Verity Inc. and Proxicom Inc. announced a strategic partnership to provide integration of Verity K2 Enterprise (K2E) search and classification technologies with Proxicom’s Healthcare and Life Sciences solution offering. Initially, the two companies plan to co-market Proxicom’s industry-leading Health Plan Provider Portal Solution. Proxicom’s Health Plan Provider Portal is a secure, rapidly deployed, extranet portal for managing claims, benefits, eligibility, and ongoing physician education and research. The Provider Portal aims to make it easier for providers to do business with a health plan. Verity K2E’s search and classification capabilities aim to provide joint customers the ability to quickly and easily search, browse and retrieve any content within the Proxicom’s Provider Portal. Verity K2E also supports multiple languages to allow global healthcare centers using the Proxicom’s Portal to index, classify, search and retrieve information in more than 70 languages. www.proxicom.com, www.verity.com
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ABBYY announced the availability of ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Scripting Edition, a development tool that allows VARs, system integrators and corporate developers to customize the FineReader OCR application and integrate its interface and functionality into new or existing Windows applications. ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Scripting Edition is for use with document conversion, document recognition, and document imaging applications. FineReader 7.0 Scripting Edition’s automation API makes it easier to integrate ABBYY OCR into document management systems, electronic archives, or any other external information system. Developers can create systems through customization, extension and automation of the FineReader application. ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Scripting Edition is available now with developer and runtime licenses. www.abbyyusa.com
Vasont Systems announced the release of Vasont 9.0, the latest version of its content management system that enables organizations to store their multilingual content once for delivery to print, PDF, CD-ROM and Web formats. Vasont 9.0 has streamlined common content transactions to reduce network traffic and process content faster, and comes with over 100 new processing options, bringing the total to 500 processing options available. Vasont 9.0 features new XSLT integration, advanced XML schema support, enhanced versioning interface, enhanced link management capability, printable content reuse reports, improved search features that allow users to filter and find content within the text of more than 200 different file formats, advanced Unicode support that allows users to “mix-and-match” any Unicode format, and enhanced reporting and control capability over global changes. Vasont 9.0 will be available in August. www.vasont.com
Gravitymax Pty Ltd, announced the release of Infomaxim 3.6. Infomaxim is a platform for content management, with the functional flexibility to handle complex product information, and customer details, and general articles. It also offers enterprise content management with work flow, security and separated stage and production server publishing. Targeted applications range from traditional web content management, to online stores, corporate Intranets and applications. There is no server-side programming required. Version 3.6 adds a slew of new features including: Shopping Cart, Order Processing & Fulfilment, Payment Gateway Integration, Client-Side Visitor Metrics Tracking, Campaign Tracking, Query Builder & Reporting, Multi-level caching, and Email Broadcasting with View, Click and Bounce tracking. Infomaxim is built on Microsoft’s IIS platform, with elements of the system utilising the .NET framework. Development is continuing toward release of a 100% ASP.NET version in late-2004. www.gravitymax.com.au
TeraText Solutions, a division of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance agreement with HP. Under the terms of the agreement, HP will provide its federal sales organization with information on SAIC’s TeraText Database Systems (DBS) and how it works with or complements HP’s current solutions and services. TeraText DBS is a combination text database and search engine that provides the necessary functionality for storing, indexing, retrieving and delivering documents or XML-based records across an organization. The TeraText DBS is designed to manage very large, text-based collections. 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
Form Genus LLC released TakeForm Dynamic Content version 1.1 with support for web publishing and large file handling. TakeForm Dynamic Content lets end users create customizable, secure content publishing and collaboration centers called “Views” for a wide variety of personal and collaborative applications including project management, secured file exchange, organization information sites, and information publishing. TakeForm version 1.1 lets users instantly publish their views as Web sites. Web published views retain the security and functionality of the original view without the need to install a TakeForm View reader. TakeForm version 1.1 also adds improved support for large files and group management. Form Genus offers a variety of free and monthly fee based hosting plans for web published views and data archiving depending on users’ needs. www.formgenus.com
Context Media, Inc. announced that Japan-based Rikei Corp. will distribute and provide content application services for Context Media’s Interchange Suite to organizations throughout Japan. The agreement is part Context Media’s planned expansion into the Asian market. As part of the deal, Rikei will be responsible for recruiting and managing relationships with additional distributors, working with current Context Media partner, IBM, and spearheading customer deals in Japan. www.contextmedia.com, www.rikei.co.jp
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Working Group has released two publications. HTML and XHTML Frequently Answered Questions (FAQs) is written for Web content authors and designers. XML Events for HTML Authors introduces XML Events and its advantages over the ‘onclick’ style of event handling. Visit the HTML home page. www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq
