ScreamingMedia announced the launch of its new software offering, Actrellis. Actrellis, available in March 2002, aggregates critical information and data from a variety of repositories, filters it based on the needs of target audiences, and delivers it to the right individuals via multiple devices including PCs, cellular phones or hand-held devices. The Actrellis product line includes the Actrellis Integration Server, a Suite of Actrellis Financial Applications and the Actrellis Alerts Server. The Actrellis product line retrieves and normalizes information from third-party vendors, back-end applications, and ScreamingMedia’s repository of content. The Actrellis product line comes with standard adapters for integration with file systems, databases and websites. www.screamingmedia.com
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According to a survey of 1,500 CIOs who make up Gartner Inc.’s Executive Programs (EXP). Compared to 2001, technology priorities in 2002 focus less on building interenterprise business processes and internal e-enablement, and more on making short-term upgrades. The first priority for CIOs will be to enhance security and content management tools. Security enhancement tools and content management tools as this year’s top priority reflects the need to protect data and manage access rights. The second priority will be to strengthen application infrastructure. Application infrastructure priorities include a mix of short-term and midterm internal components including middleware and Windows 2000. CRM and workflow will also contribute to application infrastructure investments this year. The third priority for CIOs will focus on developing network infrastructure and e-enablement. Network infrastructure priorities include network management tools and both internal and interenterprise e-enabling technologies. www.gartner.com
Quickstream Software, and Software AG, Inc. announced an alliance to develop joint strategies that will provide integrated packages of software and services. The initial plans call for a product integration combining Quickstream’s e-Content Management Platform with the Tamino XML Server to enable the storage and management of large-scale, dynamic XML metadata collections. The use of Tamino as an optional back-end index server of the Quickstream e-Content Management Platform allows for easier tagging of structured and unstructured content with XML based metadata. Businesses can decrease search times significantly and substantially increase overall productivity because applications will be able to locate content quickly within the repository using standard schemas and XML-based queries. A beta-stage demonstration of the integration is available now, with public release scheduled for late first quarter of 2002. www.quickstream.com, www.softwareagusa.com
FileNET Corp. announced a partnership with Nissho Electronics Corp. (NELCO). Through this partnership, FileNET and NELCO will deliver electronic content and document management applications and outsourcing services in Japan. These services will be delivered to the finance and securities markets.
www.nissho-ele.co.jp/eHP/e-index.html, www.FileNET.com
iManage, Inc. announced availability of iManage WorkKnowledge, a new knowledge management application that provides the ability to search disparate repositories to identify knowledge locked in business content such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations and email attachments. iManage WorkSite is an Internet-based enterprise application suite that enables organizations to securely manage and collaborate on critical business content and processes with employees, customers and partners. iManage WorkKnowledge creates a single unified environment for users to capture, store, reuse, and leverage a company’s organizational knowledge. Users can classify content by building on a taxonomy of knowledge categories provided by iManage, publicizing newly defined categories easily throughout the enterprise. By subscribing to the iManage service, “What’s New” updates, users can automatically receive alerts as new relevant knowledge enters the system. Autonomy powers sophisticated, unified concept searches across iManage repositories and other internal and external information sources. www.imanage.com
Interwoven Inc. and Venetica announced that they have signed an agreement allowing Interwoven to sell Venetica’s VeniceBridge product and the new Content Provider for TeamSite. Using Content Provider for TeamSite, users can search from within the TeamSite software environment to discover assets, regardless of how or where the content is stored – such as in repositories from Documentum, FileNET, Lotus, Microsoft, Open Text and others – and leverage the appropriate content to support their ongoing initiatives. For example, a manager preparing for a product launch will now be able to access existing documents such as technical publications and regulatory submissions housed in various repositories. Once available to TeamSite, Interwoven MetaTagger, Interwoven’s enterprise metadata solution, will enable users to enrich and repurpose content across initiatives, including enterprise portals, CRM and eCommerce. www.venetica.com, www.interwoven.com
eXcelon Corporation announced Release Three of its eXtensible Information Server (XIS), its native XML database management system. Release Three is focused on improving speed and throughput through refinements to its XML node-level management capability and broadening support for software platforms and connectivity in J2EE environments. XIS stores XML directly in the XML Document Object Model (DOM). XIS can accommodate changes to XML document structure and data in real-time, by operating only on the exact XML element or sub-element needed to support a business process or transaction. Node-level management coupled with distributed in memory caching and locking system increases throughput. Release Three has been updated to include initial support for XQuery, XPath 1.0, XSLT 1.0 including Java extensions (in anticipation of the XSLT 2.0 standard), and XML Schema 1.0. Pricing for XIS starts at under $30,000 for five developer seats and a development server. www.exceloncorp.com
