Mediasurface plc announced the release of Mediasurface 4.0. Mediasurface 4.0 includes options for the delivery of a customer’s dynamic content as a standard feature of the core product using the J2EE and XML, and provides flexibility to fix departmental or line-of-business needs for content management functionality. This delivery capability can stand alone or be run within an application server environment. Mediasurface 4.0 is agnostic with regard to the choice of delivery engine. In addition to the standards and core technology advances in Mediasurface 4.0, new business user functionality includes the content management console, a Web-based control panel that enables users to create and manage content and includes WYSIWYG capabilities and image browsing as standard. It allows authors to graphically view the current status of content items in the overall workflow and to handle approvals and content sign-off dynamically and rapidly. www.mediasurface.com
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Mohomine Inc. announced the general availability of mohoClassifier v2.0, an OEM-able product targeted at enterprise application vendors and for usage in government applications. mohoClassifier v2.0 (mC), provides a modular solution that is integrated into applications, such as portals, document management, content management, customer relationship management, sales force automation, catalog and human resource management software applications. mC classifies information in emails, file systems, intranets and extranets, including the Internet. For Mohomine, extraction and classification are core competencies, providing scalability, accuracy and speed, along with simplified integration. mohoClassifier v2.0 is available now for English and Western European languages, with additional language support due in Q1 2002. mC can be licensed for usage in applications or ASP solutions as licensed software, or integrated into an existing application as a custom enterprise application. Pricing varies by OEM application. An evaluation version of the mohoClassifier v2.0 may be requested. www.mohomine.com
SAQQARA Systems Inc. announced the release of SAQQARA ContentWorks 2.5, a product content management solution. SAQQARA ContentWorks 2.5 is a completely Web-based solution that enables product content creators, in any location, to build and maintain a product content repository using a content transformation wizard and content editor. ContentWorks features a new auto-classification engine for improved efficiency and accuracy that employs a content transformation wizard to guide the engine according to key words and phrases identified during product content input. Using training content and a taxonomy, product classification becomes automatic. As more descriptive terms are provided during training, accuracy increases. The Web-based content editor revises product information within the repository — adding and deleting records or revising attributes. SAQQARA ContentWorks 2.5 is available immediately. Special upgrade pricing and maintenance agreements are available to current CommerceSuite customers. www.saqqara.com
ePlus, Inc. announced the availability of ePlus Content Framework, an extensible schema for the creation and management of eCommerce-enabled product catalogs. The ePlus Content Framework contains pre-defined product classifications, and enables users to match their business requirements by adding to or modifying the existing structure. The ePlus Content Framework provides a schema consisting of over 44,000 structured product classifications that facilitate the creation of user-friendly, intuitive, easy-to-navigate catalogs. ePlus Content classifications cover a wide range of commodities, attributes and coding to pinpoint and narrow the search for goods in a wide range of categories – from electrical and automotive equipment, to medical and hazardous material supplies, consumer goods, and more. The schema simplifies complex product information to enable easy creation of digital catalogs. Organizations can cross-reference product data with common terminology and standards such as the UN/SPSC or other pre-developed categorization scheme, ensuring standardized, reusable data. www.eplus.com
SERENA Software, Inc. announced that Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 has been certified with Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS). From self-service enterprise portals to high-traffic eStores and Internet Web sites, Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 and Oracle9iAS deliver a complete set of middle-tier services for Web code and content management. Serena designed Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 to work with Application Servers, such as Oracle9iAS, to simplify the process of developing and deploying dynamic Web environments. Additionally, Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 integrates with Oracle9i Database to provide UNIX customers with a single metadata repository. Serena ChangeMan WCM 3.1 provides the infrastructure to manage both software code and Web content from a single point of control. Serena ChangeMan WCM incorporates change management tools along with content creation facilities. www.serena.com
Cytura Corporation announced Contenuity Version-4, its XML-based enterprise content management platform. Contenuity is the centerpiece of Cytura’s content management strategy, combining document management, Web services and a portal platform with end-user functionality. Business users can ingest any type of analog or digital information, and manage all aspects of extended content management without scripting code. Contenuity is architected using technologies like XML, SOAP, and WSDL. A robust Extensible Object Engine, in combination with relational database tables and an LDAP directory structure, provides technology that can support a scalable, extendable, personalized, internationalized, Web application platform. The Contenuity platform is available for $150,000.00 base price. Cytura’s pricing model is customer driven for instances requiring development, training or business continuity processor licensing. www.cytura.com
Idiom Technologies, Inc. and ATRIL announced a joint development partnership to share core technologies and competencies in order to develop products to serve the needs of the globalization marketplace. The partnership creates a centralized, shareable, enterprise-level translation memory (TM) system. TM allows translators to reuse previously translated text. An enterprise-level TM enables companies to treat translations as a corporate asset and leverage all previous work done by in-house personnel or external vendors and freelance translators. Idiom has integrated the new TM technology, as well as ATRIL’s Deja Vu linguistic technology components, with its WorldServer Web infrastructure software. ATRIL will benefit from the partnership by offering the new enterprise-level translation memory and terminology database as a stand-alone server in ATRIL’s new Deja Vu X product family. The new Deja Vu X Remote Server will allow customers to share translation resources across their offices worldwide. Groups of translators will be able to concurrently access a centralized repository of translations and glossaries over the Internet. Using XML, Deja Vu X users at companies of all sizes will be able to access both local and remote server TMs transparently. www.atril.com, www.idiominc.com
Documentum announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Digital Asset Management technology of the privately held Bulldog Group. Documentum now offers a full spectrum of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) capabilities as one integrated platform – Web Content Management (WCM), Enterprise Document Management (EDM), XML Component Management and Digital Asset Management (DAM). Bulldog’s current Digital Asset Management offerings will be made available through Documentum’s channel of sales, services and support. Beginning in the first quarter of 2002, Documentum will introduce four new ECM offerings: Media Server, Media-Enabled Web Content Management Edition, Marketing Content Management Edition, and Digital Asset Management Edition. Documentum plans to further integrate the deep Digital Asset Management capabilities of the Bulldog technology into its platform. Documentum also announced the establishment of its Canadian Headquarters in Toronto. www.documentum.com, www.bulldog.com
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