Documentum has formalized the details of a program for application value-added resellers (VARs), which expands its existing Signature Partner Program for system integrator and technology partners. The latest features of the program offer VARs an opportunity to incorporate Documentum’s enterprise content management solution into content-rich applications backed by a variety of marketing services and technical support offerings. Documentum’s Signature Partner Program offers VARs that sell packaged software applications the ability to sell Documentum’s full product license or a run-time license bundled with their application. With this more structured approach geared for the specific needs of VAR partners, Documentum intent is to expand its reach beyond the Global 2000 market into targeted vertical application providers. www.documentum.com
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Progressive Information Technologies announced the immediate availability of Vasont, a cross-media publishing system that enables enterprises to publish content across numerous media channels. Vasont is the seventh version of Progressive Information Technologies’ TARGET 2000 cross-media publishing system. TARGET 2000 was renamed Vasont to better reflect its continuing enhancements and significant new features. Vasont empowers organizations to not only create and manage their content in XML, SGML, HTML and WML, but instantly publish it across all media channels, including print, CD-ROM, Web, and wireless. This is done through Vasont’s Tag Neutral Technology, which stores content separate from tags – ensuring content integrity and maximizing content reuse. Vasont automatically deploys a new tagging standard to the content as it is extracted and makes the content flexible for simultaneous publishing to various media channels. www.vasont.com
IXIASOFT and Altova Inc. announced the availability of the XML Spy integration kit. The free package, downloadable from IXIASOFT’s website, enables the widespread XML Spy user community to leverage TEXTML Server’s XML database technology from within their development environment. The integration kit delivers a simple installation process on either the evaluation or the full editions of TEXTML Server and XML Spy 4 Suite. Users can expect to perform such operations as “save to”, “open from”, “save as” and “add to” TEXTML Server. Users can choose to “lock” retrieved documents for editing purposes and also choose to have new or edited content “indexed”, or merely stored as work in progress awaiting further editing, or content approval. Searching on file name is also possible and in an upcoming version of the integration kit, users can expect a comprehensive search interface to query, retrieve and edit content. www.xmlspy.com, www.ixiasoft.com
Altova, Inc. announced the release of the XML Spy 4.3 Suite, a comprehensive product-line of developer tools for advanced XML application development, consisting of the XML Spy 4.3 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the XML Spy 4.3 XSLT Designer, and the XML Spy 4.3 Document Editor. XML Spy 4.3 Suite lets developers tackle web services development on all of the major web services platforms including Microsoft .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). XML Spy Suite is a developer tool for testing & debugging web services based on SOAP. XML Spy supports graphical editing of XML Schemas which use Microsoft SQLXML schema extensions, a technology that creates XML views of relational data, abstracting away the underlying data format. The XML Spy 4.3 Suite is available immediately for download and purchase. www.xmlspy.com
Sonic Foundry Inc. announced that its Media Services subsidiary has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all the intellectual property rights to the Media Taxi asset management system from Los Angeles based Digital Savant, Inc. No terms of the transaction were disclosed although the Company expects it to have an accretive impact on fiscal 2002 results. Media Taxi is a browser-based media asset management system focused on streamlining and reducing the cost of managing and distributing marketing and publicity materials for the entertainment industry. The Company anticipates it will close on the asset purchase within 1 month. www.sonicfoundry.com
Software AG, Inc. announced the availability of the Tamino XML Server Version 3.1. The newest release of Tamino includes comprehensive advancements in functionality, support and development that includes XML-based access to external database systems, migration tools, schema editors, a WebDAV server and interfaces to Java-based applications. Tamino XML Server stores and processes XML data without the need to having to convert the data. Tamino XML Server will support all major operating systems for PCs, Unix and mainframes. Tamino XML Server V3.1 is now available for purchase from Software AG and its distribution partners on the following platforms: Windows, Solaris, OS/390, Linux, AIX and HP-UX. www.softwareagusa.com
FileNET Corp. announced the availability of a Web-based eForms integration with its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology infrastructure. The new eForms capability will provide FileNET customers with digital forms capability integrated with FileNET’s Business Process Management (BPM) solution. FileNET’s new eForms solution automatically passes eForm content throughout the process lifecycle without the need for custom Web programming. The eForms integration provides customers with a point-and-click user interface that supports the use of secure digital signatures. FileNET’s eForms solutions are also completely deployable via the Web. Panagon eForms is available as an add-on to FileNET’s Panagon eProcess solution. Pricing varies, based on implementation and number of users; typical starting price is $40,000. www.FileNET.com
SOFTWIN announced it is officially launching version 2.0 of intuitext, its free online conversion service. intuitext is an online conversion tool enabling automated conversion of documents to XML and XML-based formats. The new version adds significant features to the conversion service, by expanding the range of accepted input formats. intuitext converts documents in virtually any native format like Adobe PDF, QuarkXPress, MS Word or Page Maker. Moreover, users are offered a large choice of output formats delivered: HTML, OEB, MS Reader, Gemstar and other proprietary ebook formats. intuitext
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