and type of changes required in writing alone. All annotations, including PDF and voice, are stored separately from original documents so that data is never corrupted; annotations are, instead, overlaid on documents, with administrators configuring the permissions and security associated with the annotations. Support for Oracle 8i or higher has been included in Version 2.0. In addition, the newest version conforms to SOAP/XML and COM and provides the ability to run and modify reports based on Crystal Decision technology. The iMarkup Workgroup Server runs on Windows NT/2000 running IIS and Windows 98 running the Personal Web Server. The product is priced based on the number of Workgroup users. Five concurrent user licenses are $2,445 and 100 user licenses cost $12,395. The CBO is available as an add-on module and provides various client and server configuration options, server-side interfaces and APIs, and client-side JavaScript APIs. Pricing starts at $1,795. Additionally, OEM pricing is available from the iMarkup Sales organization. www.imarkup.com
Esker delivered the first step in a distributed architecture for Pulse, its multi-channel content delivery solution. This new architecture allows remote Pulse “Satellites” to communicate with a centralized Pulse Enterprise server and gain full access to Pulse functionality. Pulse Enterprise is server-based software that recognizes application output, transforms it into widely used formats and routes it to recipients according to the preferences of the recipient. ISVs and application developers who need to enable their applications to deliver information via Internet-based technologies can use Pulse to automatically deliver content through several channels — secure web server, email, fax, wireless, XML, or distributed. Pulse Satellite includes an SDK with documentation and code samples. Pulse Satellite creates an opportunity to offer multi-channel content delivery services by hosting Pulse Enterprise as a service. Pulse Enterprise and Pulse Satellite are currently available. Pricing for Pulse Enterprise follows a capacity-based model, beginning at $17,500 for a server supporting up to 2,500 output jobs per day. Pulse Satellite costs $3,000. http://www.esker.com
Clickability Inc. announced the launch of CMPublish, a new content management system that enables e-businesses to manage and deliver relevant content to their online audience. CMPublish, a “self-adapting” publishing platform, integrates with Clickability’s suite of Intelligent Online Publishing Solutions (I-OPS) to manage the entire online publishing process — from creation and analysis, to the distribution and adaptation of Web site content. www.clickability.com
