eMeta Corporation announced the availability of the eRights Suite. The eRights Suite provides the infrastructure, applications and insight necessary to secure and sell digital assets and services. The new Suite enables enterprises to create, control and commercialize digital offerings that are synchronized to specific business needs and models, assets and audiences. The eRights Suite is composed of RightAccess 3.0, RightCommerce 3.0, and RightServices 1.0. RightAccess provides the infrastructure necessary to protect and manage access to digital assets and services. Offering advanced authentication and authorization, delegated administration, and metadirectory features. RightCommerce contains packaging, pricing, customer care, billing and payment applications. RightServices provides a solution for the protection and commercialization of those assets, and is optimized for non-traditional online assets such as software services and software code. RightCommerce may be integrated with Content Management, CRM, and DRM systems. www.emeta.com
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Advent Publishing Systems announced a new and substantially enhanced version of its 3B2 software, Version 8, at XML Europe on May 5th 2003. Version 8 of 3B2 implements a range of XML-related international standards including XSL-FO, XPath, XSLT, and SVG. Additional features in Version 8 of Advent 3B2 software include: page building on the fly wherein content can determine page layout, more consistent 3B2 programming commands, a new de-bugging tool that streamlines the development and debugging of templates and formats, a new format profiler for producing job statistics on the processing speed of a job, font quick tables to make fonts more accessible, new and improved CALS libraries for for use with SGML and XML, entity libraries to support ISO standard entity sets, and an improved and enhanced user interface. Version 8 will be available for customer shipment beginning Monday 5th May 2003. www.3b2.com/v8
Altova software and CambridgeDocs announced the xDoc Plug-in, a tool for migrating unstructured content from Microsoft Word, HTML, and PDF documents, directly into Altova’s XMLSPY. The combined solution helps businesses transform volumes of pre-existing unstructured documents into DocBook XML, LegalXML, NewsML, HR-XML, SCORM, and other customer-specific schemas. The resulting XML content can be stored in content management systems, databases and XML repositories. XMLSPY users would be able to select “Open From Microsoft Word”, “Open From HTML”, “Open From PDF” or from any other supported format, and have the documents automatically converted into XML, along with an appropriate XSLT stylesheet required to view the XML as a well-formatted document. The xDoc Plug-in is a Java 2 platform engine and works on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The application can be downloaded for immediate evaluation and purchase. www.cambridgedocs.com/products_xmlspyplugin.htm, www.altova.com/download
Veridocs announced the availability XMLdocs Version 1, a hosted XML document authoring and management system. For the release, Veridocs has added a flexible new “Template Designer” feature not available on the products Beta Version. Template Designer makes it simple for organizations to create templates from
schemas (or use an existing template from XMLdocs as a starting point for a new template) for everything from press releases and product descriptions to knowledge-based articles and help documents. Using these templates, non-technical users write XML documents via the XMLdocs Editor’s word-processor-like interface. Documents can then be exported for publication on a Web site or elsewhere through a Web Service. XMLdocs is priced to be affordable for everyone interested in authoring content in XML. Individual users can register for the product and create a personal workspace for free. Group fees start at $99 per month. my.xmldocs.com/register
Mondosoft announced an integration between MondoSearch site search and SiteCore’s content management system. The integration enables MondoSearch enterprise search to index and retrieve content managed by SiteCore content management system to provide information retrieval and immediate access to business content. Both solutions use Microsoft .NET built technology. Web site owners will also have the advantage of visitor search activity reporting to determine who is using the search function, what information they are looking for and, what they are finding and not finding on the site. Content can be simply adjusted and refined using both SiteCore and MondoSearch. www.mondosoft.com
XyEnterprise announced a new Web Services Development Kit for its XML Professional Publisher (XPP) software line. This new Web Services interface makes available the XML publishing capabilities of XPP to Web interfaces, portals, and application integrations, providing rapid deployment of automated XML publishing solutions in environments as diverse as corporate IT services to consumer “publish on demand” applications. The new Web Services offering exposes the composition, transformation and rendering capabilities of the XPP software through a SOAP/XML interface. This API provides access for customers and developers, enabling them to build customized end-user interfaces in support of distributed XML publishing services. Web Services also supports the deployment of XPP as an embedded batch processing engine able to transform XML content to PDF, print, and Web output on demand. www.xyenterprise.com
SDL Desktop Products has announced the launch of a new version of its SDLX Computer Aided Translation system with over 20 new enhancements. SDLX Translation Suite 2003 is a complete and secure translation environment for corporations, translation companies and freelance translators. www.sdlx.com
Semagix announced that it is shipping version 3.0 of its Freedom platform for enhancing metadata and integrating enterprise information from structured and unstructured content sources. Semagix Freedom is a semantics-based Enterprise Information Integration (EII) software platform that is used to aggregate and relate large volumes of heterogeneous information held in disparate locations. The enhanced features of Freedom 3.0 simplify and reduce the cycle for System Integrators to implement the Freedom platform. Semagix has enhanced several usability, scalability and performance features. Semagix’s Freedom 3.0 is available immediately with prices starting at $75,000 per processor. www.semagix.com
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