Mercado Software Inc. announced it has released its Enterprise Search & Navigation (ESN) solution. Designed from the ground up for a web services enterprise architecture, ESN provides a solution for locating information scattered across multiple information repositories and stored in disparate data formats. ESN provides a single point of information access for users to explore all organizational information, whether it is structured, semi-structured, or unstructured content. ESN utilizes linguistic tools and hierarchical indexing that uses structure in addition to text to optimize relevancy ranking for all content types. ESN’s modular architecture is adaptive to existing systems and new data sources and is customizable. Its XML and SOAP architecture simplifies integration and maintenance. The solution is scalable to any data volume and user load, and features a quick update capability that helps keep search indices fresh. www.mercado.com
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FileNet Corporation and Venetica announced a relationship under which FileNet will re-sell Venetica’s Content Provider for the FileNet P8 Workplace, FileNet’s user interface for its FileNet P8 ECM architecture. The Content Provider for FileNet P8 Workplace leverages Venetica’s product VeniceBridge, and enables FileNet customers to access existing enterprise content through FileNet’s common API and user interface. FileNet’s VCM solution enables users to browse and search external content sources, and includes support for existing FileNet repositories, third party content management systems and custom content sources. Users can copy selected content into the FileNet P8 Content Manager or create real-time links to content residing in external repositories. www.venetica.com, www.filenet.com
UCCnet, the not-for-profit organization that provides item registry and data synchronization services based on industry-developed standards, and Trigo Technologies, Inc. announced that Trigo Product Center 4 has been certified for UCCnet Foundation Services 2.1. By earning UCCnet certification in Supply Side, Demand Side (Buy) as well as Universal testing, Trigo Product Center delivers a certified solution that captures, manages, and synchronizes comprehensive product information for manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Trigo will participate in the UCCnet Foundation Services 2.2 beta program. Trigo’s participation in this program will ensure that Trigo Product Center continues to provide full support for current and future UCCnet and GCI (Global Commerce Initiative) standards. Trigo Product Center 4 exceeds current GCI standards for EAN.UCC data synchronization, enabling trading partners to manage and synchronize the broadest range of product information. www.uccnet.org, www.trigo.com
WebSideStory, Inc. Atomz announced an exclusive alliance to provide businesses with a solution for Web site search, content management and Web analytics. Under the agreement, the companies will integrate their products and services and work on a number of joint marketing projects. HitBox greatly extends Atomz Search’s reporting capabilities to include campaign ROI tracking, up-to-the-second merchandising reports, funnel analysis, visitor segmentation and more. Atomz will also integrate HitBox intelligence into its Atomz Publish content management system, allowing companies to get detailed, real-time insight into online visitor behavior. Using HitBox reports, companies can see which content visitors prefer, which navigational paths they take, which marketing campaigns they respond to, and more. www.atomz.com, www.websidestory.com
Autonomy Corporation plc announced an OEM relationship with Novell. Autonomy’s technology will be embedded in Novell exteNd Director, an interaction and portal server that enables IT organizations to deliver and maintain rich, personalized Web applications. Autonomy enhances Novell exteNd Director with its ability to analyze and rank concepts within unstructured information within its content management system. With the addition of Autonomy’s technology in Novell exteNd Director, documents and Web pages in the content management systems can be categorized, linked and delivered wherever it is needed to provide customers, partners and employees with the relevant and up-to-date information they need to be successful. www.autonomy.com
North Plains Systems Corp. announced the release of TeleScope Enterprise 7.0. TeleScope Enterprise 7.0 is designed to enable organizations to increase their ROI by expanding its use throughout the enterprise. Two major functional tools have been added to TeleScope Enterprise 7.0. The Lookup Broker option enables on-demand lookup of metadata from other data sources, such as pulling in the ISBN number based on just the book title or finding a list of episodes from the name of a particular television program. A new administrative capability has been built in to create an extensible scripting language of administrator-defined rules within the application, which simplifies “asset level” permissions within the TeleScope system. Digital Rights Management and Workflow Automation are other capabilities that are now easily configured using this new tool. www.northplains.com
BroadVision, Inc. announced a significant upgrade to the BroadVision 7 suite of enterprise portal applications, which includes BroadVision One-To-One Portal, BroadVision One-To-One Commerce and BroadVision One-To-One Content. BroadVision One-To-One Commerce is a multi-channel sales portal that automates the sales process. Key features of the 7.1 release include agent-assisted service to augment BroadVision’s self-service functionality, support for self-service returns and enhanced support for globalization. BroadVision One-To-One Portal is an application for deploying personalized business-to-employee, business-to-business and business-to-consumer portals. Key features of the 7.1 release include streamlined integration of external user management and content management systems and simplified management of community collaboration-focused microsites. BroadVision One-To-One Content allows organizations to manage all types of content throughout its lifecycle from creation and management through deployment and distribution. Key features of the 7.1 release include integration to other BroadVision applications, enhanced support for internationalization, and performance gains that accelerate workflow. www.broadvision.com
FatWire Software announced it will acquire divine’s Content Management business. As part of the divine bankruptcy auction, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Boston has approved the sale of divine’s content management assets to Saratoga Partners, a New York private equity firm, who will simultaneously transfer these assets to FatWire. The sale is expected to close in the next few days. divine’s content management business includes divine’s Content Server, formerly OpenMarket, divine’s Participant Server, formerly Eprise, and its over 300 worldwide customers. divine Content Server provides an extensible framework for growth. Customers leverage Content Server’s J2EE architecture to build their own content-driven applications. divine Participant Server manages and simplifies the flow of content to Web sites by enabling business users to add, modify, manage, and publish content without the assistance of IT staff. www.fatwire.com
