Category: Content management & strategy (Page 371 of 470)

emagiC CMS ASP offers the emagiC Site & Content Management system, developed by Emagine, as a service for a fixed monthly fee. The fee covers the use of the software, but also the hosting, back-ups and maintenance. Emagine or one of its partners can implement the graphical design. emagiC CMS ASP starts at 80 euros per month. The biggest advantage is no upfront investment in soft- or hardware, as this is all covered by the emagiC ASP program. Emagine continues to work closely together with web developers and e-business integrators in Belgium and abroad who offer the emagiC CMS to their customers, but for the ASP edition, Emagine also co-operates with hosting providers who integrate emagiC CMS in their offering. www.emagiC-CMS.com

Sparta Systems, Inc. and Open Text Corporation announced the integration of Livelink and TrackWise to give pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device customers a flexible integrated solution to manage quality issues and related documentation in the drug and device testing, development, and manufacturing processes. The TrackWise/Livelink integration ties together all documentation and other content associated with specific quality issues — CAPA, change control, audits — being managed and tracked. The integration enables customers to perform many Livelink electronic document management functions, such as check in and out, version control and content search, directly from the TrackWise interface. The integrated offering will be available at the end of January with version 6.0 of TrackWise, and version 9.1 or higher of Livelink. www.sparta-systems.com, www.opentext.com

Ektron announced that customers can now deploy content management solutions in a private hosted environment. With hosting provider Verio, Ektron provides its customers a stable infrastructure to rapidly implement Ektron Content Management Solutions. The combined offering delivers enterprise Web content management functionality backed by the NTT/VERIO Global IP Network for a monthly fee. Ektron’s hosting service addresses the challenge of many small to mid-sized businesses that want to manage their Web content but don’t have the budget or IT resources to support the solution. The Ektron hosting service includes committed bandwidth delivered on the NTT/VERIO tier one network, 24X7 monitoring, back-up and restore services, Ektron product support, dedicated Web server hard disk space and dedicated database server space. www.ektron.com

Information Mapping, Inc. announced that it will be releasing a major upgrade to Formatting Solutions Pro (FS Pro) and Formatting Solutions XML (FS XML) on January 15, 2004. Version 2.0 of both products contains new features and is built on an architecture that will more easily support customizations and lessen the product’s dependency on Microsoft Windows in future releases. FS XML 2.0 has, in addition to all the same features and functionality as FS Pro 2.0, an XML output engine and XSL style sheets that allow users to create flexible structured content from Microsoft Word and store it in an XML content repository or display it in a variety of ways. FS Pro 2.0 and FS XML 2.0 will be the first versions of the tool to work with Microsoft Word 2003. FS Pro and FS XML are available only to Information Mapping seminar graduates. Information Mapping is now accepting orders for both products and is offering a 10% discount off orders received before January 15. The suggested list price of FS Pro 2.0 is $199 and the upgrade price for current FS Pro users is $75. The suggested list price of FS XML 2.0 is $395 and the upgrade price for current FS XML users is $75. FS Pro users can upgrade to FS XML 2.0 for $150. www.infomap.com

Pound Hill Software announced Catalyst 1.1, the latest version of the company’s tool for creating plug-ins to capture and embed metadata in content creation applications. With Catalyst, creators and managers of graphic arts intellectual property can specify both the metadata embedded in documents and the look-and-feel of the dialogs that collect the data. In addition to designing and defining these controls, enterprises can generate their own plug-ins for applications such as Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat and QuarkXPress to collect the data. Version 1.1 of Catalyst extends compatibility to Macintosh OS X version 10.3.x, QuarkXPress version 6.x, and to all Adobe Creative Suite applications. Catalyst, Metavue (a metadata viewer and search application), and Catalyst Plug-ins all utilize Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP). Pound Hill also announced today the release of MetaLab, a free tool for defining and adding a new XMP metadata panel to the File Info dialogs in Adobe Creative Suite applications. Catalyst, Metavue, and Catalyst Plug-ins and XTensions modules are priced at site license and custom a la carte configurations. Evaluation kits are available. www.poundhill.com

RenderX, Inc. and X-Hive Corporation announced they have established a strategic initiative focused on technology to deliver a comprehensive solution for the management of XML content and high quality print output of that content. The joint solution enables organizations to shift from SGML content to XML structures. X-Hive will embed RenderX XEP software into their Docato software. X-Hive/Docato is an XML-based content management system designed specifically for technical documentation for the management of technical content in a distributed work environment. RenderX XEP was designed to allow developers and end users to dynamically apply sophisticated styles to XML documents and to publish those documents to different platforms. By aligning these solutions together, X-Hive and RenderX provide an e-business solution for creating PDF, PostScript, and other dynamic document packages from XML content stored in X-Hive databases without the need for users to understand the complexities of XML and XSL FO. www.x-hive.com, www.renderx.com

Yozons Inc. has released its 3.3 version of its Signed & Secured web-based business private network software and service. New features in Signed & Secured include more advanced administration capabilities, a performance dashboard, templated messages for repeatedly sending out similar types of contracts or document packages, enhanced customer branding, as well as upgraded its Experian credit-based authentication module which is now offered on a pay-as-you-use model on the hosted web service. Version 3.3 is available immediately. It can be deployed behind a customer’s firewall, as a managed service or as a hosted web service. The licensed technology is available in an Office Edition for smaller volume customers, as a hardware appliance for those who need more customization without volume restrictions, and as an enterprise license for high volume and tightly integrated deployments. www.yozons.com

IBM announced it has acquired Green Pasture Software, Inc., a privately held provider of document management software based in Corvallis, Oregon. Financial details were not disclosed. Green Pasture’s operations will be integrated into IBM’s Enterprise Content Management business and Green Pasture products will be available immediately from IBM. This is IBM’s third acquisition in its Enterprise Content Management business since 2002. IBM purchased Tarian’s records management software in November 2002 and Aptrix’s Web content management software in July 2003. Green Pasture Software enables businesses to take advantage of real-time, high-performance document management capabilities to electronically collaborate, edit and manage multiple documents simultaneously. The software helps organizations more easily develop and manage documents that incorporate interrelated parts, such as spreadsheets, multimedia files and computer aided design (CAD) references. www.software.ibm.com/data