Openpages, Inc. announced it has extended ContentWare through integration with Macromedia Dreamweaver. Together, the applications enable an integrated workflow that allows content creators to work within Dreamweaver to create Web templates, seamlessly populate them with content, and publish them online. Using Macromedia’s Dreamweaver as a front-end authoring client, gives Web content creators the ability to create, save, search for and retrieve content from the ContentWare database without leaving the application. In addition, users are now able to use Dreamweaver to create Web pages on-the-fly with ContentWare’s new manual page building capability. Manual page building lets users create new pages in real-time by directly accessing the rich content repository of ContentWare and extending content aggregation beyond the realm of form-based templating tools. www.openpages.com
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Eprise Corporation and Inxight Software, Inc. announced a partnership to deliver solutions that enable organizations to increase the value, effectiveness, and manageability of their Web site content. This joint agreement enables Eprise and Inxight to market and cross-sell Inxight products with Eprise Participant Server. The Eprise-Inxight combined offering makes it easier to classify new and existing Web content so site visitors can find what they are looking for. By combining Inxight solutions with Eprise Participant Server, users will experience easier navigation through Web sites, faster access to pertinent information and increased productivity. www.inxight.com, www.eprise.com
Percussion Software announced the expansion of its partnership program to include solution partners. This partnership category will focus on collaborating with regional systems integrators (SIs), who will provide their expertise to integrate Percussion’s Rhythmyx Content Manager as part of a larger system, or with the products from Percussion’s technology partners. The goal of Percussion’s partner program is to improve customer service to current users and generate new business for Rhythmyx. The partners being targeted – primarily regional SIs with e-Commerce experience – will extend Percussion’s professional services for customer implementation. Additionally, the partner program will enable Percussion to expand its reach into numerous vertical markets, such as financial services, publishing, pharmaceutical, healthcare, cross media, government and manufacturing. Percussion is targeting mid-tier SIs to handle specific regions of the country and/or specific vertical markets in order to provide the strongest customer service possible. The Company will work with the partner to build its Rhythmyx practice with Percussion selling the software and the partner providing the service. Currently, Percussion has signed partnerships with Wellstream, Noblestar, e-Partners and Bond Technologies. www.percussion.com
Thomas Technology Solutions, Inc. and DocNet.com, Inc. have announced a strategic partnership agreement. The companies offer complementary services to similar markets such as publishing, manufacturing, and other industries that distribute content-rich information. Through this partnership DocNet will provide an outsourced solution to ThomasTech clients for producing and distributing documents from the Internet. ThomasTech will now be able to offer DocNet’s content delivery platform for both digital and hardcopy documents. In turn, ThomasTech will provide data conversion, XML/SGML, and content management services to DocNet clients. www.DocNet.com, www.thomastechsolutions.com,
SDL International announced a strategic partnership with Vignette. The partnership integrates the SDLWebFlow solution with Vignette’s content management product, Vignette e-Business Application Platform. Vignette’s content management system enables users to dynamically develop, control and maintain the content of their website. SDLWebFlow provides corresponding capabilities for the management of multilingual content. As a result of the partnership with Vignette, SDLWebFlow extends the content management process into the synchronization of multilingual content. SDL’s customers also benefit from a suite of additional tools to fully manage the content of their host language sites and hence deliver multilingual versions. www.vignette.com, www.sdlintl.com
eBT International, Inc. announced the release of engenda 4.7. The latest version of eBT’s content management and workflow automation solution features new functionality to simplify workflow development and enhance personalization through advanced integration with BEA WebLogic Personalization Server. Included in engenda 4.7 are: Microsoft Visio Workflow Solution: Based on a prototype eBT announced last year, this drag-and-drop, graphical interface allows anyone to create workflows from within Microsoft Visio. The workflows are stored as XML, without requiring users to learn the markup language; LDAP Support; Localization tools and guidelines enable global organizations to easily configure engenda 4.7 for non-English speaking locales; and Apache support. engenda 4.7 is available immediately with prices starting at $75,000. www.ebt.com
Digital Goods and Texterity, Inc. announced an agreement that will extend Digital Goods’ Amplifi content marketing/eCommerce solution from the publisher’s desktop to storefronts across the Internet. Under the agreement, Texterity’s TextCafe, an automated service that converts PDF, Quark or Word files to XML and Open eBook formats, will be offered by Digital Goods to its content partners. Texterity’s service bridges the digital document preparation gap between publishers’ systems and Digital Goods’ Amplifi Internet distribution/sales tools and services. Texterity also will make Digital Goods’ Amplifi the recommended digital content marketing solution for its content conversion customers. Both companies are partners of Reciprocal, the digital rights management leader that is enabling those popular reader formats for content offered through Digital Goods. www.digitalgoods.com, www.texterity.com
Vitria announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire XMLSolutions Corporation. Vitria believes that there is a substantial market opportunity for EDI/XML integration. Given the complexity and cost of EDI software, most companies only use EDI to communicate with the top 15-20% of their trading partners. The remaining 80-85% of trading partners need a simpler, less expensive solution that leverages the emerging XML standard for information exchange over the Internet. The total purchase price for the transaction will be approximately $15 million, of which $7 million will be paid at the closing in cash to preferred shareholders, and $8 million will be used to retire short-term debt and other liabilities of XMLSolutions. The closing of the acquisition is subject to the approval of the shareholders of XMLSolutions, as well as the satisfaction of certain customary closing conditions. Vitria will account for the acquisition as a purchase and expects to complete the transaction in early April. www.xmls.com, www.vitria.com
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