Computer Associates International, Inc. announced the availability of CleverPath Enterprise Content Manager (ECM). CleverPath ECM extends the collaboration-and-community capabilities of CA’s CleverPath Portal to simplify management of all types of content across the enterprise using a graphical Portal interface. Supported content types include data, images, multimedia, presentations, spreadsheets, documents, email and text. CleverPath ECM provides comprehensive content management capabilities for these diverse content types — including storage and access management, process automation and workflow administration, version control and secure check-in/check-out functions. CleverPath ECM stores and manages metadata for all content types. Its type-specific plug-ins can be developed to scan content as it is loaded to extract this metadata. Other media services, such as thumbnail creation, can also be automated for streamlined workflow. CleverPath ECM is delivered with a set of standard plug-ins for most common media types such as Word and PDF documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, JPEG images, MPEG and Quicktime multimedia, and MP3 audio. It can also be customized to work with third-party content services, such as audio and video search engines. http://ca.com
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Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V., L&H Holdings USA, Inc., and certain of their subsidiaries (collectively, “L&H” or “the Company”) announced the sale of remaining speech and language technology assets through a court-approved, public auction held on the 26th of November. The sales of the Company’s individual assets are subject to final approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware and the Ieper Commercial Court of Belgium. The major portion of L&H’s core speech and language technology business, including its text-to-speech (TTS) technologies, including L&H RealSpeak, and certain of its automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies, including the Dragon Naturally Speaking line of products, will be acquired by Massachusetts-based ScanSoft, Inc. in exchange for $10 million in cash, a $3.5 million note, and 7.4 million common shares of ScanSoft, Inc. stock with a market value of $26 million based on the November 26th closing price of $3.52 per share. Additional assets sold at the auction include: The ASR technologies of L&H’s ISI division to Pennsylvania-based Multimodal Technologies, Inc., and L&H’s Intelligent Content Management (ICM) assets and its Knexys division, which develops ICM technologies to Vantage Technology Holding for $2 million in cash. www.lhsl.com
Liquent, Inc. announced a partnership has been formed with Percussion Software. The partnership will provide companies with a scalable XML content management solution. A mutual referral agreement will enable both Percussion and Liquent to actively market the combined solution. The offering will leverage Liquent’s Encore and Xtent technologies and Percussion’s Rhythmyx Content Manager product line. Companies utilizing this solution will be able to automatically retrieve content from their existing content repositories using Liquent Encore, transform the content into XML through Liquent’s Xtent engine and load the resulting XML content into the Rhythmyx Content Manager. Using Liquent Encore to pull content from many repositories and Liquent Xtent to transform and normalize all content to one XML format, developers can access content immediately without additional translation. www.percussion.com, www.liquent.com
Engage, Inc. and AltaVista announced an OEM alliance to incorporate AltaVista’s Enterprise Search software into Engage’s ContentServer 7 solution. AltaVista’s Enterprise Search software will provide Engage customers full-text search capability, enabling them to index both print and online digital assets for fast, efficient deployment across the broader marketing organization. Under the terms of the agreement, Engage will develop a unique content management search interface for the ContentServer client, tightly integrating AltaVista Enterprise Search software. Search results, enabled through a combination of natural language and database queries, will be incorporated into Engage’s content management solution, allowing users to access digital assets from desktop applications such as Quark XPress and Adobe Photoshop. ContentServer 7 with integrated AltaVista Enterprise Search software is scheduled for release in early 2002. Engage will also make AltaVista’s Enterprise Search software available to its existing customers and customers purchasing Engage’s current release of ContentServer 6.4. www.engage.com, www.altavista.com
ContentGuard, Inc. has launched version 2.0 of its eXtensible rights Markup Language (XrML), which broadens the range of business models available to digital content and Web Services providers. ContentGuard has also released a Software Developer’s Kit to. ContentGuard also confirmed that it will hand control of XrML to an international standards organization. The company is currently in discussions with several standards organizations about accepting this governance role. ContentGuard plans to propose XrML 2.0 to any standards organization seeking a Rights Language. Within the last week such proposals have been made to MPEG-21 and TV Anytime. XrML 2.0 expands the capabilities of a Digital Rights Language to now also allow developers to establish the rights and conditions needed to access various Web Services. As part of a trusted environment, XrML can be used to apply rights to a wide variety of content and services to enable custom tailoring of digital offerings. The XrML 2.0 specification is available free at www.xrml.org. XrML 2.0 is extensible and compliant with XML namespaces using XML schema. In addition, XrML 2.0 extensions can be designed for specific industries or with the inclusion of other elements, such as resource-level metadata standards like ONIX. The XrML 2.0 SDK is available for download. www.contentguard.com
DataMirror announced the release of DB/XML Transform Version 2.5. Using DB/XML Transform, companies can integrate their existing EDI infrastructures with XML-based technologies that allow businesses to communicate faster and smarter both internally and externally with virtually any trading partner. In addition to allowing businesses to transform standard EDI messages to XML, database and flat file formats, DB/XML Transform now supports RosettaNet. It also includes engine enhancements that enable the software to perform faster and offer greater flexibility in creating mapping rules with more fine-grained transaction control for any-to-database transformations. DB/XML Transform Version 2.5 features more built-in functions and enhancements to its graphical user interface, including an enhanced query designer and an input-parameter data entry screen that enables users to easily and quickly define complex queries for database-to-any transformation projects. www.datamirror.com
CNet Sweden launched NewsToBuy, an ASP service offering small and medium sized publishers all editorial tools and cross media publishing functions needed to run a professional publishing business. Designed entirely around XML, NewsToBuy provides a cost effective solution for small publishers such as local newspapers, trade magazines and trade portals to run their web publishing business. The NewsToBuy application service offers a complete editorial system, news archive, newsletter distribution, cross media publishing to different formats and channels, integration of external news feeds as well as export of news feeds. Publishers can manage their own web portals and digital newspapers without having to install any hardware, database or content management system. Editing, categorization and prioritizing of news articles is done through an Internet browser and the publisher can chose any layout they want. Besides publishing to web portals it is also possible to export content for paper publishing and for news syndication using XML formats such as NewsML and RSS. Another market for NewsToBuy is micro publishers such as freelance journalists and business intelligence specialists, that need to deliver news items to be included in corporate intranets and portals. NewsToBuy is available for immediate delivery. The monthly rate is $649 and there is no start-up fee. www.cnet.se
Vignette Corp. and IBM announced they will jointly market IBM’s packaged e-infrastructure solutions with Vignette Content Suite V6. The Blue Pack is immediately available, will be jointly marketed by IBM and Vignette, and comes in two prebundled packages: one for small to medium-sized Web sites and another for more advanced, robust, high-volume sites. The solution will be available on IBM eServer pSeries systems running Vignette’s Content Suite V6 software. The Blue Pack also includes IBM middleware, including WebSphere Application server Advanced Edition and high-performance DB2 Universal Data Base Enterprise Edition. www.ibm.com, www.vignette.com
