Plumtree Software announced the immediate availability of integration with Microsoft Content Management Server 2001 (CMS) as a services offering. Portal users can now create Plumtree Gadget Web Services using CMS templates and authoring capabilities to add new content to the portal and to repurpose existing content from intranet or extranet sites managed by CMS. Portal users can also publish CMS content directly to the Plumtree Document Directory and search for content managed by CMS from the portal. Plumtree security for the content can be set at the time of publication to the document directory without overriding any existing CMS security. The Plumtree and CMS integration is currently available as a service offering from Plumtree and Plumtree systems integrator partners, including Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. www.plumtree.com
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Convera announced that it has integrated its RetrievalWare search and retrieval technology with Vignette V6 Content Suite. RetrievalWare can index, search, categorize and profile Vignette-managed content. In addition, developers of Vignette-based applications will now be able to integrate RetrievalWare into their applications. Users are able to perform more comprehensive searches that encompass not just Vignette-managed content, but a broader set of enterprise sources, including data warehouses, databases, groupware systems, e-mail files, presentations, videos and other multimedia files.
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Ipedo, Inc. introduced Ipedo Web Express, a framework developers can use to leverage XML in their Web sites and portals. Ipedo Web Express is a server-side software environment that uses XML content and stylesheets to dynamically publish Web content. Easily integrated with existing infrastructures, it allows Web developers to use unstructured XML content in their Web applications. Features include: XML Pipelining for multi-step processing via XSL and code combinations; Tag libraries for JSP and ASP; and links to XML queries. Ipedo Web Express is built on XML, XSL and XQuery, Sun’s Java XML processing and J2EE specifications and Microsoft’s .Net framework. It is compatible with applications built using the Apache Cocoon XML publishing framework. Ipedo also launched its Ipedo Developer Network (IDN). Ipedo Web Express is available now for Windows 2000, Windows NT, Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux. An evaluation version can be downloaded free. www.ipedo.com/developer
Microsoft Corp. announced the product strategy for the next version of SharePoint Products and Technologies. The next version utilizes the application server technologies in Windows .NET Server to deliver a portal and collaboration framework based on Microsoft .NET. The version will also deliver information aggregation, advanced search capabilities and mainstream enterprise application integration, provided via integration with Microsoft BizTalk Server. Additional improvements include single sign-on, personalization and integration with Microsoft Content Management Server. SharePoint technology will natively support XML Web services. www.microsoft.com
Inxight Software, Inc. announced Inxight VizServer 1.5, an enterprise solution that offers customers a method for visualizing and exploring large information collections. The product simplifies and speeds access to relevant information. VizServer is for information-intensive applications in the areas of research and development, channel and customer management, government and law enforcement. Inxight VizServer provides both Inxight Star Tree and Inxight Table Lens. The new version offers XML connectivity to Inxight MetaText Server (IMS), an enterprise solution for structuring textual data for improved access and use. The integrated product offers Web wizards for connecting visualizations to databases, metadata repositories and document and content management systems. Inxight VizServer 1.5 is available immediately. www.inxight.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced immediate availability of Interwoven TeamPortal for Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS). Interwoven has also joined the Oracle Portal Partner Initiative. Interwoven is providing business users with new collaborative content application portlets for Oracle9iAS that enable enterprises to rapidly integrate enterprise content management into their corporate portal. Interwoven TeamPortal software provides a collaborative model to help ensure the accuracy, reliability and security of portal content. The portal functionality in Oracle9i Application Server provides a solution for building, deploying, and maintaining self-service, integrated enterprise portals. It combines an extensible framework for standardized application access with a set of self-service tools for customizing the portal experience, publishing and managing information, and accessing dynamic data. www.interwoven.com
Plumtree Software announced the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5WS, the newest version of Plumtree’s portal platform. Version 4.5WS completes Plumtree’s Web Services Architecture for bringing together electronic resources from Windows, J2EE and other platforms, integrating applications, federating searches, indexing content and authenticating users via Web services. Version 4.5WS also features enhanced search, with faster content indexing and less administration, and functional parity between the Windows and UNIX releases of the portal platform, which now share the same code base. Plumtree is announcing version 4.5WS in conjunction with a new Microsoft .NET development kit. In addition, two Plumtree partners are announcing the development of Web services for indexing content from Open Text Livelink and Stellent Content Management repositories. The Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5WS is expected to be generally available on May 24. www.plumtree.com
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced in conjunction with BroadVision, Inc., support for the BroadVision 7 family of next-generation portal applications with FAST Data Search for BroadVision. BroadVision will ship a new version of the FAST Data Search for BroadVision, a customizable software solution designed specifically to tackle real-time data-intensive search and information retrieval challenges to enable intelligent access to corporate knowledge resources, as part of the BroadVision 7 family of portal applications. The improvements in this release of FAST Data Search for BroadVision include simplified configuration for multi-byte character sets, dictionary support for multi-byte languages, filtering data based on entitlements and improved support for indexing. In addition, BroadVision will also provide upgrade modules for increased capacity and performance of the FAST Data Search for BroadVision. www.broadvision.com, www.alltheweb.com
