Atomz Enterprise Search offers new capabilities that deliver control over search results including a fully integrated content mining engine and metadata management center to deliver highly efficient and precise search results. Atomz Content Mining Engine feature delivers targeted, granular search results to users seeking specific information in very large collections of data. For example, an online book retailer using Enterprise Search can deliver fine-tuned results for cross-referenced searches by “author,” “publisher,” or “ISBN number.” Atomz Content Mining Engine also provides customers a comprehensive way to classify, categorize, and relate their data into specific taxonomies to allow site visitors the most flexible and granular level of querying available. With Atomz’ exclusive Target Meta Tag, customers can ‘tag’ (using the Meta data Management interface) pages with specific target keywords whereby the associated page would always be the top search result. Within the Atomz Member Center, customers can also utilize Atomz Enterprise Search’s extensive relevancy controls. www.atomz.com
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Arbortext, Inc. and empolis content management GmbH (formerly known as STEP GmbH), a subsidiary of Bertelsmann MOHN Media Group, announced that sigmalink has been integrated with the Epic E-Content Engine (E3) to add multi-channel publishing to the sigmalink content management system. The integration of sigmalink and E3 forms a single source publishing system for creation, management and publishing of information to multiple audiences via multiple media. Content may be captured from many internal and external sources, including suppliers and various departments within the organization. With the Interchange functionality of E3, non-XML content (i.e. from Word, FrameMaker, Interleaf or Web forms) can be converted to XML and managed by sigmalink. Out of the single source, sigmalink delivers information for publishing to the E3 formatting engine, which formats according to media-specific requirements. sigmalink and E3 provide multiple source input, flexible content management, and multiple target output functionality for an enterpriseinformation management environment. www.empolis.com, www.arbortext.com
Oracle Corp. announced the availability of the Oracle Portal Catalog, containing more than 200 portlets that users can browse and add to their personalized portal pages. The catalog lists portlets developed by members of the Oracle Portal Partner Initiative (OPPI), as well as any portlets registered by independent content providers, application service providers, or system integrators that have been approved by Oracle. The catalog also lists the range of portal-related services offered by system integrators who are members of OPPI. This means any independent developer or content provider can reach mass markets when they develop new portlets that can be integrated into the Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS) portal framework and published for worldwide consumption. Any application, business intelligence report, Web page, XML-based news feed or other information source can be made into a portlet, published through the portal catalog, and easily integrated into the portal framework of the Oracle9i Application Server. After a portlet or service is created, developers can go to the Oracle Portal Catalog on the portal community site to register their organization and portlets. If the submission is approved by Oracle, each service or portlet is classified into one of the following categories in the catalog: Consulting & System Integration (Global, Country, Regional), Application Services (Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Document/Content/Knowledge Management, E-Business Applications, Search), Internet Services, and Hardware. To help users browse the catalog, a brief description of the services and portlets are listed in catalog. Screen shots of portlets are also included in the catalog. www.oracle.com
Open Market, Inc. and Vality Technology have signed a co-marketing agreement to offer Vality Catalist and Vality Beacon, as complementary offerings to Open Market’s Catalog Centre. Catalog Centre creates dynamic, easily navigable online product catalogs populated with rich content. Compatible with Catalog Centre, Vality Catalist and Vality Beacon enhance the product with content quality and search capabilities. Catalist prepares catalog data accessed from multiple sources and ensures consistency in terminology, units of measure and categorization. It also provides an intuitive “workbench” for effective ongoing catalog data management. Beacon, a high-speed search engine, delivers dependable, accurate catalog search results tolerating terminology differences and typing, spelling and technical errors to find the most accurate answers for users searching catalogs. Vality Catalist and Vality Beacon are available for immediate use with Open Market’s content management and delivery products. www.vality.com , www.openmarket.com
