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Year: 2003 (Page 6 of 70)

INSCI & IFIN Sistemi Add DAM to Distributor Agreement

INSCI Corp. announced that document management systems integrator IFIN Sistemi will add INSCI’s WebWare ActiveMedia digital asset management software to its product offerings throughout Europe. IFIN Sistemi is an Italy-based value-added reseller (VAR) for INSCI products. The agreement broadens and expands INSCI’s European product distribution, and expands IFIN Sistemi’s suite of document management solutions. IFIN Sistemi will market ActiveMedia, which integrates rich media into content management systems, marketing and communication portals, web publishing systems, and e-commerce portals to its client base. www.insci.com

Plumtree Adds to Enterprise Web Development Kit

Plumtree Software announced the release of a new add-on to its Enterprise Web Development Kit (EDK), for creating interactive portlets using Microsoft .NET Web Controls. Part of Microsoft’s .NET Framework, .NET Web Controls are visual drag-and-drop elements that developers can use to create Web applications. .NET Web Controls created by Microsoft and the .NET development community can now be used without any coding to create portlets within the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite. The Plumtree EDK offers services, sample code and documentation for using Java and .NET development tools to build portlets and Web services. Plumtree supports JSR 168 and WSRP portlets, Apache’s Java Struts, Sophia, Java Server Faces, C#, Visual Basic.NET and Java Server Pages. The newly released add-on to the EDK allows .NET Controls to function as-is within the Enterprise Web as portlets. Using Plumtree’s Active Portlets technology for communications between portlets within an application, the Control-based portlet can refresh within the page without causing the rest of the page to refresh. www.plumtree.com

Adobe Updates FrameMaker to Version 7.1

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced Adobe FrameMaker 7.1. FrameMaker 7.1 introduces conditional text support for XML to allow multiple variations of an XML document to be stored in a single file. FrameMaker 7.1 also extends its cross-referencing features to allow links between XML documents. New filters enable PageMaker and Quark XPress files to be migrated into FrameMaker.
Corporate publishers can import Photoshop files directly into FrameMaker 7.1. Other additions include support for the JPEG 2000 graphics format and improved filters for handling artwork in Adobe PDF, including native files from Adobe Illustrator, and expanded support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Adobe FrameMaker 7.1 for Windows and Sun Solaris will be available in January 2004 in the United States, Europe and Canada at the Adobe store at www.adobe.com. FrameMaker 7.1, desktop version, for Microsoft Windows has an estimated street price of US$799 for the full version and $199 for the upgrade. On Sun Solaris, the full version has an estimated street price of $1,329 and $279 for the upgrade. www.adobe.com

Aquent Partners with Interwoven

Aquent and Interwoven have formed a strategic alliance to deliver joint clients integrated enterprise content management solutions for their branding initiatives. Aquent will integrate Interwoven’s ECM solution into its brand management solutions. Aquent’s consulting division includes its Marketing and Branding Technology (MBT) practice, the division that is partnering with Interwoven. www.aquent.com, www.interwoven.com

P.H. Brink Partners with Vasont

P.H. Brink International, a provider of language solutions, was selected by Progressive Information Technologies to be included in their Vasont Important Partner (VIP) Program. This alliance will combine P.H. Brink’s automated workflow system, Otto, with Vasont’s content management features and functionality to provide an integrated solution for managing content translation and localization for multilingual publishing in global organizations. Vasont is a content management system for cross-media publishing that centralizes and manages content for multilingual technical documentation, user’s guides, and other publications. Vasont’s integration with P.H. Brink’s Otto allows companies to automatically evaluate and reuse previously translated content. Vasont routes only the new content through P.H. Brink’s ISO 9001:2000 certified process, where it is translated. The newly translated content is automatically returned to Vasont where it is managed and ultimately delivered to multiple publications in various formats (e.g., print, CD, Web). www.vasont.com, www.phbrink.com

Mondosoft & cScape Create Content Management Wizard for CMS SE

Mondosoft has announced that a new Wizard application, designed to transform the way small and medium businesses (SME) use the internet, will be available on December 2, in conjunction with the release of Microsoft’s new Content Management System Standard Edition (CMS SE). The Wizard, jointly-developed by Microsoft Gold Partner cScape Ltd (London) and Mondosoft (Palo Alto, Calif. and Copenhagen), provides a cost-effective way to build and maintain a professional website without the need for any training in web development. Designed to plug into Microsoft’s new CMS SE and including a Mondosoft search engine, the Wizard will retail at $3,365. Small charities which require a content managed site will receive a substantial discount on Microsoft’s CMS SE product. The Wizard is available through www.mcmswizard.com, which is also the support site for the product. An enhanced version of the Wizard is being created specifically for web development agencies as a core solution to build on and enhance for clients seeking a more sophisticated web presence. This version will be released in 2004. www.mondosoft.com

BroadVision & Feith Deliver a Solution for Web-Based Records Management

BroadVision, Inc. announced a strategic alliance with Feith Systems. The agreement with Feith is part of BroadVision’s Net-Centric Collaborative Environment, a strategic initiative focused on forming alliances with technology companies to deliver a comprehensive collaboration portal optimized for government. Feith Systems helps government agencies move from paper-based systems to electronic environments that comply with DoD records management standard 5015.2. Certified for Chapters 2 and 4, both classified and unclassified documents can be addressed. Under terms of the agreement, BroadVision and Feith will identify and pursue joint business opportunities in the federal marketplace, principally those involving records management programs. The companies also intend to establish cross-functional business development and technology teams to focus their core competencies on existing and emerging opportunities, identify process improvements and exchange best practices. www.feith.com, www.broadvision.com

Obinary Releases Free Java-based Enterprise Content Management System

obinary released their Magnolia Content Management System (CMS), a J2EE-deployable and Java-based CMS which has been built from the ground up to support Java Content Repositories (JCR). The main goal of Magnolia is to make content management easy. Magnolia is platform-agnostic and uses Java, XML, JSP, JSTL and a custom tag library to achieve optimal implementation times. Magnolia can be installed “within 10 minutes” on all common operating-systems and is available free of charge. www.obinary.com

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