Vignette Corp. announced a new Jumpstart program that helps companies deploy Vignette V6 solutions within 90 days for a quicker return on investment. The Jumpstart program combines Vignette V6 applications with consulting and education services from the Vignette Professional Services (VPS) organization, which draws upon the best practices and expertise gained from delivering rapid deployments using Vignette applications. The products available in the Jumpstart offering include the Vignette V6 Standard Edition and Vignette V6 Multisite Content Manager. This is the first offering of a new service architecture termed “Vignette Velocity,” which will contain a series of rapid service offerings to accelerate time to deployment for the most common customer scenarios. Vignette’s Jumpstart package is available immediately and includes 100 training units combined with consulting services and is designed to deliver a site in approximately 90 days or less using Vignette V6 Standard Edition and Vignette V6 Multisite Content Manager. www.vignette.com
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iKnowledge, Inc. announced Version 2.0 of its ActiveContent. ActiveContent is a content solution developed from the ground-up with support for J2EE. ActiveContent is a comprehensive solution for secure content aggregation, collaboration, management, distribution, monetization and syndication. ActiveContent supports adaptive workflow, enabling companies to retain or customize departmental or enterprise work processes and allowing organizations to securely scale their content strategy in all dimensions including internal or external, and across all relevant platforms and devices. The latest version of ActiveContent provides ease of use and control using a web-based GUI interface designed to make organizing and sharing content simpler. The ActiveContent solution integrates with existing legacy systems. www.iknowledge.com
divine, inc. announced the availability of divine/Northern Light portlets for the Oracle 9i Application Server Portal Framework. These portlets enable the quick deployment of divine’s search and content integration technology, allowing business users to quickly access Web content, corporate information and a comprehensive library of over 7,000 business publications. The combination of divine Search and Content Integration (dSCI) portlets and the Oracle 9i Application Server Portal Framework enables joint customers to quickly provision access to these information resources. divine Portal Drivers are a set of solutions that combine divine’s software and service offerings with the major portal platforms. These solutions provide external content, content management, and collaboration. As part of the divine Portal Drivers Program, additional portlets will be available for the Oracle 9i AS later this year. www.divine.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced a new version of FrameMaker, its enterprise authoring and publishing solution. FrameMaker version 7.0 software allows corporations to take advantage of XML’s ability to search, share and repurpose content across the enterprise. The new XML capabilities allow content creators to distribute information to multiple channels, including print, the Web and PDAs. Also announced is the new Adobe FrameMaker Server, which gives companies the ability to produce personalized, data-driven content for output to print or PDF. Users can choose to work in the structured environment to address single-source information publishing needs and create valid XML files, or choose a simpler interface to create well-formed XML files for general word-processing usage. Adobe’s new FrameMaker Server software gives companies the ability to extract existing content housed in databases, document management systems and XML repositories to be manipulated in FrameMaker. Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 and FrameMaker Server 7.0 will be available in the second quarter of 2002 in the United States, Europe and Canada. Estimated street price for FrameMaker 7.0 desktop version will be US$799 for the full product with a special 90-day post ship upgrade offer (Mac and Windows only) of US$209 (US$349 thereafter). Estimated street price for FrameMaker Server 7.0 will be US$7,999. www.adobe.com/products/framemaker
Whitehill Technologies, Inc. and Nimble Technology have entered into a reselling partnership for Nimble Technology to offer customers the Whitehill Composer. Nimble Technology will offer users of the Nimble Integration Suite – an XML-based enterprise data integration platform used to power Web services and applications – the Whitehill Composer. Whitehill Composer is an easy-to-use XSL editor engineered to generate WYSIWYG XSL for XML-to-HTML transformation. Users can drag and drop XML data elements from a menu type environment directly into a browser and have the XSL automatically created for both the browser style and the data element. www.nimble.com, www.whitehilltech.com
RightsLine, Inc. and Artesia Technologies announced they have signed a Global Technology Partnership Agreement to offer integrated, bundled solutions of their respective software products as well as collaborating on co-marketing and sales activities. The partnership will initially focus in North America with the potential to spread to other global geographies. The development of the integrated offering will provide content owners with a single platform for managing both their digital assets and the rights and permissions associated with them. Artesia
Stellent, Inc. announced it has acquired the assets of privately held Kinecta Corp, adding content integration, syndication, and distribution capabilities to their content management solution. Combined with the Stellent Content Management technology, these new capabilities will enable Stellent’s customers to aggregate content from multiple repositories, manage it in the Stellent environment and distribute it to any audience. Additionally, the technology will allow Stellent customers to easily deploy content from staging environments to production environments and roll back to earlier versions of Web sites. The Kinecta technology is built on Java, J2EE, XML and Information Content and Exchange (ICE). Stellent will continue to market the existing Kinecta product line while integrating the technology into the Stellent Content Management system. The initial product integration will be released in the quarter ending June 30, 2002. As part of the acquisition, Stellent will hire Kinecta’s core development team and retain Kinecta’s current office located in San Francisco, Calif. www.stellent.com, www.kinecta.com
FileNET Corp. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the core assets of privately held eGrail Inc. The purchase of eGrail is an all cash transaction valued at approximately $10 million. Effective immediately, the eGrail product line will be made available and supported through FileNET. eGrail’s Web Content Management system offers enterprise scalable capabilities that are easy-to-use, empowering authors across the enterprise to contribute to and manage Web site content dynamically. eGrail serves customers in numerous industries including communications, insurance, government, medical and publishing. www.filenet.com, www.egrail.com
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