Category: Content management & strategy (Page 343 of 470)

Authentica, Inc. announced the formal introduction of its Professional Services Organization. The group now offers a full suite of implementation and custom consulting services to Authentica’s enterprise customers. Authentica’s Professional Services enable customers to maximize the benefits of their E-DRM solutions by offering: fixed-fee packages that provide rapid deployment and training for customer-specific business solutions for workgroups, departments and enterprises; extended analysis and consultation to help customers fully customize and integrate their E-DRM solutions within their enterprise infrastructure. These services include applications integration, custom security policy models and workflow enhancements. www.authentica.com

Service Integrity announced the general availability of the SIFT XML Visibility Software, 2.0. SIFT 2.0 from Service Integrity is a monitoring and analysis solution that provides deep visibility into XML and Web services. It can be used to relate the business meaning of messages with the underlying IT data flow, providing a business context. The high-speed, low-overhead inspection of XML and Web Services traffic provides organizations with a detailed understanding of service levels and real time insight into the business context of messages and transactions. SIFT 2.0 XML Dialect Factory provides insight into industry-specific communications using ACORD, IFX, OTA, RETS and CDISC. Libraries of common messages and the business meaning behind specific fields in the messages can be accessed to understand the XML stream in real time. SIFT 2.0 supports XML, SOAP and WSDL as well as WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging and WS- Coordination. SIFT operates on application servers including Microsoft, IBM, BEA and JBOSS, as well as other J2EE-compliant servers. SIFT XML Visibility Software, 2.0 is available immediately and may be purchased online effective April 26, 2004. www.serviceintegrity.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that it has acquired Q-Link Technologies, Inc., a provider of business process management software. The acquisition provides Java-based workflow technology that will be integrated with the Adobe Intelligent Document Platform to help customers reduce document processing cycle times, eliminate bottlenecks and integrate business processes more easily and efficiently across the extended enterprise. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, although Adobe said the acquisition will not have a material financial impact on the company. A privately held company based in Tampa, Florida, with customers in government, financial services, manufacturing and telecommunications, Q-Link provides a J2EE component based workflow architecture that enables developers to visually assemble complete applications. From workflow to forms, UI design, rules, web services, integration and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Q-Link offers a solution to build process-driven applications. www.adobe.com

SAQQARA Inc. announced SAQQARA Commerce Data Management (CDM) for e-Procurement. SAQQARA CDM is a managed service that enables enterprises to reach their spend management (ESM) objectives by providing and maintaining commerce data. CDM for e-Procurement replaces SAQQARA’s Catalog Management Solution (CMS). SAQQARA manages the entire catalog management process including supplier engagement, content acquisition, content transformation, exception management, filtering, and an aggregated supplier catalog for use through e-procurement systems. SAQQARA CDM for e-Procurement works transparently with e-Procurement systems from Ariba, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. Features include supplier enablement and on-boarding of catalogs, supplier management, product content management, catalog management and an optimized purchasing interface. SAQQARA CDM for e-Procurement will be available in Q2. Pricing is based on platform access and per-supplier charges. www.saqqara.com

Ontopia, creator of the Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS), the topic map-based information integration technology, and Retrieval Systems Corporation (RSC), a US provider of information systems engineering services in content management and electronic publishing, have announced a partnership to address the requirements of knowledge management solutions for government and legal publishing applications. Through the partnership agreement, Retrieval Systems Corporation can use the OKS to offer customers a solution to their requirements for “seamless knowledge”. RSC’s initial focus is to develop an aggregated view across the indexes of a range of legal publications using the flexible, but rigorous topic maps data model. www.ontopia.net, www.retrievalsystems.com

Day Software and Acquity Group announced an expanded partnership to assess a company’s content management needs and deliver the an enterprise content management solution. Acquity Group has been named a premier partner of Day’s. The two companies will jointly market and sell needs assessment and enterprise content management to their customers. www.acquitygroup.com, www.day.com

Plumtree Software released a new services solution for building executive dashboards via the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite. The services offering, called the Plumtree Executive Dashboard Solution, combines new integration products with a deployment methodology designed to deliver a dashboard application rapidly and at low cost. The typical application combines performance metrics with enterprise search, online collaboration and knowledge management, to give executives a way to respond to events as they emerge across the business. As part of the announcement, Plumtree is organizing its services group to support the development of service-oriented applications at customer sites, and forming a new dashboard solutions team. To support the offering, the dashboard solutions team has developed a new set of dashboard indicator portlets, which are designed to provide executive-level integration of data from many systems. The services offering is available for the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5, 4.5WS and 5.0. www.plumtree.com

Ektron Inc. introduced enhancements to its browser-based authoring tool, eWebEditPro+XML. eWebEditPro+XML Version 4.1 enhanced features include new data field types, mathematic functions and advanced validation options for designing “smart” forms for XML. Version 4.1’s new data field types, math functionality, and enhanced real-time validation capabilities allow organizations to create XML with higher levels of integrity and consistency for data and business processes. The XML editor can now, at the form creators choice, prevent data from being submitted and saved if validation requirements are not met. Users are notified (via a customizable dialog box) if any information they are trying to submit is not valid. The validation capabilities ensure the accuracy and consistency of data and documents. WebEditPro+XML’s “data design” mode offers a graphical, drag-and-drop method to create XML forms that can be deployed to internal business users on a Web site or intranet. www.ektron.com