Adobe Systems introduced Adobe Acrobat 5.0 software, a major upgrade. With Acrobat 5.0, Adobe is enabling organizations to reduce cycle times and increase the efficiency of business processes across their extended enterprises of customers and partners. Acrobat 5.0 offers a number of key benefits that enable business, graphic arts and IT professionals to excel in this new Network Publishing environment where they must work efficiently at Web speed. Tight Web integration based on WebDistributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) and Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) allows teams to simultaneously share comments on Adobe PDF files from within a browser. Support for XML makes it simple for users to integrate data, such as metadata and forms data in Adobe PDF files, with back-end systems. And stronger integration with enterprise deployment tools enables IT professionals to auto-install and maintain Acrobat 5.0 over a network to thousands of multi-user or lockdown desktop systems. Acrobat 5.0 software for Windows 95 OSR 2.0, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 with service pack 5 or 6, Windows ME and Windows 2000, and Macintosh OS 8.6 (all Web-based capabilities are not available due to Apple OS limitations), 9.0.4 and 9.1, is expected to ship in the United States and Canada in the second quarter of 2001 for an estimated street price of US$249. Registered users of earlier Acrobat software versions can upgrade to Acrobat 5.0 for US$99. French, German and Japanese versions of Acrobat 5.0 are expected to be available shortly after the initial release. Information about other language versions, as well as pricing, upgrade and support policies, is available online. www.adobe.com
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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
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
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
Open Market, Inc. announced a new product family, Content Server Enterprise Edition (CSEE), adding new e-marketing and business-to-business integration (B2Bi) capabilities to its content management and delivery system. CSEE is designed, developed, and deployed as Java components built on Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers now including the IBM WebSphere Application Server, as well as BEA WebLogic Server and the iPlanet Application Server. CSEE is based on two approaches. The first, called the PowerAssets information architecture, maximizes the value of an enterprise’s content by extending its use and re-use for a broad range of e-business initiatives, including catalogs, personalization, self-service applications, and e-marketplaces. The PowerAssets information architecture treats enterprise content, such as images, articles, product information, and audio files, as dynamic independent content objects that can be extended for multiple applications by non- technical users. PowerAssets enable enterprise content to be kept in a “presentation neutral” format so it can be easily reused across multiple Web sites and delivery devices as well as facilitating efficient XML document exchange to trading partners. Open Market’s second approach is based on J2EE application servers, Java components, Java Server Pages (JSP) templates, and XML-based services. Because CSEE solutions are built directly on leading J2EE application servers, customers benefit from fast development of content-driven Internet applications using mainstream Java technical tools, simple integration with legacy systems, and technologies. Open Market’s Content Server Enterprise Edition is available now. Each product is priced individually on a per CPU basis. Pricing begins at $29,000.00 per CPU. Customers add modules based on business needs and purchase additional CPUs based on scalability requirements. www.openmarket.com
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