Vivisimo, Inc. unveiled a free online service that automatically categorizes the search results from FirstGov.gov – the U.S. Government’s official web portal. Vivisimo’s new service helps citizens find government information quickly and easily by organizing FirstGov search results into meaningful subject categories. FirstGov provides a comprehensive search of government information including over 51 million web pages from federal and state governments and U.S. territories. A FirstGov search can produce 1000 or more search results in a long ranked list. Vivisimo’s automatic document clustering technology improves the FirstGov search and helps users sort through the results.
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InQuira, Inc. announces the availability of Web analytics embedded as part of its InQuira 6 customer search and navigation application. InQuira 6 enables Web site visitors to ask a question in natural language and then interprets the real intent of their query, automatically responding with the answer and guiding the user to additional related information and opportunities to buy products and services. InQuira 6 utilizes content diagnostics to measure the quality of each users’ Web experience, enabling businesses to identify content gaps and add new content to improve the Web site. InQuira 6 contains a new analytics architecture and an extensive set of new reports. The architecture features an OLAP engine, a normalized reporting database, a star-schema analytics database, and a built-in business intelligence tool. The reports provide enhanced information, ranging from aggregated management information to drilldown into individual users, questions and sessions. www.inquira.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and FatWire Software announced that a free five-user license of FatWire Spark pCM (portal content management) is available immediately for download for Sun ONE Portal Server 6 customers. Spark pCM offers a full-featured, integrated content management solution for the Sun One Portal Server. Customers will now be able to create, deploy, and manage content incorporating multiple data types and deliver in a personalized manner via a portal. The Sun ONE Portal Server and FatWire’s Spark pCM offering provides users with portlet interfaces for content creation and production, as well as system administration. The integrated offering delivers out-of-the-box integration with Sun ONE Portal Server. Sun will work with other content management partners to offer similar levels of integration. Spark pCM will be available immediately for download for Sun ONE Portal Server and will be co-packaged in second half 2003 for customers worldwide. It can be quickly and seamlessly upgraded to FatWire’s 25-user Spark pCM product or to UpdateEngine 6.0, FatWire’s enterprise content management platform. www.fatwire.com, www.sun.com
FileNet Corporation announced it is partnering with Steelpoint Technologies to provide an ECM solution addressing the market demands for regulatory compliance and litigation risk management (CLRM) solutions. The partnership pairs FileNet’s Content and Business Process Management technology with Steelpoint’s Introspect eCM, a litigation support application. The joint solution is designed to help companies manage risk and comply with a wide range of corporate governance requirements and regulations, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Additionally, the CLRM solution supports dispute resolution by helping manage the millions of documents involved in large corporate litigations. At the core of the CLRM solution is Steelpoint’s eDiscovery technology, which allows corporations to collect, categorize and store information from a variety of sources, identify the relevant and responsive content, collaborate on issues of risk, and drive corrective mitigation processes. www.filenet.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced a broad strategic initiative targeting costs and operational inefficiencies caused by disconnected data and document processes across the extended enterprise. Adobe is leveraging XML and PDF, products and technologies from Adobe and its partners, along with new system integrator relationships to deliver customized solutions adapted to enterprise requirements. Adobe’s solutions address automating forms, eliminating paper, and keeping compliant with government initiatives. Key components of the solution are Adobe’s new Acrobat 6.0 family and Adobe’s XML architecture. The company also announced alliances with IBM, Intel, Access, Documentum, and PTC to deliver complete end-to-end document processes for applications such as content management, digital signatures, and product lifecycle management. Adobe is also working with IBM, Documentum and Open Text and SAP, to bridge the gap between structured and unstructured data. In the manufacturing segment, software from PTC and Agile will link with Adobe Acrobat desktop software to help companies manage the product lifecycle process with review and mark-up capabilities. www.adobe.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced an XML architecture for document creation, collaboration and process management across the enterprise. The new XML architecture provides a framework for extending business processes inside and outside the firewall. Key components include intelligent forms, process automation, data integration, security and publishing for archiving and printing. The architecture will be supported across Adobe’s client and server solutions. It will take advantage of XML for integration and bring continuity to business processes by presenting XML data in PDF for sharing, viewing and interacting through Acrobat 6.0 software or Adobe Reader. The architecture also enables dynamic rendering of PDF documents from XML for publishing or archiving with XMP meta data for search and retrieval. All XML tools work directly with Adobe’s XML architecture which supports Namespaces, XSLT, XPath, XML Schema and XML Digital Signatures. Over the coming months, Adobe will deliver a new tool for designing XML and PDF templates and forms; make the XML architecture specification publicly available and deliver an XML toolkit for developers. www.adobe.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated introduced the Adobe Acrobat 6.0 product line, a major upgrade and expansion of the company’s software application and a component of its solutions for integrating documents into business processes. The new Acrobat 6.0 family — Acrobat 6.0 Professional, Acrobat 6.0 Standard and Acrobat Elements — offers different levels of functionality to address specific customer needs. The most comprehensive product, Acrobat 6.0 Professional, helps business, creative and engineering professionals who work with complex, graphically rich layouts to improve the process of document exchange, review and archive. Acrobat 6.0 Standard enables workgroups to simplify document reviews using intuitive tools and a new, task-based interface. Acrobat Elements is a volume-license-only product that allows enterprises to place inexpensive Adobe PDF creation capability on every desktop, enabling reliable document distribution. The company also announced Adobe Reader 6.0 software (expected to be available in by the end of May 2003), an upgrade and re-naming of the free Acrobat Reader. Information about the availability of other language versions of the Acrobat 6.0 product line, pricing, upgrade and support policies, is available at www.adobe.com/products/acrobat
iManage, Inc. and Interwoven, Inc. announced the general availability of their joint Collaborative Document Management (CDM) solution. This new integration provides enterprises with a comprehensive solution that addresses the overall collaborative document lifecycle for the extended enterprise: from sharing among teams, to more structured document development and approval cycles, to fully automated and secure document publishing and dissemination. Interwoven CDM powered by iManage WorkSite MP is available immediately at an entry retail price of $50,000. www.interwoven.com/solutions/cdm, www.imanage.com
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