Sybase, Inc. announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of privately held Dejima, a provider of mobile access solutions using natural language interface technology. Sybase intends to integrate the assets of Dejima into its iAnywhere Solutions subsidiary, and expects to complete the cash transaction in the second quarter of 2004. The Dejima product uses natural language processing and adaptive agent technologies to allow end users to interact with information sources using common, colloquial language. Inquiries can be made using nearly any communications method (email, SMS, voice, instant messaging, etc.) or device (landline or mobile phone, PDA, laptop, PC, etc.). Sybase plans to leverage the Dejima technology to add natural spoken and text access through common messaging interfaces to backend systems such as databases and enterprise applications. www.dejima.com, www.sybase.com
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Inxight Software, Inc. announced Inxight TimeWall, a visual timeline analysis tool. TimeWall provides users with the ability to see the bigger picture of the information at hand and allows them to focus on and interact with specific, important data points. TimeWall displays data on an interactive, three-dimensional “wall”, that allows analysts and other decision-makers to view huge data sets on one screen, at the same time giving them the ability to focus on specific areas of interest. This ability ensures that the context of the entire data set is not lost. When the user spots a cluster of activity, a simple click moves that period of time into focus, allowing the user to see the specifics of the events what happened in what order and includes links to the original information source. Users can also filter views to show only the data that is of specific interest to them. TimeWall will be available as a component of Inxight VizServer. Inxight TimeWall is available immediately. www.inxight.com
Xpriori announced the expansion of its operation and the availability of Xpriori’s NeoCore XMS version 3.0. Xpriori, LLC was formed in September 2003 to address the content and information management markets. Xpriori acquired all NeoCore intellectual property, among them NeoCore XMS, an XML-based information management system. Xpriori is expanding operations to include a new Web-based campaign targeted at developers. Fully functional developer licenses of NeoCore XMS, with no time limitations, will be made available to developers free of charge. NeoCore XMS supports popular development environments and integration kits are available for numerous front-end applications, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Infopath, Adobe products, XML Spy, Mapforce, and others. NeoCore XMS is available for Windows, Solaris and Linux platforms. Licenses are available for enterprise, small-mid sized, and embedded deployments. www.xpriori.com
Stellent, Inc. announced expanded functionality for Stellent Site Studio, a Web content management application based upon Stellent’s Universal Content Management system and designed to support building multiple Web sites. Site Studio allows companies to maintain a degree of centralized control over the architecture and presentation of Web sites, while distributing content ownership and site management to each business unit, franchise or geographic location. Site Studio now allows companies to more easily deploy and maintain multiple Web sites in different languages. Web site designers can use their local operating systems to create sites, and content contributors can author site content in their native language with Site Studio automatically publishing the content to the Web. Site Studio’s contribution user interface is available in English, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Spanish. Stellent Site Studio now gives content contributors more control over the formatting of their content, with available formatting managed by a central Web designer. Site Studio’s new functionality also includes enhanced content re-use capabilities. Site Studio is included with the Stellent Web Content Management solution, which is sold as an option to Stellent Content Server. Stellent Web Content Management is priced from $25,000 to $100,000 USD, based on the number of contributors. www.stellent.com
SchemaLogic and Innodata Isogen announced they have formed a new business alliance. SchemaLogic and Innodata Isogen will work cooperatively on marketing and sales activities in the information management and content integration marketplace. Together, the companies provide a complete solution for large organizations producing and aggregating XML content. Innodata Isogen optimizes content supply chains — the sequence of activities necessary to create, use and distribute information or information products. SchemaLogic software manages the cross-system metadata, schema, taxonomies and vocabularies that define and describe distributed information. Together the firms deliver an enterprise view of data structures and semantics used by various systems, along with business processes to simplify content integration and information retrieval. www.innodata-isogen.com, www.schemalogic.com
Digimarc Corporation announced the launch of Digimarc ImageBridge Enterprise 2.0 to deliver enhanced digital image tracking and monitoring capabilities for organizations that conduct image-driven marketing campaigns online directly or through channel partners. ImageBridge Enterprise 2.0 is targeted at image-intensive markets such as entertainment, real estate, manufacturing and consumer brand companies that use digital image assets as a key component of their online marketing efforts. ImageBridge Enterprise 2.0 allows companies to monitor use of image assets beyond their enterprise boundaries, expanding the scope of digital image management capabilities beyond the confines of corporate networks through: automated tracking and reporting of channel partner compliance with marketing programs by tracking use of images on the partner web sites, and automated searching for unauthorized uses of images on the public Internet, as part of a copyright compliance program, and integrating ‘beyond-the-network’ tracking with existing asset management systems. ImageBridge Enterprise 2.0 uses Digimarc digital watermarking to weave imperceptible identifiers into image assets, giving the image a unique identity, and providing a link between the distributed image and its owner. www.digimarc.com
empolis GmbH announced an enhanced version of the Service Lifecycle Suite
(e:SLS), version 2.1. The e:SLS enables organizations to consolidate a fragmented knowledge base and facilitate knowledge retrieval. The e:SLS combines content integration, search, navigation, and classification capabilities with collaborative authoring. Release 2.1 adds new Solution Authoring functions such as the ability to create a Decision Tree knowledge object. With the empolis solution the Knowledge Access component is built on a search and retrieval platform that incorporates case-based reasoning, a kind of artificial intelligence that applies past experience to current situations. This augments more traditional full text retrieval to increase the likelihood that the right solution will be found. Version 2.1 of the empolis Service Lifecycle Suite is currently available. The product is Webbased and built using JAVA and XML. www.empolis.com
Context Media, Inc. announced the immediate availability of the Context Media Interchange Suite Media & Entertainment Edition, the latest version of the company’s content integration software solution. The new edition of Interchange Suite includes enhancements that help marketing, brand creators and producers at media and entertainment organizations access and distribute digital assets across divisions, geographies, partners and customers. New features available include enhanced administration of digital asset integrity and usage across internal and external channels, expanded metadata management capabilities, expanded content presentations, enhanced content notifications and messaging, and extended support for digital repositories from document management, content management and digital asset management systems. Context Media’s Media & Entertainment Edition of Interchange Suite is built on Web services standards. Combined with IBM’s WebSphere and DB2 platforms, the solution provides organizations with the ability to exploit the value of content, create new content combinations and cross-promote. www.contextmedia.com
