A2i, Inc. announced that its xCat system will support the new version of IBM’s e-commerce platform, and also provide even tighter integration between the catalog content management capabilities of xCat and the e-commerce capabilities of version 5.5 WebSphere Commerce. In addition to support for WebSphere Commerce 5.5, which expands its capabilities for both B2B and B2C applications, A2i offers compatibility across all of IBM’s strategic software products, including its DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ software, running on a variety of different operating systems, including Linux. www.a2i.com
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Inmagic, Inc. announced the release of XML support within its product line, DB/TextWorks with the release of DB/Text WebPublisher PRO v7.0 and related products. Inmagic’s newly announced XML-based products allow customers to edit over the Web, including online validation lists. The upcoming release of DB/Text for Libraries v6.0, which runs on the DB/TextWorks platform, utilizes XML to provide corporate end-users with direct Web access to account information and self-service features such as self-renewal and checkout. In addition, DB/Text WebPublisher PRO utilizes SOAP. The new features in DB/TextWorks, WebPublisher PRO and DB/Text for Libraries complement the announcement earlier this year of Inmagic Content Server, Inmagic’s enterprise level content management solution built on Microsoft SQL Server. www.inmagic.com
Banta Corporation and WAVE Corporation announced a strategic partnership to provide a complete range of software products for managing multi-channel publishing processes, including print, Internet and variable publishing channels. WAVE has acquired the intellectual property and assumed the future product development and technical support for B-media, Banta’s enterprise-class content management software platform. This new partnership enables Banta to continue marketing and selling B-media software, while assuring existing customers receive a high level of software support. In addition, Banta will now offer its customers MediaBank, WAVE’s asset management application, as well as the company’s other print-related software products. www.banta.com, www.wavecorp.com
SiberLogic and Corel announced a public evaluation of a browser based XML Authoring Environment. The solution combines Corel’s ActiveX XMetaL editor and SiberLogic’s Author Dashboard. It provides access to the SiberSafe XML Content Management System (CMS) without having to install any software on your machine. The environment allows authors, casual contributors and reviewers to participate in the XML based technical content production process without having to learn about XML technology. Both the SiberSafe CMS and XMetaL XML editor are accessed via the browser. There is a dockable toolbar for direct access to most often used tasks, such as create a new document, edit existing content, review to do list, etc. Power users have access to the desktop interface to manage document sets and reusable content. They can also configure workflow, grant object-level access permissions, define document templates, and manage publication and deployment of approved content. www.siberlogic.com
Inxight Software, Inc., announced the release of Inxight ThingFinder 3.5. The latest version of its ‘entity extraction’ software enables developers to extend the value of their applications, including information categorization, link analysis, data mining, business intelligence and CRM, by providing a means of quickly retrieving the most important pieces of information contained in large volumes of text the people, places, companies and other “things” contained within. New features and enhancements to the product include improved accuracy and speed, new relevancy ranking capabilities, the addition of support for three new languages and enhanced data normalization features. The latest version of ThingFinder provides new language support for Arabic, Farsi and Simplified Chinese. ThingFinder also supports English, French, German and Spanish. ThingFinder includes new relevance ranking capabilities that provide users with a score reflecting each entity’s importance to a document as a whole. Inxight ThingFinder 3.5 is available immediately in a software development kit format. The ThingFinder functionality will also be made available in SmartDiscovery, Inxight’s enterprise search and information discovery solution, later this year. www.inxight.com
Percussion Software and Watchfire announced a partnership to integrate Watchfire Compliance Connector (WCC) with Percussion’s Rhythmyx 5 Enterprise Content Management system (ECM) incorporating website content quality, privacy and accessibility testing into the Rhythmyx workflow. In addition, the firms will conduct joint marketing and sales activities. Watchfire Compliance Connector is designed to enhance content management systems by testing Web pages managed by the CMS for quality, privacy and accessibility issues. Watchfire Compliance Connector for Rhythmyx 5 incorporates automated compliance standards into the Rhythmyx workflow to help identify and correct more problems up-front. Pages that fail any of the pre-defined compliance tests are automatically passed back to the content creator during the workflow approval process. www.watchfire.com, www.percussion.com
Xenos Group Inc. announced the signing of a non-binding letter of intent pursuant to which Xenos is to acquire substantially all of the business assets of XML-Global Technologies, Inc. Xenos will acquire XML Global’s intellectual property, customer relationships and will retain all employees. The transaction is subject to execution of a definitive agreement and all requisite regulatory and shareholder approvals. It is anticipated that the transaction will close on or about September 30, 2003. Further details will be made available upon the execution of a definitive agreement. www.xenos.com, www.xmlglobal.com
Xyleme announced the general availability of version 3.1 of Xyleme Zone Server, its native XML content mart that can be used to load, store, integrate, query, syndicate and deliver large volumes of XML data. Key features of version 3.1 include: an optional module for creating views that semantically associate the documents in the repository with high-level user or application views; the launching of Xyleme Development Kit (XDK) which is accessible through Web Services, SOAP or Java applications; an optional module for notification by email of changes to the content in the repository; optimized performance; and advanced linguistic functions, including spellcheck, phonetic correction, proper handling for accented words, automatic correction of typing errors, support for compound words, and morphology. Xyleme also announced the opening of its UK office, based in London. www.xyleme.com
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