Vignette Corp. announced new enhancements to the Vignette Business Integration Studio (VBIS), an application that empowers businesses to integrate content management systems and business processes of different companies as well as marketplaces and their participants. VBIS enables the integration of business processes through a graphical interface. Developers can build a flowchart of the desired process on any terminal, select the necessary adapters from a standard toolbar and the application will do the rest with no programming involved. With more than 50 prepackaged, intelligent adapters for applications from vendors such as SAP, Siebel Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. – as well as standard technologies such as XML, JMS and HTTP – VBIS brings drag-and-drop tools to business process integration. By using VBIS, companies can now rapidly integrate traditional enterprise resource planning ERP, SCM and CRM functions. Because it supports J2EE VBIS operates with application servers including BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere. With new features, such as clustering support for WebLogic and multiple process deployments, customers can now respond to their scalability requirements while selecting from a variety of powerful adapter development tools to get to market faster. VBIS goes beyond other EAI solutions by allowing companies to not only translate data between different applications, but by providing full business process integration with the ability to design the entire process in a non-programming user interface. Vignette Business Integration Studio also extends the Vignette Collaborative Commerce Server (VCCS) by allowing integration between back-end and legacy systems and the platforms and applications of trading partners, suppliers and customers. The Vignette Business Integration Studio and the Vignette Collaborative Commerce Server are currently shipping. www.vignette.com

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