Merant announced its status as a premier partner in Microsoft’s enhanced Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program. By integrating its enterprise change management product line with Visual Studio .NET 2003, Merant enables developers to leverage the common user interface to automate and control development processes and asset change practices. The program is designed to help vendors more easily integrate their products with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. By incorporating the versioning, configuration management and issue management capabilities of its products into Visual Studio .NET 2003, Merant boosts the capabilities of developers. Merant’s support for VSIP will help ensure that Merant’s products will be tightly integrated with Visual Studio .NET as Microsoft evolves the product. Merant will soon introduce a new version of Dimensions, which will feature even tighter integration with Visual Studio .NET 2003 as well as support for Microsoft SQL Server 2000. www.merant.com
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Soholaunch.com, Inc. announced the release of a client editable, single Web page publishing tool targeted to hosting companies offering domain name registration. This new Soholaunch technology allows hosting companies to offer domain name registrant clients control to actually edit the content on that single page. The client editable, single page system is designed to engage a hosting company’s client from their very first purchase. When installed on the hosting companies servers this system is tied to the billing system and makes these pages available automatically. Soholaunch is a stand-alone, thin-client application that creates and manages database-driven Web sites through an “drag-and-drop” browser interface. Once installed on a Web server and directed to a database, the Soholaunch editing software is accessed and operated entirely over the Internet. The program, which supports name-based or IP environments, is written in PHP, utilizes a mySQL database, and is compatible with both Linux and Microsoft NT. www.soholaunch.com
jCatalog Software AG announced a strategic relationship with Commerce One. The relationship establishes Commerce One as a global reseller for the jCatalog BuyFast solutions for procurement, MarketFast solutions for marketplaces and SellFast solutions for manufacturers and suppliers. jCatalog Software AG is a developer of catalog management, product information management (PIM) and cross media catalog publishing software. www.jcatalog.com, www.commerceone.com
Ektron released Ektron CMS300 version 3.0. This version of Ektrons XML content management solution includes a new online image editor, Ektron WebImageFX, (a full-featured browser-based tool for image manipulation,) along with new Calendar and Forms Modules. WebImageFX delivers functionality similar to commonly used Windows-based graphics applications (blur, brightness, sharpen, crop, erase, draw, rotate/flip, zoom, lines, shapes, text, etc.) With Ektrons Calendar Module and Forms Module, users can create, use and manage an unlimited number of event calendars or forms within Web sites or browser-based applications. Calendar presentation parameters can be specified (height and width, viewable weekend dates, etc.,) and colors and fonts can be controlled by stylesheets. Hyperlinks are added to content within the calendar. The Forms Module delivers a new forms toolbar built into Ektron eWEP+XML. Users can create forms-based interfaces with any number of elements (drop down lists, check boxes, radio buttons, text area fields, etc.) Developers add a calendar or form by inserting a single tag into a Web page. www.ektron.com
Hummingbird Ltd. has renewed its licensing agreements of Inxight Software’s natural language processing platform, LinguistX Platform and Inxight’s document summarization technology, Inxight Summarizer. The inclusion of Inxight’s technology for understanding text at its most granular level provides Hummingbird Enterprise customers with multilingual search capabilities in 21 languages. Inxight Summarizer provides an intelligent solution to many problems inherent to online searches. The solution generates abstracts of any document in a fraction of a second, enabling users to scan large sets of information faster than reading the entire text. www.hummingbird.com, www.inxight.com
Stratify, Inc. announced availability of Stratify Discovery System 3.0. Stratify Discovery System 3.0 combines transparent search, integrated categorization and entity recognition (such as people, locations and organizations) with taxonomy management capabilities. Discovery System 3.0 users can now leverage analytical capabilities that provide customized reports summarizing business critical information embedded in unstructured data, as well as visual discovery tools for advanced analysis and data mining. To ensure that Discovery System 3.0 is transparent to end-users it now includes a series of administrative usability and workflow enhancements to the Stratify Taxonomy Manager, Stratify’s interface for managing all phases of the taxonomy lifecycle. Within the Taxonomy Manager a new security architecture integrates with enterprise identity management environments (i.e. LDAP and Active Directory) to provide granular control over taxonomies and topics. The new Stratify Discovery System v3.0 is available Q3 2003. www.stratify.com
Datox has signed an integrator agreement with the UK based company Easypress Technologies. Atomik Xport, a product of Easypress Technologies, is a solution for converting QuarkXPress files into rich XML content. Datox will provide turnkey solutions based on Easypress Technologies’ products to press editors who
want to generate new revenue from their QuarkXPress print content. With Atomik Xport, any content from a QuarkXPress page (text, tabular data or images) can be converted into XML. The content is extracted without the need for manual intervention and can either be published directly on the web or stored in an archive system for future re-use. www.datox.fr, www.easypress.com/products/atomik
S&T Professional Resources Group, LLC, and Metavante Corporation announced the signing of an agreement to allow Metavante to market S&T’s eBusiness Content Manager (eBCM), to its clients. eBCM is a “turn key” web-based content management system, which allows companies to publish all types of documents, automate forms routing, create customized department web pages and manage their organization’s Intranet with virtually no programming experience. eBCM also integrates additional workflow solutions such as company procurement, time and attendance and cash settlement allowing medium-to-larger-sized companies to automate other labor intensive business processes. www.stbank.com, www.metavante.com
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