Stratify, Inc. announced an alliance and reseller agreement with Inktomi Corp. Inktomi and Stratify will offer joint customers a scalable, integrated categorized search solution ideal for large, information-intensive enterprises. Additionally, Inktomi will resell the Stratify Discovery System for Inktomi Enterprise Search through its sales force. The Stratify Discovery System for Inktomi Enterprise Search is a categorization solution optimized for Inktomi search technology that delivers direct navigation of sophisticated topic hierarchies. The combined Inktomi-Stratify solution enables enterprises to create a unified, searchable topic hierarchy that spans the organization. The Stratify Discovery System for Inktomi Enterprise Search is available immediately. Inktomi Enterprise Search is sold separately. www.stratify.com
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Autonomy and Hyperwave will work together to deliver Autonomy’s infrastructure technology and Hyperwave’s eKnowledge solutions, and will recommend each other’s technologies. The two organizations will pursue joint opportunities and support each other’s marketing efforts. www.autonomy.com, www.hyperwave.com
Stellent, Inc. announced a new Audio Video Indexer module to help businesses access, manage and deliver video, audio and graphical business content. Stellent Audio Video Indexer provides content indexing and search functions for rich media content, using voice recognition software to enable users to index and full-text search video files. This function allows a user to find video files that contain a certain word or phrase, and once located, the user can also find the exact location in the video file in which the word or phrase was mentioned. Audio Video Indexer can also search the content within a video file and provide a “thumbnail” – or a quick visual representation – of this content on the screen displaying the search results. Audio Video Indexer expands Stellent’s current content management capabilities for rich media and digital asset management, which include: conversion, thumbnailing, compression, aggregation and distribution. www.stellent.com/richmedia
Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of its Content Management Server and SharePoint Portal Server Integration Pack. The new offering provides customers with a comprehensive and well-integrated portal, content management, search and document management solution, giving Microsoft customers a single-vendor end-to-end solution for document collaboration and publishing that is fully supported by Microsoft Product Support Services. The integration pack is available as a free download for MSDN subscribers today at www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=38801. The pack includes a prescriptive architecture guide to help customers make the most of the integration and can be used immediately or extended to meet unique customer requirements. www.microsoft.com
MediaBin Inc. announced the integration of the MediaBin brand asset management system with Microsoft Content Management Server (CMS) 2001. Developed in conjunction with Plural, a technology consulting and development firm, the MediaBin CMS connector provides an easy way to publish new and updated images to the Web. The connector gives authorized CMS users access to all approved digital assets within MediaBin Server and automates the labor-intensive process of placing and formatting digital assets for Web publication. The integration ensures proper brand and product representation over time by synchronizing web images published by the Content Management Server with the source assets managed by the MediaBin Server. By linking the Content Management Server Image Gallery directly into MediaBin, digital assets, photographs and logos no longer need to be formatted manually to fit the specifications of the Content Management Server page templates – MediaBin automatically renders the format needed. www.info.mediabin.com
Software AG, Inc. announced the general availability of XML Mediator, a tool for building XML information exchange hubs. XML Mediator manages XML interactions that discover relevant information and uses that information to trigger behavior, such as routing documents or messages to an appropriate destination or transforming the content to other XML formats or presentation styles such as HTML, PDF or WML. XML Mediator provides a framework for addressing the problem of diverse XML vocabularies in much the same way as humans have addressed it for centuries: discover patterns in the information, translate it to a more familiar terminology, and transcribe it into some standardized form. Industries such as healthcare, insurance, energy, chemical and petroleum are defining XML-based standards that simplify information exchange. XML Mediator has the ability to support data exchange standards such as ACORD, IFX, FIXML, PIDX and CIDX. www.softwareagusa.com
Lightspeed Interactive, Inc. and Innovative Learning Solutions (ILS) announced the formal establishment of a strategic co-marketing partnership. The relationship provides a e-learning solution for their customers. Under terms of the agreement, ILS will provide Lightspeed customers with value-added instructional design services while ILS will incorporate and resell Lightspeed products in their own solutions. ILS will incorporate Lightspeed’s technology to deliver dynamic learning and custom training solutions via the Web and other traditional training delivery methods. www.lspeed.com, www.innls.com
Bitstream Inc. announced that BroadVision, Inc. has licensed Bitstream’s font rendering technology and complementary fonts to enhance its Enterprise Business Portal products. BroadVision is using Bitstream technology in BroadVision QuickSilver, a full-featured software package for creating and publishing long, complex documents in multiple output formats (including HTML, PDF, Postscript and ASCII) across different platforms and networks. QuickSilver delivers publishing, word processing, and Web publishing for long, complex, multi-language documents in one package. It also includes an array of tools to help users migrate their complex document applications to XML. www.bitstream.com
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