Pound Hill Software Inc. announced the Catalyst XMP Solution, an integrated set
of tools for Adobe’s eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP). With Catalyst, creators and managers of graphic arts intellectual property can specify both the metadata embedded in graphic arts documents and the look-and-feel of the dialogs that collect the data. In addition to designing and defining these controls, enterprises can generate their own plug-ins for applications such as Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat and QuarkXPress to collect the data.
The Catalyst XMP Solution also includes a companion application called Metavue, a metadata browser and search tool. You can build customized metadata dialogs with properties and values unique to your workgroup in Catalyst and use these values and properties as search criteria in Metavue. Catalyst runs on Macintosh OS X. Catalyst plug-ins and XTensions run on Macintosh and Windows versions of the supported applications. Metavue runs on Macintosh and Windows operating systems. Catalyst, Metavue, and Catalyst Plug-ins and XTensions modules are priced at Enterprise, Workgroup, and Individual Freelancer levels. www.poundhill.com
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Hummingbird Ltd. announced the release of Hummingbird Enterprise 5.1, a suite of information and knowledge management solutions that feature integrated document, knowledge and records management, business intelligence, collaboration and portal applications. The enhanced suite of integrated technologies delivers a complete solution, encompassing all the components of a Smart Enterprise Suite (SES). The secure, consolidated platform of Hummingbird Enterprise 5.1 – the second generation of SES components – provides a single integrated solution for the complete lifecycle management of enterprise content. Hummingbird Enterprise further enhances the SES offering with additional capabilities including full query, analysis and reporting functionalities and data integration tools for managing metadata and integrating enterprise applications. www.hummingbird.com
Infodata Systems Inc. released of AnnoDoc 1.5, a major upgrade to its Content Review product. With this upgrade, AnnoDoc offers compatibility with Adobe Acrobat 6.0 so teams of people can simultaneously create, assemble, view, and control electronic annotations of Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents created with Acrobat 6.0. Annotations are managed as separate objects in the content repository from the original PDF document. Graphic images in all of the popular formats can also have annotations. In addition, AnnoDoc can be used offline and re-synchronized by users on the go. With AnnoDoc 1.5, the enterprise has the means to maintain tight control over their internal content-review processes. Depending on permissions set by a company, a user can view annotations and respond to comments from other parties. All annotations are retained for reporting and audit purposes. AnnoDoc 1.5 is integrated with Documentum, and our Infodata Foundation Server (IFS) allows for integration into other Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems such as Open Text, Stellent, and FileNet. AnnoDoc 1.5 for Windows is available now and is compatible with Adobe Acrobat 4, 5, and 6 and Documentum 4i and 5. www.infodata.com
Optika Inc. announced a partnership with Percussion Software. The partnership enables Optika to leverage Percussion’s Rhythmyx Web Content Management (WCM) functionality to give its customers capabilities for Internet sites, intranet sites, extranets or portals. At the same time, Percussion clients can now take advantage of Optika’s Acorde Records Management solution to comply with requirements for retaining and disposing of corporate records. Under the terms of the partnership agreement, Optika and Percussion will initiate joint marketing and sales efforts and introduce each other into their respective customer bases. www.percussion.com, www.optika.com
Open Text Corporation introduced Coreport 6.0, an enterprise portal framework that unifies content from Livelink, other repositories and a wide range of enterprise systems in a single interface. The solution offers customers a new option for enterprise content integration in Livelink, allowing them to connect disparate applications and repositories. Coreport 6.0 brings Livelink’s virtual team collaboration, knowledge and content management, business process automation and information retrieval services into a customized and extended portal environment. The new version also includes enhancements to the Coreport portal framework, with a variety of functional improvements. Coreport 6.0 will be available July 1. www.opentext.com/livelink
The SALT Forum, a group of companies with a shared goal of accelerating the use of speech technologies in multimodal and telephony systems, announced that it has published a SALT profile for the W3C SVG markup language. The SVG profile supplements the SALT 1.0 specification, which was contributed to the W3C by the SALT Forum and already included profiles for use with the XHTML and SMIL specifications. By adding SALT to SVG, developers can further enhance the user experience with interactive spoken interfaces coupled directly to the visual interface. SVG with SALT provides the means to build sophisticated mobile applications for devices with easy-to-use speech interfaces that are accessible without looking at or touching the equipment. SVG with SALT can be used to provide speech “hot spots” within a graphic or provide spoken commands for scrolling and zooming the display. It can also be used to embed descriptive services for the visually impaired directly within a graphic, streamlining the workflow process. The SALT specification was designed to add speech input, speech output and call control capabilities to practically any XML-based language. www.saltforum.org
The World Wide Web Consortium released SOAP Version 1.2 as a W3C Recommendation. The Recommendation is four documents: the “SOAP Version 1.2 Primer,” “SOAP Version 1.2 Messaging Framework,” “SOAP Version 1.2 Adjuncts,” and the “SOAP Version 1.2 Assertions and Test Collection.” Developed by the W3C XML Protocol Working Group, SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment such as the Web. www.w3.org/2003/06/soap11-soap12.html
ZyLAB announced the formation of a dedicated public sector business unit to sell Federal and State & Local customers the company’s Records Management & Archival Solution (RM&A) – ZyIMAGE. ZyLAB also announced the immediate availability of ZyIMAGE 5.0. ZyIMAGE 5.0 offers government organizations with an XML framework for storage and integration and is DoD 5015.2 compliant. This solution offers new “add-on” capabilities to support the specific requirements of security, intelligence, law enforcement, and legal users. Features of ZyIMAGE 5.0 include: XML framework for storage and integration, support for over 90 languages, full color and gray scale support, higher quality OCR engine, and 64-bit indexing. www.zylab.com
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