Verity Inc. announced that nine secure messaging management and protection solutions providers have opted to embed the Verity KeyView Software SDKs into their applications. The nine companies: AmikaNow!, Iron Mountain, MessageGate, Messageware, On-Site Sourcing, Steelpoint, Tablus, Vidius, and ZixCorp offer a range of solutions in this category such as email and messaging-based products, legal and compliance applications and services, distribution security software, messaging security, as well as transaction services applications. The Verity KeyView technology can be integrated quickly into all of these vendors’ solutions because it supports C, Java and COM, as well as the Unicode character set standard. In addition, it offers support for the latest versions of Windows, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and AIX. www.verity.com

SchemaLogic announced the addition of Earley and Associates, Carol Hert and Industrial Wisdom to the SchemaLogic solution partner program. SchemaLogic solution partners receive access to technology and training from SchemaLogic in addition to cooperative marketing support. Partners contribute specialized expertise in vertical markets, content management, XML, data integration or information architecture to design and implement solutions using SchemaLogic technology. SchemaLogic and its solution partners help large enterprises manage metadata and business vocabularies from a cross-system perspective, which simplifies information retrieval and semantic interoperability among otherwise disparate information systems. www.schemalogic.com, www.earley.com, www.hert-analytics.com, www.industrialwisdom.com

Arbortext announced the next release of Arbortext 5 will include support for Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), an IBM-created, OASIS-sponsored initiative that is an XML-based, end-to-end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. This architecture consists of a set of design principles for creating “information-typed” modules at a topic level and using that content in delivery modes such as online help and product support portals. DITA is an open standards initiative to develop specialized data models for XML publishing applications that can readily adapt to the requirements of diverse applications while retaining both information and application compatibility. Starting with the DITA ‘topic’ data model, different groups can modify it to support their unique requirements without fear of breaking enterprise publishing software applications or creating incompatibilities with other groups or divisions that would prevent information sharing. DITA specializations can be “snapped on” as deltas to the base support, preventing the need to create or update massive DTDs. The core of DITA provides rich set of semantics for creating architected information. www.arbortext.com

GlobalSCAPE announced the availability of its PublishXML enterprise content management system, designed to meet the requirements of businesses to deliver consistent, up-to-date information across multiple channels, automatically. PublishXML features include content repurposing, multi-server content publishing, and customizable data definitions. In addition, the application supports flexible templating, configurable user and group access rights, and a sophisticated XML workflow engine. PublishXML is targeted for customers ranging from small businesses to large multinational organizations which exist in growing markets including finance and banking, healthcare, technology, media, publishing, manufacturing, higher education and local, state and federal government. PublishXML is expected to ship in April and is priced at $25,000 per server. Education, government, and volume licensing options are available. PublishXML runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD or MacOS operating systems using Microsoft IIS, Apache, Netscape or Zeus Web servers. www.globalscape.com/publishxml

Inxight Software, Inc., announced that Kanisa Inc. has licensed Inxight LinguistX Platform, its natural language processing solution. Kanisa is embedding LinguistX into its suite of customer service applications to extend Kanisa’s core search and knowledge management capabilities across all major business languages. Kanisa provides knowledge-enabled customer service applications that help resolve customer issues across all channels. These applications run on top of a unified knowledge management platform that automatically tags, categorizes, and aggregates content from multiple repositories and formats. Inxight’s leading LinguistX Platform enables Kanisa to understand this content in 25 languages. www.kanisa.com, www.inxight.com

Venetica announced that it has partnered with Verity Inc. to enable organizations to combine the benefits of enterprise search technology with the enterprise content integration capabilities. As part of the announcement, Venetica announced general availability of the Content Bridge for the Verity K2 intellectual capital management solution. This Bridge will allow applications using Venetica’s VeniceBridge ECI platform to leverage any enterprise content that has been indexed with Verity, including content stored in file systems and intranets. www.venetica.com

PaperThin, Inc. announced the availability of CommonSpot Content Server version 4.0, the company’s Web content management solution. This major release introduces new scalability options, added developer and administrator capabilities, and expanded content creation features. Dozens of enhancements to existing features are also introduced in this release. New scalability options in version 4.0 include enhancements to the replication feature and a static content generation module. By separating the process for handling dynamic and static content, a more scalable, reliable and higher performance site can be realized. This new feature also enables easier incorporation of third party applications, providing support for a broader range of technologies. Enhancements to CommonSpot’s custom metadata and custom element features introduced in version 4.0 allow for even more flexible content re-use. New 4.0 features like comprehensive spell check, visual difference and pop-up calendars help authors create and publish content more accurately. Many new administrator tools were also added in this release. www.paperthin.com

OASIS, announced plans to advance the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), a document creation and management specification that builds content reuse into the authoring process. The XML architecture defined by the new OASIS DITA Technical Committee will be used to design, write, manage, and publish technical documentation in print and on the Web. Focusing on the ‘topic’ as a conceptual unit of authoring, DITA will extend existing content markup to represent domains of specialized markup common across sets of topics, e.g., hardware vs. software. Larger documents can be created by aggregating topic units. Content referencing combines several topics into a single document or allows content to be shared among topics. By enabling definitive semantics, DITA will allow more automatable processes, consistent authoring and better retrievability and applicability to specific industries. OASIS DITA Technical Committee members include Arbortext, Innodata Isogen, IBM, and others. The group brings together XML tools vendors, consultants on Information Architectures and Content Management Systems (CMS), and users of the DITA DTDs and Schemas. Participation remains open to all organizations and individuals. www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita