Vasont Systems announced that Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. has joined its Vasont Important Partner (VIP) Program. Together, Vasont Systems and Lionbridge will help their clients increase the speed and efficiency of creating, managing, localizing, and publishing their multilingual content from the Vasont Content Management System. Lionbridge’s LionAccess content repository connector will integrate with Vasont, a single-source content management system that allows organizations to create, manage and publish their multilingual content. Vasont provides Unicode support to store multilingual content at the component-level in its repository for multi-channel delivery. Vasont’s integration with LionAccess simplifies organizations’ translation process and reduces costs by enabling them to use their business logic and/or content metadata to automate the process of selecting, extracting and routing their multilingual content requiring translation. www.vasont.com, www.lionbridge.com
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XyEnterprise announced the availability of two new toolkits for its Content@ content management and workflow software application. The toolkits provide a collaborative editorial and publishing review environment, as well as enabling broader sets of users to interact with the system with standard Microsoft Office applications. The Content@ Publishing Collaboration toolkit enables users to meet challenging review and notification requirements within their collaborative workflows. The Publishing Collaboration Toolkit includes tools for document version comparisons, automatic notification of changes in content to individuals or work pools, and collaborative review of content and documents. The Content@ Office Integration Toolkit facilitates the participation of the editors, authors, reviewers, publishers, and subject-matter experts who participate in the XML content lifecycle. Although these users may not be XML experts, many need the benefits of easy content access, workflow participation, version control, and re-use of content and documents. www.xyenterprise.com
Ektron Inc. announced Ektron CMS300 Version 4.5. The new version offers a more intuitive user experience, Web-based form capabilities and enhanced calendar features. Validation criteria can be assigned to public-facing HTML Web forms. Business users can click and choose several commonly used, out-of-the box validation rules to HTML form fields. Users can also auto email form data as well as export as XML to a third party application, and reports can be exported to Excel. The newest version of Ektron’s browser-based XML authoring tool, eWebEditPro+XML V4.1, is embedded in CMS300. The editor now includes spreadsheet-like math capabilities. Ektron has improved the CMS300 user experience by giving it the look and feel of Microsoft Outlook 2003. CMS300 allows business users, not only developers, to maintain and control multi-level navigation menus, and include items such as content blocks, library assets, external hyperlinks, forms, and other menus. www.ektron.com
Weborganic Systems announced Version 3.0 of PageSeeder. With this upgrade users are now able to create and manage document annotations across the full range of Adobe Acrobat clients, including older versions and the Acrobat Reader client. Other features include: an interface allowing non-technical users to create private and secure review groups featuring mail list capabilities; messaging support to allow reviewers to interact using native Acrobat commenting tools, web forms or standard email clients; the ability to lodge documents for review either by uploading or emailing attachment files; support for HTML, PDF and standard Office formats and international characters (Unicode); and availability either with a web-interface or as a middleware server and API for integration into existing document management environments. PageSeeder Version 3.0 is available immediately and can be evaluated either online or as a 30-day trial download. www.weborganic.com
Hot Banana Software Inc. and NI Solutions announced the signing of a
partnership agreement to deliver Hot Banana’s Web Content Management System
to NI Solutions’ customers and to allow joint marketing of the solution. www.hotbanana.com, www.nisolutions.ca
Xpriori announced the availability of a public beta release of Xpriori’s NeoCore XMS-Developer for Linux. Available to all who participate in Xpriori’s public beta program, the download is fully functional and has no time limit. Only upon deployment of solutions based on NeoCore XMS must a deployment license be obtained. NeoCore XMS is a Unified XML Information Management System/Database that can manage data and documents, as well as a variety of content types such as spreadsheets, media files, and forms in a fully transactional and access controlled environment. Support for free developer versions of Xpriori products is available on the interactive developer forum at www.xpriori.com/developers
Accenture and FileNet Corporation announced new technology that enables insurance field agents and other mobile workers to electronically perform tasks that once required mounds of paperwork. The technology, designed for use with low-cost commercially available digital pens in conjunction with FileNet Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, allows mobile workers to capture and transmit information to a central repository, where it can be put to work to initiate business processes. The Digital Pen Connector software, written by Accenture Technology Labs, captures the pen strokes, translates them into usable data, and delivers the data to the FileNet ECM system. FileNet ECM then integrates the data in a central content repository for sharing and launches business processes according to the requirements of the business. The solution provides a low-cost alternative to equipping workers with costlier pen-based devices, such as tablet computers or personal digital assistants, and should benefit industries that rely heavily on paper-based processes. www.accenture.com, www.filenet.com
Microsoft Corp. unveiled a preview of the Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Insurance Forms. The accelerator is designed to help insurance industry customers by tying standardized ACORD forms with XML Web services and making those forms available to participants of any of the ACORD forms programs through the use of Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 information gathering program. The accelerator comprises the ACORD forms and XML schemas designed for use with InfoPath 2003, a set of workflow transactions using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, and prescriptive architecture and code for Web services, security and digital signatures. The full release of the accelerator will coincide with the release of the Microsoft Office 2003 Editions Service Pack 1 later this year. The service pack will include several enhancements to InfoPath 2003. www.microsoft.com
