IBM announced four new Lotus Workplace software products that will enable customers to add modular collaborative capabilities — such as e-mail, instant messaging, and Web conferencing — to their business applications and corporate portals. The new Lotus Workplace products give employees a set of collaborative tools that can be tailored to their specific work environment. Lotus Workplace products include IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging 1.1, IBM Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration 1.1, IBM Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning 1.1, and IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management 1.1. The 1.1 version of the Lotus Workplace family of products will be available for download in Q4 2003. IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging 1.1 will be available for $29 per user, while the IBM Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration 1.1 will be available for $89 per user. IBM Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning 1.1 will be available for $35 per user, and IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management 1.1 will be available for $49,999 per CPU. IBM Lotus Workplace server products are currently available on Linux for Intel 32 bit: SuSE 7.2 and 7.3, IBM AIX, Version 5.2 and Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. Supported client operating systems include Microsoft Windows 2000 sp3, Microsoft Windows XP, SuSE Linux 7.2 and 7.3 on Intel. Supported browsers include Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 service pack 2, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and Mozilla 1.3 on SuSE Linux. www.ibm.com/lotus/workplace
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iManage, Inc. announced fully integrated support for Adobe Acrobat within the iManage WorkSite suite. The new functionality allows users to open and save PDF documents directly to an iManage WorkSite repository from inside the Adobe PDF authoring tool. While iManage has always supported Adobe Acrobat files, iManage WorkSite now offers seamless integration, similar to its support of Microsoft Office applications, in the full Adobe Acrobat product. Users are now able to access “Open from iManage” and “Save to iManage” options within Acrobat, simplifying the process of authoring, managing and creating workflows around PDF documents within the context of related content for a given project, deal or matter. Integrated support for Acrobat is available in the latest releases of iManage MailSite and DeskSite.
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Venetica announced extended support for Open Text Corporation’s Livelink, collaboration and content management software. Venetica offers a Content Bridge to Livelink, enabling federated access to content in Livelink and other repositories from within business applications. Venetica’s solution complements Open Text’s content integration offering for Livelink called Livelink Doorways. Livelink Doorways enhances collaboration by bringing together all of a company’s content, no matter where it resides, and making it available to users working in Livelink. The VeniceBridge solution is designed for customers with projects built outside of Livelink which require access to Livelink content, along with content from other systems. www.opentext.com, www.venetica.com
Documentum announced a new joint offering with TRADOS and Lionbridge. Extending existing partnerships, the three companies have worked together to integrate the TRADOS Language Server with Documentum 5. By integrating the TRADOS language technology with the Documentum ECM platform, customers can store and reuse previously translated content, accelerate the delivery of content to global markets and have direct, centralized control over their translated content. The TRADOS Language Server for Documentum combines translation memory and terminology management modules with the Documentum ECM platform to enable customers to capture, store and reuse localized content that has been previously translated. As a partner to both Documentum and TRADOS, Lionbridge will provide globalization services to deliver the complete multilingual content management solution. www.trados.com, www.lionbridge.com, www.documentum.com
Full Degree and The Kodiak Group announced a partnership that provides end-to-end UCCnet-compliant product information management and data synchronization solutions to retailers and manufacturers. Full Degree’s product information management applications combined with Kodiak’s hosted Quick-To-Market solution and UCCnet consulting services enable enterprises to unify and manage disparate product information as well as synchronize data with UCCnet’s GLOBALregistry. UCCnet is a global, Internet-based electronic commerce service that enables companies to synchronize and store product data in a standardized format, ensuring that trading partners have access to accurate, up-to-date, industry-compliant trading information. The UCCnet initiative is growing rapidly across multiple segments of the retail industry. www.kodiakgroup.com, www.fulldegree.com
Vitria announced its partner, Appropria, has added a new connector for the Vitria:BusinessWare integration platform to its ~Advantage product suite. ~Advantage users will now have direct access to the Vitria BusinessCockpit, CommunicationBus and TaskManager workflow functionality from within their ~Advantage portal framework. Supporting Single Sign on, an ~Advantage user with this new connector can now seamlessly search for any content sourced via Vitria’s CommunicationBus, view real-time process metrics obtained via BusinessCockpit and automatically relate these real-time views to supporting content and information. In addition, ~Advantage offers Vitria:BusinessWare users an easy to use portal framework. ~Advantage makes participation in process workflows managed by Vitria’s TaskManager an improved user experience and automatically delivers the information and content users need to make decisions and execute tasks. www.appropria.com, www.vitria.com
OutStart announced that, as a Vignette Technology Partner, it is moving forward to enable organizations to address the market demand for combined portal, learning and integrated content management functionality. Vignette and OutStart will co-sell a combined Vignette Application Portal -Evolution offering. Evolution is a learning application to create, manage and deliver personalized online and offline learning content, as native format to any delivery channel. www.outstart.com
Document Sciences Corporation and PureEdge Solutions, Inc. announced a marketing partnership that enables front to back-end automation of insurance policy production. The partnership joins PureEdge’s ACORD XML-based e-forms solution with Document Sciences’ ISO-forms based xPression policy generation solution. ACORD forms are a standard in gathering policyholder data for property and casualty insurance transaction processing, and ISO forms are utilized by P&C insurers to present information. PureEdge’s technology converts ACORD forms into XML e-forms. Data gathered via the forms is sent to the insurer’s administration system for rating and underwriting, and then on to Document Sciences’ xPression for generation of a proposal or policy. xPression uses XML-based business rules to pull the appropriate data and content from the administration system and assemble the content for the appropriate ISO form. The forms can then be delivered to policyholders, agents and brokers through print or electronic channels. www.docscience.com
