Idiom Technologies, Inc. expanded the WorldServer product family with the introduction of a new, application-specific version of WorldServer designed to meet the needs of global electronic publishing organizations. WorldServer Global Electronic Publishing enables cross-functional teams including authors, reviewers, editors, translators, localization specialists, and publishers to automate large portions of the document lifecycle, and deliver content in any format or language. With version control, an integrated XML repository, an extensible publishing framework, “preview in-context” capabilities, and search & query functions, the new member of the WorldServer product family enables “continuous translation” of complex documents. The new Idiom solution supports a variety of digital publishing formats including HTML, PDF, CHM (complied help), as well as print. And it is designed to work with authoring tools, such as Adobe FrameMaker. www.idiominc.com
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TeraText Solutions, a division of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), announced that it has entered into a license agreement with Stellent, Inc.’s Content Components Division to embed Stellent Outside In XML Export, HTML Export, and Viewer technology for use in TeraText Database Systems. SAIC’s TeraText Database Systems (DBS) is an information management system optimized for storing and manipulating large volumes of text and managing large structured text databases. Stellent’s tools expand TeraText’s existing capabilities by providing the ability to convert more than 250 proprietary file formats to XML or HTML for indexing and searching in conjunction with the TeraText DBS. TeraText technology was developed at Melbourne-based RMIT University. In July 2001, SAIC entered into an exclusive agreement with RMIT to develop and commercialize TeraText technology in North America and Europe. The TeraText DBS is sold as part of customized, integrated solutions developed and maintained by SAIC systems specialists. Applications include intelligence gathering, technical documentation, legislation management, publishing, and knowledge management. www.saic.com
Comprendium announced the immediate availability of ContentGateWay 2.1. This version of its content integration solution extends product functionality, while making it simpler to use. Building on Comprendium’s Content Services Platform concept ContentGateWay 2.1 includes additional application and infrastructure platform support; enhanced security, scalability and availability features; and a number of end-user enhancements. ContentGateWay 2.1 enhances support for essential enterprise functionality, including load balancing, clustering, caching, and replication. ContentGateWay2.1 provides a unified interface to all content repositories (e.g. XML, Java, .net) by supporting any available protocol such as Corba, SOAP, JMS, RMI, and SMI Comprendium’s optimized content protocol. With the new Virtual View users no longer need to know where content resides, since all integrated repositories are available. They can also easily build their own content GUIs or integrate them into existing applications through the availability of content access visual content components (e.g. taglibs, ActiveX). ContentGateWay is based on J2EE and includes a SOAP-based interface. www.comprendium.biz
Dralasoft, Inc. announced that Xythos Software has chosen to partner with them to provide integrated workflow/document management solutions for enterprise use. The solutions will provide a way for organizations to access, distribute, route, process, and review documents and other file-based information according to the users pre-set rules and standards. Xythos has customized Dralasoft Workflow, Dralasofts BPM product, for use with its WebFile family of products. The new solutions will leverage a range of Xythos/Dralasoft applications including Xythos WebFile Server (WFS) and Client Technology; WebFile Document Manager, WebFile Classification Manager, and WebFile Records Manager; WebFile Client and WebFile Scan Client; as well as Dralasoft Workflow Engine, Workflow Manager, and Workflow Studio. www.dralasoft.com
Extensis Inc. announced immediate availability of its Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution, Portfolio 7 and Portfolio Server 7 for Windows (Macintosh versions will be available in May). Portfolio enables small-to-medium sized organizations to multiple workgroups in global 2000 companies to organize, retrieve, repurpose, and distribute digital files. Portfolios new AutoSync functionality allows users to assign tasks to Portfolio Server, enabling automatic synchronization. NetPublish is an add-on module that automates the process of turning Portfolio catalogs into full featured websites. Other features include One Click CD/DVD archiving, Batch Image Conversion that allows users to convert image files to JPEG or TIFF format, with controls for resolution, size and color mode, and Round-trip embedding of IPTC and XMP metadata into JPEG and TIFF files. Portfolio 7 is available at an estimated street price of $199.95US with a single NetPublish license. Upgrades are available for an estimated street price of $99.95US. Portfolio Server’s estimated street price is $3,499.95US. Upgrades to Portfolio 7 Server are available for an estimated street price of $1,999.95. NetPublish Server licenses can be purchased for an estimated street price of $1999.95US. www.extensis.com
Hot Banana Software Inc. and SitePosition announced a partnership to co-market Hot Banana, a Web Content Management System, built from the ground up in harmony with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) best practices. Websites with content that has previously been inaccessible to search engine spiders, due to Macromedia’s Flash!, or dynamic or database-driven content, can now admit search engine spiders and crawlers to access all publicly-available web content, no matter how deep. Hot Banana’s ability to parse and index all existing and updated web content, information and data enables any website to achieve a balance between organic search engine rankings and a paid-ranking strategy with Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. Hot Banana is built on Macromedia’s Cold Fusion MX Server, can leverage the features available to a J2EE application server, and can be deployed on IBM’s WebSphere or Macromedia’s JRUN. Hot Banana’s database engine is Microsoft’s SQL Server, and Hot Banana is .NET-, XML-, and Web Services-ready. Web server performance is taken into consideration by caching database queries, creating persistent Web page objects, and producing cached, XML-based navigation structures. www.hotbanana.com, www.siteposition.ca
Vignette Corp. announced that it has released a comprehensive set of tools to help organizations measure and improve business efficiency. Organizations interested in the Vignette Efficiency Audit will work with experienced third-party consultants to gather their business requirements, review overall vision and justification, conduct a gap analysis, monitor use of existing investments, and develop best practices. Upon completion of the audit, Vignette and the respective partner will provide a customized report that provides a detailed picture of areas throughout the organization where efficiencies can be increased, along with customized recommendations on how to improve overall information technology performance. Organizations will have an opportunity to see potential return on investment and total cost of ownership estimates for each option based on individual definitions. Vignette partners Acquity Group and Rapidigm are the first to offer the Vignette Efficiency Audit. In addition, Vignette has developed the Vignette Efficiency Assessment and the Vignette Efficiency Evaluation. Both programs are available at no additional charge upon completing the registration requirements. www.vignette.com
Documentum announced the availability of a new portlet development toolset, new Documentum web content management portlets and enhancements to Documentum’s existing portlets. The new Documentum portlets are a set of embeddable application components that deliver out-of-box content management capabilities to any portal that supports Java Specification Request 168 (JSR 168). The new Documentum web content management portlets add to Documentum’s existing family of portlets for enterprise document management and collaboration. All of the portlets provide single sign-on functionality. The new WDK for Portlets, Documentum portlets and new Documentum web content management portlets are immediately available for use with portal servers from BEA, SUN and IBM. A set of developer and customization documentation is provided and additional materials, customization code and sample portlets are available through the Documentum Developer website’s Component Exchange. www.documentum.com
