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Intellext announced that it has emerged from its research and development stage and is now commercially marketing and shipping its software solution, Watson. By reading and understanding what people are working on and using that knowledge to proactively find and deliver useful information to the user, Watson is able to find information the user didn’t know existed — in places they otherwise might not have looked. In emerging from the incubation stage, the company has changed its name to Intellext from Open Road Technologies. Watson determines what information is relevant to each user, and forms contextually-based queries rather than simple one or two-word search terms to generate the most useful and complete set of results. Watson automatically brings users any relevant information from their company’s external and internal information sources including websites, desktop search applications, online news sites, subscriber services and search engines, as well as documents and data from a company’s corporate knowledge management systems, databases and intranets. If the user chooses, Watson will even retrieve advertisements that are related to their current work. Information from Watson’s multiple sources is then organized by relevance regardless of its source, and presented to the user in a non-intrusive way. The online information collected and presented by Watson is based solely on relevance, so users do not receive intrusive advertisements and unrelated content that interrupts their work. Intellext is also offering the MuseSearch MuseServer as part of the Watson solution for large organizations. www.intellext.com

Interwoven, Inc. announced the introduction of Interwoven OffSite, an offering that provides business professionals with the capability to access and modify their working documents, e-mails, and projects while working offline. A new module for Interwoven WorkSite 8 software, OffSite enables business professionals to experience the functionality of WorkSite when disconnected from the network. With OffSite, users can create new documents, modify documents or file e-mail into appropriate folders. On reconnection to the network, this content is automatically synchronized with the entire matter or client file. As a fully-portable version of WorkSite, OffSite uses the same familiar user paradigms and interfaces available in online mode. Complete collaborative document management functionality provides users with the ability to browse the file hierarchy, view and modify existing documents, create new documents, and search repository content just as if they were connected to the network. Interwoven OffSite will be available in Q2 2005 as an add-on module to Interwoven WorkSite 8. www.interwoven.com

StoredIQ Inc. (formerly Deepfile Corporation), a provider of content-driven compliance and security solutions for files and e-mail, announced StoredIQ 3.0, a content-driven compliance and security platform designed to discover, protect and manage business critical files and e-mail. StoredIQ 3.0 scans the internal content of files and e-mails, enabling business-based classification of unstructured data. This file classification is then used to enforce user defined automated policies on that data, mitigating risk for enterprise customers by ensuring adherence to corporate and regulatory compliance guidelines, as well as protecting information security. StoredIQ 3.0 is the basis for a suite of content-driven compliance and security applications. The company is also announcing the first such application, HIPAA Solutions Pack, an automated solution that addresses HIPAA security compliance requirements for files. Once found, files can be analyzed by location, owner, age, size, type and other characteristics that are critical to the enterprise’s corporate compliance and security policies. StoredIQ 3.0 then allows users to define automated policies that can delete, move, migrate, or encrypt the files to meet the appropriate corporate or regulatory policies. Finally, reports and advisory messages are delivered to end-users and auditors to ensure that compliance is maintained over time. Implemented on a self-contained appliance that doesn’t require any external software agents, StoredIQ 3.0 supports files on NT, UNIX/Linux and NetWare file systems. www.StoredIQ.com

eCopy and Interwoven announced the integration of eCopy ShareScan OP (Open Platform) software with the Interwoven WorkSite collaborative document management solution. The integrated solution allows customers using Canon MEAP capable imageRUNNER devices to add paper-based information that may be otherwise left out of the electronic business workflow. The eCopy Connector for Interwoven WorkSite provides full function integration between eCopy ShareScan OP, Interwoven WorkSite, and Canon MEAP (Multifunctional Embedded Application Platform) digital copiers. eCopy Connectors directly link eCopy software to enterprise applications, such as document management, e-mail, and fax. The eCopy Connector for Interwoven Worksite is available for both eCopy ShareScan and eCopy ShareScan OP. eCopy ShareScan operates on a touch panel and PC attached to a Canon imageRUNNER device or scanner. ShareScan OP is embedded within a MEAP enabled imageRUNNER device. The suggested retail price for either Connector is $1,495. www.ecopy.com, www.interwoven.com

