Year: 2004 (Page 59 of 75)

RenderX, Inc. and Rascal Software announced a strategic alliance where Rascal will be extending the functionality of their products to include high-quality print and PDF output using the RenderX XEP Rendering Engine. Rascal Software has embedded RenderX’s XEP product into Veredus, Rascal’s XML-based single-source authoring solution. Veredus, designed for documentation professionals, is an authoring tool for creating complete documentation projects. Veredus customers will be able to create PDF and print output through the embedded XEP software. XEP converts XML documents into a printable form (PDF or PostScript) by applying XSL Formatting Objects styling. XEP is written in Java and supports programming interfaces for XML processing, allowing it to be integrated into such applications as Veredus. www.rascalsoftware.com, www.renderx.com

Vasont Systems announced that it has joined forces with the Gilbane Report as a general partner of the Gilbane Content Technology Works Program, an industry initiative designed to develop and share content technology best practices and success stories. Vasont Systems brings to the program in-depth content management insight and examples based on more than a decade of experience in working with Fortune 1000 companies from a variety of industries. During the Gilbane Conference on Content Management on March 24-26, 2004, Vasont Systems will be exhibiting and Bret Freeman, Vasont Systems Field Support Manager, will be a speaker on the “One Minute with a CMS Vendor” panel. www.vasont.com

Smartwebs announced a significant upgrade to its workflow system across all of the company’s Web content management products. The new workflow system now allows businesses to ensure a further layer of accuracy and accountability by requiring the review and approval of Web content before it is published to a company Web site or Intranet. This advanced workflow feature utilizes multiple levels of user roles for content creation and content approval. Smartwebs’ upgraded workflow system features an email notification to alert designated approvers of pending requests, and a content history feature which automatically creates an audit trail for accountability and compliance. www.smartwebs.com

Crown Partners announced the release of the latest suite of software products that are built for supporting large enterprise users of Documentum’s WCM Edition. The new Buldoser release offers clients a method to move content from other systems to Documentum or between Documentum Docbases. The “Web in the Box” is a product and Professional Services solution which provides for a bundle of enhancements for WCM, such as Site Identifier, Dynamic Content Factory, and WCM Wizard. www.crownpartners.com

Open Text Corporation announced enterprise-wide instant messaging (IM) for Livelink. The solution, called Livelink Instant Messenger, offers the ability to retain and track IM content, providing a record of electronic communication for legal and regulatory requirements. Once retained, IM content becomes fully indexed and auditable, so users can search in Livelink to retrieve specific information. This capability gives companies a way to capture useful content in IM and make it searchable as part of a company’s corporate knowledge repository. Livelink Instant Messenger also offers improved security over IM solutions used by consumers. Embedded in Open Text’s Livelink suite, Livelink Instant Messenger is deployed inside the firewall, and utilizes SSL to encrypt information both inside and outside the firewall. Livelink Instant Messenger will be available March 15 and works with Livelink 9.1.0 SP4 and 9.2 SP1 on all supported platforms. www.opentext.com/livelink

Cardiff Software Ltd. announced that Dreamsoft, a French-based consulting and integration service company, and Realise, a Scottish e-business solutions company, have become certified channel partners for Cardiff LiquidOffice. Additionally, Realise will act as a certified channel partner for Cardiff LiquidCapture. Dreamsoft integrates workflow and portal products into organisations across a range of vertical markets. Cardiff’s suite of business process automation solutions will complement Realise’s existing content management, document management and portal product portfolio which includes Interwoven, RedDot, Plumtree and Vignette technologies. Cardiff’s capture and eForm solutions support all types of forms, including PDF, HTML and InfoPath. www.cardiff.com

Quadralay Corporation, announced WebWorks FinalDraft, a new product that helps writers produce high-quality content by streamlining the edit-and-review process. FinalDraft gives technical writers, documentation departments,
engineering groups, marketing organizations, and other content providers the ability to achieve accurate and complete documents. FinalDraft offers functionality designed to address the entire edit-and-review process from first draft to final. Instead of printing out numerous documents, keeping track of colors, or e-mailing different versions of a document to multiple reviewers, all drafts are automatically generated from a single source document, authored in Microsoft Word or Adobe FrameMaker. FinalDraft is an e-mail-based system, so a Web server is not required. Drafts are sent to reviewers as WebWorks Archive files (HTML), requiring only a small plug-in
installed into Microsoft Internet Explorer, available at no additional
cost. FinalDraft is based on .NET. FinalDraft uses a well-planned graphical user interface with toolbars, menus, and keyboard shortcuts. WebWorks FinalDraft will be shipping in April 2004. It will be available for purchase by authors for US$399 at www.webworks.com