Tridion, has launched a range of products to help businesses control content from and across multiple channels. Tridion R5, the enterprise solution, comprises a series of offerings enabling companies to create, manage, distribute and deliver all forms of content to any target source. Tridion Client Connector enables users to create content with their preferred desktop application e.g. MS Office. Tridion Content Porter allows existing content to be imported and converted to XML, while Tridion Business Connector allows content from existing ERP, CRM or document management systems to be re-purposed. Tridion Content Manager manages the full lifecycle of the content. With in-depth use of XML and XML schemas it allows information to be assembled and re-used. It also incorporates multi-lingual capabilities. Tridion Content Distributor can dispatch content to any delivery platform. Tridion Web & Application Server Integration offers a delivery infrastructure to Web and application servers. Tridion Portal Server Integration offers integration with portal vendors, while Tridion Print Integration allows the production of customised print publications. The products are available from October 7th, 2002. www.tridion.com
Category: Collaboration and workplace (Page 78 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.
Plumtree Software, Inc. announced that it has received an unsolicited conditional offer from the Sutter Opportunity Fund 2, LLC to acquire all outstanding shares of Plumtree common stock in exchange for $2.00 in cash and a promissory note due in five years. The offer came in the form of a letter dated September 3, 2002 from Sutter Capital Management of San Francisco to Plumtree CEO John Kunze. Plumtree’s Board of Directors will evaluate the terms of the offer in due course. Prior to receiving the letter, Plumtree had no contact with Sutter Capital Management. www.plumtree.com
Plumtree Software announced the availability of the Plumtree Portal Package for midsized enterprises and midsized organizations within larger enterprises. Offered at $75,000 U.S., the package includes the Plumtree Corporate Portal platform for 250 users, server products for collaboration and database application development, and integration products for e-mail, calendar, contacts and Excel files. Plumtree Portal Package customers also receive as part of the solution two weeks of professional services for installing the portal, and the first year of maintenance and support. Customers can buy the Plumtree Portal Package at
iPhrase Technologies, Inc. and eFORCE announced an agreement to jointly market their combined solution. iPhrase will leverage eFORCE’s to further expand its reach into several vertical markets in which iPhrase is already established: financial services, retail, the service provider industry and technology and manufacturing. eFORCE’s has a standardized approach for delivering enterprise content management, customer relationship management, corporate portals, supply chain, enterprise application integration and business intelligence within a set timeframe and price. Each of these areas represents solution opportunities for iPhrase’s self-service search capabilities, particularly in the areas of enterprise content management and corporate portals. eFORCE will also work jointly with iPhrase to bring BEA Portal related offerings to market. www.iphrase.com, www.eforceglobal.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced the general availability of Interwoven TeamPortal for mySAP Enterprise Portals, offering a rapid integration of content management features into a single portal interface. The integrated solution is the result of joint development efforts between SAP and Interwoven and is available immediately from Interwoven. Interwoven is also integrated with mySAP Enterprise Portals using Interwoven Content Services, a Web services layer. Developed on top of Interwoven Content Services, TeamPortal software for mySAP Enterprise Portals provides reuse of content and content contribution across all initiatives while enforcing corporate approval, audit processes and best practices throughout the enterprise. www.interwoven.com
Stratify, Inc. announced the availability of the first in a suite of integration adapters that brings taxonomy and categorization capabilities to portal environments. The Stratify Portal Adapter for BEA and the Stratify Portal Adapter for Plumtree utilize the Stratify Discovery System’s Web services APIs to provide direct access to enterprisewide taxonomies that are automatically generated and managed by the Discovery System. The Stratify Portal Adapter suite is based on a set of Web services (SOAP, WSDL) and Java APIs. The Stratify Portal Adapter suite can communicate with other BEA Portlets and Plumtree Gadgets, classify designated documents or selected information in real-time, and provide users related topics and associated documents. Similarly, the Stratify Portal Adapters can provide real-time document classification, content management or publishing workflow applications within the portal. www.stratify.com
divine, inc. announced divine Content Server for Portals, an offering for deploying content management capabilities in enterprise portal initiatives. Customers can expand their use of divine Content Server by adding additional CPUs, with no migration or software upgrade required to start using the capabilities of Content Server across new initiatives. The divine Content Server for Portals special offering provides a complete portal content management solution for a bundled price of $25,000 per CPU. The bundle includes the divine Content Server platform for dynamic delivery of content, the Content Server Direct application for content contribution, workflow and revision tracking, and sample portlets for portal platforms such as IBM, BEA, Sun, Plumtree, Epicentric and SAP. www.divine.com
Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of the beta version of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. Part of the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server family, including BizTalk Server, SharePoint Portal Server and Commerce Server, Content Management Server 2002 will offer support for XML Web services, enhanced content authoring and site deployment capabilities, and provide developer support through its integration with Visual Studio .NET and support for ASP.NET. Content Management Server 2002 adds direct publishing from Word, .NET and XML Web services support, an application development environment, faster time to deploy, and standards-based interoperability. Developers and customers can find the beta version of Content Management Server 2002 immediately available for download. Content Management Server 2002 is scheduled to be released by the end of this year. www.microsoft.com/cmserver/
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