Mediapps announced the new 2003 version of its Net.Portal software, including all intranet applications in one entreprise Suite. Net.Portal 2003 is not simply a corporate portal but also represents a comprehensive and out-of-the-box “Intranet Suite”. Following Office Suites and ERP Suites, the Intranet Suite avoids the use of multiple enterprise software applications and the inherent cost and disparate user interfaces. Net.Portal 2003 includes all the features required for a corporate intranet (portal, personalization, content and document management, collaboration, workflow, project management, etc.) in one single product. All applications are consistent, using the same graphical interface and sharing the same data. www.mediapps.com
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ISYS/Odyssey Development Inc. announced the release of ISYS 6.02, which supports full-text searches of Macromedia Flash files. Based on the .swf file format, the multimedia development software is frequently used to develop visually rich Web sites and presentations, often including animated components. Available for its core solutions — ISYS:desktop, ISYS:web and ISYS:spider — ISYS 6.02 indexes text held in Flash files and also navigates through the files to index HTML or other document formats to which Flash files point. Additionally, ISYS can index and retrieve Flash files held on local file servers, or via ISYS:spider, which can capture and index Flash files found on external Web sites. www.isysusa.com
Hummingbird Ltd. announced the acquisition of Valid Information Systems Limited (Valid). Founded in 1989, Valid is a privately held company that is in the compliance and records management market in the United Kingdom. Hummingbird acquired the shares of Valid for initial consideration of British Pounds 10 million (US dollar 16.5 million) in cash and additional consideration of British Pounds 8 million (US dollar 13 million) in cash payable over 2 years, based on performance targets. Valid will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Hummingbird, continuing to support and maintain all customer implementations. Hummingbird will continue to sell the Valid products in the UK without interruption. The existing Valid management team and employees will remain with their current responsibilities and positions. www.hummingbird.com
eMotion, Inc. announced the acquisition of Artmachine. The company also announced the completion of a $2.5 million round of financing. Most of Artmachines current staff will be relocating to eMotions headquarters in San Francisco, California where eMotions CEO, Richard Fisher, and other key finance and marketing executives are based. eMotion plans to use the financing to facilitate the integration of eMotion and Artmachine technologies onto its next generation platform, to enhance customer support and marketing initiatives, as well as to expand the North American sales team. www.emotion.com, www.artmachine.com
Software AG, Inc.announced that version 4.1.4 of its Tamino XML Server includes a new indexing tool for performing metadata searches on non-XML documents such as Microsoft Office and Sun StarOffice. Other text retrieval enhancements in Tamino XML Server 4.1.4 include phonetic document searches and retreived text highlighting. Tamino’s Non-XML Indexer plug-in module works with Tamino to extend the set of searchable metadata – such as author, creation date, date last modified, or file size – that is associated with non-XML documents. The module can create indices for standard document formats such as Microsoft Office (including Word and Excel), StarOffice (including Writer and Calc), OpenOffice, Plain text files (UTF-8), MPEG Audio (often known as MP3 files), RTF (Rich Text Format) and ZIP files. Tamino XML Server 4.1.4 is available now for Windows 2000/XP Pro, Linux (Intel systems and S/390) HP-UX, Sun Solaris 8 and IBM AIX 5.1 and 5.2. Later this month Tamino will also run on Sun Solaris 9. Separately installable on Tamino, the Non-XML Indexer plug-in module can be downloaded from the Tamino Developer Community. http://developer.softwareag.com/tamino
eFoundry Inc. has expanded its alliance with FatWire Software. The partnership is a key facet of FatWire’s strategy to align itself with content management service providers. eFoundry’s Content Server experience will help support FatWire’s expanded customer base resulting from its acquisition of divine Inc.’s Content Server enterprise content management solution. eFoundry has been a Content Server partner for five years and is comprised of principal members of the original Content Server engineering and management team. www.efoundry.com
iManage, Inc. announced the availability of WorkSite Server with Caching, a middle-tier content and collaboration server built specifically to address the needs of companies with users and documents distributed across multiple offices. The WorkSite Server with Caching provides users LAN like performance when accessing content in remote libraries; it also makes centralized implementations practical enabling firms to eliminate stand-alone document management (DM) installations at each remote office. WorkSite Server with Caching is available now for $8,500 per CPU; an upgrade pricing program for current iManage customers is currently available. www.imanage.com
Stellent, Inc. announced its Software Components Division has released Outside In Image Export. The new product converts content in multiple document formats to image files, eliminating costs related to writing and maintaining custom image conversion technologies. Outside In Image Export directly converts more than a hundred native file types to BMP, GIF, JPG and PNG formats as well as to TIFF. A broad range of applications for markets such as document imaging, records management, fax server and document archiving can leverage Image Export to convert native file types to a standardized image format. Image Export allows developers to adjust a file’s resolution, color depth settings and size, enabling the creation of a range of images from “thumbnails”, or quick visual representations, to full-size images. Outside In Image Export is currently shipping. www.outsideinsdk.com, www.stellent.com
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