Category: Content technology news (Page 248 of 625)

Canto announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with MediaDex FZ LLC which will take over the marketing and sales of the Canto Cumulus Single User Products and Options becuase the Single User Product requires different marketing to the Cumulus Workgroup and Enterprise Solutions. MediaDex will be able to focus on the needs of a single professional or home user, and provide them with the right information and products. Canto will closely work with MediaDex to continue developing a product line that will be based upon Canto’s DAM technology. In August 2005, MediaDex will release two products “MediaDex Professional” and “MediaDex Standard” which will be offered as shareware on the MediaDex website. Canto will focus on marketing and selling the Cumulus Workgroup and Enterprise Server Solutions, with a strategy that includes the immediate release of Cumulus 6.6 and new solutions bundles. http://www.canto.com

Artemis Corp. announced the v1.1 release of CMS.RAPID with new features and improved SharePoint Portal integration story. CMS.RAPID enhances the core functionality of the Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) and provides a framework that enables web application and content management extensibility. RAPID is built in .NET and sits on top of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 (MCMS). It works with both Standard and Enterprise Editions of MCMS and provides enhancements over and above the core product while leveraging all the assets and capabilities of the Microsoft CMS platform. CMS.RAPID is available for download from the CMS.RAPID website.

Mediasurface announced a strategic partnership with SiteMorse to allow Mediasurface customers the opportunity to further enhance their website accessibility, availability and performance. The partnership will allow Mediasurface to deliver reports for its customers and help them to maintain a consistent and fully functioning site. SiteMorse reports look in-depth at the pages of a website, highlighting errors (with hundreds of individual checks) such as broken links, email failures, meta data and page tagging, operation, accessibility, performance and compliance. , http://www.sitemorse.com

Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ:IWOV) announced an expanded relationship under which Sun Microsystems, Inc. will resell the Interwoven ECM platform for enterprise content and compliance customers. By combining Sun’s Java Enterprise System software, Sun Fire enterprise servers, and Sun StorEdge products with the Interwoven ECM platform, Sun’s Client Solutions Organization can provide complete systems for governments, enterprises, and service providers for management of content including: enterprise content and records management; secure storage and archiving; identity management; and business process compliance. The two companies will engage in joint sales and marketing activities to provide solutions that integrate Interwoven ECM software with Sun’s Java enterprise software, server and storage products.

IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced it has signed an agreement to acquire PureEdge Solutions Inc. Financial terms were not disclosed. PureEdge is a developer of electronic forms (or e-forms), which help companies customize the employee interface to business applications and enables the capture, process, and display of business data. IBM will integrate PureEdge e-forms into its portfolio of collaboration technology, including IBM Workplace and Lotus offerings. PureEdge technology takes back-end corporate data and applications – such as inventory figures, customer data or pricing information – and presents it to end-users in a standardized, customizable template. PureEdge e-forms are based on XML. Full XML compliance is one of the reasons why PureEdge is one of the leading providers of e-forms and business process automation solutions. PureEdge has been an active supporter of the industry standard for electronic form documents called XForms to allow interoperability without limiting the choice in software, operating system or computing platform. PureEdge will add strategic value to IBM’s broader portfolio of On Demand software solutions through tight alignment with IBM Workplace, IBM’s WebSphere and IBM Content Manager offerings. http://www.software.ibm.com

Verity Inc. (NASDAQ:VRTY) announced that XyEnterprise has added Verity K2 Developer (K2D) OEM search, classification and recommendation software in its Content@ 3.2 XML content management application. Verity K2D provides search, classification and recommendation features that enable Content@ users to retrieve content based on text, metadata or a combination of both using Verity’s query language. End-users can leverage the search results to find relevant content for incorporation into existing projects or they can automatically create a new project that will send relevant content to the appropriate users by way of Content@’s workflow engine. XyEnterprise also offers foreign language search support in Content@ 3.2 through the Verity K2D’s Unilocale capability. Initially, the company is offering Spanish language support, and it plans to provide additional language support as customer requirements evolve. ,

Mondosoft announced the immediate availability of MondoSearch 5.2 targeting small and medium size web projects with up to 100,000 pages, providing improved performance and faster ranking results. Mondosoft Enterprise Edition, designed to benefit web sites with more than 100,000 pages, was released in March 2005. Increased indexing speed and much lower load on the indexed server makes it easy to update web sites and enhance search performance. Key to the improved speed and performance of MondoSearch 5.2 is multi-threaded connection pooling. MondoSearch 5.2 includes three .NET search templates. Each template represents a style and design that is can be tailored to fit any functionality and design specification. Mondosoft’s .NET Search templates make search integration in .NET environments more efficient. MondoSearch 5.2 has a Web Services interface that allows new users to search across content, applications and geographical distance. In addition, MQL (Mondosoft Query Language),.NET capabilities and the Search control from the Search Kit, have been integrated to the way MondoSearch works with .NET.

Snowbound Software announced the immediate availability for its FlexSnap: SI for Webtop, a web viewer that offers high-speed viewing capabilities for Documentum’s Webtop application. FlexSnap: SI is a Java servlet/applet combination configured to integrate seamlessly with Webtop. It enhances Webtop to provide users with a universal interface to retrieve, view, annotate, manipulate, convert, and print multiple document and image formats from the repository. Because FlexSnap: SI is maintained on a web server there is no individual installation process required on the client side. FlexSnap: SI comes standard with a configurable interface enabling companies to support specific user group and business requirements in addition to offering international language support for menus and dialog boxes. FlexSnap: SI for Webtop is available for Webtop versions 5.2 and 5.3. http://www.snowbound.com