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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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
Connect3 Systems Inc. announced a relationship with Quark Inc. to deliver enterprise-scale content management systems for retailers and catalog publishers. Quark Digital Media System is an enterprise content management system that lets customers manage text files, images, and other digital resources. It combines an Oracle8 database with a scalable three-tier architecture capable of serving hundreds of concurrent users. QuarkDMS streamlines production and delivery processes, and makes organization a natural part of the creative process. The Connect3 VELOCITY Performance Series allows all participants in the merchandising and advertising workflow to achieve the ultimate merchant productivity goal: one common toolset to create, manage, build and publish highly versioned promotions across all customer touch points. www.quark.com, www.connect3.com
Liquent Inc. announced a marketing alliance with Ipedo, Inc. The combined solution resulting from this partnership will leverage Liquent’s XtentT technology and Ipedo’s XML Database to provide infrastructure that can be used to transform, manage and deliver XML content to content management, portal, Web, wireless and other enterprise applications. Companies utilizing this solution will be able to automatically retrieve both structured and unstructured content from their existing data and content repositories, and use Liquent’s Xtent engine to transform the content into XML that is managed by the Ipedo XML Database. This XML can then be used to meet ongoing requirements to transform, search and assemble critical information for employees, customers, partners and electronic systems. www.ipedo.com
Members of PRISM (Publishing Standards for Industry Standard Metadata) released the ‘last call’ draft of the PRISM 1.1 specification. The new version of the specification contains updates and additions that are a result of the specification being tested in both actual production implementations and in pilots. PRISM is an industry standard that specifies metadata designed to assist in automating, repurposing, archiving, production, aggregation, rights tracking and redistribution of publishable content both within and outside the enterprise among business partners. The standard was originally intended for use in magazine publishing. However, due to its horizontal applicability, it has also gained support from a number of companies who see it as applicable to the publishing-like needs of all organizations. The PRISM Working Group is open to all organizations and includes companies such as 3Path, Inc., Active Data Exchange, Inc., Adobe Systems, Incorporated., Antarcti.ca Systems Inc., Artesia Technologies, Inc., CMP Media, LLC, ContentGuard Inc., Context Media, Inc, Creo Products Inc., Hachette Filipacchi Media, U.S., (HFM), Hearst Magazines, Interwoven, Inc., LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier plc., LingoMotors Inc., The McGraw-Hill Companies, Newsweek, Publishing Connections Inc.(PCI), and Time Inc. www.prismstandard.org, www.idealliance.org

