Semagix announced that it is shipping version 3.0 of its Freedom platform for enhancing metadata and integrating enterprise information from structured and unstructured content sources. Semagix Freedom is a semantics-based Enterprise Information Integration (EII) software platform that is used to aggregate and relate large volumes of heterogeneous information held in disparate locations. The enhanced features of Freedom 3.0 simplify and reduce the cycle for System Integrators to implement the Freedom platform. Semagix has enhanced several usability, scalability and performance features. Semagix’s Freedom 3.0 is available immediately with prices starting at $75,000 per processor. www.semagix.com

HiSoftware, Inc. announced integration between its AccVerify, AccMonitor Server and Microsoft Content Management Server (CMS) 2002, enhancing the ability to ensure that websites meet Section 508 recommendations and organizational Web content quality standards. The combined solutions allow for integrated access for verification of accessibility and content quality throughout the different layers of CMS managed Web sites. AccVerify, AccMonitor and Content Management Server integration can be used together “out-of-the-box” with no additional development resources required, so that content quality and accessibility verification is seamlessly integrated into the development, deployment and delivery of the CMS-driven Web sites. These solutions also allow organizations to address accessibility and content quality verification issues related to XML-based Web services. www.hisoftware.com

InStranet, Inc. announced the release of version 3.2 of its Channels In-Line (CIL) application featuring built-in analytics. With a strong emphasis on feedback and measurement, these analytics enable managers to make informed sales and marketing decisions based on market pressures, competition and channel needs. In addition to publishing and syndicating information, companies can measure its effectiveness in real-time. CIL 3.2 ships with the following business indicators as part of the new analytics module: Field Audit, Awareness Ratio, and Document Effectiveness Metric. CIL is a web-based application that ships with InStranets Content Application Foundation. It includes the following content and document management modules: publishing, workflow, file system agent, syndication, user management, security, metadata tracking and organization, multi-dimensional segmentation engine and application content exchange. CIL is targeted at companies with multiple distribution channels, large sales organizations, and multiple customer touch points within the following industries: retail, financial, manufacturing, CPG, healthcare and technology. www.InStranet.com

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