TopicalNet, Inc. has agreed to purchase substantially all of the assets of Lightspeed Interactive, Inc. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The new company will be named LightSpeed Software, Inc. Lightspeed Interactive is the fifth company TopicalNet has acquired since April 2001 in its strategy to assemble a complete, automated content acquisition, content management, collaboration and delivery product for mid-market customers. It started by acquiring Internet Profiles Corporation (I/PRO) in April 2001 for its online audit and analytics capabilities. In October of 2001 TopicalNet purchased Collectively Sharper and its content integration technology, followed in December by Teralytics and its tools dedicated to analyzing customer interaction data. In June of 2002, TopicalNet purchased Wego Systems and its ReadyPortal portal development and collaboration product. By combining Lightspeed Interactive’s content management products with TopicalNet’s XML based Search, Classification/Metadata, Portal/Collaboration and Analytics technologies, customers manage both internal and external content from research and acquisition through the creation, delivery, collaboration and repurposing process. The corporate headquarters will be relocated from Woburn, Mass. to San Francisco. www.TopicalNet.com
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Obtree Technologies Inc. and BEA Systems Inc. announced the integration of Obtree’s content management solutions with the BEA WebLogic Platform 7.0. Under the terms of agreement, the two companies have combined their technologies, allowing developers to integrate Obtree’s personalized content on the BEA WebLogic Platform. Obtree’s integration into the BEA WebLogic Platform delivers content dynamically into the portal or application framework that corresponds to the rights and interests of a particular user. Rather than store content in a repository for delivery to the portal according to a predefined framework, Obtree personalizes content delivery to fit user profiles. Obtree enables users to edit or update the content provided them in real-time through the portal interface. www.bea.com, www.obtree.com
Agari Mediaware, Inc. announced the introduction to the publishing industry of Media Star 2.2. Agari’s Media Star product suite allows the integration of publishing applications, non-intrusively, without making changes to existing applications or content. With it publishers can perform federated search, retrieval, and processing of content across geographically dispersed applications, link distributed content such as layouts, photos, artwork, pricing, rights, sales, and distribution data, and integrate systems acquired through mergers and acquisitions. The Agari product suite provides a solution for automating content value chain business processes (content creation, transformation, management, distribution, and consumption). Agari’s Enterprise Business Asset System connects content that is often dispersed across departments, business units, and partners so that it can be used across the enterprise. The metadata can be transformed between various formats on the fly, eliminating the need for centralized, common metadata schemes. www.agari.com
TRADOS announced the general availability of TRADOS GXT v.5.2. With TRADOS GXT, TRADOS extends its suite of language technology with a new enterprise platform that minimizes the cost and streamlines the process of globalizing enterprise content. TRADOS’ GXT solution provides a collaborative framework for sharing and storing language assets and automating the associated business processes of updating and adapting multilingual content for worldwide markets. The new system simplifies the globalization of enterprise Web sites, product documentation, marketing collateral, product catalogs and content in databases and content management systems. www.trados.com
Inktomi Corp. announced an integration between Inktomi Enterprise Search software and Microsoft Content Management Server. The integration enables Inktomi Enterprise Search to index and retrieve Web content managed by Microsoft Content Management Server. Inktomi Enterprise Search integrated with Content Management Server closely aligns the content development and retrieval processes. This integration allows Inktomi to instantly crawl and index content and associated metadata published and managed by Microsoft Content Management Server, providing users with real-time access to information. Microsoft now offers customers and systems integrators an evaluation copy of Inktomi Enterprise Search as part of its Internet business solution kit, which includes Microsoft Content Management Server. Inktomi Consulting services are available to optimize the deployment of Inktomi Enterprise Search software with Microsoft Content Management Server to meet each customer’s unique needs. www.inktomi.com
divine, inc. announced that it has signed a reseller agreement forming an alliance with MediaBin Inc. divine will offer MediaBin’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution to enable divine content management users to leverage rich media assets through divine Content Server. While divine Content Server can store, archive and deliver all forms of digital assets, the MediaBin Digital Asset Management system expands this capability by enabling business users to modify, transform and compile graphics for use within Web sites or other applications without requiring the assistance of creative professionals. MediaBin software enables dynamic resizing and other manipulations of digital images, photographs, graphics, logos, video, Quark files, and other rich media. The MediaBin capabilities complement divine multimedia-based products that include divine Showcase and divine Truelook. The combination of divine Content Server and MediaBin enables real-time previewing of both images and content as they will appear on the published site. www.divine.com
Arbortext, Inc. announced it has entered into a Co-Marketing Alliance with Software AG, Inc. to immediately begin marketing a completely native XML system for the creation, management and publishing of complex business and technical documents. Through this alliance, Arbortext and Software AG are utilizing X.Systems’ GEMt product, a content management system that integrates Arbortext’s Epic XML authoring and publishing software with Software AG’s native XML server, Tamino. GEMt, based on software developed by X.Systems, integrates with Tamino and brings native XML content management together with X.Systems’ focus on productivity in the information life cycle. www.softwareagusa.com, www.arbortext.com
iPhrase Technologies, Inc. and Stellent, Inc. announced a partnership to integrate iPhrase One Step with the Stellent Content Server and Content Categorizer products. The companies will also engage in joint sales and marketing activities to their respective customer bases. The combined solution will help customers to deliver search results to a wide array of self-service systems, including portals and online customer support applications. The Stellent Content Categorizer supports the integration of third-party engines to enable the appropriate metadata to be extracted and specific taxonomies and vocabularies to be utilized during the check in process. iPhrase One Step self-service search provides the “last mile” of information access by automatically leveraging this organization and aggregation of content. www.stellent.com, www.iphrase.com
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