BroadVision, Inc. introduced the BroadVision 7 family of portal applications for Intel-based servers and the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system. BroadVision 7 — composed of BroadVision One-To-One Portal 7.0, BroadVision One-To-One Commerce 7.0 and BroadVision One-To-One Content 7.0 — is an integrated, standards-based family of applications based on BroadVision’s advanced personalization, enterprise portal, multi-channel commerce and content management technology. BroadVision 7 brings a new level of ease-of-use, enhanced support for standards, and new features. www.broadvision.com
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Stellent, Inc. announced two new integration products for incorporating Stellent Content Management capabilities into the Plumtree Corporate Portal: a suite of Plumtree Gadget Web Services and a Plumtree Crawler Web Service. The Gadget Suite combines in a portal page content management capabilities found in Stellent’s enterprise content management solution, and the Stellent Crawler Web Service is a tool used to scan and index content from Stellent into the Plumtree Document Directory. Stellent used Web Services standards to develop both products, which integrate with the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5WS, the newest version of Plumtree’s platform. Version 4.5WS is based on a Web Services Architecture. The Plumtree Corporate Portal incorporates key Stellent enterprise content management functionalities, such as check-in, check-out and workflow, as Plumtree Gadget Web Services. Plumtree Gadget Web Services are modular components that deliver services from enterprise applications and Internet sites to a portal page. www.stellent.com/plumtree
Citrix Systems, Inc. announced that Citrix MetaFrame XP application serving software has been certified for use with enterprise content management software from Documentum. Both companies participated in the testing process, involving the certification of the Documentum 4i Desktop Client running on Citrix MetaFrame XPe. Customers deploying Documentum Desktop Client via MetaFrame XP can upgrade, manage and support the application centrally, reducing the overall total cost of ownership. Deployed through MetaFrame XP, the Documentum Desktop Client is accessible through a wide range of devices utilizing the Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) client. Customers can also access the Documentum Desktop Client from any standard Web browser using Citrix NFuse Classic, a member of the company’s new access portal product family. NFuse Classic provides secure Web access to any Windows, UNIX or Java application running on MetaFrame without any code rewrites. www.citrix.com
Applied Semantics, Inc. unveiled the addition of four new taxonomies as extensions to its Auto-Categorizer product. The four taxonomies, supplementing the existing ODP (Open Directory Project) and International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) taxonomy portfolio, include: MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) based on the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) controlled vocabulary thesaurus of more than 20,000 top-level headings used by NLM for indexing articles; the U.S. Department of Labor’s SIC (Standard Industrial Classification System); the UNSPSC (Universal Standard Products and Services Classification), a 13,000-plus category taxonomy for classifying products and services of, for buy- and sell-side catalogs; and an 800-category taxonomy consisting of country codes standardized around the ISO 3166 alpha-2 code schema, enhanced with U.S. states and major U.S. and international cities. These industry-standard taxonomies are “plug-and-play” modules that can be individually licensed to enhance Applied Semantics Auto-Categorizer. www.appliedsemantics.com
Stellent, Inc. announced it has signed integration agreements with Xcelerate and Sogeti USA. These new alliance partners will integrate the Stellent Content Management system with a variety of e-business applications such as portals and EAI solutions. Xcelerate is integrating the Stellent Content Management technology with portals, personalization engines and business integration solutions, such as enterprise application integration systems and Web services. A wholly owned subsidiary of Cap Gemini SA, Sogeti will provide information technology consulting and integration services to Stellent customers locally through its more than 20 offices throughout the United States. www.stellent.com, www.xcelerate.com, www.sogeti-usa.com
Inktomi Corp. announced information retrieval technology for software developers and systems integrators that will provide advanced search functionality within enterprise applications. Built with native XML support, Inktomi Search Toolkit is an OEM solution for extracting relevant data from structured, unstructured and semi-structured content. This new OEM offering will deliver enhanced information retrieval within content-rich applications such as content management, enterprise portal, CRM and commerce solutions. Inktomi Search Toolkit provides the unstructured search functionality of a keyword search engine, such as relevance ranking, natural language search and filtering for various file formats. Additionally, it delivers XQuery-based structured query capabilities that allow sophisticated retrieval functions such as parametric searching and retrieval of content based on a document’s structure. Inktomi Search Toolkit returns results that include references to documents as well as the actual documents or fragments of those documents that contain the precise information requested. Inktomi Search Toolkit is available now. www.inktomi.com/products/toolkit
Pageflex, Inc., announced expansion of its dynamic publishing product line with the addition of .EDIT (pronounced DOT EDIT), a real-time, browser-based application for the design and editing of sophisticated desktop publishing documents. With .EDIT, companies can create Web sites with a library of well-designed document templates and allow any authorized Web site visitor to create customized versions of these documents, containing full-featured typography and graphic design elements, using a Web browser and an Internet connection. .EDIT enables companies to offer document editing capabilities to customers, employees, marketing partners, and dealers or franchise owners — all through their standard Web site and without requiring the use of any plug-ins. A company deploying .EDIT on its Web site can create templates that allow it to maintain its brand/corporate identity by using approved fonts, design elements, and images. www.pageflexinc.com
Seybold Seminars, a Key3Media Group Inc. event, announced a strategic alliance with Frank Gilbane, publisher of the Gilbane Report and Marion Elledge, executive vice president of IDEAlliance, to co-produce two educational conferences. The two conferences will debut at Seybold San Francisco 2002, September 9-12, 2002 at the Moscone Center. The Gilbane Conference on Content Management, will be held Wednesday-Thursday, September 11-12, and will focus on the integration, organization, and communication of content for a wide range of business applications. The IDEAlliance Conference on XML in Publishing at Seybold Seminars, scheduled for Monday-Tuesday, September 9-10, 2002 will focus on standards, business models and emerging technologies as they relate to automating the publishing supply chain. The Seybold San Francisco 2002 conference program will feature both Enterprise Publishing and Seybold Seminars PDF Conferences that debuted at Seybold Seminars New York 2002. The conference program will also include enhanced educational programs such as the popular “Hot Technology Days,” and tutorial sessions. www.seyboldseminars.com/sf2002, www.gilbane.com, www.idealliance.org, www.key3media.com
