Captaris, Inc. announced the launch of Interchange, a solution to combine content integration with information delivery. Captaris Interchange, built on Microsoft .NET architecture, provides integration with enterprise business applications through a rules-based workflow engine that provides information processing and formatting and allows multiple concurrent delivery options including fax, email, HTML, XML and SMS. Interchange will initially be available in North America through select distribution channels in Q3 2004. www.captaris.com

Open Text Corporation announced an alliance with Siemens Business Services, a subsidiary of Siemens AG. Siemens will combine its range of IT services, including consulting, systems integration and IT systems management, with Open Text’s Livelink Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software. As part of the partnership, Open Text becomes a Siemens premier partner, providing its full range of Livelink-based solutions. Siemens Business Services becomes a Premier Business Alliance Partner of Open Text, with the ability to deliver management consulting, system implementation, software customization and project-based reselling for Open Text solutions. The agreement also allows all affiliates of Siemens Business Services worldwide to participate in the contract. www.siemens.com/sbs, www.opentext.com

Stellent, Inc. announced it has acquired Content Management de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., a content management solutions provider who has offered sales, support and training services for Stellent products across Mexico and Central America since 2001. Stellent purchased the company for $750,000 in cash and certain contingent considerations based on revenues generated in Mexico over a two-year period. www.stellent.com

Infodata Systems Inc. announced an upgrade of AnnoDoc 1.5.3. This release provides integrations for use with Documentum Webtop 5.2.5 (SP1), Documentum Desktop Client 5.2.5 (SP1), and Documentum Compliance Manager 5.2.5 (SP1). With AnnoDoc, the enterprise has the means to maintain control over their internal content review processes. AnnoDoc incorporates a security model to support activity level permission settings, and enables parallel review of content to promote workflow processing. Infodata’s upcoming Annotation Suite 2.0 Compliance Edition product, scheduled for release in September 2004, leverages AnnoDoc technology and will provide versioning of annotations, distinction between annotation authors and annotation owners, searchable annotations, annotation consolidation, annotation object security, expanded support for annotating Microsoft Office documents, and access to multiple repository services. www.infodata.com

Mathsoft announced it will join forces with Documentum to enable calculation management capabilities that combine engineering information generated in Mathcad software with business processes automated by the Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform. Customers will now be able to use Documentum to store, search, retrieve and reuse Mathcad-generated calculations and results. They will be able to integrate calculations and results into Documentum-powered workflows and business processes, including auditing trails, engineering change orders (ECOs), ISO 9000 quality certification procedures, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance efforts, and Six Sigma quality assurance processes. The integration will specifically enable the Documentum ECM platform to read and process Mathcad calculation worksheets using XML. As a result, the combined system will treat the documents as structured chunks of content – calculations, graphics, methods, assumptions, data and results. The integration will be part of a Mathsoft service engagement. Implementations will start at $10,000. www.documentum.com, www.mathsoft.com

RenderX, Inc. announced the availability of XEP.NET — an XSL formatter component for the .NET environment. XEP.NET employs XML-based processing to convert user documents into high quality typeset publications, including PDF and PostScript formats, for high volume printing and electronic distribution. Created for networked deployment and distributed processing, XEP.NET is based on the same core software as RenderX’s Java version — XEP. In the future, RenderX will maintain both applications with identical functionality; any enhancements to features will be released in both the Java and .NET products at the same time. With this release, RenderX updated both XEP and XEP.NET with new features including support for kerning both XSL FO text and SVG text, page master selection which fully conforms to the XSL specification, improved treatment of overflow conditions, new extension elements, SVG color naming capability, and support for markers in SVG. www.renderx.com

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