Stellent, Inc. announced it has signed integration agreements with Xcelerate and Sogeti USA. These new alliance partners will integrate the Stellent Content Management system with a variety of e-business applications such as portals and EAI solutions. Xcelerate is integrating the Stellent Content Management technology with portals, personalization engines and business integration solutions, such as enterprise application integration systems and Web services. A wholly owned subsidiary of Cap Gemini SA, Sogeti will provide information technology consulting and integration services to Stellent customers locally through its more than 20 offices throughout the United States. www.stellent.com, www.xcelerate.com, www.sogeti-usa.com
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Inktomi Corp. announced information retrieval technology for software developers and systems integrators that will provide advanced search functionality within enterprise applications. Built with native XML support, Inktomi Search Toolkit is an OEM solution for extracting relevant data from structured, unstructured and semi-structured content. This new OEM offering will deliver enhanced information retrieval within content-rich applications such as content management, enterprise portal, CRM and commerce solutions. Inktomi Search Toolkit provides the unstructured search functionality of a keyword search engine, such as relevance ranking, natural language search and filtering for various file formats. Additionally, it delivers XQuery-based structured query capabilities that allow sophisticated retrieval functions such as parametric searching and retrieval of content based on a document’s structure. Inktomi Search Toolkit returns results that include references to documents as well as the actual documents or fragments of those documents that contain the precise information requested. Inktomi Search Toolkit is available now. www.inktomi.com/products/toolkit
Pageflex, Inc., announced expansion of its dynamic publishing product line with the addition of .EDIT (pronounced DOT EDIT), a real-time, browser-based application for the design and editing of sophisticated desktop publishing documents. With .EDIT, companies can create Web sites with a library of well-designed document templates and allow any authorized Web site visitor to create customized versions of these documents, containing full-featured typography and graphic design elements, using a Web browser and an Internet connection. .EDIT enables companies to offer document editing capabilities to customers, employees, marketing partners, and dealers or franchise owners — all through their standard Web site and without requiring the use of any plug-ins. A company deploying .EDIT on its Web site can create templates that allow it to maintain its brand/corporate identity by using approved fonts, design elements, and images. www.pageflexinc.com
Seybold Seminars, a Key3Media Group Inc. event, announced a strategic alliance with Frank Gilbane, publisher of the Gilbane Report and Marion Elledge, executive vice president of IDEAlliance, to co-produce two educational conferences. The two conferences will debut at Seybold San Francisco 2002, September 9-12, 2002 at the Moscone Center. The Gilbane Conference on Content Management, will be held Wednesday-Thursday, September 11-12, and will focus on the integration, organization, and communication of content for a wide range of business applications. The IDEAlliance Conference on XML in Publishing at Seybold Seminars, scheduled for Monday-Tuesday, September 9-10, 2002 will focus on standards, business models and emerging technologies as they relate to automating the publishing supply chain. The Seybold San Francisco 2002 conference program will feature both Enterprise Publishing and Seybold Seminars PDF Conferences that debuted at Seybold Seminars New York 2002. The conference program will also include enhanced educational programs such as the popular “Hot Technology Days,” and tutorial sessions. www.seyboldseminars.com/sf2002, www.gilbane.com, www.idealliance.org, www.key3media.com
Stratify, Inc. announced an alliance and reseller agreement with Inktomi Corp. Inktomi and Stratify will offer joint customers a scalable, integrated categorized search solution ideal for large, information-intensive enterprises. Additionally, Inktomi will resell the Stratify Discovery System for Inktomi Enterprise Search through its sales force. The Stratify Discovery System for Inktomi Enterprise Search is a categorization solution optimized for Inktomi search technology that delivers direct navigation of sophisticated topic hierarchies. The combined Inktomi-Stratify solution enables enterprises to create a unified, searchable topic hierarchy that spans the organization. The Stratify Discovery System for Inktomi Enterprise Search is available immediately. Inktomi Enterprise Search is sold separately. www.stratify.com
Autonomy and Hyperwave will work together to deliver Autonomy’s infrastructure technology and Hyperwave’s eKnowledge solutions, and will recommend each other’s technologies. The two organizations will pursue joint opportunities and support each other’s marketing efforts. www.autonomy.com, www.hyperwave.com
Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of its Content Management Server and SharePoint Portal Server Integration Pack. The new offering provides customers with a comprehensive and well-integrated portal, content management, search and document management solution, giving Microsoft customers a single-vendor end-to-end solution for document collaboration and publishing that is fully supported by Microsoft Product Support Services. The integration pack is available as a free download for MSDN subscribers today at www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=38801. The pack includes a prescriptive architecture guide to help customers make the most of the integration and can be used immediately or extended to meet unique customer requirements. www.microsoft.com
Stellent, Inc. announced a new Audio Video Indexer module to help businesses access, manage and deliver video, audio and graphical business content. Stellent Audio Video Indexer provides content indexing and search functions for rich media content, using voice recognition software to enable users to index and full-text search video files. This function allows a user to find video files that contain a certain word or phrase, and once located, the user can also find the exact location in the video file in which the word or phrase was mentioned. Audio Video Indexer can also search the content within a video file and provide a “thumbnail” – or a quick visual representation – of this content on the screen displaying the search results. Audio Video Indexer expands Stellent’s current content management capabilities for rich media and digital asset management, which include: conversion, thumbnailing, compression, aggregation and distribution. www.stellent.com/richmedia
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