Inktomi Corp. announced significant enhancements to the Inktomi Search/Web service, providing its customers with a more advanced software infrastructure for delivering highly relevant, comprehensive search results to Internet users. Inktomi now incorporates new relevance modeling, content blending and Internet crawling technologies into its Web search platform to offer users continually enhanced search relevance, easier access to the most accurate search results from multiple content sources and a fresher, broader search index. Built upon Inktomi’s core relevance and link, text and click analysis technologies, the enhanced relevance modeling also measures statistically significant samples of search results and compares them with human judgment. Inktomi offers new content blending capabilities that combine query results from disparate databases, serving the most relevant results up front. Content blending allows directory categories, standard Web pages and other premium content to be ranked in order of relevancy without being segmented by file type, making it easier for users to find the link they want. Inktomi’s new distributed crawling architecture scans the Web more frequently, revisiting missed content and refreshing updated pages more often. Inktomi recently announced it is also working directly with content providers to ensure its database has the most current collection of Web documents, including hard to crawl pages such as those containing XML or dynamic content. www.inktomi.com
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BEA Systems, Inc. announced an expanded group of content management partners that integrate with BEA WebLogic Personalization Server through a newly published interface. The expanded partnerships help businesses reduce both the time and cost for e-commerce and mobile-commerce content development and management. Now content management systems from Documentum, Interwoven, eBT, eGrail, Eprise, FatWire, FileNET, Gauss Interprise, IntraNet Solutions, Openpages and Starbase can help automate content production, personalization and delivery on the BEA WebLogic Personalization Server. With the expanded number of partners using BEA’s newly published content management service provider interface, BEA WebLogic customers have a greater choice of content management solutions. BEA currently bundles versions of Documentum 4i Web Content Management Edition and Interwoven Content Express for BEA to help provide businesses with an e-commerce solution that addresses virtually all aspects of content personalization. In addition, BEA WebLogic customers now can choose from the following list of integrated content management packages: eBT’s engenda, eGrail’s Publishing System, Eprise’s Participant Server, FatWire’s UpdateEngine5, FileNET’s Panagon Platform, Gauss’ VIP Platform, IntraNet Solutions’ Xpedio, Openpages’ ContentWare, and Starbase’s eXpressroom. The new content management service provider interface, which allows BEA partners to integrate with BEA WebLogic Personalization Server in a standardized format, is available through the BEA Star Partner Program. All 11 content management partners are members of the recently announced BEA Star Partner Program, which is designed to foster strong alliances between BEA and its partners with program initiatives tailored to their specific business models and needs. www.bea.com
Openpages, Inc. announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with KPMG Consulting, Inc. The two companies have formed a global partnership to provide enterprise content management solutions to KPMG Consulting customers worldwide. The partnership pairs KPMG’s Consulting experience in Internet-based business solutions and systems integration with Openpages’ enterprise content production products. The worldwide partnership will help companies conducting e-business obtain a long-term competitive advantage through automating the enterprise content production process – empowering users to more efficiently manage content assets and deploy content to Web sites, print and wireless channels. To speed the roll-out of such joint implementations, Openpages and KPMG Consulting will collaborate on extensive training for KPMG Consulting professionals and establish a practice around ContentWare specialization for the design and implementation of content management solutions. ContentWare will be deployed at KPMG’s U.S. Solution Centers in Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colo.; Liberty Corner, N.J.; Mountain View, Calif.; and McLean, Va. and the Openpages practice will be rolled out worldwide. www.kpmgconsulting.com; www.openpages.com
Lightspeed Interactive, Inc. introduced iENGINE, a new XML-based platform. With this platform, Lightspeed enables companies to access, maintain and dynamically deliver personalized, up-to-the-minute content to anyone – anytime – anywhere. Lightspeed combines their iENGINE with their interface design to provide a rich user experience. Lightspeed’s platform differentiates itself by allowing an organization to dynamically deliver content to a broad range of delivery mechanisms, such as Web, print, CD-ROM, or wireless through a common platform, increasing company productivity and reducing business costs. Lightspeed Interactive has developed and delivered personalized Internet software solutions targeted at sales support, e-learning, e-commerce, vertical portals, product marketing and product support for large, blue chip technology companies. www.lspeed.com
