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SoftLock.com, Inc. introduced its Dynamic Content Locking (DCL) technology that enables digital content to be packaged, secured, and distributed in real-time. Digital Content Locking is an innovative approach to digital rights management (DRM), which will allow consumers to order digital documents that are customized to their interests, packaged on the fly, and delivered within seconds. Content providers can focus on maintaining their content database rather than on the production and distribution of the final packaged product. Using SoftLock’s DCL technology, content providers can generate a wide range of secure digital documents, which contain up-to-the minute information. Here’s how it works: A consumer, after viewing samples of available documents and content options clicks on the buy button to begin the DCL process. After the consumer’s credit has cleared, the online commerce system sends a request to the content database describing the required XML document components and the document format. SoftLock’s DCL process automatically retrieves the required XML components from the database, creates the Adobe PDF document, locks and encrypts the document using SoftLock’s DRM services. The report is then instantly delivered to the consumer along with the keys to “unlock” their rights to the document, which enables full viewing- all within 30 seconds. Document types which are particularly appropriate for this “late binding” process include investment analysis, company reports, and technology updates. As with SoftLock’s other Digital Content Marketing services, consumers can email the secure document to friends or colleagues using SoftLock’s Passalong service. Passalong is a viral marketing technique that enables content providers to encourage the follow-on sales of content while maintaining its security wrapper. Friends and colleagues can view samples of the secure document and then click to purchase. An unlock key will be emailed to them within a matter of seconds. www.softlock.com

Kurion launched RightView Hypersyndication for BroadVision and RightView Hypersyndication for Vignette. Immediately available, these RightView applications extend existing BroadVision and Vignette infrastructures to easily execute comprehensive hypersyndication tasks of application and content integration and syndication. With Kurion, BroadVision and Vignette users can integrate or syndicate applications and content faster, easier and with added functionality. And Kurion’s technology is designed to be delivery, format and protocol independent, so integrating with non-BroadVision or non-Vignette sites, or sites using different delivery standards, is no longer a problem. Kurion’s RightView Hypersyndication for BroadVision (RVHB) enables One-to-One Publishing customers to easily and automatically select the exact applications or content they want from source sites and then automatically modify the look, feel and presentation style of that information so it is displayed as an integrated component of the destination site. In addition, RVHB extends the capabilities of BroadVision’s MarketMaker to allow members to dynamically and easily add selected applications and content — in new formats and styles if desired — to a MarketMaker-powered Internet exchange. Kurion’s RightView Hypersyndication for Vignette (RVHV) works with Vignette’s Content Management Server and enhances Vignette’s Syndication Server. For customers that do not have Syndication Server, RVHV provides capabilities lacking in Syndication Server, such as application syndication, offer transformation, or the ability to grant affiliates significant flexibility. For those customers that have Syndication Server, RVHV provides the same application, transformation, and affiliate control benefits, but also automates the affiliate’s process of receiving Syndication Server packages. RightView Hypersyndication for BroadVision and RightView Hypersyndication for Vignette are available immediately at an introductory price of $50,000 for the remainder of 2000. www.kurion.com

Eprise Corporation announced Version 3 of Eprise Participant Server. Eprise moves beyond tactical content management approaches focused solely on the efficiency of Web operations to offer Strategic Content Management solutions. Strategic Content Management is a comprehensive approach using software and services to help businesses efficiently plan, implement, measure, and enhance corporate Web sites that deliver significant value to the site audiences and the business. The key technical component of Strategic Content Management is Eprise Participant Server. This software application enables business users to manage not just traditional content, but also business rules, approval processes, and user interaction. The result is that implementation and ongoing change of Eprise-managed sites is easier than with products that rely on technical scripts and configuration files for similar functions. The latest release adds several capabilities including: an enhanced user interface that includes a robust visual editing capability for browser users; expanded templating options to improve manageability and performance; and enterprise level scalability enhancements including global content distribution capabilities. Eprise Participant Server Version 3 will be available next month for Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Solaris operating systems. The typical customer engagement for software and services starts at approximately $150,000. www.eprise.com

Interwoven, Inc. announced definitive agreements to acquire two privately-held companies, Metacode Technologies and Ajuba Solutions. Metacode is a developer of content tagging and taxonomy technology. Ajuba is a developer of XML solutions. Under the terms of the agreements, an aggregate value of approximately $150 million in Interwoven common stock and stock options will be exchanged for the capital stock and stock options of Metacode and approximately $31 million in Interwoven common stock and stock options will be exchanged for the capital stock and stock options of Ajuba. Along with the content analytics technology acquired earlier this year from Neonyoyo, the Metacode technology will play a key role in providing the intelligence necessary for next-generation content management. The Metacode technology will enhance how customers use Interwoven solutions to create a compelling and relevant Web experience. By automatically including metadata based on customer-specific or industry-specific taxonomies, content can be readily shared and repurposed across multiple Web properties and B2B exchanges. The Ajuba team will be assimilated into Interwoven’s existing technical staff. The Ajuba product line will be discontinued. www.interwoven.com

POET Software announced the latest releases of its turn-key eCatalog management software solutions for suppliers, ASPs and eMarketplaces. POET’s eCatalog Suite – Supplier Resident Edition (eCS-SR) and eCatalog Suite – Service Provider Edition (eCS-SP) introduce several new features that provide enhanced pricing management, platform and database support, as well as simplified administration for ASPs and eMarketplaces. POET’s flexible pricing management features provide customers with several customization options to reflect the diverse requirements of both suppliers and buyers. With contract pricing, users can create buyer-specific pricing for groups of products or on a product-by-product basis. With volume discounts or tier pricing, suppliers can define different prices based upon item quantity. In addition to custom pricing, users can also employ a calculation-based pricing method, incorporating discounts based on percentages or fixed amounts in relation to list prices. POET added new database and platform support, giving ASPs and eMarketmakers the option to run eCS-SR and eCS-SP using the POET object database or Oracle’s 8.0 or 8i on Solaris, Windows NT and Windows 2000 platforms. The latest versions of eCatalog Suite-Supplier Resident Edition and eCatalog Suite-Service Provider Edition are now available. Pricing for the supplier edition starts at $60,000. Pricing for the service provider edition starts at $175,000. www.poet.com

eBusiness Technologies announced the working prototype of a new workflow tool for engenda based on Microsoft Visio which will allow customers to build workflows by creating graphic representations of the processes. The new workflow tool will streamline development by speeding and simplifying workflow creation and modification. An intuitive method for creating engenda workflow descriptions, the simple, visual editing tool will allow customers to drive their workflow processes from a diagram. The workflow diagrams will be saved in engenda as XML. engenda is currently scheduled to ship with the new workflow tool in the first quarter of 2001. www.ebt.com