Curated for content, computing, and digital experience professionals

Year: 2002 (Page 47 of 69)

Enfish Delivers Enfish Enterprise 5.1

Enfish Corporation announced delivery of Enfish Enterprise 5.1, an integrated enterprise solution that puts desktop data, corporate knowledge, and relevant information from Intranets, Extranets and the Internet, into context. Up to 25 percent faster than previous Enfish Enterprise versions, Enfish Enterprise 5.1 features faster performance and streamlined corporate-wide deployment. Enfish Enterprise 5.1 can also now interact with more than 10,000 public Exchange or Notes folders quickly and efficiently. For system administrators, Enfish products can now be easily distributed to end users via machine images with the Enfish Enterprise 5.1 “Enterprise Friendly” install architecture. In addition, Enfish Enterprise 5.1 is also now available on BEA’s WebLogic Server and JBoss. JBoss provides an option for Enfish customers to deploy Enfish Enterprise on a no cost application server. For a list of end user improvements, visit our Enfish Enterprise 5.1 Fact Sheet at www.enfish.com

Gauss & Perficient Announce Strategic Agreement

Gauss announced that it has signed an alliance agreement with Perficient, Inc. Under this agreement, Perficient becomes a national consulting partner, delivering the business analysis, project management and technical consulting expertise to help clients justify, deploy and integrate enterprise content management solutions. Driving the agreement is the ability of the two companies to leverage their respective IBM relationships and the Gauss platform’s native support for IBM’s products. Perficient delivers solutions around IBM’s platform. Gauss is a Software Business Partner under IBM’s Top Contributor
Program, is a certified reseller of IBM’s DB2 database and WebSphere platform, and provides native support for IBM’s iSeries 400, and AIX client-server platforms. www.gaussinterprise.com, www.perficient.com

LingoMotors Acquires FocusEngine

LingoMotors announced that the company has acquired FocusEngine, developers of
solutions that automatically build taxonomies and then normalize content from disparate sources. With the acquisition of FocusEngine, LingoMotors enhances its TurboCat offering, an automatic and accurate categorization solution that provides rich metadata for digital objects, extracting their full contextual value to create versatile Rich Information Objects (RIOs). Creating RIOs gives content providers a means to fully utilize their content through reuse, resale,
personalization and improved user access to relevant information. www.lingomotors.com

Progressive Announces Extensions to Vasont Platforms

Progressive Information Technologies announced two new extensions to the technology platforms that support Vasont, a content management system for creating and managing content in XML, SGML, HTML and WML formats, and instantly publishing content across all media channels, including print, CD-ROM, Web, and wireless. Vasont now includes native support of the Oracle 9i platform. By integrating Oracle 9i’s technology within Vasont’s repository, Vasont ensures scalability to solve enterprise-wide content management and publishing requirements and provides unlimited user capacity. Previously, Vasont supported Oracle 7.2 through the Oracle 8i platforms. Additionally, Vasont integrates with Citrix MetaFrame XP for Windows and Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 for Windows, enabling the content management system to provide a client server application through a Web browser. This benefits Vasont’s client base by allowing them to work from Windows, Mac or Unix platforms. Other servers that Vasont supports include Windows NT and Windows 2000.
www.vasont.com

Stellent Releases Content Management 6.0

Stellent, Inc. announced the release of Stellent Content Management 6.0 with new content contribution, collaboration and delivery capabilities. Version 6.0 includes three new primary components — Stellent Collaboration Server, Stellent Connection Server and Stellent Extrasite Server — as well as enhanced desktop contribution capabilities. Version 6.0 is currently shipping and is priced at $100,000 to $250,000 USD. Stellent Collaboration Server will be sold as an optional module starting at $50,000 to $200,000 USD per server. Stellent Connection Server will be sold as an optional module as well and is priced at $30,000 USD per CPU. Stellent Extrasite Server will also be sold as an optional module priced at $30,000 USD per CPU. The expanded contribution capabilities are available at no additional cost as part of Stellent Content Server or Stellent Collaboration Server. www.stellent.com

Insightful Announces Availability of InFact

Insightful Corporation announced the availability of InFact, an advanced text mining solution for information retrieval. InFact consists of 20 sub-systems, most of which were originally developed by Insightful scientists over a five-year period for U.S. military and intelligence agencies. The resulting system is able to achieve a human-like understanding of text and modifies its behavior and responses accordingly. Because it can peruse millions of documents a day, InFact provides accurate, reliable, and actionable answers and analyses not practical with human workers. The InFact solution is a stand-alone system, that can support any enterprise network or knowledge store(s), regardless of operating system, legacy applications, or data formats. InFact can ingest into a single database any and all of a company’s knowledge base: from a single technical or customer service repository to a Fortune 500 company’s entire knowledge store – every document and record the company has ever stored. InFact handles text + image + numerical data in any common format, structured or unstructured. InFact is available today for Sun Solaris systems. An InFact license for a single knowledge management system starts at $250,000. www.insightful.com

Metatorial & ZiaContent Announce CMS Metatorial Planner

Metatorial services Inc. and ZiaContent announced the launch of their new content management analysis and planning tool, the CMS Metatorial Planner. The “planner” is a hands-on workbook and a companion to the Content Management Bible, Bob Boiko’s book on content management. The CMS Metatorial Planner provides a complete example a company going through the process of analyzing their business and content needs prior to implementing a Web content management system (CMS). The example walks the reader through the steps of gathering the right information in order to pull together a comprehensive and cohesive communication and content management strategy, ultimately leading to the logical design of the CMS. Targeted toward a manager or group tasked with leading a content management initiative, the planner provides both practical real-world examples and a logical process for working through the complex tasks of understanding content management entities, such as project goals, the project mandate, the content domain, audiences, authors, sources, publications, templates, workflows, and staffing. The CMS Metatorial Planner is comprised of a 168-page guide, several dozen worksheets, and template for a final report that pulls the analysis together into a final deliverable. The planner is available for download from the metatorial services inc. Web site at an introductory price of $200. www.metatorial.com, www.ziacontent.com

OSCAR releases TermBase eXchange TBX

The OSCAR special interest group, founded in June 1997 by the Localisation Industry Standards Association (LISA, has published the TBX standard. The Version 1.0 draft definition of the container – the high-level format designating how terminological data is stored – has now been released and can be downloaded free of charge at www.lisa.org/tbx/. The OSCAR group combines key technology vendors, corporate users and service providers worldwide, including such names as IBM, J.D. Edwards, SAP, SUN Microsystems, Microsoft, GlobalSight, Welocalize, RWS, SDL International, Star and Trados Corporation. OSCAR (Open Standards for Container/Content Allowing Re-use) is a non-profit LISA Special Interest Group founded to develop, extend and promote use of open standards for language, translation and terminology representation in modern software products. www.lisa.org/oscar/

« Older posts Newer posts »

© 2024 The Gilbane Advisor

Theme by Anders NorenUp ↑