Infodata Systems Inc. announced it has partnered with IBM as both a technology partner and an ECM solutions provider. Activation as a business partner will enable Infodata to expand joint sales and marketing efforts with IBM to target customers who need to deploy ECM technologies that enable regulatory compliance. Infodata delivers proprietary middleware applications, by means of a Content Management Services Layer (CMSL), that is integrated with IBM compliance offerings. The combined solutions are designed to reduce the complexity of bringing content together with its associated critical business processes and result in fostering compliance and securing the management of content across its lifecycle. www.infodata.com

Vignette Corp., Sun Microsystems, and DaimlerChrysler Consult Graz (DCCG) GmbH, a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler, announced a collaboration to provide smart enterprise services that deliver complete information lifecycle management applications, infrastructure and services. Organizations – from multinational enterprises to small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) – will be able to utilize facilities at DaimlerChrysler Consult’s earthDATAsafe center for organizational security in Austria to design, evaluate and optimize proof-of-concept ECM solutions consisting of Vignette content management and portal software based on an infrastructure of Sun’s Solaris OS based systems, storage and software products. This facility can be used remotely or through on-site visits and will be based on Sun’s iForce Solution Center program. The alliance will focus initially on serving customers in Central Europe, with a view to leverage expertise from the partner consortium to expand the offering worldwide. http://sun.com, www.dccg.at/dccg_en, www.vignette.com

Autonomy Corporation plc announced the launch of IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search with Active Folders. IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search delivers Autonomy’s IDOL technology to the corporate desktop by bringing together a wide variety of information ranging from office documents, email, websites, news and multimedia content from multiple locations including corporate networks, the web, the desktop and local data sources. IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search is an integrated tool that uses implicit query, working proactively with users on the corporate desktop to understand the information they require and bring it to them at the right time and in the right context. Using contextual matching, Active Folders understand the themes within any set of data and then automatically populate the folder with related information, regardless of its storage location, as soon as it becomes available in order to keep users right up to date. User flexibility allows users to create Active Folders implicitly or explicitly either by clicking on a document they are currently viewing or assigning keywords or phrases. Active folders allow users the facility to view and interact with corporate information offline. Security features including advanced authentication procedures which enable an administrator to disable a remote Active Folder if authentication is not received, (for example, in the case of a stolen or lost laptop), and SSL encryption are employed in order to safeguard all corporate assets. www.autonomy.com

Join the Gilbane Report’s Mary Laplante and Alison Toon from Hewlett-Packard Company in a webinar on content globalization on Thursday, December 9, 1:00 pm EST. Learn how HP populates its global websites with product content in 26 languages with a centralized enterprise globalization architecture that reduces costs, increases revenues, improves customer satisfaction, and enhances HP’s brand value. Sponsored by TRADOS. www.trados.com/event.asp?page=1616

Entrust, Inc. announced the Entrust Entelligence Content Analysis Toolkit designed to automatically sort and categorize large volumes of data for compliance and content management applications through artificial intelligence content analysis technology. The Entrust Entelligence Content Analysis Toolkit helps developers integrate contextual analysis capabilities such as auto-categorization or summarization into a wide variety of applications. Exposing a high-level set of APIs, the toolkit can help enable integration within C++ or Java environments. The Entrust Entelligence Content Analysis Toolkit combines Auto-Categorization, Summarization, and Search. Filters analyze content and match it to a pre-defined library of concept patterns. Entrust can provide filters as a set of policy modules or concept libraries, or they can be customized with a policy editor. The editor supports the development of relational and hierarchical concept definitions with customized thresholds. The Entrust Entelligence Content Analysis Toolkit leverages the same technology found at the core of the Entrust Entelligence Compliance Server, the Linux-based appliance designed to automatically scan incoming and outgoing e-mail for compliance with government or corporate regulations. The Entrust Entelligence Content Analysis Toolkit is now commercially available. www.entrust.com

The Gilbane Report’s Content Technology Works (CTW) Program announced it has published two new case studies. Senior Analyst Mark Walter investigates Wachovia’s enterprise information integration (EII) implementation where Wachovia provides seamless access to multiple document stores through enterprise-level content integration service in “Wachovia’s CAS: Harnessing the Value of Multiple Content Repositories Across a Large Enterprise”. And Senior analyst Bill Zoellick looks at how MIT’ Technology Review’s online publishing operation uses an on-demand content management system to reduce costs while simplifying editorial workflow and increasing advertising revenues in “Technology Review: Moving into the Black with On-Demand Content Management”. As with all CTW content, these case studies are made available to the public at no charge as a service to the content technology community. Partners in the Content Technology Works program include: Software AG (TECdax:SOW), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Artesia Technologies (Open Text – NASDAQ:OTEX), Atomz, ClearStory Systems (OTCBB:INCC), Context Media, Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Trados, Vasont Systems, and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN). CTW case studies in both HTML and PDF are available at www.gilbane.com/ctw_success_stories.html

Astoria Software announced Astoria Version 4.3, a major upgrade which enhances XML authoring for distributed workgroups. With Astoria Version 4.3, complex XML documents can be securely authored by access through the Internet. Authors using Arbortext Enterprise Publishing Software version 5.1 now get secure, remote access to the Astoria Structured Document Management Server via a new Bridge developed by Astoria Software. This new Bridge provides full access to all of Astoria application capabilities. Expanded with Astoria Version 4.3 is support for advanced differencing to automate content updates from third party sources. Documentation managers that must integrate updates can now automate the “stare and compare” process to identify content, structure and attribute changes. Astoria Conflict Resolution automates the acceptance of these changes. Incoming updates that conflict with existing content are routed via email to authors for easy point and click resolution. Astoria Filtered Publishing provides the ability to embed product configurations (effectivity) within documents then filter based on configuration-specific information or ranges when creating an Astoria Edition. Astoria Version 4.3 incorporates enhanced searching with improved searching of international Unicode symbols and characters as well as support of additional languages. The release incorporates Verity K2 technology to manage all full text search capabilities. All Astoria server applications are now certified for Microsoft Windows Server 2003. www.astoriasoftware.com

GlobalSCAPE announced the release of its new Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) solution. GlobalSCAPE’s EFT solution is an enterprise software application that manages critical online data exchange processes in order to protect company information assets from loss, theft or misuse. GlobalSCAPE’s Enhanced File Transfer solution provides security, provisioning and management capabilities required by most organizations. It ensures that encrypted transactions occur only between designated entities and that data integrity and confidentiality are preserved from transport to storage on disk. GlobalSCAPE’s EFT solution integrates quickly into existing infrastructure and business processes. www.enhancedfiletransfer.com