Sybase, Inc. announced Sybase Enterprise Portal (EP) 2.5. The JAVA-based, portal software includes a presentation layer comprising navigation, content management, and personalization tools. Additionally, EP 2.5 is compatible with popular infrastructure products. Enterprise Portal 2.5 includes a new Content Management Interface with support for XML-based content congregation, Web services support for portal interface enhancements and portlets, and advanced EJBs. The improved security infrastructure includes the ability to identify users and activities, a secure framework that extends to legacy systems, Secure Business Object (SBO) support authentication, configurable lock out times, and static and dynamic mutual role exclusion to balance access with protection. Enterprise-class portlets offer access to information in enterprise systems. Sybase’s portlet framework will enable an increased number of third-party portal applications, which currently include Autonomy, Interwoven, and Stellent. Enterprise Portal 2.5 will begin shipping in the first quarter of 2002. Pricing starts at $85,000. www.sybase.com
Category: Collaboration and workplace (Page 82 of 94)
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.
divine, inc. announced the release of eight content and content management portal applications, or portlets, for the IBM WebSphere Portal Server. Content Contributor Portlet enables anyone in an organization to easily contribute content for the portal using the applications they already know. Content Approval Portlet enables content managers to edit and preview content for the portal. Content Management Portlet provides administrators access to the full functionality of divine Content Server Enterprise Edition right from the Content Management Portlet. Content Delivery Portlet delivers content generated internally through the content management system, as well as external news feeds. Real-Time News Portlet allows customers to procure, deliver and manage real-time information feeds from premium sources. Content e-Procurement Portlet allows individuals to search and order knowledge resources from content sources. Federated Search Portlet enables users to search across all information sources. Tracker Portlet allows administrators to track and analyze content usage data by source. www.divine.com/ibmportlets
AltaVista Software announced the availability of AltaVista Enterprise Search and AltaVista.com search capabilities for IBM’s WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal. AltaVista’s integration with WebSphere Application Server allows AltaVista Software to become the user’s default technology and is accessible to any application layered onto this foundation. Within the WebSphere Portal, AltaVista Software delivers integrations, or “portlets”, to give customers, secure, single point access to content. The AltaVista Software search portlets provide an interface that supports simultaneous queries of multiple sources of information, including databases, documents, intranets and the Internet. Customers using IBM WebSphere Portal Server can now download the pre-integrated portlets. ,
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Vignette Corp. announced the availability of new global education and consulting services to help customers successfully plan, deploy and maintain Vignette V6 and the Vignette Enterprise Application Portal. Vignette has released new Web-based training on advanced technical topics, such as Upgrading to the Vignette Content Suite V6 and Advanced JSP Programming for the Vignette Content Suite V6. Vignette also introduced a free Competency Assessment and Roadmap service to help customers and partners identify enablement needs for the entire implementation team. In addition to new education services, Vignette also now offers specialized consulting services, called Advanced Services, to customers and partners who want to enhance their Internet applications around specific business objectives. Vignette Advanced Services include Vignette Globalization Strategy Service, Vignette Portal Planning Strategy Service, Vignette Personalization Strategy Service, and Vignette Performance Service. www.vignette.com/services
Inktomi Corp. announced an alliance with Documentum to deliver an integrated, scalable solution for accessing information across the enterprise and within Documentum 4i eBusiness Platform. The Documentum-Inktomi alliance provides enterprises with an integrated solution for finding, sharing and using all forms of content with customers, partners and employees regardless of where the information is located within the network. This integrated solution utilizes the Documentum user and role-based security system, enabling a single user profile to control both content management and retrieval access privileges. Inktomi’s natural language search is compatible with hundreds of file formats, multiple languages and both structured and unstructured repositories such as databases, portals, content management systems, collaboration applications, security systems, file systems and Web servers. The integrated Documentum-Inktomi solution is available immediately. www.documentum.com, www.inktomi.com
Mohomine Inc. announced the general availability of mohoClassifier v2.0, an OEM-able product targeted at enterprise application vendors and for usage in government applications. mohoClassifier v2.0 (mC), provides a modular solution that is integrated into applications, such as portals, document management, content management, customer relationship management, sales force automation, catalog and human resource management software applications. mC classifies information in emails, file systems, intranets and extranets, including the Internet. For Mohomine, extraction and classification are core competencies, providing scalability, accuracy and speed, along with simplified integration. mohoClassifier v2.0 is available now for English and Western European languages, with additional language support due in Q1 2002. mC can be licensed for usage in applications or ASP solutions as licensed software, or integrated into an existing application as a custom enterprise application. Pricing varies by OEM application. An evaluation version of the mohoClassifier v2.0 may be requested. www.mohomine.com
SERENA Software, Inc. announced that Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 has been certified with Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS). From self-service enterprise portals to high-traffic eStores and Internet Web sites, Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 and Oracle9iAS deliver a complete set of middle-tier services for Web code and content management. Serena designed Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 to work with Application Servers, such as Oracle9iAS, to simplify the process of developing and deploying dynamic Web environments. Additionally, Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 integrates with Oracle9i Database to provide UNIX customers with a single metadata repository. Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 provides the infrastructure to manage both software code and Web content from a single point of control. Serena ChangeMan WCM incorporates change management tools along with content creation facilities. www.serena.com
Cytura Corporation announced Contenuity Version-4, its XML-based enterprise content management platform. Contenuity is the centerpiece of Cytura’s content management strategy, combining document management, Web services and a portal platform with end-user functionality. Business users can ingest any type of analog or digital information, and manage all aspects of extended content management without scripting code. Contenuity is architected using technologies like XML, SOAP, and WSDL. A robust Extensible Object Engine, in combination with relational database tables and an LDAP directory structure, provides technology that can support a scalable, extendable, personalized, internationalized, Web application platform. The Contenuity platform is available for $150,000.00 base price. Cytura’s pricing model is customer driven for instances requiring development, training or business continuity processor licensing. www.cytura.com
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