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
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Ipedo, Inc. introduced the newest version of its Ipedo XML Database 3.0. The Ipedo XML Database’s unique fusion of XML query, management and transformation capabilities gives enterprises an XML infrastructure available today for distributed, dynamic information management. The Ipedo XML Database 3.0 introduces fully W3C-compliant XML Query implementation, new XML schema evolution capabilities, unique XML document versioning, improved SOAP support and further performance and scalability improvements. With these enhancements, businesses now can have the dynamic and reusable XML content infrastructure they need to support .NET and other Web Services applications, as well as a variety of enterprise portal, mobile, supply chain, collaborative and other XML content-intensive and personalized applications. The Ipedo XML Database 3.0 is available now for Windows 2000, Windows NT, Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux. Pricing is on a per-CPU basis. www.ipedo.com
Gauss announced that the company has signed a Global Technology Partnership Agreement with Artesia Technologies, a market leader in Digital Asset Management. Under this agreement, the companies will work closely together to offer integrated, bundled solutions of their respective software products – VIP Enterprise 8 and TEAMS. The Gauss-Artesia partnership provides Global 1000 organizations with a unified solution spanning their diverse enterprise content repositories, allowing content contributors from a wide variety of areas to create, contribute, manage and dynamically repurpose all types of enterprise assets. The goals of the Gauss/Artesia Technology Alliance include product bundling and integration efforts, co-marketing campaigns and co-sales activities, initially in North America, and then in Europe. www.artesia.com, www.gaussvip.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
Quiver, Inc. and NextBrick, announceda strategic partnership enabling NextBrick to resell and integrate Quiver’s unique information management products. NextBrick will use Quiver products for its client solutions addressing knowledge management, corporate portal and application integration initiatives. In particular, Quiver’s QKS Classifier will be used to organize unstructured and structured data into an intuitive, browse-able structure for the most effective information management. NextBrick clients will have the opportunity to utilize Quiver’s unique categorization and taxonomy platform to create, populate, and maintain intuitive, drill-down directories within any existing or planned information management initiative. QKS Classifier works with existing systems through open APIs and XML output to easily integrate alongside any portal, content management, search, or application currently deployed. www.quiver.com/products
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