Context Media, Inc. announced the availability of Interchange PortalPLUS, which enables organizations to make portals their primary interface for accessing and managing digital content stored anywhere in the enterprise. Interchange PortalPLUS provides out-of-the box integration between Context Media’s content integration software, Interchange Suite, and portal platforms, including Sun Microsystems’ Sun ONE Portal Server, BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere. This allows organizations using portals in conjunction with Interchange Suite to access enterprise content stored in disparate content management, document management and digital asset management systems directly through their portal interface. Interchange PortalPLUS leverages Web services technology to provide access to and management of all forms of digital content and content management systems through a portal framework. Interchange PortalPLUS is available immediately for the Sun ONE Portal Server 6. Interchange Portal Plus for BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere will be available early in the fourth quarter of 2003. Pricing for Interchange PortalPLUS begins at $25K. www.contextmedia.com
Category: Collaboration and workplace (Page 68 of 96)
This category is focused on enterprise / workplace collaboration tools and strategies, including office suites, intranets, knowledge management, and enterprise adoption of social networking tools and approaches.
Open Text Corporation introduced a new product, called Livelink UNITE Anywhere, that makes all the capabilities of Livelink accessible within any commercially available portal. Customers can create tailored window views in a portal that offer access to Livelink’s collaborative tools, workspaces and content. Livelink UNITE Anywhere is an extension of Livelink UNITE, which Open Text introduced last year. Livelink UNITE provides virtual workspaces with tailored views of Livelink content for project teams and individuals working in Livelink. UNITE Anywhere takes the same capabilities and extends them into any portal. UNITE Anywhere also allows customers to deliver Livelink content in the same way to Websites or extranets not built on a portal framework. Livelink UNITE Anywhere works with any portal, including Oracle Portal, mySAP Enterprise Portal, Plumtree Corporate Portal, Vignette Application Portal, Netscape iPlanet Portal, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, as well as Open Text’s own portal, Coreport. www.opentext.com/livelink/contentmanagement
BEA Systems, Inc. announced the general availability of BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic 8.1, which is designed to provide a single point of access to enterprise information for portals, web applications and business processes. BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic 8.1 supports the new versions of the BEA WebLogic products, including BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1. Using BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1, the common development environment of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, data architects and administrators can turn enterprise views of data into BEA WebLogic Workshop controls. BEA also has improved the distributed query engine of BEA Liquid Data 8.1 in order to deliver scalable, complex join processing transactions. Lastly, BEA has expanded the data source support in the product, and new feature support for BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 and BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1 has been added. BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic 8.1 is available as an add-on to BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic Server 8.1, BEA WebLogic Integration and BEA WebLogic Portal. BEA products can be downloaded, or customers can receive development versions of the products at no charge as part of the BEA dev2dev subscription program.
Actuate Corporation announced that it has completed the acquisition of Nimble Technology. Nimble Technology provides Enterprise Information Integration (EII) solutions. Its data integration platform utilizes XQuery to simplify the task of data integration when building web services and applications such as enterprise information portals and business intelligence systems. By incorporating Nimble’s open, XML-based data integration technology into the platform, Actuate’s customers will find it easier to design Information Applications that provide an integrated view of their business. The incorporation of Nimble’s capabilities will also enable the Information Application Platform to integrate readily with a broad range of XML-enabled systems. www.actuate.com
Venetica announced its plans to support integration to the Interwoven 6 Platform. Through an alliance formed in December 2001, Interwoven delivers Venetica’s enterprise content integration capabilities to Interwoven TeamSite Content Server customers through its ContentProvider Integration Server allowing business users to discover and work with critical documents from within Interwoven TeamSite Content Server – regardless of how or where the content is stored. In addition, Venetica is planning to make available a Bridge for Interwoven TeamSite Content Server repositories. This will enable companies to more easily leverage content created and managed within TeamSite Content Server from various business applications and portals. www.interwoven.com, www.venetica.com
Intraspect Software, Inc. introduced the Intraspect Collaboration Solution for BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1, in conjunction with the launch of WebLogic Portal 8.1 and WebLogic Platform 8.1 by BEA Systems, Inc. The joint solution allows organizations to augment their BEA-based corporate portals with a full suite of collaboration and knowledge management capabilities to enhance corporate portals. The two technologies can allow users to create contextual communities within the BEA corporate portal that manage collaboration and knowledge around products, services, functions, expertise, customers, or other areas relevant to an organization. Intraspect’s Portal Collaboration Solution for BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 will be available in August 2003. www.intraspect.com
Alfa-XP Web Software Company announced Microportals.NET, a “portal-on-demand” Web application hosting service that offers everything needed to design and operate microportal solutions in real-time, in a reliable secure environment totally controlled by the user. It is built on the latest Microsoft .NET technologies and on XML. This service is intended for users whose needs have out grown basic, simplistic Web hosting but who cannot afford high-priced content management or collaboration suites. Users can open an account and create their own microportal in a matter of minutes. Templates and wizards are provided to guide users in customization. Administration tools are made for business users, and allow for intranet or extranet setup and user management, including defining access rights for various user groups (roles), folders, pages and even individual content objects within a particular Web page. accounts include a gallery of XML-compliant, reusable WebSnippets that can be customized. Additional galleries are available for workflow management, Web syndication, group collaboration, data collection, transformation and warehousing, analysis and reporting (data mining), business process modeling, and e-commerce. Pricing starts at $20 per month for a personal edition and ranges to $25,000 per year for a 250-license enterprise edition. www.microportals.net
Intraspect Software, Inc. introduced the Intraspect Solution for Portal Collaboration designed for portals including BEA, Oracle, SAP, SunOne, Sybase, and Vignette. This solution enables organizations to augment their corporate portals with a full suite of collaboration and knowledge management capabilities quickly, seamlessly, and cost effectively. The Intraspect Solution for Portal Collaboration enables portal users to create shared “communities” to collaborate on areas relevant to the organization including strategic accounts, products, business processes and other topics of interest. These communities provide online workspaces to manage documents and content, discuss issues and strategies, make decisions, track tasks, and share status inside and across teams. Advanced security technology enables users to also perform many of these functions outside the firewall with both clients and partners, and it was designed so end-users can easily and safely create and manage their own communities. The solution is integrated with portals through partner-specific portlets and includes single sign-on capability for enhanced ease of use. Intraspect’s Solution for Portal Collaboration will be available in August 2003, starting at $75,000 including software and implementations services. The PMO/Project Delivery module can be included for an additional $125,000 per server. www.intraspect.com
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