Year: 2004 (Page 43 of 75)

Bluebill Advisors, Inc. and the Gilbane Report announced the appointment of two highly respected industry veterans to meet the rapidly growing demand for the company’s consulting services. Mary Laplante has joined the company as Vice President, Consulting Services, and will be responsible for the management and operations of the Content Technology Works Program, Gilbane Report webinars, white papers, and consulting projects. Mary is well known throughout the content technology industry from her extensive industry sales, marketing, and management experience, from her work as an analyst, writer, and consultant, and from her role as Founding Executive Director of OASIS. Mary’s experience and exceptional management and organizational skills will help grow the Gilbane Report CTW program and consulting activities to the next level. Bill Zoellick has also joined the Gilbane Report as Senior Analyst, and will be devoting his considerable analytical and writing skills to the Gilbane CTW and White Paper programs. Bill is a highly regarded author whose books include “CyberRegs: A Business Guide to Web Property, Privacy, and Patents”, and “Web Engagement: Connecting to Customers in e-Business”, both from Addison-Wesley. Bill’s insightful and penetrating analysis has informed his many roles as a manager, researcher, developer and author in the content and information management industry. www.gilbane.com

GlobalSight Corporation announced that it has entered into agreement with Ireland-based software localization solution provider Alchemy Software Development for integrating Catalyst 5.0 into GlobalSight’s Ambassador product. Ambassador is an enterprise software application with localization management tools. The OEM relationship combines Catalyst’s translation of software applications with Ambassador’s enterprise process automation. Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 allows for the creation of a localization toolkit that contains all of the linguistic and cultural material that needs to be translated. Ambassador’s workflow component and enterprise architecture will enable deployment of Catalyst across large organizations, automating the creation and distribution of developer packages containing software files for software localization. The Software Localization Module will automate the creation, leveraging and extraction of files necessary for software localization; generate statistics for all actions; and enable users to track files throughout the lifecycle of the software localization process. www.globalsight.com

Stellent, Inc. announced it has entered into a strategic agreement with Protiviti Inc., an internal audit and business and technology risk consulting firm, to create a content management-based compliance platform. Under the agreement, Stellent will deliver and market compliance solutions based on the Stellent Universal Content Management system and supported by Protiviti subject matter expertise. These solutions, to be co-marketed by Protiviti, will offer capabilities such as audit trails; document management; project management and reporting; personalized interfaces; automated process documentation collection and process testing; secure, Web-based access by internal and external users; and records management. www.stellent.com, www.protiviti.com

Altova Inc. announced the immediate availability of Release 4 of its Version 2004 product line. Among the major enhancements are extended data-mapping functionality in Altova MAPFORCE 2004, a completely redesigned Altova STYLEVISION 2004, and numerous upgrades to XMLSPY 2004. The entire Version 2004 Release 4 (v2004r4) product line is available for immediate download. In addition to the new features in v2004r4, the Altova Support and Maintenance Package (SMP) now includes coverage for major software releases. New bundled packaging for suites was also announced. Altova Enterprise XML Suite includes v2004r4 Enterprise Editions of XMLSPY, MAPFORCE and STYLEVISION at a savings of almost $700 (USD) off regular price of products purchased separately. Altova Professional XML Suite includes v2004r4 Professional Editions of XMLSPY, MAPFORCE and STYLEVISION at a savings of almost $250 (USD) off regular price of products purchased separately. www.altova.com

Idiom Technologies, Inc. expanded the WorldServer product family with the introduction of a new, application-specific version of WorldServer designed to meet the needs of global electronic publishing organizations. WorldServer Global Electronic Publishing enables cross-functional teams including authors, reviewers, editors, translators, localization specialists, and publishers to automate large portions of the document lifecycle, and deliver content in any format or language. With version control, an integrated XML repository, an extensible publishing framework, “preview in-context” capabilities, and search & query functions, the new member of the WorldServer product family enables “continuous translation” of complex documents. The new Idiom solution supports a variety of digital publishing formats including HTML, PDF, CHM (complied help), as well as print. And it is designed to work with authoring tools, such as Adobe FrameMaker. www.idiominc.com

TeraText Solutions, a division of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), announced that it has entered into a license agreement with Stellent, Inc.’s Content Components Division to embed Stellent Outside In XML Export, HTML Export, and Viewer technology for use in TeraText Database Systems. SAIC’s TeraText Database Systems (DBS) is an information management system optimized for storing and manipulating large volumes of text and managing large structured text databases. Stellent’s tools expand TeraText’s existing capabilities by providing the ability to convert more than 250 proprietary file formats to XML or HTML for indexing and searching in conjunction with the TeraText DBS. TeraText technology was developed at Melbourne-based RMIT University. In July 2001, SAIC entered into an exclusive agreement with RMIT to develop and commercialize TeraText technology in North America and Europe. The TeraText DBS is sold as part of customized, integrated solutions developed and maintained by SAIC systems specialists. Applications include intelligence gathering, technical documentation, legislation management, publishing, and knowledge management. www.saic.com

Comprendium announced the immediate availability of ContentGateWay 2.1. This version of its content integration solution extends product functionality, while making it simpler to use. Building on Comprendium’s Content Services Platform concept ContentGateWay 2.1 includes additional application and infrastructure platform support; enhanced security, scalability and availability features; and a number of end-user enhancements. ContentGateWay 2.1 enhances support for essential enterprise functionality, including load balancing, clustering, caching, and replication. ContentGateWay2.1 provides a unified interface to all content repositories (e.g. XML, Java, .net) by supporting any available protocol such as Corba, SOAP, JMS, RMI, and SMI Comprendium’s optimized content protocol. With the new Virtual View users no longer need to know where content resides, since all integrated repositories are available. They can also easily build their own content GUIs or integrate them into existing applications through the availability of content access visual content components (e.g. taglibs, ActiveX). ContentGateWay is based on J2EE and includes a SOAP-based interface. www.comprendium.biz