Percussion Software and Buystream announced a partnership to combine their content management and web analytics solutions. Rhythmyx customers will now be able to manage their content efficiently while measuring its effectiveness. The advantage to this integration is providing the line-of-business users, rather than the technical users, with the statistics to make sure the right content is delivered to the proper audience. Armed with statistics on the meaningful content, Rhythmyx customers will be able to make the appropriate changes quickly using Rhythmyx’ Active Assembly, a graphical layout tool for arranging content without technical assistance. Buystream Perspective is built specifically for integration into content management systems. The template-driven structure of content management systems makes it easy to integrate Buystream’s data-tag technology. Buystream’s data collection technology, data tagging, automatically inherits information such as “author,” “title,” and “date” from each template. Buystream Perspective can then produce reports that enable business managers, content contributors and editors to understand how effective the content is in context of their business processes and desired outcomes. www.buystream.com, www.percussion.com
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Content IQ, the content management division of The IQ Business Group, and Venetica announced a partnership agreement under which Content IQ will be a value-added reseller in South Africa for Venetica. The IQ group has operations in Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, Boston and Atlanta in the USA and in London in the UK. www.venetica.com
Versim Technologies announced the availability of the Versim XML Differencing Plugin for Altova XMLSpy. With the Versim Plugin, XMLSpy users can easily identify the differences between XML documents, both on the file system or remotely addressable via URL. The Versim Plugin is fully integrated with XMLSpy, and allows you to navigate backwards and forwards through documents, verifying, accepting or rejecting changes that are presented to you. The Versim XML Differencing Plugin is available to download as a fully functional 30-day evaluation. www.versim.com/cgi-bin/view/download
Zope Corporation announced the release of Zope 2.6.1, the latest version of the open source application server. The new release is the first to contain a majority of enhancements from the Zope community. Zope 2.6.1 has improved internationalization and translation support for page templates and enhanced full-text indexing, with faster results and better handling of world languages. System administrators will appreciate the improved OS signal handling and log rotation support. High volume web sites will benefit from improved object cache control, providing better performance with lower memory usage. With this release, Linux and Solaris binary builds now include Python 2.1.3 with large file support, providing pre-packaged support for large site deployments. Zope 2.6.1 can be downloaded from www.zope.org
Thomas Technology Solutions, Inc. has entered into a partnership agreement with Documentum. ThomasTech builds content management and publishing solutions for industrial manufacturers and commercial publishers. The company will integrate Documentum’s software, along with other applications, into the end-to-end technology solutions it provides to clients worldwide. ThomasTech is one of a few Documentum partners offering data conversion and pre-press services, thus providing a complete range of content management capabilities to clients. www.thomastechsolutions.com
iMakeNews announced the launch of its Weblog management or ‘blogging’ service, DirectBlog. The new service enables businesses to harness the power of Weblogs, which provide untapped channels for e-marketing, knowledge management, sales and collaborative communications. Through DirectBlog, organizations will be able to publish and e-mail customized and personalized Weblogs to segmented groups. DirectBlog will be available to companies and iMakeNews’ reseller network in April 2003. DirectBlog provides iMakeNews customers and channel partners with all of the technical abilities of a ‘blog, along with the features and flexibility of iMakeNews’ e-marketing services. Individuals already using the firm’s Web-based content management, design, subscription management, data analysis, and other tools can extend their application to ‘blogging. Through a single user interface, they can create, maintain and e-mail ‘blogs on a “one-to-one” basis. www.imakenews.com
InStranet, Inc., provider of Content-Based Applications for the Enterprise, announced the release of its new Contact Centers In-Line Application, an enterprise software application designed to automate the content-rich processes of creating, distributing, monitoring, evaluating and managing product and support documents for contact centers. Using a content engine in combination with user-profile security rules, CCIL automatically filters agent content access based on customizable factors such as: job title, market focus, product specialty, contact center site, awareness level, training rating and language. With CCIL, critical documents and content can be found quickly using the integrated search capability. Furthermore, documents can be segmented using an algorithm to ensure that content is “smart” and provides an agent exactly the right information at the right time. CCIL is easily linked to CRM systems and other business channels through InStranets J2EE-based applications exchange infrastructure. www.InStranet.com
Vignette Corp. announced the general availability of its new series of Vignette Portal Suites, part of the Vignette V7 family of products. The Vignette Portal Group Suite, Vignette Portal Business Suite and Vignette Portal Enterprise Suite offer organizations of all sizes out-of-the-box functionality designed to give them unified management of their online properties. Customers can take advantage of Vignette Portal Suites in three suite packages tailored to different needs. Each suite supports XML, J2EE, .NET and Web Services to leverage existing information and systems. Each suite is also compatible with the others, allowing organizations to expand to additional functionality in the future. Through a newly launched program, Vignette offers current customers the opportunity to be ‘Up and Running’ with a new Vignette Portal Group Suite implementation within 30 days. Vignette Portal Suites are now available and shipping to customers. Licensing costs for Vignette Portal Suites begin at $150,000. www.vignette.com
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