Requisite Technology Inc., announced the availability of the Contract Manager add-on module for the eMerge Content Management system. For suppliers, the eMerge Contract Manager offers the ability to export product information with customer-specific pricing models in multiple XML formats to marketplaces and buyers using commerce platforms from Ariba, CommerceOne, Oracle, SAP and others. Marketplace customers can assign contract information and pricing models to product data from multiple suppliers within their eMerge systems. Buying organizations also benefit from the eMerge Contract Manager, gaining the ability to create for suppliers specific contracts and pricing information, and organize that information in multiple formats for use in a production catalog environment. Buyers also can allow suppliers to self-author contract and pricing information in a hosted environment, providing a single point of administration for content, contracts and pricing. Using the eMerge Contract Manager, supplier and buying organizations can merge and export data – product information, pricing and contract terms – into a user-specified XML format for loading into their production catalog. Product data with price models attached then can be exported into a production environment in multiple XML formats. www.requisite.com

FatWire announced that the company’s UpdateEngine software will leverage IBM WebSphere software. The solution allows customers to accelerate launch time and efficiently manage their eBusiness sites. This relationship complements FatWire’s integration of IBM DB2 Universal Database with UpdateEngine. UpdateEngine customers have a database-driven content management solution, including automated workflow and fast publishing for WebSphere application servers. UpdateEngine is all in Java and easily works with WebSphere applications to provide content management capabilities. www.fatwire.com

Proxicom, Inc. and eGrail Inc. announced a partnership that will enable the implementation of content management solutions across multiple channels and in multiple languages. With this alliance, Proxicom and eGrail will help enterprise-class companies easily manage the content that they deliver to their constituents via the Web and wireless devices. www.proxicom.com; www.egrail.com

OnePage, Inc. announced the next generation of the company’s portlet-building software, Content Connect. The new software, designed to complement existing installations or integrate into commercial portal software offerings, enables organizations to create portlets – the units of information that together make up a portal page. With an interface intended for any user from administrative staff to IT professionals, Content Connect decreases the time and complexity required to deploy content for corporate portals, while increasing the levels of relevancy and personalization. For example, OnePage Content Connect empowers corporate end-users and portal administrators to create portlets from any number of web-accessible sources, including: Subscription Information Services, B2B Exchange Account Status, Intranet Project Sites, Information Contained on Competitors’ Web Sites, Secure Sources of Information, Information from Partner Sites, and Legacy Systems (that have an HTML interface). www.onepage.com

Inxight Software Inc. announced Inxight Categorizer Executive, an application that accelerates government and corporate portal deployment by up to sixty percent by simplifying the first and most important step: organizing content into its appropriate categories. In the past, corporations were forced to rely on XML programmers and engineers for this function; with CatExec it can now be accomplished by the content managers themselves. Used in conjunction with the Inxight Categorizer, the new CatExec provides a powerful, user-friendly and highly interactive application. It guides the user to quickly develop a “training set,” which is a set of examples the Inxight Categorizer will then use to determine how documents should be classified and into which categories they should be placed. Categorizer Executive is in limited availability immediately; general availability is slated for June 2001. www.inxight.com

InterTrust Technologies Corporation and Artesia Technologies announced an agreement to integrate their respective technologies to offer customers an advanced platform for managing, safeguarding and distributing digital assets. The initiative is designed to address the complexities media, entertainment and publishing industries face in managing, distributing and monetizing digital assets across multiple channels and platforms. The technology integration agreement enables Artesia to join the community of application developers and service providers comprising the digital commerce network created by InterTrust and branded as the MetaTrust Utility. Administered by InterTrust as a neutral party, the Utility develops and enforces the rules for interfacing with the platform – both technically and operationally – to ensure that all the services and applications it supports meet its rigorous standards for security and interoperability. The agreement will allow Artesia’s TEAMS Digital Asset Management solution to automatically encrypt and manage digital assets in conjunction with InterTrust’s DRM technology. Through this process, the business rules defining the approved usage for each asset, which are stored within TEAMS as XML-based metadata along with the original content, can be efficiently captured and seamlessly packaged with the protected content. Since many digital products are actually comprised of multiple assets, such as individual song titles on a compact disc or the text and photos that might comprise a book, this enhanced flexibility allows content owners to more efficiently re-purpose their digital assets in a secure manner in a variety of formats. www.intertrust.com, www.artesia.com