Vignette Corp. announced the general availability of Vignette V6 MultiSite Content Manager (VMCM), an extension to Vignette V6 Content Suite that enables organizations to manage content on multiple sites and portals within an organization via a single application. By offering centralized control and delegated administration capabilities, VMCM helps organizations push content management responsibilities to a diverse set of users, including technical and business functions. The Vignette V6 MultiSite Content Manager can integrate with portal servers from companies such as BEA Systems Inc., IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. With delegated administration, business users throughout the organization can develop “cloned” sites, or subsites, that reuse content from the original site while offering a more distinct, relevant environment for site visitors. The Vignette V6 MultiSite Content Manager is currently available and shipping to customers. www.vignette.com

Sageware announced the 1.5 version of its Content Tagger. By shipping pre-defined categories with the product, Sageware allows customers to quickly deploy a tagging solution without having to define their own taxonomy or ‘train’ the system with large amounts of sample content. The Content Tagger compares text-based information (documents, news feeds, web pages) to a set of Sageware categories to determine what information should be delivered to the user. Sageware’s categories are made of user defined, XML-compliant components and very explicitly determine that content should be categorized. Thousands of components exist in inventory allowing Sageware to quickly assemble the categories needed to meet each customer’s unique content management needs. The 1.5 version of Sageware’s product also includes an open API and ‘User Review’ module that allows for easy integration with content and document management systems. The ‘user review’ module allows individuals to easily modify the results of categorization prior to updating the content or document management system repository. www.sageware.com

SDL International announced a partnership with Obtree Technologies UK Ltd. The partnership will combine SDL’s ‘SDLWebFlow’ specialist multilingual Workflow and Translation Memory software, with Obtree’s content management system, enabling businesses to compete on a global level by automatically translating and adapting web site content to any global region in the local language. SDLWebFlow supports integrated multilingual applications such as corporate intranets, extranets and portals and enables global companies. www.sdlintl.com

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued XML-Signature Syntax and Processing (XML Signature) as a W3C Recommendation. While there are technologies one can use to sign an XML file, XML Signature brings two additional benefits. First, XML Signature can be implemented with and use many of the same toolkits one is using for XML applications. In this way, no additional software is required. Second, XML Signature can process XML as XML instead of a single large document. This means multiple users may apply signatures to sections of XML, not simply the whole document. XML Signature permits both the original form and user’s entries to be independently signed without invalidating the other. XML Signature is tailored to XML processing, but it can be used to sign any data, such as a PNG image. Participants in the joint IETF/W3C Working Group included Accelio, Baltimore, Capslock, Citigroup, Corsec, Georgia State University, IAIK TU Graz, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, Pure Edge, Reuters Health, Signio, Sun Microsystems, University of Siegen, University of Waterloo, VeriSign Inc., and XMLsec. www.w3.org

Infodata announced a licensing agreement of AnnoDoc, its collaboration and annotation tool, into Documentum’s enterprise content management platform. With the integration of AnnoDoc into Documentum’s product line, companies will be able to have teams of people create, assemble, and view individual annotations on complex documents over the web, and then track and audit those changes throughout the lifecycle of the document while using Adobe Acrobat in a Documentum environment. According to the terms of the agreement, AnnoDoc will be included on the Documentum Third Party Products price list, which is comprised of third party products that are complementary to the Documentum offering. Documentum, Infodata, and Adobe will each be marketing AnnoDoc to their customer base. www.infodata.com, www.documentum.com, www.adobe.com

Pindar Systems announced Agility, an enterprise catalog commerce server that will enable B2B and B2C companies fast, creative development of complex catalogs and promotions across print, online and supply chain channels. Agility is a comprehensive product information management system built with a J2EE-compliant Web application server architecture for fully integrated catalog development – across sales channels; among in-house merchandising, marketing, creative and production teams; between domestic and international company divisions and brands; and in collaboration with both supply and sell-side trading partners. Available modules include Agility Workflow, Agility Content Gateway, Agility XML Importer and XML Exporter, Agility Table Wizard, Agility Whiteboarding, Agility PDF Generator, Agility Supplier Gateway and Production Advisor for Agility. Pindar System’s Agility can be deployed across Microsoft Windows, Web or the new Apple Macintosh OS/X platforms. It runs on Sun SPARC Solaris 7.0 and Intel NT 4.0 (and greater) servers. Supported application servers include BEA Weblogic and IBM Websphere (later this year). Supported enterprise databases are Oracle 8i and 9i and Microsoft SQL 2000. www.pindarsystems.com

Altova, Inc. announced the release of the XML Spy 4.3 Suite, a comprehensive product-line of developer tools for advanced XML application development, consisting of the XML Spy 4.3 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the XML Spy 4.3 XSLT Designer, and the XML Spy 4.3 Document Editor. XML Spy 4.3 Suite lets developers tackle web services development on all of the major web services platforms including Microsoft .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). XML Spy Suite is a developer tool for testing & debugging web services based on SOAP. XML Spy supports graphical editing of XML Schemas which use Microsoft SQLXML schema extensions, a technology that creates XML views of relational data, abstracting away the underlying data format. The XML Spy 4.3 Suite is available immediately for download and purchase. www.xmlspy.com

IXIASOFT and Altova Inc. announced the availability of the XML Spy integration kit. The free package, downloadable from IXIASOFT’s website, enables the widespread XML Spy user community to leverage TEXTML Server’s XML database technology from within their development environment. The integration kit delivers a simple installation process on either the evaluation or the full editions of TEXTML Server and XML Spy 4 Suite. Users can expect to perform such operations as “save to”, “open from”, “save as” and “add to” TEXTML Server. Users can choose to “lock” retrieved documents for editing purposes and also choose to have new or edited content “indexed”, or merely stored as work in progress awaiting further editing, or content approval. Searching on file name is also possible and in an upcoming version of the integration kit, users can expect a comprehensive search interface to query, retrieve and edit content. www.xmlspy.com, www.ixiasoft.com