XML Global Technologies, Inc. announced that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire all of the intellectual property of VertaPort Inc. The letter of intent also provides for up to a $5 million equity investment into XML Global by The Paradigm Group II, L.L.C., the controlling shareholder of VertaPort, subject to certain conditions. Under the proposed agreement, Paradigm would provide an immediate $2 million equity investment upon closing of the transaction, scheduled for no later than August 15th, 2002. The terms of the acquisition and funding agreement provide for XML Global to issue 7 million common shares in exchange for 100% of the intellectual property rights of VertaPort. Additionally, XML Global will issue 7 million common share warrants exercisable at $0.50 and a further 2.5 million common share warrants exercisable at $1.00 per share to complete the acquisition transaction. www.xmlglobal.com
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Stellent, Inc. Software AG, Inc. announced that Software AG’s Tamino XML Server has been integrated with the Stellent Content Management system. This integration offers a content management system integrated with an XML database and provides users with a content repository optimized for managing and storing large amounts of pure XML content. The Tamino integration is available as part of the core Stellent Content Server product. www.stellent.com, www.softwareagusa.com
Enfish Corporation announced that Enfish now provides complete integration with SharePoint, Microsoft’s Web-based portal solution. Businesses using SharePoint can now access SharePoint data through Enfish products. Integrating SharePoint Portal Server and SharePoint Team Services data with Enfish products enables users to see, relate and access SharePoint data in context to their personal data from e-mail, appointments, tasks, and files. Enfish automatically connects them to related information without users having to search data stores or even know that related data exists. Enfish products integrate data from many disparate information sources, including e-mail and e-mail attachments, document/content management software programs, portals, intranets/extranets, CRM/ERP systems and databases.
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LexisNexis launched a content organizer capability, jointly developed with Verity Inc., that enables a business organization to leverage its information assets for better decision-making by classifying and integrating a business’s enterprise information in a single, easy-to-navigate tool. The LexisNexis Content Organizer couples the LexisNexis taxonomies and concept definitions with Verity’s K2 Enterprise’s classification capability. www.LexisNexis.com, www.verity.com
Verity, Inc. announced a new version of its Verity K2 Enterprise (K2E) software. Verity K2E integrates search, taxonomy and personalization. Verity K2 Enterprise provides a classification solution that combines machine learning with domain expertise. Verity K2E gives users a multitude of ways to quickly find the information they need. The search tools include federated search, which brings back results from many sources to a single query, parametric search, which finds single or groups of documents with specific attributes, category drill-down to let users browse through categories and subcategories, and relational taxonomies, which enables simultaneous search of two or more taxonomies. www.verity.com
SDL International announced the introduction of a scalable system for enterprise management of translation memories. Offering the choice of working seamlessly with SDLX, STAR and Trados, as well as the new XML market standards, such as TMX and XLIFF, “SDLX for UNIX” is intended to be part of the workflow of global organizations. The Translation Editor utilizes the familiar interface of SDL’s ‘SDLX’, but the back-end engine uses a UNIX server, allowing translators to continue to use the familiar SDLX desktop, but plug into corporate UNIX servers. www.sdlintl.com/enterprise-systems.htm
TopicalNet, Inc. announced that it has partnered with Inmagic, Inc. The agreement will provide Inmagic’s customers with stronger search and categorization capabilities for electronic library management. TopicalNet’s Classifier incorporates a pre-built taxonomy of close to 1 million categories, providing automated categorization. The Gatherer provides organizations with the ability to manage the acquisition of large amounts of electronically stored data, normalize it, and prepare it for further processing, and Classifier automatically classifies pages on the Internet and within corporate Intranets and Extranets. By providing a roadmap of the content, Inmagic allows its customers to better manage, disseminate and utilize their assets. www.inmagic.com, www.TopicalNet.com
Quiver, Inc. announced Version 2.0 of QKS Classifier, an upgrade to its taxonomy platform. QKS Classifier is a categorization application for organizing, managing and distributing unstructured data through end user directories. QKS Classifier leverages automated categorization technologies to reduce the effort associated with accurately organizing unstructured data while. The expanded functionality of QKS Classifier Version 2.0 includes the following automated and interactive features: Support Vector Machine [SVM] Algorithm; Business Rules Engine; Publishing Rules; Enhanced Filtering Rules; Expiration Rules; Information Manager Wizards; End User Document Submission; Additional Taxonomy Import Capabilities; Enhanced Caching System; Expanded Inktomi/Search Support; and QKS Topic Advisor Integration. Quiver’s QKS Classifier release 2.0 is available immediately. www.quiver.com/products/classifier/index.html
