Connotate Technologies, Inc. announced the release of Web Mining Server 4.0. The new system contains a series of features for both non-technical and technical users. Connotate Technologies Web Mining Server 4.0 can automatically navigate through Web content, extract what’s important (text, numbers, pictures), and convert it from HTML into various formats including XML, alerts, database records, Excel spreadsheets and documents. The logic that performs these functions is based on Information Agents, and Web Mining Server 4.0 can support thousands of them. Information Agents can be used to monitor, harvest, mine, aggregate and integrate Web information. They can deliver information to people or to other systems. Connotate Technologies Web Mining Server 4.0 includes: Database Mapping, Individual Web Page “Snapshot” Capabilities, Enhanced Web Services/API Interface, Enhanced Handling of Pictures, Text, and Numbers, Site Navigation Optimization, Portable Agents, PDF Document Pattern Recognition, “Save As” Agent Creation, and Automated Parameter Iteration. www.connotate.com
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Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. announced the availability of HASP DocSeal, a new digital document protection system based on Aladdin’s HASP security key hardware. HASP DocSeal is a hardware-based system for protecting intellectual property and sensitive information. It is a solution for companies that need to provide their employees and/or customers with access to confidential information, yet want to protect that information from being mass distributed. HASP DocSeal allows the encryption of HTML documents, ensuring the information is safe and secure and restricted from unauthorized access and duplication. The new HASP DocSeal system delivers document security within a framework incorporating security of Aladdin’s HASP USB or parallel port key, an automatic file encrypting tool, and an integrated viewer. Because the DocSeal system permits the assigning of unique IDs, users can conveniently target specific documents to specific users. HASP DocSeal incorporates Digital Rights Management technologies from C.D.I. Systems Ltd. www.hasp.com/docseal
Stellent, Inc. announced a content and document management solution designed specifically for the commercial real estate industry. The Stellent Commercial Real Estate Solution provides paper-intensive real estate companies and corporations with internal property management needs with a hosted, Web-based application for sharing and accessing critical business documents such as leases, amendments and architectural drawings. The Stellent Commercial Real Estate Solution is an online document management service that enables customers to securely store all business documents where they can be managed, accessed and shared by employees, partners and external third parties via the Web whenever and wherever they are needed. www.stellent.com/commercialrealestate
Cardiff Software Inc. announced the general availability of two Cardiff LiquidOffice Connect Agents for IBM Content Manager for Multiplatforms V8.2 and for iSeries V5R1. The Connect Agents enable LiquidOffice eForms to be automatically sent to IBM Content Manager systems for archival or additional workflow processing. The Connect Agents were developed by ImageTech Systems Inc. using LiquidOffice’s Connect Agent API. The new Connect Agents enable LiquidOffice users to export completed HTML and PDF forms and related attachments into IBM Content Manager systems. LiquidOffice forms exported into IBM Content Manager’s centralized document repository are indexed and archived in PDF along with any attachments in their native format. Once archived, users can conduct searches to retrieve a requested form. www.imagetechsys.com, www.cardiff.com
Mondosoft announced enhancements to its third generation search activity and visitor behavior reporting software, BehaviorTracking. BehaviorTracking 5.1 offers insight into web site visitors’ behavior and identifies new trends on the web site, and new content demands. It gives a picture of the site performance, success in meeting users’ expectations as well as a number of success metrics. The information is available online and sent directly with individual content to the inboxes of management, marketing, and web editors. BehaviorTracking 5.1 was built using .NET technology and has been integrated and tested to support Microsoft’s Enterprise server product suite. Along with the BehaviorTracking enhancements, Mondosoft offers an InformationManager tool kit that use search best practice metrics, to apply findings from the search and visitor behavior data for continual site tuning and optimization. www.mondosoft.com
Easypress Technologies released Atomik Roundtrip 1.5, its XML software for QuarkXPress. The enhancements include support for attribute-driven and contextual rules along with QuarkXPress special control characters. The combination of these features enables Atomik Roundtrip to further automate the application of styling based on specific information contained in the XML. Atomik Roundtrip now includes character entity mapping to enable better support for scientific, medical and technical (STM) publications. This new functionality enables users to import XML into QuarkXPress and have Atomik Roundtrip automatically interpret any entity references in the XML and map them to the appropriate font and character in QuarkXPress. It can also do this in reverse if the user re-exports the XML from QuarkXPress. There is now a QuarkXPress 5 native version of Atomik Roundtrip. The suggested retail price for a single-user licence of Atomik Roundtrip is Pounds 3,495, $4,495 or Euro 5,495, and for a 5-user licence of Atomik Roundtrip is Pounds 9,950, $16,119 or Euro 15,423 depending on the country of purchase. Existing Atomik Roundtrip customers with software maintenance agreements will receive the 1.5 upgrade free of charge. www.easypress.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MediaBin, a digital asset management (DAM) company. The two companies announced the integration of their products in October 2002. The new joint solution will combine Interwoven Intelligence Server software for content classification and taxonomy management with MediaBin, to deliver intelligent management of rich media assets. This combination of Interwoven and MediaBin’s capabilities will allow organizations to protect their brand by ensuring consistent, accurate, and current content assets to support all enterprise products and services. This new solution will include extensions to print applications, such as Adobe InDesign, and will utilize Interwoven’s ContentServices standard for Web Service-enabled applications. The Interwoven Digital Brand Management Solution is available from Interwoven today and can be purchased for an entry price of $100K. Interwoven will market both the MediaBin DAM line of products and the combined MediaBin and Interwoven solution immediately. Interwoven client services and technical support are trained and prepared to assist customers with these products. www.interwoven.com
FatWire Software announced it has completed the acquisition of divine’s Content Management business from Saratoga Partners, a New York private equity firm. As part of the divine bankruptcy auction, Saratoga Partners acquired certain assets of divine, including divine’s content management assets, and Saratoga Partners simultaneously transferred the content management assets to FatWire.
FatWire also announced that it had completed the sale of the Participant Server product line (formerly Eprise, Inc.) to SilkRoad Technology, Inc. FatWire will focus its efforts on its enterprise content management software, Content Server and UpdateEngine. Existing investors in FatWire, including Topspin Partners, EuclidSR Partners, Wheatley Partners and Newlight Associates, purchased additional equity in FatWire to fund the acquisition as well as to provide additional working capital to fund the company’s projected growth. www.fatwire.com
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