Convera and IXOS Software Inc. announced a new partnership designed to assist enterprise customers in managing large volumes of business documents and email communications. IXOS will sell Converas RetrievalWare search and categorization software as an optional component of the IXOS-eCONserver product. The combined solution will add Converas search capabilities to enable customers to retrieve email messages, attachments and other business documents from the IXOS-eCONserver archive for a variety of purposes, including records management, discovery and general knowledge management. The solution, available immediately, will be sold to the commercial and federal market by IXOS North American sales teams in the United States, Canada and Mexico. www.ixos.com, www.convera.com
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Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) unveiled FAST Data Search 3.2, an advanced version of its real-time search solution that is designed for organizations seeking either departmental or enterprise wide solutions. Offered as FAST Data Search Professional, FAST Data Search Enterprise, and FAST Data Search SST, the FAST Data Search product line now includes Live Analytics, which enables “on-the-fly” data and information analysis with a dynamic drill-down capability, where end users can tap the specific information they need based on the actual data in the result set, rather than pre-defined binning of the data. Also now included is the Business Manager’s Control Panel, so business managers can tune the search attributes of the data source. Additional enhancements include improvements to the combination of structured and unstructured data capabilities, automatic document categorization, dynamic result clustering, and similarity based results analysis. Advanced linguistics support for Japanese was added, and automatic language detection was increased to support 54 languages. FAST Data Search also now includes enhanced security features and supports HP-UX and Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, in addition to IBM AIX, Red Hat Linux, Solaris, and Windows 2000/XP. www.fastsearch.com
Dralasoft announced that Xerox Corporation has licensed Dralasoft Workflow for inclusion into DocuShare, Xeroxs Web-based document and content management software. By embedding Dralasoft Workflow engine into DocuShare, Xerox can help its DocuShare customers route documents more efficiently across their enterprises through workflows built with modeling tools that automate and map customer business processes. As a document repository, DocuShare keeps critical information safe, yet easy to access. Users can store any file type, including office documents, images, media files and graphics. As a content management system, it updates and manages the content of a Web site. As a collaborative project management system, it enables users to organize, manage and share all of a projects information. Its Java-based DocuShare platform will enable third parties to develop custom workflow applications through Dralasoft Workflow. DocuShare runs on Windows, Linux and Solaris systems. Dralasoft products provide the capability to integrate workflow technology into Java-based systems using Java, XML, SOAP, LDAP, HTTP and JDBC. www.dralasoft.com, http://docushare.xerox.com
Advent Publishing Systems announced a new and substantially enhanced version of its 3B2 software, Version 8, at XML Europe on May 5th 2003. Version 8 of 3B2 implements a range of XML-related international standards including XSL-FO, XPath, XSLT, and SVG. Additional features in Version 8 of Advent 3B2 software include: page building on the fly wherein content can determine page layout, more consistent 3B2 programming commands, a new de-bugging tool that streamlines the development and debugging of templates and formats, a new format profiler for producing job statistics on the processing speed of a job, font quick tables to make fonts more accessible, new and improved CALS libraries for for use with SGML and XML, entity libraries to support ISO standard entity sets, and an improved and enhanced user interface. Version 8 will be available for customer shipment beginning Monday 5th May 2003. www.3b2.com/v8
Veridocs announced the availability XMLdocs Version 1, a hosted XML document authoring and management system. For the release, Veridocs has added a flexible new “Template Designer” feature not available on the products Beta Version. Template Designer makes it simple for organizations to create templates from
schemas (or use an existing template from XMLdocs as a starting point for a new template) for everything from press releases and product descriptions to knowledge-based articles and help documents. Using these templates, non-technical users write XML documents via the XMLdocs Editor’s word-processor-like interface. Documents can then be exported for publication on a Web site or elsewhere through a Web Service. XMLdocs is priced to be affordable for everyone interested in authoring content in XML. Individual users can register for the product and create a personal workspace for free. Group fees start at $99 per month. my.xmldocs.com/register
Altova software and CambridgeDocs announced the xDoc Plug-in, a tool for migrating unstructured content from Microsoft Word, HTML, and PDF documents, directly into Altova’s XMLSPY. The combined solution helps businesses transform volumes of pre-existing unstructured documents into DocBook XML, LegalXML, NewsML, HR-XML, SCORM, and other customer-specific schemas. The resulting XML content can be stored in content management systems, databases and XML repositories. XMLSPY users would be able to select “Open From Microsoft Word”, “Open From HTML”, “Open From PDF” or from any other supported format, and have the documents automatically converted into XML, along with an appropriate XSLT stylesheet required to view the XML as a well-formatted document. The xDoc Plug-in is a Java 2 platform engine and works on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The application can be downloaded for immediate evaluation and purchase. www.cambridgedocs.com/products_xmlspyplugin.htm, www.altova.com/download
SDL Desktop Products has announced the launch of a new version of its SDLX Computer Aided Translation system with over 20 new enhancements. SDLX Translation Suite 2003 is a complete and secure translation environment for corporations, translation companies and freelance translators. www.sdlx.com
XyEnterprise announced a new Web Services Development Kit for its XML Professional Publisher (XPP) software line. This new Web Services interface makes available the XML publishing capabilities of XPP to Web interfaces, portals, and application integrations, providing rapid deployment of automated XML publishing solutions in environments as diverse as corporate IT services to consumer “publish on demand” applications. The new Web Services offering exposes the composition, transformation and rendering capabilities of the XPP software through a SOAP/XML interface. This API provides access for customers and developers, enabling them to build customized end-user interfaces in support of distributed XML publishing services. Web Services also supports the deployment of XPP as an embedded batch processing engine able to transform XML content to PDF, print, and Web output on demand. www.xyenterprise.com
