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Interwoven, Inc. launched the Interwoven Solution for Government, a platform for content management that helps federal, state, and local governments build initiatives such as public-facing citizen portals and internal facing agency portals and meet key government mandates to make electronic information and technology accessible to all people. The Interwoven government offering is built on top of the Interwoven 5 platform and includes ECM capabilities tailored to the specialized needs of E-Government. Interwoven said they are committed to enabling its customers’ compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments, Department of Defense legislation 5015.2, and Government Paperwork Elimination Act of 1988. www.interwoven.com

TXT e-solutions introduced the 3.0 version of Polymedia, a Content Management platform for companies in the Media and Public Administration sectors as well as for large information portals. The new version of Polymedia can be integrated with complex information systems including databases, versioning systems and directory services. Polymedia uses XML to offer support for the Oracle 9i database. TXT Polymedia 3.0 can also be fully integrated with external versioning systems like Microsoft Visual Source Safe and CVS. Directory services based on LDAP technology can also be used with TXT Polymedia 3.0 allowing for the integration of enhanced tools for the management of authorised platform users with the company’s pre-existing user identification systems. The new version also includes improved modelling functions. TXT Polymedia is able to manage the distribution, from the beginning, of complex and multimedia content through both traditional and new channels (web, telefony mobile, SMS, iTV, etc). TXT Polymedia is written in Java and can be used with Windows, Unix and Linux applications. www.Txtpolymedia.com

SOFTWIN launched its proprietary DRM solution, tailored to the inherent needs of the publishing industry. It focuses on the management of digital rights concerning specific content, by interdicting its involuntary as well as the voluntary non-authorized distribution. The electronic format provides the ability to redefine the content, by including their own comments, highlights, and to re-arrange different sections of interest. The solution is customizable, targeting the entire process of electronic content distribution. It provides a client-side application which controls printing, copy-pasting, saving and classical Print Screen key, and the server-side automatic content preparation tools and even a customizable virtual bookstore. A unique license which identifies a class of content, the rights associated, and the user allowed to access it. SOFTWIN’s solution targets the entire range of publishing agents, especially those with periodic content delivery (journals, updates, newsletters) following complex rules in a controlled manner. www.softwin.ro, www.intuitext.com

Convera announced that Stellent, Inc., has integrated Convera’s Screening Room Capture rich media indexing technology into the newly available Stellent Audio Video Indexer. Convera’s Screening Room Capture technology extracts visual and textual metadata from analog or digital video by controlling multiple subsystems for closed-captioned text extraction, voice-to-text servers, video analysis, manual annotation, device control, and timecode management. By encapsulating all metadata into XML, Screening Room Capture allows the integration of video logging into many other systems, such as an existing content management solution. Stellent Audio Video Indexer enables users to perform sophisticated searches on numerous video file types such as .mpg, .avi, .asf, or .wmv. Voice recognition results and file property information are encoded in XML for full-text indexing and online viewing. Stellent Audio Video Indexer also takes an snapshot of video files and automatically creates thumbnail images for audio video files managed within the Stellent Content Server. www.stellent.com, www.convera.com

InStranet, Inc., announced the release of Secure Report Distribution Manager (SRDM), designed to securely facilitate the delivery of Business Objects WebIntelligence reports to large, yet targeted audiences. SRDM is offered as new module in InStranet’s Content-Based Application product suite. SRDM manages all the security-related metadata for navigation, access to reports, and row-level data access. SRDM enables users to retrieve the correct InfoView report using any number of descriptive dimensions, including global regions, business unit, and/or business objects. With SRDM information can be off-loaded from the data warehouse, eliminating the need to create additional tables or joins because SRDM manages all of the security-related metadata. SQL statements needed to query the data warehouse are simpler. SRDM enables users to distribute reports alongside unstructured data such as proposals, contracts, written analyses, etc. www.InStranet.com

Hummingbird Ltd. announced the availability of Hummingbird e-Gateway 2.0. Hummingbird e-Gateway is a lightweight, real-time, dynamic HTML (DHTML) browser-based Web-to-Host solution that allows administrators to publish enterprise information from IBM Mainframe and AS/400 hosts green screens in custom, graphical screens. Improvements to the architecture of Hummingbird e-Gateway make this version a true Web application that can be deployed over J2EE Web Application servers such as IBM WebSphere, BEA Weblogic, Apache Tomcat and others. Improvements to scalability in Hummingbird e-Gateway 2.0 allow up to 1500 sessions to be supported by a single server. User load can be easily increased with new servers added to the ring. Hummingbird e-Gateway 2.0 is available for Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, and any UNIX platform supported by IBM Websphere 4.x and above, BEA Weblogic 6.1 and above, Apache Tomcat 4.x, and e-Gateway’s integrated web application server. Hummingbird e-Gateway 2.0 is available immediately for purchase or upgrade. www.hummingbird.com