Hummingbird Ltd. unveiled Hummingbird Enterprise, an integrated EIMS that helps
customers manage the entire lifecycle of their business content with a 360(degree) view of their knowledge assets. Hummingbird is unveiling new versions of its portal, document management, business intelligence, records management, imaging, workflow and collaboration solutions that will feature security, integration and a consistent look-and-feel. The company is delivering a new simple and consistent product brand. The new solution names are: Hummingbird Portal, Hummingbird DM, Hummingbird BI, Hummingbird ETL, Hummingbird KM, Hummingbird RM, Hummingbird Imaging, Hummingbird Web Publishing, Hummingbird DM Workflow, and Hummingbird Collaboration. www.hummingbird.com
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Stellent, Inc. announced the release of its portal applications, or “portlets,” for the BEA WebLogic Portal, a platform that simplifies and customizes access to information, applications and business processes by providing portal foundation services, personalization and interaction management, intelligent administration and integration services. Stellent’s portlets enable businesses to deploy content-rich enterprise portals and give users access to content as well as a wide range of Stellent Content Management features from the BEA portal platform. Stellent offers five portlets for the WebLogic portal interface: Content Portlet offers users direct access to business content that has been defined by the portal developer; Contribution Portlet enables users to submit content created in native applications for automatic publishing to the portal; Search Portlet enables users to find content using metadata or full text searches; Personal Searches Portlet provides users easy access to searches previously executed via the search portlet; workflow Inbox Portlet provides users direct access to their workflow inboxes for the review and approval of content. www.stellent.com
FatWire Software announced FatWire Spark pCM, a low-cost content management product for portals. Spark will exist as an integrated, portlet interface for BEA WebLogic Portal. Spark portal Content Management (pCM) will include basic CM functions including: workflow, a “to do” list, simplified user and group management, basic search functionality, rollback, and a function to automatically generate content management interfaces for business users. Spark will run on the BEA WebLogic Portal. FatWire’s Spark will start at $25,000, and will be available spring 2002. FatWire’s Spark can easily be upgraded to a complete dynamic content management solution. The cost-effective product is dedicated to meet the needs of small to mid-size pCM projects. www.fatwire.com
Documentum announced the release of the Documentum Portal Integration Pack, which enables the integration of enterprise content and content management capabilities with portal applications. The portal integration pack includes a set of Documentum portlets, which are embeddable application components that deliver content management capabilities to portals and applications, including those offered by ATG, BEA Systems Inc., Citrix Systems, Inc., Epicentric Inc., Plumtree Software Inc., SAP Portals Inc. and TIBCO Software Inc. Documentum portlets enable portal users to leverage Documentum ECM tools and processes from within a portal, including the ability to contribute or update current content in accordance with defined access and security rights, perform sophisticated searches based on content indexing or attributes like keywords, author or content type, monitor content for changes or revisions, and participate in business processes, such as workflows and automated content approval activities www.documentum.com
Convera announced that IBM is offering Convera’s RetrievalWare as the search and retrieval technology for its Network Interactive Content Access (NICA) publishing industry solution. NICA is an end-to-end digital asset management pre-press solution that provides newspaper and magazine publishers the ability to manage, archive, retrieve and reuse publishing data such as text, images, graphics and PDFs while offering integration with their production workflows, editorial creation front-end systems and industry specific business practices. NICA also provides the workflow management that allows the repurposing of publishing content either from its own repository or from an external enterprise content management repository. Convera also announced that it is creating an extension to the IBM WebSphere Portal that will enable IBM customers to integrate RetrievalWare into their portal deployments.
This implementation gives IBM portal customers the capability to retrieve all data types (text, video, images, audio) through the IBM portal interface. www.convera.com
Artesia Technologies unveiled the latest version of its TeamToolz Marketing Resource Management hosted service. This release offers new features including built-in reporting capabilities, enhanced calendar functionality and overall application performance enhancements providing the user with improved process efficiency saving time and reducing expenses. Specific enhancements in TeamToolz 4.3 include: Intelligent permission-based reports that show the real-time status of chosen marketing projects and their associated deliverables; Calendar view can display projects specific to individuals; and numerous performance enhancements. www.artesia.com
Easypress Technologies announced the release of Atomik 3.0, the latest version of its QuarkXPress-to-XML software. Atomik 3.0 adds a range of new features that facilitate fast, efficient and intelligent cross-media publishing. For the
first time, Atomik 3.0 is also available as a developer edition. The centrepiece of the new version of Atomik is it’s handling of character-level content in QuarkXPress. Whereas previous versions identified and extracted content into XML at a paragraph level, Atomik 3.0 now enables content to be identified at both a paragraph and character level. Character-level content, such as an email address, telephone number or person’s name within a paragraph, can easily be extracted into separate XML tags. Atomik 3.0 is available direct from Easypress Technologies and Atomik resellers and system integrators worldwide. The suggested retail price for Atomik 3.0 is
Engage, Inc. announced the expansion of its content management product line with the addition of ApprovalServer 1.2. A key component of the Engage’s content management solution for multichannel marketing, ApprovalServer is an Internet-based solution designed to help marketers, retailers and publishers proof, correct and approve content for delivery across multiple channels. With ApprovalServer 1.2, which further automates the content approval process, Engage’s content management solution will enable customers to further streamline the planning, management and delivery of their print and online marketing programs. Combined with Engage’s ContentServer software, a database product that provides out-of-the-box capabilities for digital asset management and workflow automation, and Engage’s PromoPlanner software, a software tool that helps marketing departments better manage promotions, ApprovalServer provides the complete content management solution for multichannel marketing. ApprovalServer 1.2 is expected to be generally available early in the third fiscal quarter 2002. www.engage.com
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