Factiva announced its sponsorship of an international research project conducted by TFPL. The research project will seek to identify how organisations are using taxonomies to construct their “Information Architecture”. TFPL defines “Information Architecture” as a coherent set of strategies and plans for information access and delivery inside organisations. The research – based on case studies of organizations, and vendor questionnaires and interviews – will examine the balance between software and human intervention related to the application of taxonomies within content management systems, and whether customer needs are being met by vendor offerings. Any companies or organisations wishing to be involved in this research through offering case studies or sharing their experience on taxonomies/information architecture are invited to contact TFPL. www.tfpl.com, www.factiva.com
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation, representing cross-industry agreement on an XML-based language that allows authors to create two dimensional vector graphics. A W3C Recommendation indicates that a specification is stable, contributes to Web interoperability, and has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its widespread adoption. Web designers have requirements for graphics formats which display well on a range of different devices, screen sizes, and printer resolutions. They need rich graphical capabilities, good internationalization, responsive animation and interactive behavior in a way that takes advantage of the growing XML infrastructure used in e-commerce, publishing, and business to business communication. SVG 1.0 builds on other W3C specifications such as the Document Object Model (DOM), which allows for easy server-side generation and dynamic, client-side modification of graphics and text. SVG 1.0 also benefits from W3C technologies such as CSS and XSL style sheets, RDF metadata, XML Linking, and SMIL Animation, which has also advanced to Recommendation. SVG implementations are not limited to static tools. Database-driven, dynamically created graphics are a natural fit for SVG. www.w3.org/
Esker delivered the first step in a distributed architecture for Pulse, its multi-channel content delivery solution. This new architecture allows remote Pulse “Satellites” to communicate with a centralized Pulse Enterprise server and gain full access to Pulse functionality. Pulse Enterprise is server-based software that recognizes application output, transforms it into widely used formats and routes it to recipients according to the preferences of the recipient. ISVs and application developers who need to enable their applications to deliver information via Internet-based technologies can use Pulse to automatically deliver content through several channels — secure web server, email, fax, wireless, XML, or distributed. Pulse Satellite includes an SDK with documentation and code samples. Pulse Satellite creates an opportunity to offer multi-channel content delivery services by hosting Pulse Enterprise as a service. Pulse Enterprise and Pulse Satellite are currently available. Pricing for Pulse Enterprise follows a capacity-based model, beginning at $17,500 for a server supporting up to 2,500 output jobs per day. Pulse Satellite costs $3,000. http://www.esker.com
Clickability Inc. announced the launch of CMPublish, a new content management system that enables e-businesses to manage and deliver relevant content to their online audience. CMPublish, a “self-adapting” publishing platform, integrates with Clickability’s suite of Intelligent Online Publishing Solutions (I-OPS) to manage the entire online publishing process — from creation and analysis, to the distribution and adaptation of Web site content. www.clickability.com
Software AG and Mozquito Technologies AG announced a strategic XML partnership. The collaboration of the soon-to-be-released Mozquito XML webAccess server in combination with Software AG’s native XML Tamino server will offer an e-business solution for web-based applications. The Mozquito XML WebAccess server software was developed to provide a user interface for XML data that works with current browsers without plug-ins or downloads. The server takes XML documents and turns them into small applications that run in all JavaScript-enabled browsers. The benefit for companies using this technology will be that different user interfaces can be generated automatically from the data. The output is highly configurable. Since the technology is optimized to handle applications based on XML data input and validation is being handled on the client-side without having to connect to the back-end all the time, data input can happen offline. That way, forms can be built for offline data-input, such as government forms and e-procurement entries. When the user is ready to send the form, he or she submits it to the database, which will get already validated data. www.mozquito.com, www.softwareag.com
Documentum announced that it has entered into a marketing and development agreement with IBM to enable and optimize the Documentum content management platform to IBM’s WebSphere Application Servers and DB2 Universal Database. The relationship brings together the technologies to provide customers with a complete and scalable solution to use Documentum, WebSphere and DB2 enterprise-wide. Documentum and IBM Global Services’ Knowledge and Content Management Practice have a relationship to support deployment of this solution. Documentum has introduced linked components, including an eConnector for Lotus Notes, and introduced the Documentum portfolio running on DB2 across Windows NT currently, and AIX in the fourth quarter of this year. www.documentum.com, http://www.ibm.com/websphere
SDL International launched SDLX Elite Computer Aided Translation solution with a freely downloadable edit module, SDLX Lite. SDLX Elite provides translation agencies and corporate localization departments with a centralized Translation Memory solution that includes unlimited remote freelance translator clients. Freelance translators can leverage and contribute to a master Translation Memory database. SDLX Elite will enable agencies and companies to immediately add specialist freelancers, whether or not the translators own compatible Translation Memory tools, at no extra cost to the freelancer or the organization. SDLX Elite Translation Memory increases translation quality and efficiency by breaking down sentences and paragraphs into translatable segments and extracting previously translated terms and phrases from a database for re-use. Compatible with Windows 2000, Office 2000 and XML/SGML, SDLX will support any language including double-byte and bi-directional languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew and Arabic. SDLX Elite with SDLX Lite is priced at US$2,000.00 and will be available September 2001. www.sdlintl.com
CDC Solutions Ltd. and Documentum announced a reseller agreement to enable Documentum to embed CDC Solutions’ PDFaqua and PDFsign into the Documentum 4i eBusiness Platform. PDFaqua and PDFsign enhance the Documentum 4i Compliance Edition by increasing document security and control and by adding features to help ensure compliance with FDA 21 CFR part 11. Secure document distribution is now embedded in the Document Control Manager (DCM), which handles control of documents for the Documentum 4i Compliance Edition specifically designed for regulated document environments. The inclusion of PDFaqua is designed to enhance the DCM capability by delivering secure, print-time watermarking and controlled print functionality. PDFsign will be licensed as an integral part of the Compliance Edition’s Content Authentication Server (CAS). The embedding of PDFsign into CAS is designed to provide for the manifestation of electronic signatures that are captured as an integral part of the signing process. www.documentum.com, www.cdcsolutions.com
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