Category: Content technology news (Page 461 of 638)

Open Market, Inc. announced that they are adding support for AIX. By supporting AIX, Open Market wants to offer companies a content management solution that leverages IBM’s highly scalable e-business software and hardware infrastructure. www.openmarket.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

FatWire announced that the company’s UpdateEngine software will leverage IBM WebSphere software. The solution allows customers to accelerate launch time and efficiently manage their eBusiness sites. This relationship complements FatWire’s integration of IBM DB2 Universal Database with UpdateEngine. UpdateEngine customers have a database-driven content management solution, including automated workflow and fast publishing for WebSphere application servers. UpdateEngine is all in Java and easily works with WebSphere applications to provide content management capabilities. www.fatwire.com

Requisite Technology Inc., announced the availability of the Contract Manager add-on module for the eMerge Content Management system. For suppliers, the eMerge Contract Manager offers the ability to export product information with customer-specific pricing models in multiple XML formats to marketplaces and buyers using commerce platforms from Ariba, CommerceOne, Oracle, SAP and others. Marketplace customers can assign contract information and pricing models to product data from multiple suppliers within their eMerge systems. Buying organizations also benefit from the eMerge Contract Manager, gaining the ability to create for suppliers specific contracts and pricing information, and organize that information in multiple formats for use in a production catalog environment. Buyers also can allow suppliers to self-author contract and pricing information in a hosted environment, providing a single point of administration for content, contracts and pricing. Using the eMerge Contract Manager, supplier and buying organizations can merge and export data – product information, pricing and contract terms – into a user-specified XML format for loading into their production catalog. Product data with price models attached then can be exported into a production environment in multiple XML formats. www.requisite.com

OnePage, Inc. announced the next generation of the company’s portlet-building software, Content Connect. The new software, designed to complement existing installations or integrate into commercial portal software offerings, enables organizations to create portlets – the units of information that together make up a portal page. With an interface intended for any user from administrative staff to IT professionals, Content Connect decreases the time and complexity required to deploy content for corporate portals, while increasing the levels of relevancy and personalization. For example, OnePage Content Connect empowers corporate end-users and portal administrators to create portlets from any number of web-accessible sources, including: Subscription Information Services, B2B Exchange Account Status, Intranet Project Sites, Information Contained on Competitors’ Web Sites, Secure Sources of Information, Information from Partner Sites, and Legacy Systems (that have an HTML interface). www.onepage.com

Proxicom, Inc. and eGrail Inc. announced a partnership that will enable the implementation of content management solutions across multiple channels and in multiple languages. With this alliance, Proxicom and eGrail will help enterprise-class companies easily manage the content that they deliver to their constituents via the Web and wireless devices. www.proxicom.com; www.egrail.com

Microsoft Corp. debuted a new SOAP Toolkit, announced native SOAP support for the Microsoft Windows XP operating system, and invited SOAP developers to an interoperability event. Microsoft announced an updated version of the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit for the Visual Studio 6.0 development system. The new version 2.0 provides full support for SOAP 1.1 and the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). With the Toolkit, developers can build XML Web Services or add such capabilities to any existing application that supports the Component Object Model (COM). In addition to offering new samples and debugging tools, this release also is fully interoperable with XML Web Services built using the Microsoft .NET Framework and has been tested with SOAP implementations from a variety of other vendors. A release candidate is available for download on at http://msdn.microsoft.com/, with the final release expected to be available from the same location later this month. In addition to the stand-alone Toolkit, Microsoft also announced that Windows XP would have native support for SOAP. www.microsoft.com