Autonomy Corporation plc announced an OEM relationship with Novell. Autonomy’s technology will be embedded in Novell exteNd Director, an interaction and portal server that enables IT organizations to deliver and maintain rich, personalized Web applications. Autonomy enhances Novell exteNd Director with its ability to analyze and rank concepts within unstructured information within its content management system. With the addition of Autonomy’s technology in Novell exteNd Director, documents and Web pages in the content management systems can be categorized, linked and delivered wherever it is needed to provide customers, partners and employees with the relevant and up-to-date information they need to be successful. www.autonomy.com
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WebSideStory, Inc. Atomz announced an exclusive alliance to provide businesses with a solution for Web site search, content management and Web analytics. Under the agreement, the companies will integrate their products and services and work on a number of joint marketing projects. HitBox greatly extends Atomz Search’s reporting capabilities to include campaign ROI tracking, up-to-the-second merchandising reports, funnel analysis, visitor segmentation and more. Atomz will also integrate HitBox intelligence into its Atomz Publish content management system, allowing companies to get detailed, real-time insight into online visitor behavior. Using HitBox reports, companies can see which content visitors prefer, which navigational paths they take, which marketing campaigns they respond to, and more. www.atomz.com, www.websidestory.com
UCCnet, the not-for-profit organization that provides item registry and data synchronization services based on industry-developed standards, and Trigo Technologies, Inc. announced that Trigo Product Center 4 has been certified for UCCnet Foundation Services 2.1. By earning UCCnet certification in Supply Side, Demand Side (Buy) as well as Universal testing, Trigo Product Center delivers a certified solution that captures, manages, and synchronizes comprehensive product information for manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Trigo will participate in the UCCnet Foundation Services 2.2 beta program. Trigo’s participation in this program will ensure that Trigo Product Center continues to provide full support for current and future UCCnet and GCI (Global Commerce Initiative) standards. Trigo Product Center 4 exceeds current GCI standards for EAN.UCC data synchronization, enabling trading partners to manage and synchronize the broadest range of product information. www.uccnet.org, www.trigo.com
FileNet Corporation and Venetica announced a relationship under which FileNet will re-sell Venetica’s Content Provider for the FileNet P8 Workplace, FileNet’s user interface for its FileNet P8 ECM architecture. The Content Provider for FileNet P8 Workplace leverages Venetica’s product VeniceBridge, and enables FileNet customers to access existing enterprise content through FileNet’s common API and user interface. FileNet’s VCM solution enables users to browse and search external content sources, and includes support for existing FileNet repositories, third party content management systems and custom content sources. Users can copy selected content into the FileNet P8 Content Manager or create real-time links to content residing in external repositories. www.venetica.com, www.filenet.com
Mercado Software Inc. announced it has released its Enterprise Search & Navigation (ESN) solution. Designed from the ground up for a web services enterprise architecture, ESN provides a solution for locating information scattered across multiple information repositories and stored in disparate data formats. ESN provides a single point of information access for users to explore all organizational information, whether it is structured, semi-structured, or unstructured content. ESN utilizes linguistic tools and hierarchical indexing that uses structure in addition to text to optimize relevancy ranking for all content types. ESN’s modular architecture is adaptive to existing systems and new data sources and is customizable. Its XML and SOAP architecture simplifies integration and maintenance. The solution is scalable to any data volume and user load, and features a quick update capability that helps keep search indices fresh. www.mercado.com
Stellent, Inc. announced Stellent Site Studio, a new Web content management application offered as part of its Stellent Content Management suite of products. Stellent Site Studio helps companies build tens to hundreds of Web sites, enabling them to deploy these sites and maintain consistent branding, security and infrastructure across all sites being developed by their various business units. With Stellent Site Studio, companies can create libraries of Web site components, such as templates, navigation, graphics and code, which are then available to their business units when building their own sites. The reusable components allow business units to rapidly deploy their unique Web sites while complying with corporate requirements. Site Studio users also can create components using other programs, such as designing layouts in Dreamweaver, and import them into the Site Studio library for possible use by the business units. Site Studio will begin shipping June 15, 2003 and will be included with the Stellent Web Content Manager solution, which is sold as an option to Stellent Content Server. Stellent Web Content Manager is priced from $25,000 to $100,000 USD, based on the number of contributors. www.stellent.com/products
North Plains Systems Corp. announced the release of TeleScope Enterprise 7.0. TeleScope Enterprise 7.0 is designed to enable organizations to increase their ROI by expanding its use throughout the enterprise. Two major functional tools have been added to TeleScope Enterprise 7.0. The Lookup Broker option enables on-demand lookup of metadata from other data sources, such as pulling in the ISBN number based on just the book title or finding a list of episodes from the name of a particular television program. A new administrative capability has been built in to create an extensible scripting language of administrator-defined rules within the application, which simplifies “asset level” permissions within the TeleScope system. Digital Rights Management and Workflow Automation are other capabilities that are now easily configured using this new tool. www.northplains.com
Convera announced the commercial availability of RetrievalWare 8, a new knowledge discovery platform that helps large organizations automate their knowledge management and discovery processes using an infrastructure that can be optimized for specific industry and government applications. RetrievalWare 8 integrates Convera’s enterprise search with industry-specific taxonomies and new categorization and dynamic classification software, delivering techniques for searching, navigating and discovering knowledge, including hidden relationships, patterns and trends. With RetrievalWare 8, customers have a single integrated platform that categorizes and organizes all content including unstructured text, image, video and paper assets, in addition to a variety of structured data sources. Using Convera’s dynamic classification software, end users can launch a search and automatically classify the results based on pre-defined or dynamically generated classifications made possible through the combination of multiple taxonomies. Convera has also certified ten partners as part of its new Taxonomy Developer Certification Program, including Access Innovations, Advanced Technology Systems (ATS), Bleuphish, Creative Technology Inc., IBM, KAPS Group LLC, Mitre, MZM Inc., SRA International Inc., and Veridian. www.convera.com
