Software AG, Inc. announced the launch of a re-configured and more robust suite of EntireX products, its XML-based Integration Server. EntireX is a family of flexible and easy-to-use component-based solutions for integrating enterprise applications across heterogeneous operating systems, applications and platforms. The EntireX product suite is composed of three major components: EntireX Orchestrator is an integration broker based on technology that enables customers to connect multiple disparate back-end applications and data sources from many platforms; EntireX Communicator provides “wrapping” technology and flexible programming interfaces that can deploy business processes to the Web in as little as three mouse clicks; EntireX ‘Intelligent’ Adapters enable software integration with standard applications such as Siebel, SAP, PeopleSoft; various databases such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and Adabas as well as other technologies such as MQ Series and CICS. www.softwareag.com/corporat/products/default.htm
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Stratify, Inc. (formerly PurpleYogi, Inc.) announced the launch of its family of enterprise software solutions – the Stratify Discovery System and the Stratify Classification Server. The Stratify software platform transforms unstructured corporate data into relevant and immediately accessible information by automatically organizing millions of documents and displaying them in an easy-to-navigate hierarchy. The Stratify software platform can be embedded into existing corporate applications, such as enterprise search engines, corporate portals, news aggregation services, CRM solutions, sales force automation software, and content and document management systems. It collects this business-critical information from a variety of sources, automatically organizes it into a hierarchy of topics tailored to the needs of a particular enterprise. The Stratify Discovery System can either import an existing topic hierarchy or use patented clustering techniques to organize documents into a new, customized hierarchy. The Stratify Classification Server allows software application developers or service providers to build products that automatically organize and classify unstructured, text-based information. The Stratify Discovery System and the Stratify Classification Server are available now. Pricing starts at $50,000. www.stratify.com
NxN Software announced the release of alienbrain 5.0. Key new functionality in alienbrain 5.0 includes advanced project tracking and asset management facilities, 35 additional productivity features, scalability to 100+ users and new clients for Macintosh and Linux. With the release of 5.0, NxN also introduces entry-level configurations that make alienbrain available for a 10-person team for as low as $9,900. Current alienbrain users may upgrade to the new version using their standard maintenance agreements. alienbrain 5.0 will be available on November 15, 2001.
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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
DeepBridge Content Solutions unveiled ObjectBridge, an integrated solution developed in conjunction with FatWire Software. ObjectBridge, in addition to serving as a Media-Independent Publishing platform, provides clients with the core functionality of FatWire UpdateEngine, such as allowing people to edit content and have the change be extended to support every file-format information may appear in. ObjectBridge offers their clients an: Automated Approval Process, Browser Based Workflow Automation, Centralized Content Repository, and a Collaborative Work Environment. www.deepbridge.com, www.fatwire.com
Vignette Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. announced that Vignette will port its software applications to the iPlanet Application Server. The iPlanet port is part of an expanded sales, engineering and marketing agreement to provide combined enterprise hardware and software solutions to customers. Sun intends to integrate Vignette’s content management suite into the Sun ONE architecture, leveraging iPlanet Directory, iPlanet Application Server, iPlanet Web Server and the iPlanet Portal Server., www.vignette.com, www.sun.com
Asera, Inc. announced the release of the Asera eBusiness Operating System 5.0, based on XML and J2EE 2. The latest release provides a unified framework that enables customers to model both process logic and user interactions in large, collaborative environments. Additionally, with 5.0, enterprises can now leverage Asera to compose and publish Web services from any legacy or packaged software, including SAP and Oracle. The latest release is also compliant with Web services standards including SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. Actuate Corporation announced a strategic OEM agreement with Asera, provider of the Asera eBusiness Operating System. Asera will embed the Actuate e.Reporting Suite 5.0 solution within the Asera eBusiness Operating System 5.0 to give customers the ability to create enterprise reports and access them over the Web. Using the Asera Reporting solution, customers will have the ability to organize reports into categories and publish-subscribe to select report groups. Roles can be used to define access to reports within categories. Asera provides multi-lingual, out-of-the-box reports for frequently used data, and in addition, customers can create new reports using Actuate’s report development tools. www.asera.com, www.actuate.com
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