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

Lightspeed Interactive, Inc. and Innovative Learning Solutions (ILS) announced the formal establishment of a strategic co-marketing partnership. The relationship provides a e-learning solution for their customers. Under terms of the agreement, ILS will provide Lightspeed customers with value-added instructional design services while ILS will incorporate and resell Lightspeed products in their own solutions. ILS will incorporate Lightspeed’s technology to deliver dynamic learning and custom training solutions via the Web and other traditional training delivery methods. www.lspeed.com, www.innls.com

Software AG, Inc. announced the general availability of XML Mediator, a tool for building XML information exchange hubs. XML Mediator manages XML interactions that discover relevant information and uses that information to trigger behavior, such as routing documents or messages to an appropriate destination or transforming the content to other XML formats or presentation styles such as HTML, PDF or WML. XML Mediator provides a framework for addressing the problem of diverse XML vocabularies in much the same way as humans have addressed it for centuries: discover patterns in the information, translate it to a more familiar terminology, and transcribe it into some standardized form. Industries such as healthcare, insurance, energy, chemical and petroleum are defining XML-based standards that simplify information exchange. XML Mediator has the ability to support data exchange standards such as ACORD, IFX, FIXML, PIDX and CIDX. www.softwareagusa.com

MediaBin Inc. announced the integration of the MediaBin brand asset management system with Microsoft Content Management Server (CMS) 2001. Developed in conjunction with Plural, a technology consulting and development firm, the MediaBin CMS connector provides an easy way to publish new and updated images to the Web. The connector gives authorized CMS users access to all approved digital assets within MediaBin Server and automates the labor-intensive process of placing and formatting digital assets for Web publication. The integration ensures proper brand and product representation over time by synchronizing web images published by the Content Management Server with the source assets managed by the MediaBin Server. By linking the Content Management Server Image Gallery directly into MediaBin, digital assets, photographs and logos no longer need to be formatted manually to fit the specifications of the Content Management Server page templates – MediaBin automatically renders the format needed. www.info.mediabin.com

Sakson & Taylor announced a partnership with SDL International to work together to provide technical information solutions for global markets. www.sdlintl.com

WebWare Corporation announced it has signed an agreement with Right Hemisphere to make its 3D and 2D viewing graphics and video capabilities available to clients of WebWare MAMBO BRM software. Artists and engineers in both creative and engineering environments will be able to access and manage professional-quality 3D imagery via an Internet browser – graphics, wire frames, texture mapping, et. al – and manipulate them in 3D space. The combination will enable teams from differing disciplines to collaborate on various technical or brand asset projects. The optional Right Hemisphere plug-in enables WebWare users to ingest 3D models, generate thumbnail proxies, and generate 3D enlargements that can be rotated in three-dimensional space. Integration of the Right Hemisphere technology with WebWare MAMBO will be available in Q3, 2002. Pricing is available from WebWare and its resellers. www.righthemisphere.com, www.webwarecorp.com