CrownPeak Technology unveiled AdvantageMail, a complete email campaign solution that provides customers with interface components for rich media email creation, publishing, and management, all incorporated into CrownPeak’s Advantage CMS. The AdvantageMail system draws on a partnership with EmailLabs, a provider of advanced email marketing technology solutions. Like CrownPeak, EmailLabs follows the Software-as-Service (SaS) model. CrownPeak’s AdvantageMail system enables customers to integrate Website workflow with both email and site content. Advantage CMS customers can easily create, design, and publish an email. Simultaneously, the system can automatically update the site, create a customized landing page or even automatically create an updated archive of the newsletter listing. CrownPeak customers can manage their email campaigns from the Advantage CMS interface. Users can run their rich-media email through workflow like any other document. When ready to publish, the system automatically feeds the HTML, text and AOL-friendly versions directly into an EmailLabs system for distribution and tracking. www.crownpeak.com, www.EmailLabs.com
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BEA Systems, Inc. announced BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1. BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 is based on a unified architecture that includes new versions of BEA’s application server and Java virtual machine, BEA’s enterprise portal and application development framework, and BEA’s integration solution. Another component of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 is designed to simplify the production and management of custom-fit portals. BEA’s new portal product supports JSR 168, for portlet-level development, and JSR 170, for content management system integration. BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 also will deliver a new portal design and development environment, based on BEA WebLogic Workshop. In addition, BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 adds new content management capabilities, search, Web integration, and native support for wireless communications. BEA’s application server will implement both Web services security and an infrastructure for delivering SOAP messages. A beta version of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 is available. General availability of BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 and BEA WebLogic JRockit 8.1 is scheduled for the spring. General availability of the BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, which includes BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1, BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1, BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 and BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1, is scheduled for the summer. BEA WebLogic software is available for download. www.bea.com
COAST Software Inc. announced the integration between its enterprise-based COAST Web Quality Central solution and Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. COAST Web Quality Central is a complementary solution that integrates with Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 to automate content testing and verification. Automated scans verify content based on user-defined rules within the workflow process. Pass/fail reports are then returned to the author or quality assurance team and before a document can be passed on to the next recipient or published to the Web site, any errors or issues are addressed. COAST Web Quality Central can also be used when organizations first deploy a CMS system and they have mountains of content that must be migrated into the content management repository. Using the solution from COAST Software, they can automatically scan through that content, identify any old, inappropriate or updated information and then take necessary action. www.coast.com
FatWire Software announced a strategic partnership with GravityRock, where they will be FatWire’s authorized distributor and support center for FatWire’s complete software line throughout Europe. GravityRock will distribute and resell FatWire’s UpdateEngine enterprise content management suite and FatWire Spark portal Content Management (pCM) software. GravityRock has already implemented UpdateEngine solutions both at customer sites as well as in their own technology center, PortalRock.net. Portalrock.net offers rapid prototyping as a tool for decision makers to evaluate Portal and Content Management solutions prior to making final choices and investments. Additionally, GravityRock will work with portal server providers to sell FatWire Spark portal Content Management (pCM) software. www.gravityrock.com, www.fatwire.com
QL2 Software (formerly Caesius Software) announced the release of WebQL version 2 for information extraction from the Web and other unstructured data sources. WebQL is used for business intelligence, competitive intelligence, knowledge management, and business activity monitoring applications. WebQL version 2 includes: notation based on ANSI standard SQL including full support for joins, grouping, sorting, and set operations; an IDE includes syntax highlighting editor, graphical data flow monitor, and real-time delivery of results; support for Windows, Linux, and Unix; support for “all modern” technologies for parsing and extracting unstructured, semi-structured and structured data; and simultaneous and uniform input and output of all common file formats HTML, XML, PDF, DOC, CSV, TAB, images, databases, proprietary email formats, etc. WebQL version 2 is available for immediate shipment. Prices range from $7,900 per year for a single processor license to $100,000 per year for an unlimited usage single location license. Low cost licenses are available to educational institutions and charitable organizations. No-charge evaluation licenses are available to software developers. www.QL2.com
Vignette Corp. launched Vignette Dialog, an application for building solutions that automate and personalize relationships across multiple touchpoints through selected communications. Vignette Dialog enables organizations to engage prospects, customers, partners and employees with automated personalized interactions through Web sites, portals, phone calls, e-mail, wireless devices and direct mail. Vignette Dialog, which leverages the intellectual property acquired from Revenio in late 2002, has a browser-based interface so business users can easily define, modify and track dialogs. Business users can access real-time reports to plan and track the costs and results of each customer interaction. Vignette Dialog interacts with existing enterprise applications, such as CRM solutions, data warehouses, SFA systems, call centers and Web sites. Vignette Dialog capabilities include interactive dialogs, event-triggered dialogs,multistep dialogs, support for multiple touchpoints, and integration with enterprise content sources. Vignette offers current customers the opportunity to be “Up and Running” within 30 days. Vignette Dialog is currently available. www.vignette.com
anacubis, a division of the i2 Group (Washington DC) announced immediate availability of its web-enabled visualisation technology for online information portals. anacubis now extends the same visualisation and analysis technology used by intelligence and law enforcement agencies worldwide to online business information databases. The anacubis Viewer solution incorporates Java and XML-based technology to enable commercial information professionals to rapidly extract intelligence from complex data. anacubis Viewer automatically creates a visual representation of complex data in real-time, which can be manipulated and acted upon. It does this by automatically representing entities, such as people and organisations, pictorially as icons and shows the relationships between such entities as link types. As the user explores the online source, data is continually added to the visualisation, providing a big picture overview of a particular organisation, market or area of interest. anacubis will also launch the anacubis View Manager in March of 2003. The View Manager is a desktop application that enables users to store, manage and distribute the anacubis Views they have created within supported online information services. The anacubis View Manager will be available for download, free of charge in mid-March. www.anacubis.com
Open Text Corporation and Corechange, Inc. announced the closing of the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Corechange by a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Text. Corechange’s portal software provides a window into a company’s enterprise content, applications, services, and productivity tools. Coreport, the main product from Corechange, provides an enterprise access framework, deploying secure, scalable intranet and extranet portals. Benefits of integration with Open Text’s collaboration and knowledge management system, Livelink, include enhancement of Livelink connectors UNITE and Doorways; application integration at the point of access – with Corechange’s portal framework, Livelink will offer a horizontal solution unifying existing applications in CRM, ERP and SCM, and direct interaction with any kind of application running on any platform both web and legacy – with no change to the native application and no loss of functionality. This $4.2 million cash transaction will not result in an immediate or material financial change in guidance for Open Text’s fiscal 2003 year. www.opentext.com/livelink, www.corechange.com
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