WebWare Corporation announced it has reached agreement with Convera to integrate Convera’s RetrievalWare technology into WebWare MAMBO brand and media asset management software. The optional RetrievalWare plug-in provides additional search capabilities for distributed client/server environments. It will enable teams working on technology and/or branding projects to do multimedia, cross and multi-lingual searches of document content. A wide range of text and text-related formats will now be available in WebWare MAMBO through RetrievalWare: over 200 proprietary document formats including Microsoft Office applications, Adobe PDF, Lotus Notes, FileNet, Documentum, and MS Exchange documents and other relational database tables, document management systems and groupware repositories. The RetrievalWare technology will be part of a future release later this year. www.convera.com, www.webwarecorp.com
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The Fantastic Corporation announced the integration of its CoreCast eCDN (enterprise content delivery network) into IBM’s Content Manager Version 8. Together with the IBM Content Manager, CoreCast helps companies manage and deliver massive quantities of information such as text documents, Web content, and audio or video files to the desktop. Fantastic’s CoreCast eCDN is a network-aware distribution platform for delivery of data-intensive multimedia applications within an enterprise. An application-layer content networking engine, CoreCast eCDN automatically recognises its data network environment, performs real-time analysis, proactively adapts distribution processes, routes and answers end-user requests, and allocates network resources according to business policies set at the CoreCast control centre. www.fantastic.com, www.ibm.com/software/data/cm
Inxight Software, Inc. announced Inxight MetaText Server 2.0. Inxight MetaText Server provides a solution for integrating vast resources of unstructured data — email, text files, Web pages, news feeds — into mission-critical business processes. The new version includes a repository for storing metadata — key descriptors collected from a document to quickly and easily identify its meaning; a collection manager for easy scheduling of Web and file system crawls to continually update information stored in repositories; simple concept search integration with third-party search engines; and the addition of full-text search, including Boolean query support for Italian, Portuguese and Dutch. The product also supports English, French, German and Spanish. Inxight MetaText Server provides interfaces for integration with enterprise portals and customer relationship management, text mining, business intelligence, content, document and knowledge management applications. Inxight MetaText Server 2.0 is available immediately. www.inxight.com
Pindar Systems announced the commercial release of Agility v. 1.0, its new enterprise catalog commerce server. Agility, a comprehensive product information management system built with a Java-based, J2EE-compliant Web application server architecture, is now available for sale and installation, following field testing and quality assurance work with customers. Already supporting the latest BEA WebLogic application server, Agility is being extended to support IBM’s WebSphere server by this Fall. In addition to integration with QuarkXPress, Pindar Systems is working on a product information solution that integrates Adobe InDesign 2.0. Agility can be deployed across traditional Microsoft Windows, Web or the new Apple Macintosh OS/X platforms. It runs on Sun SPARC Solaris 7.0 and Intel NT 4.0 (and greater) servers. Supported enterprise databases are Oracle 8i and 9i and Microsoft SQL 2000. www.pindarsystems.com
RealObjects announced an OEM partnership with WebCT, Inc., to deliver in-browser word processing capabilities as part of its WebCT Vista solution. By integrating RealObjects’ WYSIWYG HTML/XML editor edit-on Pro with WebCT Vista, customers will be able to easily publish content without having knowledge of HTML/XML. The editor provides word processor-like features within common web browsers in order to simplify and streamline the process of in-browser content authoring. www.realobjects.de
Vignette Corp. announced its intentions to support IBM’s Content Manager Version 8. Vignette and IBM enable joint customers to store diverse information assets and then use the Vignette solution to manage the content through its entire lifecycle. www.ibm.com/software/data/cm/, www.vignette.com
Intelliseek announced the release of Enterprise Search Server (ESS), version 3.6 and an enhanced ESS Bridge for Lotus. The latest version of ESS is more flexible for users, supporting either Oracle or SQL Server as database managers and enabling the rapid integration of other informational, subscription-based Web sites, such as Lexis-Nexis. ESS is an information discovery platform that enables companies and to find, organize, distribute and make use of relevant information from multiple, disparate information sources. It provides single-point access to all the vital data that can affect decision making — information found on intranets, extranets, subscription sources, document management systems, specialty databases and the Internet. New features include Oracle database support for Windows, Agent Development Kit (ADK) enhancements, and Direct Lotus Domino Name & Address Book synchronization. The new version of ESS and the ESS Bridge for Lotus are available immediately. Pricing is based on a server, seats and services model. www.intelliseek.com
Ektron, Inc. announced immediate availability of Ektron CMS200 Version 1.6. which is now available in languages beyond English, including German and French. The application’s default language can easily be set to German, French or English, which can be assigned on a per-user basis (i.e., two French users, three German users, and one English user). A language software developer kit is available for translating end-user menus and dialogs into other languages. MS200 now also delivers full branding capabilities to allow companies to add logos and match the application with their own graphical style or the style of a
client organization. Ektron provides documentation to assist developers with modifying Ektron CMS200 graphics, colors, and styles. Other new features in Version 1.6 include: an improved user interface; support for MySQL database; improved history tracking; e-mail customization; and support for larger content blocks and summary data. Pricing ranges from US$2,999 to US$12,999. Ektron has numerous VAR partners worldwide. www.ektron.com/partners/find_a_partner.cfm
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