Month: October 2002 (Page 3 of 9)

Ektron, Inc. released Ektron eWebWP, a browser-based WYSIWYG editor designed for text formatting. Web developers use this technology to quickly provide word-processor features to virtually any Web site user. Ektron eWebWP offers a familiar toolbar with functions including bold, italics, underline, bullet, indent, copy, paste, font type, and hyperlink. Ektron eWebWP requires no installation, loads quickly, and is available to users on all client platforms supported by the latest version of Macromedia Flash Player. Web developers easily replace text area fields with Ektron eWebWP, giving anyone with an Internet connection and a Web browser access to a word processor-like toolbar. Installation is not required because Ektron eWebWP runs on any standard browser with Macromedia Flash Player installed. At 75K, Ektron eWebWP downloads quickly. www.ektron.com

Advent 3B2 GmbH and Nionex have entered into an agreement whereby both companies will co-operate in selling and integration of their respective products. Nionex specialises in Content Management and Knowledge Management solutions and Advent has developed 3B2 to take the output from such Content Management Systems and provide customised solutions for the publishing of the material in any format, whether in printed form or electronic means such as web sites. www.3b2.com, www.nionex.com

Volantis Systems Ltd. has been named as a three star partner for pervasive Internet (multi channel) solutions by BEA Systems Ltd. The partnership will provide organisations with a platform for the management and delivery of web applications across multiple channels and connected devices. The partnership covers sales, marketing and technology development, ensuring the rapid integration of Volantis’ solution, Mariner, with the BEA WebLogic Server and BEA Portal Server. The combined offering provides customers with an immediately deployable multi-channel infrastructure. www.volantis.com

Mediasurface announced that it has acquired selected assets of Reef SA/NV, a North American focused Content Management vendor. Under the agreement Mediasurface purchased the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of all three Reef product lines, including InternetWare: The core Reef product a Web Content Management suite with a customer base in North America; EveryWare: Web content transformation – takes content and converts it on-the-fly to any Internet access device (e.g. WAP phones, interactive TV, screenreaders, PDAs); and QuickStart: a Web Content Management solution offering functionality for the small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) market. www.mediasurface.com

Inxight Software, Inc. and Factiva have expanded their relationship to include a new software licensing agreement. The expanded relationship includes Factiva integrating Inxight’s text categorization and entity extraction solutions into its new Factiva Fusion content enhancement tool. Factiva has licensed Inxight’s entity extraction technology to identify and extract information, such as company names, from documents and group them by categories. Similarly, Factiva has licensed Inxight’s categorization solution to automatically analyze, code and classify text data according to Factiva’s taxonomy, Factiva Intelligent Indexing. www.inxight.com, www.factiva.com

iManage, Inc. announced two new European partnerships to provide support for its collaborative content management suite of applications. Marvel Communications SA of Switzerland, a provider of Web solutions, Internet communications and e-business, and Delta Systemtechnik Horn GmbH (Delta-Sys) of Germany, a provider of project-oriented application programming for medium and large organizations, have both signed partnerships with iManage. These new iManage partners will assist their clients with planning and implementing the iManage WorkSite suite which delivers document management, collaboration, portal access, workflow, knowledge management and business process automation in a single solution on a scalable and secure Internet platform. www.marvel.ch/, www.delta-sys.de, www.imanage.com

FileNET Corporation announced its support for Universal Application Network – a standards-based, vendor-independent application integration solution – launched by Siebel Systems, in conjunction with other application software vendors, integration server vendors and systems integrators. FileNET plans to provide out-of-the-box connectivity between FileNET ECM and Universal Application Network. Based on XML and Web Services standards, Universal Application Network enables organizations to integrate applications such as FileNET’s ECM solutions, and helps organizations avoid being locked into vendor-specific architectures. FileNET and Siebel Systems will deliver an enhanced integrated solution that combines the best practices drawn from both Siebel Systems’ business process library and FileNET’s approach to Enterprise Content Management. www.FileNET.com