Corel Corporation and LightSpeed Software announced a strategic partnership to deliver a comprehensive content management solution for authoring, managing and publishing technical documentation. The companies have built an integration between Corel XMetaL, Corel’s XML editing tool, and LightSpeed Astoria, LightSpeed Software’s content management system, providing customers with a single solution. This offering is available now. The Corel/LightSpeed Software solution offers content experts a way to create reusable XML content at an element level breaking documents into small managed elements or ‘chunks’ that can be shared, updated, located and delivered to multiple channels. By enabling anyone within an organization to create XML content, the costly and repetitive process of converting content from proprietary document formats into XML is eliminated. The solution supports the newly-released Corel XMetaL 4, giving authors the power to create XML content within any ActiveX-compliant application, including email and Web browsers. www.LSpeed.com, www.corel.com
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FatWire Software announced it will acquire divine’s Content Management business. As part of the divine bankruptcy auction, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Boston has approved the sale of divine’s content management assets to Saratoga Partners, a New York private equity firm, who will simultaneously transfer these assets to FatWire. The sale is expected to close in the next few days. divine’s content management business includes divine’s Content Server, formerly OpenMarket, divine’s Participant Server, formerly Eprise, and its over 300 worldwide customers. divine Content Server provides an extensible framework for growth. Customers leverage Content Server’s J2EE architecture to build their own content-driven applications. divine Participant Server manages and simplifies the flow of content to Web sites by enabling business users to add, modify, manage, and publish content without the assistance of IT staff. www.fatwire.com
BroadVision, Inc. announced a significant upgrade to the BroadVision 7 suite of enterprise portal applications, which includes BroadVision One-To-One Portal, BroadVision One-To-One Commerce and BroadVision One-To-One Content. BroadVision One-To-One Commerce is a multi-channel sales portal that automates the sales process. Key features of the 7.1 release include agent-assisted service to augment BroadVision’s self-service functionality, support for self-service returns and enhanced support for globalization. BroadVision One-To-One Portal is an application for deploying personalized business-to-employee, business-to-business and business-to-consumer portals. Key features of the 7.1 release include streamlined integration of external user management and content management systems and simplified management of community collaboration-focused microsites. BroadVision One-To-One Content allows organizations to manage all types of content throughout its lifecycle from creation and management through deployment and distribution. Key features of the 7.1 release include integration to other BroadVision applications, enhanced support for internationalization, and performance gains that accelerate workflow. www.broadvision.com
iUpload is expanding its offering to include a suite of e-Business tools that help organizations optimize the marketing potential of their web presence. The iUpload Application Suite adds to content management, other functions necessary to run a successful e-Business web site: a permission-based, e-mail marketing module, a site search and indexing function, an online survey manager, and an interactive chat and discussions forums manager. The announcement is the first result of technology integration following the companys acquisition of WebPartz in March, 2003. Organizations will use the iUpload Application Suite to elevate brochure-ware web sites into interactive e-Business sites by activating any of the iUpload Application Suite modules. Because the iUpload Application Suite is net-native, subscribers are able to activate modules without having to install hardware or separate software applications. Customers can use modules that form the iUpload Application Suite individually or in combination. All modules in the iUpload Suite are currently available. Access to these new modules is via subscription starting at a rate of $85 per month per module. www.iupload.com
Open Text Corporation said it is introducing new Livelink features that will provide end-to-end support for Adobe’s solutions for integrating documents across business processes and throughout the lifecycle of critical documents. The new offerings integrate Livelink, Acrobat 6.0, and Adobe PDF technology, to support the collaborative management of PDF documents in Livelink. The integration provides a process for managing multiple, parallel reviews of an Adobe PDF document, allowing users to concurrently review an un-modifiable PDF version of a document and record their comments and suggested changes in Livelink. All commenting actions are recorded in the Livelink audit trail. The input from reviewers can then be assessed and consolidated by editors, who are the only ones with access to the original, which is securely protected in Livelink. The integration also provides controls to guard against the misuse of documents. Open Texts Adobe PDF solutions are integrated with Livelinks task management, notification, audit and report features, as well as Livelinks workflows. www.opentext.com, www.adobe.com
Autonomy Corporation plc announced an agreement with CNSI, an IT innovations provider to government agencies and businesses worldwide, to provide enterprises with effective and intelligent information management and delivery systems. www.autonomy.com, www.cns-inc.com
Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity K2 Developer (K2D) release 5.0. The new version of its platform is for ISV’s that need to add discovery, organization and personalization capabilities to e-business applications such as content management, CRM, supply chain management, portal infrastructure, online commerce, and other enterprise-level programs. An important part of this latest release of Verity’s OEM technology is the Verity Organization Developer’s Kit (ODK), a set of APIs that can be integrated into enterprise applications whose performance and value will benefit from content organization and recommendation capabilities. This release of K2D also includes enhanced capabilities of Verity’s Recommendation Engine, including recommendation of queries, category recommendations, federated recommendations, Open Navigation and Dynamic Taxonomies. Interfaces are now available to allow the editing of any entity, which enable ISVs complete control over the information managed within the Recommendation Engine. www.verity.com
Interwoven Inc. introduced a solution that helps organizations eliminate excess and underutilized servers, allowing CIOs and IT managers to reduce the costs of managing and maintaining a complex IT environment. The Interwoven Server Consolidation solution combines Interwoven technology – Interwoven OpenDeploy Server Consolidation Edition for distribution management bundled with an Interwoven content server for snapshotting, change management, and versioning functionality – in addition to consulting expertise. The Interwoven solution serves as a traffic control hub and is capable of consolidating thousands of business initiatives driven by different business organizations or departments while simultaneously supporting their particular requirements such as deployment schedules, security, and maintenance demand procedures. The Interwoven Server Consolidation Solution is available today, and includes Interwoven client services experts who can provide an initial five-day assessment of redundant or underutilized Web, application and file servers. These assessment services are also available through Interwoven partners IBM Global Services and Accenture. www.interwoven.com
