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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Portal Wave, Inc. announced three new products that allow enterprises to build EAPs that connect multiple internal systems and connect partner applications. Portal Wave XML B2B Server allows information and transaction exchange across enterprises via XML. Portal Wave Visual Development Studio provides a visual development environment for building Wavelets, plug-in software modules that run within the portal. Portal Wave Application Portal Server (APS) 2.0 is an upgrade to the initial version that enables companies to integrate enterprise solutions into a common e-business platform with a single Web interface. XML B2B Server is an XML messaging server that provides guaranteed, secure delivery of business information and transactions over the Internet in the form of XML documents. Delivery is guaranteed via message queuing and XML return receipt. A simple log allows users to monitor the delivery status of documents such as purchase orders, invoices and inventory levels. XML B2B Server offers support for HTTP and HTTPS for secure document delivery and uses the same browser-based EAP interface for managing and monitoring delivery status. It supports industry standards for XML exchange between partners and is compliant with RosettaNet standards. EAPs provide functionality through Wavelets, plug-in software modules that encapsulate business logic and can provide value from displaying syndicated Internet content to coordinating complex B2B functions across multiple enterprise applications. Visual Development Studio is a Java-based product that leverages the latest JavaBean technology and Java Swing classes. Its main feature is the separation of the user interface from business logic. The new XML B2B Server leverages the enhanced EAP functions now available in APS 2.0. The 2.0 upgrade features an improved user interface that uses style sheets. From selecting content to determining how it appears, improved personalization features allow users greater flexibility to customize their own portal. XML B2B Server, Visual Development Studio and APS 2.0 are available now. www.portalwave.com
OASIS, together with NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, announced that the second edition of the popular OASIS XML Conformance Test Suite would be publicly available March 15, 2001. The new OASIS conformance test suite, updated to be in sync with XML Second Edition, includes more than 1,000 new tests. Users and vendors may download the OASIS XML Conformance Test Suite Second Edition from the Consortium’s web site, www.oasis-open.org beginning March 15. www.nist.gov, www.oasis-open.org
Microsoft Corp. made available a beta version of the XML for Analysis software development kit and an updated XML for Analysis protocol specification. This is an online analytical processing protocol that enables the transfer of information between analytical databases and client applications, regardless of the computer language used to write the application. Leveraging XML, SOAP and HTTP, XML for Analysis is a new protocol that is designed to standardize the data access interaction between a client application and an analytical data provider (OLAP and data mining). With input from more than 50 vendors, XML for Analysis is a vendor – and platform – independent extension to Microsoft’s OLEDB for OLAP and OLEDB for Data Mining protocols. Developers are now able to provide analytic capabilities to any client on any device or platform using any programming language, such as the Microsoft Visual Basic development system, C++, C# and Java. A beta version of XML for Analysis is available for download at www.microsoft.com/data/xml/XMLAnalysis.htm
Open Market, Inc. announced a relationship with Caput. The relationship is intended to enable e-businesses to quickly implement an integrated, solution for content, community and commerce. Caput’s solutions generate traffic and loyalty to web- sites. Open Market’s solutions are designed to allow those companies to convert these prospects into customers by allowing them to take maximum advantage of their content as a marketing and sales tool. Content can be personalized to customer segments or individual customers. The application platforms offered by the two companies consist of a set of Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) components. The software is written completely in the Java and XML programming language and the architecture adheres to the Sun Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification. This enables both Caput and Open Market solutions to run on the same application server, offering an environment intended to optimize integration, scalability and fail-over. www.caput.com, www.openmarket.com
Starbase Corp. announced the availability of a technology integration between StarTeam and Documentum’s 4i eBusiness Platform. The integration enables developers to leverage existing software applications and investments. Starbase’s partnership with Documentum was originally forged in July 2000 when Starbase announced its first in a series of planned technology integra-tions to Documentum content management technology under Documentum’s Open Source Code Integration (OSCI). Documentum OSCI facilitates integrations with leading application development vendors to enable delivery of an eBusiness solution. Shared content production and collaboration are integrated processes that must be available at every level of the organiza-tion. When integrated with an enterprise collaborative development framework, customers achieve higher productivity levels. StarTeam creates this essential layer of developer collabora-tion for Documentum 4i eBusiness Platform customers. www.documentum.com, www.starbase.com
eXcelon Corporation introduced eXcelon Portal Server 3.0. Portal Server 3.0 includes a new integrated XML development environment, support for the latest XML standards, and enhanced scalability and performance. Portal Server 3.0 includes new tools and capabilities that make it easier for companies to aggregate data and content from any source into a common XML-based business information model. Stylus Studio provides a visual debugging platform for XSLT, greatly reducing the time to deploy new client or server applications that include both XSLT and user-defined Java extension functions. Stylus Studio also includes an XML Editor to load and manipulate large XML files, a DTD and XML Schema editor, as well as a visual XML-to-XML mapping facility for easily defining XSLT transformations between XML documents with sup-port for DTD and XML Schemas. Portal Server aggregates data from as many as 30 disparate sources, such as structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, as well as legacy data for-mats such as COBOL files and mainframe data, and makes it available to new e-business appli-cations. Portal Server converts the data from the sources and manages it as XML so developers can build applications using standards-based XML languages. The beta version of eXcelon’s Portal Server 3.0 is available now as part of eXcelon’s official open beta test (www.exceloncorp.com/beta/b2bps.html). Portal Server 3.0 will be available on the Windows NT, Windows 2000, Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 platforms. Portal Server 3.0 is expected to be gener-ally available within 45 days. eXcelon Stylus Studio is expected to be available as a stand-alone product in the second quarter of 2001. A beta version is available for download at www.exceloncorp.com/beta/studio.html. Pricing will be announced closer to availability.
Vignette Corp. announced that it is shipping a full suite of content, integration and analysis ap-plications with native support for the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard and the BEA We-bLogic and IBM WebSphere application servers. This means Vignette supports both Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java platform and Microsoft Corp.’s Windows DNA. Vignette also an-nounced significant new enhancements to the Vignette Content Management Server (CMS) that tightly integrates content management, scalable content delivery and personalization. Vi-gnette CMS Explorer and Vignette Content Manager Generator (CM Generator). Vignette CMS Explorer makes digital asset management simpler and more intuitive by enabling Web applica-tion developers and content contributors to access CMS capabilities using the popular Micro-soft Windows Explorer interface, which lets them create, view and manipulate their content and application code using familiar icons, formats and drag-and-drop functionality. By allowing us-ers to work in the manner they prefer, CMS Explorer helps e-business organizations improve overall productivity and reduce training costs. Vignette Content Manager Generator is designed to accelerate time to market and reduce development costs by automating the process of creat-ing custom content management applications with the Vignette Content Management Server. CM Generator allows any business user to generate browser-based custom content manage-ment applications using a step-by-step process and an easy-to-use interface. CM Generator can dramatically reduce the amount of time and cost needed for implementing simple, but custom-ized, content management applications. www.vignette.com
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