Red Hat, Inc. announced the Red Hat Enterprise Applications family of products. Red Hat now offers a complete enterprise solution that is delivered and managed through Red Hat Enterprise Network. The Red Hat Enterprise Content Management System and Portal Server are available now. www.redhat.com
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Ektron Annouunced CMS300 version 2.5 with new Web Services features. Additional enhancements include Oracle support and new editing functionality from eWebEditPro+XML. Ektron CMS 300 version 2.5 will ship on April 18, 2003. Beyond new Oracle support, CMS300 version 2.5 adds automatic image upload when pasting from Microsoft Word, commenting features for collaboration, search and replace in WYSIWYG and HTML mode, and other editor enhancements. www.ektron.com
Convera and Intelliseek announced a partnership designed to extend distribution and bring greater functionality to their current product offerings. Under the agreement, Convera will add new federated search capability to its product line by offering Intelliseek’s Enterprise Search Server (ESS) solution as an optional component of Convera’s RetrievalWare search and categorization platform. Intelliseek will become a reseller of Converas RetrievalWare product to add indexing and search of internal content to Intelliseeks product line. Intelliseek’s ESS solution is pre-configured for over 1,000 different Internet and legacy search engines. Customers can purchase an optional Agent Development Kit featuring a point-and-click interface to create new adaptors for additional sources. www.convera.com, www.intelliseek.com
Document Sciences Corporation announced the release of xPression version 1.2. The latest version of xPression adds support for BEA WebLogic 7.0, and two new Web Services that allow organizations to extend the content processing capabilities of their existing enterprise applications. XPressions new Web Services, a Document Requestor and Document Distributor, allow Content Management, CRM, Portal and Business Application applications to call on xPression’s capabilities from within an existing workflow to request or distribute xPression-created documents. XPression is compatible with Windows 2000, Solaris, AIX, and HP/UX platforms. Support for z/OS will be added later this year. xPression is Unicode compatible and can support XML in any dialect. It integrates with Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server. Xpression’s Upgrade Utility allows companies currently using Document Sciences’ Autograph DLS product to migrate their applications to the xPression environment. www.docscience.com
FileNet Corporation announced it has acquired Shana Corporation, a provider of electronic forms software. This acquisition will provide FileNet with the technology and experience to address enterprise Forms Management. FileNet and Shana have been marketing an integrated eForms solution for the past year through an OEM partnership. The purchase of Shana is an all cash transaction valued at approximately $8.5 million to acquire all stock in Shana Corporation. Shana’s technical development team will form the core of FileNet’s Canada-based development center and will support further FileNet product development, as well as customer support of FileNet’s eForms offering. Additionally, the company announced the availability of Virtual Content Management (VCM) capabilities for its FileNet P8 product line. With VCM, FileNet customers can access and use content stored in third party repositories including Content Management repositories from IBM, Documentum, and Microsoft, among others. VCM is available as an option to FileNet’s P8 Business Process Manager, Content Manager and Web Content Manager suites. www.filenet.com
Inxight Software, Inc. announced a new alliance with Plumtree Software. Plumtree has licensed Inxight’s language processing technology, Inxight LinguistX Platform, to expand the multilingual search capabilities in Plumtree Search Server. Plumtree Search Server queries and indexes content including project documents stored by Plumtree Collaboration Server, Web pages managed by Plumtree Content Server, and content indexed from file systems, Web sites and document databases into the portal’s document directory. With the added multilingual functionality from Inxight, Plumtree Search Server will provide more extensive search returns for international customers. Plumtree Search Server indexes content in the portal’s document directory and frees administrators from having to manage multiple search indexes. Inxight’s technology will add advanced linguistic features for identifying core search terms in multiple languages within Plumtree Search Server. www.inxight.com
PureEdge Solutions Inc. announced that it is working with IBM to offer an integrated digital content management infrastructure for business process automation. PureEdge is now an IBM Advanced Level Partner, and the two companies will co-market the solution to North American enterprises and government agencies. PureEdges intelligent XML front end integrates with IBMs back end infrastructure offerings to manage process-related content through the lifecycle of each business process, including creation, routing, management and archiving. IBM technology forms the back end of the offering and includes IBM DB2 Content Manager, DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Application Server, Tivoli Identity Manager and Tivoli Access Manager. Users have the ability to digitally sign documents, use both adhoc and structured routing, work remotely, move data in and out of corporate systems, and store all elements of a process in one secure file. General availability for the packaged integration offering from PureEdge is slated for June 2003. www.pureedge.com
Documentum announced Documentum Enterprise Records Management Edition, the latest release of their solution for the management of all types of records — including incoming and outgoing email and attachments, documents, Web content, graphics, video and physical records — from creation through archiving or destruction. This new solution also offers automatic records classification capabilities to enable accurate archiving, searching and retrieval. Capabilities include automatic and consistent capture, records classification, archival and disposition of all types of content from all types of sources; automatic categorization and tagging of records with descriptive properties; multi-level security; and automated monitoring of records and email. The Documentum Enterprise Records Management Edition is certified against the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 and UK Public Record Office standards for electronic recordkeeping systems. The Documentum Enterprise Records Manager Edition is integrated with online storage solutions, such as optical storage and EMC Centera. www.documentum.com
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