Verity Inc. announced the immediate availability of Verity Federator version 2.0. Highlights of the new release include a Web Services interface for heterogeneous and multiple search applications, as well as enhanced security capabilities. Verity Federator is a universal search platform that provides secure and unified access to relevant information from virtually any content source across an organization and beyond. A Java infrastructure with a public API, the latest Verity Federator release includes new features that allow users to get unified access to content quickly and accurately. The product’s key features and benefits include: Web Services interface that brings together multiple search systems, including Verity’s K2 and Ultraseek enterprise search products, as well as any third party search mechanism; The ability to apply, in real time, Verity K2’s capabilities, such as summarization, classification and recommendation to any vendor’s search products; Enterprise-strength security to ensure that the existence of documents and their contents are made known only to designated individuals; and, Dynamic filtering, merging, and re-ranking of search results with multiple viewing options. Verity is offering a first-time free 60-day evaluation of Verity Federator at its download center. Customers can create a universal search platform by downloading and installing Verity Federator. www.verity.com

anacubis has released anacubis Desktop 3.0, an upgrade to its visual research and analysis software tool. Designed to give business users easy access to analysis, anacubis Desktop 3.0 transforms complex information drawn from any structured or semi-structured data source into a dynamic graphical map that instantly highlights the relationships and links buried in the data. The results of this research can now be queried, categorized and summarized using a range of new analysis features. The product now automates and simplifies the process of complex analysis through a wizard-driven interface. anacubis Desktop 3.0 also extends the scope of enterprise information sources that can be analyzed in its visual environment, adding support for Microsoft Access, Oracle and SQL-based databases. These complement the existing Microsoft Excel and HTML importers and information available from anacubis-enabled online providers such as Dun & Bradstreet, Hoover’s, LexisNexis and Questel Orbit. anacubis Desktop 3.0 is available to download for a free 10-day trial and purchase online. A one-off single user license is US$2,950. The Intellectual Property Analysis Add-in is available on a subscription basis for US$750 per year including all product updates. www.anacubis.com

ePlus inc. announced Content+ v4, a suite of software and outsourced services for electronic catalog content production and management. This new release of Content+ provides a fully customizable and modular package enabling customers and partners to select license components that best serve their needs. Content+ is now an affordable and “pluggable” solution for virtually any eProcurement or ERP system in the market. Content+ modules can be used in many configurations to meet the needs of diverse enterprises, including: Catalog creation and maintenance, Schema/Taxonomy creation and maintenance, Change Management with approval workflow, Commodity Classification, User Administration, Catalog publishing and syndication, Catalog Navigation and Shopping, Punch-out to Supplier Catalogs, and, Integration with eProcurement/ERP systems. Content+ programmatically cleanses and classifies commodity data, accelerating the creation of enhanced, parametrically searchable catalogs. www.eplus.com

Captaris, Inc. announced the immediate availability of Interchange, a pure Microsoft .NET-based content integration and information delivery platform. Interchange helps with challenging information delivery issues – content integration, output formatting and high-volume delivery via email, fax, HTML and SMS channels simultaneously – ensuring the right information flows to all recipients and back-office systems in their preferred format. Interchange 1.0 is immediately available and can be purchased through Captaris or a Captaris-authorized channel partner. www.captaris.com

Open Text Corporation announced that its records management software has been approved by the UK Government’s National Archives electronic records management systems (ERMS) program. The UK government’s ERMS program, which incorporates the Management of Classified Records, involves a rigorous testing process to ensure that organizations using records management software can adequately control and manage those records. The UK government has set a target for all central government organizations to be able to store and retrieve their public records electronically by 2005, to ensure that they are able to meet the demands of working in an electronic environment. www.opentext.com

JotSpot, an “application wiki company”, announced the official formation of the company. JotSpot extends wiki technology into the realm of workgroup applications, aiming to make Web-based applications simpler to build, deploy and evolve. JotSpot will offer its application wiki as a hosted service and, the company will offer its product free for open source project use. Workgroups can start using the service in three ways: begin immediately using the full-featured commercial wiki, install pre-packaged wiki-applications from JotSpot’s application gallery or customize an individual wiki-application for a specific business need. The JotSpot application wiki is designed as a platform for lightweight workgroup collaborative applications that can be customized for very specific business needs and uses. The ultimate benefit of the JotSpot application wiki is that the design of a web application can constantly evolve based on user behavior and learning. Multiple people can collaborate on the design of a web application and the structure of the application can emerge as people continue to use it. The JotSpot application wiki offers the feature set of a standard document wiki: collaborative editing, version control, attachment capability and full-text search. In addition, JotSpot extends document-wiki functions by offering: Microsoft-Word style WYSIWYG editing, email integration (every page is an Inbox) and a database backend. The company has an invitation-only beta program. www.jotspot.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated and GeoTrust, Inc. announced the availability of a jointly-developed certified document service or “CDS” solution. Now, people who receive certified Adobe PDF files can be automatically assured that the author’s identity has been verified by a trusted organization, and that the document has not been altered. Through the reach of the free Adobe Reader organizations can use the new GeoTrust True Credentials digital signing solution for creating trusted electronic documents to conduct business and communicate with customers, constituents, partners and suppliers. CDS signing significantly raises the level of document integrity and verification over traditional digital signing because the user’s digital credentials must be issued by a WebTrust-certified authority using strict vetting guidelines, and then must be stored on a secure cryptographic hardware device. Adobe Acrobat 6.0, Adobe LiveCycle Document Security software and GeoTrust True Credentials for Adobe Acrobat certificate offerings are currently available. A single-user, 1-year signing credential provided on a cryptographic token is priced at (US) $895.00 and is available from GeoTrust. For information on enterprise-wide solutions and volume pricing discounts contact GeoTrust. www.adobe.com, www.geotrust.com

Scientific Software, Inc. announced a new federated search engine for the desktop PC that is integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer. Scientific Software FUSION Search is a federated search engine that provides database-driven searches across multiple content sources via a single query. FUSION Search helps users get control of the emails and data they generate by allowing them to quickly search and retrieve content. FUSION Search focuses on finding information where the bulk of it resides on the desktop, on corporate shared drives, and on other knowledge worker and peer PCs. It also indexes and searches your email and attachments, Google, the Scientific Software Enterprise Content Manager (ECM) repository, and other 3rd party databases, applications and content repositories. FUSION Search a grid computing architecture for optimal performance. Instead of maintaining and updating a master index, FUSION Search incorporates a central web service that receives and processes requests from remote computers. Each remote computer has its own FUSION Search database index which reports these results sets to the central web service via XML over HTTP/SOAP messaging. The product is targeted for release in 4Q 2004. www.scisw.com