The Fantastic Corporation announced the integration of its CoreCast eCDN (enterprise content delivery network) into IBM’s Content Manager Version 8. Together with the IBM Content Manager, CoreCast helps companies manage and deliver massive quantities of information such as text documents, Web content, and audio or video files to the desktop. Fantastic’s CoreCast eCDN is a network-aware distribution platform for delivery of data-intensive multimedia applications within an enterprise. An application-layer content networking engine, CoreCast eCDN automatically recognises its data network environment, performs real-time analysis, proactively adapts distribution processes, routes and answers end-user requests, and allocates network resources according to business policies set at the CoreCast control centre. www.fantastic.com, www.ibm.com/software/data/cm
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WebWare Corporation announced it has reached agreement with Convera to integrate Convera’s RetrievalWare technology into WebWare MAMBO brand and media asset management software. The optional RetrievalWare plug-in provides additional search capabilities for distributed client/server environments. It will enable teams working on technology and/or branding projects to do multimedia, cross and multi-lingual searches of document content. A wide range of text and text-related formats will now be available in WebWare MAMBO through RetrievalWare: over 200 proprietary document formats including Microsoft Office applications, Adobe PDF, Lotus Notes, FileNet, Documentum, and MS Exchange documents and other relational database tables, document management systems and groupware repositories. The RetrievalWare technology will be part of a future release later this year. www.convera.com, www.webwarecorp.com
Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) announced that its viewing and collaboration software, Brava! For Documentum, will be offered as a complementary product to the Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform. Brava! for Documentum brings document view and markup to Web-based applications and is scalable and easy to administer, using an transaction-based approach in serving documents to large user-groups. www.documentum.com, www.infograph.com
Plateau Systems and Documentum announced an alliance to offer Documentum’s ECM platform as an integrated component of the Plateau 4 Learning Management System. This integration allows organizations to link learning initiatives with enterprise content. The software developed by both companies is built on J2EE/EJB architecture. The combined solution enables organizations with any training documents in the Documentum repository to use Plateau to automatically alert all affected workers if their training profile is revised. www.documentum.com, www.plateau.com
PaperThin, Inc. announced the release of CommonSpot Content Server 3.0, a browser-based Web publishing and dynamic content management solution. CommonSpot 3.0 introduces an improved administrator interface, integrated link management tools and expanded scheduling and reporting options. With new tools like cascading style sheet support, enhanced WYSIWYG editing and pop-up menus, Web designers can empower contributors to easily create content, while flexibly controlling the look and feel of a site. With CommonSpot’s new content object architecture, designers can build custom elements that allow contributors to create content once and reuse it. New replication features, enhanced search performance and support for the Sun Solaris platform provide additional options for enterprises. PaperThin also announced a reduction in the base price for a standard CommonSpot license to $19,500. Standard license pricing starts at $19,500, with the enterprise version priced at $85,000. CommonSpot is available immediately directly from PaperThin, Inc., and through PaperThin’s partners. www.paperthin.com
Intelliseek announced the release of Enterprise Search Server (ESS), version 3.6 and an enhanced ESS Bridge for Lotus. The latest version of ESS is more flexible for users, supporting either Oracle or SQL Server as database managers and enabling the rapid integration of other informational, subscription-based Web sites, such as Lexis-Nexis. ESS is an information discovery platform that enables companies and to find, organize, distribute and make use of relevant information from multiple, disparate information sources. It provides single-point access to all the vital data that can affect decision making — information found on intranets, extranets, subscription sources, document management systems, specialty databases and the Internet. New features include Oracle database support for Windows, Agent Development Kit (ADK) enhancements, and Direct Lotus Domino Name & Address Book synchronization. The new version of ESS and the ESS Bridge for Lotus are available immediately. Pricing is based on a server, seats and services model. www.intelliseek.com
Vignette Corp. announced its intentions to support IBM’s Content Manager Version 8. Vignette and IBM enable joint customers to store diverse information assets and then use the Vignette solution to manage the content through its entire lifecycle. www.ibm.com/software/data/cm/, www.vignette.com
Ektron, Inc. announced immediate availability of Ektron CMS200 Version 1.6. which is now available in languages beyond English, including German and French. The application’s default language can easily be set to German, French or English, which can be assigned on a per-user basis (i.e., two French users, three German users, and one English user). A language software developer kit is available for translating end-user menus and dialogs into other languages. MS200 now also delivers full branding capabilities to allow companies to add logos and match the application with their own graphical style or the style of a
client organization. Ektron provides documentation to assist developers with modifying Ektron CMS200 graphics, colors, and styles. Other new features in Version 1.6 include: an improved user interface; support for MySQL database; improved history tracking; e-mail customization; and support for larger content blocks and summary data. Pricing ranges from US$2,999 to US$12,999. Ektron has numerous VAR partners worldwide. www.ektron.com/partners/find_a_partner.cfm
