Blue Martini Software, Inc. announced that it is shipping its Blue Martini 4 suite of products. The tightly integrated suite consists of four new applications: Blue Martini Marketing, Blue Martini Commerce, Blue Martini Channels and Blue Martini Service. Blue Martini Marketing, a comprehensive marketing solution that allows companies to create a unified picture of customers, analyze customer behavior for patterns and insights, and implement those insights through personalization and outbound marketing. Blue Martini Commerce, an e-commerce application for selling direct to businesses and consumers via multiple touch-points such as a website or mobile device. It offers companies out-of-the-box capabilities that provide a solid foundation for effective selling. Blue Martini Channels, a complete channel management application that helps companies to manage profitable relationships with partners, and drives sales through partner extranets, or portals, and online marketplaces. Blue Martini Service, a customer service application that enables companies to drive revenues and achieve customer satisfaction through their customer service representatives (CSRs) over the phone or on the web. The Blue Martini 4 suite provides 24-by-7 availability, legacy integration and ease of management. The Blue Martini 4 suite offers visual tools and pre-built adapters for integrating external systems through Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), XML, CORBA, Microsoft’s COM/DCOM and IBM’s MQ Series interfaces. It provides integration with SAP, Agile, Oracle, PeopleSoft and Siebel. The Blue Martini 4 suite and its four applications are currently available. Each application is available separately or all four can be purchased as an integrated suite. Pricing starts at $250,000 per application. www.bluemartini.com
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Sequoia Software Corporation announced a partnership with Bantu, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based provider of instant messaging and presence management technology for enterprise applications software and services companies. Sequoia is integrating Bantu’s instant messaging application, Bantu Messenger, into its XML-pure portal software product, XPS. Once combined, Sequoia customers will have the option of providing users with a confidential mechanism for instant messaging with other portal users, as well as the millions of individuals using Bantu and other popular instant messaging platforms such as ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! In addition to enhancing the collaborative capabilities of XPS, Sequoia selected Bantu Messenger because it protects user confidentiality, encrypts all messages, integrates presence detection and instant messaging seamlessly into the XPS portal, and is interoperable with other instant messaging systems. www.bantu.com, www.sequoiasoftware.com
Open Market, Inc. announced a new product family, Content Server Enterprise Edition (CSEE), adding new e-marketing and business-to-business integration (B2Bi) capabilities to its content management and delivery system. CSEE is designed, developed, and deployed as Java components built on Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers now including the IBM WebSphere Application Server, as well as BEA WebLogic Server and the iPlanet Application Server. CSEE is based on two approaches. The first, called the PowerAssets information architecture, maximizes the value of an enterprise’s content by extending its use and re-use for a broad range of e-business initiatives, including catalogs, personalization, self-service applications, and e-marketplaces. The PowerAssets information architecture treats enterprise content, such as images, articles, product information, and audio files, as dynamic independent content objects that can be extended for multiple applications by non- technical users. PowerAssets enable enterprise content to be kept in a “presentation neutral” format so it can be easily reused across multiple Web sites and delivery devices as well as facilitating efficient XML document exchange to trading partners. Open Market’s second approach is based on J2EE application servers, Java components, Java Server Pages (JSP) templates, and XML-based services. Because CSEE solutions are built directly on leading J2EE application servers, customers benefit from fast development of content-driven Internet applications using mainstream Java technical tools, simple integration with legacy systems, and technologies. Open Market’s Content Server Enterprise Edition is available now. Each product is priced individually on a per CPU basis. Pricing begins at $29,000.00 per CPU. Customers add modules based on business needs and purchase additional CPUs based on scalability requirements. www.openmarket.com
Microsoft Corp. made available a beta version of the XML for Analysis software development kit and an updated XML for Analysis protocol specification. This is an online analytical processing protocol that enables the transfer of information between analytical databases and client applications, regardless of the computer language used to write the application. Leveraging XML, SOAP and HTTP, XML for Analysis is a new protocol that is designed to standardize the data access interaction between a client application and an analytical data provider (OLAP and data mining). With input from more than 50 vendors, XML for Analysis is a vendor – and platform – independent extension to Microsoft’s OLEDB for OLAP and OLEDB for Data Mining protocols. Developers are now able to provide analytic capabilities to any client on any device or platform using any programming language, such as the Microsoft Visual Basic development system, C++, C# and Java. A beta version of XML for Analysis is available for download at www.microsoft.com/data/xml/XMLAnalysis.htm
Open Market, Inc. announced a relationship with Caput. The relationship is intended to enable e-businesses to quickly implement an integrated, solution for content, community and commerce. Caput’s solutions generate traffic and loyalty to web- sites. Open Market’s solutions are designed to allow those companies to convert these prospects into customers by allowing them to take maximum advantage of their content as a marketing and sales tool. Content can be personalized to customer segments or individual customers. The application platforms offered by the two companies consist of a set of Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) components. The software is written completely in the Java and XML programming language and the architecture adheres to the Sun Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification. This enables both Caput and Open Market solutions to run on the same application server, offering an environment intended to optimize integration, scalability and fail-over. www.caput.com, www.openmarket.com
Starbase Corp. announced the availability of a technology integration between StarTeam and Documentum’s 4i eBusiness Platform. The integration enables developers to leverage existing software applications and investments. Starbase’s partnership with Documentum was originally forged in July 2000 when Starbase announced its first in a series of planned technology integra-tions to Documentum content management technology under Documentum’s Open Source Code Integration (OSCI). Documentum OSCI facilitates integrations with leading application development vendors to enable delivery of an eBusiness solution. Shared content production and collaboration are integrated processes that must be available at every level of the organiza-tion. When integrated with an enterprise collaborative development framework, customers achieve higher productivity levels. StarTeam creates this essential layer of developer collabora-tion for Documentum 4i eBusiness Platform customers. www.documentum.com, www.starbase.com
AgentWare announced the general availability of its new Syndicator 2.0 software, a Java- and XML-based development platform for creating and integrating content, distributed applications and Web Services across the Internet. Designed to ensure rapid time-to-market, AgentWare’s Syndicator 2.0 development toolset offers functionality to improve the way businesses integrate and syndicate applications, expand to wireless and broadband platforms, and leverage existing Internet infrastructure to build Web Services. Also, as a result of its full mobile and broadband device compatibility, Syndicator 2.0 will allow businesses to rapidly develop and deploy online initiatives to multiple Internet devices, with no need for the creation of multiple applications to accommodate differing operating scenarios and delivery channels. AgentWare’s Syndicator 2.0 is an ideal solution for today’s Internet environment because 1) it enables businesses to quickly build customized applications that easily integrate with their existing systems, 2) it provides a powerful business tool that can efficiently and cost-effectively deliver both applications and Web Services over the Internet and 3) it significantly reduces the personnel costs, infrastructure costs and time needed to deploy an eBusiness solution. www.agentware.com
Factiva announced the availability of Factiva Track Module, a current awareness tool that dis-plays filtered content within an intranet or portal. Factiva Track Module is the latest tool in Fac-tiva Integration, a suite of products designed to integrate Factiva’s news and business information into intranets and portals. Factiva Track Module allows customers to define news topics that matter most to them such as industry, competitor or customer topics, and distribute filtered news to employee groups who can benefit from shared views of the same information. Factiva Track Module filters global content in 12 languages from Factiva’s archive, which in-cludes Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and The Wall Street Journal, plus more than 4,000 other sources from around the world. Two editions of Factiva Track Module are available. Fac-tiva Track Module-Standard uses an HTML format and Factiva Track Module-Custom uses XML, which allows companies to control the presentation and navigational experience within their environment. www.factiva.com
