AssetLink Corporation announced the debut of AssetLink OnDemand, an enterprise digital asset management, collaboration and workflow automation solution. Companies seeking the benefits of DAM to work with sales and customer support teams, external partners and customers, can do so at a cost of $25 per user per month. An Internet-based DAM subscription service, OnDemand allows businesses to enjoy the benefits of DAM, such as storing, managing and retrieving valuable digital assets — from text and video to graphics and page layouts and related technologies — on a per-user basis. No investment is required for software, hardware or infrastructure, and there is no long-term commitment. Setup and implementation takes less than 24 hours to bring a company and its users on line. OnDemand’s Standard $25 per user implementation gives a company 24-hour/seven-day access to AssetLink’s application framework server, digital asset management application and basic marketing portal. www.assetlink.com
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Interwoven, Inc. announced an agreement with DoubleClick Inc. to offer a comprehensive Marketing Content Management (MCM) solution. Interwoven will offer SmartPath 5.0 to extend its Marketing Content Management capabilities. SmartPath is an MRM (Marketing Relationship Management) software application that enables marketers to manage marketing initiatives across the entire marketing supply chain optimizing core functions, including information management, production, operations, and team communication. Integrating Interwoven’s MediaBin Asset Server 4.0 software with the SmartPath solution provides marketing organizations with the ability to accelerate time-to-market for product introductions and promotions. DoubleClick recently acquired SmartPath, which provides marketing resource management solutions to companies whose marketing operations are critical to their business. www.interwoven.com
Chuckwalla, Inc. announced the availability of Chuckwalla v5, the newest version of the company’s suite of products for managing rich media content. The cornerstone of Chuckwalla v5 is a Chuckwalla SDK for Microsoft .NET, the component which enables companies to gain access to their rich media content as a set of web services. This dynamically connects rich content within a web-based environment. Another feature of Chuckwalla v5 is its compatibility with Quark Xpress files. Chuckwalla v5 enables granular access to manage the relationships of the elements contained in Quark files. In addition, print designers can now drag- and-drop images stored in Chuckwalla directly into Quark Xpress layouts. Chuckwalla v5 is available immediately with native client support on Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP and Mac OS X & OS 9.2. www.chuckwalla.com
Microsoft announced the general availability of the new Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Sarbanes-Oxley, which is designed to help partners build solutions based on the Microsoft Office System. Companies using an Office-based solution can document and review their internal financial controls and use the Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Sarbanes-Oxley to help meet other compliance requirements mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Available to Microsoft Office System customers at no charge, the new tool is third in a series of accelerators aimed at helping companies handle business issues. Built on Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003, the Office Solution Accelerator for Sarbanes-Oxley is one of the first deliverables under a larger compliance initiative from Microsoft. Other current and future offerings will provide customers with solutions useful in other compliance initiatives, such as document and e-mail retention. www.microsoft.com
Today at the Gilbane Conference on Content Management the Gilbane Report announced that the first round of in-depth content technology success stories is set for publication in early April. Industry leading enterprises will be providing unprecedented insight into their successful deployments of content technology include Avnet, CMP, Giunti Labs, IDX Systems Corporation, Meredith, Nextance and others. Early access to this material can be found in the CTW conference track at The Gilbane Conference on Content Management being held this week in Los Angeles where speakers from Avnet, Boeing, CMP, Hewlett Packard, Meredith, Shimano and Sony Pictures are sharing their recipes for successful content technology deployment. Further accelerating the CTW initiative’s momentum is the addition of three new technology partners: Trados, Vasont, and Venetica. For more information on how to gain access to this program, visit www.gilbane.com/technology_works.html. www.trados.com, www.vasont.com, www.venetica.com
Interwoven Inc. announced the Interwoven Deal Management solution, a comprehensive software solution for managing proposals, contracts, negotiations, and correspondence, particularly e-mail. The solution enables deal teams distributed around the globe comprised of enterprise professionals — bankers, account executives, financiers, brokers and dealers — to collaborate on document-intensive deals from inception to execution. The solution can be extended with additional Interwoven product to deliver business process management, automated document classification and records management and retention logic to meet critical compliance protocols and standards. Both Interwoven and its consulting partners provide services in the form of deal dashboards, deal checklists, and deal space templates. Interwoven Deal Management solution is available from Interwoven today. www.interwoven.com
XyEnterprise announced a new style creation tool and support for XSL-FO in its XML publishing software — XML Professional Publisher (XPP). XPP is used for automated and interactive publishing in XML publishing environments, providing support for XML content, automated rendering, and Web Services integration. XPP will apply an XSL stylesheet to an XML instance, and use this information to render XML content to Postscript or PDF output. Users will have access to the publishing capabilities of XPP that supplement the XSL-FO standard, including the ability to interactively edit the formatted file, control the placement of graphics, and apply sophisticated controls for page and column balancing, hyphenation and justification, and complex tabular formatting. The new style creation and management interface, based on XPP’s Web Services layer, presents a browser-based look and feel for creating and managing style information. www.XyEnterprise.com
Ektron Inc. announced Ektron CMS400.NET, a content management solution developed in “native” .NET Framework-based environment. CMS400.NET makes it easier to integrate applications and share information via Web services and helps turn a Web site into a Web-based application. Ektron CMS400.NET streamlines deployment of content management applications, lowers integration costs, offers tight integration with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, enhances security with a “managed code” approach, and supports content sharing across applications and devices. CMS400.NET’s enhanced Web services API also allows users to extend their Web sites and intranets by integrating content from another device or locations. Ektron CMS400.NET includes Ektron’s WYSIWYG editor, eWebEditPro+XML, which lets business users author XML forms and capture and structure XML and XHTML documents and data. www.ektron.com
