Openpages, Inc. and Venture Financial Systems Group have entered into an alliance agreement to deliver content production solutions to the financial services community. The new alliance draws upon Openpages 4.0 Adaptive Content Platform and Venture’s consulting staff to improve the way financial institutions deliver information to customers. www.openpages.com, www.venturefsg.com
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Microsoft Corp. announced that Groove Networks Inc. is working with Microsoft to integrate Groove Workspace, with SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft, to provide customers with a team Web site solution that supports online and offline use and automatic synchronization, and works securely across company firewalls. Groove Networks will deliver a kit that integrates SharePoint Team Services with Groove Workspace, by fall 2002. The combined SharePoint Team Services and Groove Workspace solution will offer customers collaboration tools that enable offline access to team content; automatic synchronization; and secure, real-time collaboration across network boundaries. The SharePoint Team Services/Groove Workspace integration kit will be available to customers via Groove Networks distribution channels. www.groove.net, www.microsoft.com
divine, inc. announced the availability of divine SinglePoint Search, an engine for accessing enterprise content and Web search. The browser-based application features automatic classification and multi-factor relevance ranking. divine SinglePoint Search is a search tool for enterprise users that enables fast and accurate information retrieval of content from both internal and external sources. SinglePoint applies a robust taxonomy and multi-factor relevance ranking to integrated searches of internal and external databases. It also addresses a broad range of information and options to automatically adapt to the data type and user’s query style, and to provide Custom Search Folders that allow easy navigation of search results. divine SinglePoint Search is based on the NorthernLight technology. www.divine.com
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced that the presentation of search results from AlltheWeb.com can be completely customized with the AlltheWeb Alchemist tool. AlltheWeb now allows technically-minded users to create a customized look and feel for web, multimedia, news, and categorized search results from AlltheWeb via user-defined cascading style sheets (CSS). AlltheWeb Alchemist displays web search results in basic HTML code. Searchers can view these results in this basic format, or customize the results view via their own pre-defined CSS file, allowing the user to control virtually all aspects of result presentation for the various search catalogs and other elements on the page. Users can share their design by sending a link to the style-sheets so that their friends may have the same search experience. As this is a beta technology, no formal support from FAST is provided and FAST is not responsible for any style sheets created by third parties. www.alltheweb.com/alchemist
Inktomi Corp. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Quiver, Inc. The addition of Quiver’s portfolio of categorization and taxonomy software will further strengthen Inktomi’s enterprise information retrieval solutions. The total purchase price of this transaction will be approximately $12 million in a combination of common stock and cash. With the addition of Quiver, Inktomi can deliver information management solutions that provide both search capabilities and the ability to accurately arrange information into taxonomies. www.quiver.com, www.inktomi.com
Ingeniux Corporation announced the release of Ingeniux Content Management System (CMS) 3.0. The Ingeniux CMS empowers front line staff to create, manage and publish business-critical Web sites. Ingeniux CMS 3.0 offers a simplified user interface specifically designed to enable non-technical content contributors to quickly and easily create and deploy content. Content publishing is now a one-button operation. An adaptable user interface based on a user’s profile allows site administrators to completely define the working environment for content contributors. Ingeniux CMS 3.0 is available now. www.ingeniux.com
Stratify, Inc. announced the availability of the first in a suite of integration adapters that brings taxonomy and categorization capabilities to portal environments. The Stratify Portal Adapter for BEA and the Stratify Portal Adapter for Plumtree utilize the Stratify Discovery System’s Web services APIs to provide direct access to enterprisewide taxonomies that are automatically generated and managed by the Discovery System. The Stratify Portal Adapter suite is based on a set of Web services (SOAP, WSDL) and Java APIs. The Stratify Portal Adapter suite can communicate with other BEA Portlets and Plumtree Gadgets, classify designated documents or selected information in real-time, and provide users related topics and associated documents. Similarly, the Stratify Portal Adapters can provide real-time document classification, content management or publishing workflow applications within the portal. www.stratify.com
Vignette Corp. announced new versions of its enterprise content adapters to integrate enterprise content from PeopleSoft 8 and Siebel 7 applications into Vignette content management solutions. Integrations with Vignette content adapters are created in a graphical design environment. The intelligent adapters automatically discover and expose object models and processes to developers in real time and enable the two-way exchange of content contained in application repositories. The new enterprise adapters include support for Solaris, Windows, AIX and HP-UX. In addition, the new adapters expand integration with EAI tools and frameworks such as MQSeries, J2EE, XML schemas and Web services. More than 50 content adapters are available for a wide variety of content sources, including desktop authoring tools, XML, enterprise applications such SAP R/3 and J.D. Edwards, content repositories, HTTP, FTP, EDI and RosettaNet. www.vignette.com
