Managing Editor Inc. (MEI) announced an agreement with Wave2 Media Solutions Limited (UK) to market and support Wave2 products in the U.S. and Canada. Wave 2 produces workflow and content management software, including the Wave2 Publishing Platform. The agreement provides MEI exclusivity within all vertical segments of the publishing industry for the U.S. and Canadian territories. Third-tier support for MEI will be provided by Wave2’s offices in the UK and in Toronto. www.maned.com, www.wav2.com
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The Gilbane Report’s Bill Trippe discusses the benefits that DITA-oriented, XML publishing brings to global enterprises like Information Builders, Inc., and Idiom founder and CTO Eric Silberstein weighs in on other customer successes. Hosted by Idiom Technologies, Inc. Join Bill at “Topic-Oriented Information Development and Its Role in Globalization” on Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 1:00 PM EST. www.idiominc.com/news/webinar_registration.asp
Day Software announced that Obinary will embed Day’s Content Repository Extreme (CRX) across its entire product set. CRX is a full implementation of JSR 170, the future standard for enterprise content. Obinary is the developer of the “obinary compass,” an enterprise-solution for process-oriented knowledge-management. Obinary specializes in communication efficiency and technology control. www.day.com, www.obinary.com
Bowne Global Solutions (BGS) and TRADOS announced that they have teamed to deliver integrated global content solutions for multinational companies. The BGS and TRADOS alliance helps with the content delivery challenges of global enterprises, including product introduction delays, inconsistent branding, customer dissatisfaction, and escalating costs. BGS provides services for creating, localizing and publishing content including authoring, terminology management, localization, language quality services, and content hosting. TRADOS contributes its enterprise solutions that manage and automate content globalization for a broad range of publishing media (web, electronic, and hardcopy) related to multinational branding, marketing communications, sales support, technical support, and maintenance. As a first step in delivering collaborative solutions, BGS is standardizing core elements of its production on the TRADOS platform for all facets of their global services. www.bowneglobal.com, www.trados.com
Index Engines announced the commercial availability of an enterprise search appliance that indexes data inline with the existing backup process. Unlike traditional enterprise search solutions that crawl networks and desktops in order to find data, the Index Engines Appliance sits in the path of the data backup and transparently indexes data as it is flows through the storage network. The Index Engines Appliance shifts the indexing of unstructured data off the overburdened data network and onto the storage network, where file and email are collected and archived using existing backup procedures. The Index Engines Appliance supports the most common file types including, Microsoft Office files, text, html, Adobe PDF, compressed zip files and more. Additionally a beta version that includes support for Microsoft Exchange email as well as PST files is also available. The Index Engines Appliance is available in two models. The ES-100 model supports the indexing of four million files and sells for $29,500. The ES-200 model supports eight millions documents and sells for $34,500. www.indexengines.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced that it has extended its Digital Asset Management (DAM) system with the introduction of MediaBin Presentation WorkBench. Available as part of the latest version of Interwoven’s MediaBin Asset Server, Presentation WorkBench enables enterprises to manage and share Microsoft PowerPoint files within a centrally-managed system for all digital assets. Interwoven’s MediaBin Presentation WorkBench provides: single window access to multiple PowerPoint presentations, custom presentation assembly, pre-approved templates, and efficient storage. MediaBin Presentation WorkBench will be available as a standard component of the latest release of Interwoven MediaBin Asset Server beginning March 31, 2005. www.interwoven.com
IBM and Ascential Software Corporation announced the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire the equity of Ascential Software in an all cash transaction at a price of approximately $1.1 billion or $18.50 per share. The acquisition is subject to Ascential Software shareholder and regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2005. The acquisition complements IBM’s information integration business, a key part of the company’s information management efforts and a unit that produced triple-digit growth in 2004. Ascential Software’s ability to gather, move and enhance the quality of large amounts of data complements IBM’s WebSphere Information Integrator product portfolio. WebSphere Information Integrator software enables customers to centrally manage and access data that is stored across a variety of structured and unstructured sources, from IBM and non-IBM vendors. IBM will: establish Ascential Software’s operations as a business unit within IBM’s Information Management software division; incorporate Ascential Software technology and solutions into IBM’s Information Management and Software Group offerings; and market and sell Ascential Software products through IBM’s and Ascential Software’s worldwide sales channels and Business Partners. www.ibm.com, www.ascential.com
Ektron Inc. announced the release of DMS400, a document management system that supports the requirements of mid-market and enterprise-level organizations. With DMS400 knowledge workers can collaborate on projects, as well as search and access documents, images, multimedia and other information assets within a process-driven Web-based solution. Ektron DMS400 enables organizations to streamline processes for creating, editing publishing and sharing documents and other assets while providing organizations with real-time monitoring of information to address accountability and auditing issues associated with managing these files. Because it’s tightly integrated with Microsoft technologies, individuals can create and manage Microsoft Office files, and a wide range of additional file types including PDF’s, images, and audio and videos files. It also enables users to collaborate on projects and search and access documents via the Web. Ektron DMS400 is currently available as an add-on to the Ektron CMS product line. Pricing begins at $11,400 USD for a 10-seat CMS-DMS bundle and $46,000 USD for an enterprise bundle (unlimited users). DMS400 will be available as a stand-alone product in May. www.ektron.com
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