Category: Content management & strategy (Page 346 of 477)

Plumtree Software launched a new retail solutions group to develop, market and sell Plumtree-powered solutions to the retail industry. Staffed with sales, marketing and engineering professionals, the group is focused on working with retail-focused services and software companies to build solutions for store performance management, associate productivity and retention and supplier collaboration. By using Plumtree’s portal, integration and collaboration software to build these solutions, retailers can combine data and functionality from many existing systems. www.plumtree.com

Vignette Corp. announced a series of technology solutions to help companies meet organizational compliance challenges, including records and document management, process controls and business productivity applications. Building on the records and document management technologies acquired with TOWER Technology Pty Ltd., Vignette now provides a series of solutions that, together or individually, can help organizations meet the audit and reporting requirements of regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Financial Services Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission, while providing the data security and accessibility required by regulations and guidelines such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Vignette’s enterprise capture technology handles paper records, electronic documents, scanned images and e-mail communications, and manages the information through its life cycle, from creation to destruction. Vignette’s integrated records and document management product has achieved the Department of Defense 5015.2-STD certification. www.vignette.com

Day Software announced that the industry expert group has placed in public review the specification request for JSR 170. JSR 170, which has been developed according to the Java Community Process (JCP), is designed to improve the interoperability between content repositories and applications, allowing developers to work with a homogenous API for all content repositories. The JSR 170 standard will help companies manage content across the large-scale enterprise. In addition to Day, Apache, IBM, SAP, BEA Systems and Oracle all serve as members of expert group for JSR 170. Other industry participants include, Documentum Inc., Filenet Corp., and Vignette. The standard is now available for public review. The public review closes on July 19, 2004. www.jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/review/jsr170/, www.day.com

Stellent, Inc. announced it has entered into a strategic agreement with Protiviti Inc., an internal audit and business and technology risk consulting firm, to create a content management-based compliance platform. Under the agreement, Stellent will deliver and market compliance solutions based on the Stellent Universal Content Management system and supported by Protiviti subject matter expertise. These solutions, to be co-marketed by Protiviti, will offer capabilities such as audit trails; document management; project management and reporting; personalized interfaces; automated process documentation collection and process testing; secure, Web-based access by internal and external users; and records management. www.stellent.com, www.protiviti.com

GlobalSight Corporation announced that it has entered into agreement with Ireland-based software localization solution provider Alchemy Software Development for integrating Catalyst 5.0 into GlobalSight’s Ambassador product. Ambassador is an enterprise software application with localization management tools. The OEM relationship combines Catalyst’s translation of software applications with Ambassador’s enterprise process automation. Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 allows for the creation of a localization toolkit that contains all of the linguistic and cultural material that needs to be translated. Ambassador’s workflow component and enterprise architecture will enable deployment of Catalyst across large organizations, automating the creation and distribution of developer packages containing software files for software localization. The Software Localization Module will automate the creation, leveraging and extraction of files necessary for software localization; generate statistics for all actions; and enable users to track files throughout the lifecycle of the software localization process. www.globalsight.com

Bluebill Advisors, Inc. and the Gilbane Report announced the appointment of two highly respected industry veterans to meet the rapidly growing demand for the company’s consulting services. Mary Laplante has joined the company as Vice President, Consulting Services, and will be responsible for the management and operations of the Content Technology Works Program, Gilbane Report webinars, white papers, and consulting projects. Mary is well known throughout the content technology industry from her extensive industry sales, marketing, and management experience, from her work as an analyst, writer, and consultant, and from her role as Founding Executive Director of OASIS. Mary’s experience and exceptional management and organizational skills will help grow the Gilbane Report CTW program and consulting activities to the next level. Bill Zoellick has also joined the Gilbane Report as Senior Analyst, and will be devoting his considerable analytical and writing skills to the Gilbane CTW and White Paper programs. Bill is a highly regarded author whose books include “CyberRegs: A Business Guide to Web Property, Privacy, and Patents”, and “Web Engagement: Connecting to Customers in e-Business”, both from Addison-Wesley. Bill’s insightful and penetrating analysis has informed his many roles as a manager, researcher, developer and author in the content and information management industry. www.gilbane.com

TeraText Solutions, a division of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), announced that it has entered into a license agreement with Stellent, Inc.’s Content Components Division to embed Stellent Outside In XML Export, HTML Export, and Viewer technology for use in TeraText Database Systems. SAIC’s TeraText Database Systems (DBS) is an information management system optimized for storing and manipulating large volumes of text and managing large structured text databases. Stellent’s tools expand TeraText’s existing capabilities by providing the ability to convert more than 250 proprietary file formats to XML or HTML for indexing and searching in conjunction with the TeraText DBS. TeraText technology was developed at Melbourne-based RMIT University. In July 2001, SAIC entered into an exclusive agreement with RMIT to develop and commercialize TeraText technology in North America and Europe. The TeraText DBS is sold as part of customized, integrated solutions developed and maintained by SAIC systems specialists. Applications include intelligence gathering, technical documentation, legislation management, publishing, and knowledge management. www.saic.com

Idiom Technologies, Inc. expanded the WorldServer product family with the introduction of a new, application-specific version of WorldServer designed to meet the needs of global electronic publishing organizations. WorldServer Global Electronic Publishing enables cross-functional teams including authors, reviewers, editors, translators, localization specialists, and publishers to automate large portions of the document lifecycle, and deliver content in any format or language. With version control, an integrated XML repository, an extensible publishing framework, “preview in-context” capabilities, and search & query functions, the new member of the WorldServer product family enables “continuous translation” of complex documents. The new Idiom solution supports a variety of digital publishing formats including HTML, PDF, CHM (complied help), as well as print. And it is designed to work with authoring tools, such as Adobe FrameMaker. www.idiominc.com