Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity Ultraseek release 5.1. A highlight of Ultraseek 5.1 is Layout Manager, a graphical user interface that reduces the administrative effort needed to design and deploy multiple search interfaces and results pages. It is designed to give administrators the ability to easily control all aspects of look and feel as well as search options, including results display, default collections, categories, passage-based summaries and spell suggest. Layout Manager allows delegation of this activity to business-line managers. Reporting Manager offers administrators insight into users’ search behaviors and changes in search patterns to permit improvement of search relevance and usability. Detailed analysis reports can be generated on a wide range of search processes to help administrators and business-line managers improve the search relevance on their Web sites, including top search queries, queries yielding no results, top requested documents and query trends.Verity Ultraseek 5.1 also supports new file formats, including Star Office 6.0, OpenOffice 1.0 and .zip documents. www.verity.com
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Microsoft Corp. announced that SharePoint Portal Server 2003 customers will now be able to customize their portal sites (in addition to Windows SharePoint Services sites) with Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003. Users will be able to: create custom Web Part pages, based on the drag-and-drop functionality of reusable Web Parts, which connect to information or applications elsewhere in the organization; use Web Part connections to build solutions that span multiple Web Parts pages; add, edit and configure Web Part zones – even without starting FrontPage; save custom Web Parts to a site catalog for reuse; use live XSLT Data Views to bring external data into SharePoint Portal sites; deploy data-driven pages on new Web sites using Web packages and reusable collections of Web pages; and create Web logs, issue-tracking lists, and news and reviews sites with just a few mouse clicks, and post them to the Web using just their browser. The features in FrontPage 2003 that enable customization of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 are found in the Microsoft Office System Beta 2 Technical Refresh, which also includes the latest versions of both products. The final release of the product will be in summer 2003; pricing will be announced at that time.
ERP5 and Collaborative Portal Server teams announced that they would join forces to provide a global Information System exclusively based on Open Source/Free Software. Collaborative Portal Server (CPS) is a content management and collaborative work system published under GPL license. ERP5 is an Entreprise Resource Planning (ERP) system published under GPL license. The Alliance of ERP5 and CPS will provide corporations with seamless integration of collaborative and quantitative information systems based on the Zope Open Source/Free Application Server. ERP5 allows to track quantitative information and implement management workflows. ERP5 features covers trading, invoicing, accounting, manufacturing, supply chain, stock, customer relation and product design. CPS allows a group of users to share documents in multiple versions, implement administrative and publication workflows and create a single point of access to corporate information and services. The ERP5/CPS Alliance will allow users to share basic technology building blocks such as common user authentication, distributed data synchronisation, and uniform internationalisation. It will also provide a common access to ERP workflow tasks from CPS portal page and CPS administrative and publication tasks from ERP5. www.nuxeo.com/en, www.nexedi.com
Cadmus Communications Corporation announced it has launched ArticleWorks, a content delivery and digital rights management system that enables publishers and other content providers to deliver content on demand in either printed or secure electronic formats. The ArticleWorks system includes two content delivery services: RapidCopy is a turnkey solution for ordering, tracking and delivering single or multiple copies of the print version of a document. RapidCopy offers a range of features including e-commerce and a service module with reporting features; RapidRights is an application for securing a document with multiple options for accessing the content. RapidRights encrypts and locks a PDF file to a user’s computer and requires no special readers, plug-ins or additional software. www.cadmus.com
Autonomy Corporation plc and Virage, Inc. announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which Autonomy will acquire Virage for a purchase price of $1.10 per share in cash. The transaction reflects a fully-diluted cash purchase price of approximately $24.8 million, and a net cash purchase price of approximately $13.3 million adjusted for Virage’s expected cash balance as of September 30, 2003. The Boards of Directors of Autonomy and Virage have approved the transaction, and stockholders representing approximately 40% of Virage’s outstanding shares have signed agreements to vote their shares in favor of the transaction at a special stockholders meeting to vote on the transaction. The transaction is expected to be completed late in the third quarter of 2003. Autonomy expects the transaction to be accretive to earnings per share within six months of closing, and expects to have a cash balance of approximately $110 million following completion of the transaction. Combined Autonomy and Virage products are expected to be generally available during the first quarter following completion of the transaction. www.autonomy.com, www.virage.com
Banta Corporation and WAVE Corporation announced a strategic partnership to provide a complete range of software products for managing multi-channel publishing processes, including print, Internet and variable publishing channels. WAVE has acquired the intellectual property and assumed the future product development and technical support for B-media, Banta’s enterprise-class content management software platform. This new partnership enables Banta to continue marketing and selling B-media software, while assuring existing customers receive a high level of software support. In addition, Banta will now offer its customers MediaBank, WAVE’s asset management application, as well as the company’s other print-related software products. www.banta.com, www.wavecorp.com
Inmagic, Inc. announced the release of XML support within its product line, DB/TextWorks with the release of DB/Text WebPublisher PRO v7.0 and related products. Inmagic’s newly announced XML-based products allow customers to edit over the Web, including online validation lists. The upcoming release of DB/Text for Libraries v6.0, which runs on the DB/TextWorks platform, utilizes XML to provide corporate end-users with direct Web access to account information and self-service features such as self-renewal and checkout. In addition, DB/Text WebPublisher PRO utilizes SOAP. The new features in DB/TextWorks, WebPublisher PRO and DB/Text for Libraries complement the announcement earlier this year of Inmagic Content Server, Inmagic’s enterprise level content management solution built on Microsoft SQL Server. www.inmagic.com
A2i Announces WebSphere Commerce 5.5 Support & Integration for Product Content Management & Catalogs
A2i, Inc. announced that its xCat system will support the new version of IBM’s e-commerce platform, and also provide even tighter integration between the catalog content management capabilities of xCat and the e-commerce capabilities of version 5.5 WebSphere Commerce. In addition to support for WebSphere Commerce 5.5, which expands its capabilities for both B2B and B2C applications, A2i offers compatibility across all of IBM’s strategic software products, including its DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ software, running on a variety of different operating systems, including Linux. www.a2i.com
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