NCompass Labs Inc. announced the release of NCompass Resolution version 4.0,and Resolution Content Connector for Microsoft Commerce Server 2000. Version 4.0 extends Resolution’s capabilities by enhancing Resolution’s scalability, versioning and site-maintenance features. Key Resolution 4.0 enhancements include: a new dynamic server clustering feature that allows multiple NCompass Resolution servers to be clustered; extensible object properties and content meta tagging; significantly improved team collaboration with the ability to track content, object and code revisions on all site pages; expanded archiving to include dynamic site archiving to increase site management; and integration with Microsoft .NET – Resolution 4.0 integrates fully with Microsoft’s .NET enterprise servers including Commerce Server 2000, Windows 2000 Advanced Server and SQL Server 2000. Resolution 4.0 is available on March 31, 2001. Resolution Content Connector enables enterprises to use the full functionality of NCompass Resolution to manage Web content for e-commerce sites built using Microsoft Commerce Server 2000. The out-of-the box integration between Resolution’s automated content publishing, workflow and content-sharing capabilities and Commerce Server’s product catalog, profiling engine, transactional processing, shopping cart, and Business Desk application allows businesses to quickly deploy powerful e-commerce sites. Content Connector offers full-featured content authoring, versioning, deployment, templating, workflow, site management, wireless device support, an open COM-based API and more. www.ncompass.com
Adobe Systems introduced Adobe Acrobat 5.0 software, a major upgrade. With Acrobat 5.0, Adobe is enabling organizations to reduce cycle times and increase the efficiency of business processes across their extended enterprises of customers and partners. Acrobat 5.0 offers a number of key benefits that enable business, graphic arts and IT professionals to excel in this new Network Publishing environment where they must work efficiently at Web speed. Tight Web integration based on WebDistributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) and Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) allows teams to simultaneously share comments on Adobe PDF files from within a browser. Support for XML makes it simple for users to integrate data, such as metadata and forms data in Adobe PDF files, with back-end systems. And stronger integration with enterprise deployment tools enables IT professionals to auto-install and maintain Acrobat 5.0 over a network to thousands of multi-user or lockdown desktop systems. Acrobat 5.0 software for Windows 95 OSR 2.0, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 with service pack 5 or 6, Windows ME and Windows 2000, and Macintosh OS 8.6 (all Web-based capabilities are not available due to Apple OS limitations), 9.0.4 and 9.1, is expected to ship in the United States and Canada in the second quarter of 2001 for an estimated street price of US$249. Registered users of earlier Acrobat software versions can upgrade to Acrobat 5.0 for US$99. French, German and Japanese versions of Acrobat 5.0 are expected to be available shortly after the initial release. Information about other language versions, as well as pricing, upgrade and support policies, is available online. www.adobe.com
Glides Inc. announced that iLanguage will become an integrated translation provider for Glides’ UniSite customers. As a result of the partnership, iLanguage translators will become fully integrated into UniSite’s XML-based automated workflow process, which manages the editing, review, translation and Web content publishing process. Based in Los Angeles, iLanguage specializes in translating to and from English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean for eCommerce, news, finance, entertainment, sports, and other Web sites. The partnership combines Glides’ UniSite workflow and content management software service with iLanguage’s translation and localization capabilities. UniSite’s workflow manages the entire translation process, including automated content exchange with translators at iLanguage. By delivering content directly to iLanguage’s translation workbenches, Glides’ XML-based workflow ensures the highest level of transparency, consistency and accuracy for Glides’ clients. www.ilanguage.com; www.glides.com
IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced the release of Xpedio 4.6, the latest version of its Xpedio Content Management system. Xpedio 4.6 includes a Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compliant Enterprise JavaBean (EJB). The new EJB enables companies to easily integrate Xpedio’s content management capabilities into e-business applications built on J2EE application servers, such as commerce sites, corporate portals, customer relationship management applications and net markets. Xpedio 4.6 will be available March 21, 2001 and is priced from $50,000 to $240,000 USD. www.intranetsolutions.com
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