Docucorp International announced the availability of Transall 11.0, a new version of its data translation tool that enables data interchange between enterprise-wide applications. Transall extracts data from host and PC-based files, XML documents, print streams and databases, and then organizes and normalizes the data for storage or use with other systems. Transall 11.0 highlights include: Print stream data source – offers new capabilities for gathering data from print stream files, including AFP, Metacode, PCL and text; Enhanced scripting syntax support – expands support for Visual Basic’s scripting language, including new syntax constructs and built-in functions; Enhanced source and destination metadata update – automates the process of updating data source and destination content; and Scripted data sources and destinations – processes data from new types of sources and destinations, such as custom DLLs, COM or Java objects. Current licensees of Transall will receive upgrade notices from Docucorp’s Customer Support on how to receive the newest version. www.docucorp.com
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The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced the speaker line-up for the three keynote panels at the Gilbane Conference on Content Management to be held at the Westin Copley in Boston, November 30 – December 2, 2004. The opening keynote panel on Tuesday November 30, 8:30 – 10:00am includes six highly-respected industry analysts who will provide an up-to-the-minute update on technologies & trends. Moderated by Frank Gilbane, the panelists include: Steven Ashley, Senior VP Research, Baird & Co., Joshua Duhl, Research Director, Content Management and Rich Media, IDC, Hadley Reynolds, Vice President & Research Director, Delphi, Robert Markham, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Vice President North America, Ovum, and Mike Maziarka, Director, InfoTrends/CAP Ventures. The pre-reception keynote panel on November 30, 3:45 – 5:15pm will debate some of the key decisions facing content technology strategists and system architects, such as “Open” document formats, XHTML vs. HTML, and XSL vs. CSS. The expert panel includes: Jon Udell, Lead Analyst, InfoWorld, Bob Boiko, Author, The Content Management Bible, and Lecturer, University of Washington iSchool, Tony Byrne, Editor, CMSWatch; Author, The CMS Report, and Matt May, Web Accessibility Specialist, W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). In the opening keynote panel on Wednesday December 1, 8:30 – 10:00am senior executives involved in forward-thinking content technology and business strategies will share their views on best practices & implementation strategies. Panelists include: David B. Liroff, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, WGBH Educational Foundation, Mario Queiroz, Vice President, Content and Product Data Management, HP, and Bill Benz, Vice President, eBusiness, J. & W. Seligman. The three keynote panels are free to all exhibit-only and conference attendees. See
Addressing comments received during Last Call, the World Wide Web Consortium XSL Working Group has released a Working Draft of XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0. Comments are welcome. Version 2.0 of the XSLT language allows transformation of XML documents and non-XML data into other documents, is designed for use with XPath 2.0 and includes the means to serialize the results of a transformation. www.w3.org/TR/xpath20
Hot Banana Software Inc. has signed Connexion Corporate Communications SA of Brussels, Belgium as a Channel Partner for Hot Banana software. Hot Banana is now immediately available in Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Northern France. This agreement marks Hot Banana’s entry into the European market. Hot Banana presents Web content in a search engine-friendly manner, so that all search engines that crawl the Web can access a Hot Banana Web site in a totally
unrestrictive way. This enables the site to achieve the all-important balance between organic search engine rankings on the one hand and a paid-ranking strategy with all the leading search engines, including Google, Yahoo!, and MSN, on the other. Hot Banana allows organizations to develop a sophisticated Web presence on the Internet, Extranet and Intranet, and helps to develop marketing campaign Micro-Sites, and then leverage the content of those sites to the maximum so that Internet sales and marketing campaigns are fully optimized. www.connexion.be, www.hotbanana.com
Alchemy Software Development Limited announced the release of a new solution the Alchemy TRADOS Component that bridges the gap between localizing visual content in software and localizing content in product documents and other materials. The solution, developed jointly with TRADOS Inc. reduces the complexity and time required to share translated content and terminology between the different formats. The Alchemy TRADOS Component enables an organization to move translated content from Alchemy CATALYST’s software localization process into product content globalization on TRADOS Translation Memory Server and TRADOS MultiTerm Server for use in technical and marketing documentation and information. http://www.alchemysoftware.ie, www.trados.com
The Unicode Consortium announced the release of new versions of the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR 1.2) and the Locale Data Markup Language specification (LDML 1.2), providing key building blocks for software to support the world’s languages. This new release contains data for 232 locales, covering 72 languages and 108 territories. There are also 63 draft locales in the process of being developed, covering an additional 27 languages and 28 territories.
To support users in different languages, programs must not only use translated text, but must also be adapted to local conventions. These conventions differ by language or region and include the formatting of numbers, dates, times, and currency values, as well as support for differences in measurement units or text sorting order. Most operating systems and many application programs currently maintain their own repositories of locale data to support these conventions. But such data are often incomplete, idiosyncratic, or gratuitously different from program to program. The CLDR project provides a general XML format, LDML, for the exchange of locale information used in application and system software development, combined with a public repository for a common set of locale data in that format. In this release, there are major additions to the CLDR data, to the LDML specification, and in implementation support. The CLDR is continually being enhanced and extended, with CLDR 1.3 expected early in 2005. All new data or defect reports for CLDR 1.3 must be submitted no later than January 15, 2005 www.unicode.org
INSCI unveiled its new corporate name, ClearStory Systems, and announced the Radiant Content Suite, a suite of enterprise solutions built on the company’s content management technology. At the heart of the Radiant Content Suite is the Company’s media platform, which provides capabilities for developing targeted rich-media content management solutions. ClearStory’s Radiant Content Suite is deployed through a set of targeted solutions that support the use of enterprise content — from business documents and email to video, compound documents, and other rich media. Solutions within the Radiant Content Suite focus on key functional areas such as Video Communications, Marketing Content Management, Customer Service, Enterprise Media Services, Enterprise Report Management, and Compliance Content Management. The ClearStory portfolio includes INSCI’s fixed-content management solutions along with the WebWare digital asset management solutions and hosted services. www.clearstorysystems.com
Informative Graphics Corp. (IGC) announced that the company has entered into a business and technology partnership with SealedMedia Inc. SealedMedia integrates with existing business systems to deliver protection of an organization’s digital information. It supports standard document formats such as e-mail (Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes), Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe PDF and HTML, in addition to image, audio and video formats. IGC’s Brava! visualization and collaboration products, Net-It content publishing products, and ModelPress 3D publishing and viewing software support the major CAD/engineering and office formats, and are integrated with content management solutions such as Documentum, Open Text, and Microsoft SharePoint. The two companies will work together to develop an integration of IGC’s view, markup, and Visual Rights publishing technology for CAD drawings, 3D models and other non-Microsoft formats with SealedMedia’s document security solution. www.infograph.com, www.sealedmedia.com
