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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

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

AgentWare announced the general availability of its new Syndicator 2.0 software, a Java- and XML-based development platform for creating and integrating content, distributed applications and Web Services across the Internet. Designed to ensure rapid time-to-market, AgentWare’s Syndicator 2.0 development toolset offers functionality to improve the way businesses integrate and syndicate applications, expand to wireless and broadband platforms, and leverage existing Internet infrastructure to build Web Services. Also, as a result of its full mobile and broadband device compatibility, Syndicator 2.0 will allow businesses to rapidly develop and deploy online initiatives to multiple Internet devices, with no need for the creation of multiple applications to accommodate differing operating scenarios and delivery channels. AgentWare’s Syndicator 2.0 is an ideal solution for today’s Internet environment because 1) it enables businesses to quickly build customized applications that easily integrate with their existing systems, 2) it provides a powerful business tool that can efficiently and cost-effectively deliver both applications and Web Services over the Internet and 3) it significantly reduces the personnel costs, infrastructure costs and time needed to deploy an eBusiness solution. www.agentware.com