InStranet, Inc. announced the release of version 3.2 of its Channels In-Line (CIL) application featuring built-in analytics. With a strong emphasis on feedback and measurement, these analytics enable managers to make informed sales and marketing decisions based on market pressures, competition and channel needs. In addition to publishing and syndicating information, companies can measure its effectiveness in real-time. CIL 3.2 ships with the following business indicators as part of the new analytics module: Field Audit, Awareness Ratio, and Document Effectiveness Metric. CIL is a web-based application that ships with InStranets Content Application Foundation. It includes the following content and document management modules: publishing, workflow, file system agent, syndication, user management, security, metadata tracking and organization, multi-dimensional segmentation engine and application content exchange. CIL is targeted at companies with multiple distribution channels, large sales organizations, and multiple customer touch points within the following industries: retail, financial, manufacturing, CPG, healthcare and technology. www.InStranet.com
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Vignette Corp. announced certification of Vignette V7 for IBM software and hardware solutions. Vignette V7’s support for IBM infrastructure provides current and prospective customers with the ability to standardize on a unified solution for managing content and portals across the enterprise. The Vignette and IBM solution addresses the challenges of creating and managing portals and Web sites to deliver the right enterprise information and business processes to each audience. When combined, IBM’s application infrastructure and hardware and Vignette’s content management and portal applications enable organizations to deploy enterprise Web applications that protect and leverage investments in enterprise applications, databases, application servers, security and operating systems. Vignette’s support for the IBM platform now includes the AIX operating system, WebSphere Application Server, DB2 Universal Database, IBM Directory Server, WebSphere Portal Server, IBM MQSeries, IBM Content Manager 8, Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino. www.vignette.com
HiSoftware, Inc. announced integration between its AccVerify, AccMonitor Server and Microsoft Content Management Server (CMS) 2002, enhancing the ability to ensure that websites meet Section 508 recommendations and organizational Web content quality standards. The combined solutions allow for integrated access for verification of accessibility and content quality throughout the different layers of CMS managed Web sites. AccVerify, AccMonitor and Content Management Server integration can be used together “out-of-the-box” with no additional development resources required, so that content quality and accessibility verification is seamlessly integrated into the development, deployment and delivery of the CMS-driven Web sites. These solutions also allow organizations to address accessibility and content quality verification issues related to XML-based Web services. www.hisoftware.com
KMtechnologies Inc. announced a new partnership agreement with Swingtide. FSwingtide has licensed KMtechnologies’ work2gether platform to deliver the Swingtide QoB Assistant. Leveraging the work2gether collaborative features, the QoB Assistant is a productivity tool for architects and developers to understand, define and manage the interoperability of XML used in service-oriented architectures. The QoB Assistant is a software application packaged with an online knowledgebase of XML standards that’s accessible from your network. The QoB Assistant automates planning in several key ways. First, the QoB Assistant lets you make specific choices about XML and make them persistent across your local copy of the knowledge-base as design guidelines. Second, several people can work and collaborate on a design simultaneously. The QoB Assistant comes complete with discussion thread capability, email notification when team members update a portion of the design, and even support for distance collaboration. Additionally, the QoB Assistant enables you to add custom content that can be leveraged by the rest of the team. www.kmtechnologies.com www.swingtide.com
FatWire Software introduced a new dCM Integration kit with six free FatWire dCM portlets for IBM’s WebSphere Portal. The portlets allow business users to easily create and modify both structured and unstructured content and publish it to the WebSphere Portal to provide users with fresh, relevant information. The new dCM Integration Kit provides J2EE integration between FatWire’s dynamic content management software, UpdateEngine, and IBM’s Web Sphere Portal v4.1 to allow business users to easily create, edit and publish content to WebSphere Portals. FatWire’s six new dCM content-rich display portlets include The User Display Portlet, The Launch Pad Portlet, The News Portlet, The Job Listing Portlet, The Document Portlet, and The Advertisement Portlet. The dCM Integration Kit and six portlets are available from the IBM Portlet Catalog (Code: 1WP1000CK). www.ibm.com, www.fatwire.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced the official opening of its office in Milan, Italy. The new Interwoven Italian office is located at Via Monte di Pieta, 21, 20121 Milano, Italia; Tel: +39 02 86 33 7 237. www.interwoven.com
Scene7, Inc. announced the integration of its Infinite Imaging Platform with IBM DB2 Content Manager Version 8.2. IBM and Scene7 jointly market Scene7’s platform with IBM software and hardware platforms. Scene7 clients can computer generate any digital image they need — in photo quality — for uses including Websites, catalogs, partner extranets and marketing collateral. Scene7 integration includes the ability to publish dynamically generated imagery, including related image attributes and server requests, to IBM DB2 Content Manager v8.2 as a secure repository. Within Content Manager’s standard e-client, users can directly view all published images and related metadata. Using Scene7’s enhanced e-client, these users can search, browse, edit and transform image assets directly from IBM Content Manager. In support of this integrated solution, Scene7’s platform operates on all major IBM environments, including DB2, WebSphere Application Server, Linux, AIX, Portal Server, and eServer hardware (xSeries, pSeries). www.scene7.com www.ibm.com/software/data/cm
Document Sciences Corporation announced the release of xPression, a content processing services architecture. xPression extends the capabilities of enterprise Content Management, CRM, Portal and Business Application systems through a J2EE/XML component-based architecture. xPression uses XML to connect an organization’s existing workflow components. xPression works with Microsoft Word to design documents based on business rules. xPression can communicate with any solution, customize content at a high level of granularity, generate output through multiple channels and handle both transactional and high-volume batch processes. It runs on an IBM WebSphere, and is compatible with Windows 2000, Solaris, AIX, and HP/UX platforms. Support for BEA WebLogic, and z/OS will be added later this year. XPression is Unicode compatible. It integrates with Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server. Xpression’s Upgrade Utility allows companies currently using Document Sciences’ Autograph DLS product to migrate their applications to the xPression environment if application server operability is desired. Supported output formats include: PDF, HTML, Postscript, AFP, Metacode, and PCL. www.docscience.com
