Software AG Inc. and Red Oak Software Inc. have formed an alliance offering customers automated, programmatic access to data on any web browser via Web Integrator, and easy integration and processing in Tamino. Under this mutual referral agreement, Software AG and Red Oak will each market a combined solution that provides customers access to previously unobtainable, critical business data residing on the proliferating number of web-based browser applications. Red Oak’s Web Integrator product automatically creates Java beans that programmatically access and retrieve any Internet content and output the content as native XML. By combining the capabilities of Web Integrator with Tamino, users now have access to previously inaccessible User Interface content for easy integration into Tamino databases. www.redoaksoftware.com, www.softwareagusa.com

Macrovision Corporation announced its new MacroSAFE Digital Copy Protection and Content Management Platform. MacroSAFE is a multi-layered, IP-based software solution that guarantees the secure distribution and management of video, audio, graphics, text and other multimedia applications to PCs and set-top boxes. It conforms to the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards. The system is designed for use with any available encryption system, with built-in tamper-hardening and diagnostic features, with separation of licenses and content to increase security and flexibility. MacroSAFE’s architecture supports revocation and renewability in case of security violations, and ease of implementation at content owner level. www.macrovision.com

Peregrine Systems, Inc. has introduced its catalog applications and supplier enablement solution in North America. Peregrine catalog applications
are available on a standalone basis or as part of an integrated, end-to-end
procurement solution that combines supplier enablement and advanced asset
management functionality. As part of this launch, Peregrine also announced a relationship with Cardonet, Inc. to resell its data rationalization tools. These tools, which are bundled with Peregrine’s catalog solution, help organizations cleanse catalog content to aid in the search-and-find process. Peregrine has a suite of content management tools that help customers
aggregate, cleanse and post usable data for use in catalog procurement,
including Content Validation, Content Publishing Services, Buyer Content
Manager and Supplier Content Manager. www.peregrine.com

Vignette Corp. announced a partnership with systems integrator Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. to supply Web content management solutions to the Japanese market. Under terms of the agreement, Oki will market Vignette V6 and Vignette Professional Services (VPS), and the two companies will develop an education program so customers can leverage the benefits of content management in their organizations. Oki Electric will develop customer-facing applications based on its knowledge of transactional systems. Oki plans to combine the offering with its Web transaction system construction service, providing expandable and reliable Web critical content management solutions. www.vignette.com

Stellent, Inc. announced that the Stellent Content Management system now integrates with Adobe GoLive. The combined solution allows developers to easily create Web pages using a Web authoring application. GoLive joins the list of Web design applications that Stellent Content Management supports. With the GoLive integration, developers can build Web site layout templates using GoLive and then manage them through the WebDAV-compliant Stellent Content Server. The Stellent Content Publisher then uses these templates to automatically publish Web sites. The templates can be designed to enable Web sites to feature a variety of content, including unstructured content from the Stellent Content Server, content from databases and standard Web assets, such as images and HTML fragments. The integration with Adobe GoLive is immediately available as part of the Stellent Desktop product. www.stellent.com

FatWire Software announced the release of UpdateEngine6 (UE6), the latest edition of its enterprise level dCM and Web application assembly system. UE6 features increased ease of use and shorter development time for the business user, the power user, and the developer. To extend the power of UE6, FatWire also announced the release of UE Studio, an add-on to UE6 that provides a full array of advanced tools to build and automate Web applications. FatWire has created a free trial version of the new software. The trial software has 100% of UpdateEngine’s features and functions, and is packaged with BEA’s WebLogic application server and Microsoft’s MDBE database. The software will come with a 30-day license and is available for non-production sites, evaluation and demonstration. UpdateEngine is 100% Java, and integrates with all major application servers, including IBM, BEA, Sun, Oracle and HP, and with all major databases. The free trial version of UE6 is available by request from Fatwire. www.fatwire.com

IONA and Lightspeed Interactive, Inc. announced a Global Alliance partnership. Together, Lightspeed and IONA will deliver a Web-services-powered content management solution that will enable organizations to build enterprise application solutions that easily integrate structured and unstructured information for dynamic, real-time delivery. Lightspeed Interactive, Inc. will build a new version of its iENGINE content management and delivery solution that leverages the IONA Orbix E2A Web Services Integration Platform, providing customers extended integration capabilities with Java applications and legacy CRM, ERP, database and mainframe systems. The Orbix E2A Application Server Platform is available in three editions: J2EE Technology, Standard and Enterprise. www.lspeed.com, www.iona.com

Day announced Communique Unify, designed to provide an infrastructure to efficiently manage and unify all digital content, information and processes throughout the enterprise. Communique Unify is built on a common content infrastructure, The ContentBus. This software bus architecture focuses on uniformly accessing, unifying, managing and publishing all digital content via multiple channels such as web, wireless and XML, without the need for the additional, proprietary and centralized content ghettos. ContentBus allows real-time read/write access to any data source, including file systems, databases, middleware, EAI tools, enterprise or custom applications and legacy business systems. The ContentBus unifies heterogeneous raw data from the various sources in a data abstraction layer, homogenizes it with an active common content services, and allows single point of access to any data source. And the ContentBus represents a foundation for future delivery of content oriented Web Services through support for SOAP and UDDI protocols. www.day.com