Open TextCorporation introduced an online community of practice for government customers, giving them an always-open forum to share ideas and best practices for applying Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software in government. The community, which is based on Livelink, allows Open Text to use its own technology and expertise in collaboration to establish closer relationships with customers. Open Text hosts the forum in a Livelink community workspace which provides collaboration tools, such as a Weblog and community polls, so members can share opinions and ideas. Using the browser interface or e-mail, community members can share documents, articles, presentations, URLs, media files and other materials of interest to members. The community contains information on new technology, training and user adoption, government IT standards and requirements, government technology events and webinars, and Livelink product updates. Other tools allow users to rate content shared in the forum and receive e-mail alerts when new information is added to the site. www.opentext.com/government
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Modulo Systems and IXIASOFT announced a new VAR partnership to provide an XML archive and retrieval system to the publishing market by embedding IXIASOFT’s TEXTML Server at the heart of Modulo’s solutions. TEXTML Server will provide its native XML database and indexing technology as an archive repository and search engine within Modulo’s suite of products. As part of the partnership, Modulo will also provide custom development services for clients wanting to leverage IXIASOFT’s XML technology. www.modulosystems.com, www.ixiasoft.com
Microsoft Corp.announced the addition of the XML schema used by Microsoft Office Visio 2003, DataDiagramML, to the Microsoft Open and Royalty-Free Office 2003 XML reference schema program announced in November 2003. Through the Microsoft documentation and a royalty-free license, customers and partners can take advantage of the XML schema in its diagramming and data visualization tool. The availability of the Visio schema provides a complete and W3C-compliant description of the Visio XML file format, enabling organizations to access information captured in their Visio diagrams and use it with other XML-enabled applications, such as CRM and ERP systems, as part of their business processes. Customers and partners interested in obtaining documentation on the DataDiagramML schema can download it, as part Microsoft’s royalty-free licensing program, from the Microsoft Office Developer Center on MSDN. www.microsoft.com
Inmedius, Inc. announced a strategic partnership with Vektas Ltd, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Inmedius will be the first company to distribute and support Vektas professional authoring tools, including their new Warrior application that is compliant with the S1000D Technical Publications Specification (also referred to as AECMA), throughout North America. The partnership begins with the immediate availability of Vektas products, Warrior, Armada and ARK, in the United States and Canada through Inmedius. Additional product capabilities and enhancements will emerge throughout 2004. www.vektas.com, www.Inmedius.com
Systems Alliance, Inc. announced the release of Site Executive 3.3, the newest version of its Web Content Management System. The new release delivers enhancements and tools that further reduce web-page authoring time. By removing steps in the process between content creation and online publishing, Site Executive enables organizations to have more dynamic, up-to-date websites. Systems Alliance deploys Site Executive in a variety of customized formats, tailoring the product for each of the industries the company serves, including the higher education, government, healthcare, publishing and financial sectors. The latest release features enhancements to its web content editor, adding spell check and find and replace capability, a more advanced preview capabilities and other editing tools. Version 3.3 also adds special interfaces for accessing detailed information on website utilities, as well as integrating Object Viewer for debugging purposes. www.systemsalliance.com
Verity Inc. announced that nine secure messaging management and protection solutions providers have opted to embed the Verity KeyView Software SDKs into their applications. The nine companies: AmikaNow!, Iron Mountain, MessageGate, Messageware, On-Site Sourcing, Steelpoint, Tablus, Vidius, and ZixCorp offer a range of solutions in this category such as email and messaging-based products, legal and compliance applications and services, distribution security software, messaging security, as well as transaction services applications. The Verity KeyView technology can be integrated quickly into all of these vendors’ solutions because it supports C, Java and COM, as well as the Unicode character set standard. In addition, it offers support for the latest versions of Windows, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and AIX. www.verity.com
SchemaLogic announced the addition of Earley and Associates, Carol Hert and Industrial Wisdom to the SchemaLogic solution partner program. SchemaLogic solution partners receive access to technology and training from SchemaLogic in addition to cooperative marketing support. Partners contribute specialized expertise in vertical markets, content management, XML, data integration or information architecture to design and implement solutions using SchemaLogic technology. SchemaLogic and its solution partners help large enterprises manage metadata and business vocabularies from a cross-system perspective, which simplifies information retrieval and semantic interoperability among otherwise disparate information systems. www.schemalogic.com, www.earley.com, www.hert-analytics.com, www.industrialwisdom.com
Arbortext announced the next release of Arbortext 5 will include support for Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), an IBM-created, OASIS-sponsored initiative that is an XML-based, end-to-end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. This architecture consists of a set of design principles for creating “information-typed” modules at a topic level and using that content in delivery modes such as online help and product support portals. DITA is an open standards initiative to develop specialized data models for XML publishing applications that can readily adapt to the requirements of diverse applications while retaining both information and application compatibility. Starting with the DITA ‘topic’ data model, different groups can modify it to support their unique requirements without fear of breaking enterprise publishing software applications or creating incompatibilities with other groups or divisions that would prevent information sharing. DITA specializations can be “snapped on” as deltas to the base support, preventing the need to create or update massive DTDs. The core of DITA provides rich set of semantics for creating architected information. www.arbortext.com
