Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, announced the availability of a new suite of solutions for Microsoft Office 2003 and SharePoint Products and Technologies. The new solution pack for Microsoft Office 2003, Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 enables information workers to easily find, organize, read and act on business news and information from inside their most used applications. Factiva has released two new Web Parts for SharePoint Products and Technologies. Track Web Part allows groups to view news about specific interest areas, while iWorks provides an innovative search tool for information workers that utilize Factiva’s XML platform and extensive indexing to tailor results. It can also be used in the Office 2003 Research Task Pane. Factiva has developed a new tool to make it easy for a company’s portal administrator to facilitate news delivery into SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Using embedded Smart Tags, Factiva users can get more information about a company directly from any Office 2003 document. The new Factiva Toolbar makes it easy for Factiva customers to search the rich Factiva archive of 9,000 global sources. www.factiva.com
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ObjectWeb, the international not-for-profit consortium dedicated to open-source infrastructure software, announced the extension of its roster of open-source projects with 3 Java middleware components for business integration: Byline content management system; eXo Platform enterprise portal; MOBE business process execution engine. With over 50 active open-source projects, ObjectWeb is federating the development of commercial grade middleware components and tools, including JOnAS – J2EE 1.4 application server; Bonita, Shark, JaWE – workflow utilities; JORAM – message-oriented middleware. The 3 new projects Byline, eXo Platform and MOBE complement ObjectWeb’s open-source middleware offering with software providing high level features for business integration. These projects were initially developed by ObjectWeb member companies in the framework of commercial offers and recently contributed to ObjectWeb code base. eXo Platform is an open-source enterprise portal solution built on the top of the Java Server Faces (JSF) web layer, and implements the portlet API (JSR 168). eXo Platform has been contributed to ObjectWeb by the new consortium member eXo Platform SARL. MOBE (MidOffice BPEL Engine) is a business process execution engine compliant with the OASIS standard BPEL (Business Process Execution Language). www.objectweb.org
