FileNET Corp. and Vignette Corp. announced they have formed a partnership to integrate FileNET Panagon eProcess technology with the Vignette VSeries for e-business applications. Together, FileNET and Vignette plan to deliver complete e-business solutions to companies with complex customer interaction processes. The companies have multiple common customers in the financial and insurance industries. The two software companies will roll out a family of integration modules beginning in early 2001 that will combine FileNET’s eProcess and eContent infrastructure with the Vignette V/5 Content Management Server, Vignette V/5 Lifecycle Personalization Server and Vignette V/5 Relationship Marketing Server to create interaction-intensive applications such as Web-based loan processing and risk management. FileNET will integrate through the Vignette Application Foundation layer to create its own suite of applications targeting the financial services and insurance industry. The applications will add intelligent response and eMarketing features to FileNET’s process management platform, providing customers with up-sell and cross-sell opportunities. www.FileNET.com, www.vignette.com
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The Content Management Suite (CMS) product line of POET Holdings, Inc. was sold to Sorman Information AB, Vaxjo, a Swedish company. The agreement provides that Sorman will assume the intellectual property rights for CMS worldwide except for the United States, Canada and South Korea and the obligations associated with the European CMS customer base. Sorman has a six month exclusive option to assume the intellectual property rights for the United States and Canada. The agreement includes a license fee arrangement which would provide license revenues to POET based upon future CMS sales by Sorman within the next three years. In addition, Sorman has entered into a license agreement for the POET Object Server Suite (OSS). www.poet.com
Excosoft AB announced the availability of Excosoft Content Manager, a fast, flexible and scalable document management system. Excosoft Content Manager is the first of three of the company’s planned packaged offerings, which also includes Excosoft Web Publisher and Excosoft Documentation System. A common feature of each offering is that they all leverage the latest Web technology to enable organizations to create, update, reuse, repurpose, and publish business critical information. Available immediately, Excosoft Content Manager enables businesses to cost-effectively communicate and coordinate information across globally distributed business units, as well as with their customers, partners, and suppliers. Excosoft Content Manager manages vast amounts of unstructured information with support for creation, administration, storage, publishing, and workflow. Excosoft Content Manager is a standards based content management system, which being designed to integrate with existing systems can be deployed quickly and easily. Moreover, the modular architecture of Excosoft Content Manager can be easily tailored to meet the specific requirements of an organization for performance and functionality. www.excosoft.com
Madge.web, a subsidiary of Madge Networks N.V. has entered into a strategic alliance with Magnifi. The alliance will provide businesses with premium service, rich content management solutions and project management tools to support the end-to-end marketing process — from strategic planning and creative development to program execution and assessment. Madge.web has also agreed to make an investment in Magnifi by the end of the fourth quarter. Magnifi’s workflow, brand and asset management extranet solutions are tailored to the marketing environment, enabling global marketing teams to collaborate online with each other, their agencies and partners around the world. In addition, companies can digitally store massive volumes of marketing material online, such as TV commercial footage or print advertising designs, for worldwide, client-secure retrieval. These services help companies to streamline brand management and marketing campaigns and reduce time to market. As part of the strategic alliance, Madge.web will integrate Magnifi’s solutions into its global, managed infrastructure, the “Overnet.” These content management solutions are designed to complement Madge.web’s other services for all stages of the rich content value chain (encompassing content creation, management and marketing). These other services, which are also integrated in Madge.web’s Overnet, include virtual private networking, managed hosting, encoding services, content distribution including streaming media, and Internet advertising solutions. Under the alliance, Madge.web is also Magnifi’s exclusive partner in Europe for sales and support, enabling Magnifi to expand their services to the region. First services resulting from the alliance are planned for availability by the first quarter of 2001. www.magnifi.com, www.madgeweb.com
