Verity Inc. and Cardiff Software Inc. announced a definitive agreement for Verity to acquire Cardiff in a transaction with an aggregate purchase price of approximately $50 million in cash, adjusted for Cardiffs net cash balance as of December 31, 2003. Cardiff products include TELEform, LiquidCapture and LiquidOffice, a suite that automates document capture, e-Forms and workflow-driven business processes. Verity anticipates closing the transaction in 30 to 60 days, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The transaction is expected to be accretive in the first full quarter of combined operations to Veritys net income on a cash EPS basis (which excludes purchase accounting adjustments). www.cardiff.com, www.verity.com
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Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity Ultraseek release 5.2. The new version incorporates five new features that improve upon the product’s search relevance capability and end-user experience and make it easier to integrate into a wide range of application environments with a new Web Services interface. Existing portal, content management and other applications based on BEA, Vignette, TIBCO or IBM WebSphere can now have search capabilities added with pre-built Verity portlets. JavaScript spidering capabilities have been added to Verity Ultraseek’s spider indexes that can turn document types and file formats spread across the typical enterprise into a single body of intellectual capital that is searchable with a single query. Verity Ultraseek’s ability to automatically highlight query terms within documents has been expanded to include formats such as Microsoft Word and Excel through inclusion of Verity KeyView Export. The Verity Ultraseek architecture supports most enterprise operating systems, from Windows to UNIX and Linux. www.verity.com
The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced the expert faculty for the Gilbane Conference on Content Management to be held at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, March 24-26, 2004. The conference program is entirely focused on content management technologies, and includes 26 sessions and tutorials covering today’s most critical issues for businesses planning or implementing a content management strategy. The conference faculty consists of 40+ speakers carefully chosen for their expertise and communication capability, and is comprised of a combination of (75%) analysts, consultants, and enterprise executives, and (25%) technology suppliers. IT and business executives from Sony Pictures, Boeing, Avnet, Halliburton, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Shimano, CMP, Meredith Corporation, EnCana, and others will share their experiences in successfully deploying content technology in their enterprises. Analysts and consultants from IDC, Ovum, Delphi, CMSWatch, the Gilbane Report, and many others, will provide insight on technology and market trends and tell you how to get started on a successful project. Representatives from technology suppliers including Vignette, Context Media, Microsoft, Adobe, Cardiff, RedDot, Interwoven, CrownPeak, and others, will debate architectural and technology approaches. Sponsors of the Gilbane Content Management conference in Los Angeles include Context Media, GMC Software, Vignette, IDC, InfoWorld, eContent Magazine, CMSWatch, Transform Magazine, XML Journal, Web Services Journal, OASIS, IDEAlliance, OSCOM, WOW, and G-SAM. Program information, a list of exhibitors, and special event details are available at www.gilbane.com/CM_conference_LA_04.html, www.lighthouseseminars.com
IXOS Software AG and Convera announced a global licensing agreement that will enable IXOS and its storage hardware partners to resell Convera’s search technology through an integration with IXOS’ e-mail management and regulatory compliance solutions. The integration of Convera’s RetrievalWare enables users to transparently search archived content, including any e-mail and attachments, regardless of format, language or media type. IXOS’ single repository approach to managing content enable customers to archive, preserve, access, and manage documents in a live system from creation through disposition across business applications, from e-mail to ERP and CRM systems. Convera’s search capability allows users to locate objects of any file type — including text, scanned documents, images and video — all from a single search interface. The new agreement will offer RetrievalWare as an optional component of the IXOS e-mail management solutions. Convera’s RetrievalWare is available through IXOS as a component of the IXOS solutions, and through IXOS’ extended partner channel. Established reseller agreements with Hitachi Data Systems and StorageTek provide additional distribution channels for the combined software offering, as well as offering customers their choice of integrated storage archival platforms. Pricing is based on solution components. www.convera.com, www.ixos.com
Stellent, Inc. announced support for the Linux version of its application on the IBM eServer zSeries mainframe. Stellent customers will be able to take advantage of the zSeries server’s built-in server redundancy, failover, clustering and backup. Additionally, Stellent recently certified the Linux version of its solution on the zSeries server under the IBM Server Proven program. www.stellent.com
Appligent Inc. introduced APConductor, which enables all of its other applications to be plugged into a complex workflow via a SOAP messaging framework. APConductor is the first member of Appligent’s Web Services Product Family, a server-based backbone that creates integration for customizing PDF documents. APConductor acts as a central dispatcher, directing requests from other applications to Appligent’s families of PDF processing components and returning the finished results. It also enables developers and integrators to quickly assemble PDF solutions by using a Web Services interface to communicate with Appligent’s component plug-ins, which allow companies to build a full suite of in-house solutions for document processing. APConductor can be used in both .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition environments. Appligent’s APConductor is now available. www.appligent.com
cScape Strategic Internet Services Ltd released CMS Wizard for Microsoft Content Management Server, a package that builds low cost Microsoft Content Management Server enabled websites quickly. The CMS Wizard requires minimal technical skills and has been developed to create professional content managed websites from scratch within minutes. Designed specifically to plug into both Standard and Enterprise editions of Microsofts Content Management Server, the CMS Wizard contains a range of website styles designed to suit different organisational structures and comes complete with an integrated search facility. The CMS Wizard was jointly-developed by cScape and Mondosoft. cScape worked closely with Microsoft Corp in developing this product, and MS has promoted the CMS Wizard internationally to MS Partners. The CMS Wizard will retail for $1,999.99, is licensed on a per server basis and is available to purchase online. www.cms-wizard.com
QL2 Software released version 2.2 of WebQL, its unstructured data extraction tool. The most significant enhancements to version 2.2 involve internationalization. Specifically, WebQL version 2.2 now supports all the common international character sets – both single and multi-byte – and locale specific date and time formats. In addition to these internationalization features version 2.2 adds tools for network monitoring, Web page change detection, and XSLT support to its existing XML capabilities. A free 90-day download of WebQL version 2.2 is available to software developers. www.ql2.com
