Entigo Corporation and Cardonet, Inc. announced a partnership to provide comprehensive, integrated eBusiness and catalog management solutions to G2000 enterprises. The partnership strengthens Entigo’s open, XML-based catalog management functionality and extends Cardonet’s catalog content management offerings to include online ordering capabilities. The joint offering will provide manufacturers with an e-catalog production and aggregation solution to build and maintain online catalogs as well as a dynamic, personalized online selling solution that features one-click order processing, automated release management and real-time order tracking. Entigo’s Web-based applications – Entigo Order, Entigo Catalog and Entigo Warranty interoperable with backend legacy systems and enable changes to business processes in real time. Entigo Order will be used with Cardonet to meet the online ordering needs of enterprises using the Cardonet solution. Cardonet’s e-Catalog Automation Platform streamlines the process of e-catalog content aggregation, normalization and syndication. The software can be used in conjunction with corporate e-procurement systems or eMarketplaces to aggregate data into a clean, multi-vendor catalog, or can be used by manufacturers and distributors to create multiple custom versions of a master catalog for automated syndication to key customers and channels. www.cardonet.com, www.entigo.com
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RWS Group, LLC and SoftWorks Development & Consulting announced formation of a strategic alliance to provide globalization services. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will offer clients complete integration of services for introduction of their software worldwide. The companies also plan to engage in joint sales and marketing activities to promote multilingual software solutions. RWS Group brings translation tools and rigorous methodology to the alliance. Development of new language technologies, such as JCAT, provides clients with JAVA and XML-based, Unicode compliant translation tools. www.translate.com
NeoCore announced the formation of a partnership with Tactica. Under the terms of the agreement, NeoCore and Tactica will jointly offer their products and services to provide tailored solutions for their customers’ XML information management needs. The partnership between NeoCore and Tactica streamlines the process for Fortune 1000 companies to deploy the XML database product customized to their own application needs. Tactica will use the NeoCore XML Information Management System (XMS) to create complete high-performance XML solutions. www.neocore.com, www.tactica.com
Cardonet, Inc. announced version 3.1 of the Cardonet Transactive Catalog, a production catalog and discovery engine offering a full range of automated services to help search, compare and select products from within an online catalog. Cardonet’s enhanced engine is capable of functioning as a single-vendor or multi-vendor remote “web catalog” using third-party commerce protocols, such as Ariba’s PunchOut, CommerceOne’s RoundTrip and SAP’s Open Catalog Interface (OCI). The Cardonet Transactive Catalog is an optional component of Cardonet’s e-catalog automation platform. The Cardonet Transactive Catalog can be easily loaded with catalog information from the Cardonet e-catalog automation platform and used by manufacturers or distributors to offer customized views of their catalogs, or can be used by large corporations as a multi-supplier purchasing catalog tightly linked to their e-procurement application. Other new features of the Cardonet Transactive Catalog software include a customizable parametric search application, a built-in shopping cart, support for multiple buyer-specific catalog views, and a set of APIs for tailoring the catalog’s appearance and operation. The Cardonet Transactive Catalog is available now with list prices starting at $50,000.
TietoEnator has developed an electronic service solution called dBroker, which supports TietoEnator’s Digital Government concept and makes it possible to flexibly combine Internet portals and services offered by different service providers. dBroker offers different portals a centralised communications channel through one point to electronic services. In practice, the builders of Internet portals can use the dBroker solution to expand the service selection of their portals. A portal also becomes more user-friendly when the user can access a more extensive service selection and services that are naturally related to the portal through his favourite portals. In addition to combining portals and electronic services, dBroker contains solutions for, e.g. user authentication, digital signature and payment. As an overall solution, dBroker offers corporate customers a simpler way to develop electronic services of their own. dBroker has been developed with Java and is based on UDDI. Data is transferred between different information systems as XML messages, and the data transfer protocol is SOAP. www.tietoenator.com
Altova, Inc. announced the release of the XML Spy 4.0 Suite. The XML Spy 4.0 Suite consists of the XML Spy 4.0 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the XML Spy 4.0 XSLT Designer, and the XML Spy 4.0 Document Editor. The XML Spy 4.0 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) makes it easy to create and manage XML documents, stylesheets, and schemas. XML Spy 4.0 IDE provides the power and flexibility needed to work with XML content in the most sophisticated production environments. XML Spy 4.0 XSLT Designer is a new approach to automate writing of complex XSLT Stylesheets using an intuitive, drag-and-drop user interface. XML Spy 4.0 Document Editor is a word-processor style free-flow WYSISYG editor for XML documents, empowering non-technical people to create and edit XML documents. The Document Editor is available as a browser plug-in or a stand-alone application. The XML Spy 4.0 Document Framework consists of the XML Spy 4.0 XSLT Designer and the XML Spy 4.0 Document Editor, which together form an enterprise-wide content management solution for creating and deploying large volumes of XML content in production environments such as web-publishing, knowledge management or e-commerce. XML Spy 4.0 IDE and XML Spy 4.0 Document Framework together comprise the XML Spy 4.0 Suite. The XML Spy 4.0 Suite is available immediately for download and purchase from the XML Spy Online Shop. See website for complete price-list. www.xmlspy.com
Plumtree Software released the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5, which broadens Plumtree’s Internet architecture to search multiple content indexes in parallel, extends single sign-on to the applications integrated in the portal, and delivers Gadget Web Services to wireless devices. The Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5 also features a more efficient, intuitive user interface. The Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5 supports single sign-on technologies from IBM’s Tivoli Systems, Netegrity and Oblix. With the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5, Plumtree extends the Internet architecture from application integration to search. The new platform uses SOAP to communicate search commands via HTTP in parallel to search engines running on any platform, anywhere on the Internet. Plumtree’s new Internet architecture for network search will be able to incorporate results from AltaVista Internet Search (both Web and multimedia), Inktomi, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and other content indexes. The Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5 features the Plumtree Wireless Device Server, which distributes Gadget content and services to wireless devices, such as mobile telephones, wirelessly enabled Palm handheld computers, Pocket PC-based personal digital assistants, BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds, and other handheld computers. The Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5 is priced on a per-user basis, and is generally available now. Plumtree is offering customers a service upgrade package and upgrade documentation. www.plumtree.com
TRADOS Incorporated announced that it would license its technology on an enterprise-wide basis to Microsoft Corporation. This deal will allow all Microsoft business units — including Windows, Office, Developer Tools, Online Product Support Services, MSN, MSNBC, and Microsoft.com — to use TRADOS technology internally as a central part of their content management and localization processes. TRADOS’ technology optimizes and accelerates the human translation process-both for the individual translator and more importantly, across the enterprise.
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