Ipedo announced the latest version of its EII platform, incorporating several product enhancements to facilitate delivery of on-demand intelligence. Ipedo XIP 4.0 introduces a dual SQL/XQuery engine, giving it a broad span of information integration. The new release also features several new capabilities designed to reduce the cost and complexity of information integration, including a visual rules processing interface, Web Services publishing, and integration with BusinessObjects and Crystal Reports. In all, Ipedo XIP 4.0 has over 50 new additions and improvements, including enhanced query optimization techniques, new data source discovery and mapping capabilities, and new visual wizards for data import. Ipedo XIP leverages SQL and XML Query to integrate and manage information from disparate, complex data sources to enable real-time business decisions. Ipedo’s approach treats existing corporate databases and external data flows as a single, virtual data source. Ipedo XIP 4.0 is available now for Windows 2000, Windows NT, Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux. Pricing is on a per-CPU basis. http://www.ipedo.com
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Arbortext announced the company will release version 5.2 of its enterprise publishing software in September 2005. Representing a year-long development effort, this release has improvements in functionality and compatibility for organizations implementing enterprise publishing applications. The Import/Export feature, which provides conversion between word processing/desktop publishing files and XML, will provide over 50% new functionality and replace Arbortext’s Interchange product. The Import feature will offer much finer control over the conversion of styles into XML tags, so that word processing and desktop publishing files can more easily be translated into XML. The Contributor Web-based XML editor will be able to track changes (additions and deletions) so that editors can review, revise and approve documents more easily. In addition, Contributor will provide an API that provides developers with a greater level of control over the product’s functionality and appearance. DMC (Digital Media Composer) DMC replaces CD-ROM Composer and represents a major upgrade in Arbortext’s capability to publish large sets of documents that are too big to distribute over the internet. DMC can produce both DVDs and CD-ROMs for very large data sets and supports multiple volumes, password security and data compression. http://www.arbortext.com
The Gilbane Report and The Compliance Consortium, an international membership organization to promote effective governance, risk and compliance management (GRC), has published its operational approach for managing GRC requirements within the enterprise. Applicable to both public and private companies, the framework is designed to assist senior management and boards of directors in setting objectives for managing a wide range of compliance-related activities and instituting the programs needed to attain those objectives. This initial version is a “public draft” and is intended to invite constructive criticism and ultimately to build a broad consensus within the hundreds of companies that have registered as part of The Compliance Consortium Community over the past year. Interested parties may access the report at: “Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance: An Operational Approach” www.thecomplianceconsortium.org.
Xerox Corporation announced the DocuShare Partner Solutions Catalogue, which provides an online resource of solutions available from authorized Xerox DocuShare Business Partners that can address pressing needs for enterprise content management applications using Xerox’s ECM software, called DocuShare. The catalog describes current solutions from partners in North America and Europe. These systems integrators, solution providers and value-added resellers can work with companies to solve content-management challenges across several areas, including regulatory compliance, print-shop integration, workflow applications, document imaging, hosting, e-forms integration, AutoCAD management, Internet publishing for government Electronic Freedom of Information Act initiatives, hospital-contract management and HIPAA compliancy, e-commerce shopping cart tools, and more. As more partners develop DocuShare-based applications and make them available, the catalog will grow. http://docushare.xerox.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced they have become a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Interwoven, building on Microsoft technologies, will enable information workers-starting with professional services firms including legal, accounting, management consulting, corporate legal departments, and IT consulting-to manage the entire content lifecycle through the tight integration of the Interwoven WorkSite Collaborative Document Management, E-Mail Management, and RecordsManager solutions with the Microsoft platform including Office, SharePoint Portal Server, and Windows.
Infodata Systems Inc. announced it has signed a Letter of Intent to be acquired by McDonald Bradley Inc. (MBI), a privately held information technology solutions provider to the government marketplace with headquarters in Herndon, Virginia. A definitive agreement is expected to be signed within the next two weeks. The cash offer is for 100% of the stock of Infodata. Based on a current estimate of 6.3 million outstanding shares on a fully diluted basis, the per share purchase price would be $1.20. Based on a current estimate of 5.3 million outstanding shares on a non-fully diluted basis, and on the closing market price of $1.18 per share on May 11, 2005, the purchase price is approximately $1.3 million above Infodata’s current market capitalization. The transaction, which is planned to close by July 31, 2005, is subject to approval by Infodata’s shareholders and other customary conditions of closing, including satisfactory completion of due diligence by MBI.
Fios Inc., a provider of IT-enabled electronic discovery services, and Interwoven announced a strategic partnership that will result in a discovery management solution for the enterprise. Under the agreement, Fios will OEM and integrate Interwoven’s Collaborative Document Management (CDM) technology as the foundation of its evidence management services. Additionally, FIOS will serve as a preferred partner to meet the electronic discovery needs of Interwoven’s installed client base. Together, the two companies will help enterprises proactively address the fire drills, litigation risk and cost predictability issues caused by the growing volume of electronic documents that must be managed and easily accessed for government investigations, regulatory compliance, antitrust inquiries and litigation. ,
Interwoven announced two new content-centric solutions, the Interwoven Salesforce Productivity Intranet, and Channel Extranet, designed to help marketing organizations within the financial services, manufacturing and high technology industries to achieve sales and channel optimization. The new Interwoven Salesforce Productivity Intranet solution enables marketing organizations to provide sales personnel with the latest, most compelling information and sales tools even in the context of rapidly changing markets and campaigns, while the Interwoven Channel Extranet solution enables sales and marketing executives to make the channel a more seamless and effective extension of the internal sales organization. Based on the latest version of Interwoven’s LiveSite Content Publishing technology, the solutions include packaged templates, components, best practices and pre-built websites that make it simpler for business users to create and deploy intranet and extranet sites for specific salesforce and channel initiatives.
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