Category: Collaboration and workplace (Page 72 of 94)

Vignette Corp. announced the general availability of its new series of Vignette Portal Suites, part of the Vignette V7 family of products. The Vignette Portal Group Suite, Vignette Portal Business Suite and Vignette Portal Enterprise Suite offer organizations of all sizes out-of-the-box functionality designed to give them unified management of their online properties. Customers can take advantage of Vignette Portal Suites in three suite packages tailored to different needs. Each suite supports XML, J2EE, .NET and Web Services to leverage existing information and systems. Each suite is also compatible with the others, allowing organizations to expand to additional functionality in the future. Through a newly launched program, Vignette offers current customers the opportunity to be ‘Up and Running’ with a new Vignette Portal Group Suite implementation within 30 days. Vignette Portal Suites are now available and shipping to customers. Licensing costs for Vignette Portal Suites begin at $150,000. www.vignette.com

Topologi has released version 1.1 of their Collaborative Markup Editor. An XML/SGML markup tool aimed specifically at large document processing environments, version 1.1 delivers new features, performance enhancements and improvements to the interface. Enhancements include: HTML repair and HTML-to-XML conversion, enhanced support for remote peer to peer users, RTF style mapping and importing to XML, comprehensive tools for whitespace handling line wrapping and character encoding, bookmarks for ad-hoc navigation in large files, extensive search and replace and search, a Java class mini-browser, validator and API for better scripting, support for all modern schema languages, and support for Linux and Macintosh OS X.

MetaMatrix announced an OEM agreement with SAP AG to embed the MetaMatrix Server within SAP NetWeaver, SAP’s new Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA). This alliance will enable SAP customers to integrate information from enterprise information sources, business applications, databases, and SAP solutions and to present an enterprise-wide view of real-time information. The MetaMatrix integration technology provides a single point of information access for applications, Web Services, and portals. The MetaMatrix Server enables data to remain in its original format and location, allowing organizations to use existing assets in new ways, such as exposing the data through Web Services and sharing it across the enterprise. Instead of creating a new database or data stage to support a call center, for example, the call center application can gain access through the MetaMatrix Server to an integrated view of information from many different, incompatible systems. www.MetaMatrix.com

Vignette Corp. announced general availability of Vignette Content Management Group Suite and Vignette Content Management Business Suite. Vignette Content Management Group Suite and Vignette Content Management Business Suite are prebuilt, configurable content management applications designed to reduce the time and resources required to build and deploy scalable Web sites and portals. Vignette V7 offers packaged content management best practices for improved collaboration and information sharing inside and outside any organization or department. The Vignette V7 family of products will be available in three application suites: Vignette Content Management Group Suite; Vignette Content Management Business Suite; and Vignette Content Management Enterprise Suite. Vignette Content Management Enterprise Suite is scheduled to be shipped in the second quarter of 2003. Licensing costs begin at $125,000. www.vignette.com

FileNet Corporation announced the availability of its FileNet P8 product architecture. The P8 architecture is designed to provide enterprise-level scalability and flexibility and combines the capabilities of FileNet’s Panagon platform, Acenza application framework and its Brightspire eBusiness framework and Business Process Management technology into a unified ECM platform. Additionally, the FileNet P8 architecture utilizes a single repository, single user experience, and a single API set for developers. The FileNet P8 architecture features four pre-packaged suites: Business Process Manager, Content Manager, Web Content Manager, and Image Manager. P8 operates in Java and Microsoft environments and with SQL server and Oracle. Support for DB2 is planned. The architecture is integrated with BEA’s WebLogic and IBM’s Websphere. FileNet P8 also integrates to the customer’s portal of choice, including BEA, SAP, IBM, Microsoft, Plumtree and Siebel immediately. P8 architecture is available now. Enterprise configuration price points start at $125K to $420K USD. www.filenet.com

Altio Inc. announced a strategic relationship with Sun Microsystems, Inc. that will include the worldwide bundling of the AltioLive Portlet Edition with the Sun ONE Portal Server, expected to begin in the first quarter of 2003. AltioLive Portlet Edition, an XML and Java technology-based development environment, allows Sun ONE Portal Server customers to create and deploy interactive portlets and “process portals.” The relationship provides a portal solution that will allow Sun customers to build ‘process portals.’ Such portals let users combine data or services from different systems into coordinated processes, offering business process management from within the portal interface and shielding users from the complexity of back-end systems. The AltioLive platform also supports the Sun ONE Application Server enabling companies to develop and deploy rich enterprise business applications outside of the portal, running in any browser or personal device that later can be easily tied to portlets built with AltioLive. www.altio.com/sunone

BEA Systems, Inc. announced the availability of RightStart for Liquid Data, a new worldwide professional services offering that can help accelerate and optimize the effectiveness of deployments on BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic. The three-week service program is designed to provide customers with on-site product training, product installation, and configuration services at a fixed price. BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic can provide integrated views of enterprise information from any data source, including databases, XML files, Web applications, and ERP systems. These logical views of information are reusable, and they can quickly aggregate the latest real-time information from both inside and outside large organizations. BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic is available from www.bea.com as an add-on to BEA WebLogic Platform 7.0, BEA WebLogic Server 7.0, BEA WebLogic Integration 7.0 and BEA WebLogic Portal 7.0. www.bea.com

RedDot Solutions announced the company’s integration with Plumtree’s Portal Server. Through the “RedDot CMS Task” gadget for Plumtree Portal, integration will enable customers to extend RedDot CMS’ workflow editing capabilities into the Plumtree Portal. Users of the portal can customize their “My Page” to display the content and information that they find most useful. When the user’s “My Page” is opened, the Portal Server retrieves individual content blocks, called “gadgets,” from various locations, or “gadget servers.” The gadgets are then displayed in a multi-column Web page, whose layout and style are customizable by the end user. The RedDot CMS Tasks gadget gives the Plumtree portal user an at-a-glance summary of RedDot CMS Tasks Menu directly from his/her “My Page”, without having to first log in to RedDot. The gadget code resides on the RedDot server, which also acts as the gadget server. When the Portal Server requests gadget content from the RedDot server, RQL (the RedDot Query Language, RedDot CMS’s XML-based API) is used to interface with the RedDot server and retrieve the user’s Tasks. www.reddot.com