Andersen and Artesia Technologies announced an alliance for assisting organizations with significant brand equity and extensive use of online and offline rich media to more effectively manage their extended supply chain of brand assets. The two organizations will work closely to develop and implement best practices utilizing Artesia’s TEAMS digital asset management solution for streamlining the production, management, use and dynamic re-expression of brand assets across areas such as multi-channel marketing, distance learning and interactive customer support. www.andersen.com, www.artesia.com

FatWire Software announced support for Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS). FatWire will leverage Oracle’s complete infrastructure software to quickly deploy fast, highly scaleable and reliable Web applications and Web sites. Powering UpdateEngine on Oracle9i Application Server allows businesses to improve the performance and reliability of their Web applications, while spending significantly fewer resources on managing and maintaining that infrastructure. FatWire’s UpdateEngine5 will be providing dynamic content management to build Web applications with personalized workflow, flexibility and scalability. www.fatwire.com

Rhythmyx Content Manager V4.0 is allows business users to define content usage and to group and arrange content into Web pages, without requiring template redesigns from Web developers. Rhythmyx provides end users with the flexibility and control required to easily assemble content into Web pages, while providing the scalability and the reliability required to quickly deploy, implement and maintain the content management system. Rhythmyx V4.0 features include: New Scaling Options; Active Assembly; Easier Administration; Advanced Workflow Capabilities; and eEnhanced assembly for templates. The newly optimized Assembly engine provides more powerful XSL functionality with the addition of the following upgrades: enhanced manageability, portability and an easier, centralized method to manage naming and linking schemes of publishable content. Percussion’s Rhythmyx Content Manager V4.0 supports Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Solaris platforms and will be available for shipment immediately. www.percussion.com

BroadVision, Inc. introduced its new content management solution, BroadVision One-To-One Content 6.0, a solution for full lifecycle enterprise content management and personalized delivery via web, wireless, or print. BroadVision One-To-One Content 6.0 supports every part of the content management lifecycle — including design, creation, management, deployment, distribution, analysis and expiration of content. Enhancements to BroadVision One-To-One Content 6.0 include accelerated performance for increased scalability, a role-based content publishing interface, support for creation of valid XML content for multi-channel delivery, and improved openness for integration into enterprise environments. BroadVision’s XML-based Content Adapter allows BroadVision One-To-One Content 6.0 to be used with BroadVision applications, or integrated with application servers such as BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere and other content distribution systems. BroadVision One-To-One Content 6.0 is scheduled for general availability in the next quarter. www.broadvision.com

Corechange Inc. announced Coreport 5.0, portal software for unifying information, applications and communications across enterprise environments. This version offers tightly integrated content management and collaboration capabilities within a portal framework that scales to meet the needs of large organizations. Corechange also announced CoreRespond, a business communications and collaboration tool that integrates with Coreport 5.0 to control interactive business messaging, a process Corechange calls “dialogue management.” New functionality includes: Integration with Microsoft’s SharePoint Portal Server; Integration with Stellent’s Content Management System; Dynamic load balancing; Direct, native support for Microsoft Web Parts; Web-based administration; and the ability to deliver portal resources and content via pocket PCs, including the Compaq iPAQ, as well as i-mode mobile devices. Coreport 5.0 is available now. www.corechange.com

Hyperwave Information Management Inc. launched eKnowledge Infrastructure, a suite of modular collaborative knowledge management systems integrating content and document management, information search and retrieval, workflow, collaboration and e-learning capabilities. Each module can be used individually or together, providing organizations with a flexible information management environment that can be scaled to their requirements. Hyperwave’s eKnowledge Infrastructure is upgradeable from and replaces the company’s Hyperwave Information Server (HIS) and Hyperwave Information Portal (HIP) products. It utilizes Oracle, Microsoft and Sybase in the areas of transaction security, high availability and data throughput. Open gateway to directories such as x.500 and Active Directory facilitates user and group administration. The new system includes technology from Verity and Autonomy. The Hyperwave eKnowledge Infrastructure is available later this month. www.hyperwave.com

XML Global Technologies, Inc. announced the release of GoXML Transform 2.0, a solution for the dynamic exchange of XML, EDI and other data formats. GoXML Transform 2.0 directly addresses the need to quickly and reliably transform legacy and other data into XML. Features included in GoXML Transform 2.0 are: Design studio for building mapping rules, Intuitive Drag and Drop User Interface, EDI dictionaries for X12, EDIFACT, HIPAA, SWIFT, Routing and workflow, Extensive set of back-end connectors, Links to MQSeries, SOAP, HTTP, ebXML Registry Message Service and Component Dictionary, Web Services support, Registry and Database Lookup and Replace, Enhanced Document Recognition System, and Multiple Concurrent Inputs. GoXML Transform 2.0 is available for immediate delivery with special pricing until November 30th, 2001. www.xmlglobal.com

Stellent Inc. announced that French and German versions of its Stellent Content Management system are now shipping. The Stellent Content Management system has always supported the management and delivery of multi-language content. The product now enables users to efficiently interact with the Stellent system in French, German or English, allowing localized Web sites in these languages to be more rapidly deployed and more easily maintained. Users can choose their language preference when they create their user profiles in the Stellent Content Management system, and the Stellent Content Server then automatically presents the interface in the preferred language. Stellent added a localization kit to the Stellent Content Management system in version 5.0, which was released in June 2001. The kit enables Stellent and selected partners to produce versions of Stellent Content Management in different languages. Stellent is also producing Japanese, Korean and Spanish versions of the Stellent Content Management system. Stellent Content Management supports full-text and metadata searching for multiple languages, including multibyte languages. The French and German versions are configured upon installation of the Stellent Content Management system and are provided at no additional cost. The Stellent Content Management system is priced at $100,000 to $250,000 USD. www.stellent.com