Miller Systems and Percussion Software announced a partnership to offer customers expanded content management solutions. Miller Systems will offer implementation services for Percussion’s Rhythmyx Enterprise Content Management (ECM) System to its clients with comprehensive content management requirements. Miller Systems’ partnership with Percussion will enable it to design, develop and deliver sophisticated content management solutions more easily for clients’ Web sites, intranets, extranets, and enterprise portals. www.percussion.com, www.millersystems.com
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Plumtree Software and BackWeb Technologies announced that Plumtree will resell BackWeb’s Offline Access Server, giving mobile Enterprise Web users access to applications and content when those users are disconnected from the network. Plumtree will resell a Standard Edition of the BackWeb Offline Access Server with support for the entire Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite; this functionality extends offline access to the Plumtree Corporate Portal, Plumtree Content Server and Plumtree Collaboration Server, Microsoft Office integration portlets and portlets created using Plumtree Studio Server. Plumtree will also resell an Enterprise Edition of BackWeb’s Offline Access Server which includes the added capability to offline enable Plumtree’s Integration Products, custom portlets, and 3rd party portlets. Users of the offline features can subscribe to specific portlets, content or applications for offline access ensuring that only the selected content will be downloaded when the user logs off the network. BackWeb’s Offline Access Server is built to support the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5, 4.5WS and 5.0, Collaboration Server 3.0, Content Server 5.0, and Studio Server 2.0. www.backweb.com, www.plumtree.com
Groxis, Inc. announced general availability of Grokker 2, the latest generation of its visual search product. The new software can organize and visually map thousands of search results in a few seconds from multiple search engines and content sources simultaneously. This creates the opportunity to build Grokker plug-ins to any content source, database, or search engine on the net. The company expects to announce several new plug-ins in the coming months. Grokker 2 goes on sale today at a special price of $49, along with a 30-day free “Try and Buy” offer. Available on PCs today, Grokker 2 will be available for the Apple Mac OS X platform in Q1 2004. www.groxis.com
North Plains Systems Corp. announced that it has released the Integration Broker which provides the next generation of integration and web services for TeleScope Enterprise. TeleScope has an existing suite of integration tools which allow customers to share their data with other business systems, such as the XML Gateway. The Integration Broker, utilizing SOAP, is an extension to these integration capabilities. Concurrent with the release of the Integration Broker, North Plains Systems has initiated a technology partnership program enabling third-party technology suppliers to connect to the TeleScope framework or embed TeleScope’s DAM services within their application. North Plains Systems will offer its technology partnership to software vendors in such industries as e-Learning, Marketing Automation, CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Content Management, and others. www.northplains.com
Network Appliance, Inc. and Documentum announced that they are extending their existing partnership. Specifically, the two companies will perform joint lab testing at Documentum to certify and support the Documentum ECM platform on NetApp platforms, and Documentum will join the NetApp Developer’s Program. The companies will also develop expanded go-to-market strategies, including collaborating to deliver total solutions to mutual customers. The combined solution provides fast access to both current and archived content, simplifies infrastructure management, and scales to a billion data objects while still supporting thousands of concurrent users. www.documentum.com, www.netapp.com
Cape Clear Software announced Cape Clear Data Interchange, a Web Services-based approach to solving the problem of integrating data with enterprise applications. Cape Clear Data Interchange provides a visual environment for transforming diverse data sources, such as text files, spreadsheets, and ZIP files into XML Schema, as well as a runtime capability which securely routes that data to the appropriate back-end application. Once these mappings are created, subsequent files are automatically transformed and routed to the appropriate applications as they arrive. Cape Clear provides wizards that analyze new data and suggest appropriate XML Schema-based representations and mappings. Cape Clear Data Interchange includes pre-built support for a wide variety of data formats including CSV, CICS, CISCO IOS, CORBA, Excel, GSM, EDI, EDIFACT, HL7, Java/J2EE, JDBC, .NET, ODBC, Oracle, Parlay X, SWIFT, SMS/MMS, Sybase, Text, WSDL/SOAP, XML, and ZIP files. Cape Clear Data Interchange includes support for Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). Cape Clear Data Interchange requires the Cape Clear Business Integration Suite. It is available immediately on IBM AIX, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Sun Solaris. Pricing starts at $75,000. www.capeclear.com
GlobalSCAPE released CuteHTML Pro, a professional version of its Web site development tool, CuteHTML. CuteHTML Pro gives Webmasters granular control over coding, a set of power tools to complete tasks quickly and correctly and doesn’t add a lot of unnecessary code. A free 30-day trial of CuteHTML Pro is available immediately for Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP. CuteHTML Pro has a standard list price of $49.99 per single-user license. Volume discounts are offered for quantities of five or more. www.globalscape.com
The World Wide Web Consortium announced the publication of “Architecture of the World Wide Web”. The authors of this document, W3C’s Technical Architecture Group (TAG), invite review by the community of this description of principles that guide the evolution of the Web. The TAG invites comments on the First Edition by 5 March 2004. The Web architecture consists of three fundamental concepts: identification (URIs), interaction (protocols such as HTTP and SOAP), and representation (formats such as HTML, SVG, and PNG). These three branches are typified by the familiar user experience of using a browser to click on a link that identifies a Web site, leading to interaction with the Web site (referred to generically as a “Web resource”), and then to the display of information in the browser. Some of the topics covered by the Architecture Document include important considerations when managing a Web server, such as persistence; how to take advantage of “safe” Web interactions and allow bookmarking and caching; and pitfalls to avoid when using content negotiation. The document also explains how XML fits into the Web, and how to ensure that new formats “play well” on the Web. www.w3.org
