Autonomy Corporation plc announced a new OEM partnership with FatWire. FatWire has licensed Autonomy’s technology for its product UpdateEngine, to deliver an integrated categorization and retrieval solution into its content management software. Autonomy’s technology will provide advanced site retrieval functionality throughout UpdateEngine powered sites, enabling customers to index and retrieve content, and enhancing the timeliness and quality of these functions. www.autonomy.com, www.fatwire.com
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LingoMotors announced the launch of TurboCat Version 1.1, an automatic categorization solution. TurboCat tags content with descriptive information labels or metadata, creating Rich Information Objects (RIOs). TurboCat, an automatic categorization solution, is a metaprocessor that provides rich metadata for digital content. It categorizes digital content to one or multiple standardized taxonomies and enables editing by non-technical experts. TurboCat Taxonomy Builder fully populates categories within a taxonomy semi-automatically without any training sets. TurboCat Taxonomy Mapper categorizes objects to one or more taxonomies automatically or semi-automatically. It normalizes numerous disparate content sources to one or more standardized taxonomies, thereby enabling access to all content from one location. The content’s tags can be easily changed as the categories are modified and updated. TurboCat is a component of the Turbo-Suite of tools, which includes TurboSearch and Interaction Server. www.lingomotors.com
FileNET Corporation announced a software license agreement with Verity, Inc. to
integrate Verity’s search technology into FileNET’s extended ECM product family. The advanced search capability provided by Verity’s new K2 Developer software will give FileNET customers the ability to more quickly and accurately retrieve cataloged information that may reside across disparate IT systems and data warehouses. A key factor in FileNET’s decision to partner with Verity was K2 Developer’s capabilities in addressing the search and retrieval of XML documents. FileNET will introduce Verity K2 Developer into its Panagon Content
Services platform and Brightspire eBusiness Framework platform before
the end of 2002. www.FileNET.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that Documentum has completed a license agreement with Adobe to include Adobe AlterCast as a core component of Documentum’s ECM Platform. The combined solution allows web and print production teams to automate the image production process by connecting content contributors across the enterprise for updating of images and graphics. Adobe AlterCast, together with the Documentum Media Services product, brings dynamic image and digital asset management capabilities to large-scale publishing applications. The Documentum Media Services product provides intelligent handling of all rich media assets. This includes media-specific indexing, browsing and search capabilities, editing, automated file transformation features, and the ability to fully manage these digital assets with other types of content. AlterCast automatically optimizes files for delivery on any Web-enabled device. By streamlining the image production process, AlterCast lets graphics professionals focus on more strategic and complex creative tasks. www.documentum.com, www.adobe.com
Inxight Software, Inc. announced Inxight Categorizer 3.0. The new version provides publishers and information aggregators with a superior method for classifying unstructured information into taxonomies. Inxight Categorizer uses natural language processing and machine learning techniques that offer a high level of accuracy in 12 languages. Inxight Categorizer 3.0 features a new Service Manager — a Web application for managing multiple taxonomy models from any location; the seamless integration of Categorizer Executive — an application that provides a graphical user interface for creating and maintaining training sets; and significant performance enhancements in accuracy and precision. Inxight Categorizer 3.0 supports over 70 common word processing file formats including HTML, PDF, Microsoft Office documents, e-mail, Lotus Notes and text documents. Inxight Categorizer also supports a broad range of operating system platforms including Microsoft Windows NT and 2000, Sun Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 and Red Hat Linux 7.2 and has the ability to access any database that supports XML-based queries, such as Oracle, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server database management systems. Inxight Categorizer 3.0 is available immediately. www.inxight.com
Macromedia, Inc. announced Macromedia ColdFusion MX, a rapid server scripting environment for creating rich Internet applications. Macromedia ColdFusion MX, previously code-named “Neo,” brings ease of use and productivity of ColdFusion to a Java technology architecture. ColdFusion MX offers innovations for creating rich Internet applications and working with XML, web services, and the Microsoft .NET Framework. A preview release of Macromedia ColdFusion MX is immediately available (www.macromeda.com/go/cfmxdl). Macromedia Dreamweaver MX (also announced) offers complete support for ColdFusion MX features including enhanced code editing and development capabilities, integrated debugging, and visual layout and prototyping. The ColdFusion MX Server line is expected to ship in June. ColdFusion MX Server Professional Edition is $799 per server, with upgrades at $549; ColdFusion MX Enterprise Edition is $4999 per server, with upgrades at $2499. The ColdFusion MX Server line is specifically architected to integrate with the Microsoft .NET Framework. The ColdFusion MX for J2EE Application Servers product line is priced at $3399 per processor. Optimized versions of ColdFusion MX for Macromedia JRun, IBM WebSphere Application Server, and Sun ONE Application Server are expected to ship in the third calendar quarter of 2002. ColdFusion MX for BEA WebLogic Server is expected to ship later this year. www.macromedia.com
Verity, Inc. announced the availability of a new version of K2 Developer, a product specifically designed to be incorporated into large business software applications. Verity K2 Developer, or K2D, is the company’s newest offering for the OEM market. It gives enterprise software developers the ability to add any of Verity’s three tiers of knowledge management infrastructure – search, content categorization and social networks – to their applications. According to Verity, K2D is compatible with Java, COM, and C/C++. In addition, it offers full support for inclusion within an enterprise software vendor’s .NET or J2EE applications, and includes comprehensive management APIs. www.verity.com
EMC Corporation introduced EMC Centera, a software-driven, “content-addressed storage” (CAS) solution to address the unique information storage requirements of long-lasting, unchanging objects – or “fixed content” – such as electronic documents, digital x-rays, digital MRIs, movies, e-mail, check images and broadcast content. Centera partners include: Agfa HealthCare, AMICAS, Artesia, Avid, Avalon, BakBone, BancTec, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, CommVault, Computer Science Corporation, Connected, Documentum, FileTek, Front Porch Digital, Fujitsu, Gauss, Hummingbird, IXOS, J&B Software, Kodak Medical Imaging, KPMG, KVS, Legato, Merge Technologies, Mobius, NICE Systems, OTG, Quest Software, Sarnoff, Scientific Software, Storigen Systems, TowerTech and Virage. While location-based methods found in network-attached storage (NAS) and storage-area networks (SAN) are optimized for frequently changing data, content-based addressing is specifically designed for the requirements of fixed content. EMC Centera is available immediately. List price begins at $101,500 for Centera hardware and $103,200 for Centera software, representing $204,700 for a 5-terabyte protected (10 terabytes raw capacity) total system configuration. Centera implementations scale from 5 terabytes (protected) to more than one petabyte, in 2.5-terabyte increments. Centera is available directly from EMC for customers with in-house application development capabilities, and through the large and increasing number of EMC Centera partners providing their own content management solutions across a wide range of industries. www.EMC.com
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