Mortice Kern Systems Inc. (MKS) announced a new release of Web Integrity, the company’s cross-platform Web object management solution. Web Integrity allows individual content authors to own, manage and change their own content while automating processes for approving, publishing and tracking change to Web pages. Web Integrity 2.4 is now available direct from MKS. Pricing starts at $25,000US for a single server license of Web Integrity (NT or UNIX) and 25 client licenses. Web Integrity supports Web browsers and Web servers on a variety of platforms. www.mks.com
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IntraNet Solutions, Inc.,announced that its Intra.doc! Web-based document and content management system now supports the MrSID (Multiresolution Seamless Image Database) Portable Image Format developed by LizardTech, Inc. LizardTech provides imaging technology and solutions to allow instant access to massive high-resolution digital images and multimedia content. This partnership enhances Intra.doc!’s ability to easily, publish, access and manage all of an organization’s corporate information, including complex images from sophisticated engineering drawings to four-color photos on intranets/extranets and the Internet.The MrSID Portable Image Format enables Intra.doc! users to reduce massive high-resolution images down to at least 3 percent of the original image size without any visual image degradation. This capability lets Intra.doc! customers import, export, manipulate, transmit and store reproduction quality images — even within Adobe PDF-based documents — while preserving the entire image’s integrity.Since the MrSID files are a mere fraction of the original size, transmission times and storage requirements are decreased dramatically. www.intranetsol.com, www.lizardtech.com
Ricoh Silicon Valley (RSV) announced an open source release of its Platform for Information Applications (PIA), a framework for the development of flexible and dynamic information applications for small to medium-sized offices and workgroups. Designed specifically for light-weight, task-specific information applications, the PIA framework is distinguished by its ability to embed intelligence and action into collections of active pages without the need to learn a programming language. PIA will be available for download under the Ricoh Source Code Public License from www.RiSource.org, a site dedicated to providing open source support to developers of information applications for workgroups and small offices. PIA defines document-oriented information applications with its unique use of XML to specify processing. The PIA framework separates an application into a core processing engine (called an agency) and task specific modules (called agents) which consist primarily of simple web pages. The agency provides basic support for processing electronic documents — a key component for utilizing web-based information. In addition to basic http client and server functions, the engine can dynamically parse and transform structured documents. Operating as a server, proxy, or client, the agency flexibly routes request to the appropriate agent(s) and provides hooks for customization and enhancement at all levels of the processing.Agents provide the user interface and task-specific information processing (with the processing logic represented in XML)–making it easier to develop and maintain by non programmers. These pages may include special tags which are dynamically interpreted by the agency. Interface designers, graphical artists, or technical writers may develop the XML pages, and actual information design can be modified without code modification. www.ricoh.com
Inso Corporation announced the availability of Version 3.1 of DynaBase, their Web content management and publishing platform. DynaBase 3.1 delivers performance improvements versus version 3.0 for content personalization and searching, while also adding new usability features and Java-based management capabilities that address the requirements of large-volume corporate and commercial publishers. DynaBase 3.1 adds support for managing and searching multiple content repositories. This enables publishers to more easily separate content for distributed authoring teams, segregate news feeds and other special data, and efficiently assemble content for searching and publishing on the Web, intranets or extranets. Publishers can now effectively manage ten times more content using a confederation of databases. DynaBase 3.1 includes a new Java API that provides full content management functionality (e.g. check-in/check-out, version control, etc.) and can be used to automate much of the Web publishing process. Full content management capabilities have also been added to Web Author, DynaBase
Xyvision Enterprise Solutions, Inc.(XyEnterprise) announced the availability of its two products, Parlance Document Manager and Xyvision Production Publisher (XPP)for the Microsoft Windows NT Platform. Both NT products will afford XyEnterprise customers the same information management and high-speed publishing capabilities experienced on UNIX platforms, while allowing them to take advantage of the cost and ease of use offered by Windows NT. www.xyvision.com
Extricity Software, Inc., supplier of business-to-business integration applications, added Jim Lochry as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Lochry, formerly the Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Versant Object Technology and with five years experience as a senior sales executive at Oracle Corporation, brings over 15 years of experience in successfully driving sales efforts in the enterprise software arena. www.extricity.com
Object Design, Inc., announced that it has launched the eXtreme Advantage Partner Program for solutions providers and systems integrators interested in reselling or providing services based on the company’s new eXcelon XML data server .eXcelon, which began shipping today. EXcelon supports Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 platforms. Unix support will be available soon. eXcelon is available now from Object Design’s eXtreme Advantage Partners. Pricing for development licenses start at $995 per developer. Pricing for deployment licenses start at $15,000 per CPU. www.objectdesign.com
iLumin Corporation, an Internet e-commerce company providing enforceable electronic transactions for the Internet E-conomy), announced the addition of Intel’s Pentium III processor serial number as an optional added security feature in iLumin’s newest suite of software products and services. iLumin’s products and services allow the purchase of automobiles and homes, the completion of corporate mergers and court filings, and the electronic execution of legally binding document transactions over the Internet. iLumin’s software combines documents based on XML, proprietary automated processing, and secure digital signatures to facilitate the execution and filing of documents of business, government, and commerce over the Internet. With the addition of Intel’s Pentium III processor serial number feature, iLumin’s Paranoid-by-Design suite of products will incorporate the additional security feature of identifying the machine from which the document was sent as well as the machine receiving the document. www.illumin.com
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