FatWire Software announced that it has expanded its integration with the Sun Java System Portal Server through its latest release of Spark 6 pCM (portal Content Management) for Sun. FatWire has also deepened its integration with Sun through its Reference Architecture for enterprise solutions that now utilizes FatWire Content Server 5.5 applications. FatWires Spark 6 uses the Sun Java System Identity Server user and group management for single sign-on authentication and authorization and supports JSR 168. Spark can be installed quickly, features content management and document management interfaces, and installs with four pre-built delivery portlets for job postings, corporate communications, documents and advertisements. Spark 6 pCM is available now at $25,000 per server. www.fatwire.com
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Kentico announced an upcoming product called Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. The new product aims to become the most affordable CMS for ASP.NET professionals. Kentico CMS was designed for Web developers who deliver Web sites for their customers or their companies. Its architecture combines SQL, XML and ASP.NET into one metadata-driven solution. Kentico has also announced two programs: a Beta-Testing Program for developers who want to participate in beta testing, and a Solutions Partner Program for software companies and Web development consultants that decide to use Kentico CMS for delivering custom solutions to their customers. Kentico plans to release the beta version in June 2004. Product pricing will start at USD $499 per Web site. The development license will be free. www.kentico.com
Jalios, a spin-off of Bull and INRIA, unveiled JCMS Portal Connector 1.0. With JCMS content can now be incorporated in and distributed from all JSR168-compatible infrastructure portals. Companies that have deployed application portals, either on the Internet or within their Intranet, can offer their users, via JCMS, management of the content production cycle and documents within multiple work spaces, rights management and delegation, collaborative publishing, content categorization, and groupware tools. Information management applications can be transparently integrated in portals alongside corporate applications: human resources, CRM and other Enterprise Resource Planning solutions. JCMS Portal Connector supports all JSR168 compatible infrastructure portals, such as BEA WebLogic Portal, IBM Websphere Portal Software Solution and Sun ONE Portal Server. The JCMS Portal Connector 1.0 license is priced at just Euro 5,000 excluding VAT. www.jalios.com
Pragmatech Software, Inc. announced the release of the latest version of its applications, The RFP Machine, RFP Express, The Proposal Automation Suite, and e-Proposals. The company’s solutions automate the creation of high quality, customized selling materials, including proposals, presentations, letters, and RFP (request for proposal) responses. Version 6 enhancements include streamlined collaboration, additional automated functions for keeping content current, and more options to meet the demands of large enterprises in the areas of availability, redundancy, scalability, and system management. Pragmatech now offers additional configuration flexibility with support for clustering multiple e-Proposals servers in parallel implementations, as well as for clustering document assembly servers. www.pragmatech.com
Ektron Inc. announced Ektron CMS300 Version 4.5. The new version offers a more intuitive user experience, Web-based form capabilities and enhanced calendar features. Validation criteria can be assigned to public-facing HTML Web forms. Business users can click and choose several commonly used, out-of-the box validation rules to HTML form fields. Users can also auto email form data as well as export as XML to a third party application, and reports can be exported to Excel. The newest version of Ektron’s browser-based XML authoring tool, eWebEditPro+XML V4.1, is embedded in CMS300. The editor now includes spreadsheet-like math capabilities. Ektron has improved the CMS300 user experience by giving it the look and feel of Microsoft Outlook 2003. CMS300 allows business users, not only developers, to maintain and control multi-level navigation menus, and include items such as content blocks, library assets, external hyperlinks, forms, and other menus. www.ektron.com
XyEnterprise announced the availability of two new toolkits for its Content@ content management and workflow software application. The toolkits provide a collaborative editorial and publishing review environment, as well as enabling broader sets of users to interact with the system with standard Microsoft Office applications. The Content@ Publishing Collaboration toolkit enables users to meet challenging review and notification requirements within their collaborative workflows. The Publishing Collaboration Toolkit includes tools for document version comparisons, automatic notification of changes in content to individuals or work pools, and collaborative review of content and documents. The Content@ Office Integration Toolkit facilitates the participation of the editors, authors, reviewers, publishers, and subject-matter experts who participate in the XML content lifecycle. Although these users may not be XML experts, many need the benefits of easy content access, workflow participation, version control, and re-use of content and documents. www.xyenterprise.com
Vasont Systems announced that Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. has joined its Vasont Important Partner (VIP) Program. Together, Vasont Systems and Lionbridge will help their clients increase the speed and efficiency of creating, managing, localizing, and publishing their multilingual content from the Vasont Content Management System. Lionbridge’s LionAccess content repository connector will integrate with Vasont, a single-source content management system that allows organizations to create, manage and publish their multilingual content. Vasont provides Unicode support to store multilingual content at the component-level in its repository for multi-channel delivery. Vasont’s integration with LionAccess simplifies organizations’ translation process and reduces costs by enabling them to use their business logic and/or content metadata to automate the process of selecting, extracting and routing their multilingual content requiring translation. www.vasont.com, www.lionbridge.com
Documentum announced the immediate availability of its Documentum Business Process Management (BPM) solution. The Documentum BPM solution consists of several new products, including Documentum Business Process Manager, Documentum Business Process Services, Documentum Forms Builder, and the latest version of Documentum eRoom. The Documentum BPM solution also leverages other content services of the Documentum ECM platform, including enterprise content integration and federated discovery, components of the Documentum Virtual Repository solution. Using Documentum BPM with Documentum Virtual Repository, customers can discover and aggregate all content types, from multiple data sources, and integrate the content with existing business processes. The solution integrates with processes that span non-Documentum applications such as ERP, CRM and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to enable distributed people, applications and content to be included in the same business process, even when they reside in different locations and repositories. The Documentum Business Process Management solution is immediately available. www.documentum.com
