Plumtree Software announced the immediate availability of integration with Microsoft Content Management Server 2001 (CMS) as a services offering. Portal users can now create Plumtree Gadget Web Services using CMS templates and authoring capabilities to add new content to the portal and to repurpose existing content from intranet or extranet sites managed by CMS. Portal users can also publish CMS content directly to the Plumtree Document Directory and search for content managed by CMS from the portal. Plumtree security for the content can be set at the time of publication to the document directory without overriding any existing CMS security. The Plumtree and CMS integration is currently available as a service offering from Plumtree and Plumtree systems integrator partners, including Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. www.plumtree.com
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Inxight Software, Inc. announced Inxight VizServer 1.5, an enterprise solution that offers customers a method for visualizing and exploring large information collections. The product simplifies and speeds access to relevant information. VizServer is for information-intensive applications in the areas of research and development, channel and customer management, government and law enforcement. Inxight VizServer provides both Inxight Star Tree and Inxight Table Lens. The new version offers XML connectivity to Inxight MetaText Server (IMS), an enterprise solution for structuring textual data for improved access and use. The integrated product offers Web wizards for connecting visualizations to databases, metadata repositories and document and content management systems. Inxight VizServer 1.5 is available immediately. www.inxight.com
Microsoft Corp. announced the product strategy for the next version of SharePoint Products and Technologies. The next version utilizes the application server technologies in Windows .NET Server to deliver a portal and collaboration framework based on Microsoft .NET. The version will also deliver information aggregation, advanced search capabilities and mainstream enterprise application integration, provided via integration with Microsoft BizTalk Server. Additional improvements include single sign-on, personalization and integration with Microsoft Content Management Server. SharePoint technology will natively support XML Web services. www.microsoft.com
Ipedo, Inc. introduced Ipedo Web Express, a framework developers can use to leverage XML in their Web sites and portals. Ipedo Web Express is a server-side software environment that uses XML content and stylesheets to dynamically publish Web content. Easily integrated with existing infrastructures, it allows Web developers to use unstructured XML content in their Web applications. Features include: XML Pipelining for multi-step processing via XSL and code combinations; Tag libraries for JSP and ASP; and links to XML queries. Ipedo Web Express is built on XML, XSL and XQuery, Sun’s Java XML processing and J2EE specifications and Microsoft’s .Net framework. It is compatible with applications built using the Apache Cocoon XML publishing framework. Ipedo also launched its Ipedo Developer Network (IDN). Ipedo Web Express is available now for Windows 2000, Windows NT, Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux. An evaluation version can be downloaded free. www.ipedo.com/developer
Convera announced that it has integrated its RetrievalWare search and retrieval technology with Vignette V6 Content Suite. RetrievalWare can index, search, categorize and profile Vignette-managed content. In addition, developers of Vignette-based applications will now be able to integrate RetrievalWare into their applications. Users are able to perform more comprehensive searches that encompass not just Vignette-managed content, but a broader set of enterprise sources, including data warehouses, databases, groupware systems, e-mail files, presentations, videos and other multimedia files.
www.convera.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced immediate availability of Interwoven TeamPortal for Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS). Interwoven has also joined the Oracle Portal Partner Initiative. Interwoven is providing business users with new collaborative content application portlets for Oracle9iAS that enable enterprises to rapidly integrate enterprise content management into their corporate portal. Interwoven TeamPortal software provides a collaborative model to help ensure the accuracy, reliability and security of portal content. The portal functionality in Oracle9i Application Server provides a solution for building, deploying, and maintaining self-service, integrated enterprise portals. It combines an extensible framework for standardized application access with a set of self-service tools for customizing the portal experience, publishing and managing information, and accessing dynamic data. www.interwoven.com
Citrix Systems, Inc. announced that Citrix MetaFrame XP application serving software has been certified for use with enterprise content management software from Documentum. Both companies participated in the testing process, involving the certification of the Documentum 4i Desktop Client running on Citrix MetaFrame XPe. Customers deploying Documentum Desktop Client via MetaFrame XP can upgrade, manage and support the application centrally, reducing the overall total cost of ownership. Deployed through MetaFrame XP, the Documentum Desktop Client is accessible through a wide range of devices utilizing the Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) client. Customers can also access the Documentum Desktop Client from any standard Web browser using Citrix NFuse Classic, a member of the company’s new access portal product family. NFuse Classic provides secure Web access to any Windows, UNIX or Java application running on MetaFrame without any code rewrites. www.citrix.com
Stellent, Inc. announced two new integration products for incorporating Stellent Content Management capabilities into the Plumtree Corporate Portal: a suite of Plumtree Gadget Web Services and a Plumtree Crawler Web Service. The Gadget Suite combines in a portal page content management capabilities found in Stellent’s enterprise content management solution, and the Stellent Crawler Web Service is a tool used to scan and index content from Stellent into the Plumtree Document Directory. Stellent used Web Services standards to develop both products, which integrate with the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5WS, the newest version of Plumtree’s platform. Version 4.5WS is based on a Web Services Architecture. The Plumtree Corporate Portal incorporates key Stellent enterprise content management functionalities, such as check-in, check-out and workflow, as Plumtree Gadget Web Services. Plumtree Gadget Web Services are modular components that deliver services from enterprise applications and Internet sites to a portal page. www.stellent.com/plumtree
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