Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity MediClaim 9.0, the latest version of their medical claims processing content capture solution. Verity MediClaim replaces the manual data entry of standardized healthcare information forms, such as HCFA 1500 and UB 92 with efficient paper-to-digital processing. This solution automates the processing of forms and documents, improving medical claims’ throughput and productivity rates. The company has incorporated broad extensibility through Microsoft VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), tight integration with Microsoft SQL Server, and enhanced security capabilities in this new version. The new Verity MediClaim release includes enhancements that will allow the software to be distributed more efficiently across the enterprise, integrating with enterprise-level business applications more easily, securely, reliably and with better alpha-numeric and image recognition performance. www.verity.com

Xerox Corporation’s Global Services division has developed a systems integrator alliance with Microsoft Corporation, designed to help businesses improve the connections between their office workers and business-critical information. By combining Xerox Global Services’ document management know-how with Microsoft technology, the partnership will help customers capitalize on XML-based content management solutions, which essentially “tag” information so workers can extract precisely the information they need when they need it. Key to the alliance strategy is Xerox Global Services’ Information Worker Productivity Assessment, based on Lean Six Sigma methodologies. The assessment begins with Xerox experts who evaluate how a company and its people create, share and manage content and documents. Then Xerox and Microsoft use the IWPA data to identify ways to achieve efficiency gains, cost-savings and improved access to critical business information. By leveraging the smart document capabilities built into Microsoft Office 2003, Xerox helps businesses leverage XML and XML Web Services to streamline document-intensive business processes, such as airline maintenance and repair advisory bulletins, product documentation and regulatory compliance filings. www.xerox.com/globalservices

Stellent, Inc. announced its Stellent Records Management solution has received U.S. DoD 5015.2 – STD Chapter 4 certification, which is important for any federal government organization that manages classified records or documents. In order to meet certification, Stellent demonstrated its records management technology could define and manage classification guides and rules that define security clearance levels; and provide security features, such as access control lists and classification schemes that allow records managers to control document access. In addition, Stellent demonstrated its extensible metadata model can simplify the process of declaring and searching for records, and its reporting and auditing features can track all user interactions in the system. The U.S. DoD 5015.2 – STD Chapter 4 certification verifies Stellent Records Management’s ability to control the creation, declaration, classification, retention and destruction of electronic and non-electronic records, including scanned documents. This Stellent software has also been re-certified against the main DoD 5015.2 – STD Chapter 2 standard, which has become the de facto records management standard in North America. www.stellent.com

Davisor, a developer of Java-based data visualization, conversion and presentation tools, has introduced two new Java- and XML-based products, which enable companies to convert legacy documents from different sources into XML, and to publish fully personalized materials by merging dynamic information into these legacy documents. The new Offisor Transformations allows companies to convert their legacy documents into several different output formats. Offisor Transformations converts Offisor XML outputs into HTML, XHTML, XSL-FO (PDF), RTF and DocBook. With Offisor Transformations companies can now produce different types of demanding outputs from their legacy data. Offisor Transformations is used together with Offisor, which converts legacy documents fully into XML. Davisor has released Offisor 3.0, which now converts also PowerPoint documents into XML, in addition to Word and HTML documents and images contained in them. With Offisor 3.0, companies can fully access their document archives containing valuable data in different formats, and search for the information they need. Offisor Transformations can then be used to publish the documents both on- and off-line and in print. Davisor Offisor and Transformations can be used to create e.g. personalized marketing materials, offers, order confirmations, invoices etc. from Word templates and dynamic data coming from different sources. Offisor can be either embedded into any pure Java application or used independently with command line applications. Davisor Offisor 3.0 and Offisor Transformations are available today. www.davisor.com

CrownPeak Technology rolled out a new program offering state, county and local government entities up to a 33 percent discount on its Advantage CMS content management software – and announced it is offering additional bundled services to all government agencies, designed to meet their unique accessibility and design compliance needs. CrownPeak has developed specific bundled services to ensure compliance with accessibility, design and archival standards. CrownPeak can guarantee consistent compliance with Section 508 of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which requires Web sites to be accessible to blind and low-vision visitors. A template system enforces design and navigational standards throughout all Web pages. The company’s versioning and content monitoring tools enable government organizations to come instantly into compliance with data archive regulations, as they are established and modified. CrownPeak’s special pricing extends to billing terms for government agencies, under which the company will agree to amortize upfront service fees over the first year or even 18 months of a contract. CrownPeak is certified for purchase through GSA and many state purchasing mechanisms. www.crownpeak.com

Kanisa Inc. and Knowlysis announced a strategic partnership. The alliance enables Kanisa’s customers to leverage Knowlysis’ years of knowledge management, data analysis, content conversion and Web publishing experience to improve customer service. In addition to standard Kanisa implementation services, Knowlysis will provide Kanisa’s rapidly growing customer base with highly specialized knowledge management consulting, including Best Practices for Legacy Content, Optimization of Knowledge Ontologies, and Automated Content Feeds. www.kanisa.com

RedDot Solutions announced the release of RedDot Live Server. The latest extension of RedDot’s enterprise content management solution, RedDot Live Server gives businesses the ability to securely deliver targeted online content to customers, partners and employees without affecting other critical systems. The modules available with RedDot Live Server include RedDot Live Server Personalization Manager, RedDot Live Server Application Portal, RedDot Live Server Application Framework, RedDot Live Server Web Service Connector, RedDot Live Server Open API, RedDot Live Server Search Engine, and RedDot Live Server Portal Integration. www.reddot.com

Venetica announced general availability of its Content Bridge for Hummingbird Enterprise DM. This announcement is part of an on-going sales and marketing partnership with Hummingbird Ltd. The Content Bridge for Hummingbird DM enables users to perform federated searches across DM and other repositories, copy content from other systems into Hummingbird and access content from other systems as part of a Hummingbird business process. Venetica’s integration will also enable users to access Hummingbird content from enterprise business solutions, such as Siebel, and enterprise portals, including BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and Oracle. VeniceBridge enterprise content integration capabilities can also be integrated into Hummingbird Enterprise RM to apply enterprise-wide records management for distributed content. www.hummingbird.com, www.venetica.com