Tumbleweed Communications Corp. introduced Tumbleweed Secure Guardian, an enterprise-wide policy-based security framework that offers solutions to both protect and extend enterprise networks, and enable secure communications with customers, partners and suppliers over the Internet. Secure Guardian provides centralized security for both incoming and outgoing communications and integrates various enterprise applications for safe delivery of all forms of enterprise content. Secure Guardian is based on a platform consisting of the Tumbleweed Secure Policy Gateway and a series of protocol enablers that allow any application to connect to it. The Secure Policy Gateway enables the enterprise to apply security to and manage content policies for bi-directional communications traffic, web content and Internet usage. Tumbleweed Secure Guardian is available immediately and pricing is CPU-based. www.tumbleweed.com
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TIBCO Software Inc. announced the TIBCO ActivePortal 3. This new version is a framework for allowing employees, customers, vendors and business partners to interact directly with underlying business processes and systems. The TIBCO ActivePortal 3 platform enables companies to develop and deploy enterprise portals, providing visibility to critical corporate data, such as inventory, sales data and customer service information through wired and wireless connections. The TIBCO ActivePortal platform brings the functionality of underlying business systems to the portal, allowing users to conduct self-services. With extensive out-of-box functionality and pre-built TIBCO PortalPack interfaces to ERP, CRM and other enterprise applications, organizations can deploy enterprise portals faster. ActivePortal 3 is available now. www.tibco.com
KVS Inc. announced plans to support and optimize Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) through their Enterprise Vault. Enterprise Vault will provide long-term management of corporate assets stored on SPS. SharePoint Portal Server allows project or workgroup teams to benefit from collaborative document sharing, management and publishing capabilities over the Internet. Enterprise Vault for SPS will give SharePoint customers the means to archive, protect and manage proprietary information for long-term retention and optimal performance of the SPS environment. Enterprise Vault performs as a knowledge backbone to Exchange systems, and now SharePoint Portal Server, by providing a secure, centralized archiving service for those systems while easing their storage burden. All archived information is indexed and may be searched and retrieved by users, who can quickly and easily find and restore individual messages and files. The entire service is controlled by corporate defined policies that allow central control of an organization’s Information. www.kvsinc.com
Virage, Inc. announced its next-generation SmartEncode family of products. Virage announced VideoLogger 5.0, Software Developer Kit 5.0 and ControlCenter 2.0. The new versions of the SmartEncode suite create a simultaneous, real-time process for controlling, automating and integrating the workflow surrounding video transformation including encoding, indexing and delivery. Customers will benefit from enhanced automation, as well as tighter time synchronization and control for simultaneous, multi-format encoding. Virage’s VideoLogger 5.0 can now be configured as a Windows Service, creating a tighter integration with the underlying operating system. New features include: automated clip marking and segmentation tools for unattended operation, new configuration tools, tight integration with the underlying operating system through a “lights-out” configuration, multi-byte character support for ControlCenter, and the addition of the Media Analysis API into the Software Developer’s Kit.
IXIASOFT announced the release of the newest version of its native XML database, TEXTML Server 2.0. The new version features enhanced performance and scalability, along with targeted new functionality such as support of foreign languages through UNICODE, and numerical data indexing. It is compatible with Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 platforms. TEXTML Server processes XML content without any additional conversion and eliminates the need for the unproductive shoehorning of XML documents into relational databases. It has been instrumental in reducing development costs and efforts in the realization of projects involving XML content. TEXTML Server 2.0 offers faster indexing of content and faster response times to queries while keeping the hardware requirements to a minimum. TEXTML Server 2.0 is now available for purchase and evaluation through IXIASOFT’s website. www.ixiasoft.com
eVision and North Plains Systems Corp. announced they have integrated eVe 3 Professional (eVision Visual Engine) as a North Plains System I-Piece, providing a content-based visual search option for NPS’ TeleScope Enterprise DAM solution. eVision and North Plains Systems will jointly market eVe 3 Professional as a value-added component of TeleScope Enterprise. Using eVision’s technology, customers can manage digital images by visual content and move beyond the use of only traditional text metadata. www.evisionglobal.com, www.northplains.com
Atomz unveiled the Atomz Web Site Solution, an end-to-end Web content operations solution for running and maintaining enterprise-class Web sites. The Atomz Web Site Solution includes Atomz’s site search and content management applications, as well as custom Web site hosting with greater than 99.9% guaranteed uptime and 24-hour technical support. The Atomz Web Site Solution is designed for organizations that want to simplify Web operations and lower IT costs by completely outsourcing application management, Web site hosting and IT tasks. Atomz takes care of critical Web site operations, while allowing Web teams to maintain control of site design, content, and look and feel of a Web site. The Atomz Web Site Solution includes: Atomz Publish Professional, Atomz Enterprise Search, Dedicated and Customized Web Site Hosting, A Dedicated Account Manager, Implementation Assistance, 24/7/365 System, Application and Web site monitoring, 24-hour pager access for Emergency Support issues, and Unlimited Technical Support and Troubleshooting. www.atomz.com
XyEnterprise announced that it has released a new out-of-the-box Content@ (pronounced: con-tent-a) package geared specifically to simplify the production of product documentation for product documentation editorial workgroups. This release is based on the Content@ editorial content management and workflow software, and provides a variety of predefined workflows, roles and output tools. The Content@ Product Documentation Solution package includes all the standard Content@ features such as a fully documented API for UNIX and NT, workflow and metadata management. It also includes a direct application link to XyEnterprise’s XML Professional Publisher (XPP) software for automated publishing and personalized, print-on-demand output. The Content@ system supports a wide variety of editing tools such as Microsoft Word, Arbortext Epic, Adobe FrameMaker+SGML and SoftQuad XMetaL. In addition, the Content@ Product Documentation Solution package contains a unique complement of product documentation best practice features. Content@ workgroup is available now. Pricing starts at $50,000 for the server software and 10 concurrent client licenses. www.xyenterprise.com
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