DataPower Technology, Inc. and Altova, Inc. announced the availability of XMLSPY 5 integrated with the Datapower XS40 XML Security Gateway. The unified solution addresses enterprise the need for centralized XML Web Services security without forcing application developers to alter pre-existing design and deployment practices in any way. The XMLSPY 5 XML development environment provides visual design, development and debugging for all types of XML documents including XML schema, XSLT, SOAP and WSDL. DataPower’s XS40 is an XML security gateway providing XML filtering, schema validation, XML Encryption, XML Signature, WS-Security and others. Security policies within the DataPower XS40 are XML-based so developers can use existing XML Schema, WSDL and other XML application files to assign filtering rules, access control and overall policy management. XMLSPY 5 and XS40 as integrated solution is available immediately. Pricing for the solution starts at $64,995. The XMLSPY 5 Professional Edition includes an XSLT debugger and is available for stand- alone purchase for $399 from the Altova online shop. www.altova.com, www.datapower.com
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Stellent, Inc. announced it has acquired selected assets of Active IQ Technologies for $650,000 in cash, or approximately one times the acquired annualized recurring revenue. The transaction will have no revenue effect on Stellent’s March 31, 2003 quarter and is expected to be accretive for Stellent’s fiscal year 2004. There is no ongoing business relationship between the company and Active IQ. Under terms of the agreement, Stellent has acquired technology, customer agreements and other assets related to the hosted application business that Active IQ built based upon the Stellent Content Management system. The company has assumed Active IQ’s current subscription revenue agreements with customers and will continue to market the hosted applications for vertical markets. Stellent will also offer general hosting capabilities to other content management prospects and customers. Stellent has hired Active IQ sales, marketing and development staff, and Active IQ president and chief executive officer Jack Johnson is now Stellent’s vice president of hosted solutions. www.stellent.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
Intraspect Software, Inc. announced a new set of collaboration solutions. Comprised of the Solution Suite for High Technology, Solution Suite for Financial Services and Solution for Project Delivery/PMO, these new offerings incorporate best practices from over 400 solutions implementations with 200 customers. These solutions can be implemented faster when compared to generic collaboration products. Intraspect Solutions are a combination of its collaboration software platform — Intraspect 5, application-specific user interfaces and data models, business process models and workflows, connectors to enterprise applications and packaged consulting services designed to meet the needs of Fortune 1000 customers. www.intraspect.com
InStranet, Inc. announced the release of version 3.2 of its Channels In-Line (CIL) application featuring built-in analytics. With a strong emphasis on feedback and measurement, these analytics enable managers to make informed sales and marketing decisions based on market pressures, competition and channel needs. In addition to publishing and syndicating information, companies can measure its effectiveness in real-time. CIL 3.2 ships with the following business indicators as part of the new analytics module: Field Audit, Awareness Ratio, and Document Effectiveness Metric. CIL is a web-based application that ships with InStranets Content Application Foundation. It includes the following content and document management modules: publishing, workflow, file system agent, syndication, user management, security, metadata tracking and organization, multi-dimensional segmentation engine and application content exchange. CIL is targeted at companies with multiple distribution channels, large sales organizations, and multiple customer touch points within the following industries: retail, financial, manufacturing, CPG, healthcare and technology. www.InStranet.com
Vignette Corp. announced certification of Vignette V7 for IBM software and hardware solutions. Vignette V7’s support for IBM infrastructure provides current and prospective customers with the ability to standardize on a unified solution for managing content and portals across the enterprise. The Vignette and IBM solution addresses the challenges of creating and managing portals and Web sites to deliver the right enterprise information and business processes to each audience. When combined, IBM’s application infrastructure and hardware and Vignette’s content management and portal applications enable organizations to deploy enterprise Web applications that protect and leverage investments in enterprise applications, databases, application servers, security and operating systems. Vignette’s support for the IBM platform now includes the AIX operating system, WebSphere Application Server, DB2 Universal Database, IBM Directory Server, WebSphere Portal Server, IBM MQSeries, IBM Content Manager 8, Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino. www.vignette.com
HiSoftware, Inc. announced integration between its AccVerify, AccMonitor Server and Microsoft Content Management Server (CMS) 2002, enhancing the ability to ensure that websites meet Section 508 recommendations and organizational Web content quality standards. The combined solutions allow for integrated access for verification of accessibility and content quality throughout the different layers of CMS managed Web sites. AccVerify, AccMonitor and Content Management Server integration can be used together “out-of-the-box” with no additional development resources required, so that content quality and accessibility verification is seamlessly integrated into the development, deployment and delivery of the CMS-driven Web sites. These solutions also allow organizations to address accessibility and content quality verification issues related to XML-based Web services. www.hisoftware.com
KMtechnologies Inc. announced a new partnership agreement with Swingtide. FSwingtide has licensed KMtechnologies’ work2gether platform to deliver the Swingtide QoB Assistant. Leveraging the work2gether collaborative features, the QoB Assistant is a productivity tool for architects and developers to understand, define and manage the interoperability of XML used in service-oriented architectures. The QoB Assistant is a software application packaged with an online knowledgebase of XML standards that’s accessible from your network. The QoB Assistant automates planning in several key ways. First, the QoB Assistant lets you make specific choices about XML and make them persistent across your local copy of the knowledge-base as design guidelines. Second, several people can work and collaborate on a design simultaneously. The QoB Assistant comes complete with discussion thread capability, email notification when team members update a portion of the design, and even support for distance collaboration. Additionally, the QoB Assistant enables you to add custom content that can be leveraged by the rest of the team. www.kmtechnologies.com www.swingtide.com
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