Agile Software Corporation announced the Agile Integration Server (AIS), an XML-based integration solution that makes the valuable product content held in Agile Anywhere available to a wide range of business applications and users, both internally and across the global manufacturing network. The Agile Integration Server (AIS) enables users to take every possible business advantage of their valuable Agile-based product information, utilizing it in design, planning, shop floor, field support, CRM, and order entry applications, as well as in collaborative manufacturing. By leveraging this information across the entire supply chain, Agile customers can rapidly expand the value of their Agile Anywhere-based private collaboration exchanges. The Agile Integration Server enables the integration of product information held in Agile with: Individual XML-compliant applications on a case-by-case basis, EAI solutions, or Business to Business Integration (B2Bi) solutions. AIS communicates with XML-compliant applications using HTTP and SSL, making AIS both firewall friendly and highly secure. The AIS generates XML output in several Internet-standard XML-based formats, including aXML and PDX 0.7, as well as other XML-based formats, such as RosettaNet PIPs, OAG BODs, and cXML via XSLT, allowing Agile customers to easily exchange product content with both commodity and custom sourcing networks, such as PartMiner’s Free Trade Zone and Ariba Sourcing. www.agilesoft.com
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Interwoven, Inc. announced the launch of its newest partner initiative to embed application specific content management functionality with providers of eBusiness applications. Available immediately, Interwoven is offering components of its product suite to eBusiness application providers who need robust, proven content management solutions to complete their offerings. The initiative is aimed at eBusiness application providers who service the Global 2000 and have a need for a targeted content management solution customized to the unique requirements of their application suites. Two new partners to take advantage of the initiative are eBusiness application providers Art Technology Group (ATG) and BEA Systems, Inc. BEA and Interwoven have entered into an agreement to expand their existing partnership with a more comprehensive personalized eCommerce solution. This solution will provide seamless, out-of-the-box content management included with BEA WebLogic Commerce Server 3.1. This new initiative will allow end users to capitalize on the time advantage of having pre-tested and bundled solutions of applications and content management available from a single point of contact. www.interwoven.com, www.bea.com, www.atg.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated and Interwoven, Inc. announced an alliance to integrate their respective Web development and Web content management products. The first joint development effort of the alliance will focus on Adobe GoLive 5.0 and Interwoven TeamSite software. The integration of GoLive and TeamSite will allow content contributors to easily author and manage large volumes of content while working directly within GoLive 5.0. From within GoLive, users can take advantage of enterprise-class content management features such as metadata tagging, locking and submission. The GoLive and TeamSite extension, leveraging the extensible architecture of GoLive 5.0, provides Web contributors with an integrated environment to build compelling dynamic sites in less time. Additionally, TeamSite’s hybrid architecture currently enables users of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and Adobe Illustrator to take advantage of advanced content management features such as asset auditing, Smart-Context QA and secure deployment. www.interwoven.com, www.adobe.com
Sequoia Software Corporation announced it has signed a three-year OEM agreement with TREEV, Inc. TREEV is licensing Sequoia’s XPS to integrate with its next-generation content and document management solutions, creating powerful, portal-based applications for its financial services, telecommunications, and manufacturing vertical market applications. By integrating XPS with its content and document management solutions, TREEV will reduce the time required to bring its portal-enabled, next-generation products to market. In addition, the Sequoia relationship will allow TREEV to remain focused on its core business–providing advanced e-business content and document management solutions. www.treev.com, www.sequoiasoftware.com
Everypath has formed an alliance with Interwoven, Inc. Everypath’s wireless platform, based on its “Intelligent Rendering” process, represents a key, enabling component of the new wireless framework announced today by Interwoven. In support of Interwoven’s Framework for the Wireless Web, Everypath will provide the Mobile Application Server technology that will allow joint customers to leverage existing content for optimized use on various devices, such as smart phones, PDAs, and interactive TV. Interwoven’s Framework for the Wireless Web consists of partner solutions and Interwoven TeamSite software as the common XML-based platform to extend an enterprise’s reach to new channels through any device. The two companies’ offerings will help enterprises rapidly increase and leverage their touch-points by making data, information, and applications available to customers, employees, and partners on multiple devices. www.interwoven.com, www.everypath.com
IXOS SOFTWARE AG, announced a new release of its IXOS-DocuLink solution. IXOS-DocuLink organizes documents in structured folders and provides users with uniform access to both SAP data and non-R/3-related documents. The new release, IXOS-DocuLink 3.0, is integrated with mySAP.com Workplace. IXOS-DocuLink 3.0 fully supports the functionality of the new enjoySAP and mySAP.com Workplace user interfaces, and provides users with an intuitive and user-friendly environment. IXOS-DocuLink complements the process-oriented mySAP.com search and navigation functions with its document-oriented view. Companies today need quick and easy access to specific documents that are linked to business processes – such as inquiries, offers, orders and delivery notes. IXOS-DocuLink enables such results with its document-based approach so often required to access company-internal information. With IXOS-DocuLink, group-specific document views, such as customer files, can be easily configured and customized without additional programming. DocuLink does not require R/3-specific knowledge to access information. Users with little or no SAP knowledge can easily access and use all of the enterprise-wide information and/or documents. With IXOS-DocuLink, employees can link web-based mySAP.com Workplace R/3 data to non-SAP-related data to integrate them in a uniform view. In addition IXOS-DocuLink supports mySAP.com Workplace functionalities such as “drag and relate.” So, with IXOS-DocuLink, users can simply “drag and relate” to link an R/3 customer number to a process — and then quickly view all the documents for that specific customer number. IXOS-DocuLink 3.0 is immediately available to customers worldwide. IXOS-DocuLink 2.0 customers will receive a free upgrade to the new IXOS-DocuLink 3.0 version. www.ixos.de
Information Architects announced the first public display of its next generation content creation and exchange management platform. IARC will release an XML-based Visual Platform (XVP) that provides a total environment to quickly and easily, create, manage and merge content without coding and other related development resources normally associated with content exchange technology. The release is an enhancement to IARC’s patented SmartCode content delivery framework. Information Architects’ SmartCode XVP is a graphical environment that was designed from the ground up to alleviate the tremendous pressures that every business experiences to quickly add, transform and rearrange content on their sites. With little or no technical resource, SmartCode now enables the creation of a new “acquisition agent” and in minutes defines a new view, relationship or stylistic expression for its site. The SmartCode Framework represents a web exchange as a graphical “matrix,” enabling customers to view inter-relationships and attributes of the content, or metadata. It makes it unnecessary to write code in order to create new composite views of that content, which may reside on many different servers, mainframes or cache engines. www.ia.com
Glides Inc. announced the availability of UniSite 2000, a database-driven platform for creating and managing multilingual Web sites. UniSite 2000 helps corporations manage their multilingual websites more efficiently, create a site optimized for doing business and communicating with customers and partners in international markets, and to organize content by country, region, or group. Based on a platform developed and case-tested with partners, UniSite 2000 offers remote content administration, universal character recognition that accommodates double-byte character sets such as Japanese, bi-directional text for Hebrew and Arabic, and integration with XML-enabled applications. A key feature of UniSite 2000 is the reuse of existing sites. With UniSite’s integrated Assistant, existing content is tagged and ready for globalization in minutes. And because UniSite can be delivered as an outsourced ASP solution, companies can avoid the hardware costs associated with traditional multilingual solutions. Additionally, UniSite 2000 has an open, flexible interface that allows a company to retain its current live Web site hosting situation and development tools including DreamWeaver, HomeSite, and FrontPage. www.glides.com
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