Top Image Systems, Ltd. announced that is has become a technology partner of Documentum. Top Image Systems (TiS) provides an automated data capture solution, the eFLOW platform, that integrates data from multiple sources and of different types, such as invoices, freight and shipping bills, purchase orders and others, and by delivering the extracted data to enterprise applications such as document and content management, ERP, or CRM. Through the application connecting agents, eFLOW’s Content Delivery module exports data to XML, text files, MS-SQL format, or to the common and standard format ASCII, and additionally exports both B/W and color images. The Export module is open, including hooks that allow any required manipulation of the exported file names. eFLOW is incapable of ‘losing’ form pages, due to the system’s image handling, which maintains all images in the multi-TIFF format. www.TopImageSystems.com
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activePDF Inc announced a partnership with Percussion Software. According to the terms of the new agreement, activePDF will provide PDF conversion and manipulation functionality for Rhythmyx 5. Rhythmyx users can benefit from using activePDF technology to further streamline their document-automation processes. By leveraging activePDF’s PDF-conversion functionality, Rhythmyx enables businesses to standardize their document format for distribution and storage, without requiring additional end-user training or costly desktop-based PDF conversion tools. activePDF also provides tools for PDF manipulation, offering functionalities for dynamic PDF form-filling and stamping of text and images on PDF documents. activeDPF is available today for Rhythmyx’s Document Management Module and Web Content Management Module. Rhythmyx customers may purchase activePDF directly from Percussion Software. www.percussion.com, www.activePDF.com
Corel Corporation and Xcential Group, LLC announced a partnership to provide government customers an XML application specifically designed for the creation, amendment and delivery of legislation. Xcential’s LegisPro is built upon the Corel XMetaL platform to create an environment that improves efficiency and reduces the costs associated with creating and maintaining legislation and regulations. The solution ensures all XML documents are valid, allowing editors to focus on the content of the measures rather than the markup users can write valid XML content without ever seeing a tag. Moreover, it enables government customers to easily automate the publishing process. www.corel.com/xmetal, www.xcential.com/legisprowriter.pdf
COAST Software Inc., has formally partnered with Documentum, as a Documentum Technology Partner. COAST Software will work with Documentum to implement solutions that help streamline the Web publishing process for global organizations. Customers can automate the verification of content and ensure corporate Web site standards for quality, privacy, accessibility and operational security are maintained. COAST Web Quality Central is a standalone solution that allows organizations to continually monitor their Web sites with customized scans and scripts. Integrated into the Documentum workflow, these scans and scripts can automatically verify an author’s content and provide immediate feedback if any quality or corporate compliance standards are violated. www.documentum.com, www.coast.com
telerik announced the release of r.a.d.designer a componentware CMS built as an ASP.NET control. The product provides a completely visual environment for construction and content management of web-sites using a template-driven approach. r.a.d.designer has an open, extendable architecture, which allows developers not only to plug and reuse existing web-controls (menus, charts, content rotators), but also to enhance the core functionality of the system. telerik r.a.d.designer is meant to deliver the fundamental content management functions of a web-site. It is responsible for creating layouts, building individual pages based on those layouts, and filling the pages with content to be visualized. Everything beyond that depends on external web controls. The architecture of r.a.d.designer allows developers to reuse the components they have already written or purchased, like menus, charts, polls, news, etc. r.a.d.designer is available in 2 run-time (domain-based) editions and 3 royalty-free editions: “Standard” license (1 domain/web-site) is $395, “Professional” license (5 domains/web-sites) is $995, “1 Developer” license is $795, “4 Developers Team” license is $1795, “Enterprise” license (unlimited developers) is $2695. www.telerik.com/raddesigner
IBM announced it has acquired all the outstanding shares of Presence Online Pty Ltd (doing business as Aptrix), a privately-held, Australia-based provider of web content management software. Financial terms were not disclosed. This acquisition will help accelerate IBM’s plans for the Lotus Workplace Content Development offering, a product that will be built based on the Aptrix technology. The Lotus Workplace Content Development software is available immediately. The acquisition has been finalized by IBM and Aptrix. Aptrix’s employees and operations, including offices in London and Massachusetts, will be integrated with IBM Software Group’s Lotus business unit. IBM anticipates that the Aptrix technology will soon come to market under the newly announced Lotus Workplace portfolio. www.ibm.com, www.aptrix.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced new graphical design software for creating intelligent electronic documents. Leveraging PDF for presenting information and XML for processing data, the new form design software will enable organizations to design and deploy intelligent forms in PDF or in an XML Data Package (XDP). The new XML/PDF form designer software builds on Adobe’s XML architecture that supports end-to-end document processes. It provides all the capabilities needed to design forms with precision, including the ability to easily define business logic and incorporate existing or user-defined XML schemas. By enabling form designers to include user-defined XML schemas they can use XML vocabularies specific to particular verticals or cross-industry standards. Forms can be deployed in PDF and then processed as PDF is today, or delivered as an XML Data Package (XDP) to be processed as XML. XDP files are simply XML files that contain XML form data, XML form templates, PDF documents and other XML information. They can be integrated with enterprise applications XML tools and web services. The new form designer will be available for beta testing during Q4 2003. www.adobe.com/enterprise/xml.html
WebWare Corporation announced the release of WebWare ActiveMedia 4.5 digital asset management software suite. ActiveMedia Enterprise 4.5 and ActiveMedia Access 4.5 are the latest versions of the ActiveMedia software family, an extensible, out-of-the-box platform for integrating rich media content into web content management systems, sales and marketing portals, multi-channel content distribution systems, and e-commerce portals. The release features RetrievalWare software from Convera media processing engine that includes natural language search dictionaries for the pharmaceutical and financial markets. Other new features in the 4.5 release include greater integration with Adobe Graphics Server, a redesigned user interface built on J2EE, distributed file processing, release of Microsoft Office integration plug-ins that enable the seamless submission of Microsoft Office documents, and a comprehensive installer. ActiveMedia Enterprise 4.5 and ActiveMedia Access 4.5 are currently available. www.webwarecorp.com
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