OASIS has formed a new technical committee to develop an XML-based protocol for managing complex, B2B transactions over the Internet. The OASIS Business Transactions Technical Committee plans to build an open specification for XML message interfaces that will support the coordination and processing of Web services from different organizations. The new OASIS committee initially plans to base its work on the Business Transaction Protocol (BTP) specification, submitted to the Consortium by BEA Systems. BTP allows complex XML message exchanges to be tracked and managed as loosely coupled `conversations’ between businesses. OASIS welcomes the submission of other suitable technologies for consideration in this work. Organizations and individuals interested in business transaction issues are invited to join the OASIS Business Transactions Technical Committee and participate in this development. Information on Consortium membership can be found on www.oasis-open.org
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Trapezo announced an alliance with eBT to provide a content management, integration and syndication application. The enterprise-scale application will target Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies to streamline and simplify content management for their online content and commerce partnerships. Trapezo and eBT’s alliance offers a content management application that will combine eBT’s engenda, an XML-based content management and workflow automation solution, with Trapezo’s Partner Fusion Platform, a hosted application enabling clients to easily integrate external content while syndicating their own. The content management applications’ existing compatibility will drive content anywhere partnerships are established: intranets, extranets, the Web, Email, and over wireless devices and PDA’s. Future plans include seamlessly integrating the solution between platforms, collaborative sales initiatives, and mutual marketing activities. www.ebt.com, www.trapezo.com
Tacit Knowledge Systems, Inc. announced the availability of “Tacit ESP (Expertise Search for Portals),” a new product designed to help companies manage business complexity more effectively by delivering the full human ingenuity of the enterprise through a corporate portal. Tacit ESP is a simple expertise automation solution that installs alongside an Enterprise Information Portal (EIP), infers expertise from published content, and adds “people search” capabilities to the portal. By putting “people in the portal,” portal users can access the expertise of others when the content in the portal alone does not fully address their needs. Tacit ESP Plus adds the capability to “profile” expertise using profile management facilities. The Tacit Expertise Portlet (for Lotus Development Corporation’s K-Station) combines expertise with the portal’s information and focuses on “people-to-people” connections. The Tacit Expertise Gadget (for the Plumtree Corporate Portal) combines expertise with the portal’s information to ensure that all of the enterprise’s available resources are made available to every individual through a single point of access. Tacit KnowledgeMail 2.0 delivers full expertise automation through tight integration with enterprise e-mail, Web Browsers, and the Windows Desktop; and Tacit Expertise Toolkit allows corporate and commercial application developers to access the Tacit Server to develop custom Web-based or proprietary expertise automation solutions through XML APIs. The software is sold on a server and client-access basis. Enterprise pricing is available. www.tacit.com
Sybase, Inc. announced a marketing alliance with Document Sciences Corporation. Through the alliance, Document Sciences Corporation will offer Sybase Enterprise Portal Customers rapid application development tools (RAD) for dynamic Web and print Content Automation of eProposals, eStatements, and eCorrespondence. The Sybase Enterprise Portal is an enterprise portal that offers continuous availability. It cradles the key functions of integration and personalization in an environment of continuous operation, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Built in are core portal components like content management, personalization, content retrieval and an extensive array of integration options for data, events and applications. Also included is systems management, a security framework that encompasses all elements of the portal and a meta-data repository. Document Sciences’ family of RAD tools for delivering personalized, compliant data-rich content via Web or print includes DLS Enterprise, for delivering regulated document applications such as insurance policies and contracts; DLS Web Express, for instant web or print delivery of proposals and quotes; and soon-to-be-released Visual CompuSet Professional Web Designer, for building personalized portal applications for high-value financial account management. www.sybase.com, www.docscience.com
Active Navigation, Inc. announced the immediate availability of Portal Maximizer 2, a content management and search solution that enables enterprise intranets and portals to go beyond typical searching capabilities. Portal Maximizer 2 automatically categorizes and analyzes content and provides advanced navigation capabilities to help companies overcome the time it takes for employees, customers and partners to find the information they need. Building on technology for automatic cross-referencing of content in the first release, Portal Maximizer 2 adds four new features — categorization of content; immediate identification of related documents; enhanced search; and the ability to summarize documents on the fly. Active Navigation’s solution also integrates with existing publishing workflow solutions and site security policies. Portal Maximizer 2 analyzes content to identify the most important concepts. The content is then automatically indexed and linked on the fly without any HTML coding. Active Navigation’s solution shrinks the volumes of unrelated results typical of search engines, while quickly providing users with access to untapped information that is often lost in the masses of content on Web portals and corporate intranets. Enterprises and eBusinesses with existing enterprise portals or intranets can both expand the reach and significantly lower the cost of managing sites with Portal Maximizer 2. The new “related documents” feature tracks down other pages that address the same topics, and dynamically updates the document with links as new information is made available. The enhanced search functionality has an automatic drill down feature that typically enables users to find what they want in three clicks. In addition, the newly integrated and enhanced “summarization” feature offers thorough summaries of found and related documents resulting from a search. Portal Maximizer 2 runs on the Windows NT/2000, Solaris, and Linux platforms and is available immediately for an average cost of $75,000 per server. www.activenavigation.com
Vignette Corp and Ariba, Inc announced a strategic alliance to deliver solutions that enable buyers, suppliers and marketplaces to deepen relationships with their trading partners. Under the agreement, Vignette and Ariba will offer a B2B platform for enabling marketplaces. The Ariba B2B Commerce Platform facilitates market makers with a multi-buyer, multi-supplier solution consisting of administration, transactional capability and scalable infrastructure. The Vignette customer driven Internet applications provide marketplace community framework, content management, personalization and integration. The Ariba-Vignette joint solution will benefit all participants in a given marketplace. Suppliers will be able to differentiate their offerings by providing rich content and product data and by promoting their products with advanced product substitution and product bundling capabilities. Buyers will be able to increase efficiencies in a number of commerce scenarios by providing highly personalized interaction with product catalogs. Market makers will be able to improve their ability to attract and retain buyers and suppliers by providing an improved market environment and the ability to create highly targeted marketing campaigns. www.vignette.com, www.ariba.com
Documentum announced a partnering strategy designed to facilitate global implementations of its Portal Content Management Edition as a content management foundation for enterprise portal initiatives. As part of the strategy, Documentum is working with portal vendors to deliver out-of-the-box integration with their existing portal products. Documentum’s Portal Content Management Edition also delivers training and support services required to facilitate quick and easy deployment of these integrated solutions. Joint marketing and sales initiatives are underway with portal partners. Representative technology partners include: Verity, Plumtree, Epicentric, TopTier, Corechange, Semio, and Autonomy. www.documentum.com
iLanguage, Inc. and Uniscape announced a partnership to jointly market their products and services. Uniscape will become iLanguage’s preferred technology vendor for providing translation and globalization services. iLanguage will also become a Uniscape Preferred Vendor of localization and translation services for customers of the Uniscape Globalization Infrastructure. The partnership is designed to offer a comprehensive globalization solution to Global 1000 companies looking to globalize their Web sites. Uniscape provides a comprehensive globalization solution that tackles the challenges required to manage a global, multilingual Web presence. The Uniscape Globalization Infrastructure is a scalable, automated and highly reliable globalization platform that speeds the delivery of marketing and product content across more than 40 languages. iLanguage provides the translation and localization services in conjunction with the Uniscape technology platform to Global 1000 customers. iLanguage has developed a new business model for translation services by creating strategically located translation centers, similar to call centers, in areas such as the Caribbean, Costa Rica and other offshore locations. www.iLanguage.com, www.uniscape.com
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