Year: 2002 (Page 49 of 69)

divine, inc. announced the availability of divine/Northern Light portlets for the Oracle 9i Application Server Portal Framework. These portlets enable the quick deployment of divine’s search and content integration technology, allowing business users to quickly access Web content, corporate information and a comprehensive library of over 7,000 business publications. The combination of divine Search and Content Integration (dSCI) portlets and the Oracle 9i Application Server Portal Framework enables joint customers to quickly provision access to these information resources. divine Portal Drivers are a set of solutions that combine divine’s software and service offerings with the major portal platforms. These solutions provide external content, content management, and collaboration. As part of the divine Portal Drivers Program, additional portlets will be available for the Oracle 9i AS later this year. www.divine.com

iKnowledge, Inc. announced Version 2.0 of its ActiveContent. ActiveContent is a content solution developed from the ground-up with support for J2EE. ActiveContent is a comprehensive solution for secure content aggregation, collaboration, management, distribution, monetization and syndication. ActiveContent supports adaptive workflow, enabling companies to retain or customize departmental or enterprise work processes and allowing organizations to securely scale their content strategy in all dimensions including internal or external, and across all relevant platforms and devices. The latest version of ActiveContent provides ease of use and control using a web-based GUI interface designed to make organizing and sharing content simpler. The ActiveContent solution integrates with existing legacy systems. www.iknowledge.com

Stellent, Inc. announced it has acquired the assets of privately held Kinecta Corp, adding content integration, syndication, and distribution capabilities to their content management solution. Combined with the Stellent Content Management technology, these new capabilities will enable Stellent’s customers to aggregate content from multiple repositories, manage it in the Stellent environment and distribute it to any audience. Additionally, the technology will allow Stellent customers to easily deploy content from staging environments to production environments and roll back to earlier versions of Web sites. The Kinecta technology is built on Java, J2EE, XML and Information Content and Exchange (ICE). Stellent will continue to market the existing Kinecta product line while integrating the technology into the Stellent Content Management system. The initial product integration will be released in the quarter ending June 30, 2002. As part of the acquisition, Stellent will hire Kinecta’s core development team and retain Kinecta’s current office located in San Francisco, Calif. www.stellent.com, www.kinecta.com

OASIS announced its members have formed the OASIS Rights Language Technical Committee to advance a common XML rights language standard for the DRM marketplace. Their work will provide a universal method for specifying and managing rights associated with all kinds of resources including digital content and web services. The OASIS specification will support a wide variety of
business models, expressing both simple and complex rights, and will promote interoperability between systems regardless of platform, media type or format. ContentGuard intends to submit its eXtensible rights Markup Language (XrML) to the 0ASIS Committee as a starting point for this work. XrML, recently selected as the base architecture for the MPEG-21 Rights Expression Language, can be used in content-centric as well as service-based business models. Members of the OASIS Rights Language Technical Committee include ContentGuard, Hewlett-Packard Company, Microsoft, Reuters, VeriSign Inc., and other OASIS members. Participation remains open to all organizations and individuals interested in advancing a common rights language. www.oasis-open.org/join

SealedMedia announced the latest release of its document security software. The new technology can seal Word, Excel and PowerPoint in addition to the standard media formats already supported: HTML, PDF, JPEG, GIF, MP3 and QuickTime. One of the key features of the SealedMedia software is that support for all these formats only requires the installation of a single, small browser plug-in on end user’s computers. SealedMedia’s architecture enables organizations to revoke end user access rights to sealed content at any time, regardless of where the sealed content is stored (it could be in a personal email inbox) and regardless of whether the end user was previously authorized to access it. This is useful, for example, when an employee leaves a company and is no longer authorized to access certain confidential or proprietary information. www.sealedmedia.com

FileNET Corp. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the core assets of privately held eGrail Inc. The purchase of eGrail is an all cash transaction valued at approximately $10 million. Effective immediately, the eGrail product line will be made available and supported through FileNET. eGrail’s Web Content Management system offers enterprise scalable capabilities that are easy-to-use, empowering authors across the enterprise to contribute to and manage Web site content dynamically. eGrail serves customers in numerous industries including communications, insurance, government, medical and publishing. www.filenet.com, www.egrail.com

UniSite Software announced the launch of UniSite Content Manager, an advanced Web content management solution that “can be implemented in as little as two weeks”. The technology transforms an existing Web site into a database-driven site supporting content for multiple channels-including wireless-and allows team members to collaborate and update content easily from anywhere in the world. For marketing professionals and Webmasters who want fast, efficient up-keep of their Web sites, UniSite offers advantages in an affordable, rapidly implemented system. UniSite Content Manager’s unique technology scans an existing Web site, identifying and tagging content that needs to be managed, and structures it into a database-driven content management platform. Once a site is tagged, UniSite Content Manager is accessed through a Web browser while a workflow engine speeds updates and changes. UniSite can also manage multiple language versions of a site within the same structure. www.UniSite.com