Category: Content management & strategy (Page 350 of 479)

Documentum announced the availability of a new portlet development toolset, new Documentum web content management portlets and enhancements to Documentum’s existing portlets. The new Documentum portlets are a set of embeddable application components that deliver out-of-box content management capabilities to any portal that supports Java Specification Request 168 (JSR 168). The new Documentum web content management portlets add to Documentum’s existing family of portlets for enterprise document management and collaboration. All of the portlets provide single sign-on functionality. The new WDK for Portlets, Documentum portlets and new Documentum web content management portlets are immediately available for use with portal servers from BEA, SUN and IBM. A set of developer and customization documentation is provided and additional materials, customization code and sample portlets are available through the Documentum Developer website’s Component Exchange. www.documentum.com

Vignette Corp. announced that it has released a comprehensive set of tools to help organizations measure and improve business efficiency. Organizations interested in the Vignette Efficiency Audit will work with experienced third-party consultants to gather their business requirements, review overall vision and justification, conduct a gap analysis, monitor use of existing investments, and develop best practices. Upon completion of the audit, Vignette and the respective partner will provide a customized report that provides a detailed picture of areas throughout the organization where efficiencies can be increased, along with customized recommendations on how to improve overall information technology performance. Organizations will have an opportunity to see potential return on investment and total cost of ownership estimates for each option based on individual definitions. Vignette partners Acquity Group and Rapidigm are the first to offer the Vignette Efficiency Audit. In addition, Vignette has developed the Vignette Efficiency Assessment and the Vignette Efficiency Evaluation. Both programs are available at no additional charge upon completing the registration requirements. www.vignette.com

Captiva Software Corp. announced it has signed a software licensing agreement with FileNet Corp. FileNet will use Captiva’s PixTools/Scan and PixTools/View products and bundle Captiva’s ISIS scanner drivers within its products. With PixTools’ Scan and View products and the bundling of ISIS, FileNet has the ability to support new scanners and evolving features such as support for color images, multiple data streams and distributed scanning. The ISIS technology also ensures support for a variety of industry scanners. PixTools/View toolkit is a full-featured API that provides all the necessary image viewing and printing functions including image display, rotation, scale, scale-to-gray and annotation. PixTools/Scan toolkit supports ISIS, driving peak performance from every scanning device and providing access to the full range of available scanner features. www.filenet.com, www.captivasoftware.com

Tarari Inc. announced the immediate availability of its latest XML Silicon technology — the RAX Content Processor, which incorporates an in-silicon implementation of Random Access XML (RAX). RAX allows complex XML document analysis to be completed in “near-zero” CPU time and can process millions of XPaths per second. Random Access XML (RAX) enables network switch, server, blade, and appliance vendors to create new applications such as gigabit message classification and routing, high transaction rate publish and subscribe systems, advanced SOAP message processing, high performance XML security firewalls and real-time telecommunications billing solutions. Tarari is proposing that RAX be accepted as an industry-standard just as DOM and SAX have garnered many supporters within the W3C community. OEMs, ISVs and corporate developers interested in evaluating the Tarari RAX Content Processor should purchase the Tarari XML/Web Services Development Kit which consists of two Tarari RAX Content Processors on PCI cards, Random Access XML Agents (plus Encryption/Decryption Agents) and API documentation. www.tarari.com/rax

Documentum announced that it has certified key components of the Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform for HP Integrity servers and HP-UX 11i on the Intel Itanium 2 microarchitecture. www.documentum.com

PureEdge Solutions Inc. announced that its secure XML e-forms are now available for integration with IBM Lotus Workplace 2.0 and IBM WebSphere Portal. PureEdge’s framework provides IBM users with the ability to integrate XML e-forms-based processes with back-end systems, and expands their on-demand capabilities by bringing a rich client to the forefront. Extended WebSphere Portal support is offered through PureEdge WebForm Server and the PureEdge Viewer, enabling XML-based forms with validation, formatting, layout and offline capabilities. PureEdge provides portlet support for zero footprint forms and for inter-portlet communication, using click-to-action data sharing functionality to leverage forms data to and from other portlets. PureEdge forms-based business process solutions are based on XML, Web Services and Java. www.pureedge.com

Informative Graphics Corp. (IGC) announced the release of its Brava! Enterprise 5.0 view and markup software for Documentum Webtop and Digital Asset Management (DAM) clients, delivering viewing versatility for online access to documents, images and CAD engineering files. Brava 5.0 for Documentum creates and views IGC’s new “content sealed format” (CSF), which incorporates the Visual Rights security framework. Visual Rights gives authors selective and persistent security controls over their content. Markups can be burned-in to CSF files, and a new block-out function (redaction) allows users to hide specific file content from view and text searching. CSF files are viewable by both Brava Enterprise and the free Brava! Reader. Brava 5.0 for Documentum also supports occasionally connected or offline computing, permitting Documentum users to save selected files in CSF format to their local machine, and then disconnect from the Brava Server to work offline. www.infograph.com

Ovid Technologies announced the availability of its Portal Advantage Service to help societies and publishing partners, independent journal publishers, foundations, and corporations to build customizable portals. This content management service enables customers to make their published content available online as well as offer rich medical content and resources to support their users’ information research and collaboration needs. Ovid’s Portal Advantage Service includes full design, hosting and content selection from Ovid’s repository of bibliographic databases, journals and book content as well as third-party data resources (e.g. news feeds, CME, society content). In addition to specialized content, the service provides collaboration, customization, and community features. Ovid is offering three platform levels of the Portal Advantage Service. The levels include: Express, Professional, and Preferred solution packages. www.ovid.com