eMotion, Inc. announced an adapter for BizTalk Server 2000 that will enable the ability to couple the management of rich media with the management and use of standard business data found within the digital media value chain. Using BizTalk Server 2000, eMotion MediaPartner 4.0, an out-of-the-box digital media management product for the corporate market, can now link to applications as diverse as Great Plains, JD Edwards, Pivotal, Siebel, Worldtrack and other ERP and CRM vendors. Both BizTalk Server 2000 and eMotion MediaPartner rely on XML to enable the digital media value chain. www.emotion.com
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Eprise Corporation announced Eprise Participant Server version 3.5, which includes a point-and-click interface for quickly building Web sites for content management applications. In addition, Eprise announced its new Intranet Advantage Services Package for helping customers quickly implement corporate intranet applications. New features include: Site Generator – a browser-based interface for quickly building a content-rich Web site. It includes best practices for site navigation and page design. It also includes pre-defined components, such as sample page styles, user roles, edit and approval authorization levels, and viewing permissions; Content Connector – enables external content from any ODBC compliant database to be included within pages controlled by Eprise Participant Server and managed by the same approval workflow processes as content in the Eprise Participant Server content repository; 3-Tier Redirector – enables the separation of the Web server software from the Eprise Participant Server software onto separate physical computers for greater flexibility in utilizing firewalls and 3-tier architectures for increased security; Integration with Microsoft Word; and, significant performance improvements in the communications between Eprise Participant Server and application servers, legacy applications, and databases. Eprise Participant Server, version 3.5, will be available this quarter on Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Sun Solaris 2.8. It is priced at $70,000 for the first server. Discounts for volume purchases and deployment licenses are available. Pricing for the Intranet Advantage Services Packages starts at $30,000. www.eprise.com
SDL International announced that Sybase, Inc. has integrated the Enterprise Translation Server into the Portal Translation Manager option available for Sybase Enterprise Portal 2.0. Portal Translation Manager (PTM) will provide real-time translations of documents or data flowing through the portal upon request, and is fully integrated with portal security and other services. Sybase offers an evaluation version of the Enterprise Translation Server to its customers as part of the Portal Translation Manager. The Enterprise Translation Server provides Portal Translation Manager business clients with a cross-language communication solution using real-time translation. The Enterprise Translation Server runs under Windows NT and enables the translation of plain text and document files over a Lotus Notes/Domino environment, a TCP/IP networking environment, a Microsoft networking environment, Java or HTML clients. Portal Translation Manager extends access to the Enterprise Translation Server to any platform supported by the Enterprise Portal. The Enterprise Translation Server starting price is USD $25,000. Contact SDL International to learn more about the Enterprise Translation Server evaluation program. The Portal Translation Manager pricing starts at USD $29,995 and is available with 24×7 support. Contact Sybase to learn more about the Portal Translation Manager or the Enterprise Portal. www.sdlintl.com, www.sybase.com
Artesia Technologies unveiled the latest version of its TEAMS digital asset management solution. Features include out-of-the-box applications to better support video production workflow, expanded support for video formats, streaming servers and loggers, as well “one click” localization support that leverages unique XML and JSP-based Internet client for our French and German speaking end-users. Specific enhancements in TEAMS 4.2 include: A web-based Video Storyboarding application to simplify rapid repurposing of programming, as well as to streamline video production workflow; Built-in support for Windows Media and Darwin streaming servers to complement TEAMS’ existing support for RealSystem Server; Turnkey integration with Convera’s Screening Room Capture Client; Integration and synchronization with Convera’s Edit Client enabling modifications to storyboarding to be made either in TEAMS or in Convera’s Edit Client; Updated integration with Version 4.5 of Virage’s VideoLogger; and updated integration with Version 1.12 of Image Alchemy to take advantage of the latest image transformation and indexing enhancements. Pricing available from an authorized reseller or directly from Artesia Technologies. www.artesia.com
Bowstreet announced the commercial availability of Business Web Portal Solutions, a ready-to-use suite of products that enables businesses to produce customizable portals to expedite enterprise information sharing, eCRM, syndicated storefronts, corporate intranets, partner extranets and supply chain collaboration. Because Business Web Portals are built on top of the Bowstreet Business Web Factory, companies can realize economies of scale by aggregating disparate e-business initiatives on a single, vendor-neutral platform. Using Business Web Portals, non-technical business people can produce customized portals for thousands of different users and dozens of e-business initiatives, with minimal help from IT and in a fraction of the time and cost required by traditional “hard-wired” enterprise portal solutions. Business Web Portals can assemble business process components from legacy systems and client/server applications such as ERP, CRM and supply chains, as well as web services from Microsoft.NET, Sun ONE, Oracle Dynamic Services, IBM Web Services, and/or HP E-Speak as they become available. Business Web Portals include plug-and-play web services “modules” for news, Microsoft Outlook and e-mail integration, and other business functions as well as point-and-click wizards. www.bowstreet.com
