Stellent, Inc. announced new features and functionality for Stellent SmartCabinet, a Web-based application that provides paper-intensive real estate companies and corporations with a platform to share and access leases, franchise contracts, insurance policies, amendments and architectural drawings. The enhanced SmartCabinet application now offers real estate users more advanced contribution, customization, control, comprehension and collaboration features. The SmartCabinet solution also provides real estate users more control over how and when internal and external parties access the solution. For collaborative, team-based initiatives, Stellent offers the SmartCabinet Advanced Collaboration module that allows users to define and manage projects in a “virtual deal room” setting. Stellent SmartCabinet is available either as an installed software package or as a rented, hosted service. Hosted service pricing is based on number of users, amount of storage used and a monthly access fee. Customers can purchase the SmartCabinet Advanced Collaboration and SmartCabinet Advanced Workflow modules as add-on features. www.stellent.com/realestate

DocSoft is currently developing a multi-format conversion engine that will convert Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). The primary purpose of this software will convert CGM to SVG, but support for conversion of other formats to SVG will be available as well. The software will also have a developer’s license and API available for integration with other software. The software is designed to run using Microsoft’s .NET Framework, and will allow for batch processing of conversions. The software is currently undergoing beta testing and will be released in September 2004. DocSoft is currently seeking qualified beta testers. www.docsoft.com

Pragmatech Software, Inc. announced the release of the latest version of its applications, The RFP Machine, RFP Express, The Proposal Automation Suite, and e-Proposals. The company’s solutions automate the creation of high quality, customized selling materials, including proposals, presentations, letters, and RFP (request for proposal) responses. Version 6 enhancements include streamlined collaboration, additional automated functions for keeping content current, and more options to meet the demands of large enterprises in the areas of availability, redundancy, scalability, and system management. Pragmatech now offers additional configuration flexibility with support for clustering multiple e-Proposals servers in parallel implementations, as well as for clustering document assembly servers. www.pragmatech.com

Language Weaver, Inc., a software company developing statistical machine translation software (SMTS), has entered into a beta agreement to develop domain-specific SMTS translation modules for P.H. Brink International. Under terms of the agreement, Language Weaver is initially developing an English-to-French machine translation system trained for key industry vertical domains. The companies have agreed to work closely to integrate the new software into P.H. Brink’s existing automated workflow system, Otto. By learning automatically from existing translated documents, Language Weaver’s SMTS correlates words and word groupings from language to language using statistical algorithms to produce the highest probability output. P.H. Brink expects to use Language Weaver’s SMTS for translation of documents into local languages for technical manuals, product support information, and website content. www.phbrink.com, www.languageweaver.com

Google announced an updated hardware and software package that promises faster and more comprehensive results for corporations, governments and universities.
The new box is the first upgrade for Google’s enterprise search appliance since the appliance was launched two years ago. The new system is bigger, with more processing power and memory, allowing a single box to index up to 1.5 million documents and 300 queries per minute, fivefold increases over the earlier model. The boxes cost between $32,000 and $175,000 each, depending on the configuration. Another software improvement is the addition of secure sign-on, which limits queries to only those documents that a particular employee is authorized to see. The new system continuously crawls corporate intranets, updating only new documents and changes in existing documents. www.google.com/appliance

Documentum announced the immediate availability of its Documentum Business Process Management (BPM) solution. The Documentum BPM solution consists of several new products, including Documentum Business Process Manager, Documentum Business Process Services, Documentum Forms Builder, and the latest version of Documentum eRoom. The Documentum BPM solution also leverages other content services of the Documentum ECM platform, including enterprise content integration and federated discovery, components of the Documentum Virtual Repository solution. Using Documentum BPM with Documentum Virtual Repository, customers can discover and aggregate all content types, from multiple data sources, and integrate the content with existing business processes. The solution integrates with processes that span non-Documentum applications such as ERP, CRM and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to enable distributed people, applications and content to be included in the same business process, even when they reside in different locations and repositories. The Documentum Business Process Management solution is immediately available. www.documentum.com

Vasont Systems announced that Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. has joined its Vasont Important Partner (VIP) Program. Together, Vasont Systems and Lionbridge will help their clients increase the speed and efficiency of creating, managing, localizing, and publishing their multilingual content from the Vasont Content Management System. Lionbridge’s LionAccess content repository connector will integrate with Vasont, a single-source content management system that allows organizations to create, manage and publish their multilingual content. Vasont provides Unicode support to store multilingual content at the component-level in its repository for multi-channel delivery. Vasont’s integration with LionAccess simplifies organizations’ translation process and reduces costs by enabling them to use their business logic and/or content metadata to automate the process of selecting, extracting and routing their multilingual content requiring translation. www.vasont.com, www.lionbridge.com

XyEnterprise announced the availability of two new toolkits for its Content@ content management and workflow software application. The toolkits provide a collaborative editorial and publishing review environment, as well as enabling broader sets of users to interact with the system with standard Microsoft Office applications. The Content@ Publishing Collaboration toolkit enables users to meet challenging review and notification requirements within their collaborative workflows. The Publishing Collaboration Toolkit includes tools for document version comparisons, automatic notification of changes in content to individuals or work pools, and collaborative review of content and documents. The Content@ Office Integration Toolkit facilitates the participation of the editors, authors, reviewers, publishers, and subject-matter experts who participate in the XML content lifecycle. Although these users may not be XML experts, many need the benefits of easy content access, workflow participation, version control, and re-use of content and documents. www.xyenterprise.com