Authentica, Inc. announced the formal introduction of its Professional Services Organization. The group now offers a full suite of implementation and custom consulting services to Authentica’s enterprise customers. Authentica’s Professional Services enable customers to maximize the benefits of their E-DRM solutions by offering: fixed-fee packages that provide rapid deployment and training for customer-specific business solutions for workgroups, departments and enterprises; extended analysis and consultation to help customers fully customize and integrate their E-DRM solutions within their enterprise infrastructure. These services include applications integration, custom security policy models and workflow enhancements. www.authentica.com

Vasont Systems announced that its Vasont SG content management software now seamlessly integrates with Adobe FrameMaker and its XML capabilities through its Vasont Universal Integrator (VUI) software extension. Designed for small editorial groups with limited resources, Vasont SG is a low-cost version of the Companys content management software that helps users more efficiently create, manage and repurpose their complex content, including technical documentation, product or users’ manuals, and reference materials, to print, Web, CD-ROM, and wireless formats. The VUI streamlines the writing and editing process by providing a simple editorial interface so that authors and editors can access Vasont SGs content management functionality from the toolbar menu of FrameMaker. Additionally, Vasont SG tracks all reuse, repurposing, and versioning of content, even as changes are made through FrameMaker enabling small editorial groups to create, manage and publish their content from a single source. www.vasont.com

Kofax announced support for IBM’s DB2 Content Manager Express Edition V8.2. The Ascent Capture integration module for DB2 Content Manager Express offers users access to a production capture solution, including document, data and Internet-based distributed capture, that helps input information into IBM’s content management solution. IBM’s DB2 Content Manager Express software is designed to help medium-sized organizations implement a holistic digital content management infrastructure. Through the integration of Ascent Capture, these organizations can now collect large volumes of forms and documents, transform them into retrievable electronic information, then deliver it into IBM’s DB2 Content Manager Express. Ascent can also capture e-documents and XML streams as well as enable front-end integration with enterprise applications. www.kofax.com

Ontopia, creator of the Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS), the topic map-based information integration technology, and Retrieval Systems Corporation (RSC), a US provider of information systems engineering services in content management and electronic publishing, have announced a partnership to address the requirements of knowledge management solutions for government and legal publishing applications. Through the partnership agreement, Retrieval Systems Corporation can use the OKS to offer customers a solution to their requirements for “seamless knowledge”. RSC’s initial focus is to develop an aggregated view across the indexes of a range of legal publications using the flexible, but rigorous topic maps data model. www.ontopia.net, www.retrievalsystems.com

Day Software and Acquity Group announced an expanded partnership to assess a company’s content management needs and deliver the an enterprise content management solution. Acquity Group has been named a premier partner of Day’s. The two companies will jointly market and sell needs assessment and enterprise content management to their customers. www.acquitygroup.com, www.day.com

Plumtree Software released a new services solution for building executive dashboards via the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite. The services offering, called the Plumtree Executive Dashboard Solution, combines new integration products with a deployment methodology designed to deliver a dashboard application rapidly and at low cost. The typical application combines performance metrics with enterprise search, online collaboration and knowledge management, to give executives a way to respond to events as they emerge across the business. As part of the announcement, Plumtree is organizing its services group to support the development of service-oriented applications at customer sites, and forming a new dashboard solutions team. To support the offering, the dashboard solutions team has developed a new set of dashboard indicator portlets, which are designed to provide executive-level integration of data from many systems. The services offering is available for the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5, 4.5WS and 5.0. www.plumtree.com

Mobius Management Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired technology and certain other assets of privately-held eManage Inc. of Ottawa, Ontario. eManage develops software solutions for e-mail archiving, records management and lifecycle management that enable organizations to manage corporate records at an enterprise level. The eManage software suite includes a records management facility for Microsoft’s SharePoint Portal Server. eManage technology will be integrated with the Mobius ViewDirect TCM suite to deliver a comprehensive enterprise content management solution that also meets e-mail and records management requirements. eManage software dovetails with the ViewDirect TCM suite, providing the ability to capture and archive, as indexed records, all e-mail messages entering and leaving the organization, as well as messages between users on an individual server and across multiple e-mail servers. The software provides built-in records management features such as automated destruction schedules; flexible rules that are easily administered and easily changed as regulatory rules are modified; and retrieval based on categorization and/or full-text search of archived e-mails and attachments. www.mobius.com

Ektron Inc. introduced enhancements to its browser-based authoring tool, eWebEditPro+XML. eWebEditPro+XML Version 4.1 enhanced features include new data field types, mathematic functions and advanced validation options for designing “smart” forms for XML. Version 4.1’s new data field types, math functionality, and enhanced real-time validation capabilities allow organizations to create XML with higher levels of integrity and consistency for data and business processes. The XML editor can now, at the form creators choice, prevent data from being submitted and saved if validation requirements are not met. Users are notified (via a customizable dialog box) if any information they are trying to submit is not valid. The validation capabilities ensure the accuracy and consistency of data and documents. WebEditPro+XML’s “data design” mode offers a graphical, drag-and-drop method to create XML forms that can be deployed to internal business users on a Web site or intranet. www.ektron.com