CrownPeak Technology announced a strategic alliance with Internet consulting and development firm Genex to provide hosted content management services to Genex and its clients. Genex will integrate CrownPeak’s Advantage CMS hosted content management tool as a content management solution for select client engagements. The relationship is Genex’s first with an application service provider. www.genex.com, www.crownpeak.com
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Stellent, Inc. announced its Lotus Notes initiative. The initiative includes the release of the new Stellent Lotus Notes Integrator that offers customers a migration or integration path between Lotus Notes and Stellent Content Management. The Stellent Lotus Notes Integrator provides companies with a solution for automatically replicating or migrating Lotus Notes database content into the Stellent Content Management environment. It automatically converts the proprietary Lotus Notes document format into RTF, HTML or XML. Stellent Lotus Notes Integrator can be used in situations where Stellent Content Management coexists with Lotus Notes or where companies are completing replacing Notes. In the first scenario, Lotus Notes Integrator will automatically replicate Lotus Notes documents or emails into the Stellent system, which would be used for document management, Web publishing, content collaboration and content distribution. In the second scenario, Lotus Notes Integrator would be used for the one-time migration of Lotus Notes documents into the Stellent Content Management system. Stellent Lotus Notes Integrator is currently shipping and is priced at $50,000 USD. www.stellent.com/lotusintegration
Plumtree Software announced Plumtree Content Server 4.0, a portal content management system. As an engine for creating and publishing Web content within the portal, Content Server allows everyone in the business to contribute information to the portal, and every line-of-business to manage the branding and publication of that content to portal pages and related Web sites. Content Server is based on the 2001 acquisition of Hablador, and is the most recent product in Plumtree’s new line of servers, which also includes Collaboration Server, Studio Server, Search Server and Single Sign-On Server, Powered by Oblix. Content Server publishes content to the portal organized in Plumtree’s enterprise-wide document directory or in community directories maintained for different work-groups or business units. Content Server can also publish content as Gadget Web Services, components embedded within a portal page, and a wide range of administration tools are surfaced in the portal as Gadget Web Services. Content Server relies on the portal’s security scheme, and indexes its content using Plumtree Search. Content Server is expected to be generally available in November 2002. www.plumtree.com
NeoCore Inc., developer of the NeoCore XML Information Management System (XMS), has released NeoCore Insight, an information exploration tool that provides instant access to database information. NeoCore Insight allows businesses greater understanding about the information stored in the XMS database without need for application development. The power of the underlying engine is exposed by a number of access methods, including charting, creating user-defined gauges that can be set into a “dashboard”, and revealing patterns within the information, without technical knowledge of the data’s structure or indexing. NeoCore’s additional complementary technologies include a recent integration with Altova’s XMLSPY 5, which enables database access and manipulation of XMS from within the XMLSPY development environment, and planned upcoming integration with an Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) tool. Insight is available immediately. www.neocore.com
InStranet, Inc. announced the release of the latest version of its Secure Report Distribution Manager product, an application designed to converge Business Intelligence and Enterprise Content Management. SRDM v2 enables BI managers and non-technical business users to search for and distribute reports to the appropriate recipients across the extended enterprise, whether those users are at headquarters, in branch offices or retail outlets, or within partner or customer organizations. With SRDM v2, users can access a single centralized location for all reporting information, whether those reports originate from a BI platform, desktop reporting tools, CRM applications, or mainframe and AS/400 platforms. www.InStranet.com
Mobius Management Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired technology and certain other assets of Cytura Corp. Cytura software delivers Web site management, document management and digital asset management in a single platform. It gives business managers and non-technical employees the ability to create, personalize, transform, manage and publish content. Cytura technology will be integrated with the Mobius ViewDirect TCM software suite to deliver a comprehensive integrated solution for enterprise content requirements. Mobius paid Cytura $2.2 million in cash for the acquired assets. In approximately one year, Mobius may be obligated to pay Cytura up to an additional $800,000, depending on the price of Mobius common stock over the next thirteen months.
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Soft Experience has released Catalogue 4.0 – Files Metadata Miner. Catalogue 4.0 is a Windows utility to automatically gather file metadata and to generate HTML/XML/RDF reports. Collected metadata includes: Microsoft Office, Star Office and OpenOffice.org summary information; summary information of any Windows 2000 file; HTML document title and meta tags according to Dublic Core schema (IETF RFC 2731); Adobe XMP metadata; user-defined information of any Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org document; Macintosh comments of any Macintosh file stored on NTFS volumes; PDF Document information; and IPTC-NAA fields for JPEG/TIFF images. The program can generate directly HTML, CSV, Word or XML reports of collected metadata, and is able to apply appropriate XSL transformations to build any text/csv/html/xml report. Language support includes English, French, German, and Portuguese,and you can modify or add your own user interface language.
Percussion Software announced a partnership agreement with Olidium, who will integrate its technology with Percussion’s Rhythmyx Content Manager and offer the products in tandem to customers. C3Liaison is an Internet-based platform allowing customers, suppliers and trading partners to collaborate, manage and share an extended network of business processes and inter-enterprise applications. The C3Liaison suite of applications comprises a portal framework and seven applications: catalog manager, sourcing, procurement, fulfillment visibility, asset management, collaborative inventory and maintenance, repair and engineering (MRE). Olidium supports Sun Solaris, Linux, and Microsoft Windows 2000 operating systems; as well as Oracle, IBM DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server databases. It has been built to be integrated with legacy ERP systems and other vertical applications. C3Liaison will integrate with Rhythmyx Content Manager V4.5 to update and repurpose content via Olidium’s Rhythmyx Publisher Plug-in. This integration will occur in three main areas of Olidium’s C3Liaison suite: Portlets, Catalog Manager and Documentation. www.percussion.com, www.olidium.com