O2 Essential Marketing Technologies announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of a proprietary electronic Content Management System (eCMS) from affinity-based content provider ChannelSpace Entertainment. The electronic Content Management System (eCMS) works with virtually any knowledge source to automate manual processes such as Web production (with audio, video, image and text content from thousands of contributors), auditing, access control, site review, and accounting. O2 will hold eCMS as a subsidiary. This forthcoming acquisition occurs as part of a larger effort to position O2 as a top provider of technologies that enable content rich, interactive Web experiences. Building upon its core 3D shopping technology, which uses proprietary digital photography and programming to produce a fluid full-range rotational view of selected products, the addition of eCMS offers O2 the unique ability to offer complete end-to-end solutions spanning traditional content, broadcast, and commerce. This combination of strong technology and innovative marketing tools provides O2 with a strong base from which to grow their business. Internet users require more personalized content, yet the people associated with maintaining and adding that content can be prohibitive. The essential nature of the eCMS technology is as a cost-effective content management application that is targeted to small- to mid-sized companies that either do not have large IT staffs or cannot afford the large upfront license and monthly maintenance fees associated with competing products. Also announced today was the appointment of Jeff Laskowski to General Manager of the forthcoming eCMS division of O2. www.o2emt.com
ALPNET, Inc. announced the release of GLOBELIX, a fully integrated translation database system. A client-server application for enterprise-wide globalization and localization management, GLOBELIX allows companies to get their products faster to worldwide markets by significantly reducing the time it takes to translate product information. GLOBELIX connects an unlimited number of translators and users in a globally networked environment, offering significant advantages over first-generation translation memory and productivity tools, which provide isolated functionality on a workstation level. GLOBELIX also allows linking of language resource data in an unlimited number of languages and allows searches of language combinations in all directions. The technology can be integrated into most enterprise applications, like content management, ERP systems, and corporate Intranets. GLOBELIX allows translators, authors and information users to connect to a central database and share localized content over the Internet and VPNs. GLOBELIX uses Oracle’s 8i engine as the translation database backbone. It provides the functions of alignment of text and management of language resource data on various component levels. A complete Unicode-based model, GLOBELIX is SGML/XML-optimized and compatible with most other business document formats. It can easily be integrated within corporate workflow systems, content management and authoring systems, and other enterprise application systems. The GLOBELIX Editor is a thin Java-based ‘client’ software program that allows translators to utilize all the power of the GLOBELIX technology on their remote workstation without having to load and maintain the hefty functionality on their local PC. www.alpnet.com
NQL Inc. announced that it is preparing an enterprise content management platform for release in the first quarter of 2001. As an out-of-the-box enterprise solution, the NQL IQ ContentAnywhere software will be targeted toward large-scale clients such as solution providers, VARs, portal companies and e-integrators, as well as vertical markets. NQL deployments already underway include licensing of the core technology called Network Query Language and IQ Series applications that represent various elements of the content management platform. NQL IQ ContentAnywhere software collects content from both the Internet and corporate networks through agents, which are powered by the company’s core technology. The platform consists of content aggregation and delivery layers, an intelligent content cache, and a taxonomy. The taxonomy describes content in terms of categories, access names, information sources, lifetime, and a collection schedule. For desktop PC users, the platform enables insertion of all content types into mail messages, word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation systems, to name a few examples. For lesser-known applications, a desktop content browser is provided for users to select content by name and copy to a clipboard and paste into applications. For application developers, NQL IQ ContentAnywhere software provides APIs for Visual Basic and Java. Automated communications between applications, systems and organizations are accommodated by web services such as Microsoft.NET. For web sites on NT servers, NQL IQ ContentAnywhere software provides filters that enable new tags for content that can be embedded in HTML pages for on-the-fly acquisition. The platform also provides content viewers for mobile devices such as connected Palm devices, pocket PCs and WAP smart phones. www.nqli.com
Documentum announced that a limited license version of the newly launched Documentum 4i Web Content Management (WCM) Edition will come bundled with BEA WebLogic Commerce Server 3.1 and BEA WebLogic Personalization Server 3.1 from BEA Systems, Inc. This edition will be available for download from www.bea.com later this month. The bundling of Documentum and BEA products will provide businesses with a complementary solution for building e-commerce Web sites that can serve and manage dynamic, timely, and highly personalized content. With out-of-the-box content management, customers of the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform will have an immediate solution for creating and delivering e-commerce content. The limited license version installs the Documentum products and BEA integration with a single click, and also includes sample web site content, pre-configured workflows and lifecycles. It also comes complete with a tutorial that shows how to use the Documentum products with the sample web site. The bundled solution simplifies multiple site updates, accelerates delivery of content to multiple targets, and extends content consistency across a company’s Web sites, both internal and external, making the right content available in the right place at the right time. www.documentum.com
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