Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity K2 Developer (K2D) release 5.0. The new version of its platform is for ISV’s that need to add discovery, organization and personalization capabilities to e-business applications such as content management, CRM, supply chain management, portal infrastructure, online commerce, and other enterprise-level programs. An important part of this latest release of Verity’s OEM technology is the Verity Organization Developer’s Kit (ODK), a set of APIs that can be integrated into enterprise applications whose performance and value will benefit from content organization and recommendation capabilities. This release of K2D also includes enhanced capabilities of Verity’s Recommendation Engine, including recommendation of queries, category recommendations, federated recommendations, Open Navigation and Dynamic Taxonomies. Interfaces are now available to allow the editing of any entity, which enable ISVs complete control over the information managed within the Recommendation Engine. www.verity.com
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Interwoven Inc. introduced a solution that helps organizations eliminate excess and underutilized servers, allowing CIOs and IT managers to reduce the costs of managing and maintaining a complex IT environment. The Interwoven Server Consolidation solution combines Interwoven technology – Interwoven OpenDeploy Server Consolidation Edition for distribution management bundled with an Interwoven content server for snapshotting, change management, and versioning functionality – in addition to consulting expertise. The Interwoven solution serves as a traffic control hub and is capable of consolidating thousands of business initiatives driven by different business organizations or departments while simultaneously supporting their particular requirements such as deployment schedules, security, and maintenance demand procedures. The Interwoven Server Consolidation Solution is available today, and includes Interwoven client services experts who can provide an initial five-day assessment of redundant or underutilized Web, application and file servers. These assessment services are also available through Interwoven partners IBM Global Services and Accenture. www.interwoven.com
Ipedo introduced the latest version of its XML Information Hub, incorporating several new product enhancements to facilitate the growing use of XML in Web and Web Services applications. The Ipedo XML Information Hub 3.3 now features integrated content conversion, rules-based auto-organization, a universal XQuery engine and enhanced XML Views for Web Services. The Ipedo XML Information Hub – with its Integration Manager, XML Database and Web Express modules – combines integration with information management capabilities to make information available on demand, enabling organizations to unify their data and content sources and combine them for use in multiple applications. For example, pharmaceutical companies can speed drug research by aggregating and mining genomic and clinical data from multiple online sources; financial institutions can combine data from multiple back-end sources into new compliance documents for regulatory review; and manufacturers can combine relevant pieces from product documentation for presentation in customer and partner portals. www.ipedo.com
Plumtree Software announced the general availability of the Plumtree Portlet Framework for PeopleSoft, which allows portal managers to create portlets for displaying, searching and updating data from any PeopleSoft 8 system. The Framework can integrate virtually any PeopleSoft service into the Plumtree Corporate Portal without coding. Customers can create applications within a Plumtree portal based on services from PeopleSoft as well as services from other systems, including the search, content management and collaboration capabilities offered as part of the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite. The Portlet Framework for PeopleSoft provides a graphical environment for creating new Plumtree portlets against any standard or custom PeopleSoft Component Interface (CI). Plumtree also offers frameworks for building portlets for SAP R/3 and Siebel. These portlets can be embedded within portal applications that combine resources from many existing systems, as well as new services for collaboration, content management and search that systems such as PeopleSoft may lack. www.plumtree.com
Mobius Management Systems, Inc. announced the availability of ViewDirect Total Content Integrator, a new product that provides access through a single interface to content stored in disparate repositories. ViewDirect Total Content Integrator enables cross-repository, cross-platform searching and retrieval of content in any format stored in silos from vendors such as FileNet and IBM as well as homegrown systems. ViewDirect Total Content Integrator is a component of the ViewDirect TCM suite of total content management solutions, including Web site, digital asset and document management; workflow and imaging; Internet presentment and payment; records management; and enterprise report distribution. ViewDirect Total Content Integrator uses SOAP over HTTP/SSL to access remote repositories and APIs across firewalls. It is interoperable with Sun ONE and Microsoft.Net. The product features out-of-the-box connectors that understand the structure of the content source, an intelligent dictionary mapping service that resolves the relationship between data in disparate repositories, and Web services for distributed searching, user profiling, content retrieval and automatic content presentment. ViewDirect Total Content Integrator is scheduled for managed release in July 2003. www.mobius.com
i4i announced the release of x4o. x4o is a major upgrade to i4i’s S4/TEXT – XML in Word product. x4o is a complete XML content authoring solution for Microsoft Word. It includes two modules: x4o Designer- an XML template design tool that allows the user to develop their own DTDs, formatting templates and template text in the familiar Microsoft Word interface, and x4o Author- XML authoring in Word with an optional WebDAV connector. x4o is available now for Word 97, Word 2000, and Word XP. x4o runs on Windows 98, NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. x4o is multi-lingual. There are user and developer version available. www.i4i.com
Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) announced it has released Net-It Central 6.0, the latest version of its Web-publishing automation software. Net-It Central 6.0 includes document markup and annotation, CAD drawing publish and view support, and gains in publishing speed and fidelity — all of which are based on the company’s Brava! 4.0 view and markup technology. With Net-It Central, multiple authors can contribute files created in Windows-based office applications directly to an intranet or extranet just by saving the document file. Net-It Central publishes a rendition of the original file, giving administrators control over what documents can be read, annotated, printed, or downloaded. The rendition is automatically published, transferred and indexed onto the Net-It Central site server, and made available for search and retrieval. Net-It Central’s flexible functionality can create stand-alone document libraries online, augment existing intranets/extranets, and serve as a Web publishing engine that can be used to extend existing document/content management systems, such as Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. www.infograph.com
Xenos announced that it has developed XML2PDF Merge. It provides automated online merging of XML formatted data into PDF documents for Internet distribution, viewing and printing. Insurance and financial services companies require fast, simple, on-line solutions for their agents and customers to access and complete forms in real-time for policy and account applications, quotes, requests for information or trade confirmations. Xenos XML2PDF Merge provides an answer to these requirements. XML2PDF Merge implements ACORD forms standards. In a typical insurance application process, a customer meets with an insurance agent to purchase a new policy. The agent, connected to the insurance company’s network, fills out an application for the customer by entering all the required data on a Web form. This data is captured in XML format by the insurance company, processed and approved. Xenos XML2PDF Merge software fills in the fields on the PDF form with the appropriate XML data. The PDF document is then immediately returned to the agent over the Internet. www.xenos.com
