Tumbleweed Communications announced IME Personalize, software specifically designed to help marketers retain and re-engage online customers. IME Personalize is an application built on top of Tumbleweed Integrated Messaging Exchange (IME), a set of products and services that leverage the Internet and existing e-mail to create a secure, trackable online communications channel. IME Personalize extends this rich communications channel by enabling a company committed to secure online customer communication to deliver targeted marketing messages to its customers via the same means. IME Personalize enables marketers to add marketing messages to the secure online communications that Tumbleweed IME delivers. With the straightforward, browser-based interface, non-technical users can leverage personal profile data and preferences to define and transmit a variety of targeted marketing messages to their customers automatically. www.tumbleweed.com

Hummingbird Communications Ltd. announced a strategic alliance with Metastorm Inc. Hummingbird will embed Metastorm

ESPS, Inc. announced that its CoreDossier 4.0 software offers expanded functionality to users through compatibility with Documentum, Inc.’s new content management platform, Documentum 4i. Documentum, Inc., introduced its new platform in June 1999 to manage the content creation and delivery for both corporate and e-business portals. ESPS’ e-Compliance software, which publishes to the Internet, corporate intranets, directly to paper or to industry-specified standards in formats like HTML, XML, PDF and TIFF, complements Documentum 4i by allowing users to create cohesive compliance publications with source content managed by Documentum. The ESPS CoreDossier product suite is designed to deliver e-Compliance management solutions so customers can efficiently plan, assemble, manage, publish and share regulatory submissions and other mission-critical business compliance information. CoreDossier publications may be published into Documentum maintaining cross-reference links between publication components. www.esps.com

ALPNET,Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that the companies have agreed to cooperatively develop an innovative language Translation Management Computer Infrastructure (TMCI) solution for the Solaris Operating Environment. The new TMCI solution allows multi-national companies to quickly and easily manage language translation throughout their global operations from centralized servers. With the new TMCI solution, global companies can quickly deploy familiar, translated contents through the Internet to their employees, partners, and customers based upon ALPNET’s EP technology, the new language translation solution is expected to be deployed first at Sun – and productized by ALPNET – in the fourth quarter of this year. The TMCI solution supports established and emerging Internet standards like TCP/IP HTTP, Java and XML technologies. Additionally, TMCI supports a range of languages (scripts that are included in the Unicode character set), major text formats and importation and exportation of legacy translation memory formats, including TMX and Trados. www.alpnet.com

Interwoven, Inc. announced the general availability of OpenDeploy 3.0 software. The new release enables content replication and syndication capabilities across distributed networks of production servers.

Webb Interactive Services, Inc.and GraphicCorp, a division of Corel Corporation announced a partnership wherein Webb will license images from GraphicCorp’s extensive digital image library and co-market GraphicCorp’s new ClipartCity.com web subscription services. The image library, providing a large store of digital clipart, animations and photos, will be integrated into Webb’s template-driven platform for distribution partners to create a large variety of web page templates. This will be used by small businesses to easily choose unlimited styles and designs for their websites. In addition to a template-based approach to produce unique HTML-based websites and advertising content, CommunityWare/XML Publisher creates an XML repository of the content, thereby creating a foundation for enhanced merchant and consumer services. For instance, content can be aggregated to create comparison-shopping, publish dynamic specialty shopping guides, and create special offer and promotion announcements. www.graphiccorp.com, www.web.net

SoftQuad Software Inc. and Object Design, Inc. announced a strategic alliance to integrate and jointly market SoftQuad’s XMetaL XML authoring environment and Object Design’s eXcelon XML eBusiness information server. The integrated products provide customers with a complete solution for developing, managing and publishing XML content for a wide variety of eBusiness applications, including knowledge management, Web product catalogs, Web publishing, etc. SoftQuad has built a special XMetaL Integration Toolkit for eXcelon, providing users with an extremely efficient way to store and retrieve XML documents. eXcelon also automates the security, administration and on-line publishing of XMetaL-generated content. www.softquad.com, www.objectdesign.com