Stellent, Inc. announced the release of its portal applications, or “portlets,” for the BEA WebLogic Portal, a platform that simplifies and customizes access to information, applications and business processes by providing portal foundation services, personalization and interaction management, intelligent administration and integration services. Stellent’s portlets enable businesses to deploy content-rich enterprise portals and give users access to content as well as a wide range of Stellent Content Management features from the BEA portal platform. Stellent offers five portlets for the WebLogic portal interface: Content Portlet offers users direct access to business content that has been defined by the portal developer; Contribution Portlet enables users to submit content created in native applications for automatic publishing to the portal; Search Portlet enables users to find content using metadata or full text searches; Personal Searches Portlet provides users easy access to searches previously executed via the search portlet; workflow Inbox Portlet provides users direct access to their workflow inboxes for the review and approval of content. www.stellent.com
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Easypress Technologies announced the release of Atomik 3.0, the latest version of its QuarkXPress-to-XML software. Atomik 3.0 adds a range of new features that facilitate fast, efficient and intelligent cross-media publishing. For the
first time, Atomik 3.0 is also available as a developer edition. The centrepiece of the new version of Atomik is it’s handling of character-level content in QuarkXPress. Whereas previous versions identified and extracted content into XML at a paragraph level, Atomik 3.0 now enables content to be identified at both a paragraph and character level. Character-level content, such as an email address, telephone number or person’s name within a paragraph, can easily be extracted into separate XML tags. Atomik 3.0 is available direct from Easypress Technologies and Atomik resellers and system integrators worldwide. The suggested retail price for Atomik 3.0 is
Artesia Technologies unveiled the latest version of its TeamToolz Marketing Resource Management hosted service. This release offers new features including built-in reporting capabilities, enhanced calendar functionality and overall application performance enhancements providing the user with improved process efficiency saving time and reducing expenses. Specific enhancements in TeamToolz 4.3 include: Intelligent permission-based reports that show the real-time status of chosen marketing projects and their associated deliverables; Calendar view can display projects specific to individuals; and numerous performance enhancements. www.artesia.com
Convera announced that IBM is offering Convera’s RetrievalWare as the search and retrieval technology for its Network Interactive Content Access (NICA) publishing industry solution. NICA is an end-to-end digital asset management pre-press solution that provides newspaper and magazine publishers the ability to manage, archive, retrieve and reuse publishing data such as text, images, graphics and PDFs while offering integration with their production workflows, editorial creation front-end systems and industry specific business practices. NICA also provides the workflow management that allows the repurposing of publishing content either from its own repository or from an external enterprise content management repository. Convera also announced that it is creating an extension to the IBM WebSphere Portal that will enable IBM customers to integrate RetrievalWare into their portal deployments.
This implementation gives IBM portal customers the capability to retrieve all data types (text, video, images, audio) through the IBM portal interface. www.convera.com
Documentum announced the release of the Documentum Portal Integration Pack, which enables the integration of enterprise content and content management capabilities with portal applications. The portal integration pack includes a set of Documentum portlets, which are embeddable application components that deliver content management capabilities to portals and applications, including those offered by ATG, BEA Systems Inc., Citrix Systems, Inc., Epicentric Inc., Plumtree Software Inc., SAP Portals Inc. and TIBCO Software Inc. Documentum portlets enable portal users to leverage Documentum ECM tools and processes from within a portal, including the ability to contribute or update current content in accordance with defined access and security rights, perform sophisticated searches based on content indexing or attributes like keywords, author or content type, monitor content for changes or revisions, and participate in business processes, such as workflows and automated content approval activities www.documentum.com
IDEAlliance and the ICE (Information and Content Exchange) Authoring Group have announced that the Draft Requirements for ICE2 Specification will be released to the public on February 21, 2002. The ICE Authoring Group has initially identified 15 draft requirements that identify the lessons learned during the past four years of ICE implementations, coupled with continued innovations in the XML community, to review and refine ICE to meet the growing demands of business. The goal is to express the ICE content syndication standard as a Web Service. This first major revision of the ICE Specification will focus on compatibility with the three major Web Services Standards
Members of PRISM (Publishing Standards for Industry Standard Metadata) released the ‘last call’ draft of the PRISM 1.1 specification. The new version of the specification contains updates and additions that are a result of the specification being tested in both actual production implementations and in pilots. PRISM is an industry standard that specifies metadata designed to assist in automating, repurposing, archiving, production, aggregation, rights tracking and redistribution of publishable content both within and outside the enterprise among business partners. The standard was originally intended for use in magazine publishing. However, due to its horizontal applicability, it has also gained support from a number of companies who see it as applicable to the publishing-like needs of all organizations. The PRISM Working Group is open to all organizations and includes companies such as 3Path, Inc., Active Data Exchange, Inc., Adobe Systems, Incorporated., Antarcti.ca Systems Inc., Artesia Technologies, Inc., CMP Media, LLC, ContentGuard Inc., Context Media, Inc, Creo Products Inc., Hachette Filipacchi Media, U.S., (HFM), Hearst Magazines, Interwoven, Inc., LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier plc., LingoMotors Inc., The McGraw-Hill Companies, Newsweek, Publishing Connections Inc.(PCI), and Time Inc. www.prismstandard.org, www.idealliance.org
Liquent Inc. announced a marketing alliance with Ipedo, Inc. The combined solution resulting from this partnership will leverage Liquent’s XtentT technology and Ipedo’s XML Database to provide infrastructure that can be used to transform, manage and deliver XML content to content management, portal, Web, wireless and other enterprise applications. Companies utilizing this solution will be able to automatically retrieve both structured and unstructured content from their existing data and content repositories, and use Liquent’s Xtent engine to transform the content into XML that is managed by the Ipedo XML Database. This XML can then be used to meet ongoing requirements to transform, search and assemble critical information for employees, customers, partners and electronic systems. www.ipedo.com
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