The Thunderstone Search Appliance is intended for organizations seeking the simplest possible software administration, but without giving up the security and performance of a locally hosted solution. It is a complete web-search or intranet-search solution ready to use as soon as plugged into a network. The Appliance is based on Thunderstone’s Texis software. The Thunderstone Appliance allows customers to create as many separate indexes as needed. Thus the administrator may give different groups of users access to content that is appropriate for each group. The Appliance indexes most document formats including HTML, PDF, and word processor files. The Thunderstone Appliance is also the only search solution that indexes JavaScript links and content. The Thunderstone Appliance also indexes Flash links and content. The Thunderstone Search Appliance may be integrated into an organization’s web sites by means of a simple HTML form added to any page. The appearance may be customized by adding an organization’s “look and feel” template, or by using XSLT. www.thunderstone.com

Stratify, Inc. and Raytion GmbH announced a partnership that will enable Raytion to deliver and support knowledge management solutions based on Stratify products throughout the European market. With in-depth knowledge of Stratify’s architecture and applicable business scenarios, Raytion will provide consulting and integration capabilities in conjunction with other content management, portal, and search solutions. Under the terms of the agreement Raytion will market and support Stratify’s complete product suite, including the Stratify Taxonomy Builder, Stratify Classification Server and the Stratify Discovery System platform, together with ancillary tools. Raytion has worked extensively with Stratify and the Stratify Discovery System since early 2002 and is Stratify’s first European partner. www.raytion.com, www.stratify.com

Fios, Inc. unveiled upgrades to Prevail. With this upgrade Fios will offer concept-based searching capabilities. The new upgrades will be available for client use by the middle of March. Fios’ Prevail is a Web-based tool designed to help legal teams manage, search and produce vast amounts of electronic evidence. The concept-based search technology is being added to Prevail via Fios’ licensing partnership with Engenium, Corp., developer of the intelligent concept-based search technology called Semetric. Prevail is hosted by Fios and requires no client site setup or configuration. The only system requirements for Fios’ clients are Internet Explorer 5.5 and Windows 98. Pricing is based on a per-megabyte basis, thus costs don’t vary based on the number of users accessing Prevail, nor the amount of time they spend online. www.fiosinc.com

Workshare announced the release of Workshare Metawall 1.5. Workshare Metawall 1.5 contains features that provide protection of a firm’s documents. This release gives users the ability to restrict confidential documents from being emailed externally through Microsoft Office. Users can tag documents as “No Restriction,” “External Restriction,” or “Full Restriction” depending on the nature and level of confidentiality of their contents. The new version of the product also contains enhancements to the product’s metadata cleansing capabilities. Workshare Metawall 1.5 gives users the ability to clean multiple documents simultaneously. Another new feature allows users to receive a summary report of the metadata contained in their documents before actually cleaning them. Users then have the option of choosing which pieces of metadata they would like removed from the document. Future versions of Workshare Metawall will give users the ability to tag Microsoft Office documents so that they are restricted from being sent externally until the proper approvals have been obtained. Upcoming features will also deal with the reintegration of the documents back into the document management system (DMS). www.workshare.com

WebWare Corporation announced the debut of WebWare ActiveMedia 4, a major upgrade of its digital asset management software (formerly WebWare MAMBO). ActiveMedia 4, a web services-based digital asset management system, allows companies to easily integrate a rich media repository with other enterprise applications built on BEA’s WebLogic or IBM’s WebSphere systems. Its new user interface, One-Click Access (OCA) enables the creation of business-specific interfaces that can be tailored to individual users, departments or projects. WebWare ActiveMedia can be used as a stand-alone media asset management system or integrated with existing enterprise content management software (ECM) such as Interwoven’s TeamSite. ActiveMedia can be installed locally or hosted at WebWare’s secure data center. The new release is backward-compatible with WebWare 3.X systems and is currently shipping. www.webwarecorp.com