SAP AG announced its intention to combine SAP Markets, Inc., and SAP Portals, Inc., into one subsidiary. The combined company’s solutions will be delivered by SAP as part of mySAP Technology and other mySAP.com solutions, and also licensed to other technology companies for distribution with third-party software offerings. The combined company will maintain the charter of providing an open integration technology that unifies people, content and business processes in heterogeneous environments and across business boundaries. Building on a single platform, which combines an enterprise portal with content management and exchange technology, the company will deliver a suite of business solutions for supplier relationship management, extended e-selling and business intelligence. This solution suite empowers collaboration and intelligent action by unifying applications, information and Web services. www.sapmarkets.com, www.sapportals.com
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Corechange, Inc. announced that it has integrated Microsoft Content Management Server 2001 into Coreport, Corechange’s enterprise portal framework. The integration of Coreport and Microsoft Content Management Server enables organizations to unify information assets – including data, messages, applications, and user-created business content – within a single framework designed to tailor information access to specific user needs. The integration of Microsoft Content Management Server with the Coreport portal framework is accomplished through Corechange’s development of Coreport Connectors that provide direct, native access to Content Management Server. Corechange’s integration with Microsoft Content Management Server is scheduled for general availability in April 2002. www.corechange.com
divine, inc. announced that it has acquired certain assets of privately held Northern Light Technology LLC in an all-stock transaction. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition enhances divine’s ability to offer premium content through Northern Light’s Special Collection and strengthens divine’s content management and delivery solutions for the publishing and media industry by expanding the number of sources divine can offer and by providing an improved interface for locating specific content. divine also intends to integrate Northern Light’s global search technology across its content management, content aggregation and procurement, customer interaction and collaboration solutions to provide a unified search capability across its applications. www.divine.com
ScreamingMedia Inc. announced an alliance with Documentum to offer enterprises an end-to-end content integration and management solution. ScreamingMedia’s software, SiteWare, enables customers to integrate customized, real-time content from third-party sources directly into their Documentum content management platform. SiteWare’s integration with Documentum 4i Web Content Management Edition provides seamless interaction between the content aggregation, management, and publishing, providing an repository of news and content. www.screamingmedia.com, www.documentum.com
Sybase, Inc. announced Sybase Enterprise Portal (EP) 2.5. The JAVA-based, portal software includes a presentation layer comprising navigation, content management, and personalization tools. Additionally, EP 2.5 is compatible with popular infrastructure products. Enterprise Portal 2.5 includes a new Content Management Interface with support for XML-based content congregation, Web services support for portal interface enhancements and portlets, and advanced EJBs. The improved security infrastructure includes the ability to identify users and activities, a secure framework that extends to legacy systems, Secure Business Object (SBO) support authentication, configurable lock out times, and static and dynamic mutual role exclusion to balance access with protection. Enterprise-class portlets offer access to information in enterprise systems. Sybase’s portlet framework will enable an increased number of third-party portal applications, which currently include Autonomy, Interwoven, and Stellent. Enterprise Portal 2.5 will begin shipping in the first quarter of 2002. Pricing starts at $85,000. www.sybase.com
Stellent, Inc. and Software AG, Inc. announced a pair of reseller agreements. Under the agreements, Software AG, Inc. and Stellent will market and sell the Stellent Content Management system along with Software AG’s Tamino XML Server to new and existing enterprise customers. These agreements expand upon a previous technology alliance partnership between the two companies and provide customers with an integrated XML content management solution. www.stellent.com, www.softwareagusa.com
Ektron Inc. released Version 2.5 of eWebEditPro, a browser-based, multi-language business-user focused Web content authoring tool. Version 2.5 delivers business-user-friendly features and developer-oriented functionality including new multilingual capabilities and enhanced change detection and formatting. Version 2.5 offers new bi-directional editing for Arabic and Hebrew, and adds traditional Chinese to ten existing European and Asian menus and dialogs. Additional new features in eWebEditPro 2.5 include Section 508 compliance (federally mandated), stylesheet enhancements, Netscape 6.2 support, and various new developer commands. eWebEditPro includes spell check and Office 2000 filters to ‘clean’ content pasted from Microsoft Word or Excel. A 10-seat eWebEditPro license for a single URL is priced at $299 ($30 per user). Enterprise pricing is available. www.ektron.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the immediate availability of Adobe InDesign 2.0. Version 2.0 introduces editable transparency effects such as drop shadows, table creation, long document support, XML import/export support and a greatly enhanced printing interface. In addition, this upgrade supports Adobe’s XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) technology, an XML-based framework for embedding, tracking and exchanging metadata so that content can be deployed more across different media. Performance enhancements have made InDesign 2.0 significantly faster. InDesign 2.0 provides native support for Mac OS X and Windows XP and tighter integration with other Adobe products. InDesign 2.0 is available immediately to customers in the United States and Canada. Estimated street price in the United States is US$699 for the full product with a special 90-day upgrade offer in the United States and Canada of US$99 (US$149 thereafter). www.adobe.com/products/indesign
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