Groove Networks Inc. and Documentum announced an alliance to deliver a content management solution that provides secure content creation and management capabilities for project teams whose members span company boundaries. Both companies will market and sell the combined offering. The joint solution consists of a connector between the Documentum ECM platform and Groove decentralized collaboration software, which allows project teams to access content stored within the Documentum content repository and pull it into a Groove shared space. Team members can collaboratively view, edit and update the content – either online or offline. The project team can then publish final content in the central, secure Documentum repository, where it can be accessed by other team members or anyone with appropriate permissions. www.documentum.com
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Docent Inc. and Interwoven Inc. announced an alliance to improve the way knowledge is created, managed, and delivered in large enterprises. Through the alliance, Docent and Interwoven customers will be able to converge their organization’s enterprise content strategy with their eLearning strategy. By integrating Docent Enterprise eLearning applications with Interwoven TeamSite content management software, customers can form an enterprise-wide content management infrastructure for knowledge exchange and more easily leverage information residing in content repositories. The ability to easily leverage the organization’s content assets into multiple learning experiences extends the value of that content. www.interwoven.com, www.docent.com
According to IDC, the content management and retrieval software market continues to grow rapidly despite the slowdown in 2001, and content management and retrieval software spending is expected to outpace the software market as a whole for the next five years. This growth has attracted the attention of large software vendors who are increasing their attention to this market. IDC’s forecast predicts, that in 2003, pent-up demand for the next generation of content technologies, such as multimedia and multiformat search and text mining will fuel increased spending. According to IDC, this growth will only be temporary, followed by a shakeout ending with a few large players dominating the marketplace with unified enterprise information system offerings. The products that are easily integrated with other enterprise applications will have the greatest potential for success.
www.idc.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced the publication of the Content Services specification, a Web Services specification for access to Enterprise Content Management functionality. This proposed standard by Interwoven has support from vendors with portal offerings, including BEA, Bowstreet, Sun Microsystems, Inc., SAP Portals, Sybase and TIBCO Software, and will be submitted this month for consideration by one of the international open standards bodies. The new standard encompasses all lifecycle elements of enterprise content management, including content transfer, metadata, workflow, workareas, locking, and many other functions. These functions are made available as Web Services in a vendor-neutral solution, promising to hide many of the differences between competing software platforms, programming languages, and hardware specifics. The Content Services specification is available now through the www.content-services.org site for anyone to review, comment on, and implement. A full reference solution is included in the Interwoven implementation. www.interwoven.com
Ecosystems announced the release of The Environment 1.7 the latest edition of its XML content platform. The platform integrates with content management systems, databases and file systems to provide a single source representation of an organization. The software, available immediately, offers new functionality to improve document-publishing capabilities and content collaboration across the enterprise. www.eco-online.com
SDL International, announced a strategic partnership with Tridion. SDL International and Tridion will work together to provide solutions for content management and globalisation. Tridion DialogServer, enables enterprises to publish, manage and update their web content. It allows for the consistent, timely and cost-effective exchange of strategic content across multi-language websites and devices. SDLWebFlow extends Tridion DialogServer with corresponding capabilities for the management of multilingual content. The key benefit to customers combining the two solutions will be the ability to manage the operation of web sites and content in almost any international language. www.tridion.com, www.sdlintl.com
divine, inc. and Delano Technology Corporation announced that divine has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Delano. divine will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Delano common stock for a fixed exchange rate in which divine will issue 1.1870 divine shares for each share of Delano common stock, which equates to approximately 51.55 million divine shares. The deal, which will be structured as a plan of arrangement under Canadian law, will be subject to customary regulatory and court approvals, as well as the approval of Delano’s shareholders. Shareholders holding approximately 13 percent of Delano’s outstanding shares have already agreed to vote in favor of the transaction. Combined with divine’s CIM offerings, the acquisition of Delano allows divine to provide fully integrated multi-channel e-marketing, inbound and outbound interaction management, self service and campaign management. www.divine.com
Microsoft Corp. and Altova Inc. released new features to support Microsoft SQL XML and relational data by creating XML views of relational data. The new XML Spy provides enhanced tools support for Microsoft developers and database administrators. XML Spy 4.3 integrated development environment (IDE)’s schema editor now includes full development support for XML schemas, including Microsoft SQLXML extensions, for use in mapping XML schemas to relational databases. New SQLXML developer tools are included with the XML Spy 4.3 Suite, which is available for download and purchase. The XML Spy 4.3 Suite is available as a free upgrade to existing XML Spy customers.
www.xmlspy.com/download.html, www.microsoft.com/sql
