Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity Extractor 1.0, software that identifies and extracts concepts, patterns and entities in content distributed across an organization. It is the first such Verity product that integrates directly with the company’s enterprise-class search, classification and recommendation technologies. The tools include combinations of Parametric Selection, fielded search and full-text search that use the extracted entities to enhance search relevancy. Entities identified by Verity Extractor can also be used to enable Verity faceted taxonomies. The most common information entities are ready to deploy out-of-the-box with Verity Extractor. They include: names of commercial organizations, people, places, postal/Internet addresses, phone numbers, dates, times, numbers, prices and amount of currency, Imperial and metric measures, Social Security numbers, job titles and holidays. www.verity.com
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A group of thirty content management experts from around the world has announced the formation of CM Professionals (CM Pros), an international community of content management professionals whose purpose is to further best practices based on shared experiences of experts and peers. CM Pros offers a members-only mailing list, a collaborative website, discussion forums, issue-oriented group blogs, knowledge wikis, syndicated web services, a job board, a professional directory and a calendar of face-to-face meeting opportunities. CM Pros will raise awareness of content management as an essential discipline that builds value, both financial and human, for companies and organizations. CM Professionals will hold its first CM Summit, in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies, Tuesday, November 30, 2004 in Boston, Mass. (U.S.A.). (www.gilbane.com/CM_conference_Boston_04.html). As CM Professionals grows they will work closely with other organizations that share many of our goals. CM Pros will coordinate thinking about recommended standards for best practices with these organizations, and will work closely with graduate schools that are training the next generation of information professionals. www.cmprofessionals.org
Stellent, Inc. announced that its Stellent Imaging and Business Process Management solution achieved EnterpriseOne 8.9 and 8.10 certification by PeopleSoft, Inc. This interface certification, conducted by the PeopleSoft Partner Certification team, helps assure EnterpriseOne users that Stellent delivers a ready-to-use solution. Stellent Imaging and Business Process Management allows customers to extend the functionality of their existing PeopleSoft deployments by adding document imaging, workflow and collaboration capabilities. With Stellent, EnterpriseOne 8.9 and 8.10 users can capture, store, access and participate in the flow of business transaction data and documents from a single, integrated PeopleSoft application. Integrated solutions from Stellent include accounts payable, accounts receivable, travel and expense reporting, and human resources. www.stellent.com
Systems Alliance, Inc. announced the addition of a Content Import Toolset (CIT) to SiteExecutive, the company’s Web Content Management System. With CIT, SiteExecutive can now migrate web content from pre-existing sites in an automated way. CIT reduces the need for manual content conversion efforts while increasing the speed and precision with which sites can be enhanced and maintained. CIT crawls an existing website and imports content in virtually any format, including all binaries such as images and PDFs while maintaining all links to keep site structure integrity. CIT allows specification of content within particular sections and pages of the site, providing a customized or phased approach to the conversion process. Analysis reports provide feedback on the status of the migration. Templates and styles are then applied to the newly-migrated content. The Content Import Toolset is available immediately through SiteExecutive. www.systemsalliance.com
iMarkup Solutions has released iMarkup Server v5. The iMarkup Server is a web-based software solution providing document management, workflow automation, electronic forms processing, and document imaging. The eForm builder integrated into Microsoft Word makes is for organizations to move their manual paper based forms into an automated web-based eForm. The iMarkup Server transforms your document based information into knowledge assets by providing storage, categorization and search technologies. It provides users with an way to manage, distribute, locate, collaborate on, annotate and review documents and digital content. It supports users in all stages of the document lifecycle. The iMarkup Server is an “out of the box” product that is easy to install and administer.
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Borland Software Corporation and Vignette Corp. jointly announced a relationship and combined solution designed to help organizations accelerate the creation of portlets with custom functionality, improve the design and quality of Web interfaces, and consolidate management of disparate portlet functionality across the enterprise. The solution will consist of a portlet creation plug-in for Borland JBuilder 2005 and the Vignette Application Portal Borland Developer Edition. This wizard-based solution is designed to help developers create custom portlets based on JSR 168. Borland and Vignette also are working together on marketing programs and events promoting JBuilder 2005 and the Vignette Application Portal. The companies intend to collaborate on software application bundles for enterprise customers that Java and need to aggregate and publish extensive data sets and information. The Vignette Application Portal and Borland JBuilder 2005 are both available and shipping today. The JBuilder 2005 and Vignette Application Portal Borland Developer Edition bundle will be widely available in September. www.vignette.com, www.borland.com
Ipedo announced an enterprise Beta Test Program for the Ipedo XML Intelligence Platform (XIP), which helps organizations integrate and leverage their information assets. Ipedo XIP integrates and manages information from disparate, complex data sources and enables real-time business decisions. The Beta Test Program, which begins the week of October 11 and runs through November, has been designed to allow select customers and partners to provide feedback and influence product direction on Ipedo XIP. The program will also feature an extensive set of tests with BI and reporting tools. The Ipedo XML Intelligence Platform is a combination of information integration and intelligence technology. The software platform uses advanced XML techniques to extract and manage business critical data from disparate data sources, regardless of format. Ipedo expects that the product will be commercially available in the fourth quarter of 2004. A limited number of customers and partners will be selected for inclusion in the testing. www.ipedo.com
Stellent, Inc. announced its Stellent Records Management solution has received U.S. DoD 5015.2 – STD Chapter 4 certification, which is important for any federal government organization that manages classified records or documents. In order to meet certification, Stellent demonstrated its records management technology could define and manage classification guides and rules that define security clearance levels; and provide security features, such as access control lists and classification schemes that allow records managers to control document access. In addition, Stellent demonstrated its extensible metadata model can simplify the process of declaring and searching for records, and its reporting and auditing features can track all user interactions in the system. The U.S. DoD 5015.2 – STD Chapter 4 certification verifies Stellent Records Management’s ability to control the creation, declaration, classification, retention and destruction of electronic and non-electronic records, including scanned documents. This Stellent software has also been re-certified against the main DoD 5015.2 – STD Chapter 2 standard, which has become the de facto records management standard in North America. www.stellent.com
