Category: Content management & strategy (Page 476 of 480)

Interleaf, Inc. and Object Design. announced a strategic partnership intended to leverage both companies’ core competencies in XML-based solutions and improve their ability to deliver solutions specifically tailored for their customers’ business needs. Interleaf and Object Design will cross license their technologies for use in Interleaf’s BladeRunner and in Object Design’s eXcelon. Interleaf’s XML-based e-content solution, BladeRunner, will employ Object Design’s object-oriented database, ObjectStore, and Interleaf’s Styler&Composer will be integrated into Object Design’s eXcelon, an XML data server. For BladeRunner customers, ObjectStore’s Cache-Forward architecture will provide a high-speed, object-oriented repository with scalability. ObjectStore’s integration with relational database management systems will further enable BladeRunner customers to leverage their current investments in legacy relational databases. Integrating Interleaf’s W3C-compliant Styler&Composer into Object Design’s eXcelon will provide the ability to create dynamic, personalized documents with multi-channel publishing capabilities including Web, CD-ROM and print. www.interleaf.com, www.objectdesign.com

Mediasurface announced the Mediasurface 2.0 Enterprise Content. New features include a Content Gateway that allows integration with delivery and web design features from leading software vendors including, BroadVision, Vignette, Macromedia. Among the new features of Mediasurface 2.0 are the Content Gateway, XML support and integration of email with workflow functions. Mediasurface 2.0’s multi-server synchronization functionality now also enables full support for content sharing amongst sites and vendors’ systems. Mediasurface users can now deliver their content using the one-to-one marketing product of their choice. By utilizing the Content Gateway Module, real time content can be shared between Mediasurface 2.0 and existing proprietary delivery engines and custom built flat file sites. This allows users to work with existing tools from vendors including: BroadVision, Vignette, ATG, Engage and Point 4, thus preserving their existing site investment. Mediasurface implementations are licensed by servers with entry-level single- server sites at $25,000. Typical enterprise implementations then scale to multi- server configurations of $200,000 and above. www.mediasurface.com

Open Text and Adobe announced Open Text’s Livelink Forms, using Adobe’s Acrobat. The Livelink Forms/Adobe Module will support common business transactions that require structured data. Livelink’s knowledge management services support the new forms integration, providing version histories of forms and audit trails, forms security, workflow routing and searchable form data. By combining the new forms functionality with existing PDF viewing, document management and byte serving, Livelink now offers companies electronic forms functionality for collaborative knowledge management. The Livelink Forms–Adobe Module will be offered as an optional module to Livelink. The Module is shipping now and priced at $25,000. www.opentext.com

Inso Corporation and Basis Technology Corporation announced a technology and service partnership at Inso’s International User Group Conference in New York City. Under the agreement, Basis has developed Korean and Chinese (traditional and simplified) “pluggable” language system modules that drop into DynaText, Inso’s Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based professional publishing system. In addition, Basis will provide support for the “language modules and will receive a royalty on future sales of DynaText that incorporate this new functionality. The pluggable language system modules developed by Basis Technology will allow DynaText to correctly process, index, and render text in Chinese (simplified and traditional) and Korean. www.inso.com, www.basistech.com

Interleaf, Inc. announced the company has closed the private placement investment of $4.2 million, part of Interleaf’s previously announced capital improvement initiatives. In this private placement, major stockholders and members of Interleaf’s senior management team purchased 1,761,167 shares of common stock at $2.40 per share for total proceeds to the Company of $4,226,800. The transaction closed on February 16, 1999. All shares will be registered for resale pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed with the SEC. www.interleaf.com

Forte Software, Inc., announced the formation of an Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Business Unit to accelerate business opportunities and provide focused expertise to the integration market. The company also announced the promotion of Jonathan McKay as vice president of the EAI Business Unit.The formation of the EAI Business Unit will encompass Forte’s comprehensive integration line, which includes business process integration, technology adapters, open middleware, and application deployment, as well as the Forte Adapter Series, which are Forte’s XML-based application package adapters. The company recently announced Adapters for SAP R/2 and R/3, as well as Vantive Enterprise with additional Adapters planned later in the year. www.forte.com

Entrust Technologies Inc., supplier of managed public-key infrastructure (PKI) solutions, has partnered with Doumentum, Inc., to authenticate web access and to deliver integration of digital signatures using X.509 certificates into Doucumentum’s EDMS 98. This integration provides security to the pharmaceutical industry and other process manufacturing companies for the management of documents, policies and procedures. The two companies also plan to work together to integrate Entrust/PKI features with industry-specific applications built upon Documentum’s EDMS ’98.The joint solution leverages Doucumentum’s EDMS and Entrust public-key infrastructure technology to solve some of the business problems facing process manufacturing: streamlining document approvals, managing records and reports for good manufacturing practice compliance, and improving the exchange of information between departments and organizations. This solution ensures that only those who are authorized to see and change the files are allowed access to the document. www.documentum.com, www.entrust.com