Forecross Corporation announced the release of its L2X SmartXML Suite of software products and services to provide legacy to web data exchange without middleware. SmartXML provides the native software plumbing to enable large-scale e-commerce projects to succeed with a true second generation technical solution. SmartXML inserts the functionality for XML data exchange directly into mainframe programs, eliminating middleware, decreasing costs and increasing business flexibility. SmartXML consists of a suite of software modules applicable to mainframe CICS programs, batch programs, reports, data file exchanges and support for mainframe programmers. SmartXML is available now as a part of Forecross service offerings. www.forecross.com
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Starbase Corporation and NexusGroup announced a strategic technology and marketing partnership. The partnership is designed to deliver eBusiness solutions to NexusGroup’s list of Global 1000 customers. NexusGroup adopted StarTeam to manage their own portal development and will now market StarTeam as part of an integrated solution to manage the portal and Internet development efforts of its customers. NexusGroup will utilize Starbase’s StarGate SDK to deploy complete portal solutions designed to integrate with eBusiness solutions from companies such as SilverStream and Macromedia. StarTeam enables NexusGroup to deploy the eVOLVE methodology and business processes without complicated configuration changes at customer sites. NexusGroup’s custom StarTeam implementation enables efficient management of the portal’s code, as well as the entire knowledge base, including proposals, marketing information and document templates. www.nexusgroup.com, www.starbase.com
Running Start Inc. announced it has added platform support for Java, XML, and WAP to its ArticleBASE Web content management, workflow, and dynamic publishing system. This next generation of ArticleBASE is scheduled to ship later this summer. Designed to leverage the latest technological capabilities in the Apple WebObjects 4.5 development platform, ArticleBASE adds support for Java, XML, and WAP. ArticleBASE 2.1’s newly integrated XML and WAP support will allow data exchange with other XML-based applications and enables site access from any browser, PDA, or cell phone. www.running-start.com
Provenance Systems, Inc. and IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced a partnership to deliver an integrated solution for managing Web content and records. With this agreement, Provenance Systems and IntraNet Solutions provide a combined solution to government and commercial sectors that effectively manages Web content and the lifecycle of each associated record. Provenance’s latest product, ForeMost Enterprise Enterprise makes it possible, easy, and affordable to provide a scalable records management infrastructure. Once deployed, it captures official business records from a variety of sources, such as e-mail, electronic document management systems, and Web sites. E-Businesses create records at a staggering rate, and though regulated industries, for example, have strict legal and business requirements for managing records, previously they could neither categorize nor manage such documents over the Internet. With Provenance’s experience in records management and IntraNet Solutions’ Web- content management capabilities, the two companies together solve the problem of preserving Web content as official records. Additionally, Provenance and IntraNet Solutions are pursuing certification of ForeMost Enterprise and Xpedio to meet the Department of Defense Design Criteria Standard for Electronic Records Management Software Applications (DoD 5015.2-STD). This standard outlines mandatory ERS software requirements for all DoD agencies. www.intranetsolutions.com, www.provsys.com
Worldweb.net, Inc. announced that it now supports Oracle8i and its predecessor, Oracle8. Through Expressroom I/O, users will be able to manage, deploy, and disseminate e- business assets residing in Oracle databases, and deliver information to a wide variety of devices including traditional web browsers, Net appliances, cell phones, pagers, Palm and BlackBerry wireless handheld devices. In addition, Worldweb.net announced that it is now a member of the Oracle Partner Program. This will allow Worldweb.net to better leverage the breadth of technical resources necessary to offer Oracle customers with a well-integrated XML/WML content management solution. www.worldweb.net
TRADOS Incorporated announced a service release for Translation Solution Edition 3. The TRADOS product suite now offers a variety of new, mainly Web-driven, features. Translator’s Workbench, TagEditor and WinAlign now support Active Server Pages as well as Java Server Pages. XSL stylesheets are used to transform XML information into various layouts and are a necessary prerequisite for developing Web-driven electronic documentation. The Translation Solution now provides support for Adobe FrameMaker 6.0 and Adobe FrameMaker+ SGML 6.0 documents through the S-Tagger component. Other features include support for QuarkXPress 4.1 in Filter Pack. To provide further enhanced support for Asian languages, IME level 3 has been implemented in TagEditor. This means that users can type Asian characters and words with the same ease of use as in, say, Microsoft Word. New API functions and further enhanced support for Word 2000 offer more seamless integration and flexibility than before. www.trados.com
Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters company unveiled Factiva Publisher. Part of a suite of content integration tools, Factiva Publisher integrates Factiva’s global content into an organization’s intranet. Factiva Publisher offers nearly 5,000 external information sources including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires as well as other content published in 12 different languages and stock quotes from 10 exchanges around the world. Factiva Publisher uses more than 1,300 XML-based Factiva Intelligent Indexing codes to tailor information from hundreds of sources across the globe. With the Editorial Interface, an organization has complete control of what is being posted to the corporate intranet. Articles can be tagged as “hot” and annotated with relevant commentary. The Administration Interface quickly and easily allows a content manager to monitor and measure usage. Factiva Publisher will be rolled out globally this month. Corporate Communication Managers, Information Professionals and CIOs — those responsible for managing and disseminating corporate intelligence throughout an organization — are the primary targets for this service. www.factiva.com
SilverStream Software, Inc. announced the general availability of xCommerce, a family of B2B integration server products that leverages XML, enabling companies to quickly build, integrate and deploy powerful eCommerce applications. xCommerce is a unified, complete product line that allows business analysts and developers to use XML to combine online business applications with legacy systems and data – and extend these applications across organizations and their external trading communities. xCommerce solutions help companies streamline B2B processes by managing enterprise applications and transactions across extended supply chains. xCommerce provides a number of advanced capabilities that make it easier for organizations to develop and rapidly implement e-commerce applications. Its visual integration features allow non-programming users to quickly and effectively manage highly customized trading partner relationships. xCommerce offers application connectivity so organizations can easily integrate e-commerce solutions with any XML-enabled application, as well as proprietary, host-based systems. xCommerce deploys B2B solutions into J2EE application servers, delivering enterprise-level security, scalability and reliability. xCommerce consists of: xCommerce Designer, a highly visual XML development and integration environment; xCommerce Server, a Java framework for XML integration deployment and management; and xCommerce Enterprise Enablers, a suite of adapters that provide XML-based enablement of business systems running on a variety of platforms, including IBM mainframes, AS/400 systems, relational databases, and Java-based business logic. xCommerce Server is can be deployed with J2EE application servers running on Windows NT and Unix. In addition to supporting the SilverStream Application Server, xCommerce will also support IBM’s WebSphere and other commercial application servers. These deployments exploit all native server capabilities, including thread management, connection pooling, transactions, load balancing and failover. Additionally, xCommerce supports all emerging XML vocabulary standards such as RosettaNet, OAG, ebXML and cXML. xCommerce is priced at $35,000 per server CPU. Each server CPU includes a 5-user license of xCommerce Designer, a runtime license to the SilverStream Application Server and the xCommerce Enterprise Enabler for JDBC. xCommerce is available immediately. Other Enterprise Enablers will be released during the remainder of 2000 and will be priced separately. www.silverstream.com

