Accumedia announced the release of version 2.5 of its Accumedia Convergence Platform (ACP) for Media, a web services content management and delivery solution specifically developed for the media industry. This latest version of Accumedia’s content management software provides print editors with the capability to easily schedule personalized content simultaneously for multiple publications or brands using simple, non-technical user interfaces. The new version’s new features include: WYSIWYG Content Editing, Graphical Content Scheduling, Segmentation-based Content Delivery, In-context Preview, On-Line Subscriptions, and E-mail Marketing. www.accumedia.com
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Vignette Corp. announced that it has added support for Web services to Vignette V6, the company’s Web content management solution. Vignette V6 enables content management processes to be exposed as Web services by offering support for the XML Schema, WSDL and SOAP standards in new Web services and XML adapter libraries. Vignette V6 also offers support for major industry-standard platforms, including the J2EE and Microsoft .NET standards, in addition to the IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and Sun iPlanet application servers. Vignette’s Web services and XML adapter libraries are immediately available and are included with Vignette V6 software licenses in the Vignette V6 Content Suite Adapter. Existing customers can download the adapter libraries via Vignette Express, the company’s electronic software delivery service.
ClearForest announced ClearTags 4.0, a comprehensive auto-tagging platform. The new version, which includes semantic, statistical and structural tagging, expands tagging output and the understanding and value of unstructured content. A new user control panel allows the definition of different tagging schemes for any type of document stream, monitoring the entire tagging process. ClearTags allows publishers, content providers and other content-intensive businesses, to precisely identify and automatically tag multiple relevant entities, facts and events buried within large textual repositories. The process produces richly-tagged XML files. The output of ClearTags can be used to create new products and re-package content for various downstream applications and delivery methods, or for further analysis. ClearTags accepts input in a variety of formats, including PDF, MS Office, HTML, and XML, and automatically enriches each document with an extensive set of relevant meta-tags. The tags are based on three main technologies: Semantic/Linguistic Information Extraction, Statistical Categorization, and Topological Analysis. ClearTags is also used to generate a ClearForest knowledge base, to be used with ClearResearch, ClearForest’s enterprise research application, or third-party Web applications. www.clearforest.com
Documentum announced the immediate availability of two new product offerings, Documentum Media Services and the Digital Asset Management Edition. Both offerings are based on the Bulldog Group technology that Documentum acquired in December 2001. Documentum Media Services, which is integrated with the Documentum ECM platform, provides intelligent handling of rich media assets, such as media-specific indexing, browsing and search capabilities, easy-to-use editing, automated file transformation features, and the ability to fully integrate and manage these digital assets with other types of content. The Media Services product is targeted at the mainstream requirements of the Global 2000 and provides a cost-effective solution for managing rich media. The Digital Asset Management Edition offers advanced rich media management capabilities for complex, broadcast-quality digital and physical assets, such as high-resolution video and is targeted at high-end rich media requirements. www.documentum.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced a strategic alliance with NEC Corporation whereby NEC will re-sell the Interwoven Content Infrastructure product suite as the core enterprise content management functionality in its iBestSolutions. NEC’s Internet solutions framework, iBestSolutions, consists of the complete line of NEC’s software and services offerings. Under the new reseller agreement, NEC will adopt Interwoven’s TeamSite, and the Interwoven Content Infrastructure suite, as the exclusive enterprise content management system underpinning its own customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise information portal (EIP), and eCommerce (EC) solutions. NEC also plans to develop integrated solutions that incorporate Content Infrastructure into its existing product offerings, establish an enterprise content management training and support program and initiate co-sales and co-marketing activities. The focus throughout 2002 will continue to be on solutions for the manufacturing sector, with a view to expanding to additional industry areas in the future. www.nec.com, www.interwoven.com
Easypress Technologies announced a partnership with Xyleme S.A. that is aimed at helping newspaper publishers store, access and monitor content. The combination of two proven solutions working in tandem is expected to bring immediate returns on investment for newspaper publishers. To assist newspapers and other publishers who wish to develop a strategy for migration to XML, Xyleme and Easypress Technologies are running free of charge workshops, where experts will assess the needs of companies and recommend possible migration paths. www.xyleme.com, www.easypress.com
SDL International has announced a new release of Enterprise Translation Server, Version 5, with advances in linguistic and user functionality. Enterprise Translation Server Version 5 will ship with updated rules and dictionary files for all language directions. SDL has also made significant improvements to the foreign-language to English modules, particularly, French/English, Spanish/English, Italian/English and Portuguese/English. In addition, core dictionaries have been considerably expanded, particularly bi-lateral English/French, bi-lateral English/German, English/Spanish and Portuguese/English. More than 12,500 additional entries have been included within the core dictionaries, together with more than 1,000 new core phrases. SDL has also completed a cycle of the most thorough linguistic regression testing that the engine has seen since in recent years. Administration and translation privileges are now assignable by username and password or by IP address, with tracking of usage possible per user and per language direction. www.sdlintl.com
Seinet has launched a new campaign to grow its international business. In order to achieve this, the company has established several agreements with regional integrators starting with IPA in France and Mediasystemen B.V. in the Netherlands. This will be followed by future announcements in the UK and USA. Seinet has also recently hired an experienced International Sales and Marketing team to further develop these markets. To address the mission-critical requirements of newspaper and magazine publishers, Seinet will focus on developing cross-media publishing tools and will partner with local integrators who are well positioned to meet the needs of the national media. IPA Systems France is a French integrator of multi-channel publishing processes. They implement comprehensive editorial solutions for newspapers and magazines. Mediasystemen B.V. is a player in the newspaper market where it has been developing solutions since 1986. www.seinet.es
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