Dataware Technologies, Inc. announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 1998. For the fourth quarter of 1998, Dataware reported net income of $946,000, or $0.10 per share, on revenues of $8.6 million, excluding one-time charges totaling $1.6 million taken in the fourth quarter. These results compare to net income of $252,000, or $0.03 per share, on revenues of $7.8 million in the fourth quarter of 1997, excluding a one-time charge totaling $2.2 million. For the year ended December 31, 1998, Dataware reported net income of $1.9 million, or $0.20 per share, on revenues of $33 million, excluding one- time charges related to the acquisition of Green Book in the first quarter of $450,000 and the other one-time charges taken in the fourth quarter of $1.6 million. This compares to a 1997 loss of $5.8 million, or $(0.76) per share, on revenues of $37 million. After the accretion of preferred stock totaling $677,000, the net loss available to common stockholders for 1997 was $6.5 million, or $(0.85) per share. After the one-time charges, Dataware reported a net loss of $699,000, or ($0.08) per share, for the quarter which compares to a $1.9 million loss, or ($0.21) per share, for the fourth quarter of 1997. The Company reported a net loss of $207,000, or ($0.02) per share for the year, which compares to a loss of $5.8 million, or ($0.76) per share, for 1997 before the accretion of preferred stock. www.datware.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 477 of 479)
This category includes editorial and news blog posts related to content management and content strategy. For older, long form reports, papers, and research on these topics see our Resources page.
Content management is a broad topic that refers to the management of unstructured or semi-structured content as a standalone system or a component of another system. Varieties of content management systems (CMS) include: web content management (WCM), enterprise content management (ECM), component content management (CCM), and digital asset management (DAM) systems. Content management systems are also now widely marketed as Digital Experience Management (DEM or DXM, DXP), and Customer Experience Management (CEM or CXM) systems or platforms, and may include additional marketing technology functions.
Content strategy topics include information architecture, content and information models, content globalization, and localization.
For some historical perspective see:
https://gilbane.com/gilbane-report-vol-8-num-8-what-is-content-management/
Belgium-Based CEDITI, and Sequoia Software, today announced formation of a strategic marketing and development agreement between the two firms. The relationship will enable CEDITI, a value-added-reseller (VAR) and integrator of information technology in Europe, to resell and create new product packages with Sequoia Interchange2000 (i2K) or to use it in integration projects. Under the licensing agreement with Sequoia, CEDITI will be a direct distribution channel for i2K for Belgium providing training, technical support, marketing and sales. www.sequoiasw.com, www.cediti.be
QuickStream Software, Inc. announced three new interfaces to its Java-based DocCentral document management system. The QuickStream Developers Kit (QDK), Open Document Management API (ODMA) and HTML Interface are available for beta testing with a scheduled commercial release in March. Providing a base for the other interfaces, the QDK allows the creation of custom functions on top of the DocCentral application. The QDK is a set of simple Java functions that can be integrated into Java applications and Java applets. Developers can use the QDK to create customized features and incorporate them into DocCentral. Individually, the DocCentral server software is $2,950.00, the Java-based Director client is $495.00 and the HTML-based Associate client is $49.95. The small work group twenty-five user bundle includes Java server software, four Director clients and twenty-one Associate clients for $4,995.00. The large work group fifty user bundle is $8,995.00 and includes Java server software, ten Director clients and forty Associate clients. QuickStream also offers a “Get Started” bundle that can be downloaded from its website at www.quickstream.com
POET Software Corporation announced the completion of a $9.9 million financing round. POET Holdings, Inc., the parent company for the POET group, received $6 million in equity investments in exchange for “Preferred Series D” shares in December 1998 from both new and existing investors. New investors include Private Equity Bridge Invest Ltd.(PEBI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Private Equity Holding AG of Zug, Switzerland, and the German Technologie-Beteiligungs-Gesellschaft bmH (“tbg”). Previous investors who also participated in the “Preferred Series D” financing are European Technologieholding, Sigma Partners, El Dorado Ventures, INNOVACOM I, Atlas Venture Europe Fund BV, and Lawrence Owen Brown. In addition, tbg invested $3.9 million through a convertible long-term note. www.poet.com
MINT Communication Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Oshap Technologies Ltd. and a provider of Enterprise Application Integration solutions to the financial services industry, announced support for XML. Financial institutions are adopting XML as a new standard because its flexible structure can simplify and speed the process of integrating and transmitting complex financial information between banks, securities firms, and clearing networks. The MINT/Rule Manager Module allows users to import and export XML metadata, and to integrate the data with other financial applications and industry standards like FIX and SWIFT, avoiding the time and cost for manually re-defining and transforming message formats. www.mintech.com
IntraNet Solutions, Inc., announced its financial results for the third quarter ended Dec. 31, 1998. Total revenues for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 1998 decreased to $2.5 million from $5.0 million in the prior year’s quarter as a result of divesting the company’s hardware integration group. Increases of $649, 078 in software, technical services and support revenues were offset by a decrease in hardware integration group revenues of $3.1 million. Loss from continuing operations was $132,057 or $0.01 per share. This compared to a loss from continuing operations of $122,268 or a loss of $0.02 per share in the prior year’s quarter. Total revenues for the nine months ended Dec. 31, 1998 decreased to $11.0 million from $14.6 million in the prior year period. Increases of $1.7 million in software, technical services and support revenues were offset by a decrease in hardware integration group revenues of $5.3 million. Loss from continuing operations was $355,072, which included a gain of $516,934 from the sale of the hardware integration unit, or a loss of $0.04 per share. This compared to a loss from continuing operations of $1,002,016, or a loss of $0.13 per share in the prior year period. www.intranetsol.com
Epicentric, Inc., publicly previewed its portal solution enabling companies to build custom enterprise portals for intranets, extranets and the Internet at Demo ’99. The Epicentric solution delivers ownership of corporate portals from a hosting, branding and design perspective. The company will provide its portal solution as either an enterprise server or hosted service and also license aggregation technology to vertical portal sites on the Web. Epicentric expects to ship its portal server in the second quarter of 1999. Beta sites include enterprise customers such as the United States Postal Service (USPS), BAAN and Philips that will be deploying the product server in both intranet and extranet settings. Epicentric’s technology takes advantage of emerging XML-based standards such as the Document Object Model (DOM) and allows the server to easily communicate with any existing information source. Additionally, Epicentric is a member of the W3C and the Information & Content Exchange (ICE) Advisory Council, a standards body launched to facilitate content exchange. www.epicentric.com
POET Software, announced support for Commerce XML — or cXML, an open-standard subset of XML for electronic commerce designed to reduce online business costs by facilitating the exchange of content and transaction information between buyers and sellers. www.poet.com
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