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Vignette Corp. announced that it is shipping a full suite of content, integration and analysis ap-plications with native support for the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard and the BEA We-bLogic and IBM WebSphere application servers. This means Vignette supports both Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java platform and Microsoft Corp.’s Windows DNA. Vignette also an-nounced significant new enhancements to the Vignette Content Management Server (CMS) that tightly integrates content management, scalable content delivery and personalization. Vi-gnette CMS Explorer and Vignette Content Manager Generator (CM Generator). Vignette CMS Explorer makes digital asset management simpler and more intuitive by enabling Web applica-tion developers and content contributors to access CMS capabilities using the popular Micro-soft Windows Explorer interface, which lets them create, view and manipulate their content and application code using familiar icons, formats and drag-and-drop functionality. By allowing us-ers to work in the manner they prefer, CMS Explorer helps e-business organizations improve overall productivity and reduce training costs. Vignette Content Manager Generator is designed to accelerate time to market and reduce development costs by automating the process of creat-ing custom content management applications with the Vignette Content Management Server. CM Generator allows any business user to generate browser-based custom content manage-ment applications using a step-by-step process and an easy-to-use interface. CM Generator can dramatically reduce the amount of time and cost needed for implementing simple, but custom-ized, content management applications. www.vignette.com

Inxight Software, Inc. announced the immediate availability of four Asian languages within its LinguistX Platform 3.1 and Summarizer 3.0 SDK products. Japanese, Korean and Traditional and Simplified Chinese are now available as plug-in modules for LinguistX Platform and Summar-izer. LinguistX Platform is a multi-lingual, natural language processing software engine used to analyze massive text repositories such as the World Wide Web, news archives, e-mail and document libraries. The product enables application developers to bring true language aware-ness to their search engines, content management systems, customer relationship management systems, and other products that handle large amounts of textual content. Summarizer SDK is a software engine that creates abstracts of online documents in sub-seconds, and customizes content into a summary size that is relevant to a user’s needs. These engines underlie applica-tions from Lotus, SAP, Oracle, Verity, Reuters, eGain, YellowBrix and Inktomi. LinguistX Platform provides a language-aware foundation for software applications, enabling developers and in-formation providers to build more intelligent solutions for full-text searches, electronic publish-ing, email routing and response, content delivery to wireless devices, and other text-intensive applications. LinguistX Platform 3.1 is provided as modular engines, reducing development costs and decreasing time to market. LinguistX Platform 3.1 and Summarizer 3.0 SDK offer a single object-oriented API for all 16-language versions. This single API supports most operating systems and platforms for multiple language integration. LinguistX Platform 3.1 and Summar-izer 3.0 SDK also have integrated automatic language identification, which identifies the lan-guage and character encoding of the document so the user does not need to set it. Inxight LinguistX Platform 3.1 and Summarizer SDK 3.0 in Asian languages for Windows, Solaris and Linux, are available now directly from Inxight. www.inxight.com

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