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Eastman Software, Inc. has appointed Gentil Noens as vice president and general manager of Eastman Software’s operations in European, African, and Middle Eastern region. Eastman Software’s document management, imaging, workflow and Enterprise Report Management/COLD solutions have experienced solid growth in the EAMER markets and Noens will continue to focus on the continued success of the company and its solutions in these promising markets. Noens, an 11-year veteran of Eastman Software’s European sales team, brings a solid knowledge of the EAMER markets and the work management industry. Noens’ expertise comes from his experience as regional director of Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Switzerland for Eastman Software and as Software Business Unit Manager at Wang Belgium. Prior to his joining Wang and Eastman Software, Noens worked at ETAP, EDAN, and Trust International. Noens’ appointment fills a previously vacant position. www.eastmansoftware.com

Multicosm Ltd., a provider of dynamic hypermedia and enterprise knowledge management solutions, announced the availability of its KnowledgeSuite, a flexible framework for managing information and expertise throughout an organization. KnowledgeSuite dynamically records metadata about documents and individuals. The software applies theme extraction and linking technology to find and organize new and archived information, visualize relationships between documents, and enhance a user’s understanding about the areas of expertise of other knowledge workers across an organization. Applications for the product include “super-charged” information retrieval and management, collaborative computing, and expertise identification. The KnowledgeSuite utilizes autonomous agents to monitor selected documents, Web sites, and new information in specified areas of interest. As new documents are presented, they are automatically populated with links to thematically related information on local drives, corporate intranets, and the Web. This allows workers to see their documents in the most up-to-date context and see relevant relationships to similar projects underway in other parts of the company, as well as discover colleagues with similar interests and expertise. www.multicosm.com

Open Market, Inc. and Deloitte Consulting, announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance to offer Internet commerce solutions. Deloitte Consulting will work with Open Market as an e-commerce technology vendor for the Customer Relationship Management practice. As firms finish implementing ERP systems, they face the challenge of how to integrate and streamline their customer-facing business processes. Deloitte Consulting and Open Market will work together by delivering Internet commerce solutions to the industrial business-to-business marketplace, helping users of major ERP applications deploy Internet commerce catalogs rich in merchandising and customer service features. www.openmarket.com, www.dc.com

Inxight Software, and Hewlett-Packard have concluded a licensing agreement for Inxight’s Summarizer and LinguistX Platform software components for use in HP Simple Trax. HP SimpleTrax enables users to save, manage and find files easily on CDs. The two natural language technologies from Inxight enable customers to search for and view summaries of text files on CDs – without necessarily having to replace the CD in the drive first. LinguistX Platform is component technology that uses a natural language approach for automatic meta content and knowledge extraction. With LinguistX Platform, developers and online publishers can differentiate their applications, services, and content by identifying concepts automatically. Inxight Summarizer is a software component technology that summarizes a typical document by extracting key sentences from the document in real time. It can be used for any collection of documents including digital libraries, file system management, and information retrieval. www.inxight.com

Interleaf, Inc. announced it has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Texcel International AB, provider of XML-enabled content management solutions. Texcel, founded in 1991, provides software and services to corporations and government agencies that depend on information access and efficient reuse for competitive advantage, through its product, Information Manager. The integration of Information Manager

NCompass Labs, a provider of Web publishing and content management solutions, and Information Access, Inc. (IAI), a value-added distributor of document management solutions, today announced that IAI has joined the NCompass Labs Partner Program. This partnership will allow IAI to resell NCompass Resolution, the leading Web content architecture application, as part of its Web document management solution offerings. www.ncompasslabs.com, .

BackWeb Technologies, announced an OEM license agreement with i7 Business Solutions that enables i7 to integrate its component-based Internet application INTELLIinformation with BackWeb’s Internet communications platform. This integration enables the delivery of time-sensitive, business-critical information from internal or external sources to targeted end-users within a single application interface. The INTELLIinformation Solution package, with BackWeb’s Internet communications platform, provides a document management and delivery process for consulting companies and systems integrators. BackWeb’s Flash technology will be used to deliver time-sensitive, project-critical information to the desktop of the user. The Flashes can contain any type of file or media, and are automatically delivered to a consultant or systems integrator’s desktop, regardless of the application in use. The notifications can be set for minimum, medium or maximum priority depending on the urgency of the message. In addition to the INTELLIinformation Solution package, i7 Business Solutions and BackWeb Technologies are currently working with several insurance companies in Europe to create an application designed specifically for the insurance industry. www.i7-business.com, www.backweb.com.