Adobe Systems announced the immediate availability of the Adobe Acrobat 6.0 product line. Adobe also announced the immediate availability of Adobe Reader 6.0 software, an upgraded and re-named version of the widely distributed, free Acrobat Reader. Acrobat 6.0 Professional and Acrobat 6.0 Standard for Windows 98 Second Edition (Acrobat 6.0 Standard only), Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (with service pack 6), Windows 2000 Professional (with service pack 2), Windows XP Home, Professional and Tablet PC Editions, and Mac OS X v10.2.2, are immediately available in English. French and German language versions are expected to ship the first week of June and Japanese language versions are expected to ship in early July. Acrobat 6.0 Professional has an estimated street price of US$449. Registered users of Acrobat 4.0 and Acrobat 5.0 can upgrade to Acrobat 6.0 Professional for an estimated street price of US$149. Acrobat 6.0 Standard has an estimated street price of US$299. Registered users of Acrobat 4.0 and Acrobat 5.0 can upgrade to Acrobat 6.0 Standard for an estimated street price of US$99. The products also are available through Adobe’s licensing programs. Acrobat Elements is immediately available for Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (with service pack 6), Windows 2000 Professional (with service pack 2), and Windows XP Home, Professional and Tablet PC Editions. The product, available exclusively through Adobe’s licensing programs, begins at US$28 per seat for a 1,000 seat license. www.adobe.com/products/acrobat
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Software AG, Inc. unveiled its XML Enablement capability for federal government agencies, a group of services, products and best practices that uses XML and Web Services to build “views” of information from disparate enterprise sources. These views are placed as XML documents into an Enterprise Metadata Repository (EMR) where users can request views using HTTP. Users can then retrieve the information itself from various sources as HTML or XML documents for secure publishing to internal and external systems. Software AG’s XML Enablement capability supports four core processes that help agencies manage information better: Enterprise Metadata Repository, Data Services, Composition and Publishing. At the core of Software AG’s XML Enablement capability is the EMR, which includes a cross-platform data dictionary and enables users to store, query and annotate information from disparate systems. Compliant with both Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) and UDDI, the EMR uses commercial off-the-shelf authoring and developing tools and supports enterprise capabilities such as versioning, check-in/check-out and impact analysis. The EMR allows users to define processes for creating new documents, and then composes the documents automatically in XML or HTML by drawing data and content from various sources. Completed documents are stored in WebDAV compliant folders. www.softwareagusa.com
Northern Light has emerged from the Divine bankruptcy. C. David Seuss, former CEO of Northern Light, purchased the company in Divine’s 26-hour marathon bankruptcy auction held three weeks ago. After the acquisition, Seuss contacted the corporate customers for Northern Light’s SinglePoint Market Research Portal that had not fled during the Divine era and assured them that their customer support would soon return. Seuss also plans to market the never before released Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine, a 64-bit enterprise search solution, featuring Northern Light’s taxonomy and classification capability that uses Northern Light’s clustering technology. It is unclear what the plabs are for the Northern Light Web search engine. www.northernlight.com
Fair Isaac Corporation and Software AG, Inc. announced a marketing partnership in the area of XML data integration and processing. The new partnership allows customers to use EntireX XML Mediator and Tamino XML Server from Software AG to send non-XML data from various sources to the ACORD SPX-compliant policy application and claims processing supported by Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor and XML Manager For Insurance. EntireX XML Mediator lets companies convert a wide range of data formats to XML and route XML data and message streams between applications and systems. It manages requests for XML data streams, converts legacy data into standardized XML formats, and sends notifications to sending and receiving parties to track the progress and success of data transfer operations. Tamino XML Server adds the native XML storage of critical transaction information and XML components necessary for advanced queries, processing, and exception reporting. www.fairisaac.com, www.softeareagusa.com
SecureNet Asia Limited announced a reseller agreement with Authentica Inc. to distribute Authentica’s complete range of content security solutions in China, Hong Kong, and Macau. www.authentica.com
Cintra Corporation UK announced MASmedia V.3, the latest release of Cintra’s Smart Enterprise Suite comprising web-enabled modules that deliver Digital Asset Management, Document Management, Enterprise Content Management and Workflow in one integrated solution. Cintra is primarily targeting MASmedia at medium to large enterprise marketing departments and marketing agencies. Typically, these will be companies with large branch, dealer, distributor or partner networks such as those found in the automotive, retail, manufacturing and financial services industries. Serving as a digital media hub, MASmedia enhances collaborative working by providing integration with partners and suppliers. MASmedia provides an environment where authorised users in agencies and remote offices can access marketing assets without jeopardising sensitive corporate data. Through a branded web interface, users can communicate with other (Internal or External) team members in a “virtual workspace” that enables them to speed the deployment of marketing campaigns and product launches, while safeguarding brand authenticity. MASmedia is available now under licence or as a managed Application Server Provider (ASP) through Cintra. www.cintra.com
WindFire Technology announced it has entered into an agreement with EMC Corporation to integrate the companys Xtorm enterprise information management (EIM) suite with the EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) solution. EMC Centera is designed to address the information storage requirements of any structured or unstructured data. WindFires Xtorm EIM suite comprises enterprise content management, business process management and virtual repository management applications. Developed on a J2EE, XML and Unicode foundation, the integrated suite is designed to be embedded into existing business applications. WindFire is now shipping its integration adapter for the EMC Centera CAS solution, which provides a direct and bi-directional communication layer with Xtorm. www.windfiretechnology.com
Web4, a division of netGuru, Inc. announced an exclusive distributor agreement with Fuji Xerox Singapore (FXS). Web4 will integrate eReview, Web4’s 2D and 3D collaborative viewer, with FXS’ knowledge-sharing product, DocuShare. FXS will retain the exclusive rights to sell eReview in Singapore with FXS’ document management suite of products in all vertical markets excluding the oil and gas industries. By integrating eReview’s real-time visualization, markup, conferencing and collaboration technology, FXS will be adding interactive, real-time, native viewing of structured and unstructured data found in document types like 2D and 3D Computer Aided Design, Microsoft Office documents, raster images and Electronic Design Automation. With the help of eReview, FXS users familiar with automating and controlling their workflow processes with FXS’ suite of content management products like DocuShare will now have the added ability to collaborate at any point in a document’s life cycle. eReview meetings can also be saved, replayed and archived into DocuShare’s work environment. FXS has also incorporated eReview in its “Knowledge Window,” an integrated digital meeting space comprising Web4’s eReview, 3M’s Digital WallDisplay and FXS’ suite of document management and knowledge management software and hardware. www.fujixerox.com.sg, www.netguru.com
