Documentum announced an agreement to acquire privately held eRoom Technology, Inc. Documentum will issue approximately 7.7 million shares of its common stock and pay approximately $12.6 million in cash for all of the outstanding shares of eRoom’s capital stock, based upon eRoom’s current capitalization. In addition, Documentum will reserve approximately 1.7 million shares of its common stock for issuance upon exercise of eRoom stock options being assumed in the acquisition. The acquisition is expected to close in December 2002, subject to customary closing conditions. The joint Documentum and eRoom solution will offer a broadened spectrum of structured, ad hoc, real time and anytime collaboration functions, integrated with Documentum’s ECM platform. Customers will have access to tools for content-centric and collaboration-centric applications, each supported, leveraged and extended by the other. Following completion of the transaction, Documentum will sell the eRoom products and the ECM platform, through the combined sales channels. www.eroom.com, www.documentum.com
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Pipeline Interactive unveiled a new content management tool for Web site managers. Called, “eZ Publisher,” the new release makes Pipeline’s proprietary content management system available to a much broader range of users. The new system enables Web site publishers, both technical and non-technical, to easily manage Web site content. It also allows managers to assign publishing rights based on individuals, departments or even countries. eZ Publisher modules include content, graphics, news, events, calendar, employment, FAQ, contacts, display and links, products, documents, and site map. The system can be deployed across intranet, extranet and Web sites. Because it allows users to manage multi-lingual sites, it can also be used to develop localized sites. The package is available in ASP and ColdFusion. www.pipelineinteractive.com
Context Media, Inc. announced the release of Interchange Suite 3.0, its enterprise content management software solution. Interchange Suite 3.0 allows distributed and disparate digital asset and content repositories to remain distributed, while giving users a single, unified way to access the content these repositories contain. The suite is comprised of three software applications. The Interchange Suite components can work together or on their own. The Interchange Suite web services-based applications include: Interchange Content Server – the core web services suite that categorizes, manages and powers access to enterprise content; Interchange Integration Console – discovers content stored in various distributed and disparate content, document and digital asset management systems across the enterprise; and Interchange Distribution Console – provides services that allow companies to deliver content across the enterprise and to external parties. All services and features are enabled in a web services environment interoperable with Sun One and Microsoft.Net initiatives. Interchange Suite ships with support for Sun Solaris, Linux and Microsoft Windows 2000; application server support for BEA, iPlanet, JBoss, Oracle 9iAS and IBM Websphere; and database support for ODBC and JDBC compliant databases. www.contextmedia.com
Autonomy Corporation plc announced the release of Autonomy’s Legacy Compatibility Module (LCM). LCM enables companies to leverage existing legacy systems and transition to an advanced information management technology. LCM, based on Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), builds a bridge between legacy systems and Autonomy’s technology to allow all enterprise data to be accessed within new, contextual automated systems. LCM can connect directly to popular legacy indexes and a variety of formats including legacy index files, legacy categories, topics and taxonomies. LCM provides the ability to manually edit and supervise legacy methods for backward compatibility. Autonomy’s IDOL integrates unstructured, semi-structured and structured information from multiple repositories through an understanding of the content. www.autonomy.com
Inxight Software, Inc., announced Inxight SmartDiscovery 3.0. Inxight SmartDiscovery expands upon Inxight’s existing metatext extraction and analysis applications, adding features that include taxonomy management, enterprise-class categorization and a guided information retrieval environment. In addition, Inxight SmartDiscovery provides text analysis and retrieval capabilities that include on-the-fly entity extraction that identifies names of people, places, things and relationships from documents and groups them by category; automatic document summarization that creates intelligent summaries in a fraction of a second; a similar document finder that provides all other similar documents for a given document; concept search that organizes query results into a hierarchy of shared topics and themes; full text search that features basic keyword search and a Boolean information retrieval model for specifying the exact information needed; and multi-language support for accurately analyzing and retrieving information in 23 languages. Inxight SmartDiscovery is available immediately. www.inxight.com
Oracle Corp. announced an alliance with Mohomine, Inc. The integration offers mutual customers a streamlined process that reduces the number of resources needed to reformat and enter resume data during the recruiting cycle. Integrating with Oracle iRecruitment and the Oracle E-Business Suite, enables Mohomine to deliver resume content parsing for documents written in various styles and formats from within a single human resources environment. Mohomine’s Resume Extractor automates and simplifies the process of attribute extraction from resumes by utilizing pattern recognition technology with “learning-by- example” techniques from within a single system environment. The Oracle and Mohomine solution is able to: accept various input formats including Word, PDF, Text, HTML, RTF and email/POP access; output resumes into parsed XML, using HR-XML standards; and, integrate with Oracle iRecruitment through the Internet. www.oracle.com
Following a merger between Protege Ltd and Voquette Inc., a new enterprise software company called Semagix is being launched. The new company’s semantic metadata management technology “Freedom” enables organizations to classify, manage and intelligently exploit structured and unstructured content from any source. This delivers information discovery capabilities and comprehensive real-time content analysis. Under the terms of the agreement U.K.-based Protege Ltd has merged with San Mateo-based Voquette Inc. in an all-stock deal. www.semagix.com
IXIASOFT and Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that they will join forces to co-market and integrate IXIASOFT’s TEXTML Server with Adobe FrameMaker 7.0. The initiative encompasses a broad base of marketing activities aimed towards the aerospace and defense industry, concentrated mainly on the synergy that exists between TEXTML Server and FrameMaker 7.0. Development efforts are moving ahead to provide seamless integration between the two products and will enable users to produce XML content in the environment provided by FrameMaker and store and publish this content using TEXTML Server, thus creating a complete document workflow system from production to searching and publishing. www.ixiasoft.com, www.adobe.com
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