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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Ektron Inc. announced product integrations with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003. The company’s content management solution, CMS300, and the editor tool, Ektron eWebEditPro, will now work within SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Organizations can leverage their investment in SharePoint to support intranets and extranets, while gaining a content editor and a CMS to enhance their content, workflow and overall presentation of Web-based information. The integration of Ektron eWebEditPro means SharePoint users take advantage of Ektron’s robust HTML authoring capabilities to create and modify content. eWebEditPro has an browser-based user interface and a customizable toolbar, simplifying content creation while hiding HTML creation from business users. The integration of Ektron CMS300 into Sharepoint means organizations can create information feeds into SharePoint out of the CMS300 content repository, and edit SharePoint content with the built-in eWebEditPro editor. Ektron has developed nine drag-and-drop Web Parts, or components; such as list summaries, search and calendar functions that can be used in SharePoint to optimize information sharing. Users can easily pull content authored and managed in CMS300 into SharePoint and share it with others. www.ektron.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced the availability of WorkSite 8.0, a platform designed specifically for matter centric collaboration in law firms. WorkSite 8.0 allows law firms to effectively consolidate all relevant content for any given matter — documents, e-mails, billing information, and contacts — in a single electronic matter file that can be accessed globally. This is the first major WorkSite release after the merger of Interwoven and iManage. WorkSite 8.0 incorporates “matter centric collaboration” (MCC), a user-centric design which enables lawyers and other professional services practitioners to do in the electronic world what they have done for more than 100 years in the physical world. MCC creates the electronic equivalent of a case file by consolidating documents, e-mails, billing, contacts, and all other relevant content for any given matter in a single integrated file that is accessible both internally and externally across departments and locations. www.interwoven.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
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
Comergent Technologies, Inc. announced its acquisition of Profile Systems, Inc., developer of product information (PIM) and inventory management solutions for business-to-business e-business. Under the terms of the agreement, Comergent Technologies has acquired all the outstanding Profile Systems shares and technology. Profile Systems employees have been retained in the West Springfield, Massachusetts office. The acquisition joins two complementary business-to-business demand chain management software solutions that help manufacturers, resellers, and distributors optimize their product data and order management lifecycles. Comergent’s acquisition of Profile Systems closed on January 5, 2004 and the former executive management team of Profile Systems has been retained. www.comergent.com
Ephox introduced major enhancements to their browser-based authoring software products, EditLive! for Windows 3.0 and EditLive! for Java 3.0. With these releases, Ephox further enables non-technical users to contribute content to content management systems and other content-driven applications. EditLive! for Java 3.0 delivers a cross-platform solution across a wide range of platforms: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Sun Solaris. Ephox is also now offering support for Apple’s new Safari browser. EditLive!’s enhanced capabilities include faster performance, cascading style sheets (CSS), and enhanced table editing. EditLive! for Java 3.0 is internationalized and available in multiple languages. An evaluation version can be downloaded. Pricing for EditLive! for Java limited user versions start at $199 and an unlimited user, single CPU license starts at $2,999. Pricing for EditLive! for Windows can be found at Ephox’s online store. www.ephox.com
Ecordia Technologies announces the launch of Ecordia, a web-based Marketing Management System (MMS) that empowers the marketing professional with the features of an enterprise CRM system, web-based site management, and statistical reporting. Through secured web-based administration, the corporate marketing professional can have complete, real-time control over the entire website (or selected parts) without the need to involve IT resources. Ecordia shares many of the features found in enterprise level Content Management Systems (CMS) — real-time content development, publishing roles, and version rollback. Like a CMS system, Ecordia provides users with a website that they can manage in real-time from any Internet browser. But Ecordia is targeted at providing corporate marketing professionals with a CMS that supports their primary business — communicating about the company with customers. www.ecordia.com
