Glides Inc. announced that iLanguage will become an integrated translation provider for Glides’ UniSite customers. As a result of the partnership, iLanguage translators will become fully integrated into UniSite’s XML-based automated workflow process, which manages the editing, review, translation and Web content publishing process. Based in Los Angeles, iLanguage specializes in translating to and from English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean for eCommerce, news, finance, entertainment, sports, and other Web sites. The partnership combines Glides’ UniSite workflow and content management software service with iLanguage’s translation and localization capabilities. UniSite’s workflow manages the entire translation process, including automated content exchange with translators at iLanguage. By delivering content directly to iLanguage’s translation workbenches, Glides’ XML-based workflow ensures the highest level of transparency, consistency and accuracy for Glides’ clients. www.ilanguage.com; www.glides.com
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IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced the release of Xpedio 4.6, the latest version of its Xpedio Content Management system. Xpedio 4.6 includes a Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compliant Enterprise JavaBean (EJB). The new EJB enables companies to easily integrate Xpedio’s content management capabilities into e-business applications built on J2EE application servers, such as commerce sites, corporate portals, customer relationship management applications and net markets. Xpedio 4.6 will be available March 21, 2001 and is priced from $50,000 to $240,000 USD. www.intranetsolutions.com
Gauss announced they have been named as an Advanced Business Partner by IBM through the end of 2001. The IBM Advanced Business Partner designation is part of the PartnerWorld program, which consists of three membership levels – Member, Advanced and Premier. This approval is for the Systems and Services track, which is available to all IBM Business Partners approved to market IBM eServer, IBM Network Integration, Point of Sale, Printer Systems and Storage Products in the United States and Canada. The program recognizes loyal IBM Business Partners for their commitment to building IBM product certifications or equivalent skills and dedication to customer satisfaction processes. Advanced status is awarded to a select group of IBM Business Partners, and they must earn renewal of the designation each year. Approximately 15% of IBM Business Partners-Systems in North America have qualified for Premier or Advanced recognition in 2000. www.gaussinterprise.com
CoVia announced the general availability of Vortal, the newest addition to CoVia’s suite of enterprise portal solutions. CoVia Vortal enables companies to quickly create industry specific, personalized portals that can be entirely managed by non-technical users who can quickly produce, update and sustain fresh, relative content for any targeted community – all without IT support. Supporting such features as self-registration and password protected access, Vortal enables any organization to add “MyOrganization”-like functionality to their publicly facing web sites in less than 30 days. Using iChannel content syndication and delivery technology, Vortal delivers organization and industry specific news content and information directly to targeted users desktops and enables them to customize their view to suit their particular objectives and interests. Organizations can intersperse company content with syndicated news feeds included with the Vortal application to produce a robust information destination for customers, prospects and partners. Since Vortal also uses many self-service technologies developed as part of the InfoPortal platform, managing and updating the site can be done by anyone capable of operating a web browser. No specific experience or knowledge of XML, HTML or other programming languages is required for day-to-day users to keep the site fresh and valuable. The result is low cost of ownership and more relevant and timely information delivered directly to customers. CoVia Vortal is available now. For additional information, please visit www.covia.com
Sequoia Software Corporation announced a partnership with Bantu, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based provider of instant messaging and presence management technology for enterprise applications software and services companies. Sequoia is integrating Bantu’s instant messaging application, Bantu Messenger, into its XML-pure portal software product, XPS. Once combined, Sequoia customers will have the option of providing users with a confidential mechanism for instant messaging with other portal users, as well as the millions of individuals using Bantu and other popular instant messaging platforms such as ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! In addition to enhancing the collaborative capabilities of XPS, Sequoia selected Bantu Messenger because it protects user confidentiality, encrypts all messages, integrates presence detection and instant messaging seamlessly into the XPS portal, and is interoperable with other instant messaging systems. www.bantu.com, www.sequoiasoftware.com
Blue Martini Software, Inc. announced that it is shipping its Blue Martini 4 suite of products. The tightly integrated suite consists of four new applications: Blue Martini Marketing, Blue Martini Commerce, Blue Martini Channels and Blue Martini Service. Blue Martini Marketing, a comprehensive marketing solution that allows companies to create a unified picture of customers, analyze customer behavior for patterns and insights, and implement those insights through personalization and outbound marketing. Blue Martini Commerce, an e-commerce application for selling direct to businesses and consumers via multiple touch-points such as a website or mobile device. It offers companies out-of-the-box capabilities that provide a solid foundation for effective selling. Blue Martini Channels, a complete channel management application that helps companies to manage profitable relationships with partners, and drives sales through partner extranets, or portals, and online marketplaces. Blue Martini Service, a customer service application that enables companies to drive revenues and achieve customer satisfaction through their customer service representatives (CSRs) over the phone or on the web. The Blue Martini 4 suite provides 24-by-7 availability, legacy integration and ease of management. The Blue Martini 4 suite offers visual tools and pre-built adapters for integrating external systems through Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), XML, CORBA, Microsoft’s COM/DCOM and IBM’s MQ Series interfaces. It provides integration with SAP, Agile, Oracle, PeopleSoft and Siebel. The Blue Martini 4 suite and its four applications are currently available. Each application is available separately or all four can be purchased as an integrated suite. Pricing starts at $250,000 per application. www.bluemartini.com
Sybase, Inc. announced Sybase Enterprise Portal 2.0 (EP), which extends portal functionality to mobile and wireless users, business partners and e-marketplaces. The new portal functionality uses Sybase’s wireless technology along with new business-to-business application integration, XML/EDI transformations and globalization. Key components include a J2EE-compliant application server, LDAP directory support, an integrated security framework, concept-based searching and a powerful data server with data synchronization capabilities. Sybase EP supports the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). Sybase EP includes bi-directional mobile messaging capabilities that enable users to both queue outbound messages and receive messages delivered from the network. These messaging services include store-and-forward messaging queuing; push messaging for communications from the network; and user authentication and encryption. Messages can be used to alert users or to initiate an action, such as data synchronization. XML/EDI transformation enables non-EDI-enabled business partners to be quickly integrated into the enterprise’s processes. Enterprise integration adapters allow collaborative data to be directly served into data management systems or applications. Sybase EP’s content management features allow portal users to quickly add, categorize and deploy information for end users. The customizable presentation services allow portal users to interact with applications in their preferred manner. Sybase EP also provides advanced features like automatic currency conversion and language translation. www.sybase.com/ep
Semio Corporation announced the availability of Semio Integration Toolkit. The toolkit is a software development kit and partnership program designed to support the integration of Semio’s content categorization technology into corporate portals and customized applications – such as personalized content delivery or communities of interest. By using Semio’s toolkit, partners and customers quickly build applications that can organize and manage virtually unlimited amounts of unstructured digital information. The Semio Integration Toolkit offers application interfaces to Semio’s Tagger software, which organizes large amounts of corporate data by finding conceptual and practical relationships between any digital document stored on a server. These interfaces enable partners and customers to build solutions with automated cataloging and categorization of unstructured information, offering faster access to the right information in today’s complex business environments. With the release of the Integration Toolkit, partners and customers have multiple possible integration points with the Semio categorization solution. Some partners use the XML generated by Semio Tagger as input for publication and syndication processes. The API published with the Integration Toolkit lets portal vendors and others create tightly integrated solutions leveraging Semio’s automated categorization capabilities. The Semio Integration Toolkit documents the Semio Integration API and the Semio Bundler API, as well as the XML and database formats. It includes sample applications, source code, database, and text corpus, as well as detailed documentation. The Semio Integration Toolkit requires Semio Tagger 4.1 and is available now. www.semio.com
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