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
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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
Atomz announced that it has added a series of new features and functionality to its Web-native software. Nearly a dozen new enhancements work together to improve the ease-of-use, security, customization and reliability of its suite of products. Context menus of the content management solution’s Rich Text Editor now allow users to right-click their mouse to Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete and Select All. Administrators using Atomz Publish now have a greater ability to control the exact format of automatically generated file names. Web teams working on collaborative projects will benefit from the upgraded WebDAV support for Macromedia Dreamweaver. Search Restrictions is a new feature in Atomz Search that is useful for Web sites that wish to limit the viewing of search result content in some manner. Atomz Promote now enables multiple site search promotions to be rotated across a particular keyword or key phrase. Search Personalization has been added to Atomz Search. Atomz Promote can now be utilized in conjunction with the categorization feature of Atomz Search. www.atomz.com
XyEnterprise and Right Hemisphere have announced an integration of their products to support the use and re-use of CAD data and technical content across enterprise creation, management, and delivery environments. This integrated solution will serve engineering, training, and technical documentation creators and users throughout the aerospace, military, and product manufacturing sectors. The solution components include XyEnterprise’s Content@ content management and workflow software and Right Hemisphere’s Deep Server VIS technology. The integration of Deep Server with Content@ creates a complete technical content and graphical information delivery solution. This solution promotes efficient re-use and re-purposing of graphics and text content used to support and maintain complex products. This integration also promotes the creation and delivery of next-generation training and support materials, derived from the source CAD and technical documentation data sets. Right Hemisphere solution is available now. www.xyenterprise.com, www.righthemisphere.com
Vivisimo announced the upcoming Release 4.0 of its Clustering Engine, which organizes internet or intranet search results on the fly into meaningful folders. The Clustering Engine now integrates a fully compliant XSLT processor, allowing administrators to customize the end-user interface. Corporate information managers can customize the installation by adding company or industry-specific knowledge such as synonyms, acronyms, abbreviations, spelling variants and type-of relations as XML declarations or via a web-based interface. Or they can select Vivisimo’s built-in knowledge bases for news, science, government, medicine, and others. Using XSLT, regular expressions, and an enhanced conversion framework, the Vivisimo Clustering Engine can extract meta-data and convert any type of data sources to XML. New versions of Vivisimo’s Content Integrator, Enterprise Publisher and Software Development Kit are included in Release 4.0. Customers and OEMs now get an integrated solution that solves the twin challenges of organizing information and providing a single entry point to multiple information sources. www.vivisimo.com
Trade-Ranger Inc. has announced plans to release new and expanded capabilities through its Content Platform 2.0. Powered by i2 Content Management solutions from i2’s latest software release, i2 Six, Trade-Ranger’s new offering provides improved features and functionality, standardization, flexibility, cost/adoption efficiencies, scalability and usability. Through the utilization of i2 Content Management solutions, part of the i2 Supplier Relationship Management suite, Trade-Ranger’s Content Platform 2.0 allows suppliers to upload and publish catalog content, while enabling them to build and maintain product information. It also offers a catalog and content search tool that permits buyers to locate products and suppliers in real-time. Some of the updates in which customers will benefit include multi-language support, bulk file uploads, multiple auto-approval rules, newly developed templates, and the ability to export in multiple formats. www.trade-ranger.com, www.i2.com
Plumtree released new software to support Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) from OASIS and the proposed final draft of the Java Specification Request 168 (JSR 168) portlet standard. For both standards implementations, Plumtree’s support extends to versions 4.5, 4.5WS and 5.0 of the Plumtree Corporate Portal. Currently in proposed final draft, JSR 168 is developed though the Java Community Process with contributions and support from an 18-member Expert Group (EG). It is a portlet standard for portal computing designed to establish a common interface for portlets. Final release of the standard is expected later this month. Plumtree plans to update its container with any changes made in the final release of the JSR 168 standard. In any implementation of JSR 168, the portal communicates with a container, which contains the actual JSR 168 portlet. The Plumtree Container was designed to run on many application servers and Web servers including Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere. www.plumtree.com
Altova Inc. announced the availability of the new Altova 2004 XML development tools product line, designed to meet the needs of building advanced XML and Web services applications. The new Altova 2004 product line consists of updates to existing products, XMLSPY 2004, AUTHENTIC 2004, and STYLEVISION 2004, and introduces a new product, MAPFORCE 2004. MAPFORCE 2004 is a visual data integration tool, which auto-generates custom data mapping code in multiple output languages such as XSLT and Java, to enable programmatic XML-to-XML or database-to-XML data transformations. Altova’s new MAPFORCE 2004 provides a 2-step XML-based approach to enterprise data integration. Using MAPFORCE 2004, data architects can programmatically convert data into XML from any database by drawing visual mappings from relational databases to any data model expressed in XML schema. MAPFORCE 2004 will then auto-generate the software program code required to programmatically marshal data from the source database to the target XML schema. Next, data can be transformed from one XML format to another, by visually drawing mappings between different XML schema data models. MAPFORCE 2004 is available for a free 30-day trial download or purchase for $499 for a single user license. www.altova.com
