Mondosoft has announced that a new Wizard application, designed to transform the way small and medium businesses (SME) use the internet, will be available on December 2, in conjunction with the release of Microsoft’s new Content Management System Standard Edition (CMS SE). The Wizard, jointly-developed by Microsoft Gold Partner cScape Ltd (London) and Mondosoft (Palo Alto, Calif. and Copenhagen), provides a cost-effective way to build and maintain a professional website without the need for any training in web development. Designed to plug into Microsoft’s new CMS SE and including a Mondosoft search engine, the Wizard will retail at $3,365. Small charities which require a content managed site will receive a substantial discount on Microsoft’s CMS SE product. The Wizard is available through www.mcmswizard.com, which is also the support site for the product. An enhanced version of the Wizard is being created specifically for web development agencies as a core solution to build on and enhance for clients seeking a more sophisticated web presence. This version will be released in 2004. www.mondosoft.com
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BroadVision, Inc. announced a strategic alliance with Feith Systems. The agreement with Feith is part of BroadVision’s Net-Centric Collaborative Environment, a strategic initiative focused on forming alliances with technology companies to deliver a comprehensive collaboration portal optimized for government. Feith Systems helps government agencies move from paper-based systems to electronic environments that comply with DoD records management standard 5015.2. Certified for Chapters 2 and 4, both classified and unclassified documents can be addressed. Under terms of the agreement, BroadVision and Feith will identify and pursue joint business opportunities in the federal marketplace, principally those involving records management programs. The companies also intend to establish cross-functional business development and technology teams to focus their core competencies on existing and emerging opportunities, identify process improvements and exchange best practices. www.feith.com, www.broadvision.com
obinary released their Magnolia Content Management System (CMS), a J2EE-deployable and Java-based CMS which has been built from the ground up to support Java Content Repositories (JCR). The main goal of Magnolia is to make content management easy. Magnolia is platform-agnostic and uses Java, XML, JSP, JSTL and a custom tag library to achieve optimal implementation times. Magnolia can be installed “within 10 minutes” on all common operating-systems and is available free of charge. www.obinary.com
Astoria Software and Arbortext announced they have entered into a partnership agreement to provide the aerospace industry with automated publishing applications. The initial solutions provide software to produce flight operations manuals and electronic flight bags. The combination of Astoria’s content management software and Arbortext’s XML-based authoring and automated publishing technology enables both commercial and defense aerospace customers, to build a single source for content that can be automatically assembled and published for any audience in any medium. For example, airline operators can automate the process of combining flight operations content with the highly customized data of a particular airframe and publish tailored documentation specific to a particular aircraft. www.astoriasoftware.com, www.arbortext.com
CambridgeDocs announced its .NET API for incorporating unstructured content, including PDF files and other popular file formats, into custom .NET applications. The .NET API provides access to the content transformation capabilities of the xDoc Transformation Engine (XTE), which is the heart of the CambridgeDocs XML Content Backbone. The .NET API allows for submission of individual or batch files for processing of unstructured files and allows custom applications to include the content from these documents as part of its input, workflow and output. The .NET API is available to all purchasers of the CambridgeDocs xDoc Content Transformation Server (xCTS). The .NET API allows organizations to syndicate unstructured content as XML via a Web Services architecture. www.cambridgedocs.com
Interwoven, Inc. unveiled their new vision, “Content Networks.” Content Networks anticipates future content challenges and prescribes a path to prepare and meet those challenges in the coming years. Content Networks will address: seamless access by mobile knowledge workers, democratization of decision-making around applications, and harnessing a Service-Oriented Architecture. Interwoven is aligning itself with other technology leaders for complete end-to-end enterprise standardization, including IBM, Intel, Microsoft, SAP and others, on both the concept and implementation of Content Networks. www.interwoven.com
The Gilbane Report announced that it will host an ongoing webinar series on content technology best practices as told from the enterprise consumers’ perspective. The series complements the popular Gilbane Report conferences and publications and further extends the Gilbane Report community. This webinar series is the first public work to come from the Content Technology Works Program (CTW) announced in September and provides the industry with direct access to leading enterprises that are making content technology work today. The first seminar, “Content Categories That Work”, will be held on Dec. 16, 2003 at 12:30PM EST. Learn how three companies, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Mattel and Unisys, make sense of the content technology world for the benefit of their organizations, partners and customers. Other scheduled webinar topics include “Tips and Techniques for Adoption” and “Measuring Value, Managing Expectations.” To register, visit select “View Scheduled Events” and then the “Register” icon. www.gilbane.com/technology_works.html,
Context Media, Inc. announced the immediate availability of Interchange Suite 4.0, the latest version of their content integration software solution. The new version of the Web-services-based Interchange Suite includes a number of enhancements that together will improve content management, access and distribution capabilities. New features include additional application and infrastructure platform support; new metadata management capabilities, enhanced security, scalability and high availability features for business performance and continuity; and a number of end user enhancements that improve productivity and demonstrate substantial ROI. Content organized by Interchange Suite can also be accessed by Intershare, Context Media’s Web services client, which acts like a shared drive allowing “desktop level” access to all content. The solution bypasses the need for companies to standardize on a single vendor’s content management, digital asset management or document management system. www.contextmedia.com
