Gauss announced its unified content management platform that integrates document, content, portal, and enterprise workflow in one Java-based platform, enabling customers to manage the complete spectrum of content. These capabilities are the fruits of the merger in June 2000 between Gauss Interprise and the former Magellan Software. The Gauss VIP platform bridges the content management divide, unifying Web content and portal management with document management and workflow in one integrated product suite. VIP’s Java- and XML-based technologies provide an open environment for extending e-business and e-commerce capabilities, and empowering those responsible for driving your business relationships with the freedom to manage your Web initiatives. www.gauss.com
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Autonomy Corporation plc announced the release of AXE, a technology that will enable Autonomy’s OEM customers and end-users to overcome the current obstacles in the processing of XML and extend the benefits of information exchange. AXE’s conceptual understanding enables it to automatically insert XML tags and links into documents, based on the concepts contained in the information. This eliminates all manual cost. Secondly, AXE enables XML applications to understand conceptual information, independent of variations in tagging schemas or the variety of applications in use. This means, for example, that legacy data from disparate sources, tagged using different schemas, can be automatically reconciled and operated upon. AXE is a complementary technology to the latest version of Autonomy’s core engine, the Dynamic Reasoning Engine v4.0. It will be made available both to end users and to OEMs. OEMs will embed AXE in their own products as part of the Autonomy Content Infrastructure (ACI), an architecture that enables multiple third party applications to automate the business operations on unstructured data. Preliminary metrics indicate that the AXE-enabled DRE will process XML at speeds of up to 2 gigabytes per hour, the equivalent to 200 documents per second. Operations such as tagging, categorizing and linking are carried out automatically, as hundreds of simultaneous operations occur concurrently. www.autonomy.com/autonomy/dynamic/autopage466.shtml
IntraNet Solutions, Inc, and ViA, Inc., announced they have signed an agreement to provide Web content management for ViA’s wearable computers. Under the agreement, ViA will integrate IntraNet Solutions’ Xpedio Content Management system into its wearable computers, enabling mobile users to wirelessly access, manage and update business content. ViA’s wearable computers allow mobile professionals to access and utilize Xpedio while they are on the job. For example, maintenance and field personnel can view procedural information as they are working on truck fleets or airplane turnaround; energy workers can track and send meter readings back to home base; and surveyors can access and enter land information using the integrated solution. IntraNet Solutions and ViA will jointly market the ViA wearable computer and Xpedio to provide customers with a platform for getting business information to and from mobile workers. www.intranetsolutions.com, www.via-pc.com
The 2Bridge Personal Portal lets users create a personalized command center for accessing, permissioning, publishing and sharing web services, documents and rich media, providing a gateway to people, colleagues and communities. The Personal Portal Server can be managed as part of a federated enterprise network of peer-to-peer portal and content servers. The Personal Portal brings a new level of interface and front-end application functionality to browser users. This next-generation multipanel presentation and application framework expands the web browser into “browslets,” or discrete actionable spaces, each of which can be configured and personalized for distributed, shared application services enabling a new, richer form of personalized, peer-to-peer communications. With Personal Portal you can: Use panels to communicate and link devices, including the ability to send email and communicate with wireless devices such as phones or PDAs; Multicast by creating your own content that can be shared with a community of users; Stream application data and business-critical information onto your desktop; And authenticate from any JNDI source, such as LDAP, NT user database, or UNIX permissioning system. It is written in Java and XML and fully browser-based. The 2Bridge Personal Portal will be licensed to enterprises, independent software vendors, system integrators and Value-Added Resellers. www.2Bridge.com
In a move to meet the evolving syndication needs of the enterprise market, iSyndicate, the leading provider of Internet syndication infrastructure and application solutions, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Austin, Texas-based Kurion, subject to customary closing conditions. Kurion’s technology automatically transforms any application or content into scalable Web services that can range from a single Web component, a Web page, product catalog, marketplace exchange or an entire personalization offering. This technology enhances iSyndicate’s current enterprise offering by adding an application syndication component that allows customers to repurpose, distribute and integrate Web applications. Initially, Kurion’s platform will be used to advance iSyndicate’s Private Syndication Network solution, which enables enterprises and other organizations to efficiently aggregate, distribute and share digital content and information among customers, partners, employees and other key audiences, over a secure, scalable and private network. As an added layer to PSN’s infrastructure, Kurion’s technology will permit businesses to dynamically manipulate any HTTP-accessible content and application into Web services – whether those digital assets are stored in a database, XML repository, static file or available only on the Web. Depending on a business’s requirements, manipulating information can be as simple as content “look and feel” changes or as complex as workflow emulation. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. iSyndicate will maintain Kurion’s Austin operations. www.isyndicate.com, www.kurion.com
Portal Wave Inc. announced new relationships with Autonomy Corp. plc, GoAmerica Inc., iSyndicate Inc., Moreover Inc., WebEx Communications Inc., and YellowBrix Inc. With these relationships, the enterprise application portal will now allow users to conduct comprehensive searches of disparate data sources, access EAPs from their wireless devices of choice, view thousands of news sources from the Internet and launch Web services such as Web conferencing. As necessary, Portal Wave has integrated each partner’s products into the portal using its Wavelet Development Kit (WDK). The WDK empowers Portal Wave customers, system integrators and solution partners to create new or modify existing Wavelets. Part of Portal Wave’s architecture, Wavelets are plug-in software modules — or mini-applications — that run through the portal, each encapsulating a different business process. Wavelets do everything from capturing syndicated content from the Internet to running enterprise level B2B functionality such as commerce transactions. www.portalwave.com
divine interVentures, inc. announced that it will acquire enterprise information portal solutions company SageMaker, Inc., the first acquisition in divine’s previously-announced strategy to consolidate companies in the most promising digital economy sectors. The all-stock deal, valued at about $16.5 million, is expected to be completed by late February. SageMaker will complement more than a dozen associated companies in divine’s enterprise information portal solution. divine also will tap into relationships with its strategic partners, beginning with a separately announced strategic alliance with Computer Associates to jointly develop and market a combined portal solution. divine will integrate CA’s Jasmine( Portal technology with SageMaker’s offerings and the applications and services of other divine associated companies to create a complete enterprise information portal. www.divineinterventures.com, www.sagemaker.com
SDL plc announced that it has agreed to acquire the Automated Real Time Translation Division from Transparent Language, Inc. for a total consideration of $9m. The assets being acquired by SDL International include the intellectual property rights to Transparent’s TranscendRT* machine translation technology and related products, including the Enterprise Translation Server, which provide instant language translation of e-mail, web pages, and documents. The consideration will be satisfied with the payment of $1.5m in cash and through the issue of $7.5m in new ordinary shares of 1p each in the Capital of the Company. The division being acquired made a net loss of $3.7 million for the nine months ended 31 December 2000, which reflects the costs of developing and launching the TranscendRT* technology. The acquisition is expected to be completed by 15th February 2001. The Directors of SDL International believe that combining the Enterprise Translation Server’s real time translation technology with SDL International’s products SDLX and SDLWebFlow will enable the Company to provide a complete solution for companies to manage multilingual web site content. The combination of SDL International’s expertise in computer-aided translation via its translation memory product SDLX with the high performance Enterprise Translation Server will provide a commercial solution in the field of automated translation. www.sdlintl.com, www.transparentlanguage.com