Semio Corporation announced that it will integrate Semio Tagger, its core categorization and indexing engine, with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. Information categorized and indexed by Semio can be viewed through Microsoft’s digital dashboard or through the Semio Taxonomy Viewer — which automatically names and groups concepts that share similar qualities into hierarchical categories for more navigable, browseable presentation. SharePoint Portal Server allows companies to easily find, share and publish information. Each stand-alone server offers enterprise-level search functionality (developed by Microsoft Research), integrated document management tools and flexible, easily customizable enterprise portal capabilities. SharePoint Portal Server provides a focal point for finding relevant information stored across multiple data sources, including SharePoint Team Services websites, Exchange data stores, file shares, Notes databases and Internet sites. Tagger supports a wide range of content sources, including most commercial file formats, PDF, HTML/XML sources, Lotus Notes databases, Documentum document vaults, and unstructured text in relational databases. It supports English, French, Spanish and Italian language sources, with more languages available shortly. Pre-packaged industry templates for fast-start categorization are available for the chemical, medical, legal, military, and computing industries. Semio Tagger availability for the SharePoint Portal Server platform is targeted for Q4, 2001. www.semio.com
Vality Technology Inc. introduced Vality Catalist for product catalog content management. Vality Catalist provides fully automated processes for constructing large online product catalogs in a fraction of the time typically required. Vality Catalist complements Vality Beacon search functionality to make it easy for online shoppers to find the exact products they are searching for on the first try. Cap Gemini Ernst and Young contributed to the development of Vality Catalist by helping to define requirements and enhance the solutions that it can provide to its joint customers with Vality. Vality Catalist provides a single solution that normalizes, categorizes, and consolidates diverse product data to create a consistent catalog. It performs this process in bulk mode to automatically load the initial catalog – and in change mode to facilitate review. These processes result in product information with an improved organization and appearance that is easier for customers to understand and successfully search. Vality Catalist’s sophisticated, automated processes excel in producing consistent catalogs from a large number of diverse data sources quickly. www.vality.com
IBM’s Lotus Development Corp. announced the immediate availability of Lotus iNotes Web Access, a Web client that delivers robust Domino messaging, collaboration, personal and company information via a Web browser. In addition to providing a complementary access option for current Notes users, Lotus iNotes Web Access targets a new population of Notes users that might not need a full-scale client, such as bank tellers, airline pilots and retail workers. Lotus iNotes Web Access provides an easy-to-use, low-maintenance client that allows access to Domino messaging and collaborative services anywhere users can access the Internet, such as airport business centers, Web cafes or Internet kiosks. Lotus iNotes Web Access also provides the same off-line support that allows Notes users to seamlessly work with applications and email off-line and send changes back to a central server at their convenience. In addition, Lotus iNotes Web Access integrates with Lotus Sametime and QuickPlace, providing browser users with greater Web collaboration through on-line awareness, instant messaging, white boarding and shared team workspaces. Lotus iNotes Web Access is now available. Current Lotus Notes or iNotes customers receive Lotus iNotes Web Access as part of Passport Advantage software subscription. New customers can purchase Lotus iNotes Web Access for a suggested volume price of US$48 (per user) from traditional software resellers. Domino server R5.0.8 for Windows NT/Windows 2000, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, IBM AS/400, or IBM S/390 is required. Lotus iNotes Web Access runs with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and above. www.lotus.com
FileNET Corp. announced its Panagon Enterprise Content Management (ECM) initiative. FileNET will deliver expanded capabilities for managing all forms of content and business processes inside and outside of the enterprise. Panagon is a tightly integrated enterprise process and content management infrastructure and extensible application development platform that automates and optimizes an organization’s business processes. Expanded capabilities planned for FileNET’s Panagon ECM edition include: Mobile device support; Content interchange utilizing additional XML capabilities for extracting and exporting metadata (content properties), and handling large, complex document interchange; Template-driven content authoring; HTML authoring provided through WebDAV; Web content lifecycle management; Process management and reporting tools; Web site staging and publishing; Search feature enhancements; LDAP user and group synchronization will be extended to provide direct user authentication and will include additional LDAP-compliant directory servers; JAVA toolkits; Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (SPPS) integration; And expanded Sun Solaris support. www.FileNET.com
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