Interwoven, Inc. unveiled its new Content Infrastructure direction and announced the 5.0 release of TeamSite, TeamSite Templating, and OpenDeploy software, along with the introduction of two new products – Interwoven OpenChannel and MetaTagger 2.1 software. This broad new product functionality addresses Content Aggregation, Content Collaboration, Content Management, Content Intelligence and Content Distribution and provides an underpinning for multiple eBusiness initiatives and applications. Content Aggregation captures all content necessary for delivering a compelling Web experience, including database, file system, application code and XML. TeamCatalog streamlines the process of moving legacy catalog content to the Web by aggregating product data, and then automating the cleansing and categorization to make product information transaction-ready. Content Collaboration accelerates eBusiness initiatives with virtualization and branching. Interwoven TeamSite 5.0 software now adds single-click collaboration with email content entry, and ease-of-use of the new WebDesk interface. Content Management extends contribution throughout the enterprise without any loss of operational control, including process functionality such as templating, versioning and workflow. TeamSite Templating 5.0 software offers single-click templating and rich text-editing with WYSWYG formatting. Content Intelligence leverages enterprise Web assets across multiple initiatives and applications. By automating the assignment of accurate and consistent metadata, MetaTagger 2.1 software improves personalization, search and syndication. All metadata and vertical vocabularies are defined in, and captured as, XML. Content Distribution controls the multi-tiered delivery of content across multiple servers, devices and initiatives, both within and beyond the enterprise. OpenDeploy and DataDeploy 5.0 software have been enhanced to simplify complex deployments of both file and database assets to any production environment including ATG, BEA, IBM, BlueMartini, iPlanet. Interwoven OpenChannel software enables an organization to create content once, and re-use it across multiple delivery channels including the Web, wireless, voice and print. Interwoven Content Infrastructure integrates with application and transaction infrastructure products from ATG, BEA, IBM, TIBCO and webMethods. www.interwoven.com
Vignette Corp. announced new enhancements to the Vignette Business Integration Studio (VBIS), an application that empowers businesses to integrate content management systems and business processes of different companies as well as marketplaces and their participants. VBIS enables the integration of business processes through a graphical interface. Developers can build a flowchart of the desired process on any terminal, select the necessary adapters from a standard toolbar and the application will do the rest with no programming involved. With more than 50 prepackaged, intelligent adapters for applications from vendors such as SAP, Siebel Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. – as well as standard technologies such as XML, JMS and HTTP – VBIS brings drag-and-drop tools to business process integration. By using VBIS, companies can now rapidly integrate traditional enterprise resource planning ERP, SCM and CRM functions. Because it supports J2EE VBIS operates with application servers including BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere. With new features, such as clustering support for WebLogic and multiple process deployments, customers can now respond to their scalability requirements while selecting from a variety of powerful adapter development tools to get to market faster. VBIS goes beyond other EAI solutions by allowing companies to not only translate data between different applications, but by providing full business process integration with the ability to design the entire process in a non-programming user interface. Vignette Business Integration Studio also extends the Vignette Collaborative Commerce Server (VCCS) by allowing integration between back-end and legacy systems and the platforms and applications of trading partners, suppliers and customers. The Vignette Business Integration Studio and the Vignette Collaborative Commerce Server are currently shipping. www.vignette.com
Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe SVG Viewer 2.0 in both English and Japanese. Support for additional languages will be rolled out over the next few months. This release has some additional Accessibility features such as mouseless panning (via the numlock key), improved support for the SVG spec, improved performance and rendering. As previously announced, Adobe SVG Viewer will soon ship with RealNetworks’ Real Player. In addition, Adobe SVG Viewer will ship with each copy of Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. This will enable the distribution of approximately 45 million viewers before the end of this year, and an estimated 110 million in twelve months. Additional distribution is included in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe GoLive and other Adobe products. The SVG Viewer is at www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/main.html, and the release notes at www.adobe.com/svg/indepth/releasenotes.html
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