jCatalog Software AG announced a strategic relationship with Commerce One. The relationship establishes Commerce One as a global reseller for the jCatalog BuyFast solutions for procurement, MarketFast solutions for marketplaces and SellFast solutions for manufacturers and suppliers. jCatalog Software AG is a developer of catalog management, product information management (PIM) and cross media catalog publishing software. www.jcatalog.com, www.commerceone.com
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Documentum announced the availability of the latest versions of its web-based collaboration products, Documentum eRoom 7 and Documentum eRoom Enterprise 7. The eRoom products are collaboration applications that can be adapted to and integrated with other enterprise systems to enable team collaboration. eRoom 7 is a standalone product. eRoom Enterprise 7 leverages deeper integration with the Documentum ECM platform, to enable content and collaboration services to interoperate under a common workflow. eRoom Enterprise 7 provides a unified content repository for centralized control, retention and reuse of collaborative content and process management technologies. Enhancements to eRoom Enterprise 7, available in the fourth quarter, will add deep structured process and workflow collaboration features. Documentum eRoom 7 is available immediately in English, with French and German versions available in early September. eRoom Enterprise 7 is also immediately available, with additional functionality available in the fourth quarter of 2003. www.documentum.com
S&T Professional Resources Group, LLC, and Metavante Corporation announced the signing of an agreement to allow Metavante to market S&T’s eBusiness Content Manager (eBCM), to its clients. eBCM is a “turn key” web-based content management system, which allows companies to publish all types of documents, automate forms routing, create customized department web pages and manage their organization’s Intranet with virtually no programming experience. eBCM also integrates additional workflow solutions such as company procurement, time and attendance and cash settlement allowing medium-to-larger-sized companies to automate other labor intensive business processes. www.stbank.com, www.metavante.com
Datox has signed an integrator agreement with the UK based company Easypress Technologies. Atomik Xport, a product of Easypress Technologies, is a solution for converting QuarkXPress files into rich XML content. Datox will provide turnkey solutions based on Easypress Technologies’ products to press editors who
want to generate new revenue from their QuarkXPress print content. With Atomik Xport, any content from a QuarkXPress page (text, tabular data or images) can be converted into XML. The content is extracted without the need for manual intervention and can either be published directly on the web or stored in an archive system for future re-use. www.datox.fr, www.easypress.com/products/atomik
Canto announced that Web Publisher Pro 1.0.2 and Internet Client Pro 1.0.2 are available immediately. Web Publisher Pro a tool for publishing and marketing your digital assets on dynamically generated Web pages to the Web. Internet Client Pro enables users to upload images and other documents into Cumulus catalogs and edit metadata. This can be done with a standard Web browser. Canto’s technology is based on Cumulus Java Classes and JSP technology. Web Publisher Pro is an add-on Option for the Cumulus Workgroup and Enterprise Editions; Internet Client Pro is included with the Cumulus Enterprise Edition. Cumulus Web Publisher Pro 1.0.2 and Internet Client Pro 1.0.2 are updated releases in which various bugs have been fixed. With these releases, Cantos Cumulus Web Publisher Pro and Internet Client Pro are now more stable and efficient across all platforms for which they are developed. Both updated options are compatible with IBM WebSphere. Web Publisher Pro 1.0.2 and Internet Client Pro 1.0.2 are immediately available with English, German, French and Japanese user interfaces on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris. Updates of Web Publisher Pro to Web Publisher Pro 1.0.2 and Internet Client Pro to Internet Client Pro 1.0.2 are free of charge. www.canto.com
Intraspect Software, Inc. introduced the Intraspect Collaboration Solution for BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1, in conjunction with the launch of WebLogic Portal 8.1 and WebLogic Platform 8.1 by BEA Systems, Inc. The joint solution allows organizations to augment their BEA-based corporate portals with a full suite of collaboration and knowledge management capabilities to enhance corporate portals. The two technologies can allow users to create contextual communities within the BEA corporate portal that manage collaboration and knowledge around products, services, functions, expertise, customers, or other areas relevant to an organization. Intraspect’s Portal Collaboration Solution for BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 will be available in August 2003. www.intraspect.com
Venetica announced its plans to support integration to the Interwoven 6 Platform. Through an alliance formed in December 2001, Interwoven delivers Venetica’s enterprise content integration capabilities to Interwoven TeamSite Content Server customers through its ContentProvider Integration Server allowing business users to discover and work with critical documents from within Interwoven TeamSite Content Server – regardless of how or where the content is stored. In addition, Venetica is planning to make available a Bridge for Interwoven TeamSite Content Server repositories. This will enable companies to more easily leverage content created and managed within TeamSite Content Server from various business applications and portals. www.interwoven.com, www.venetica.com
CambridgeDocs announced the upcoming release of a new plug-ins for Microsoft Word: PDF2Word and Word2PDF. These plug-ins, part of the CambridgeDocs XML Content Backbone, showcase the functionality of XML by achieving two-way conversion of PDF files. The PDF2Word plug-in converts existing PDF files into RTF format for editing by Microsoft Word. The plug-ins add menu items to Microsoft word, which include opening PDF files. The other menu options include the ability to save to XML, and publishing to PDF using XSL:FO (XSL:formatting objects). The PDF2Word conversion keeps images, vector graphics, and formatting aspects of the PDF file as close as possible to the original. It works with Microsoft Word 2000 and Word XP. PDF2Word will be available for download from CambridgeDocs web site immediately. It retails for $199, but is being offered for a special introductory price of $99. Word2PDF will be available during Q3 of this year. www.cambridgedocs.com
