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Authentica, Inc. introduced its Active Rights Management (ARM) platform, an integrated ERM solution that combines document and email protection in a single platform. Authentica’s ARM delivers a broad range of integration support, extending its benefits to enterprise compliance/archiving, content management and mobile email applications. Authentica’s ARM platform protects documents and email at rest, in transit and after distribution to recipients. Organizations can systematically identify, audit and continuously control protected content as it flows into and out of an enterprise. The Authentica ARM platform gives enterprises and government agencies a single, centralized solution for intellectual property protection (IP) and compliance adherence. The ARM platform has been designed to integrate with existing applications and infrastructures to ensure that sensitive information is protected without impacting existing enterprise workflow. Centralized policy and key management allows auditing and control of sensitive information, regardless of where it is distributed. Authentica’s Active Rights Management platform is available immediately. Pricing begins at $50,000. www.authentica.com

Interwise announced that it has joined the EMC Documentum Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Alliance program and will integrate the two company’s live and asynchronous collaboration products. The ECP Connect for eRoom solution will provide integration between EMC Documentum eRoom’s collaborative workplaces and Interwise ECP Connect’s integrated web, video and voice conferencing solution to create a core communication and collaboration utility. This solution will offer unlimited live and asynchronous collaboration to the extended enterprise for a fixed price, and also will bring live ad hoc and scheduled collaboration to Enterprise Content Management solutions via EMC Documentum eRoom Enterprise. With ECP Connect for eRoom, customers will be able to add live web, video, and voice conferencing functionality to their Documentum eRoom solutions. ECP Connect for eRoom offers companies the opportunity to reduce their overall conferencing costs by leveraging advanced VoIP capabilities. ECP Connect for eRoom also supports Documentum eRoom Enterprise, providing customers the benefits of live collaboration integrated with the advanced enterprise content management capabilities of the EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management platform. The ECP Connect for eRoom solution will be available in the second quarter of 2005 through both the EMC Documentum and Interwise organizations. www.interwise.com

The Gilbane Report announced that their Content Technology Works program has published a case study on HP’s global digital content management initiatives to optimize the delivery of product content to global markets. The case study describes how HP has deployed a digital content management infrastructure in order to serve its global customer base, reduce costs, and increase efficiencies. It outlines the content management business processes that connect HP content owners with content consumers in local languages that enable commerce. It details how HP uses rigorous and repeatable regionalization, translation, and localization practices to interact with its customers. Finally, it lays out the results that HP has achieved to date. The case study, like alll Content Technology Works case studies, is available at no charge.www.gilbane.com/case_studies/HP_case_study.html, www.gilbane.com/ctw_success_stories.html

iUpload launched Perspectives, a business blogging application that allows users to create content in their blog and instantly reach multiple communities and sites. The number of Perspectives that can be applied to content ranges from: customer relationship and contact management applications like salesforce.com and Plaxo; search portals like Yahoo!; social networks applications like Tribe; classified and auction sites like eBay; product and service review sites; contests and promotions from large brands like Idol; and user generated tags like Technorati and Flickr. iUpload Perspectives offers a way for businesses to tap into the blogosphere, launch consumer generated marketing programs, conduct promotions and contests, and create, expand and promote participation in their community. Administrative tools allow organizations to manage and distribute content coming from individuals as appropriate, turning bloggers into potential authors and allowing them to leverage content into any of their web properties. iUpload Perspectives is automatically available to existing customers now. Individuals can also utilize Perspectives at no charge by signing up for a free blog. Organizations interested in offering a Perspective(s) should contact iUpload to review the host of options and administration tools available. Perspectives is an integral part of all of iUpload’s tools, so it can be accessible from within their Personal Publisher, Community Publisher and Content Manager solutions, as well as third party tools. www.iupload.com

Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST) announced that Siebel Systems, Inc. has entered into an OEM licensing agreement for FAST InStream search technology. The FAST agreement with Siebel Systems, Inc. is based on software license, maintenance fees, and professional services. www.fastsearch.com

Canto announced the release of Canto Cumulus 6.5. Cumulus 6.5 supports an enhanced built-in user management module, LDAP directory servers as well as a new authentication API. User authentication can be based on passwords stored in the built-in authentication method or an LDAP server, on system passwords (e.g. domain passwords), and with the new authentication API, on any other authentication system. To simplify the Administrator’s task Cumulus 6.5 introduces the Server Console, a centralized administration tool for the Workgroup Server Solutions and Cumulus Enterprise. Enhancements have been made to the permissions management in the User Manager. It is much easier to use, comes with a performance boost, and allows the setting of permissions, even on the Sets. These include View Sets, Assets Handling Sets and also Metadata Templates. Actions and Metadata Templates have been introduced in all versions of Cumulus 6.5. The ‘Quicksearch’ function is now customizable and queries can now be selected from the toolbar by a mouse-click. Version 6.5 will also find duplicates and records of which the assets are missing. These functions will keep users’ catalogs up-to-date. Cumulus 6.5 Single User, Workgroup (Server Solutions) and Enterprise are immediately available in English, German, French and Japanese. Server versions for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris, and Client and Single User versions for Mac OS X and Windows are offered. www.canto.com

WebSideStory, Inc. simultaneously announced an agreement to acquire Avivo Corporation, a California corporation doing business as “Atomz,” and the launch of a new suite of integrated services for online marketing professionals. Upon completion of the merger, WebSideStory will combine Atomz’s hosted site search and web content management applications with WebSideStorys HBX web analytics service to create the a suite of integrated, on-demand digital marketing applications. WebSideStory’s Active Marketing Suite will also include a keyword bid management product, scheduled for release this summer. The Active Marketing Suite will offer a single, shared environment in which businesses can optimize their online performance across multiple marketing channels, while reducing their vendor management costs. The Active Marketing Suite will include: HBX Analytics an on-demand web analytics service; Bid an on-demand keyword bid management product; Search an on-demand web site search application, and Content Manager an on-demand web content management solution. WebSideStory will issue approximately 3.1 million shares of common stock and options to purchase common stock and will pay approximately $4.3 million in cash, in exchange for the outstanding capital stock and options of Atomz. The transaction has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies and is subject to customary closing conditions. www.atomz.com

Mobius Management Systems, Inc. and Network Appliance, Inc. announced integration of Mobius ViewDirect TCM software with NetApp NearStore disk-based nearline storage systems. The new collaboration is meant to deliver a solution that simplifies the archiving, recall, and management of content from any source, on platforms including UNIX, Windows, Linux and mainframe z/OS. The integrated solution addresses customer challenges of managing growing volumes of diverse content while satisfying the need for rapid retrieval and high availability not possible with traditional tape and optical media. Together, the Mobius ViewDirect TCM suite and NetApp NearStore offer a long-term content management and storage solution. ViewDirect TCM integrates enterprise content in a single, consolidated repository or through access to multiple, disparate repositories and includes a complete suite of content-centric applications that enable regulatory compliance and automate business processes. NearStore combines the Data ONTAP operating system with inexpensive ATA disk drives for near-primary storage performance. The solution scales from 8TB to 96TB with a single NearStore system, while multiple NearStore systems provide petabytes of storage at near-tape costs to support growing content stores. www.netapp.com, www.mobius.com