Astoria and Innodata Isogen, Inc. announced a preferred partnership to deliver authoring, content management and publishing solutions to select industries, beginning with Aerospace and Defense. The agreement is an offering to technical publishing and project documentation groups in aerospace and other industries. Technical publishers at the contractor level and military end-users will be able to author, manage, update and publish documentation in a flexible framework that accommodates current Mil-Spec requirements and manages legacy formats. www.innodata-isogen.com, www.astoriasoftware.com
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Mediasurface has unveiled the latest version of its Enterprise Content Management system. Mediasurface 5.1 contains features designed to improve the way businesses manage and control their websites; it gives non-technical users more power to produce the websites their businesses require and the IT department facilities to run a web application. Morello, Mediasurface’s Smart Client application, has been enhanced to facilitate better collaboration, off-line working and has a more intuitive look and feel, with visual workflow, drag and drop, copy and paste and undo functionality. The workgroup collaboration features of Mediasurface 5.1 follow the principles of standard instant messaging services, but are enhanced to bring teams working on web projects closer together. As well as the ability to send and receive messages in real-time, Mediasurface 5.1 allows pages, links and other items to be dragged and dropped into the message pane, so that a dispersed team can simultaneously view and comment on aspects of the site they are building. Users get instant notification of workflow-related matters, such as completed work that needs their approval. Also, when a page is unavailable because another person is working on it, users can request to be automatically sent a notification when the item becomes available again. www.mediasurface.com
Arbortext, Inc. announced it has entered into a reseller partnership with CAC Corporation. CAC Corporation will work with Arbortext to provide sales, professional services and technical support for Arbortext publishing applications targeted at Japan’s pharmaceutical and financial markets. www.cac.co.jp, www.arbortext.com
CM Professionals, a group of content management professionals from around the world, will hold its first CM Summit in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies, Tuesday, November 30, 2004 in
Boston, Mass. (U.S.) The CM Summit is a peer-to-peer meeting. Sessions will take the form of participatory discussions – no talking heads reading slide shows – facilitated by some of the world’s top content management experts: Bob Boiko, Ann Rockley, Tony Byrne, Frank Gilbane, Erik Hartman, Mary Lee Kennedy, Brendan Quinn, Hilary Marsh, Bob Doyle, Scott Abel, and many others. Sessions at the summit will be devoted to content management practices that have been selected by members from among 25 best practice areas, including: Content Strategy, Business Strategy and Business Cases, Designing for Reuse, Performance Metrics, Auditing the Content, and Glossary and Resource Library. There will also be networking sessions, as well an open forum to discuss future CM Pros events and projects. “Birds-of-a-feather” sessions (informal gatherings of people with common interests) are planned for lunch at the Summit and for dinner at a Boston-area restaurant. Summit sessions will be videotaped and made available online to members who cannot travel to Boston. Fee is $100 for CM Pros members and $125 for nonmembers. Membership in CM Pros costs $50 per year. CM Summit attendees who also register for the Gilbane Conference will receive a $150 discount on their Gilbane Conference registration. Detailed program and registration information: is at , www.gilbane.com/CM_conference_Boston_04.html
DataMirror Corporation introduced Integration Suite 2005, a solution designed to solve real-time data integration challenges across relational databases and disparate computing platforms. DataMirror Integration Suite 2005 combines integration technology with global services. The data integration functionality and services is interoperable, allowing customers to utilize specific data integration capabilities separately or in unison. The Suite also supports a host of business applications, including active data warehousing, business intelligence, business activity monitoring, customer relationship management, e-Business, data auditing/compliance, data distribution, and mobile computing. DataMirror introduces a new version of its data integration software solution, DataMirror Transformation Server as a core component of Integration Suite 2005. With increased functionality aimed at helping companies share up-to-date data with customers, partners, and employees, Transformation Server 5.2 includes added flexibility, interoperability, and performance. www.datamirror.com
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
