BackWeb Technologies announced it has signed a joint marketing partnership with Oblix, Inc. to bring together the BackWeb ProactivePortal Server offering with Oblix NetPoint web access and identity management solution. Oblix provides integrated access control and enterprise identity management. Oblix NetPoint’s identity management system, COREid, provides an infrastructure on which other e-business applications can be built. BackWeb technology, which provides offline access to critical content, is complementary to Oblix NetPoint, which ensures that only authorized users are able to view published content. With BackWeb and Oblix’s combined solutions, customers can ensure that up-to-date critical content is always available, both online and offline, through secure delivery. www.backweb.com, www.oblix.com
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Ektron, Inc. unveiled a new Web-based authoring tool that enables business professionals to quickly and easily add XML tags to Web content in a WYSIWYG environment. At the core of Ektron eWebEditPro+XML is Ektron eWebEditPro. Often referred to as “a word processor in the browser,” Ektron eWebEditPro enables business professionals to author Web content (tables, text, images, hyperlinks, etc.) without seeing HTML. Web developers have added this component to applications for content management, HTML mail, and discussion forums. Ektron eWebEditPro+XML offers the complete functionality of eWebEditPro, plus the ability for users to easily and transparently add XML or custom tags. Developers who integrate Ektron eWebEditPro+XML into applications can choose from Ektron-provided samples, or they can create custom, organization-specific XML templates, buttons, and drop-down lists. Content contributors can then add XML tags by selecting a template and adding content. Ektron eWebEditPro+XML is immediately available. A 10-seat license is US$599. www.ektron.com
Mondosoft announced enhancements to its site search and reporting solution, MondoSearch, to provide corporate customers with efficient and economical search and reporting across their intranets, extranets, and Web sites. With full support for Unicode, MondoSearch 4.4 provides search for 37 languages Worldwide including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai, and offers user authentication functionality for secure content delivery based on user privileges. MondoSearch 4.4 has also been optimized for use with content management solutions. Especially designed to support Microsoft Corp’s Content Management Server, the user authentication technology provides the ability for different end users to receive information based on their specific privileges and access levels. Title, department, geographic location, and customer or partner status could determine such user levels. MondoSearch’s search solution is certified for Microsoft’s Commerce Server and tested and integrated with Microsoft’s Content Management server and Solutions for Internet Business product lines. www.mondosoft.com
Semio Corporation has acquired Kalepa Networks, Inc. Kalepa, based in Palo Alto, Calif. is a developer of distributed discovery software. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. This acquisition is intended to enhance Semio’s position in the content categorization and information discovery markets through new technology that will enable a rapid shift of focus from centrally managed solutions to distributed departmental solutions, including those located at the edge of the enterprise. www.semio.com
divine, inc. announced the availability of divine Content Server 4.0, and Particopant Server 4.0. Content Server 4.0 provides companies with a transparent growth path from point project to shared enterprise infrastructure for content management. Content Server also provides a transparent view of enterprise content to end-customers of a Web site or content-driven application, drawing data from existing IT systems and diverse formats and presenting it in a single branded interface. divine extends Content Server 4.0 by adding native support for WebLogic 6.1 and WebSphere 4.0. In addition, divine Content Server is available as an integrated part of the portal platforms, including the iPlanet Portal Server, BEA WebLogic Portal and the IBM WebSphere Portal Server. Also with the launch of Content Server 4.0, divine provides further support for XML Web services standards. divine Content Server 4.0 and divine Participant Server 4.0 are available immediately. Participant Server is available on Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Sun Solaris 2.8. Discounts for volume purchases and deployment licenses are available. www.divine.com
Stratify, Inc. announced Web services for unstructured data management. The Stratify support for Web services provides a standards-based interface to the core functionality of the Stratify Discovery System that organizes, classifies and presents large amounts of unstructured data within enterprises and government organizations. Stratify’s new Web services interface are SOAP and WSDL compliant. With Stratify’s support of SOAP and WSDL, companies can publish Stratify’s Web services into a UDDI directory. Also, developers operating in either Microsoft’s .NET or J2EE environments can now incorporate the Stratify Discovery System into their applications. www.stratify.com
iManage, Inc. introduced iManage WorkSite MP (Multi-Platform). WorkSite MP is an application suite to combine document management, collaboration, workflow, and portal access in a single integrated Java-based solution that operates across Windows NT, Linux, and Solaris platforms. iManage WorkSite MP streamlines organizational administration by enabling companies using mixed business environments to utilize a single, integrated solution. WorkSite MP is designed for a wide variety of applications across many industries, including supplier relationship management, contract management, asset and wealth management, wholesale banking and regulatory compliance. The iManage WorkSite MP application suite includes four components: WorkDocs MP, WorkTeam MP, WorkPortal MP and WorkRoute MP. iManage WorkSite MP is available immediately through iManage and its partners. The introductory price of WorkSite MP starts at $70,000 for 100 users. www.imanage.com
Atomz Corporation announced support for XML data import and export. Now the data that Atomz Publish maintains for its customers can be exported to other applications in the enterprise, and data from other data repositories can be easily uploaded and imported into the Atomz Publish Web content management system. Atomz already provides an XML content repository with Atomz Publish.
The feature enables users to define data schemas for both importing and exporting XML data directly to Publish templates. Administrator users employ XML syntax to define the relationship between the Atomz Publish data and the external data source in order to create data schemas. Complete with user permissions, multi-step tasks and email notification, workflow is easily configured and managed by the administrator, who can also define tasks to incorporate exporting and importing data. Uploading templates and data schemas can be done from the Administrator’s desktop. Data fields can be re-ordered upon either data export or import. This enhancement also allows administrators to convert .html files to .xml files on export and conversely convert .xml files to .html files on import. www.atomz.com
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