Idiom Technologies, Inc. announced WorldServer 6, the latest release of its globalization technology. WorldServer 6 features new asset integration capabilities, server-based translation memory enhancements, and a series of workflow improvements that make it easier for global companies to translate and localize the content. WorldServer 6 includes new management and reporting features that help Idiom customers reduce the costs associated with outsourcing translation work to third parties. WorldServer 6 includes support for the latest products from Documentum, Interwoven, Rational/IBM, Oracle, as well as support for emerging XML repositories and standards. A newly enhanced translator workbench allows users to launch external applications, including Word or FrontPage, from within WorldServer. WorldServer 6 adds several new filters, including SGML, XML, XSL, and filters for native Microsoft .DOC, and .PPT formats. New Asset Segmentation capabilities enable customers to segment their translation memory database for specific translation projects. WorldServer 6.0 provides support for XLIFF, the emerging XML standard for sharing translation assets, in addition to the TMX and MTW standards for exchanging different translation memory systems. www.idiominc.com
Day: December 1, 2003
Sirsi Corporation and Northern Light Group LLC announced an agreement to use the Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine as part of Sirsi Rooms. The Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine will be used to search hand-selected Web resources and return context-specific results, assisting library professionals in finding, evaluating, and indexing the “best of the Web” for each “virtual room” included in the Sirsi Rooms solution. www.northernlight.com, www.sirsi.com
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) and Contraco Consulting & Software Ltd. announced a value-added reseller (VAR) agreement, providing Contraco with FAST Reseller status with a primary focus in Germany, Austria, and Italy. With this agreement FAST Data Search, FAST’s enterprise search platform, will be marketed and resold by Contraco to its wide variety of customers either as a stand-alone search solution, or as integrated with other technologies, such as the BRISBANETM technology developed by Contraco. www.intranetsuche.de, www.fastsearch.com
FileNet Corporation announced a global strategic alliance agreement with Network Appliance, Inc. FileNet and NetApp will coordinate marketing and development activities to integrate and optimize FileNet ECM solutions with NetApp unified storage and information lifecycle management (ILM) solutions. Both companies are working to ensure tight product integration, validation, and support for NetApp fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems, NearStore storage systems, and SnapLock data permanence storage solution within the FileNet P8 product line, including FileNet Image Manager, FileNet Content Manager, and FileNet Records Manager suites. Customers can add the SnapLock functionality to existing NetApp NearStore and FAS systems and deploy it with FileNet’s Image Services Connector for SnapLock (ISCS) available in late December 2003. FileNet and NetApp also will develop a plan to test NetApp SnapMirror disaster recovery and high availability software for FileNet P8. FileNet will participate in the NetApp Manage ONTAP partner program. www.filenet.com, www.netapp.com
Ektron, Inc. announced version 4.0 of Ektron CMS300. In version 4.0, Ektron delivers several new features including the version 4.0 of Ektron eWebEditPro+XML. Beyond the latest version of Ektron’s XML editor, Ektron CMS300 version 4.0 adds: improved audit trail capabilities, index searching to ensure more precisely matched search results by leveraging XML (through partnership with Ixiasoft), enhanced international language support to enable management of metadata and teasers with XML, content randomization functionality, internal search to improve capabilities for locating and accessing content being managed in the system, improved meta-tagging, and industry-specific sample sites to help organizations in hospitality, healthcare, education and other verticals. Ektron’s component-based application is used in Microsoft ASP, ASP.Net, PHP or ColdFusion Web application server environments. Pricing is USD$4,999 for a 10-user license and USD$19,999 for enterprise licensing. www.ektron.com
North Plains Systems Corp. announced that it will offer an integrated enterprise digital asset management solution for the Adobe Creative Suite. North Plains’ integrated support of the Adobe Creative Suite includes three new components for TeleScope Enterprise 7.1: The I-Piece for Adobe XMP enables metadata to be captured at the asset creation stage and maintained within TeleScope throughout the asset’s lifecycle; the I-Piece for Adobe InDesign gives non-creative users the ability to search, preview and dynamically interact with InDesign documents directly from a web browser and without the need for the InDesign application; and the Conversion I-Piece for Adobe Graphics Server allows all users to perform complex transformations, regardless of their knowledge of graphic manipulation. The TeleScope I-Pieces for Adobe Creative Suite will be available later this month. www.northplains.com
