Plumtree Software announced the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5WS, the newest version of Plumtree’s portal platform. Version 4.5WS completes Plumtree’s Web Services Architecture for bringing together electronic resources from Windows, J2EE and other platforms, integrating applications, federating searches, indexing content and authenticating users via Web services. Version 4.5WS also features enhanced search, with faster content indexing and less administration, and functional parity between the Windows and UNIX releases of the portal platform, which now share the same code base. Plumtree is announcing version 4.5WS in conjunction with a new Microsoft .NET development kit. In addition, two Plumtree partners are announcing the development of Web services for indexing content from Open Text Livelink and Stellent Content Management repositories. The Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5WS is expected to be generally available on May 24. www.plumtree.com
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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.
Inktomi Corp. announced information retrieval technology for software developers and systems integrators that will provide advanced search functionality within enterprise applications. Built with native XML support, Inktomi Search Toolkit is an OEM solution for extracting relevant data from structured, unstructured and semi-structured content. This new OEM offering will deliver enhanced information retrieval within content-rich applications such as content management, enterprise portal, CRM and commerce solutions. Inktomi Search Toolkit provides the unstructured search functionality of a keyword search engine, such as relevance ranking, natural language search and filtering for various file formats. Additionally, it delivers XQuery-based structured query capabilities that allow sophisticated retrieval functions such as parametric searching and retrieval of content based on a document’s structure. Inktomi Search Toolkit returns results that include references to documents as well as the actual documents or fragments of those documents that contain the precise information requested. Inktomi Search Toolkit is available now. www.inktomi.com/products/toolkit
Stellent, Inc. announced it has signed integration agreements with Xcelerate and Sogeti USA. These new alliance partners will integrate the Stellent Content Management system with a variety of e-business applications such as portals and EAI solutions. Xcelerate is integrating the Stellent Content Management technology with portals, personalization engines and business integration solutions, such as enterprise application integration systems and Web services. A wholly owned subsidiary of Cap Gemini SA, Sogeti will provide information technology consulting and integration services to Stellent customers locally through its more than 20 offices throughout the United States. www.stellent.com, www.xcelerate.com, www.sogeti-usa.com
Bitstream Inc. announced that BroadVision, Inc. has licensed Bitstream’s font rendering technology and complementary fonts to enhance its Enterprise Business Portal products. BroadVision is using Bitstream technology in BroadVision QuickSilver, a full-featured software package for creating and publishing long, complex documents in multiple output formats (including HTML, PDF, Postscript and ASCII) across different platforms and networks. QuickSilver delivers publishing, word processing, and Web publishing for long, complex, multi-language documents in one package. It also includes an array of tools to help users migrate their complex document applications to XML. www.bitstream.com
divine, inc. announced the availability of divine Enterprise Content Center (dECC) 1.5, a content Web service that delivers digital business content and advanced integrated searching capabilities to the desk-top. dECC gives administrators the tools to analyze, report and control spending on these resources. This new version expands upon the current dECC offering by providing access to more content through the integration of the Northern Light Special Collection and Multex. Version 1.5 empowers more portal platforms and offers SOAP interface support, fully automated portlet installation with leading portals, and enhanced scalability and performance. divine Enterprise Content Center is immediately available through portlets for portals, including the BEA WebLogic Portal; CleverPath Portal from Computer Associates International, Inc., the IBM WebSphere Portal Server, and the iPlanet Portal Server from Sun Microsystems. dECC is also available as a stand-alone hosted and branded solution for companies that do not have portal infrastructures in place. www.divine.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced the launch of three new content applications targeting enterprise portals, collaborative document management and Web application management for the global enterprise. The Interwoven Content Applications, comprised of TeamPortal software, TeamCode software and TeamDoc software, is built on top of the Interwoven 5 ECM platform that includes TeamSite Content Management, MetaTagger Content Intelligence and OpenDeploy Content Distribution software. New Interwoven Content Applications include: TeamDoc, Collaborative Business Document Management, streamlines document sharing, publishing and management, enabling business users to find, create, categorize and QA documents in a collaborative environment; TeamCode, Collaborative Web Application Management, provides developers the means to manage, test and deploy Web application code in TeamSite’s collaborative development environment; and TeamPortal, Collaborative Content Services for Portals, delivers content management services to the corporate portal via XML & SOAP. Portal users can create, manage, QA and deploy content directly from their portal interface. And IT management can implement a Web service-enabled ECM platform to assure an open foundation for future enterprise application needs. www.interwoven.com
Stellent, Inc. announced the Stellent Content Management system now supports the Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS). Organizations can use the Stellent Content Integration (CI) Kit to integrate business and Web content with other enterprise applications running on Oracle9iAS, giving users dynamic delivery of content, access to content management functionality and the ability to transform enterprise portals into content-rich business communities. Stellent allows Oracle9i e-business applications to access the business and Web content managed by Stellent, as well as Stellent Content Management functions such as full-text and metadata searching, library services, and workflow. www.stellent.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced the publication of the Content Services specification, a Web Services specification for access to Enterprise Content Management functionality. This proposed standard by Interwoven has support from vendors with portal offerings, including BEA, Bowstreet, Sun Microsystems, Inc., SAP Portals, Sybase and TIBCO Software, and will be submitted this month for consideration by one of the international open standards bodies. The new standard encompasses all lifecycle elements of enterprise content management, including content transfer, metadata, workflow, workareas, locking, and many other functions. These functions are made available as Web Services in a vendor-neutral solution, promising to hide many of the differences between competing software platforms, programming languages, and hardware specifics. The Content Services specification is available now through the www.content-services.org site for anyone to review, comment on, and implement. A full reference solution is included in the Interwoven implementation. www.interwoven.com
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