Hot Banana Software Inc. and SitePosition announced a partnership to co-market Hot Banana, a Web Content Management System, built from the ground up in harmony with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) best practices. Websites with content that has previously been inaccessible to search engine spiders, due to Macromedia’s Flash!, or dynamic or database-driven content, can now admit search engine spiders and crawlers to access all publicly-available web content, no matter how deep. Hot Banana’s ability to parse and index all existing and updated web content, information and data enables any website to achieve a balance between organic search engine rankings and a paid-ranking strategy with Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. Hot Banana is built on Macromedia’s Cold Fusion MX Server, can leverage the features available to a J2EE application server, and can be deployed on IBM’s WebSphere or Macromedia’s JRUN. Hot Banana’s database engine is Microsoft’s SQL Server, and Hot Banana is .NET-, XML-, and Web Services-ready. Web server performance is taken into consideration by caching database queries, creating persistent Web page objects, and producing cached, XML-based navigation structures. www.hotbanana.com, www.siteposition.ca

Vignette Corp. announced that it has released a comprehensive set of tools to help organizations measure and improve business efficiency. Organizations interested in the Vignette Efficiency Audit will work with experienced third-party consultants to gather their business requirements, review overall vision and justification, conduct a gap analysis, monitor use of existing investments, and develop best practices. Upon completion of the audit, Vignette and the respective partner will provide a customized report that provides a detailed picture of areas throughout the organization where efficiencies can be increased, along with customized recommendations on how to improve overall information technology performance. Organizations will have an opportunity to see potential return on investment and total cost of ownership estimates for each option based on individual definitions. Vignette partners Acquity Group and Rapidigm are the first to offer the Vignette Efficiency Audit. In addition, Vignette has developed the Vignette Efficiency Assessment and the Vignette Efficiency Evaluation. Both programs are available at no additional charge upon completing the registration requirements. www.vignette.com

Documentum announced the availability of a new portlet development toolset, new Documentum web content management portlets and enhancements to Documentum’s existing portlets. The new Documentum portlets are a set of embeddable application components that deliver out-of-box content management capabilities to any portal that supports Java Specification Request 168 (JSR 168). The new Documentum web content management portlets add to Documentum’s existing family of portlets for enterprise document management and collaboration. All of the portlets provide single sign-on functionality. The new WDK for Portlets, Documentum portlets and new Documentum web content management portlets are immediately available for use with portal servers from BEA, SUN and IBM. A set of developer and customization documentation is provided and additional materials, customization code and sample portlets are available through the Documentum Developer website’s Component Exchange. www.documentum.com

TRADOS Inc. announced that its TRADOS Language Server for Documentum has received the “Designed for Documentum” logo designation. The Designed for Documentum accreditation can be earned by offerings developed on the Documentum ECM platform, as part of the new Application Logo Program. TRADOS Language Server for Documentum is an integration that adds multilingual and localization capabilities into the Documentum ECM platform. The system integrates with Documentum repositories and workflows to enable companies to manage their localization processes from inside the Documentum system. www.trados.com, www.documentum.com

Documentum announced its Application Logo Program that provides Documentum partners with resources and guidance for developing offerings based on the Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform and helps customers easily identify Documentum-accredited solutions for extending their use of the platform. The Application Logo Program provides partners with design standards, architectural support and development best practices for developing out-of-the-box applications, integrations and solutions based on the Documentum ECM platform. Partners in the Application Logo Program earn a “Designed for Documentum” designation for a specific offering by conforming to a stringent set of design specifications and other criteria established by Documentum in collaboration with its partners and customers. Currently, 12 offerings that have earned the Designed for Documentum designation are available with additional offerings currently being evaluated. www.documentum.com

Northern Light announced that it has released a new version of its high performance enterprise search engine for Linux and Solaris. The new version includes: support for Linux, support for database indexes over 50 million documents, support for over 150 queries per second from a single software installation on a single server, Document Relevancy Booster for using editorially selected collections and specially weighted metadata to manage results list placement, and an integrated spell checker. “With Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine software at an entry level price of $2500, a $1000 computer, and a free operating system, an enterprise can process 14 million search queries a day.” Other features include a configurable crawler, content filters for HTML, XML, MS Office, PDF, a 17,000 node subject taxonomy encompassing all human knowledge, a classification engine trained to automatically classify arbitrary unstructured content to the taxonomy, a clustering engine for organizing results from queries on the fly into subject categories, and sample user interfaces in PHP and JSP. The Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine for Linux can be downloaded for a 30-day free trial. www.northernlight.com

Ovid Technologies announced the availability of its Portal Advantage Service to help societies and publishing partners, independent journal publishers, foundations, and corporations to build customizable portals. This content management service enables customers to make their published content available online as well as offer rich medical content and resources to support their users’ information research and collaboration needs. Ovid’s Portal Advantage Service includes full design, hosting and content selection from Ovid’s repository of bibliographic databases, journals and book content as well as third-party data resources (e.g. news feeds, CME, society content). In addition to specialized content, the service provides collaboration, customization, and community features. Ovid is offering three platform levels of the Portal Advantage Service. The levels include: Express, Professional, and Preferred solution packages. www.ovid.com

Informative Graphics Corp. (IGC) announced the release of its Brava! Enterprise 5.0 view and markup software for Documentum Webtop and Digital Asset Management (DAM) clients, delivering viewing versatility for online access to documents, images and CAD engineering files. Brava 5.0 for Documentum creates and views IGC’s new “content sealed format” (CSF), which incorporates the Visual Rights security framework. Visual Rights gives authors selective and persistent security controls over their content. Markups can be burned-in to CSF files, and a new block-out function (redaction) allows users to hide specific file content from view and text searching. CSF files are viewable by both Brava Enterprise and the free Brava! Reader. Brava 5.0 for Documentum also supports occasionally connected or offline computing, permitting Documentum users to save selected files in CSF format to their local machine, and then disconnect from the Brava Server to work offline. www.infograph.com