KMtechnologies Inc. announced a new partnership agreement with Swingtide. FSwingtide has licensed KMtechnologies’ work2gether platform to deliver the Swingtide QoB Assistant. Leveraging the work2gether collaborative features, the QoB Assistant is a productivity tool for architects and developers to understand, define and manage the interoperability of XML used in service-oriented architectures. The QoB Assistant is a software application packaged with an online knowledgebase of XML standards that’s accessible from your network. The QoB Assistant automates planning in several key ways. First, the QoB Assistant lets you make specific choices about XML and make them persistent across your local copy of the knowledge-base as design guidelines. Second, several people can work and collaborate on a design simultaneously. The QoB Assistant comes complete with discussion thread capability, email notification when team members update a portion of the design, and even support for distance collaboration. Additionally, the QoB Assistant enables you to add custom content that can be leveraged by the rest of the team. www.kmtechnologies.com www.swingtide.com

Scene7, Inc. announced the integration of its Infinite Imaging Platform with IBM DB2 Content Manager Version 8.2. IBM and Scene7 jointly market Scene7’s platform with IBM software and hardware platforms. Scene7 clients can computer generate any digital image they need — in photo quality — for uses including Websites, catalogs, partner extranets and marketing collateral. Scene7 integration includes the ability to publish dynamically generated imagery, including related image attributes and server requests, to IBM DB2 Content Manager v8.2 as a secure repository. Within Content Manager’s standard e-client, users can directly view all published images and related metadata. Using Scene7’s enhanced e-client, these users can search, browse, edit and transform image assets directly from IBM Content Manager. In support of this integrated solution, Scene7’s platform operates on all major IBM environments, including DB2, WebSphere Application Server, Linux, AIX, Portal Server, and eServer hardware (xSeries, pSeries). www.scene7.com www.ibm.com/software/data/cm

Interwoven, Inc. announced the official opening of its office in Milan, Italy. The new Interwoven Italian office is located at Via Monte di Pieta, 21, 20121 Milano, Italia; Tel: +39 02 86 33 7 237. www.interwoven.com

FatWire Software introduced a new dCM Integration kit with six free FatWire dCM portlets for IBM’s WebSphere Portal. The portlets allow business users to easily create and modify both structured and unstructured content and publish it to the WebSphere Portal to provide users with fresh, relevant information. The new dCM Integration Kit provides J2EE integration between FatWire’s dynamic content management software, UpdateEngine, and IBM’s Web Sphere Portal v4.1 to allow business users to easily create, edit and publish content to WebSphere Portals. FatWire’s six new dCM content-rich display portlets include The User Display Portlet, The Launch Pad Portlet, The News Portlet, The Job Listing Portlet, The Document Portlet, and The Advertisement Portlet. The dCM Integration Kit and six portlets are available from the IBM Portlet Catalog (Code: 1WP1000CK). www.ibm.com, www.fatwire.com

IXIASOFT announced the general availability of TEXTML Server 2.3, the latest version of its native XML database. IXIASOFT unveiled features that enhance the performance and flexibility of TEXTML Server, including support for Adobe’s XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) framework, improved support for Namespaces, and a new WebDAV Server. Introduced by Adobe, the XMP framework enhances workflows so that content can be applied between print, Web, eBooks and other media. Adobe XMP is available as an open-source license and uses a W3C based RDF syntax, it provides an XML-based metadata framework for embedding metadata within application files. With its support of XMP, TEXTML Server 2.3 enables the extraction and indexing of metadata embedded inside images, PDFs or any other binary format. Since the metadata is embedded in a file, the information remains with the file throughout its life, facilitating the exchange of metadata between applications. XMP was designed to be extensible and provides the means for customizing metadata based on specific requirements. IXIASOFT has also added improved support for Namespaces, enabling the use of Namespace validation as part of the index definition process. www.ixiasoft.com

TRADOS Incorporated announced that it would release, in late April, TRADOS TM Server, their next-generation Translation Memory technology. TRADOS TM Server is a central translation memory database server that can be accessed simultaneously by hundreds of translators and enables corporations to maintain extremely large translation memory databases. TRADOS TM Server processes tasks on translation memories with tens of thousands or millions of translation units equally fast, whether there are 2, 20 or 200 users accessing the database simultaneously. Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle database back-ends are supported on both Windows and Unix. TRADOS TM Server can be integrated into all common document and content management systems, including Documentum, Tridion, Astoria, Vignette and Interwoven. It can also be used to power custom workflow applications, translation portals, etc. TRADOS TM Server will be available for commercial deployment late April 2003. www.trados.com

ZyLAB announced that it has enhanced its ZyIMAGE data storage and records management & archival product suite by incorporating XML as the data format to store scanned and electronic documents. A key driver to incorporating XML data formats is to help ZyLAB customers better adhere to corporate governance legislation such as Sarbanes Oxley, which is designed to ensure organizations have clear policies, proper records management systems, and adequate audit trails for its enterprise-wide information. www.zylab.com

Factiva and Microsoft, Inc. announced a relationship that will deliver news and business information from Factiva into the Microsoft Office 2003 suite. Factiva’s first solution for Office 2003, Factiva News Search, will allow information workers to conduct research on Factiva’s 8,000 sources directly from a report or presentation they’re creating. For example, while drafting a competitive brief in Word 2003, competitive intelligence professionals can use Factiva News Search to quickly look up industry trends from newspapers, journals, and newswires from around the world and insert that research into their document. Factiva News Search will be integrated into the Research Task Pane of all Microsoft Office 2003 applications, including Word 2003, Excel 2003, Access 2003, Outlook 2003, and PowerPoint 2003. Factiva News Search is currently available as part of the Microsoft Office 2003 Beta 2 trial. Factiva’s investment in a platform based on XML and Web services enabled its integration with the Microsoft Office 2003 system. While evaluating beta test feedback, Factiva and Microsoft will also be researching customer solutions that can be built on top of the Office 2003 System. www.factiva.com