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
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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
Day and GFT Solutions announced the mutual integration of the product suites Communique and HYPARCHIV to create a content lifecycle platform. The joint platform enables companies to manage the entire lifecycle of enterprise content — from formation via active use to archiving. GFT’s HYPARCHIV covers document management and secures the archiving of company relevant information. Day complements these services with its enterprise content management system, Communique. The joint content lifecycle platform allows for creation, approval, publishing and storage, and enables companies to manage paper-based information such as invoices, offerings, letters with any kind of digital information — from E-Mails via Microsoft documents to images, movie sequence or audio files — in one system. The solution offers workflow and business process management functionality. All information can be stored via the system in data-secure archives and optical storage. The system offers interfaces for the integration of third-party solutions and is based on JSR 170. www.gft.com, www.hyparchiv.com, www.day.com
PureEdge Solutions Inc. announced that it has partnered with IBM to offer Process Automation Quick Start for Government a turn-key starter package to automate forms-based government processes. The e-Government solution will be jointly sold by IBM and PureEdge and includes sample forms, software and professional services that provide a way for state, local and federal governments to automate the delivery of grants, applications, permits and other forms and records. The Quick Start offering expedites the deployment of PureEdge XML e-forms with IBM Content Manager, and can be further extended with the addition of IBM WebSphere Business Integration tools for workflow and business process modeling. The solution will be jointly delivered by PureEdge and through IBM’s global distribution channels. www.pureedge.com
Mediasurface announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Intercea Plc, a Managed Services specialist. The new partnership will provide companies with fully managed Mediasurface solutions hosted at Intercea’s UK-based datacentre. Under the agreement, Mediasurface will become part of the Intercea product set, and will be delivered as a proactively managed service – at flexible low cost monthly payments. www.mediasurface.com, www.intercea.co.uk
