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
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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,
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
Interwoven, Inc. announced the release of Interwoven TeamCatalog. Combined with Interwoven TeamSite, TeamCatalog offers a comprehensive platform to enable customers to automate both their product and Web content processes to power multiple eBusiness initiatives. With TeamCatalog, customers will be able to assemble and manage catalog content, while automating the processes necessary to ensure product information is “transaction-ready.” Interwoven TeamCatalog provides a software platform for managing product data that meets the demands of enterprises, B2B marketplaces, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers, who need to aggregate, create, categorize, refresh and distribute eCatalogs. This content includes information such as product name and description, stock keeping unit (SKU) code, price, and other data, which is stored in legacy systems, databases and ERP systems such as SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle. TeamCatalog is a development-side eCatalog content management solution that is compatible with leading transactional catalog products from BEA, IBM, ATG, BroadVision, Microsoft and others. TeamCatalog features include: Easy-to-use administrative tools facilitate schedule updates, define process checkpoints, set validation criteria, and manage versions of catalog files for tracking and automatic rollback as needed; Aggregation, normalization, and rationalization capabilities make product content from one or more sources `transaction-ready’ for eCommerce sites; Creation and management of multiple taxonomies, such as UNSPSC and industry-specific taxonomies. The combination of Interwoven TeamCatalog software, with B2B Edition and TeamSite software, provides the necessary content infrastructure for enterprise eBusiness initiatives. Enterprises can represent their product information accurately and merchandise their products with rich information, graphics and metadata. www.interwoven.com/products/teamcatalog
Open Market, Inc. announced that NextPage has exercised its option to purchase the Folio technology, which it had been licensing from Open Market. NextPage will pay Open Market $6.6 million in cash in the first quarter 2001, to complete the sale. Open Market began licensing the Folio technology to NextPage in June of 1999. The technology delivers advanced search and navigation of large data files as part of the Search Services component of NextPage’s core NXT 3 e-Content Platform. The purchase completes NextPage’s three-year product license agreement. www.nextpage.com, www.openmarket.com
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