InStranet, Inc. announced the release of the latest version of its Secure Report Distribution Manager product, an application designed to converge Business Intelligence and Enterprise Content Management. SRDM v2 enables BI managers and non-technical business users to search for and distribute reports to the appropriate recipients across the extended enterprise, whether those users are at headquarters, in branch offices or retail outlets, or within partner or customer organizations. With SRDM v2, users can access a single centralized location for all reporting information, whether those reports originate from a BI platform, desktop reporting tools, CRM applications, or mainframe and AS/400 platforms. www.InStranet.com
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Mobius Management Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired technology and certain other assets of Cytura Corp. Cytura software delivers Web site management, document management and digital asset management in a single platform. It gives business managers and non-technical employees the ability to create, personalize, transform, manage and publish content. Cytura technology will be integrated with the Mobius ViewDirect TCM software suite to deliver a comprehensive integrated solution for enterprise content requirements. Mobius paid Cytura $2.2 million in cash for the acquired assets. In approximately one year, Mobius may be obligated to pay Cytura up to an additional $800,000, depending on the price of Mobius common stock over the next thirteen months.
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Soft Experience has released Catalogue 4.0 – Files Metadata Miner. Catalogue 4.0 is a Windows utility to automatically gather file metadata and to generate HTML/XML/RDF reports. Collected metadata includes: Microsoft Office, Star Office and OpenOffice.org summary information; summary information of any Windows 2000 file; HTML document title and meta tags according to Dublic Core schema (IETF RFC 2731); Adobe XMP metadata; user-defined information of any Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org document; Macintosh comments of any Macintosh file stored on NTFS volumes; PDF Document information; and IPTC-NAA fields for JPEG/TIFF images. The program can generate directly HTML, CSV, Word or XML reports of collected metadata, and is able to apply appropriate XSL transformations to build any text/csv/html/xml report. Language support includes English, French, German, and Portuguese,and you can modify or add your own user interface language.
Percussion Software announced a partnership agreement with Olidium, who will integrate its technology with Percussion’s Rhythmyx Content Manager and offer the products in tandem to customers. C3Liaison is an Internet-based platform allowing customers, suppliers and trading partners to collaborate, manage and share an extended network of business processes and inter-enterprise applications. The C3Liaison suite of applications comprises a portal framework and seven applications: catalog manager, sourcing, procurement, fulfillment visibility, asset management, collaborative inventory and maintenance, repair and engineering (MRE). Olidium supports Sun Solaris, Linux, and Microsoft Windows 2000 operating systems; as well as Oracle, IBM DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server databases. It has been built to be integrated with legacy ERP systems and other vertical applications. C3Liaison will integrate with Rhythmyx Content Manager V4.5 to update and repurpose content via Olidium’s Rhythmyx Publisher Plug-in. This integration will occur in three main areas of Olidium’s C3Liaison suite: Portlets, Catalog Manager and Documentation. www.percussion.com, www.olidium.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced TeamPortal for IBM WebSphere Portal – Express, to complement WebSphere Portal – Express recently announced by IBM. The offering will enable customers to quickly and easily get portal initiatives up and running as well as provide the ongoing management of portal content, documents, and code. Interwoven TeamPortal for IBM WebSphere Portal – Express will be available on October 31st in conjunction with IBM’s availability of WebSphere Portal – Express. www.interwoven.com
Factiva announced Factiva Fusion, a content enhancement tool that categorizes and creates relationships between critical business content sets, according to a taxonomy. Factiva Fusion structures content for retrieval and contextual integration into portals, intranets, and other business applications. Factiva’s experts work with customers to tailor Factiva Intelligent Indexing, reducing the time needed to create a unique classification scheme. The solution does not seek to replace existing portals, intranets, and content management systems, but to complement and enhance their performance by consistently organizing the content within those repositories. With Factiva Fusion’s developer’s kit companies can invoke Web services to supply enhanced information that supports specific job functions (e.g., Finance, Marketing, etc.) Fusion incorporates an editorial interface for content collection and taxonomy management, and a pre-defined search interface for out-of-the-box access to unified content. Factiva has strategic partnerships with EIP application providers such as Microsoft, IBM, and Plumtree. www.factiva.com
Corel Corporation announced that Corel Ventura 10 is now available. A page-layout and publishing application, Corel Ventura 10 provides tools designed specifically for the creation of highly-formatted and visually-rich business documents with new features such as XML import, Publish to PDF, and enhanced graphics support. Together with Corel XMetaL 3, Corel Ventura 10 enables enterprise customers to quickly and easily create and professionally publish XML content. The XMetaL interface enables anyone within an organization to create XML. Corel Ventura 10 is available for the suggested retail price of US$699. Registered customers of Corel Ventura 7 or 8 may purchase Corel Ventura 10 at the suggested upgrade price of US$249. www.corel.com/ventura10
Authentica, Inc. announced Authentica Secure Gateway, its new enterprise e-mail security software. Authentica Secure Gateway allows organizations to systematically protect all outgoing messages without any changes to their internal e-mail workflow or extra steps or training for users. It combines e-mail encryption with a universal interface to content scanning products, including those from TrendMicro, SurfControl, MailMarshall, Tumbleweed and Clearswift MIMEsweeper. It gives corporations who have standardized on Microsoft Exchange the ability to secure e-mail in line with content filtering policies. There are no special software requirements for senders or recipients and Authentica Secure Gateway can securely deliver any file format. Authentica Secure Gateway is available immediately. Pricing starts at $32,500 (USD). www.authentica.com
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