Category: Content management & strategy (Page 472 of 480)

Opencola Ltd. announced that it has signed an agreement with Moreover Technologies to enhance its search application with real-time access to news and information through Moreover’s Public Metabase. Moreover’s Public Metabase is a subset of 2,700 sources from its CI-Metabase, an XML database of online news content. Opencola’s new product, launching this fall, is a desktop application that enables knowledge seekers to search, acquire, manage and collaborate on distributed content from sources including the Internet, news feeds, peers and selected databases. Opencola is geared toward the professional who relies on research as an integral part of their job. www.opencola.com

RedDot Solutions announced the launch of RedDot Live Support, a web-based customer support system that enables visitors of the Extranet to instantaneously communicate with the technical support personnel. Extranet visitors simply click a Live Support button and are connected with one of the customer support representatives. RedDot Technical Support Consultants then assist the visitors by providing information, links, graphics, or even guiding them through the RedDot Content Management Server (CMS). RedDot’s technical support representatives can handle concurrent multiple Live Support calls instead of being limited to one phone conversation. All chat conversations are logged. www.reddot.com

Cetara Corporation announced the release of Cetara WordShare version 4. This software, which enables authors to create, manage and share document content in an efficient and consistent manner, integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Word for Windows, providing the authors with the ability to compose, edit and automate documents. Cetara WordShare users generate documents by using common elements referred to as ‘components.’ The users store components containing document content, and their corresponding information, in Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle databases. Using these components as building blocks, a user can quickly produce documents such as contracts, proposals, government and legal documents and loan applications. To download a free trial version of Cetara WordShare, see www.cetara.com/wordshare

Summus, Inc. announced it has signed an agreement with Fast Search & Transfer (FAST). Under terms of the agreement, Summus will develop an enhanced multimedia search application for wireless phones utilizing FAST’s technology platform. This new application will provide users with the ability to use their wireless phones to search the Web for a wider variety of multimedia. Users will have the ability to view the items they find through the search including images, and in the future other multimedia, on their wireless phone. Users can store and search content in a personal multimedia storage directory accessible from their wireless phone or their PC. www.fastsearch.com, www.summus.com

NeoCore Inc. announced version 2.6 of its core product, NeoCore XML Information Management System (XMS), a self-constructing native XML database that reduces the cost and time to market for dynamic business applications. This release includes an optimized stand-alone server architecture, substantial support of XQuery, and the option for a Solaris 64-bit platform. NeoCore leverages the natural characteristics of XML and couples that with the company’s Digital Pattern Processing (DPP) technology to enable a fast and simple development capability. NeoCore XMS 2.6 is available Aug. 30. The Standard Edition, for 32-bit platforms, is priced at $20,000 per CPU. The Professional Edition, for 64-bit platforms, is $30,000 per CPU. www.neocore.com

Webversa, a developer of Voice-to-Enterprise (V2E) software that enables real-time alerting and interactive access to any enterprise application, announced that it has completed the acquisition of the business of Semio Corporation. The transaction closed on August 15, 2002. Terms were not disclosed. Combined with Webversa’s real-time alerting and multimodal interactive access technology, the new Webversa/Semio suite’s intelligent, stealth, robotic sensing and alerting engine will provide any enterprise with the ability to continuously monitor any data stream, surfacing patterns of information activity that meet established criteria and notifying the appropriate individuals in real-time. In addition to the suite, Webversa will continue to support and enhance existing Semio and Webversa products in the marketplace. Webversa sells its voice-to-enterprise (V2E) access and alerting software to private sector and government customers through strategic professional services partners as well as directly. www.webversa.com

E-Botz released ContentAnywhere 2.0, a major upgrade of its content management product. ContentAnywhere is based on Network Query Language (NQL) and is focused on delivery. With ContentAnywhere, information can be inserted into popular desktop applications, mail messages, contact managers, word processors, spreadsheets, presentation systems, and financial applications. The biggest improvement in ContentAnywhere 2.0 is in the area of scalability. Organizations can set up multiple content servers like a server farm and use the same data (taxonomy, cache, scripts, etc). An improved user interface and additional functions extend the ease of use of the product. www.E-Botz.com

Hummingbird Ltd. and Whitehill Technologies announced a strategic partnership. The new joint venture will provide existing Hummingbird customers with document transformation and presentment capabilities from within Hummingbird DM. The integration between Hummingbird DM and Whitehill Enterprise will allow Hummingbird DM users to convert billing data such as invoices, reports and prebills into professional-looking documents that in turn can be stored within Hummingbird DM, Hummingbird’s document management system. www.whitehilltech.com, www.hummingbird.com