Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity Collaborative Classifier 1.0, taxonomy and classification management software that enables distributed subject matter experts to collaborate with corporate librarians and knowledge engineers in real-time to organize information around specific business roles and requirements. Verity Collaborative Classifier provides comprehensive, flexible taxonomy development, taxonomy rollout and taxonomy maintenance capabilities. Capabilities include workflow-based collaboration to allow taxonomy and classification management to be distributed to assigned subject matter experts, as well as to knowledge engineers who know and understand taxonomy development; and automatic classification and publishing capabilities that leverage domain expertise to keep taxonomies up-to-date. Verity Collaborative Classifier’s platform-independent, Web-based architecture allows taxonomy management functions to be distributed, and can be installed alongside any Verity K2-equipped application. www.verity.com

Documentum announced the latest version of Documentum eRoom.net, a hosted, subscription-based collaborative workspace that can be tailored for specific projects, processes or business initiatives, such as new product development, contracts negotiations, client engagement and supply chain management. Suited for small to mid-sized businesses and departments or divisions within larger organizations, Documentum eRoom.net can be implemented and configured for hundreds of users. Hosted by EMC’s Solutions Center based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Documentum eRoom.net offers organizations management, security and protection of their applications and content. The new Documentum eRoom.net Channel Program enables partners with expertise in vertical industries such as manufacturing, pharmaceutical, energy, transportation and government, to customize and sell industry-specific collaboration solutions built on the eRoom.net platform to their own customers. Documentum eRoom.net is immediately available. Pricing is a based on a monthly, sliding scale model, based on the number of users. Pricing for 100 users averages $20 per person per month. www.documentum.com

Context Media, Inc. announced the immediate availability of Context Media’s Publishing Solution, a new version of the company’s content integration software designed to meet the content integration and management needs of publishers. The new solution helps publishers increase revenue opportunities and expand their reach to new audiences by improving the management, access, packaging and distribution of digital content. Context Media’s Publishing Solution also enables organizations to support multiple revenue models, including subscription and On Demand, and to manage and provide access both structured and unstructured digital content and media files. Context Media’s Publishing Solution is based on Web services standards, giving publishing organizations a platform to integrate content and information dispersed throughout a variety of content repositories across divisions and geographies. New features available in Context Media’s Publishing Solution include Virtual Content Catalog, Content Packaging and Distribution, and Custom ePrints. www.contextmedia.com

MultiCorpora R&D Inc. announced the release of version 3.6 of MultiTrans, their software platform for translation support and language management. MultiTrans enables translators and language professionals to search and retrieve examples of text translations of any length from existing multilingual content. The MultiTrans centralized platform links all participants in the language management value chain, including authors, translators, terminologists, reviewers and content readers, to one central repository of information, eliminating duplication and rework and shrinking content delivery cycle time. New and improved capabilities introduced in MultiTrans 3.6 include: Expanded Web Browser Based Terminology Management, Distributable Project Reference Packages, an expanded API, and several Terminology Management Enhancements, including additional administrator control over user security, support for independent web and terminology application servers, enhanced terminology capture from within the translation process, integration with 3rd party terminology banks, and enhanced ability to apply mass terminology bank changes. www.multicorpora.com

Conviveon Corp. announced the U.S. release of WebXML Connect, an “affordable website content management tool that turns almost everyone in a company, from chief executive officers to department heads into webmasters.” Conviveon provides software products for non-technical users to create, share, manage and present web content to any users, anywhere, at any time. www.conviveon.com

Vignette Corp. has added native support for the Apple Macintosh browser to Vignette content management solutions, which when combined with existing Mac support in Vignette’s portal products positions the company to provide enterprise content management solutions to higher education institutions. With the addition of support for the Mac browser to complement existing support for Windows, Linux, Java and Microsoft .NET, Vignette continues to support heterogeneous IT environments. www.vignette.com

Copernic announced the release of Copernic Enterprise Search 3.0 (CES), specifically designed to meet the distinct needs of the Small-to-Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and departments of larger enterprises. New features and functionality provide organizations with document-level security on Windows networks and Exchange servers. Copernic Enterprise Search 3.0 also “installs in minutes”. CES indexes every kind of XML schema and translates it into the proper structure. Using XML over HTTP and a file-conversion system, users are now able to connect to other applications and have full search capabilities of the data residing in those applications and data feeds, regardless of file format. Indexing, crawling and querying speeds have all been improved and allow for full, all-inclusive searches. Copernic Enterprise Search 3.0 is available immediately. Pricing is free for indexes containing up to 5,000 documents. Licenses start at $3,999 for indexes of up to 10,000 documents and are incrementally tiered for indexes into the millions of documents. www.copernic.com

SilkRoad Equity, LLC. announced the acquisition of privately held Pendulab, a provider of Enterprise Chat, Marketing and Collaboration solutions, in an all-cash transaction. Financial details were not disclosed. Pendulab will partner immediately with SilkRoad technology, inc., another SilkRoad Equity company, to integrate its solutions into SilkRoad technology’s Collaboration Management Suite of Applications. The Pendulab acquisition now adds Chat Blazer Enterprise and AffiliateShop to the suite. ChatBlazer enables real-time communication via live chat, instant messaging and corporate/enterprise IM, voice conferencing, voice over IP, video and other forms of rich media, with full multi-client capabilities around HTM, Java, and Flash. AffiliateShop provides an affiliate program management system, customer support solution, and an ad tracking ROI toolkit. www.silkroadequity.com, www.silkroadtech.com, www.pendulab.com