Documentum announced the release of the next generation of its 4i eBusiness Platform. The release features significant enhancements, offering complete support of XML for content management and B2B interchange, as well as full internationalization and multilingual support, automated delivery of content to multiple channels, and integration with industry-leading source code management systems. XML content management provides the basis for streamlining the content creation process by enabling content reuse and automating the generation and delivery of assembled content for multiple channels. This is achieved by adding intelligence to content earlier in the process and separating the creation and delivery processes. Content can now be re-purposed rather than re-created and intelligently transformed and customized to suit the characteristics and formats of different devices and channels (e-commerce sites, portals, PDAs, wireless devices, and online exchanges/marketsites). Full lifecycle, workflow, security, and library services enable organizations to automate their business processes, and sophisticated link management services enable the reuse of content globally. Documentum is actively involved with XML e-business standards organizations, such as OASIS, ebXML, UDDI.org, WAP Forum, and XML.org. Documentum and Arbortext also announced an extension of their partnership integrating Arbortext’s Epic. www.documentum.com
Category: Collaboration and workplace (Page 94 of 98)
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.
Interwoven and DataChannel announced an alliance to integrate DataChannel’s Enterprise Information Portal Server, DataChannel Server (DCS) 4.1 with TeamSite 4.5, Interwoven’s content management platform. The integration will bring together the critical functions of content management and content presentation and interaction. The companies have also agreed upon a jointly developed road map that tightly couples the unique functionality of their respective products. The combined offering will serve two classes of users, content contributors and the targeted users who access the final version of that content. First, TeamSite content authors and editors will now be able to access critical TeamSite software functionality, including TeamSite Templating and metadata tagging, through a consolidated and personalized application interface via DataChannel’s Enterprise Information Portal. Participants in the content management process will also be able to see their workflow action items and timelines in their own personalized “queue.” To enable this, all TeamSite users will be automatically logged-on to TeamSite through an intelligent DataChannel Xpertlinx when they authenticate through DCS. This single sign-on capability will provide direct authentication to personalized TeamSite workspaces. Secondly, the joint solution will impact the targeted users who access content in its final form. The DataChannel Enterprise Information Portal provides access to content that is targeted to specific user needs. It also optimizes a user’s interface to the numerous sources of information found throughout the enterprise and across the Internet. DCS creates the taxonomy, or organized layout, for content that is then appropriately tagged and published directly from TeamSite into the DCS portal. www.datachannel.com, www.interwoven.com
Inxight Software, Inc. announced the next level in automatic categorization. Inxight Categorizer 2.0 is an application that efficiently and automatically classifies unstructured data, such as web pages, e-mail, word processing documents, presentations, PDF and text into pre-defined categories to significantly improve and add value to information found on portals and corporate knowledge libraries. Using Xerox PARC and Xerox XRCE advanced language and pattern matching technologies, Categorizer takes classification beyond simple methods such as rule-based systems and pure pattern recognition techniques. Categorizer advances its technology by combining linguistic processing engines with patented mathematic algorithms and helps users to discover context through actual language. For example, the word “ground” can mean ground pepper, the ground that you stand on, or the ground for a wire. Categorizer is able to distinguish between the meaning of the three “grounds” in its context. Another example is the word “teach.” Categorizer identifies and associates words that have the same meaning, depending on how the word is used, like teaches, teaching and taught. Moreover, Categorizer maintains its scalability even as the number of categories or documents grow. New features of Categorizer 2.0 include: Client API coded in Java and C; Database independence (designed for integration to any database or flat file); Added administrative tools to tune accuracy and performance; Support for most file formats including MS Office, Adobe PDF, e-mail, web pages and news feeds; Support for 12 European languages; XML compatibility which enables integration to most enterprise portal applications. Inxight Categorizer is expected to be available in December directly through Inxight corporate sales. www.inxight.com/products_sp/categorizer/index.html
OnePage Inc. unveiling three new products that automate the collection, dissemination and presentation of Internet-based data. Based on its information retrieval technology, the new OnePage products make content aggregation and presentation easier and more cost effective, addressing a critical information task for organizations whose employees, suppliers and customers rely on timely, relevant content. OnePage announced three software products: OnePage Content Aggregator – Designed for corporations and web properties, the OnePage Content Aggregator automates and uncomplicates the process of collecting information from disparate sources – data feeds, web content, databases, etc. – and disseminating it throughout an enterprise or web site. OnePage Personal Portal – Designed for existing portals and other web properties, the OnePage Personal Portal enables web businesses to increase user satisfaction and retention by offering a unique environment where users can create personal pages with relevant content collected from any website. OnePage Corporate Portal – Designed for corporations, the OnePage Corporate Portal combines content aggregation features and the personalized portal functionality in a single solution to ensure that employees, customers and suppliers have the most relevant information available to them at any time. OnePage is offering its software as a hosted ASP solution and as stand-alone, licensed business applications. www.onepage.com
