eRoom Technology, Inc. announced partnerships with portal vendors PeopleSoft, SAP Portals, Microsoft, Plumtree Software, Hummingbird, Citrix, and Corechange.
By integrating eRoom digital workplaces with portal framework solutions, enterprise customers can quickly deploy branded portal applications that draw on eRoom capabilities. This results in collaborative solutions that combine the just-in-time information delivery features of portal solutions with the real-time and asynchronous collaborative capabilities of eRoom. As eRoom Technology ePartner Program members, portal vendors have access to all the tools they need to integrate their portal framework solutions with the eRoom digital workplace environment. This includes an XML-based toolkit that simplifies developer access to eRoom APIs. www.eroom.com
Category: Collaboration and workplace (Page 85 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.
Documentum introduced Documentum eContent Services for Portals, the portal-specific deliverable of their recently-announced Documentum Web services initiative. Documentum eContent Services for Portals reduce the need to create new programming interfaces and integration code for enterprise portal implementation. Building on the Documentum 4i eBusiness Platform, these services employ Documentum eContent Portlets to create a way to expose content management functionality through an enterprise portal. Documentum has pre-packaged the most significant and common content management functions, such as content contribution, browsing, and workflow management. These services, called eContent Portlets, will be delivered as Java Server pages, Java classes, and XML files to be exposed through the portal interface. Documentum will offer a Portal Integration Kit to guide portal builders who will integrate Documentum eContent Portlets with portal deployments. Portal providers will leverage Documentum eContent Services for Portals. Among the first adopters are: ATG, BEA Systems, Bowstreet, Citrix, Corechange, DataChannel, Epicentric, Plumtree Software, SAP Portals, Inc., iPlanet, E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun Netscape Alliance and TIBCO. www.documentum.com/products/editions/portal/portlets.html
Hummingbird Ltd. announced the acquisition of PeopleDoc Ltd., a UK-based, privately held company specializing in software used to create secure, Web-based collaborative environments in which projects can be managed across the extended enterprise. The acquisition will allow Hummingbird to incorporate new collaboration functionality into its existing enterprise portal and document management products. PeopleDoc’s technology organizes teams and content in the context of their relevant projects, providing secure access to project documents, discussion threads, task lists and schedules. Users require only a Web browser to access the centralized work area, while a sophisticated security model enables extensive customization of access rights at the project, folder and document level. www.hummingbird.com
ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc.) announced the formation of the ATG Dynamo Gear Network. The network of partner-developed solutions is designed to enhance the functionality of the new ATG Enterprise Portal Suite through an extensive set of portal building blocks, called gears, which will provide customers with a robust and expanding feature set to build portals for customers, partners, and employees. ATG partners will provide integrated gears to deliver functionality in several application categories. In addition to ATG’s framework platform and foundation gears for enterprise application integration, the Gear Network enables third-party developers to deliver component software features. The Network allows partners with technology that works within an open Java environment to plug their own solution into ATG’s portal offering. The ATG Gear Network consists of more than 20 vendors across technology and solution domains, including: Business Intelligence, NetGenesis; Content Management, Documentum, Escenic, Interwoven, and Mediasurface; Content Aggregation – Information Architects; Content Syndication – Screaming Media, YellowBrix, Newsedge, and iMediation; Web Services, Patkai; Collaboration – Message Machines; Search – AltaVista and Verity; Enterprise Systems – TIBCO, YOUcentric; Security, Netegrity; Systems Integrators – Appian, Fort Point Partners, ISL Consulting, McFadyen Consulting, and Novo; and Wireless/Mobile, Volantis. Most of the partner gears are currently under development and will be available later in Q3 2001. ATG is actively recruiting partners for the Gear Network through the ATG Gear Alliance Program. www.atg.com
Semio Corporation announced that it will integrate Semio Tagger, its core categorization and indexing engine, with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. Information categorized and indexed by Semio can be viewed through Microsoft’s digital dashboard or through the Semio Taxonomy Viewer — which automatically names and groups concepts that share similar qualities into hierarchical categories for more navigable, browseable presentation. SharePoint Portal Server allows companies to easily find, share and publish information. Each stand-alone server offers enterprise-level search functionality (developed by Microsoft Research), integrated document management tools and flexible, easily customizable enterprise portal capabilities. SharePoint Portal Server provides a focal point for finding relevant information stored across multiple data sources, including SharePoint Team Services websites, Exchange data stores, file shares, Notes databases and Internet sites. Tagger supports a wide range of content sources, including most commercial file formats, PDF, HTML/XML sources, Lotus Notes databases, Documentum document vaults, and unstructured text in relational databases. It supports English, French, Spanish and Italian language sources, with more languages available shortly. Pre-packaged industry templates for fast-start categorization are available for the chemical, medical, legal, military, and computing industries. Semio Tagger availability for the SharePoint Portal Server platform is targeted for Q4, 2001. www.semio.com
Interwoven, Inc. and Yahoo! Inc., announced an agreement by which Interwoven becomes a Content Infrastructure partner to augment the Corporate Yahoo! enterprise information portal solution. Corporate Yahoo! enables companies to integrate proprietary corporate content and applications behind existing firewalls with Yahoo!’s personalized Internet content and services. Interwoven’s Content Infrastructure is used to capture, manage, leverage and distribute content in a collaborative fashion, both within and beyond the four walls of the enterprise. Together, the joint solution provides ease-of-use for portal configuration and content contribution. The integration will be based on Interwoven’s recently announced PortalReady SDK (software development kit) that includes a function-rich, customer-extensible framework designed to grow with evolving portal requirements. www.interwoven.com/portal
eGrail, Inc. announced eGrail Enterprise Content Server 4.0. eGrail is offering a 90-day customer satisfaction guarantee, designed to ensure a solid, long-term relationship between eGrail and its customers. eGrail Enterprise Content Server 4.0 enables multiple business users to easily update and change a global corporate Web site in minutes. eGrail Enterprise Content Server 4.0 includes a major enhancement — Web- based, customizable workflow — that simplifies the processes for creating, assigning, monitoring and completing content-creation tasks. The workflow module minimizes the risk of site error and ensures appropriate review before updates or modifications are published, both critical when maintaining the integrity of a Web site. Additional features include a J2EE Software Developers Kit that enables complete interoperability with application servers and external applications for eCommerce, portals, calendaring, personalization and advanced search functionality; an object wizard for creating and defining objects; and an import/export utility that enables the transport of site elements using an XML file format. www.egrail.com
SAP Portals, Inc. and Baan have announced a strategic alliance that will enable Baan customers to quickly and easily integrate disparate software applications into the iBaan Portal. Under the terms of the alliance, technology from SAP Portals will be embedded within the iBaan Portal solution, and Baan will participate in the advisory board of SAP Portals. This alliance with Baan follows SAP Portals’ recently announced strategy to develop an open partnership model that fosters a broad technology and content ecosystem. The new iBaan suite of Internet-enabled collaboration solutions addresses manufacturers’ growing demands for tighter integration and full visibility across their entire supply chains. The suite combines Baan technology with new developments that enable customers to take steps toward the integration of systems and processes, provide end users with personalized and easy-to-use information, and empower businesses to collaborate with their customers and suppliers over the Internet. The SAP Portals portfolio includes enterprise portals, business intelligence applications, unique content offerings and professional services. Enterprise portal offerings are composed of SAP Portals’ Enterprise Information Portal, SAP Portals’ Enterprise Collaboration Portal and SAP Portals’ Enterprise Unification Portal. www.baan.com, www.sapportals.com
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