Grey Zone, Inc. announced a partnership with Netegrity. Under the terms of the partnership the two companies will tightly integrate SecureZone with Netegrity’s SiteMinder platform. The two key benefits of this integration include single sign-on across multiple applications and centralized management of user entitlements. SecureZone incorporates secure targeted publishing and dynamic audience-based assembly into a single out-of-the-box software platform that allows business users to spawn a completely functional extranet is “as little a 3 minutes.” SiteMinder provides a centralized policy management platform to manage users and their access to e‑business applications and resources. By integrating SecureZone and SiteMinder, a seamless e-business environment can be deployed that is rich in both content and interactive business applications, regardless of what server or platform the content and applications reside on. www.greyzone.com
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Semio Corporation announced that it is forming a technology alliance with Antarcti.ca Systems. The companies will offer enterprises a unique Graphical User Interface for their categorized data. Semio and Antarcti.ca will cooperatively sell and market their respective products, SemioTagger and Visual Net, to organizations seeking solutions for the management and visualization of unstructured data. Use of the combined products results in improved search relevancy and more intuitive navigation of datasets. Semio uses a linguistic-based categorization method and statistical clustering techniques to find the most relevant phrases and concepts within unstructured information matched to a customized taxonomy. Semio then organizes massive volumes of online content into easily understood, topic hierarchies by linking information based on the concept(s) contained in the phrases. After SemioTagger has categorized and tagged data, it is fed through Antarcti.ca’s Visual Net engine which creates graphical, information-rich, large-scale maps of the newly structured data. , www.semio.com
Virage, Inc. announced the release of Video Application Server 3.0, a server platform that allows organizations to publish, manage and distribute digital video content. With this latest server software from Virage, customers can deploy and centrally manage an even wider variety of automated streaming video applications. Video Application Server 3.0 adds user management and authentication features. Administrative privileges such as account creation and content editing can be assigned to specific groups. The new Virage software supports (LDAP), enabling easy integration with existing IT infrastructure. The latest release also provides permission-driven folders. Virage’s latest server software also supports playlists and a customizable HTML player that allows users to select the proper playback file based on connection speed and format preference. Virage’s latest product offering also includes an enhanced software developer’s kit (SDK) with new code samples and documentation. www.virage.com
Computer Associates International, Inc. announced the availability of CleverPath Enterprise Content Manager (ECM). CleverPath ECM extends the collaboration-and-community capabilities of CA’s CleverPath Portal to simplify management of all types of content across the enterprise using a graphical Portal interface. Supported content types include data, images, multimedia, presentations, spreadsheets, documents, email and text. CleverPath ECM provides comprehensive content management capabilities for these diverse content types — including storage and access management, process automation and workflow administration, version control and secure check-in/check-out functions. CleverPath ECM stores and manages metadata for all content types. Its type-specific plug-ins can be developed to scan content as it is loaded to extract this metadata. Other media services, such as thumbnail creation, can also be automated for streamlined workflow. CleverPath ECM is delivered with a set of standard plug-ins for most common media types such as Word and PDF documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, JPEG images, MPEG and Quicktime multimedia, and MP3 audio. It can also be customized to work with third-party content services, such as audio and video search engines. http://ca.com
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V., L&H Holdings USA, Inc., and certain of their subsidiaries (collectively, “L&H” or “the Company”) announced the sale of remaining speech and language technology assets through a court-approved, public auction held on the 26th of November. The sales of the Company’s individual assets are subject to final approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware and the Ieper Commercial Court of Belgium. The major portion of L&H’s core speech and language technology business, including its text-to-speech (TTS) technologies, including L&H RealSpeak, and certain of its automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies, including the Dragon Naturally Speaking line of products, will be acquired by Massachusetts-based ScanSoft, Inc. in exchange for $10 million in cash, a $3.5 million note, and 7.4 million common shares of ScanSoft, Inc. stock with a market value of $26 million based on the November 26th closing price of $3.52 per share. Additional assets sold at the auction include: The ASR technologies of L&H’s ISI division to Pennsylvania-based Multimodal Technologies, Inc., and L&H’s Intelligent Content Management (ICM) assets and its Knexys division, which develops ICM technologies to Vantage Technology Holding for $2 million in cash. www.lhsl.com
Liquent, Inc. announced a partnership has been formed with Percussion Software. The partnership will provide companies with a scalable XML content management solution. A mutual referral agreement will enable both Percussion and Liquent to actively market the combined solution. The offering will leverage Liquent’s Encore and Xtent technologies and Percussion’s Rhythmyx Content Manager product line. Companies utilizing this solution will be able to automatically retrieve content from their existing content repositories using Liquent Encore, transform the content into XML through Liquent’s Xtent engine and load the resulting XML content into the Rhythmyx Content Manager. Using Liquent Encore to pull content from many repositories and Liquent Xtent to transform and normalize all content to one XML format, developers can access content immediately without additional translation. www.percussion.com, www.liquent.com
Engage, Inc. and AltaVista announced an OEM alliance to incorporate AltaVista’s Enterprise Search software into Engage’s ContentServer 7 solution. AltaVista’s Enterprise Search software will provide Engage customers full-text search capability, enabling them to index both print and online digital assets for fast, efficient deployment across the broader marketing organization. Under the terms of the agreement, Engage will develop a unique content management search interface for the ContentServer client, tightly integrating AltaVista Enterprise Search software. Search results, enabled through a combination of natural language and database queries, will be incorporated into Engage’s content management solution, allowing users to access digital assets from desktop applications such as Quark XPress and Adobe Photoshop. ContentServer 7 with integrated AltaVista Enterprise Search software is scheduled for release in early 2002. Engage will also make AltaVista’s Enterprise Search software available to its existing customers and customers purchasing Engage’s current release of ContentServer 6.4. www.engage.com, www.altavista.com
ContentGuard, Inc. has launched version 2.0 of its eXtensible rights Markup Language (XrML), which broadens the range of business models available to digital content and Web Services providers. ContentGuard has also released a Software Developer’s Kit to. ContentGuard also confirmed that it will hand control of XrML to an international standards organization. The company is currently in discussions with several standards organizations about accepting this governance role. ContentGuard plans to propose XrML 2.0 to any standards organization seeking a Rights Language. Within the last week such proposals have been made to MPEG-21 and TV Anytime. XrML 2.0 expands the capabilities of a Digital Rights Language to now also allow developers to establish the rights and conditions needed to access various Web Services. As part of a trusted environment, XrML can be used to apply rights to a wide variety of content and services to enable custom tailoring of digital offerings. The XrML 2.0 specification is available free at www.xrml.org. XrML 2.0 is extensible and compliant with XML namespaces using XML schema. In addition, XrML 2.0 extensions can be designed for specific industries or with the inclusion of other elements, such as resource-level metadata standards like ONIX. The XrML 2.0 SDK is available for download. www.contentguard.com
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