NQL Inc. announced that it is preparing an enterprise content management platform for release in the first quarter of 2001. As an out-of-the-box enterprise solution, the NQL IQ ContentAnywhere software will be targeted toward large-scale clients such as solution providers, VARs, portal companies and e-integrators, as well as vertical markets. NQL deployments already underway include licensing of the core technology called Network Query Language and IQ Series applications that represent various elements of the content management platform. NQL IQ ContentAnywhere software collects content from both the Internet and corporate networks through agents, which are powered by the company’s core technology. The platform consists of content aggregation and delivery layers, an intelligent content cache, and a taxonomy. The taxonomy describes content in terms of categories, access names, information sources, lifetime, and a collection schedule. For desktop PC users, the platform enables insertion of all content types into mail messages, word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation systems, to name a few examples. For lesser-known applications, a desktop content browser is provided for users to select content by name and copy to a clipboard and paste into applications. For application developers, NQL IQ ContentAnywhere software provides APIs for Visual Basic and Java. Automated communications between applications, systems and organizations are accommodated by web services such as Microsoft.NET. For web sites on NT servers, NQL IQ ContentAnywhere software provides filters that enable new tags for content that can be embedded in HTML pages for on-the-fly acquisition. The platform also provides content viewers for mobile devices such as connected Palm devices, pocket PCs and WAP smart phones. www.nqli.com
Vignette Corp. and Artesia Technologies announced that the two companies will create a combined e-business solution based on the Vignette V/5 eBusiness Application Platform that streamlines rich media content management for the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry. The combined Vignette and Artesia solution allows companies to implement streamlined processes for creating and managing rich-media that produces content once – for targeted delivery in various formats over multiple channels, including broadband, wireless, personal computers and interactive set-top boxes. Together the two companies are simplifying the inherent complexities in converting, managing and delivering rich media content over multiple channels. Vignette and Artesia are enabling companies in the M&E industry to adopt new, Internet-based business practices while continuing to support traditional distribution channels. The integrated solution enables the easy repurposing of new and existing content for publishing over multiple channels to multiple devices – allowing M&E companies to develop strategies for delivering content to various customers while maintaining high standards of quality and consistency. This combined approach to content management will also enable organizations to create virtual supply chains, with both their creative and trading partners, in which digital assets are rendered readily and securely available for further use or augmentation. Vignette and Artesia will provide their software solution using Sun Enterprise servers. The companies will also support Java and XML. General availability for the jointly developed integration package is slated for fall 2000. Pricing information may be obtained through Vignette and Artesia. www.vignette.com, www.artesiatech.com
Portal Wave, Inc. and iDini announced a strategic partnership to extend the Portal Wave Application Portal Server (APS) to the mobile workforce. iDini’s wireless extension to APS enables access and transactional capability to enterprise applications via wireless PDAs or internet-enabled mobile phones. As partners, Portal Wave and iDini are working together to promote and sell the wireless extension of the APS to enterprise customers. Portal Wave is currently offering demonstrations of iDini’s wireless extension. www.idini.com, www.portalwave.com
Inxight Software, Inc. announced the immediate availability of Inxight Categorizer. Categorizer is an application that efficiently and automatically classifies unstructured information, such as web pages, e-mail, word processing documents, presentations and text, into pre-defined categories to significantly increase the quality and accuracy of online searches. Using patented technology, Categorizer takes classification beyond simple methods such as rule-based systems and pure pattern recognition techniques. Categorizer advances its technology by combining linguistic processing engines with patented mathematic algorithms. For example, the word “ground” can mean ground pepper, the ground that you stand on, or the ground for a wire. Categorizer is able to distinguish between the meanings of the three “grounds” in its context. Another example is the word “teach.” Categorizer identifies and associates words that have the same meaning, depending on how the word is used, like teaches, teaching, and taught. Demonstrating contextual understanding of word “meanings” and relationships of words in sentences directly benefits the accuracy and speed of the categorization process. Moreover, Categorizer maintains its scalability even as the number of categories or documents grows. (For a detailed white paper on Categorizer, go to www.inxight.com/categorizer.pdf). Features of Categorizer include: Scalability to 100,000 documents per day with a single server; Supports over 70 major document formats including HTML, word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail files, Lotus Notes and plain text; True linguistic support for Western European languages; Out-of-the-box advanced natural language engine categorizes documents based on keywords, concepts and full language analysis; Accuracy improves automatically using an active category learning process; Built-in intelligence adapts to dynamic taxonomies; Supports Oracle data store for high-availability environments; and XML compatibility enables integration to most enterprise portal applications. Inxight Categorizer is available immediately through Inxight corporate sales. www.inxight.com
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