Innodata Corp. announced a partnership alliance between X-Hive Corporation and ISOGEN International, Innodata’s XML Systems and Training division. Under the terms of this alliance, ISOGEN will become a certified integrator of the X-Hive XML database system for customers based in North America and Europe. www.x-hive.com, www.innodata.com, www.innodata.com
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Three OASIS Committee Specifications, Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) v2, ebXML Registry Service (RS) v2, and ebXML Registry Information Model (RIM) v2, have passed final approval by the OASIS membership at-large to gain official status as OASIS Standards. Each of these new standards have been approved by their respective OASIS technical committees, implemented by a minimum of three organizations, completed a 90-day review, and passed a final vote from the OASIS membership at-large. ebXML RS and ebXML RIM allow information to be shared between interested parties through common registries. Members of the OASIS ebXML Registry Technical Committee include Boeing, Intel, IONA, Logistics Management Institute, NIST, Sterling Commerce, Sun Microsystems, Vitria Technology, and others. Members of the OASIS DSML Technical Committee include Access360, Novell, and others. www.oasis-open.org
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced the launch of FAST Data Search 3.0. FAST Data Search 3.0 handles grammatical and conceptual variations within the data, such as natural language processing and misspelling of queries. There is automatic, out-of-the-box support for over 49 languages. Content handling options, such as automatic categorization and dynamic result clustering, allow users to locate information quickly. Virtual collection functionality, combined with customizable document and query/result processing modules, enable system configuration on a per-collection basis with customizable relevancy tuning for different sources or partitions of information. FAST Data Search 3.0 enables mixing and matching of individual data access modules (web crawler, file traverser, database connector, and XML converter) for integrating with enterprise applications and adding search or data volume capacity and real-time, linguistics and security options. FAST Data Search 3.0 can be delivered as a software solution or via an ASP delivery model hosted by FAST or FAST partners. www.fastsearch.com
MediaBin Inc. announced the release of MediaBin WorkPlace and MediaBin Cluster Manager. MediaBin WorkPlace is a collaboration software module that provides a “virtual space” where dispersed teams can collaborate on marketing projects, review images and other collateral without downloading them, set up automated routing for approval, and conduct surveys. Team members are notified by email when their participation is required. MediaBin Cluster Manager enables corporations to link multiple MediaBin servers for increased capacity and reliability. Users see only one central repository, but processing tasks are divided among available servers, providing load balancing. The system also provides automatic failover. www.info.mediabin.com
TRADOS Incorporated announced that they had reached an agreement to join forces with Uniscape. This merger will bring together the companies’ complementary product lines and people to offer a solution that extends across the translation value chain, from the global corporation to individual translation professionals. Dev Ganesan, CEO and President of TRADOS, will be the CEO and President of the combined company. Once the merger has been completed, Uniscape, located in Sunnyvale, California, will become the TRADOS Enterprise Solutions division. www.trados.com
Stellent, Inc. announced version 6.0 of the Stellent Content Categorizer that enables Web administrators and content contributors to automatically categorize content as it is checked into the Stellent Content Server. Content Categorizer is based on an architecture that integrates with categorization technologies. Stellent Content Categorizer 6.0 automatically maps contributed content to a metadata model and suggests appropriate metadata for that content. Version 6.0 also provides: an interactive check-in process for content contributors; a batch categorization process to immediately extract metadata; the ability to re-categorize sub-sections or the entire repository of managed content by refining the taxonomy; the ability to automatically assign metadata values to existing content in the repository when new metadata fields are added to the system; and the ability to import and navigate through the defined taxonomy within the Stellent Content Server interface. www.stellent.com/categorizer
Plumtree Software announced the immediate availability of integration with Microsoft Content Management Server 2001 (CMS) as a services offering. Portal users can now create Plumtree Gadget Web Services using CMS templates and authoring capabilities to add new content to the portal and to repurpose existing content from intranet or extranet sites managed by CMS. Portal users can also publish CMS content directly to the Plumtree Document Directory and search for content managed by CMS from the portal. Plumtree security for the content can be set at the time of publication to the document directory without overriding any existing CMS security. The Plumtree and CMS integration is currently available as a service offering from Plumtree and Plumtree systems integrator partners, including Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. www.plumtree.com
Convera announced that it has integrated its RetrievalWare search and retrieval technology with Vignette V6 Content Suite. RetrievalWare can index, search, categorize and profile Vignette-managed content. In addition, developers of Vignette-based applications will now be able to integrate RetrievalWare into their applications. Users are able to perform more comprehensive searches that encompass not just Vignette-managed content, but a broader set of enterprise sources, including data warehouses, databases, groupware systems, e-mail files, presentations, videos and other multimedia files.
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