Open3 Technologies, Inc. announced its release of the Open3 E-Business Messaging Server 2.1 for enterprise messaging. Open3 EMS 2.1 enables the communication and integration of critical business information in a secure, reliable, and high-performing messaging system. Open3 EMS 2.1 natively supports XML, facilitating the enterprise in constructing a Web services architecture. Open3 EMS 2.1 is compliant with Java Message Service (JMS) 1.02b. Open3 EMS 2.1 combines JMS with XML to create a flexible and interoperable system for communication. Open3 EMS 2.1 also provides the core JMS engine as open source. A high-performing persistence store is included; Open3 EMS 2.1 also supports major SQL databases like IBM DB2, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Additionally, Open3 EMS 2.1 supports clustering for load balancing. Open3 EMS 2.1 has multiple server support to handle fail over. www.open3.com
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Interwoven, Inc. announced an agreement with IBM to port its TeamSite software to the IBM AIX 5.1 operating system. Driven by joint customer demand, Interwoven will port its Content Management and Content Distribution product lines, TeamSite and OpenDeploy, along with its Turbo for IBM to AIX, IBM’s strategic operating system for its UNIX-based eServer line. AIX operates over a range of IBM eServer pSeries systems from entry-level servers and workstations to powerful supercomputers. Interwoven plans to make its Content Management and Content Distribution product lines along with its Turbo for IBM available on the AIX operating system mid-year 2002. www.interwoven.com
Documentum announced that it has acquired privately held Boxcar Software. Boxcar provides technology for content aggregation and content distribution. Documentum plans to integrate Boxcar’s technology with the Documentum platform by the second quarter of this year. With this acquisition, Documentum now provides a comprehensive set of content creation, personalization, management and delivery capabilities, including aggregation, application integration, authoring, collaboration, distribution, transformation and web publishing. The combination of Documentum and Boxcar’s technology will enable companies to gather all types of content from disparate sources; integrate it with other enterprise content; manage and personalize the content; then securely deliver and distribute it, in multiple formats, to multiple audiences. www.documentum.com
SAP AG announced its intention to combine SAP Markets, Inc., and SAP Portals, Inc., into one subsidiary. The combined company’s solutions will be delivered by SAP as part of mySAP Technology and other mySAP.com solutions, and also licensed to other technology companies for distribution with third-party software offerings. The combined company will maintain the charter of providing an open integration technology that unifies people, content and business processes in heterogeneous environments and across business boundaries. Building on a single platform, which combines an enterprise portal with content management and exchange technology, the company will deliver a suite of business solutions for supplier relationship management, extended e-selling and business intelligence. This solution suite empowers collaboration and intelligent action by unifying applications, information and Web services. www.sapmarkets.com, www.sapportals.com
divine, inc. and Yahoo! Inc. announced an agreement to jointly offer a premium online research library. Yahoo! Premium Document Search will provide consumers the opportunity to purchase information otherwise not readily available on the Web, from divine/Northern Light Special Collection, an online research library of over 70 million pages of full-text, authoritative content from more than 7,100 sources. In addition, consumers can purchase reference reports, and access archived news from over 60 US and international newswires. Consumers will be able to view free summaries of documents based on their search results prior to purchase. Documents can be purchased two ways: individually, with prices depending on the document; or through a subscription basis, in which consumers have access to up to 50 documents for $4.95 per month. The divine/Northern Light Special Collection is enabled by divine’s recent acquisition of Northern Light. Yahoo! Premium Document Search is available starting today on all Yahoo! Search results pages. premium.search.yahoo.com, www.divine.com
Day and Deloitte & Touche Management Solutions announced an Alliance to jointly implement solutions throughout the Pacific Rim based upon Day’s Communique Software. Deloitte & Touche Hong Kong and Day sales and services professionals will work together to deliver global e-business solutions for managing enterprise content. By creating these systems using Communique’s unique ContentBus architecture, Deloitte & Touche Hong Kong can provide a wide range of
solutions including portals, intranets, extranets and web sites. Deloitte will train a team of its practitioners and provide consulting and systems integration services in Asia Pacific. www.day.com
XML Global Technologies, Inc. and iWay Software, an Information Builders
company announced today that they have signed a comprehensive re-seller and bundling agreement. Concurrent with the reseller agreement, iWay Software has also agreed to bundle XML Global’s ebXML enabled products, GoXML Message service and GoXML Registry, into the iWay Enterprise Integration Suite. By incorporating ebXML functionality into their Enterprise Integration Suite,
iWay will be able offer their clients compatibility with any ebXML framework. Using iWay’s range of 140 adapters and back-end connectors companies will be able to actively participate within an ebXML enabled environment and to also retrieve data and information back into their existing systems. www.iwaysoftware.com, www.xmlglobal.com
Mediagrif Interactive Technologies Inc. announced that it has purchased Flow Systems Corporation, a software company specializing in catalogue content management and cross-media publishing, from Nurun Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Flow Systems’ solutions span the product information lifecycle from acquisition of product data through catalogue publishing for industrial manufacturers and distributors with large or complex product lines. Flow Systems solutions allow enterprises to build and maintain a product information database for all its catalogue publishing needs including automatic updating of e-commerce systems, Web, print and CD-ROM catalogues. Mediagrif’s content management technology coupled with Flow Systems’ cross-media and printed catalogue automation expertise, provides customers with an enterprise wide, product content management and publishing solution. www.mediagrif.com
