Mercado Software Inc. announced it has released its Enterprise Search & Navigation (ESN) solution. Designed from the ground up for a web services enterprise architecture, ESN provides a solution for locating information scattered across multiple information repositories and stored in disparate data formats. ESN provides a single point of information access for users to explore all organizational information, whether it is structured, semi-structured, or unstructured content. ESN utilizes linguistic tools and hierarchical indexing that uses structure in addition to text to optimize relevancy ranking for all content types. ESN’s modular architecture is adaptive to existing systems and new data sources and is customizable. Its XML and SOAP architecture simplifies integration and maintenance. The solution is scalable to any data volume and user load, and features a quick update capability that helps keep search indices fresh. www.mercado.com
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Stellent, Inc. announced Stellent Site Studio, a new Web content management application offered as part of its Stellent Content Management suite of products. Stellent Site Studio helps companies build tens to hundreds of Web sites, enabling them to deploy these sites and maintain consistent branding, security and infrastructure across all sites being developed by their various business units. With Stellent Site Studio, companies can create libraries of Web site components, such as templates, navigation, graphics and code, which are then available to their business units when building their own sites. The reusable components allow business units to rapidly deploy their unique Web sites while complying with corporate requirements. Site Studio users also can create components using other programs, such as designing layouts in Dreamweaver, and import them into the Site Studio library for possible use by the business units. Site Studio will begin shipping June 15, 2003 and will be included with the Stellent Web Content Manager solution, which is sold as an option to Stellent Content Server. Stellent Web Content Manager is priced from $25,000 to $100,000 USD, based on the number of contributors. www.stellent.com/products
North Plains Systems Corp. announced the release of TeleScope Enterprise 7.0. TeleScope Enterprise 7.0 is designed to enable organizations to increase their ROI by expanding its use throughout the enterprise. Two major functional tools have been added to TeleScope Enterprise 7.0. The Lookup Broker option enables on-demand lookup of metadata from other data sources, such as pulling in the ISBN number based on just the book title or finding a list of episodes from the name of a particular television program. A new administrative capability has been built in to create an extensible scripting language of administrator-defined rules within the application, which simplifies “asset level” permissions within the TeleScope system. Digital Rights Management and Workflow Automation are other capabilities that are now easily configured using this new tool. www.northplains.com
Convera announced the commercial availability of RetrievalWare 8, a new knowledge discovery platform that helps large organizations automate their knowledge management and discovery processes using an infrastructure that can be optimized for specific industry and government applications. RetrievalWare 8 integrates Convera’s enterprise search with industry-specific taxonomies and new categorization and dynamic classification software, delivering techniques for searching, navigating and discovering knowledge, including hidden relationships, patterns and trends. With RetrievalWare 8, customers have a single integrated platform that categorizes and organizes all content including unstructured text, image, video and paper assets, in addition to a variety of structured data sources. Using Convera’s dynamic classification software, end users can launch a search and automatically classify the results based on pre-defined or dynamically generated classifications made possible through the combination of multiple taxonomies. Convera has also certified ten partners as part of its new Taxonomy Developer Certification Program, including Access Innovations, Advanced Technology Systems (ATS), Bleuphish, Creative Technology Inc., IBM, KAPS Group LLC, Mitre, MZM Inc., SRA International Inc., and Veridian. www.convera.com
Corel Corporation and LightSpeed Software announced a strategic partnership to deliver a comprehensive content management solution for authoring, managing and publishing technical documentation. The companies have built an integration between Corel XMetaL, Corel’s XML editing tool, and LightSpeed Astoria, LightSpeed Software’s content management system, providing customers with a single solution. This offering is available now. The Corel/LightSpeed Software solution offers content experts a way to create reusable XML content at an element level breaking documents into small managed elements or ‘chunks’ that can be shared, updated, located and delivered to multiple channels. By enabling anyone within an organization to create XML content, the costly and repetitive process of converting content from proprietary document formats into XML is eliminated. The solution supports the newly-released Corel XMetaL 4, giving authors the power to create XML content within any ActiveX-compliant application, including email and Web browsers. www.LSpeed.com, www.corel.com
FatWire Software announced it will acquire divine’s Content Management business. As part of the divine bankruptcy auction, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Boston has approved the sale of divine’s content management assets to Saratoga Partners, a New York private equity firm, who will simultaneously transfer these assets to FatWire. The sale is expected to close in the next few days. divine’s content management business includes divine’s Content Server, formerly OpenMarket, divine’s Participant Server, formerly Eprise, and its over 300 worldwide customers. divine Content Server provides an extensible framework for growth. Customers leverage Content Server’s J2EE architecture to build their own content-driven applications. divine Participant Server manages and simplifies the flow of content to Web sites by enabling business users to add, modify, manage, and publish content without the assistance of IT staff. www.fatwire.com
BroadVision, Inc. announced a significant upgrade to the BroadVision 7 suite of enterprise portal applications, which includes BroadVision One-To-One Portal, BroadVision One-To-One Commerce and BroadVision One-To-One Content. BroadVision One-To-One Commerce is a multi-channel sales portal that automates the sales process. Key features of the 7.1 release include agent-assisted service to augment BroadVision’s self-service functionality, support for self-service returns and enhanced support for globalization. BroadVision One-To-One Portal is an application for deploying personalized business-to-employee, business-to-business and business-to-consumer portals. Key features of the 7.1 release include streamlined integration of external user management and content management systems and simplified management of community collaboration-focused microsites. BroadVision One-To-One Content allows organizations to manage all types of content throughout its lifecycle from creation and management through deployment and distribution. Key features of the 7.1 release include integration to other BroadVision applications, enhanced support for internationalization, and performance gains that accelerate workflow. www.broadvision.com
iUpload is expanding its offering to include a suite of e-Business tools that help organizations optimize the marketing potential of their web presence. The iUpload Application Suite adds to content management, other functions necessary to run a successful e-Business web site: a permission-based, e-mail marketing module, a site search and indexing function, an online survey manager, and an interactive chat and discussions forums manager. The announcement is the first result of technology integration following the companys acquisition of WebPartz in March, 2003. Organizations will use the iUpload Application Suite to elevate brochure-ware web sites into interactive e-Business sites by activating any of the iUpload Application Suite modules. Because the iUpload Application Suite is net-native, subscribers are able to activate modules without having to install hardware or separate software applications. Customers can use modules that form the iUpload Application Suite individually or in combination. All modules in the iUpload Suite are currently available. Access to these new modules is via subscription starting at a rate of $85 per month per module. www.iupload.com
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