RedDot Solutions announced the launch of its new Content Integration Server (CIS). RedDot CIS enables users to develop personalized content and track user behavior. CIS supplements RedDot Content Management Server (CMS) with a platform for delivering dynamic content. Compatible with other software, CIS also enables user and process data to be exchanged with external applications. CIS makes it possible to distribute user-specific content that has been generated and managed by CMS. User data and processed data can also be handed off to external applications. Therefore, data can be pulled from Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management and other applications into content environments that interact with customers. Responses to database queries, transactions, and to other business processes are dynamically integrated into published Web pages. RedDot CIS is available immediately. www.reddot.com
Day: June 24, 2002
Vignette Corp. announced the release of Vignette V6 Content Collaboration Server (VCCS). The updated VCCS version combines the functionality of Vignette V6 Content Collaboration Server and Vignette V6 Content Syndication Server into a single, integrated extension for the Vignette V6 Content Suite. Under the umbrella of one browser-based application, companies can collaborate with external partners, customers, suppliers and employees through services such as targeted subscriptions; real-time content syndication to applications and portals, both within and outside the firewall; and collaborative exchange of documents and other content within and between enterprises. VCCS also includes: The collection of content from multiple internal and external systems and sources; The ability to exchange content and partner requests via multiple protocols (including ICE, BizTalk, cXML, FTP, HTTP, EDI, and RosettaNet); The personalized real-time assembly and packaging of content in the format desired by each partner; and the delivery of content via the Internet to partner systems, Internet-enabled portable devices, external trading networks and other channels. www.vignette.com
Engage, Inc. announced the unveiling of Engage for Retailers and the general availability of the solution’s platform technology, ContentServer, version 7.0. Built on Engage’s ContentServer digital asset management and workflow automation platform, Engage for Retailers is designed for retailers and catalogers to streamline the creation, approval, production and repurposing of advertising and other marketing promotions. New features and functionality of ContentServer 7.0 include out-of-the-box capabilities such as enterprise search and retrieval, and integration with third-party applications using technology including XML, designed to speed the creation, production and delivery of advertising and promotional content. Engage advertising production solutions are now available with integrated ContentServer 7.0. www.engage.com
Equilibrium announced a strategic alliance with Pageflex, Inc. to provide a Web accessible content composition engine that combines integrated page layout and image editing capabilities for a “distribute and print” solution. PageRich allows marketers to create media-rich documents that adhere to corporate branding, while permitting restricted modification of content and style. PageRich combines marketing resource management (MRM) with distributed on-demand printing. Corporations are able to deploy a global direct marketing program that addresses variable content requirements from creation through distribution-and-print. The PageRich solution incorporates Pageflex’s .EDIT technology with Equilibrium’s MediaRich dynamic image server. .EDIT is a browser-based application for the design and editing of desktop publishing documents. .EDIT combines the features of Pageflex’s XML-based NuDoc composition engine with Java applet technologies to enable the editing of documents in Internet Explorer or Netscape browsers for both PC and Macintosh platforms. www.pageflexinc.com, www.equilibrium.com
