Openpages, Inc. announced the stock acquisition of Viveca, Inc., a provider of solutions for B2B content and online catalogs. With this acquisition, Openpages is moving into the B2B market. Openpages plans to deliver a product integrating Viveca’s technology by the end of 2001 to help businesses meet the content challenge of business-to-business e-commerce: aggregating, normalizing, converting, managing and syndicating content between suppliers, partners and customers. The Viveca acquisition creates new technology to produce content for electronic commerce by intelligently managing the content from beyond the enterprise–product content from suppliers and partners. Viveca’s technology acquires the raw information that powers electronic commerce — unstructured and structured product and catalog content — and normalizes it into a format that Openpages’ ContentWare produces for distribution to common websites, net markets, private exchanges and print catalogs. www.openpages.com
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Enigma introduced its 3C Platform for content-driven e-commerce for the support chain. Through integrated content, commerce and collaboration capabilities, the Enigma 3C Platform enables manufacturers of capital equipment to capture a greater share of highly profitable aftermarket revenues and maintain better post-sale services and support relationships with customers. Equipment operators benefit by realizing greater efficiency in maintenance and operations and through product support, leading to improved equipment utilization and uptime. The 3C Platform allows OEMs; Operators; and Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facilities to be linked via the Web and customer intranets. The original product content (intellectual property) continues to reside on the OEM’s extranet for aftermarket support and services, however customers can now establish many subsets of the OEM “master” site on intranets behind their firewalls. The customers can then integrate their own content, such as best practices or alternate procedures, to these sites, as well as aggregate other suppliers’ technical information into their intranets. With Enigma’s 3C Platform, the OEM’s Web site and the remote intranet sites can then be directly linked to ERP, e-procurement and order management systems to generate a complete support chain solution. The Enigma 3C Platform consists of the CommunitySight product for Collaboration, and two other sets of packaged solutions addressing Content and Commerce applications. InSight and DynaWeb are distributed content management applications, which automate the aggregation and delivery of multi-format, complex, structured documents. PartSight is Enigma’s dynamic catalog management application, which integrates multiple graphic formats with rich content. Enigma’s Xtend is a content and catalog management suite that allows equipment operators to modify OEM-supplied information for their own intranets. CommerceSight is the core commerce application in the Enigma 3C Platform, which links ERP, MRP, e-procurement and order management systems with the technical information customers need to make aftermarket purchasing decisions. The Enigma 3C Platform is available now. Pricing starts at $250,000. www.enigma.com
Moreover and Autonomy announced a partnership aimed at bringing breaking news to enterprise portals. As part of the agreement, Autonomy’s Portal-in-a-Box will provide access to Moreover’s dynamic Web news database. That means Autonomy customers will now have quick access to all relevant news from thousands of online sources. The partnership provides Moreover with an additional channel into the enterprise, while enabling Autonomy to take full advantage of the benefits of a clean and structured Web news database. Integration has been completed for select Autonomy Portal-in-a-Box customers and Moreover-indexed headlines will be generally available by early Q2, 2001. www.moreover.com, www.autonomy.com
Moai Technologies, Inc. and Requisite Technology, Inc., announced a strategic partnership that will bring together Moai’s LiveExchange strategic sourcing and negotiation technology and Requisite’s catalog content management platform, including Requisite’s BugsEye catalog finding engine. This partnership will combine cataloging and online negotiation software so marketplaces, corporate procurement professionals and supply chain professionals can better manage their e-procurement needs using an integrated catalog and strategic sourcing solution. One potential application for such an integrated B2B solution includes managing supplier content and pricing through a catalog linked to multi-layer negotiation for use in marketplaces or in corporate purchasing strategic sourcing initiatives. Both companies also plan to initiate joint marketing activities to support the partnership, targeting net market makers and corporate customers seeking to establish marketplaces that leverage online catalogs and negotiated sourcing models. www.requisite.com, www.moai.com
IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with CLM Software, a Brazilian e-business solutions provider for Internet professionals. Under the agreement, CLM will introduce and resell IntraNet Solutions’ Xpedio Web Content Management suite to the Brazilian market as part of its catalog of e-business solutions. The alliance provides CLM’s partners and customers with a secure, rapidly deployable Web content management system designed to meet the needs of business-to-business and business-to-employee Web sites. Through the partnership, IntraNet Solutions will have access to CLM’s 2,200 customers, ranging from banking to leading e-commerce enterprises. Xpedio is priced from $50,000 to $240,000. www.intranetsolutions.com, www.clm.com.br
Gauss announced its unified content management platform that integrates document, content, portal, and enterprise workflow in one Java-based platform, enabling customers to manage the complete spectrum of content. These capabilities are the fruits of the merger in June 2000 between Gauss Interprise and the former Magellan Software. The Gauss VIP platform bridges the content management divide, unifying Web content and portal management with document management and workflow in one integrated product suite. VIP’s Java- and XML-based technologies provide an open environment for extending e-business and e-commerce capabilities, and empowering those responsible for driving your business relationships with the freedom to manage your Web initiatives. www.gauss.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced that IBM will OEM a tightly integrated version of Interwoven’s content management software. This OEM announcement expands on the existing close relationship between the two companies. Together with WebSphere, it will provide a scalable solution to deliver personalized, timely, high quality content directly to the right user. IBM customers can leverage this OEM version of Interwoven’s content management software to support complex content management tasks including collaborative, concurrent, multi-author content development of diverse Web assets such as HTML, XML and Multimedia. It will also allow WebSphere application developers to build and test application code in-context of all Web content. IBM WebSphere-driven sites will also be able to take full advantage of Interwoven’s XML publishing, virtualization and workflow which will accelerate the development, approval and deployment of Web content and code. Additionally, Interwoven customers will be able to take advantage of IBM Content Manager, allowing search and retrieval of content that can be fed into both business applications as well as dynamic Web site applications, without the need for replicating content in multiple places. Under the terms of the agreement, Interwoven will build, and IBM will sell, an application-specific version of Interwoven content management software. Companies with multiple Web properties or who require a larger contributor base can seamlessly upgrade to a full version of Interwoven’s enterprise-class content management software suite. The WebSphere-specific content management will provide content delivery through its integration with WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Personalization Server, Enterprise Information Portal, IBM Content Manager and IBM DB2. www.interwoven.com
The 2Bridge Personal Portal lets users create a personalized command center for accessing, permissioning, publishing and sharing web services, documents and rich media, providing a gateway to people, colleagues and communities. The Personal Portal Server can be managed as part of a federated enterprise network of peer-to-peer portal and content servers. The Personal Portal brings a new level of interface and front-end application functionality to browser users. This next-generation multipanel presentation and application framework expands the web browser into “browslets,” or discrete actionable spaces, each of which can be configured and personalized for distributed, shared application services enabling a new, richer form of personalized, peer-to-peer communications. With Personal Portal you can: Use panels to communicate and link devices, including the ability to send email and communicate with wireless devices such as phones or PDAs; Multicast by creating your own content that can be shared with a community of users; Stream application data and business-critical information onto your desktop; And authenticate from any JNDI source, such as LDAP, NT user database, or UNIX permissioning system. It is written in Java and XML and fully browser-based. The 2Bridge Personal Portal will be licensed to enterprises, independent software vendors, system integrators and Value-Added Resellers. www.2Bridge.com
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