MetaMatrix announced the signing of a technology partnership with Business Objects. Under the terms of the agreement, MetaMatrix will join the Business Objects Technology Partner Program and the two companies will engage in joint sales and marketing activities of there EII and BI offerings. MetaMatrix enables organizations using the business intelligence platform and tools from Business Objects to complement their implementations with on-demand access to information integrated from disparate sources including data warehouses, ERP and CRM applications, legacy systems, as well as XML and ODBC-based data sources. With its library of connectors to packaged applications and data sources, including SAP R/3, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel, MetaMatrix can also co-exist with Business Objects Data Integrator, a batch and real-time data integration platform, and help to provide on-demand information access across disparate data silos. MetaMatrix is also able to provide Business Objects customers with metadata management capabilities. www.businessobjects.com, www.metamatrix.com
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Verity Inc. and eFORCE Inc. announced an agreement to provide healthcare organizations with an integrated portal solution. The agreement calls for both companies to co-market and co-sell their respective technologies to each other’s client base in the healthcare arena. With this agreement, joint customers will be able to leverage Verity K2 Enterprise’s advanced search, classification and recommendation capabilities within a portal framework consisting of repeatable processes, methodologies and technology deployed using the eFORCE Global Delivery Model. Verity K2 Enterprise’s advanced search, classification and recommendation capabilities can enable users to search, browse and retrieve any content within the eFORCE portal. In addition, the Verity solution’s real-time indexing capability can enable users to search and retrieve this information as soon as it is created or modified. www.eforceglobal.com, www.verity.com
Stellent, Inc. announced that its Stellent Imaging and Business Process Management solution achieved EnterpriseOne 8.9 and 8.10 certification by PeopleSoft, Inc. This interface certification, conducted by the PeopleSoft Partner Certification team, helps assure EnterpriseOne users that Stellent delivers a ready-to-use solution. Stellent Imaging and Business Process Management allows customers to extend the functionality of their existing PeopleSoft deployments by adding document imaging, workflow and collaboration capabilities. With Stellent, EnterpriseOne 8.9 and 8.10 users can capture, store, access and participate in the flow of business transaction data and documents from a single, integrated PeopleSoft application. Integrated solutions from Stellent include accounts payable, accounts receivable, travel and expense reporting, and human resources. www.stellent.com
A group of thirty content management experts from around the world has announced the formation of CM Professionals (CM Pros), an international community of content management professionals whose purpose is to further best practices based on shared experiences of experts and peers. CM Pros offers a members-only mailing list, a collaborative website, discussion forums, issue-oriented group blogs, knowledge wikis, syndicated web services, a job board, a professional directory and a calendar of face-to-face meeting opportunities. CM Pros will raise awareness of content management as an essential discipline that builds value, both financial and human, for companies and organizations. CM Professionals 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.A.). (www.gilbane.com/CM_conference_Boston_04.html). As CM Professionals grows they will work closely with other organizations that share many of our goals. CM Pros will coordinate thinking about recommended standards for best practices with these organizations, and will work closely with graduate schools that are training the next generation of information professionals. www.cmprofessionals.org
Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity Extractor 1.0, software that identifies and extracts concepts, patterns and entities in content distributed across an organization. It is the first such Verity product that integrates directly with the company’s enterprise-class search, classification and recommendation technologies. The tools include combinations of Parametric Selection, fielded search and full-text search that use the extracted entities to enhance search relevancy. Entities identified by Verity Extractor can also be used to enable Verity faceted taxonomies. The most common information entities are ready to deploy out-of-the-box with Verity Extractor. They include: names of commercial organizations, people, places, postal/Internet addresses, phone numbers, dates, times, numbers, prices and amount of currency, Imperial and metric measures, Social Security numbers, job titles and holidays. www.verity.com
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced FAST InStream, an OEM enterprise search solution developed specifically for independent software vendors (ISVs). Based upon FAST’s Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP). Supporting both structured and unstructured data, FAST InStream provides value across all types of software applications, including: Enterprise Portals, Content and Document Management systems, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions, Business Intelligence (BI) suites and applications, and Storage and Archiving solutions. www.fastsearch.com
WM-data joined IBM’s ISV Advantage Initiative, a program designed to provide independent software vendors (ISVs) with technical and marketing support to help meet the specific information technology needs of small and medium businesses (SMB) and public sector customers. Enabling jContentM on IBM’s middleware; WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Application Server, DB2 Universal Database and IBM eServers running Linux will help WM-data offer the market a Content Management Solution. The Content Management system jContentM contains all the functionality needed to build and maintain a constantly changing website. The system enables business users to create and approve documents, get them to the Web faster and keep a dynamic inventory of the content. WM-data will also work closely with IBM to expand its visibility in target vertical industries through various co-marketing and sales activities for Content Management Solutions. www.ibm.com, www.wmdata.com
Open Text Corporation announced a new Livelink solution which integrates with PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 8.8 to improve invoice handling and reduce processing costs for customers. The Open Text solution, called Livelink for Accounts Payable, applies Livelink’s workflow and document management tools to facilitate the processing and tracking of invoice documentation. Livelink for Accounts Payable offers a complete solution that includes flexible workflow to manage invoice routing, document management capabilities and data capture technology. The solution also provides data entry with document imaging, optical character recognition, and “heads-up” data entry, in which online guides give users a way to enter invoices. Once an invoice is approved, Livelink for Accounts Payable automatically provides invoice data to users creating invoices in PeopleSoft. www.opentext.com
