Category: Content management & strategy (Page 353 of 483)

Extensis Inc. announced immediate availability of its Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution, Portfolio 7 and Portfolio Server 7 for Windows (Macintosh versions will be available in May). Portfolio enables small-to-medium sized organizations to multiple workgroups in global 2000 companies to organize, retrieve, repurpose, and distribute digital files. Portfolios new AutoSync functionality allows users to assign tasks to Portfolio Server, enabling automatic synchronization. NetPublish is an add-on module that automates the process of turning Portfolio catalogs into full featured websites. Other features include One Click CD/DVD archiving, Batch Image Conversion that allows users to convert image files to JPEG or TIFF format, with controls for resolution, size and color mode, and Round-trip embedding of IPTC and XMP metadata into JPEG and TIFF files. Portfolio 7 is available at an estimated street price of $199.95US with a single NetPublish license. Upgrades are available for an estimated street price of $99.95US. Portfolio Server’s estimated street price is $3,499.95US. Upgrades to Portfolio 7 Server are available for an estimated street price of $1,999.95. NetPublish Server licenses can be purchased for an estimated street price of $1999.95US. www.extensis.com

Documentum announced its Application Logo Program that provides Documentum partners with resources and guidance for developing offerings based on the Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform and helps customers easily identify Documentum-accredited solutions for extending their use of the platform. The Application Logo Program provides partners with design standards, architectural support and development best practices for developing out-of-the-box applications, integrations and solutions based on the Documentum ECM platform. Partners in the Application Logo Program earn a “Designed for Documentum” designation for a specific offering by conforming to a stringent set of design specifications and other criteria established by Documentum in collaboration with its partners and customers. Currently, 12 offerings that have earned the Designed for Documentum designation are available with additional offerings currently being evaluated. www.documentum.com

TRADOS Inc. announced that its TRADOS Language Server for Documentum has received the “Designed for Documentum” logo designation. The Designed for Documentum accreditation can be earned by offerings developed on the Documentum ECM platform, as part of the new Application Logo Program. TRADOS Language Server for Documentum is an integration that adds multilingual and localization capabilities into the Documentum ECM platform. The system integrates with Documentum repositories and workflows to enable companies to manage their localization processes from inside the Documentum system. www.trados.com, www.documentum.com

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

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