Interwoven, Inc. and Landor Associates announced that the two companies have entered into a strategic partnership in which Landor is now reselling MediaBin Asset Server, Interwoven’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) product, as a component of many Landor Brand Management and Marketing systems. Landor’s Brand Management and Marketing systems provide clients with instant access and control over virtually any branding situation or promotional opportunity. These systems simplify the process of visual asset development and classification, enabling clients to manage a brand consistently in every medium. By employing the transformation capabilities of Interwoven MediaBin, Landor can provide a new level of targeting and visual personalization for clients’ brand marketing campaigns. Under the terms of the agreement, Landor has become a worldwide Value Added Reseller (VAR) for Interwoven’s MediaBin product line. Landor is integrating Interwoven MediaBin software into Brand Management solutions that support any form of branding expression including: packaging, advertising, promotional items, websites, signage, business cards, brochures, vehicles, or retail environments. www.landor.com, www.interwoven.com

Stellent, Inc. announced it has partnered with Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) to expand the suite of search technologies it offers Stellent Universal Content Management customers. Under the agreement, Stellent will integrate the FAST InStream OEM enterprise search solution with its Stellent Universal Content Management technology to provide Stellent customers with an alternative search and retrieval platform. The solution searches unstructured information within documents, Web pages, email, presentations and similar content, and also searches the metadata for that unstructured information. www.fastsearch.com

Quadralay Corporation unveiled WebWorks OnTime, an online consulting service that converts Microsoft Word or Adobe FrameMaker documents into every major online format or professional online help system for implementation on a wide variety of electronic devices. WebWorks OnTime is on-demand ePublishing, reducing both the deadline pressure and the cost associated with deploying technical documentation, marketing copy, and other corporate communications. The only knowledge required for using WebWorks OnTime is proficiency in either Microsoft Word or Adobe FrameMaker. WebWorks OnTime will convert raw XML data as well, providing a service for publishing legacy database. WebWorks OnTime helps writers convert their Microsoft Word or Adobe FrameMaker content into one or more online formats without needing either the expertise to convert it themselves or the in-house hardware, software, and personnel that these tasks require. www.webworks.com

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced its support for two newly issued publications that are critical to increasing the international reach of the World Wide Web. These publications, coordinated through both the IETF and W3C, are RFC 3986, STD 66 Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax and RFC 3987 Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs), respectively an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet Standard and Proposed Standard. The World Wide Web is defined as the universal, all-encompassing space containing all Internet – and other – resources referenced by Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs, sometimes commonly called “URLs”). In Tim Berners Lee’s original proposal, and in the initial Web implementation, the Web consisted of relatively few technologies, including the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Yet perhaps more fundamental than either HTTP or HTML are URIs, which are simple text strings that refer to Internet resources — documents, resources, people, and indirectly to anything. URIs are the glue that binds the Web together. IRIs extend and strengthen the glue, by allowing people to identify Web resources in their own language. Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax was written by Tim Berners-Lee (Director, W3C), Roy Fielding (Day Software) and Larry Masinter (Adobe Systems) with involvement of the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). The Standard describes the design, syntax, and resolution of URIs as well as security considerations and normalization and comparison (determining if two URIs are equivalent). This new Standard replaces the URI specification released in 1998. Among several technical changes, the host component of a URI is now enabled for internationalized domain names. Other technical changes include a rule for absolute URIs with optional fragments, a rewritten section 6 “Normalization and Comparison” by Tim Bray and the W3C TAG, simplified grammar, clarifications for ambiguities, and revisions to the reserved set of characters. The Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) Proposed Standard was developed in part by the W3C Internationalization Working Group, and was written by Martin Durst (W3C) and Michel Suignard (Microsoft Corporation). www.w3.org