The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced a special expanded conference session on electronic forms at the Gilbane Conference on Content Management to be held at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, March 24-26, 2004. The special session, “Electronic Forms & Content Management” will be held Thursday March 25, 3:00 5:00pm and be moderated by Bill Trippe, Senior Editor, The Gilbane Report, and author of “Microsoft, Adobe & XForms to Shake Up Electronic Forms Market” (Gilbane Report Vol. 11, No 8, October 2003). Speakers include: Chuck Myers, Technology Strategist, Adobe (NasdaqNM:ADBE); Micah Dubinko, Chief XML Architect, Cardiff Software; and Amber Kinney, Product Manager, InfoPath, Microsoft (NasdaqNM:MSFT). The conference program is entirely focused on content management technologies, and includes 26 sessions and tutorials covering todays most critical issues for businesses planning or implementing a content management strategy. Microsoft is the Platinum sponsor of the Gilbane Content Management Conference in Los Angeles. Gold sponsors include Vignette, Context Media, and GMC Software. Other sponsors include IDC, InfoWorld, eContent Magazine, CMSWatch, Transform Magazine, XML Journal, Web Services Journal, OASIS, IDEAlliance, OSCOM, WOW, and G-SAM. For a complete list of sponsors and exhibitors see www.gilbane.com/CM_conference_sponsors_LA_04.html, www.lighthouseseminars.com
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IXOS SOFTWARE AG and Open Text announced the IXOS 6 Suite, an ECM platform that will enable corporations to securely and compliantly manage, archive, and retrieve enterprise content. The IXOS 6 Suite, with its capabilities for meeting regulatory compliance, will become a key part of both companies’ ECM solution portfolios, designed to address the full spectrum of enterprise requirements, from content creation through final archival and disposition. IXOS 6 Suite delivers an integrated, modular solution set for ECM strategies based on a core repository architecture. At the core of this architecture is functionality that provides a single point of access to all structured data and unstructured data within an organization. The IXOS 6 Suite central repository system enables companies to store content, along with its metadata in one place, so enterprises can share content across applications including SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and MS Sharepoint, etc., regardless of whether the application is running on individual desktops. The IXOS 6 Suite will be generally available in May. www.ixos.com, www.opentext.com
FileNet Corporation unveiled a comprehensive ECM compliance management framework. Leveraging the FileNet P8 platform, FileNet’s Compliance Framework is intended to manage three elements of compliance. First, it helps companies put in place processes to react to changing regulations. Secondly, it provides organizations with the ability to manage content. Finally, the framework can connect with various legacy systems found throughout the enterprise. The FileNet Compliance Framework helps to provide consistency across the organization and better control in the management of records and business processes by tracking real-time information on who’s done what, where, and across which departments. This helps validate the process of how information was gathered for internal auditors and external regulators, and allows them to see how and why decisions were made. The FileNet Compliance Framework provides an event-driven architecture, which can identify and initiate responses to material events, such as a change in a financial report. FileNet’s Compliance Framework is scheduled for availability during the second quarter of 2004. www.filenet.com
Mobius Management Systems, Inc. announced that it has supplemented support for EMC Centera on Unix and Windows NT platforms with native support for Centera from Mobius ViewDirect TCM on the z/OS platform. EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) is a software-driven architecture designed to address the storage requirements of fixed content such as documents, reports, images, audio, video and Web elements. Mobius ViewDirect TCM provides integrated access to content stored on any platform and provides a range of content-centric applications. ViewDirect TCM components include Web site, document and digital asset management; workflow and imaging; Internet presentment and payment; records management; enterprise report distribution; and regulatory compliance. Native integration with EMC Centera delivers a solution for managing high-volume content repositories. www.mobius.com, www.emc.com
Atomz announced On-Demand Web Site Solutions for enterprise, commerce and media companies. These solutions integrate search, content management, promotions, e-marketing and reporting. Atomz Commerce guides online visitors to products they want and influences them to purchase more merchandise through cross-sell, up-sell and merchandising. Atomz Media & Entertainment enables content-focused Web sites to deliver the right content and increases Web site agility by empowering writers, editors and marketers. Atomz also announced a Site-Centered Content Management capability, which provides content contributors a content management experience that’s like navigating a Web site. Users “browse to edit” until they see the content that they want to edit or add — there is no need to login and navigate through a disconnected system — then use “one click editing” and “one click publishing”. A single click on an Instant Shortcut icon on the browser toolbar brings up interfaces for previewing, editing, viewing history, and collaborating. Content owners and colleagues can use email to communicate regarding changes to the Web site, while Atomz tracks each communication and maintains a history and audit trail. www.atomz.com
Blast Radius and Corel announced that they have signed an agreement whereby Blast Radius will acquire all assets of Corel’s XMetaL division. The deal is expected to close within the next several days. The XMetaL XML authoring product complements Blast Radius’ existing content collaboration product offerings, also based on XML. www.blastradius.com, www.corel.com
Xyleme announced the availability of Xyleme Zone Server for eForms. Designed to easily connect and communicate with data collected from any eForms tool, Xyleme Zone Server allows for the real time integration of content generated from these applications, regardless of structure or origin. Xyleme Zone Server for eForms contains a Web Services API that provides for aggregation of eForms content, and allows an organization to use any number of different eForm configurations to meet departmental or functional needs. Zone Server for eForms includes enrichment utilities that support intelligent querying such categorization, information validation, metadata extraction and advanced XML conversion. Multiple eForm structures can be mapped to customized views of the data allowing eForm applications to manage new and evolving standards. With Xyleme, multi-sourced eForm content is already aggregated within the repository and ready to be queried via Xylemes structured query language. Entire eForm documents, relevant elements of these documents, or an aggregation of relevant elements from various eForms are ready for manipulation, syndication and distribution to other applications. www.xyleme.com
Members of the international standards consortium, OASIS, have organized to create a standard for sharing, linking, and synchronizing data over the Internet and other networks using XML documents and Extensible Resource Identifiers (XRIs). XRI is a URI-compatible abstract identifier scheme also developed within OASIS. The new OASIS XRI Data Interchange (XDI) Technical Committee will enable implementers to automatically interchange XDI documents and to express controls over the authority, security, privacy, and rights of shared data as XDI links. XDI will address interoperable, automated data interchange across distributed applications and trust domains. OASIS XDI Technical Committee members include representatives of AMD, AmSoft Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cordance, Epok, Neustar, NRI, and others. Participation remains open to all organizations and individuals; OASIS will host a mail list for public comment. www.oasis-open.org
