XAware, Inc. announced XA-Suite Release 3.0 for Java with Enterprise Information Integration (EII) capabilities. Release 3.0 is now available and includes advanced features for data transformation, information security and simplified access to enterprise applications such as Siebel and SAP. XA-Suite Release 3.0 includes new features for streaming large XML documents, XML to XML mapping to simplify schema transformation, functoids for flexible data manipulation and business rules, and increased support for stored procedures with relational databases. Other features are included. XA-Suite for Java Release 3.0 is priced from $5,000 to $50,000 depending on processor and connectivity requirements. Release 3.0 is available for evaluation at www.xaware.com
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The Stibo Group announced its name change to Stibo Catalog, Inc. According to a company spokesperson, the name change better reflects the company’s narrowed focus on cross-media publishing and content management software and solutions. The company also recently announced the general release of STEP 4.6, the latest evolution of its product information management, content management, and production software. STEP 4.6 delivers a collaborative software platform to receive rich and complex electronic data from suppliers in a variety of file formats and store it in a media-neutral relational data repository. The data can be organized, accessed simultaneously by multiple workgroups, then incorporated into multiple output formats such print catalogs, CD-ROM, web catalogs, portals, exchanges, or other printed media. www.stibocatalog.com
SDL plc announced its acquisition of the Lomac organization one a provider of translation and localization services to the Central and East European (CEE) market. Lomac operates in six countries within the region, providing translation and electronic publishing of technical documentation, software and web-content. The investment will enhance SDL’s local language office infrastructure within the CEE region and increase the companys capacity to support a larger proportion of this market. www.sdlintl.com
Conchango and Tridion are partnering to provide companies with a comprehensive solution to manage ‘content’ in order to drive multi-channel commerce. Tridion’s contributes its enterprise content management software (Tridion R5), which helps businesses control information from- and across multiple channels, and retail technology specialist, Conchango brings its experience of exploiting the potential of this information and marrying it with a commerce engine. The two companies will work together to help businesses manage and re-use content across various customer channels. www.tridion.com/uk, www.conchango.com
Bluestream released a major upgrade to its native XML database. Available immediately, XStreamDB Version 3.0 adds features designed to help developers and integrators deploy solutions for collaborative content management with XML and binary data. XStreamDB 3.0’s new resource manager enables integration with authoring and publishing software for lightweight content management solutions for publishing to Web or print. Supported XML editors include Corel XMetaL and Altova XMLSpy. Improvements to searching include: faster full-text search and indexing, new LIKE wildcard matching, found word marking, phrase search, and proximity search. Other new features are: WebDAV, resource URIs, checkout, event triggers, automated backup, Server Console, binary data support with MIME type, and derivation by extension and attribute groups for schemas. XStreamDB 3.0 is a cross-platform XML database server built on Java, accessed using a Java API, WebDAV, or XstreamDB Explorer. It supports XQuery with update, full-text search, resources, and XML schemas with automatic validation. XstreamDB 3.0 is ACID compliant, has full transaction model capabilities, and MD5 authentication. XstreamDB 3.0 supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris. Minimum 64MB RAM, under 10MB disk (not including data). J2EE compliant Web application server (Apache Tomcat included) required for WebDAV and resource URIs. Developer version at $500 per seat. Server at $1300 to $3000 per CPU plus support is available. www.bluestream.com
Obian announced the availability of Jupiter, a Web-based Document Management System powered by Oracle9i Application Server and Oracle9i Database. Jupiter allows enterprise users to obtain the full advantage of Oracle9iAS – J2EE server, Portal server, Directory server, Integration Server, Oracle9i Database, Oracle9i JDeveloper and Oracle Collaboration Suite when developing Web-Services Document Management applications. Jupiter represents a generation of Integrated Web-Services Document, Web Content and Process Management all accessible through one common user interface and utilizing a single Oracle9i repository. Jupiter users launch a business process with one or more documents stored in the document management module. They then can measure the acceptance/rejection actions as well as the processing/wait times at all stages in their work processes using Jupiter’s process management module. www.obian.com
Fios, Inc., released concept-based searching as part of Prevail, Fios’ Web-based electronic discovery tool. The concept-based search technology in Prevail enables legal teams to search and organize unstructured information by mapping relationships between each word and every other word in large sets of documents. This release also includes the new Concept Explorer which provides a quick list of all documents that are conceptually related to the current document. Prevail is built using the Microsoft .NET framework and SQL Server 2000. Companies can designate from one to hundreds of users to concurrently review small or large quantities of data, with capacity measured in megabytes to terabytes. Fios utilizes Digital Certificates using 1024-bit keys that support 128-bit SSL encryption, state-of-the-art firewalls and customer-controlled security policies. Prevail is hosted by Fios and requires no client site setup or configuration. The only system requirements are Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and Windows 98 (or higher). Pricing is based on a per megabyte basis. www.fiosinc.com
FLEXSTOR announced plans to release its base FLEX-db Digital Asset Management (DAM) technology into the Open Source community. The company plans to post the source code by the end of the third quarter of 2003. This strategy is designed to accelerate development enhancements with the software quality control that comes from Open Source initiatives. The two founding sponsors with FLEXSTOR on this Open Source initiative are Fort Dearborn Company and Rorke Data, Inc. FLEXSTOR is in current discussions with potential Sponsors from the business and government communities. FLEXSTOR seeks other Sponsors to solicit advice and support on the future direction of the FLEX-db Open Source initiative. It can serve as both an application infrastructure to be extended, or can be deployed in its simplest form as a turnkey solution. The FLEXSTOR product suite is an enterprise-wide, digital asset management solution built upon JAVA and object-based extensible Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) architecture. The software is composed of internally developed software modules and integrated foundation technology products including other Open Source products. www.flexstor.biz
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