XAware, Inc. announced XA-Xchange Hubs, a family of text integration engines available as packaged solutions for EDI, healthcare, financial services, and government markets. XA-Xchange Hubs feature a dynamic J2EE text transformation engine for integration of structured, semi-structured and unstructured text. XA-Xchange Hubs offer a Java integrated text processor that runs entirely within application servers such as IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, Oracle 9iAS, SunONE and JBoss. The XA-Xchange text engine transforms structured text with delimiters such as comma, tab and space; tagged-values; fixed-field; and application formats such as Microsoft Excel. XA-Xchange also transforms semi-structured text formats including EDI, HL7, X12, FpML, FIX, and SWIFT, as well as unstructured text such as HTML, ASCII, text documents and reports. XA-Xchange Hubs are packaged as a solution with software licenses, XA-Designer, XA-iServer, XA-Active Exchange definitions and professional services. XA-Xchange Hubs are available today. The average customer deployment is priced at approximately $75,000. Xchange Hub technology is also available as embeddable components to content management, portal, reporting, application server and other software vendors. www.xaware.com
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Open Text Corporation said it is launching a broad Web Content Management offering, along with IXOS Software and Gauss Interprise, to give customers a single platform to manage corporate websites, intranets and extranets. The solution, set for release in May, is integrated with Livelink, so customers can include Web content in their complete Enterprise Content Management (ECM) strategy. The Livelink Web Content Management Server solution combines Web Content Management products from IXOS and Gauss to provide a range of features, from out-of-the-box Web publishing to Java-based solutions customers can deploy for more sophisticated Web development requirements. Integration with Livelink brings Web Content Management together with team collaboration, document management, records management, process workflows and other ECM capabilities. Livelink Web Content Management Server can scale globally with or without an application server, and also offers tight integration with application servers, such as IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and Oracle 9i. Open Text, IXOS and Gauss will also continue to support Web Content Management solutions offered to customers today, including Gauss VIP ContentManager, IXOS Suite for Content Management (formerly IXOS-Obtree C4), and Livelink for Web Publishing. www.opentext.com
Arkivio, Inc. announced it has completed integration with EMC Centera content address storage (CAS) and is introducing an advanced solution for managing file-based, fixed content and regulated data over its lifecycle. The ARKIVIO auto-stor software, now integrated with the EMC Centera API, offers data and storage discovery, classification, and management all in one ILM solution for regulatory compliance. IT Administrators are able to identify and report on regulated files across EMC storage platforms, heterogeneous file systems, and DAS, NAS, and SAN volumes. Additionally, the ARKIVIO software organizes and classifies data according to its business value and then automates archival and migration to the EMC Centera based on administrator-defined retention policies without requiring deployment of agents on application servers or storage devices. www.emc.com, www.arkivio.com
Verity Inc. announced the immediate availability of version 3.8 of the Verity Response integrated online self-service solution. The product was previously known as NeuroServer, prior to Verity’s acquisition of the NativeMinds’ assets. Verity Response acts as a virtual representative that combines search, FAQ and “contact us” functionality on an organization’s Web site. The product aims to comprehend what users are asking, and returns a single, correct response ranging from a short explanation, a link to a webpage with the appropriate procedure, or a pre-populated e-form. The enhanced Verity Response Content Console in version 3.8 allows business users to view reports that analyze performance metrics, such as customer conversations, usage, trends and accuracy, identify content development opportunities and gather customer insight on the most popular content. Verity Response’s integration with Verity K2 Enterprise (K2E) search, classification and recommendation software and the Verity Ultraseek enterprise search engine allows customers with either of these products to easily deploy Verity Response. Verity Response 3.8 takes advantage of many of the features found in K2E and Ultraseek, including query-based summaries and spelling suggestions. www.verity.com
Easypress Technologies announced the availability of its first update to Atomik Xport Personal Edition. Version 1.1 includes features aimed at further improving the quality and speed of XML export from QuarkXPress. By looking for consecutive tab characters in lines of text, version 1.1 identifies tabular content that has been constructed in text boxes within QuarkXPress. It can then export this content into XML using any of three table definitions including HTML, Atomik Xport, or CALS. Users can now specify how they would like QuarkXPress whitespace to be handled by Atomik Xport PE. The content grouping options in Atomik Xport PE 1.1 have been enhanced to enable content to be grouped together in the XML export more easily. A fully functional demonstration version is available for both Mac and Windows versions of QuarkXPress 4.1 and 5.01. A QuarkXPress 6.1 version is planned for Q2 2004. The suggested retail pricing for a single-user licence is Pound 695, $995 or Euro 995 depending on the country of purchase. Further pricing for 5, 10, 50 and 100-user licence packs is available upon request. www.easypress.com
Canto announced the immediate availability of Cumulus 6 for the Enterprise. The Enterprise version includes features and capabilities for users, administrators and system integrators. Cumulus 6 Enterprise will simplify the users’ daily task of managing assets due to its server-centric nature and, with the EJaP (Embedded Java Plug-In) technology, it can be customized to meet the business needs of global enterprises. It can speak the language of global corporations with an inter-changeable choice of English, French, Japanese or German user interfaces. In addition to all features of the Cumulus Workgroup Solutions the Enterprise Edition offers technology to meet the needs of large corporations such as AXR, Live Filtering, Cumulus Java Classes Runtime and the included Option Internet Client Pro. Other included Options are Cumulus Viewer, Vault and URL AssetStore. The basic Enterprise package comes with Server software and 20 clients. Cumulus 6 for Enterprise is available immediately. Server versions are available for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris, Clients for Mac OS X und Windows. www.canto.com
BroadVision, Inc. announced the release of BroadVision QuickSilver 2.0, a significant upgrade to the application that allows business users to create and publish lengthy, complex documents in multiple output formats (including HTML, PDF and Postscript). BroadVision QuickSilver 2.0 builds on the legacy product by automating publication of complex content to BroadVision Portal environments. New features include automatic multi-file publishing to the web, intra- and inter-file links, and personalization based on qualifiers, categories and attributes established in the portal environment. The new release gives Interleaf users the opportunity to extend their authoring environment to the web without re-tagging or reformatting the information. BroadVision QuickSilver 2.0 is the most significant upgrade to the product since it was acquired from Interleaf in January 2000. www.broadvision.com
The Unicode Consortium announced that it will be hosting the Common Locale Data Repository project to support the world’s languages. To support users in different languages, programs must not only use translated text, but must also be adapted to local conventions. These conventions differ by language or region and include the formatting of numbers, dates, times, and currency values, as well as support for differences in measurement units or text sorting order. Most operating systems and many application programs currently maintain their own repositories of locale data to support these conventions. But such data are often incomplete, idiosyncratic, or gratuitously different from program to program. The Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) provides a general XML format for the exchange of locale information for use in application and system software development, combined with a public repository for a common set of locale data generated in that format. The Common Locale Data Repository was initially developed under the sponsorship of the Linux Application Development Environment (aka LADE) Workgroup of the Free Standards Group’s OpenI18N team, with a 1.0 version released in January 2004. The founding members of the workgroup were IBM, Sun, and OpenOffice.org, later joined by Apple Computer. CLDR will be managed by a dedicated technical committee of the Unicode Consortium. CLDR version 1.1 is expected in mid-May 2004, and a beta 1.1 version is available now. www.unicode.org
