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
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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
Stratify, Inc. announced the availability of the first in a suite of integration adapters that brings taxonomy and categorization capabilities to portal environments. The Stratify Portal Adapter for BEA and the Stratify Portal Adapter for Plumtree utilize the Stratify Discovery System’s Web services APIs to provide direct access to enterprisewide taxonomies that are automatically generated and managed by the Discovery System. The Stratify Portal Adapter suite is based on a set of Web services (SOAP, WSDL) and Java APIs. The Stratify Portal Adapter suite can communicate with other BEA Portlets and Plumtree Gadgets, classify designated documents or selected information in real-time, and provide users related topics and associated documents. Similarly, the Stratify Portal Adapters can provide real-time document classification, content management or publishing workflow applications within the portal. www.stratify.com
Innodata Corporation announced a new partnership alliance with Ontopia, providers of Ontopia Knowledge Suite, a software solution based on Topic Maps. Under the terms of this alliance, Innodata’s Systems and Training Division, ISOGEN International, will become a certified integrator of the Ontopia Knowledge Suite for customers based in North America and Europe. www.ontopia.net, www.innodata.com, www.isogen.com
Engage, Inc. announced that it has entered into a joint marketing agreement and systems integration initiative with T4G Limited. T4G’s expertise includes strategic planning, infrastructure deployment, application development, interface design/communications, knowledge management, merchandise planning, business intelligence, content services and multi-channel information delivery in a diverse range of complex environments. T4G will augment and extend Engage’s advertising production solutions to companies serving a broad range of promotional product markets, particularly in the retail and catalog markets. T4G provides content management and production workflow expertise to drive down the cost per SKU for retailers to improve a company’s R.O.I. for multi-channel retailing. www.engage.com, www.t4g.com
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