IXOS Software AG and Convera announced a global licensing agreement that will enable IXOS and its storage hardware partners to resell Convera’s search technology through an integration with IXOS’ e-mail management and regulatory compliance solutions. The integration of Convera’s RetrievalWare enables users to transparently search archived content, including any e-mail and attachments, regardless of format, language or media type. IXOS’ single repository approach to managing content enable customers to archive, preserve, access, and manage documents in a live system from creation through disposition across business applications, from e-mail to ERP and CRM systems. Convera’s search capability allows users to locate objects of any file type — including text, scanned documents, images and video — all from a single search interface. The new agreement will offer RetrievalWare as an optional component of the IXOS e-mail management solutions. Convera’s RetrievalWare is available through IXOS as a component of the IXOS solutions, and through IXOS’ extended partner channel. Established reseller agreements with Hitachi Data Systems and StorageTek provide additional distribution channels for the combined software offering, as well as offering customers their choice of integrated storage archival platforms. Pricing is based on solution components. www.convera.com, www.ixos.com

Stellent, Inc. announced support for the Linux version of its application on the IBM eServer zSeries mainframe. Stellent customers will be able to take advantage of the zSeries server’s built-in server redundancy, failover, clustering and backup. Additionally, Stellent recently certified the Linux version of its solution on the zSeries server under the IBM Server Proven program. www.stellent.com

Appligent Inc. introduced APConductor, which enables all of its other applications to be plugged into a complex workflow via a SOAP messaging framework. APConductor is the first member of Appligent’s Web Services Product Family, a server-based backbone that creates integration for customizing PDF documents. APConductor acts as a central dispatcher, directing requests from other applications to Appligent’s families of PDF processing components and returning the finished results. It also enables developers and integrators to quickly assemble PDF solutions by using a Web Services interface to communicate with Appligent’s component plug-ins, which allow companies to build a full suite of in-house solutions for document processing. APConductor can be used in both .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition environments. Appligent’s APConductor is now available. www.appligent.com

cScape Strategic Internet Services Ltd released CMS Wizard for Microsoft Content Management Server, a package that builds low cost Microsoft Content Management Server enabled websites quickly. The CMS Wizard requires minimal technical skills and has been developed to create professional content managed websites from scratch within minutes. Designed specifically to plug into both Standard and Enterprise editions of Microsofts Content Management Server, the CMS Wizard contains a range of website styles designed to suit different organisational structures and comes complete with an integrated search facility. The CMS Wizard was jointly-developed by cScape and Mondosoft. cScape worked closely with Microsoft Corp in developing this product, and MS has promoted the CMS Wizard internationally to MS Partners. The CMS Wizard will retail for $1,999.99, is licensed on a per server basis and is available to purchase online. www.cms-wizard.com

QL2 Software released version 2.2 of WebQL, its unstructured data extraction tool. The most significant enhancements to version 2.2 involve internationalization. Specifically, WebQL version 2.2 now supports all the common international character sets – both single and multi-byte – and locale specific date and time formats. In addition to these internationalization features version 2.2 adds tools for network monitoring, Web page change detection, and XSLT support to its existing XML capabilities. A free 90-day download of WebQL version 2.2 is available to software developers. www.ql2.com

Stellent, Inc. announced the availability of five new packaged consulting service offerings for its Stellent Universal Content Management solutions. These new service offerings are provided by Stellent Consulting Services. The group is organized into three primary competency areas: Program Management and Business Analysis, Enterprise Architecture and Integration Engineering, and Application Development and Consulting. Stellent’s packaged service offerings consist of: Implementation Scoping, System Architecture Assessment and Design, Implementation Roadmap, Implementation Advisor, and Upgrade Analysis. www.stellent.com

Ecordia Technologies announces the launch of Ecordia, a web-based Marketing Management System (MMS) that empowers the marketing professional with the features of an enterprise CRM system, web-based site management, and statistical reporting. Through secured web-based administration, the corporate marketing professional can have complete, real-time control over the entire website (or selected parts) without the need to involve IT resources. Ecordia shares many of the features found in enterprise level Content Management Systems (CMS) — real-time content development, publishing roles, and version rollback. Like a CMS system, Ecordia provides users with a website that they can manage in real-time from any Internet browser. But Ecordia is targeted at providing corporate marketing professionals with a CMS that supports their primary business — communicating about the company with customers. www.ecordia.com

Ephox introduced major enhancements to their browser-based authoring software products, EditLive! for Windows 3.0 and EditLive! for Java 3.0. With these releases, Ephox further enables non-technical users to contribute content to content management systems and other content-driven applications. EditLive! for Java 3.0 delivers a cross-platform solution across a wide range of platforms: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Sun Solaris. Ephox is also now offering support for Apple’s new Safari browser. EditLive!’s enhanced capabilities include faster performance, cascading style sheets (CSS), and enhanced table editing. EditLive! for Java 3.0 is internationalized and available in multiple languages. An evaluation version can be downloaded. Pricing for EditLive! for Java limited user versions start at $199 and an unlimited user, single CPU license starts at $2,999. Pricing for EditLive! for Windows can be found at Ephox’s online store. www.ephox.com