Year: 2003 (Page 26 of 70)

JDA Software Group Inc. announced that it has acquired substantially all of the remaining assets of Engage Inc. for $3.0 million in cash. Using Engage’s digital asset management and ad layout capabilities, JDA clients will be able to produce localized customer communications in less time and at reduced costs. As the successful bidder in a Chapter 11 auction, JDA gained all intellectual property for Engage’s four current product lines that target retailers, agencies, newspapers and corporations as well as all equipment. JDA expects to spend up to an additional $800,000 for assumed liabilities, which will bring the total cost of the Engage acquisition to approximately $3.8 million. JDA has extended employment offers to approximately 30 former Engage sales, development, services and support associates. JDA will close Engage’s headquarters in Andover, Mass., and establish a more appropriately configured office in the nearby area. For the nine months ended April 30, 2003, Engage’s total unaudited revenues were $8.2 million, which included $2.3 million in software licenses, $3.1 million in maintenance revenue and $2.8 million in services revenue. www.jda.com

Insightful Corporation announced InFact 2.5, a product upgrade to its text analysis software targeted primarily at defense intelligence and pharmaceutical markets. InFact 2.5 is designed to deliver a new relationship search capability using a new user interface and Java API that enables integration with other applications and portal-based solutions. The release also provides increased precision and recall. With the new release, the user can constrain relationship search results by entity type. The new API allows integration with third party visualization tools enabling graphical discovery of relationships. InFact is designed to help researchers analyze unstructured data to find critical information quickly. Utilizing linguistic search and information extraction techniques based on full sentence parsing, InFact helps researchers achieve a degree of understanding beyond key word and entity search. InFact 2.5 is now available for Sun Solaris. www.insightful.com

Documentum announced the availability of new Language Packs, which simplify and accelerate concurrent implementation of localized Documentum products in many languages. Most enterprise software solutions require phased deployments, as localized product releases are often delivered long after the original language release is available. Now, with the Language Packs available with the Documentum 5 ECM platform, client user interfaces and documentation can be simultaneously produced and delivered in seven languages — English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. The Language Packs enable global organizations to deploy Documentum — based solutions in multiple, localized versions at the same time. To accommodate customer requirements for languages other than the seven that Documentum currently offers, the company has launched a new Partner Localization Program. Two partners have committed to delivering localized Documentum products. DELT ICT SERVICES BV, based in the Netherlands, has started providing Dutch versions of the Documentum products, and DocuSoft Corporation, headquartered in Tianjin, China, will provide simplified and traditional Chinese versions later this year. www.documentum.com/products/platform/globalization/index.htm

Flexity Technologies, Inc. announced the release of Internet Research Toolbar (IRT) 1.01 for Windows 95/8, NT, ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Internet Research Toolbar provides a built-in way for Internet Explorer Web browser to save, search and manage the content of Web pages. It’s like having a search engine just for online information you have saved. A single click on the Internet Research Toolbar’s “capture” button saves a Web page, or a selection from a Web page. Saved information can be searched by whole or partial words, project, category, record type, date saved, or by combined search criteria. And, all toolbar functions can all be performed without leaving Internet Explorer. Internet Research Toolbar also creates bibliographic citations formatted specifically for online information. With 16 MLA- and APA-compatible citation styles eight scientific and eight humanities based upon the COLUMBIA GUIDE TO ONLINE STYLE, Internet Research Toolbar simplifies the collection and management of information from online sources. A single-user license is priced at $59.95. Education, student and multi-user discounts are available. A 30-day, full-featured, free trial version can be obtained on the IRT Web site. www.internet-research-toolbar.com

Entology announced its support for the Interwoven 6 platform. Entology and Interwoven have been partners since 2001, and have delivered content management, portal, Web Service, and customized business solutions for mutual customers. The improved usability in TeamSite 6.0 will facilitate Entology’s development of customized content management services that target a much wider user audience within an organization. Entology has deployed integrated solutions with the Interwoven product line that provide services including: taxonomy/metadata management, Web content management, advanced document management/renditioning, portal service integration, and consolidated hosting infrastructures. In addition to developing custom solutions, Entology provides a full set of standardized JumpStart, HealthCheck, and Value Assurance offerings focused on the Interwoven platform. www.entology.com, www.interwoven.com

Stellent, Inc. announced a solution designed to help companies streamline their processes for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Stellent Sarbanes-Oxley Solution allows all of the various parties involved in the compliance process to create, manage, share, track, approve and archive all information pertaining to disclosures and financial reporting with minimal training, using only a browser. The solution is personalized for non-technical business users, such as auditors, accountants and chief financial officers (CFO), and features an interface that utilizes field-specific terminology and guides people through the system. The Stellent solution supports any file type, including rich media files such as earnings conference calls or videoconferences, and automatically converts content to Web-based formats, such as HTML or PDF. In addition, Stellent will collaborate with Protiviti Inc., an internal audit and business and technology risk consulting firm and an expert in corporate governance issues and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, to support customers in managing their Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. www.stellent.com/sarbox