NextPage Inc. announced the launch of NXT 4, a publishing suite for publishers and corporations to secure and deliver information on the Internet, to corporate intranets and on CD/DVD. New NXT 4 is designed for commercial publishers that provide content on the Web or through other electronic media, and for publishers of corporate reference libraries that deliver information critical for decision making to employees and clients. New license management features in NXT 4 allow publishers to apply secure license rights to content delivered on CD and to corporate intranets. Corporations that need to deliver business-critical information to end users, such as auditors, insurance underwriters or other frontline service professionals, can use NXT 4 to reduce risk of noncompliance with features such as a user interface designed for researchers, incremental updates and content networking with other offices and commercial publishers. Corporations can use NXT 4 in applications such as auditor’s reference libraries, help desk knowledgebases and electronic policy and procedure manuals. NXT 4 is scheduled to ship Sept. 30, 2003. www.nextpage.com
Month: September 2003 (Page 5 of 6)
Vignette Corp. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Intraspect Software, Inc., a provider of enterprise collaboration solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Vignette will pay $20 million, comprised of $10 million in cash and approximately 4.2 million shares of Vignette stock, for Intraspect. The transaction is subject to approval from the Intraspect stockholders and customary closing conditions. The Intraspect product line includes Java-based collaboration functionality and a complete collaborative applications framework so users can customize the user interface and collaboration services flow. Services provided by the core Intraspect platform include indexing and search, security, communications, data management and subscription notification. In addition to the core Intraspect 5 platform, Intraspect offers several packaged horizontal and vertical solutions that help customers solve more complex collaborative business process needs. As part of Vignette, the Intraspect 5 platform will continue to be sold, supported and enhanced as well as offered in an integrated suite. Vignette also will integrate Intraspect technology with its content management and portal solutions. www.intraspect.com. www.vignette.com
FileNet Corporation announced a joint solution with BEA Systems Inc. known as the FileNet Content SPI Integration for BEA. With this service provider interface (SPI), users of BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 can leverage FileNet’s content management capabilities in developing dynamic and personalized Web applications. In addition, the integration leverages the upcoming JSR 170 specification, which simplifies integration with other portals in the future. The SPI is designed to provide integration without the need to replicate data between the BEA WebLogic Portal content repository and FileNet content repository. Consequently, as content is changed within FileNet, the change will be immediately reflected within the portal environment via the SPI. www.filenet.com
RedDot Solutions announced that it has expanded its support of multilingual web development with the latest version of its Translation Editor. The RedDot Translation Editor assists organizations with managing the translation of content between multiple languages and enables organizations to automatically default to the primary language during a translation. RedDot offers native support for English, French, Spanish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese and Polish languages. The RedDot multi-language project structures are centrally administered allowing administrators and editors to manage the different language variants. Organizations can use the RedDot system to design sites that display the same information in multiple languages. The solution also provides for characteristics such as UTF-8/UTF-16, all ISO character sets and SHIFT-JIS for Asian character sets. www.reddot.com
INSCI Corp. announced the acquisition of WebWare. The acquisition was made for cash and stock. Further terms of the transaction will be disclosed on Form 8K to be filed with the SEC by the end of the month. This transaction is anticipated to accelerate the development of the next generation of ActiveMedia SOAP/J2EE platform. WebWare ActiveMedia software brings INSCI a digital asset management platform for integrating rich media contentsuch as images, illustrations, layouts, slide presentations, video and animationinto content management systems, web publishing systems, and e-commerce portals. This complementary technology is expected to broaden INSCI’s product suite, which is designed for the capture, long-term preservation and web presentment of such content as banking and financial statements, explanations of benefits (EOBs), claim images, and e-mail. The resulting expanded enterprise solution manages wide-ranging business contentfrom documents to e-mail, graphic images to video. www.webwarecorp.com, www.insci.com
IXIASOFT and Ingeniux announced a new technology partnership to integrate TEXTML Server with Ingeniux Content Management System (CMS). Combining these two XML technologies will provide customers with a comprehensive XML-based Web content management solution. IXIASOFT’s TEXTML Server is an XML content server designed for software developers who require advanced storing, indexing, and searching capabilities for their applications. Ingeniux CMS provides a complete Web content management and publishing system for developing, managing and deploying Web content throughout the enterprise. Ingeniux CMS empowers non-technical users to contribute to and manage the Web publishing process. Adding TEXTML Server, a native XML repository, to Ingeniux Content Management System will extend its functionality by providing users with advanced searching and publishing capabilities. The joint product offering is aimed at organizations who wish to take full advantage of a pure XML architecture. As part of this technology partnership, IXIASOFT and Ingeniux will collaborate on and coordinate sales and marketing efforts. www.ixiasoft.com, www.ingeniux.com
The Gilbane Report announced that it has agreed to administer an industry initiative to be known as The Gilbane Content Technology Works Program. Under the auspices of this program, best practices and success stories will be documented, assessed and published. Founding partners represent leaders from every segment of the content technology marketplace including enterprise infrastructure, content management, portal, XML databases, search and categorization, digital asset management and content integration. Gilbane Content Technology Works founding partners include Software AG, Sun Microsystems, Artesia Technologies, Atomz, Context Media, Convera, Vignette, and WebWare. Material will be developed in collaboration with enterprises able to share their experiences and will be written in “the enterprise’s voice.” Final editorial review and the essential components of these works will be established by the enterprises whose stories we relate. In order to develop this valuable information at no cost to the consumer, leading content technology vendors have been invited to subsidize the expense of developing and distributing content technology best practices. Vendor partners do not determine which enterprises we collaborate with and will be subsidizing success stories that do not include their technology. The first collection of success stories and best practices will be rolled out through all of our channels during the 4th quarter of 2003. www.gilbane.com/technology_works.html
Ipedo announced their software platform now handles concurrent assimilation of complex information sets from Oracle 9i, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server and Web Services. The information integration was done using Ipedo’s XML-based views and query technologies. With this new capability, Ipedo allows enterprises to create custom information views on demand. The XML-driven EII capabilities of the Ipedo XML Information Hub go beyond integration and allow custom assembly and persistence of information, in the variety of industry standard formats. The testing was done using the Ipedo XML Information Hub 3.3 with Oracle 9iR2, DB2 Universal Database v3.1, MySQL Pro v4.0, SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition, and a public Web Service from Google. Information was integrated using XQuery to quickly aggregate real-time business information across multiple sources, leveraging Ipedo’s XML Views, Web Services Views, Content Conversion and Universal XQuery Engine capabilities. www.Ipedo.com
