Category: Content technology news (Page 423 of 646)

Watchfire announced that they have formed an alliance with Interwoven, Inc. The integration of Watchfire’s Website Management software and Interwoven TeamSite software allows customers to automatically scan their web content for integrity issues before going live on a site. Automating manual testing benefits customers by lowering production costs and by catching issues before they are posted to a website, reducing the need to re-edit live content. By inserting an automated compliance step into the workflow process, integrity issues can be identified and fixed early in the process. The alliance will allow enterprises to incorporate Watchfire’s Website Management software into their workflow process and analyze legacy content for issues that could impact site effectiveness and potentially expose the company to corporate risk. www.interwoven.com, www.watchfire.com

Requisite Technology, Inc., announced the commercial release of its factory tools and paper catalog publishing capabilities. The new eMerge content management system modules are: eMerge Content Workstation, which places Requisite’s catalog tools in the hands of procurement and e-marketplace customers who manage large volumes of product and service information, and eMerge Publishing XTension, which integrates Requisite’s electronic content management capabilities with QuarkXPress. Requisite also announced the second generation of its eMerge Contract Manager 2.0. The new version includes enhancements to build contracts, manage customized contract information, create flexible pricing models and handle complex catalog items.www.requisite.com

Cytura Corporation announced a partnership with Garcia Media. As part of the partnership, Garcia Media has selected Contenuity V4 as the technology base for its Internet offerings. With Contenuity V4, Garcia Media can narrow the technology learning curve associated with the transition of information from print to online and minimize the financial investments required. Garcia Media will also use Contenuity V4 to deploy its own Web site by early 2002. www.garcia-media.com, www.cytura.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced Adobe Acrobat Distiller Server 5.0. The new product provides a centralized, server-based solution for high-volume Adobe PostScript to Adobe PDF file conversion. Distiller Server 5.0 gives IT and creative professionals greater control over large-scale Adobe PDF creation through enhanced document security options, sophisticated font and language support, tools for simplified administration, and support for XML. IT professionals who incorporate Acrobat Distiller Server 5.0 as part of document management systems benefit from improved support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP, granular file security options, and support for XML metadata. Acrobat Distiller Server 5.0 is expected to ship by the end of January 2002 in English, French, German, and Japanese versions for Windows NT 4.0 with service pack 5 or 6, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and in English for Sun Solaris 2.6, 7 and 8, and Red Hat Linux 6.x and 7.1. The product will be offered in 100-user and unlimited-user versions. Pricing for 100 users will begin at an estimated street price of US$5,000, with licensing pricing for larger purchases as low as US$4,250. Pricing for unlimited users will begin at an estimated street price of US$15,000, with licensing pricing as low as US$12,750. Customers who purchase Acrobat Distiller Server 4.0 between Nov. 15, 2001 and 90 days of today’s announcement will be eligible for a free upgrade to Acrobat Distiller Server 5.0. www.adobe.com/products/acrdis/main.html

The OASIS Customer Information Quality (CIQ) Technical Committee announced that it has accepted the submission of CRML, the XML vocabulary specification that defines customer relationships. Originally developed by MSI Business Solutions Pty. Ltd., CRML provides an open, application- and vendor-independent method for describing any type of customer relationship. The OASIS CIQ Technical Committee plans to adopt CRML into its family of customer information specifications including xCIL and xNAL, which define unique customer characteristics. Under the CRML standard, a customer can be a person or an organization. CRML accommodates complex customer relationships including person-to-person, person-to-business, and business-to-business. www.oasis-open.org

Glides, Inc. announced a partnership with Hitext S.A. that will enable Hitext to more effectively help their customers manage the multilingual content of their Web sites. When marketing staff use UniSite to update a section of content in the primary language, the software automatically detects the content change and triggers a workflow process that guides content owners (marketing professionals, management etc.) across each of the languages through review, approval and publishing of the updated content. XML-based technology allows translated content to be placed appropriately within the Web site. As a UniSite partner, Hitext’s localization teams will become translation service providers electronically integrated into the workflow system for Web content localization. UniSite Web Center is delivered as a software service so customers pay a low monthly subscription fee for use of UniSite based on the size of their site. www.glides.com, www.hitext.com

SDL International announced SDLWebFlow for Microsoft Content Management Server. The integration is a complete solution for managing the timely delivery of multilingual Web content across linguistic, cultural and national boundaries, and provides a unified user interface for content creation, management, localization and globalization. SDLWebFlow provides automated workflow and project management functionality to facilitate and streamline the localization and synchronized translation of multilingual web content. The combination of Microsoft Content Management Server and SDLWebFlow provides change detection and process management capabilities which automatically initiate global processes to alert translators, reviewers, legal staff, authorizers, project managers and other key personnel to ensure that correct changes are made for the right country, language and locale. SDLWebFlow for Microsoft Content Management Server is available for purchase today from SDL. For information on SDL, SDLWebFlow, and SDLWebFlow for Microsoft Content Management Server. www.sdlintl.com

Vignette Corp. and Telecom Italia announced a strategic partnership. Combining the Vignette Content Suite V6 and Telecom Italia hosting services, the companies intend to serve the online business needs of the top 2,000 Italian companies. Telecom Italia, through its dedicated cybercenters, will bring to market an offering including broadband access, IP services, Web and application hosting — a complete e-business enabling platform, on which selected system integrators can develop customized solutions. This strategic alliance is focused on the IP outsourcing model, which combines the benefit of the pure ASP model — software as a service, no internally managed infrastructure, better time to market — with the business requirements of corporate customers — service level agreements, business continuity and a dedicated software and hardware infrastructure. Through the partnership with TI’s e-business solution, Vignette Content Suite’s V6 content management applications are being delivered on a hosting basis. www.vignette.com