Day: September 26, 2004

Indraweb.com, Inc. announced that it has officially changed its name to Intellisophic, Inc. According to company management, the name change more accurately reflects the company’s core offering and marks a shift in strategic focus. “Sophic” means “teaching wisdom”, reflecting how the company leverages trusted knowledge sources such as encyclopedias, text books and reference manuals to develop taxonomic data. The company is also bringing a new emphasis on partnerships and has invited other vendors to license the content for use in their applications. Intellisophic offers its products to customers across a wide variety of industries, including life sciences, information publishing and government intelligence agencies. The company has also recently forged alliances with other technology providers such as Inxight, DFI International, Mark Logic and DataLever which enhance their product offerings with Intellisophic’s taxonomic content. www.intellisophic.com

INSCI Corp. announced its Channel Marketing Solution. The solution is available as installed software or via INSCI hosted services (ASP), and is designed to enable companies to accelerate their global channel marketing programs; reduce marketing distribution costs; increase visibility and market share through each distributor; and improve productivity through the intelligent reuse of content for campaigns worldwide. Built on INSCI’s enterprise DAM technology, the INSCI Channel Marketing Solution is a complete solution for the centralized management of marketing materials, from creation to distribution. The system’s metadata model automates the distribution of content, so companies can create secure, web-based portals for sharing and distributing marketing materials to internal groups, outside agencies, distributors, and product consumers. Easily modified, the user interface of the Channel Marketing Solution can be customized for each user group — distributors, vendors, agencies, and consumers can have a different user experience, viewing only the content relevant to their needs. The Channel Marketing Solution is shipping and available today. www.insci.com

Verity Inc. announced the immediate availability of its latest Verity KeyView Software Development Kits (SDKs) for enterprise applications, version 8. The Verity KeyView Filter SDK lets applications filter and extract text from multiple formats on a wide variety of platforms. The SDK can automatically recognize up to 296 file types and apply the correct filter without relying on filename extensions. Verity KeyView release 8 now offers support for the latest version of Adobe PDF 1.5, OpenOffice 1.0, Microsoft Office 2003 XML, Sun StarOffice 7.0 and Visio 2003. Valid XML and Web-ready HTML conversion is achieved with the Verity KeyView Export SDK. This SDK provides controlled data structure conversion for XML and HTML formatting. Verity KeyView Viewing SDK allows the display and printing of a multitude of file formats with high fidelity. This latest release provides a viewing application programming interface and ActiveX Control, which allows the integration of this SDK into an enterprise application faster and easier than previous versions. The Verity KeyView 8.0 Software Development Kits are now available. www.verity.com

FileNet Corporation announced its FileNet P8 3.0 platform offers support for Microsoft Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0, which helps to simplify the development of secure XML Web Services. Microsoft WSE 2.0 is part of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and is integrated within the .NET Framework, enabling Windows developers to build secure XML Web Services based on the latest Web Services protocol specifications. Support for XML Web Services and Visual Studio .NET enables FileNet to support customers that are moving to adopt Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). XML Web Services makes it easier to integrate content and process management capabilities into business applications. www.filenet.com

webEdition Software Ltd. announced a new program in which the Web site content management system (CMS) software vendor will offer their product for free to schools throughout North America. In doing so, webEdition Software Limited is doing its part to help schools build current and informative Web sites for teachers, administrators, students and parents alike. To help remedy a persistent Web site maintenance problem, and to enhance the professionalism of the homepages published by North American schools, webEdition is offering the Standard Version of their software free of charge to eligible primary and secondary educational institutions. Schools that wish to take advantage of this webEdition “School Homepage Offer” can acquire further details at:

Market Central, Inc. announced the immediate availability of SourceWare Search, the company’s new fully automated, “intent-based” search solution. SourceWare Search was established to fill a void within the corporate enterprise and commercial search markets for a deductive search engine capable of providing relevance and personalization to users at multi-terabyte scale. SourceWare Search will enable specialized portals to offer fast service and relevant data to its customers by gauging user intent. Using natural language processing and interactive artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms based on automated classification, SourceWare Search creates meta-data. As a result, SourceWare Search is able to process information in a number of ways to accomplish real-time updates to the production environment, classification, and natural language processing. SourceWare Search is available direct from Market Central. Pricing is dependent on product application and licensing, starting at around $25,000 USD. www.marketcentral.com