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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BroadVision, Inc. introduced the BroadVision 7 family of portal applications for Intel-based servers and the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system. BroadVision 7 — composed of BroadVision One-To-One Portal 7.0, BroadVision One-To-One Commerce 7.0 and BroadVision One-To-One Content 7.0 — is an integrated, standards-based family of applications based on BroadVision’s advanced personalization, enterprise portal, multi-channel commerce and content management technology. BroadVision 7 brings a new level of ease-of-use, enhanced support for standards, and new features. www.broadvision.com
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced in conjunction with BroadVision, Inc., support for the BroadVision 7 family of next-generation portal applications with FAST Data Search for BroadVision. BroadVision will ship a new version of the FAST Data Search for BroadVision, a customizable software solution designed specifically to tackle real-time data-intensive search and information retrieval challenges to enable intelligent access to corporate knowledge resources, as part of the BroadVision 7 family of portal applications. The improvements in this release of FAST Data Search for BroadVision include simplified configuration for multi-byte character sets, dictionary support for multi-byte languages, filtering data based on entitlements and improved support for indexing. In addition, BroadVision will also provide upgrade modules for increased capacity and performance of the FAST Data Search for BroadVision. www.broadvision.com, www.alltheweb.com
Plumtree Software announced the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5WS, the newest version of Plumtree’s portal platform. Version 4.5WS completes Plumtree’s Web Services Architecture for bringing together electronic resources from Windows, J2EE and other platforms, integrating applications, federating searches, indexing content and authenticating users via Web services. Version 4.5WS also features enhanced search, with faster content indexing and less administration, and functional parity between the Windows and UNIX releases of the portal platform, which now share the same code base. Plumtree is announcing version 4.5WS in conjunction with a new Microsoft .NET development kit. In addition, two Plumtree partners are announcing the development of Web services for indexing content from Open Text Livelink and Stellent Content Management repositories. The Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5WS is expected to be generally available on May 24. www.plumtree.com
Inktomi Corp. announced information retrieval technology for software developers and systems integrators that will provide advanced search functionality within enterprise applications. Built with native XML support, Inktomi Search Toolkit is an OEM solution for extracting relevant data from structured, unstructured and semi-structured content. This new OEM offering will deliver enhanced information retrieval within content-rich applications such as content management, enterprise portal, CRM and commerce solutions. Inktomi Search Toolkit provides the unstructured search functionality of a keyword search engine, such as relevance ranking, natural language search and filtering for various file formats. Additionally, it delivers XQuery-based structured query capabilities that allow sophisticated retrieval functions such as parametric searching and retrieval of content based on a document’s structure. Inktomi Search Toolkit returns results that include references to documents as well as the actual documents or fragments of those documents that contain the precise information requested. Inktomi Search Toolkit is available now. www.inktomi.com/products/toolkit
Stellent, Inc. announced it has signed integration agreements with Xcelerate and Sogeti USA. These new alliance partners will integrate the Stellent Content Management system with a variety of e-business applications such as portals and EAI solutions. Xcelerate is integrating the Stellent Content Management technology with portals, personalization engines and business integration solutions, such as enterprise application integration systems and Web services. A wholly owned subsidiary of Cap Gemini SA, Sogeti will provide information technology consulting and integration services to Stellent customers locally through its more than 20 offices throughout the United States. www.stellent.com, www.xcelerate.com, www.sogeti-usa.com
Applied Semantics, Inc. unveiled the addition of four new taxonomies as extensions to its Auto-Categorizer product. The four taxonomies, supplementing the existing ODP (Open Directory Project) and International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) taxonomy portfolio, include: MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) based on the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) controlled vocabulary thesaurus of more than 20,000 top-level headings used by NLM for indexing articles; the U.S. Department of Labor’s SIC (Standard Industrial Classification System); the UNSPSC (Universal Standard Products and Services Classification), a 13,000-plus category taxonomy for classifying products and services of, for buy- and sell-side catalogs; and an 800-category taxonomy consisting of country codes standardized around the ISO 3166 alpha-2 code schema, enhanced with U.S. states and major U.S. and international cities. These industry-standard taxonomies are “plug-and-play” modules that can be individually licensed to enhance Applied Semantics Auto-Categorizer. www.appliedsemantics.com
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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