Venetica announced an agreement with BEA Systems, Inc. making Venetica’s Content Provider for BEA WebLogic Portal generally available to all BEA WebLogic Portal customers. The Content Provider for BEA WebLogic Portal includes a set of portlets that are designed to provide document sharing and collaboration as well as content integration functionality for accessing content stored on a Windows NTFS File Server. Companies can have the ability to upgrade to the Extended Edition, which includes the full VeniceBridge product, enabling integration of existing content management systems, additional network file systems, and content stored in databases. Venetica’s Content Provider for BEA WebLogic Portal will be available for download from the BEA Portal Solution Center on www.bea.com, www.venetica.com/bea
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divine, inc. announced the availability of divine SinglePoint Search, an engine for accessing enterprise content and Web search. The browser-based application features automatic classification and multi-factor relevance ranking. divine SinglePoint Search is a search tool for enterprise users that enables fast and accurate information retrieval of content from both internal and external sources. SinglePoint applies a robust taxonomy and multi-factor relevance ranking to integrated searches of internal and external databases. It also addresses a broad range of information and options to automatically adapt to the data type and user’s query style, and to provide Custom Search Folders that allow easy navigation of search results. divine SinglePoint Search is based on the NorthernLight technology. www.divine.com
Microsoft Corp. announced that Groove Networks Inc. is working with Microsoft to integrate Groove Workspace, with SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft, to provide customers with a team Web site solution that supports online and offline use and automatic synchronization, and works securely across company firewalls. Groove Networks will deliver a kit that integrates SharePoint Team Services with Groove Workspace, by fall 2002. The combined SharePoint Team Services and Groove Workspace solution will offer customers collaboration tools that enable offline access to team content; automatic synchronization; and secure, real-time collaboration across network boundaries. The SharePoint Team Services/Groove Workspace integration kit will be available to customers via Groove Networks distribution channels. www.groove.net, www.microsoft.com
Openpages, Inc. and Venture Financial Systems Group have entered into an alliance agreement to deliver content production solutions to the financial services community. The new alliance draws upon Openpages 4.0 Adaptive Content Platform and Venture’s consulting staff to improve the way financial institutions deliver information to customers. www.openpages.com, www.venturefsg.com
Factiva announced the launch of a Japanese-language interface for Factiva Search Module and Factiva Track Module to enable Factiva’s content to be integrated into intranets and portals which support Japanese-speaking customers. In addition to this new product interface, Factiva has been aggregating content from numerous Japanese sources during the last 12 months, offering nearly 100 sources in Japanese including key publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, The Yomiuri Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, Weekly Toyo Keizai, Jiji Press, Kyodo News and the Dow Jones and Reuters newswires in English and Japanese. www.factiva.com
Ingeniux Corporation announced the release of Ingeniux Content Management System (CMS) 3.0. The Ingeniux CMS empowers front line staff to create, manage and publish business-critical Web sites. Ingeniux CMS 3.0 offers a simplified user interface specifically designed to enable non-technical content contributors to quickly and easily create and deploy content. Content publishing is now a one-button operation. An adaptable user interface based on a user’s profile allows site administrators to completely define the working environment for content contributors. Ingeniux CMS 3.0 is available now. www.ingeniux.com
Inktomi Corp. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Quiver, Inc. The addition of Quiver’s portfolio of categorization and taxonomy software will further strengthen Inktomi’s enterprise information retrieval solutions. The total purchase price of this transaction will be approximately $12 million in a combination of common stock and cash. With the addition of Quiver, Inktomi can deliver information management solutions that provide both search capabilities and the ability to accurately arrange information into taxonomies. www.quiver.com, www.inktomi.com
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced that the presentation of search results from AlltheWeb.com can be completely customized with the AlltheWeb Alchemist tool. AlltheWeb now allows technically-minded users to create a customized look and feel for web, multimedia, news, and categorized search results from AlltheWeb via user-defined cascading style sheets (CSS). AlltheWeb Alchemist displays web search results in basic HTML code. Searchers can view these results in this basic format, or customize the results view via their own pre-defined CSS file, allowing the user to control virtually all aspects of result presentation for the various search catalogs and other elements on the page. Users can share their design by sending a link to the style-sheets so that their friends may have the same search experience. As this is a beta technology, no formal support from FAST is provided and FAST is not responsible for any style sheets created by third parties. www.alltheweb.com/alchemist
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