Documentum announced the availability of Documentum Content Intelligence Services (CIS). CIS, an extension to the Documentum platform, automates and controls the enrichment and organization of enterprise content. Documentum CIS streamlines the organization, indexing and linking of content residing in multiple disparate systems throughout an enterprise enabling fast, sophisticated searches, easy navigation and personalization of content. Documentum offers a full spectrum of content intelligence features in one integrated platform — auto-tagging, auto-categorization, auto-linking and use of pre-built or custom taxonomies.
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SAQQARA Systems, Inc. unveiled the SAQQARA Catalog Management Service (CMS) for e-Procurement. By offering CMS, SAQQARA creates, hosts, and manages a private customized Web-based catalog solution for each customer that offers fast supplier enablement, control over what end users see, and intuitive interfaces that help users find the products they need to buy. SAQQARA Catalog Management Service for e-Procurement leverages the SAQQARA’s CommerceSuite and ContentWorks technologies to generate highly customized catalog management applications that automate the entire product content management process. www.saqqara.com
Semio announced that Documentum has licensed and integrated Semio’s industry taxonomies solution for the Documentum Content Intelligence Services offering. The Semio taxonomies, built on thesauri, consist of standard categories and subcategories that provide a conceptual framework for information classification and retrieval. They cover pharmaceutical, energy and financial services verticals as well as the areas of engineering, human resources, IT, sales and marketing, legal and customer support operations. www.documentum.com, www.semio.com
EMC Corporation introduced EMC Centera, a software-driven, “content-addressed storage” (CAS) solution to address the unique information storage requirements of long-lasting, unchanging objects – or “fixed content” – such as electronic documents, digital x-rays, digital MRIs, movies, e-mail, check images and broadcast content. Centera partners include: Agfa HealthCare, AMICAS, Artesia, Avid, Avalon, BakBone, BancTec, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, CommVault, Computer Science Corporation, Connected, Documentum, FileTek, Front Porch Digital, Fujitsu, Gauss, Hummingbird, IXOS, J&B Software, Kodak Medical Imaging, KPMG, KVS, Legato, Merge Technologies, Mobius, NICE Systems, OTG, Quest Software, Sarnoff, Scientific Software, Storigen Systems, TowerTech and Virage. While location-based methods found in network-attached storage (NAS) and storage-area networks (SAN) are optimized for frequently changing data, content-based addressing is specifically designed for the requirements of fixed content. EMC Centera is available immediately. List price begins at $101,500 for Centera hardware and $103,200 for Centera software, representing $204,700 for a 5-terabyte protected (10 terabytes raw capacity) total system configuration. Centera implementations scale from 5 terabytes (protected) to more than one petabyte, in 2.5-terabyte increments. Centera is available directly from EMC for customers with in-house application development capabilities, and through the large and increasing number of EMC Centera partners providing their own content management solutions across a wide range of industries. www.EMC.com
Verity, Inc. announced the availability of a new version of K2 Developer, a product specifically designed to be incorporated into large business software applications. Verity K2 Developer, or K2D, is the company’s newest offering for the OEM market. It gives enterprise software developers the ability to add any of Verity’s three tiers of knowledge management infrastructure – search, content categorization and social networks – to their applications. According to Verity, K2D is compatible with Java, COM, and C/C++. In addition, it offers full support for inclusion within an enterprise software vendor’s .NET or J2EE applications, and includes comprehensive management APIs. www.verity.com
Macromedia, Inc. announced Macromedia ColdFusion MX, a rapid server scripting environment for creating rich Internet applications. Macromedia ColdFusion MX, previously code-named “Neo,” brings ease of use and productivity of ColdFusion to a Java technology architecture. ColdFusion MX offers innovations for creating rich Internet applications and working with XML, web services, and the Microsoft .NET Framework. A preview release of Macromedia ColdFusion MX is immediately available (www.macromeda.com/go/cfmxdl). Macromedia Dreamweaver MX (also announced) offers complete support for ColdFusion MX features including enhanced code editing and development capabilities, integrated debugging, and visual layout and prototyping. The ColdFusion MX Server line is expected to ship in June. ColdFusion MX Server Professional Edition is $799 per server, with upgrades at $549; ColdFusion MX Enterprise Edition is $4999 per server, with upgrades at $2499. The ColdFusion MX Server line is specifically architected to integrate with the Microsoft .NET Framework. The ColdFusion MX for J2EE Application Servers product line is priced at $3399 per processor. Optimized versions of ColdFusion MX for Macromedia JRun, IBM WebSphere Application Server, and Sun ONE Application Server are expected to ship in the third calendar quarter of 2002. ColdFusion MX for BEA WebLogic Server is expected to ship later this year. www.macromedia.com
Lightspeed Interactive, Inc. and Altova, Inc. announced the formal establishment of a strategic partnership. The two companies will collaborate to integrate their technologies to provide the an advanced XML environment for creating, managing and delivering advanced XML-based applications. Altova’s XML Spy Suite 4.3 offers a solution for XML schema driven document and content editing for both developers and end-users. Lightspeed’s Astoria solution provides single-source content management and delivery functionality, including versioning, history, check-in and check-out and flexible content reuse. Combined, the technologies provide a complete XML authoring solution to facilitate XML application development as well as XML content development. Lightspeed and its partners and resellers will market the integrated suite of products. www.lspeed.com, www.altova.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced the launch of three new content applications targeting enterprise portals, collaborative document management and Web application management for the global enterprise. The Interwoven Content Applications, comprised of TeamPortal software, TeamCode software and TeamDoc software, is built on top of the Interwoven 5 ECM platform that includes TeamSite Content Management, MetaTagger Content Intelligence and OpenDeploy Content Distribution software. New Interwoven Content Applications include: TeamDoc, Collaborative Business Document Management, streamlines document sharing, publishing and management, enabling business users to find, create, categorize and QA documents in a collaborative environment; TeamCode, Collaborative Web Application Management, provides developers the means to manage, test and deploy Web application code in TeamSite’s collaborative development environment; and TeamPortal, Collaborative Content Services for Portals, delivers content management services to the corporate portal via XML & SOAP. Portal users can create, manage, QA and deploy content directly from their portal interface. And IT management can implement a Web service-enabled ECM platform to assure an open foundation for future enterprise application needs. www.interwoven.com
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