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
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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
Mark Logic Corporation announced the Open Content Architecture (OCA) and new partner network. Using Mark Logic and the solutions provided by its partners, customers now have an open, extensible platform on which content-centric applications can be rapidly built and deployed. The new partner network includes providers in content conversion, content authoring and real-time collaboration, content enrichment, entity extraction, dynamic taxonomy generation, visualization, and content integration. Together these companies will deliver solutions for customers leveraging Mark Logic as an open content database platform. Founding members in the Partner Network include: Blast Radius, ClearForest Corporation, Composite Software, Exegenix, Groxis, Intellisophic, Inxight, Itemfield, and Olive Software. Under the OCA model, customers construct content applications built on Mark Logic’s standards-based content repository with a compatible architecture. Third party solutions that provide specific functionality can be “snapped onto” the content repository as needed. www.marklogic.com
Day announced that it has made available an implementation of the Content Repository API for Java Technology (JCR) to the Apache Software Foundation in order to further promote industry adoption and collaboration of the JSR 170 standard. Apache has formed a new Incubator project, code-named “Jackrabbit”, to accept the donation and guide future development of the software. JSR 170 recently passed the public review stage of the Java Community Process, and is currently incorporating public comments. Day, as JSR 170 Specification Lead, is responsible for developing an official Reference Implementation and Testing Compatibility Kit for the Content Repository API, and has chosen to do so through the Apache open source community in order to promote open collaboration among the various industry participants and further adoption of the standard by the community of server-side Java application developers. The JSR 170 expert group includes members from 22 independent companies, including Apache, BEA, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Novell, SAP, Sun and Oracle. www.apache.org, www.day.com
