Inktomi Corp. announced an agreement with BEA Systems, Inc. to integrate Inktomi Enterprise Search with BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0. This agreement provides BEA WebLogic Portal users with a unified search experience across multiple data formats, languages and locations for effective information retrieval and increased business efficiency. BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 will be delivered as an integrated solution with tools for business users to personalize users’ online experiences, and for IT organizations to enable enterprise-wide standards, security and administration. Built on BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Portal can rapidly scale to thousands of concurrent users and transactions, and can be adapted to manage multiple portal initiatives. www.bea.com, www.inktomi.com
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Hewlett-Packard Company and Banta Corporation announced an enterprise publishing solution to help businesses streamline the capture, management, distribution and publishing of digital information. Using the solution, corporations will be able to deliver accurately branded and up-to-date information on any device anytime, anywhere, in the format the customer wants. HP will integrate its expertise in networking, consulting and digital print technologies with Banta’s content management applications and print services. Banta’s B.media content management system, the foundation of the enterprise publishing solution, provides an application for customers to easily manage their data from multiple repositories. www.banta.com, www.hp.com
DataMirror Corporation announced Transformation Server for XML, the latest addition to the company’s Transformation Server software. Transformation Server for XML enables companies to capture, transform and flow data in real-time to and from common database formats and XML. It enables companies to capture selected events such as the posting of purchase orders or issuing invoices from any application and send it in commonly understood industry standard formats across the enterprise and beyond to business partners, suppliers, employees and customers. The software also features real-time message queue streaming to enable businesses to stream XML documents to application servers, business-to-business exchanges or other XML-driven applications without the need for any programming. Transformation Server for XML will be available for customers on a managed basis beginning October 30, 2001 and will be generally available on November 23, 2001. www.datamirror.com
West Group and NextPage Inc. announced a strategic alliance that will enable NextPage users to retrieve and display Westlaw content and services within the NextPage framework and associated Web-based applications. Through the West Group/NextPage alliance, researchers can retrieve documents from across their enterprise – and related content from Westlaw all in one operation. The NextPage framework provides access to a wide array of sources, such as local and remote firm document collections in Microsoft Office, PDF, Lotus Notes or other formats, as well as third party content such as publishers, partners, supplier or customers. When NextPage users access Westlaw from within this peer-to-peer architecture results will be displayed in an integrated fashion with those from their other content sources. This alliance will also allow users in the UK to access the same functionality when they use Westlaw UK from Sweet and Maxwell. www.west.thomson.com, www.nextpage.com
Documentum announced its support of the Sun ONE software product architecture with the intention to certify Documentum eContent Services within the Sun ONE architecture. Documentum eContent Services will allow content management capabilities to be available through portal interfaces and enable the creation of customized content-rich services. By exposing content management functionality within the Sun ONE
architecture, joint customers will have the ability to control the creation, production, and delivery of their company’s content assets through a variety of applications and devices. www.documentum.com/products/webservices, www.sun.com/sunone
Enfish Inc. and KnowledgeTrack Corporation have formed Enfish Corporation. The two companies formed the new company to provide a solution that simplifies access and use of both personal and corporate information in a common working environment. Enfish Corporation is now shipping Enfish Enterprise. A portal solution that integrates a user’s personal computer with a portal, Enfish Enterprise allows for the indexing, cross-referencing and display of corporate content in context with knowledge workers’ content – in a common environment. Enfish Enterprise enables the personalized and collaborative use of knowledge among employees, customers and vendors. www.enfish.com
Microsoft Corp. presented an architecture for XML Web services and published four specifications supporting that architecture. The Global XML Web Services Architecture provides a set of principles and guidelines for advancing the protocols and file formats of today’s XML Web services to more complex and sophisticated tasks. The four specifications — WS-Security, WS-License, WS-Routing and WS-Referral — build on XML Web services technologies such as SOAP. As with previous XML Web services specifications, these four will be available for a review period and then submitted to appropriate standards bodies. The four specifications provide standard ways to implement and enhance two key XML Web services capabilities — security and routing. These specifications adhere to the road map outlined by Microsoft and IBM Corp. at the W3C Web Services Workshop in April 2001 and represent a first step toward a comprehensive Global XML Web Services Architecture. The security specifications are WS-Security, which outlines how to use the W3C specifications XML Signature and XML Encryption, and WS-License, which, along with WS-Security, outlines how existing digital credentials and their associated trust semantics can be securely associated with SOAP messages. The routing specifications are WS-Routing (formerly SOAP-RP), which describes how to place message addresses in the SOAP message header and enables SOAP messages to travel serially to multiple destinations along a message path, and WS-Referral, which enables the routing between SOAP nodes on a message path to be dynamically configured. Each of these specifications provides extension and composition mechanisms that enable future specifications to be incorporated into a complete solution. They are available for download from msdn.microsoft.com
BEA Systems, Inc. announced the availability of BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 and BEA WebLogic Integration 2.1. The new products are designed to simplify the development, integration and presentation of applications, systems, and business processes spanning an enterprise’s employees, customers, and partners. BEA also announced the BEA Portal Star Solution, BEA Portlet Gallery and more than 65 partners supporting BEA WebLogic Portal and BEA WebLogic Integration.
In a separate BEA announcement, the BEA Portal Star Solution is now available, with 66 partners initially committed to join. This BEA partner initiative is designed for partners who want to build application portlets for BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0, integrate their applications to BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0, or develop consulting practices around the product. With Portal Star Solution partners, customers will be able to create portals with pre-integrated partner solutions for content management, search, syndicated content, security, collaboration, and analytics. Some of the partners are: AltaVista, Autonomy, Inc., Artesia, Bowstreet, BoxCar, Business Objects, Cardonet, CrystalDecisions, divine, inc., Documentum, Entegrity, E.piphany, FatWire, FileNET, Gauss, Hyperion, Informatica, Inktomi, Interwoven, Intraspect, Netegrity, NetGenesis, NewsEdge, Oblix, OnePage, PeopleSoft, Reef, ScreamingMedia, RSA/Securant, Selectica, Stellent, Venetica, Verity, and Vignette.BEA WebLogic Integration 2.1 is available for download. BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 is scheduled to be generally available for download on Oct. 29. www.bea.com
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