Rhythmyx Content Manager V4.0 is allows business users to define content usage and to group and arrange content into Web pages, without requiring template redesigns from Web developers. Rhythmyx provides end users with the flexibility and control required to easily assemble content into Web pages, while providing the scalability and the reliability required to quickly deploy, implement and maintain the content management system. Rhythmyx V4.0 features include: New Scaling Options; Active Assembly; Easier Administration; Advanced Workflow Capabilities; and eEnhanced assembly for templates. The newly optimized Assembly engine provides more powerful XSL functionality with the addition of the following upgrades: enhanced manageability, portability and an easier, centralized method to manage naming and linking schemes of publishable content. Percussion’s Rhythmyx Content Manager V4.0 supports Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Solaris platforms and will be available for shipment immediately. www.percussion.com
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FatWire Software announced support for Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS). FatWire will leverage Oracle’s complete infrastructure software to quickly deploy fast, highly scaleable and reliable Web applications and Web sites. Powering UpdateEngine on Oracle9i Application Server allows businesses to improve the performance and reliability of their Web applications, while spending significantly fewer resources on managing and maintaining that infrastructure. FatWire’s UpdateEngine5 will be providing dynamic content management to build Web applications with personalized workflow, flexibility and scalability. www.fatwire.com
Andersen and Artesia Technologies announced an alliance for assisting organizations with significant brand equity and extensive use of online and offline rich media to more effectively manage their extended supply chain of brand assets. The two organizations will work closely to develop and implement best practices utilizing Artesia’s TEAMS digital asset management solution for streamlining the production, management, use and dynamic re-expression of brand assets across areas such as multi-channel marketing, distance learning and interactive customer support. www.andersen.com, www.artesia.com
XML Global Technologies, Inc. announced the release of GoXML Transform 2.0, a solution for the dynamic exchange of XML, EDI and other data formats. GoXML Transform 2.0 directly addresses the need to quickly and reliably transform legacy and other data into XML. Features included in GoXML Transform 2.0 are: Design studio for building mapping rules, Intuitive Drag and Drop User Interface, EDI dictionaries for X12, EDIFACT, HIPAA, SWIFT, Routing and workflow, Extensive set of back-end connectors, Links to MQSeries, SOAP, HTTP, ebXML Registry Message Service and Component Dictionary, Web Services support, Registry and Database Lookup and Replace, Enhanced Document Recognition System, and Multiple Concurrent Inputs. GoXML Transform 2.0 is available for immediate delivery with special pricing until November 30th, 2001. www.xmlglobal.com
Stellent Inc. announced that French and German versions of its Stellent Content Management system are now shipping. The Stellent Content Management system has always supported the management and delivery of multi-language content. The product now enables users to efficiently interact with the Stellent system in French, German or English, allowing localized Web sites in these languages to be more rapidly deployed and more easily maintained. Users can choose their language preference when they create their user profiles in the Stellent Content Management system, and the Stellent Content Server then automatically presents the interface in the preferred language. Stellent added a localization kit to the Stellent Content Management system in version 5.0, which was released in June 2001. The kit enables Stellent and selected partners to produce versions of Stellent Content Management in different languages. Stellent is also producing Japanese, Korean and Spanish versions of the Stellent Content Management system. Stellent Content Management supports full-text and metadata searching for multiple languages, including multibyte languages. The French and German versions are configured upon installation of the Stellent Content Management system and are provided at no additional cost. The Stellent Content Management system is priced at $100,000 to $250,000 USD. www.stellent.com
Grey Zone, Inc announced the release of SecureZone 5. SecureZone 5 enables business users to create a completely functioning extranet, including users and content, in “as little as 3 minutes”. SecureZone empowers non-technical professionals to spawn an unlimited number of distinct Web sites from a single platform. The product combines security, content management, and audience-based publishing capabilities that simplify the Web publishing process. It incorporates technology called RDDAC (Reverse Driven Data Access Control), that provides company administrators with fine-grained control of data for security and administration, and provides access and administrative functions for each individual piece of content. The platform supports multiple publishing methodologies via prepackaged and/or XML API. It scales to run on anything from a PC to a mainframe. SecureZone for Linux is available on the IBM zSeries and S/390 mainframes, as well as the IBM iSeries and pSeries product families. In addition, the new product supports a number of database environments, including Oracle and IBM’s DB2. www.greyzone.com
Semio Corporation announced new versions of its SemioTagger categorization engine and its Semio Plumtree Integration Module. Enhancements to SemioTagger include support for Oracle databases and the ability to crawl data stored by Documentum, performance improvements and additional source file support. Significant new features in the Semio Plumtree Integration Module include relevance ranking and crawl-time indexing. The new Oracle database support, in addition to existing Microsoft SQL Server support, means that XML metadata generated by Tagger can be automatically loaded into most databases in either Unix or Windows environments. Documentum support has also been expanded in SemioTagger for Unix, enabling categorization of information for Documentum in both environments. These features, along with many performance enhancements, are available immediately in version 4.2 of SemioTagger. www.semio.com
Pageflex, Inc., announced it is shipping version 3 of Pageflex Mpower. By incorporating Adobe’s Portable Document Format Library for native output of PDF files and enabling users to place PDF files as static or variable objects within documents, Pageflex offers customers advanced capabilities for variable print applications. Mpower 3 includes dozens of new features, usability improvements, and performance enhancements, including: the ability to preview transactional jobs before they are incorporated into a web site, advanced user-defined copyfitting rules, spot color and tint support, generic CMYK color matching of previews and bitmaps, placed PDFs as images, XML-based project files, and support for enhanced output drivers, including native PDF utilizing the Adobe PDF Library and the Personalized Print Markup Language (PPML). Pageflex offers Mpower through both purchase and subscription models. Mpower 3 upgrades will be sent to all qualified customers worldwide. It is immediately available. www.pageflexinc.com
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