Semio Corp. released SemioTagger 5.0, the latest version of its indexing and content categorization engine. SemioTagger organizes and exposes information contained within all unstructured data, including e-mail, web pages, Documentum databases, Lotus Notes, etc., that exist across an enterprise. Version 5.0 features new architecture optimized for enterprise-scope performance and scalability. Specifically, SemioTagger 5.0 can process millions of documents at extremely high speed. Also optimized for fast-start use, SemioTagger ships with a set of pre-built, industry standard taxonomy templates that enable nearly immediate indexing of a company’s electronic data. A new graphical workbench enables users to customize and fine-tune taxonomies and categorization processes to suit individual, department and enterprise requirements. SemioTagger 5.0 is operational on Windows 2000 and is available immediately. Semio also announced the release of Skyline 2.0, a browser-like viewer that displays the categorized output of SemioTagger in an intuitive, graphical view of the data hierarchy and structure. www.semio.com

Documentum and Easypress Technologies announced an alliance to deliver an out-of-box integration between the Documentum ECM platform and QuarkXPress. The integration, based on Easypress Technologies’ Atomik product, enables QuarkXPress-created design content to be easily deployed to other forms, such as Web pages, as well as the sharing and reuse of QuarkXPress content throughout an organization. It also gives QuarkXPress users access to content stored in the Documentum repository. The integration enables QuarkXPress users to easily convert a publication created with QuarkXPress into XML and export it to the Documentum repository. The QuarkXPress-created content is then automatically indexed and stored. Through Documentum’s ECM capabilities, other non-QuarkXPress users can search, access and export components of QuarkXPress-created content, combine it with other content and repurpose it for other uses. QuarkXPress users can also search and export XML and other content from Documentum into a QuarkXPress-created layout or publication. The Documentum and Easypress Technologies offering for automated QuarkXPress to XML conversion is expected to be available in June 2002. www.easypress.com, www.documentum.com

Enfish Corporation announced delivery of Enfish Enterprise 5.1, an integrated enterprise solution that puts desktop data, corporate knowledge, and relevant information from Intranets, Extranets and the Internet, into context. Up to 25 percent faster than previous Enfish Enterprise versions, Enfish Enterprise 5.1 features faster performance and streamlined corporate-wide deployment. Enfish Enterprise 5.1 can also now interact with more than 10,000 public Exchange or Notes folders quickly and efficiently. For system administrators, Enfish products can now be easily distributed to end users via machine images with the Enfish Enterprise 5.1 “Enterprise Friendly” install architecture. In addition, Enfish Enterprise 5.1 is also now available on BEA’s WebLogic Server and JBoss. JBoss provides an option for Enfish customers to deploy Enfish Enterprise on a no cost application server. For a list of end user improvements, visit our Enfish Enterprise 5.1 Fact Sheet at www.enfish.com

Gauss announced that it has signed an alliance agreement with Perficient, Inc. Under this agreement, Perficient becomes a national consulting partner, delivering the business analysis, project management and technical consulting expertise to help clients justify, deploy and integrate enterprise content management solutions. Driving the agreement is the ability of the two companies to leverage their respective IBM relationships and the Gauss platform’s native support for IBM’s products. Perficient delivers solutions around IBM’s platform. Gauss is a Software Business Partner under IBM’s Top Contributor
Program, is a certified reseller of IBM’s DB2 database and WebSphere platform, and provides native support for IBM’s iSeries 400, and AIX client-server platforms. www.gaussinterprise.com, www.perficient.com

LingoMotors announced that the company has acquired FocusEngine, developers of
solutions that automatically build taxonomies and then normalize content from disparate sources. With the acquisition of FocusEngine, LingoMotors enhances its TurboCat offering, an automatic and accurate categorization solution that provides rich metadata for digital objects, extracting their full contextual value to create versatile Rich Information Objects (RIOs). Creating RIOs gives content providers a means to fully utilize their content through reuse, resale,
personalization and improved user access to relevant information. www.lingomotors.com

Progressive Information Technologies announced two new extensions to the technology platforms that support Vasont, a content management system for creating and managing content in XML, SGML, HTML and WML formats, and instantly publishing content across all media channels, including print, CD-ROM, Web, and wireless. Vasont now includes native support of the Oracle 9i platform. By integrating Oracle 9i’s technology within Vasont’s repository, Vasont ensures scalability to solve enterprise-wide content management and publishing requirements and provides unlimited user capacity. Previously, Vasont supported Oracle 7.2 through the Oracle 8i platforms. Additionally, Vasont integrates with Citrix MetaFrame XP for Windows and Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 for Windows, enabling the content management system to provide a client server application through a Web browser. This benefits Vasont’s client base by allowing them to work from Windows, Mac or Unix platforms. Other servers that Vasont supports include Windows NT and Windows 2000.
www.vasont.com

Stellent, Inc. announced the release of Stellent Content Management 6.0 with new content contribution, collaboration and delivery capabilities. Version 6.0 includes three new primary components — Stellent Collaboration Server, Stellent Connection Server and Stellent Extrasite Server — as well as enhanced desktop contribution capabilities. Version 6.0 is currently shipping and is priced at $100,000 to $250,000 USD. Stellent Collaboration Server will be sold as an optional module starting at $50,000 to $200,000 USD per server. Stellent Connection Server will be sold as an optional module as well and is priced at $30,000 USD per CPU. Stellent Extrasite Server will also be sold as an optional module priced at $30,000 USD per CPU. The expanded contribution capabilities are available at no additional cost as part of Stellent Content Server or Stellent Collaboration Server. www.stellent.com

Insightful Corporation announced the availability of InFact, an advanced text mining solution for information retrieval. InFact consists of 20 sub-systems, most of which were originally developed by Insightful scientists over a five-year period for U.S. military and intelligence agencies. The resulting system is able to achieve a human-like understanding of text and modifies its behavior and responses accordingly. Because it can peruse millions of documents a day, InFact provides accurate, reliable, and actionable answers and analyses not practical with human workers. The InFact solution is a stand-alone system, that can support any enterprise network or knowledge store(s), regardless of operating system, legacy applications, or data formats. InFact can ingest into a single database any and all of a company’s knowledge base: from a single technical or customer service repository to a Fortune 500 company’s entire knowledge store – every document and record the company has ever stored. InFact handles text + image + numerical data in any common format, structured or unstructured. InFact is available today for Sun Solaris systems. An InFact license for a single knowledge management system starts at $250,000. www.insightful.com