Pendragon Software announced a new, multi-platform version of Pendragon Forms Enterprise Edition. Pendragon Forms Enterprise Edition is a business forms solution that synchronizes PDAs and smartphones to enterprise databases. Using Version 5.0, companies can create data collection applications for mobile devices running on both Palm OS and Windows Mobile for Pocket PC platforms. Companies can install the Pendragon Forms Enterprise Edition on their own Windows servers. The software is based on server technologies including Active Server Pages, Microsoft SQL Server, ODBC and Pendragon SyncServer. The centralized management feature enables IT managers to determine precisely how forms and data are deployed to devices when they synchronize. Pendragon Forms Enterprise Edition is priced at $2,995 for a 50-user license, complete with software modules for the server, handheld devices and networked PCs. Users can try the software for 14 days at http://www.pendragonsoftware.com
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Akiva Corporation announced the first commercial release of Silk. This software, which has been available in beta release since late 2004, is an open source collaboration solution built to enterprise J2EE software standards. Silk is designed to provide seamless integration of collaborative applications such as email clients, IM programs and meeting applications while providing a centralized web portal into an enterprise’s content and the collaboration surrounding it. As a framework for “collaboration enabling the enterprise”, documents and applications are presented along with the related collaboration such as participants, discussions, surveys, meeting notes and emails. Silk “competes functionally with applications such as IBM’s WorkPlace framework and the Microsoft Sharepoint technology.” Silk is built on J2EE, JBOSS, MySQL and Linux among others and is being distributed under the GNU Public License (GPL). As of today, the same software is also available under a commercial license, along with support, from Akiva for enterprise customers.
TRADOS Inc. announced the release to manufacturing of TRADOS 7, the newest generation of its desktop software for localization. The new solution delivers many new innovations in functionality and compatibility for global corporations, language service providers, and freelance professionals. TRADOS 7 is a cornerstone of TRADOS global information solutions, which optimize the globalization supply chain to accelerate delivery of product content to global markets. This supply chain is a complex process that involves authoring, content management, localization, publishing and other tasks performed in different parts of the world and on different technology platforms. TRADOS 7 integrates and streamlines the entire globalization supply chain. TRADOS 7 delivers more than 100 enhancements. New AutoText suggests text to eliminate the need to retype common phrases; a new term consistency tool checks for consistent use of terms in a translation to ensure that translated words and phrases are compliant with company standards and international regulations. Unicode support enables users to work with 20 new languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati and other non-Roman languages. APIs and support for standards such as XLIFF and DITA for authoring and publishing provide interoperability.
Infodata Systems Inc., (OTCBB:INFD) announced it has signed a Definitive Merger Agreement to be acquired by McDonald Bradley Inc. (MBI), a privately held information technology solutions provider to the government marketplace with headquarters in Herndon, Virginia. The acquisition will be a cash transaction for 100% of the stock of Infodata. The transaction, which is planned to close during the third quarter of 2005, is subject to approval by Infodata’s shareholders and other customary conditions of closing.
ILOG (Nasdaq: ILOG) announced that EMC Documentum has selected ILOG as its preferred business rule technology provider for the EMC Documentum Business Process Management (BPM) product suite. By combining ILOG’s ILOG JRules with the EMC BPM solution for its enterprise content management (ECM) platform, business users can make policy changes within any BPM application without IT involvement. Business users can take advantage of ILOG’s BRMS to deploy and apply policy changes using EMC’s new “Documentum Process Connector for ILOG JRules.” This connector provides integration between ILOG JRules and the EMC Documentum BPM product suite. The Documentum Process Connector for ILOG JRules consists of two parts. One integrates with Business Process Manager, enabling the design of processes invoking external business rules, and the other integrates with Documentum Process Engine, enabling real time rule validation for each running instance of the process. Using ILOG’s BRMS, business policies defined by sub-processes or services can be managed or changed separately from the rest of the application. http://www.ilog.com
Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ:HUMC) announced the acquisition of RedDot Solutions AG. Hummingbird acquired the shares of RedDot Solutions for an initial cash consideration of Euro 39.1 million (US dollar 47.5 million) and an additional cash consideration estimated at approximately Euro 4.5 million (US dollar 5.5 million) payable after December 31, 2005, based upon performance targets. RedDot Solutions will function as a subsidiary of Hummingbird and will continue to serve all its existing clients globally. The executive management of RedDot will remain in charge of operations. , http://www.hummingbird.com
The Compliance Consortium, an international membership organization formed in June 2004 to promote effective governance, risk and compliance management (GRC), announced that it has merged with the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG). Compliance Consortium members will serve as the initial members of the newly created OCEG Technology Council, with OCEG corporate and technology members immediately eligible to join. The merger is effective immediately. The web site for the Compliance Consortium will remain available for a limited period of time to provide information and to continue circulating the recent publication “Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance: An Operational Approach” at ,
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) announced the general availability of the Sun StorEdge 5310 Compliance Archiving System, a combination of the Sun StorEdge 5310 NAS Appliance and Sun StorEdge Compliance Archiving Software that provides for customers’ requirements for records retention. Integrated with Sun’s Identity Management solutions. The Sun StorEdge Compliance Archiving System provides an integrated solution to help facilitate compliance with government and business roles regulations, including HIPAA for healthcare, SEC Rule 17a-4 and Basel 2 for financial services, 21 CFR 11 for life sciences, as well the Sarbanes Oxley Act and its global equivalents. A variety of Enterprise Content Management application providers, including AXS-One, iLumin, Mobius Management Systems and Vignette, have qualified their applications with the system’s compliance features to enforce retention and leverage the system’s write-once, read-many (WORM) capability. Sun’s portfolio for enabling customers to store corporate documents and records includes the Compliance and Content Management Solution, the Content Infrastructure System for general data archiving on tiered storage, and the 5310 Compliance Archiving System. The Sun StorEdge 5310 Compliance Archiving System is available through Sun and its iForce partners. Pricing begins at US $73,995 for a 2 TB Fibre Channel configuration, and $81,995 for a 6 TB SATA configuration. Prices include all software costs. http://www.sun.com
