Stellent, Inc. and Software AG, Inc. announced a pair of reseller agreements. Under the agreements, Software AG, Inc. and Stellent will market and sell the Stellent Content Management system along with Software AG’s Tamino XML Server to new and existing enterprise customers. These agreements expand upon a previous technology alliance partnership between the two companies and provide customers with an integrated XML content management solution. www.stellent.com, www.softwareagusa.com
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Sybase, Inc. announced Sybase Enterprise Portal (EP) 2.5. The JAVA-based, portal software includes a presentation layer comprising navigation, content management, and personalization tools. Additionally, EP 2.5 is compatible with popular infrastructure products. Enterprise Portal 2.5 includes a new Content Management Interface with support for XML-based content congregation, Web services support for portal interface enhancements and portlets, and advanced EJBs. The improved security infrastructure includes the ability to identify users and activities, a secure framework that extends to legacy systems, Secure Business Object (SBO) support authentication, configurable lock out times, and static and dynamic mutual role exclusion to balance access with protection. Enterprise-class portlets offer access to information in enterprise systems. Sybase’s portlet framework will enable an increased number of third-party portal applications, which currently include Autonomy, Interwoven, and Stellent. Enterprise Portal 2.5 will begin shipping in the first quarter of 2002. Pricing starts at $85,000. www.sybase.com
ScreamingMedia Inc. announced an alliance with Documentum to offer enterprises an end-to-end content integration and management solution. ScreamingMedia’s software, SiteWare, enables customers to integrate customized, real-time content from third-party sources directly into their Documentum content management platform. SiteWare’s integration with Documentum 4i Web Content Management Edition provides seamless interaction between the content aggregation, management, and publishing, providing an repository of news and content. www.screamingmedia.com, www.documentum.com
divine, inc. announced that it has acquired certain assets of privately held Northern Light Technology LLC in an all-stock transaction. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition enhances divine’s ability to offer premium content through Northern Light’s Special Collection and strengthens divine’s content management and delivery solutions for the publishing and media industry by expanding the number of sources divine can offer and by providing an improved interface for locating specific content. divine also intends to integrate Northern Light’s global search technology across its content management, content aggregation and procurement, customer interaction and collaboration solutions to provide a unified search capability across its applications. www.divine.com
Corechange, Inc. announced that it has integrated Microsoft Content Management Server 2001 into Coreport, Corechange’s enterprise portal framework. The integration of Coreport and Microsoft Content Management Server enables organizations to unify information assets – including data, messages, applications, and user-created business content – within a single framework designed to tailor information access to specific user needs. The integration of Microsoft Content Management Server with the Coreport portal framework is accomplished through Corechange’s development of Coreport Connectors that provide direct, native access to Content Management Server. Corechange’s integration with Microsoft Content Management Server is scheduled for general availability in April 2002. www.corechange.com
divine, inc. announced the release of eight content and content management portal applications, or portlets, for the IBM WebSphere Portal Server. Content Contributor Portlet enables anyone in an organization to easily contribute content for the portal using the applications they already know. Content Approval Portlet enables content managers to edit and preview content for the portal. Content Management Portlet provides administrators access to the full functionality of divine Content Server Enterprise Edition right from the Content Management Portlet. Content Delivery Portlet delivers content generated internally through the content management system, as well as external news feeds. Real-Time News Portlet allows customers to procure, deliver and manage real-time information feeds from premium sources. Content e-Procurement Portlet allows individuals to search and order knowledge resources from content sources. Federated Search Portlet enables users to search across all information sources. Tracker Portlet allows administrators to track and analyze content usage data by source. www.divine.com/ibmportlets
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the immediate availability of Adobe InDesign 2.0. Version 2.0 introduces editable transparency effects such as drop shadows, table creation, long document support, XML import/export support and a greatly enhanced printing interface. In addition, this upgrade supports Adobe’s XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) technology, an XML-based framework for embedding, tracking and exchanging metadata so that content can be deployed more across different media. Performance enhancements have made InDesign 2.0 significantly faster. InDesign 2.0 provides native support for Mac OS X and Windows XP and tighter integration with other Adobe products. InDesign 2.0 is available immediately to customers in the United States and Canada. Estimated street price in the United States is US$699 for the full product with a special 90-day upgrade offer in the United States and Canada of US$99 (US$149 thereafter). www.adobe.com/products/indesign
Ektron Inc. released Version 2.5 of eWebEditPro, a browser-based, multi-language business-user focused Web content authoring tool. Version 2.5 delivers business-user-friendly features and developer-oriented functionality including new multilingual capabilities and enhanced change detection and formatting. Version 2.5 offers new bi-directional editing for Arabic and Hebrew, and adds traditional Chinese to ten existing European and Asian menus and dialogs. Additional new features in eWebEditPro 2.5 include Section 508 compliance (federally mandated), stylesheet enhancements, Netscape 6.2 support, and various new developer commands. eWebEditPro includes spell check and Office 2000 filters to ‘clean’ content pasted from Microsoft Word or Excel. A 10-seat eWebEditPro license for a single URL is priced at $299 ($30 per user). Enterprise pricing is available. www.ektron.com
