BEA Systems, Inc. announced the availability of BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 and BEA WebLogic Integration 2.1. The new products are designed to simplify the development, integration and presentation of applications, systems, and business processes spanning an enterprise’s employees, customers, and partners. BEA also announced the BEA Portal Star Solution, BEA Portlet Gallery and more than 65 partners supporting BEA WebLogic Portal and BEA WebLogic Integration.
In a separate BEA announcement, the BEA Portal Star Solution is now available, with 66 partners initially committed to join. This BEA partner initiative is designed for partners who want to build application portlets for BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0, integrate their applications to BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0, or develop consulting practices around the product. With Portal Star Solution partners, customers will be able to create portals with pre-integrated partner solutions for content management, search, syndicated content, security, collaboration, and analytics. Some of the partners are: AltaVista, Autonomy, Inc., Artesia, Bowstreet, BoxCar, Business Objects, Cardonet, CrystalDecisions, divine, inc., Documentum, Entegrity, E.piphany, FatWire, FileNET, Gauss, Hyperion, Informatica, Inktomi, Interwoven, Intraspect, Netegrity, NetGenesis, NewsEdge, Oblix, OnePage, PeopleSoft, Reef, ScreamingMedia, RSA/Securant, Selectica, Stellent, Venetica, Verity, and Vignette.BEA WebLogic Integration 2.1 is available for download. BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 is scheduled to be generally available for download on Oct. 29. www.bea.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.
Inxight Software, Inc. announced Inxight MetaText Server 1.0 (IMS), a solution that creates access to previously inaccessible unstructured information such as email, Web pages, word processing documents, presentations, news archives and other forms of content residing across the enterprise. The product easily integrates within any corporate information infrastructure to automatically analyze, extract and index important data for delivery to end users. Designed for rapid integration, accuracy and scalability, IMS is a content intelligence platform for information-intensive applications in enterprise markets such as government, electronic publishing, financial services, life sciences and manufacturing. The product is able to manage unstructured information in a number of environments, including enterprise portals, Web content management, e-mail routing systems, document management, business intelligence, human resource, skills management and CRM applications. Inxight MetaText Server is built upon Inxight’s LinguistX Platform, a suite of natural language processing components that understands the structure of language in documents. Inxight MetaText Server is available immediately. www.inxight.com
Hummingbird Ltd. announced the immediate availability of PD Accord, a new Web-based collaborative framework. PD Accord’s document-centric collaboration environment integrates with Hummingbird’s document management products including CyberDOCS, PowerDOCS and DOCS Open, and Hummingbird EIP (Hummingbird Enterprise Information Portal). Suitable for intra- and inter-enterprise deployments in any industry, PD Accord increases the effectiveness of collaborative activities that occur continually between all team members, increasing productivity and speeding the delivery of targeted results. It allows team members to securely access project documents, discussion threads, task lists, schedules, and the like, through a Web browser. PD Accord also provides audit trails, automatic notification, delegated authority and a customizable user interface using XML/XSLT. www.hummingbird.com
Gauss announced the worldwide availability of VIP Enterprise 8, the company’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite. The J2EE-based software suite fully integrates ECM’s primary point solutions — Web content management, portal development, as well as document management and business process automation. Gauss invested 16 months and $20 million to unify Web content management and portal development technologies with document management and process automation workflow capabilities. VIP Enterprise 8’s modular architecture supports the deployment of the full suite, or individual modules incrementally over time. In addition, VIP Enterprise’s architecture scales from department to globally distributed, cross-enterprise scenarios. www.gaussvip.com
TIBCO Software Inc. announced the TIBCO ActivePortal 3. This new version is a framework for allowing employees, customers, vendors and business partners to interact directly with underlying business processes and systems. The TIBCO ActivePortal 3 platform enables companies to develop and deploy enterprise portals, providing visibility to critical corporate data, such as inventory, sales data and customer service information through wired and wireless connections. The TIBCO ActivePortal platform brings the functionality of underlying business systems to the portal, allowing users to conduct self-services. With extensive out-of-box functionality and pre-built TIBCO PortalPack interfaces to ERP, CRM and other enterprise applications, organizations can deploy enterprise portals faster. ActivePortal 3 is available now. www.tibco.com
KVS Inc. announced plans to support and optimize Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) through their Enterprise Vault. Enterprise Vault will provide long-term management of corporate assets stored on SPS. SharePoint Portal Server allows project or workgroup teams to benefit from collaborative document sharing, management and publishing capabilities over the Internet. Enterprise Vault for SPS will give SharePoint customers the means to archive, protect and manage proprietary information for long-term retention and optimal performance of the SPS environment. Enterprise Vault performs as a knowledge backbone to Exchange systems, and now SharePoint Portal Server, by providing a secure, centralized archiving service for those systems while easing their storage burden. All archived information is indexed and may be searched and retrieved by users, who can quickly and easily find and restore individual messages and files. The entire service is controlled by corporate defined policies that allow central control of an organization’s Information. www.kvsinc.com
Plumtree Software released the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5, which broadens Plumtree’s Internet architecture to search multiple content indexes in parallel, extends single sign-on to the applications integrated in the portal, and delivers Gadget Web Services to wireless devices. The Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5 also features a more efficient, intuitive user interface. The Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5 supports single sign-on technologies from IBM’s Tivoli Systems, Netegrity and Oblix. With the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5, Plumtree extends the Internet architecture from application integration to search. The new platform uses SOAP to communicate search commands via HTTP in parallel to search engines running on any platform, anywhere on the Internet. Plumtree’s new Internet architecture for network search will be able to incorporate results from AltaVista Internet Search (both Web and multimedia), Inktomi, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and other content indexes. The Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5 features the Plumtree Wireless Device Server, which distributes Gadget content and services to wireless devices, such as mobile telephones, wirelessly enabled Palm handheld computers, Pocket PC-based personal digital assistants, BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds, and other handheld computers. The Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5 is priced on a per-user basis, and is generally available now. Plumtree is offering customers a service upgrade package and upgrade documentation. www.plumtree.com
OnePage, Inc. introduced OnePage Content Connect Studio, a new software solution for creating, managing and integrating portlets into corporate portal platforms. Using OnePage Content Connect Studio, organizations are able to rapidly create portlets from HTML Pages, databases, datafeeds, applications and flat files. Once created, the portlets can easily be published into any existing enterprise portal or wireless solution, or to web services UDDI. OnePage Content Connect Studio combines technology with an intuitive user-interface that enables companies to eliminate the manual scraping and scripting processes that currently slow down and add to the expense of any portal implementation. It also includes management and monitoring tools, as well as intelligent agents that create alerts and trigger actions, such as error recovery. In separate developments, OnePage also announced a strategic alliance with Sybase and Progressive Financial Strategies. www.onepage.com
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