Category: Content technology news (Page 315 of 646)

JDA Software Group Inc. announced that it has acquired substantially all of the remaining assets of Engage Inc. for $3.0 million in cash. Using Engage’s digital asset management and ad layout capabilities, JDA clients will be able to produce localized customer communications in less time and at reduced costs. As the successful bidder in a Chapter 11 auction, JDA gained all intellectual property for Engage’s four current product lines that target retailers, agencies, newspapers and corporations as well as all equipment. JDA expects to spend up to an additional $800,000 for assumed liabilities, which will bring the total cost of the Engage acquisition to approximately $3.8 million. JDA has extended employment offers to approximately 30 former Engage sales, development, services and support associates. JDA will close Engage’s headquarters in Andover, Mass., and establish a more appropriately configured office in the nearby area. For the nine months ended April 30, 2003, Engage’s total unaudited revenues were $8.2 million, which included $2.3 million in software licenses, $3.1 million in maintenance revenue and $2.8 million in services revenue. www.jda.com

Stellent, Inc. announced a solution designed to help companies streamline their processes for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Stellent Sarbanes-Oxley Solution allows all of the various parties involved in the compliance process to create, manage, share, track, approve and archive all information pertaining to disclosures and financial reporting with minimal training, using only a browser. The solution is personalized for non-technical business users, such as auditors, accountants and chief financial officers (CFO), and features an interface that utilizes field-specific terminology and guides people through the system. The Stellent solution supports any file type, including rich media files such as earnings conference calls or videoconferences, and automatically converts content to Web-based formats, such as HTML or PDF. In addition, Stellent will collaborate with Protiviti Inc., an internal audit and business and technology risk consulting firm and an expert in corporate governance issues and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, to support customers in managing their Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. www.stellent.com/sarbox

Entology announced its support for the Interwoven 6 platform. Entology and Interwoven have been partners since 2001, and have delivered content management, portal, Web Service, and customized business solutions for mutual customers. The improved usability in TeamSite 6.0 will facilitate Entology’s development of customized content management services that target a much wider user audience within an organization. Entology has deployed integrated solutions with the Interwoven product line that provide services including: taxonomy/metadata management, Web content management, advanced document management/renditioning, portal service integration, and consolidated hosting infrastructures. In addition to developing custom solutions, Entology provides a full set of standardized JumpStart, HealthCheck, and Value Assurance offerings focused on the Interwoven platform. www.entology.com, www.interwoven.com

Emagine released version 3.1 of its Site & Content Management suite emagiC – now available in different languages to target the needs of specific markets. Emagine has also moved into several new markets during the first half of 2003 and is now represented through partners and distributors in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, South Africa and the USA. Emagine is currently negotiating with partners in other countries. Emagine has developed a unique view on multi-lingual software. With most software, the language is determined at install time. Within emagiC, this is done at run-time and per user. Currently, emagiC is available in English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. More languages will be added in the near future. With the built-in translation tools, anybody can create a new language version in case it is not yet available from Emagine. emagiC v3.1 also incorporates improved support for different character sets, including Unicode. www.emagiC-CMS.com

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

Documentum and Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that the two companies increased the level of commitment in their respective alliance programs. Key products of the Documentum 5 ECM platform have been certified to the Sun ONE Application Server, and the two companies have agreed to extend availability of Documentum Portlets for the Sun ONE Portal Server. The Sun ONE-certified products of the Documentum 5 ECM platform include Webtop and the components provided by the Documentum Web Development Kit (WDK). Webtop is an interface that allows users to access the Documentum repository and content management services from a standard browser. The Web Development Kit is a framework for rapid development of content-rich web applications. WDK is a developer’s toolkit that contains a library of more than 170 reusable, pre-built components and controls that perform common Documentum content management functions. Documentum has certified all of these components and controls on the Sun ONE Application Server with a certification schedule for other Documentum products, including Documentum Administrator, Web Publisher and Digital Asset Manager forthcoming. www.sun.com/sunone, www.documentum.com