Adobe Systems Incorporated and GeoTrust, Inc. announced the availability of a jointly-developed certified document service or “CDS” solution. Now, people who receive certified Adobe PDF files can be automatically assured that the author’s identity has been verified by a trusted organization, and that the document has not been altered. Through the reach of the free Adobe Reader organizations can use the new GeoTrust True Credentials digital signing solution for creating trusted electronic documents to conduct business and communicate with customers, constituents, partners and suppliers. CDS signing significantly raises the level of document integrity and verification over traditional digital signing because the user’s digital credentials must be issued by a WebTrust-certified authority using strict vetting guidelines, and then must be stored on a secure cryptographic hardware device. Adobe Acrobat 6.0, Adobe LiveCycle Document Security software and GeoTrust True Credentials for Adobe Acrobat certificate offerings are currently available. A single-user, 1-year signing credential provided on a cryptographic token is priced at (US) $895.00 and is available from GeoTrust. For information on enterprise-wide solutions and volume pricing discounts contact GeoTrust. www.adobe.com, www.geotrust.com
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Scientific Software, Inc. announced a new federated search engine for the desktop PC that is integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer. Scientific Software FUSION Search is a federated search engine that provides database-driven searches across multiple content sources via a single query. FUSION Search helps users get control of the emails and data they generate by allowing them to quickly search and retrieve content. FUSION Search focuses on finding information where the bulk of it resides on the desktop, on corporate shared drives, and on other knowledge worker and peer PCs. It also indexes and searches your email and attachments, Google, the Scientific Software Enterprise Content Manager (ECM) repository, and other 3rd party databases, applications and content repositories. FUSION Search a grid computing architecture for optimal performance. Instead of maintaining and updating a master index, FUSION Search incorporates a central web service that receives and processes requests from remote computers. Each remote computer has its own FUSION Search database index which reports these results sets to the central web service via XML over HTTP/SOAP messaging. The product is targeted for release in 4Q 2004. www.scisw.com
Interwoven, Inc. introduced enhancements in TeamSite 6.5, including TeamSite Advanced Information Management Services and TeamSite ReportCenter. With the latest version of TeamSite, Interwoven is delivering information reporting and re-use as well as business process optimization, and Full Parametric Search, Site-Specific Reporting, Advanced Tracking Reports, and Pre-Packaged Reports. Interwoven also announced it has embedded Verity search technology into its newest version of TeamSite. TeamSite Advanced Information Management Services and TeamSite ReportCenter are generally available in October. www.interwoven.com, www.verity.com
Day and TRADOS announced an initiative that delivers global branding solutions combining TRADOS globalization management software with Day’s content management solutions. It enables corporations to deliver the same, accurate messages to all their global markets, speaking in one voice across the linguistic divides. This Day-TRADOS initiative gives multinational companies a single, consistent, way to manage and globalize brand content. The initiative from Day and TRADOS enables delivery of global brand content in multiple languages, offering: joint Day-TRADOS technology solutions for delivering global content with consistent messaging and branding; and coordinated marketing, sales, delivery, and support from Day and TRADOS to ensure quality customer experience. www.day.com, www.trados.com
Captaris, Inc. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Information Management Research (IMR) Inc., a software vendor in the archiving and records management market. IMR’s Alchemy product line helps organizations capture, archive and retrieve business information. The combination of IMR and Captaris will enable the company to provide complete solutions for Business Information Delivery. Captaris will purchase IMR for $26.5 million in cash consideration, subject to a net working capital adjustment at closing. The transaction is expected to close in October, subject to customary closing conditions. IMR is an Integrated Document Archive and Retrieval Systems (IDARS) vendor. The company’s Microsoft-based solutions complement other Captaris solutions including the RightFax enterprise fax and e-document delivery, Teamplate business process workflow and Interchange information automation products. www.imrgold.com, www.captaris.com
Altova introduced version 2005 of its product line to enable accelerated application development and data integration. Altova software version 2005 includes a native implementation of the W3C’s XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 specifications across the entire product line, as well as native support for XQuery 1.0. In addition, version 2005 adds new features to all of Altova’s products, including graphical schema management, automated function building, Eclipse integration, and relational database content editing. Beta versions of XMLSpy 2005, MapForce 2005, StyleVision 2005, and Authentic 2005 are immediately available through the Altova website. A valid Altova Support and Maintenance Package (SMP) entitles current customers to download and activate the beta software free of charge through October 31, 2004. Customers with active SMP will become eligible for a free upgrade to version 2005 production software beginning on November 1, 2004. Customers who purchase any Altova product from October 4, 2004 through October 31, 2004 will get the SMP free of charge for one full year along with immediate access to the version 2005 beta products. www.altova.com
Datawatch Corporation released Datawatch|Researcher, for collaborative, documented research of enterprise content and metadata to support compliance, auditing, accounting and billing processes. Datawatch acquired the Researcher technology with its purchase of Mergence Technologies Corporation. Datawatch|Researcher searches inter-related data, documents, and communications scattered over multiple repositories, then merges and analyzes the results into comprehensive actionable case records. Combined with Datawatch|ES, Datawatch’s report management and mining solution, this allows customers to unite enterprise information and support decision-making and reporting for compliance initiatives. Datawatch|Researcher is available now from Datawatch and its partners. Enterprise subscription pricing starts at $2,395 per month for a Datawatch|Researcher license that supports up to five users. Datawatch|Researcher runs on Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP1 or Windows 2003 Server, and .NET Framework V1.1+. www.datawatch.com
Northern Light announced that it has released a new version of its business search engine and that the new version is available to individual users in addition to enterprises. Business professionals can use the Business Research Engine to search: 20 million web pages from 16,000 editorially-selected websites of public companies, private companies, trade journal and trade associations, venture funded companies, venture capital companies, corporate law firms, MBA programs, and the agencies of the Federal Government that regulate business; industry commentary and analysis from 5 million articles from 1,400 trade journals with the full-text and all the graphics, charts, and tables from the articles; and current news with over 7,000 stories per day from over 70 licensed newswires with the full-text index updated every two minutes. All content in the search database is classified to over 40 industries so users can drill down into the information most relevant to their jobs. A new feature in the Business Research Engine is customizable Search Alerts that allow users to save any search and be updated daily whenever the news, journals, or Web content has new material that matches their interests. Additionally, users can customize the Business Research Engine by adding websites that they frequently review for industry information to the database for full-text searching. Individuals can subscribe to the Northern Light Business Research Engine for $50 per month for unlimited searching, document downloads, and Search Alerts. For enterprises, there is a 5-seat small office license for $2,500 per year. Unlimited enterprise-wide licenses are available for $36,000 per year. Free 30-day trials are available. www.nlresearch.com, www.northernlight.com
