Lightspeed Interactive, Inc. announced the release of iREVIEW, an add-on product to the Lightspeed Astoria content management system. The solution provides Web-based access for all members of an organization through a secure and configurable environment. Lightspeed iREVIEW eliminates the paper review process and enhances the quality of comments and focus of the reviewers. iREVIEW empowers local and remote authors and reviewers with immediate access to enterprise content and automatically moves that content through the business approval process. The application, which provides a direct link for online access to all content stored in Lightspeed Astoria, includes Web browser access and preview, online annotation, and workflow functionality for any secured author, editor or reviewer. www.lspeed.com
Day: April 8, 2002
Quiver, Inc. announced it has developed a portlet that enables companies running IBM WebSphere Portal to leverage Quiver’s hybrid taxonomy and categorization application, QKS Classifier. Quiver’s categorization product delivers classification of unstructured data – such as Microsoft Word documents, HTML pages, PDFs, digital media files, etc – into a flexible, browse-able topic hierarchy or taxonomy. Integrating Quiver with IBM Websphere Portal enables customers to have immediate access to all of the information needed to do their jobs. Quiver’s QKS Classifier combines auto-categorization technology with workflow and management tools to provide human control and oversight in the categorization process – from taxonomy creation to content population to access and display management. General availability of the Quiver portlet for IBM WebSphere Portal is planned for the 2nd quarter, 2002. www.quiver.com
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced that FAST Data Search now integrates with Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 and fully supports Microsoft Content Management Server 2001. FAST Data Search is designed specifically to tackle the real-time data-intensive search and information retrieval challenges of large-scale enterprises. Under terms of an agreement signed today, Microsoft Corp. gains the right to distribute FAST Data Search for sales promotion, demonstration, and marketing purposes with Microsoft’s integrated solution platform for e-business. www.fastsearch.com
Vignette Corp. announced a new Jumpstart program that helps companies deploy Vignette V6 solutions within 90 days for a quicker return on investment. The Jumpstart program combines Vignette V6 applications with consulting and education services from the Vignette Professional Services (VPS) organization, which draws upon the best practices and expertise gained from delivering rapid deployments using Vignette applications. The products available in the Jumpstart offering include the Vignette V6 Standard Edition and Vignette V6 Multisite Content Manager. This is the first offering of a new service architecture termed “Vignette Velocity,” which will contain a series of rapid service offerings to accelerate time to deployment for the most common customer scenarios. Vignette’s Jumpstart package is available immediately and includes 100 training units combined with consulting services and is designed to deliver a site in approximately 90 days or less using Vignette V6 Standard Edition and Vignette V6 Multisite Content Manager. www.vignette.com
Equilibrium announced it is working with Microsoft Corp. to integrate Equilibrium MediaRich Image Server with Commerce Server 2002 and Content Management Server. The dynamic imaging integration provided to customers and partners reduces the time required to create an Internet presence. MediaRich is server-based imaging software that generates, updates, and delivers dynamic visual content to the Web and smart devices. By using MediaRich Image Server, companies are able to set up templates to automate image-processing tasks normally done manually by artists and technical teams. MediaRich has dynamic imaging features such as zoom, pan, colorize, resize, mix, match, 360-degree rotation, composite, font generation, and localization. www.equilibrium.com
