Category: Content management & strategy (Page 352 of 477)

XAware, Inc. announced XA-Xchange Hubs, a family of text integration engines available as packaged solutions for EDI, healthcare, financial services, and government markets. XA-Xchange Hubs feature a dynamic J2EE text transformation engine for integration of structured, semi-structured and unstructured text. XA-Xchange Hubs offer a Java integrated text processor that runs entirely within application servers such as IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, Oracle 9iAS, SunONE and JBoss. The XA-Xchange text engine transforms structured text with delimiters such as comma, tab and space; tagged-values; fixed-field; and application formats such as Microsoft Excel. XA-Xchange also transforms semi-structured text formats including EDI, HL7, X12, FpML, FIX, and SWIFT, as well as unstructured text such as HTML, ASCII, text documents and reports. XA-Xchange Hubs are packaged as a solution with software licenses, XA-Designer, XA-iServer, XA-Active Exchange definitions and professional services. XA-Xchange Hubs are available today. The average customer deployment is priced at approximately $75,000. Xchange Hub technology is also available as embeddable components to content management, portal, reporting, application server and other software vendors. www.xaware.com

Easypress Technologies announced the availability of its first update to Atomik Xport Personal Edition. Version 1.1 includes features aimed at further improving the quality and speed of XML export from QuarkXPress. By looking for consecutive tab characters in lines of text, version 1.1 identifies tabular content that has been constructed in text boxes within QuarkXPress. It can then export this content into XML using any of three table definitions including HTML, Atomik Xport, or CALS. Users can now specify how they would like QuarkXPress whitespace to be handled by Atomik Xport PE. The content grouping options in Atomik Xport PE 1.1 have been enhanced to enable content to be grouped together in the XML export more easily. A fully functional demonstration version is available for both Mac and Windows versions of QuarkXPress 4.1 and 5.01. A QuarkXPress 6.1 version is planned for Q2 2004. The suggested retail pricing for a single-user licence is Pound 695, $995 or Euro 995 depending on the country of purchase. Further pricing for 5, 10, 50 and 100-user licence packs is available upon request. www.easypress.com

BroadVision, Inc. announced the release of BroadVision QuickSilver 2.0, a significant upgrade to the application that allows business users to create and publish lengthy, complex documents in multiple output formats (including HTML, PDF and Postscript). BroadVision QuickSilver 2.0 builds on the legacy product by automating publication of complex content to BroadVision Portal environments. New features include automatic multi-file publishing to the web, intra- and inter-file links, and personalization based on qualifiers, categories and attributes established in the portal environment. The new release gives Interleaf users the opportunity to extend their authoring environment to the web without re-tagging or reformatting the information. BroadVision QuickSilver 2.0 is the most significant upgrade to the product since it was acquired from Interleaf in January 2000. www.broadvision.com

Canto announced the immediate availability of Cumulus 6 for the Enterprise. The Enterprise version includes features and capabilities for users, administrators and system integrators. Cumulus 6 Enterprise will simplify the users’ daily task of managing assets due to its server-centric nature and, with the EJaP (Embedded Java Plug-In) technology, it can be customized to meet the business needs of global enterprises. It can speak the language of global corporations with an inter-changeable choice of English, French, Japanese or German user interfaces. In addition to all features of the Cumulus Workgroup Solutions the Enterprise Edition offers technology to meet the needs of large corporations such as AXR, Live Filtering, Cumulus Java Classes Runtime and the included Option Internet Client Pro. Other included Options are Cumulus Viewer, Vault and URL AssetStore. The basic Enterprise package comes with Server software and 20 clients. Cumulus 6 for Enterprise is available immediately. Server versions are available for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris, Clients for Mac OS X und Windows. www.canto.com

Sybase, Inc. announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of privately held Dejima, a provider of mobile access solutions using natural language interface technology. Sybase intends to integrate the assets of Dejima into its iAnywhere Solutions subsidiary, and expects to complete the cash transaction in the second quarter of 2004. The Dejima product uses natural language processing and adaptive agent technologies to allow end users to interact with information sources using common, colloquial language. Inquiries can be made using nearly any communications method (email, SMS, voice, instant messaging, etc.) or device (landline or mobile phone, PDA, laptop, PC, etc.). Sybase plans to leverage the Dejima technology to add natural spoken and text access through common messaging interfaces to backend systems such as databases and enterprise applications. www.dejima.com, www.sybase.com

The Unicode Consortium announced that it will be hosting the Common Locale Data Repository project to support the world’s languages. To support users in different languages, programs must not only use translated text, but must also be adapted to local conventions. These conventions differ by language or region and include the formatting of numbers, dates, times, and currency values, as well as support for differences in measurement units or text sorting order. Most operating systems and many application programs currently maintain their own repositories of locale data to support these conventions. But such data are often incomplete, idiosyncratic, or gratuitously different from program to program. The Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) provides a general XML format for the exchange of locale information for use in application and system software development, combined with a public repository for a common set of locale data generated in that format. The Common Locale Data Repository was initially developed under the sponsorship of the Linux Application Development Environment (aka LADE) Workgroup of the Free Standards Group’s OpenI18N team, with a 1.0 version released in January 2004. The founding members of the workgroup were IBM, Sun, and OpenOffice.org, later joined by Apple Computer. CLDR will be managed by a dedicated technical committee of the Unicode Consortium. CLDR version 1.1 is expected in mid-May 2004, and a beta 1.1 version is available now. www.unicode.org

SchemaLogic and Innodata Isogen announced they have formed a new business alliance. SchemaLogic and Innodata Isogen will work cooperatively on marketing and sales activities in the information management and content integration marketplace. Together, the companies provide a complete solution for large organizations producing and aggregating XML content. Innodata Isogen optimizes content supply chains — the sequence of activities necessary to create, use and distribute information or information products. SchemaLogic software manages the cross-system metadata, schema, taxonomies and vocabularies that define and describe distributed information. Together the firms deliver an enterprise view of data structures and semantics used by various systems, along with business processes to simplify content integration and information retrieval. www.innodata-isogen.com, www.schemalogic.com

Stellent, Inc. announced expanded functionality for Stellent Site Studio, a Web content management application based upon Stellent’s Universal Content Management system and designed to support building multiple Web sites. Site Studio allows companies to maintain a degree of centralized control over the architecture and presentation of Web sites, while distributing content ownership and site management to each business unit, franchise or geographic location. Site Studio now allows companies to more easily deploy and maintain multiple Web sites in different languages. Web site designers can use their local operating systems to create sites, and content contributors can author site content in their native language with Site Studio automatically publishing the content to the Web. Site Studio’s contribution user interface is available in English, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Spanish. Stellent Site Studio now gives content contributors more control over the formatting of their content, with available formatting managed by a central Web designer. Site Studio’s new functionality also includes enhanced content re-use capabilities. Site Studio is included with the Stellent Web Content Management solution, which is sold as an option to Stellent Content Server. Stellent Web Content Management is priced from $25,000 to $100,000 USD, based on the number of contributors. www.stellent.com