ESPS, Inc. announced a new addition to its technology line-up, code-named “Spyglass.” Spyglass is the Company’s next generation of content assembly and publishing technology. It allows users to quickly and easily assemble, publish and disseminate documents up to thousands of pages from any input (over 130 file formats supported) to paper, portals, the Web and e-mail. ESPS’ Spyglass technology is fully scalable, enabling its use in a workgroup environment, departmentally or at an enterprise level. CoreDossier will fully support published data from Spyglass – allowing organizations to design their own unique publishing architecture. In addition, Spyglass publications can be posted to CorePortal – ESPS’ publication portal. Spyglass and CorePortal automate the maintenance and availability of information to the Web, empowering individual productivity throughout the enterprise. Spyglass supports all major document management systems, including DOCUMENTUM, FileNET, PC Docs, Lotus Notes/Domino and Open Text. In addition, other document management systems can be easily integrated through the Spyglass API. www.esps.com
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UK-based Jingo has just launched an independent European dial-up WAP gateway. The WapWorld.Net gateway puts information at your fingertips and already has thousands of users dialing in daily for news and information. The initial content consists of news, weather and features such as horoscopes and jokes. The content is being developed in-house at Jingo by an experienced editorial team and is set to expand massively over the coming months. Jingo has developed independent software solutions to drive WapWorld and to deliver Internet services to users. The WAP gateway has been pre-installed on all Nokia 7110 WAP phones sold through The Carphone Warehouse.
Bristol Technology Inc. announced eXactML, a new software product that allows software developers to accelerate the implementation of XML in eBusiness applications. eXactML, Bristol’s first entry into the eBusiness market space, enables C++ applications to speak XML in minutes rather than days. eXactML simplifies the task of adding XML to applications by generating object-oriented interfaces for reading and writing valid XML content based on any DTD or schema. eXactML drastically reduces the time and expertise needed to support XML, while improving application quality. eXactML Version 1.0 is currently available for C++ code generation. The eXactML executable runs on Windows platforms; the resulting source code can be compiled on Windows, Sun Microsystems Solaris, and Red Hat Linux. Introductory pricing is $495 per developer. www.bristol.com
infoShark, inc. announced that its Commerce Accelerated Relational Data (CARD) Schema has been accepted by Microsoft’s BizTalk Framework. infoShark’s CARD schema is unique in that it enables the bi-directional exchange of relational data over the Internet. The schema provides all the necessary information to recreate relational databases and populate them with their data via the Internet. Terabytes of health and financial records, pricing information, sports scores and personnel records are stored in databases around the world. CARD schema provides a simple mechanism for specifying the price of individual data points (the data found within a given row and column). It is infoShark’s vision that this schema would further facilitate the extraction, transformation, and loading of data across various web-enabled products. CARD schema is currently available for use by developers of e-commerce software at www.biztalk.org. Today 17 different companies have referenced the schema for their own use. www.infoshark.com
SoftQuad Software Inc. and Software AG have announced a joint initiative to integrate SoftQuad’s XMetaL XML authoring environment and Software AG’s Tamino XML Information Server. The integrated products provide customers with a complete solution for developing, managing and publishing XML content for a wide variety of electronic business applications. In the first stage in the partnership, Software AG will deliver a Tamino partner solutions CD containing Tamino and XML tools useful for creating XML applications, including SoftQuad’s XMetaL. www.softquad.com
IT FACTORY announced the acquisition of Corporate Image Software (CIS) and plans to integrate CIS’s advanced e-business functionality for Notes/Domino into the IT FACTORY Notes development environment. Key strategic technologies include XML, CyberCash and SET components for Notes/Domino. This is the first in a series of planned acquisitions for IT FACTORY which are intended to consolidate complementary e-business technologies and services around IT FACTORY’s collaborative e-business solution offering. As part of this acquisition strategy, the Company is actively seeking systems integrator candidates and ISVs in the collaborative business-to-business solutions market. www.itfactory.com
Vignette Corporation announced a partnership that will result in a third party solution built specifically for Vignette’s e-business platform. Vignette will resell WorldServer for Vignette, a customized version of Idiom’s WorldServer Web globalization product for building and maintaining a multilingual and multicultural e-business. The WorldServer for Vignette product will allow Vignette customers to increase the value of their e-business applications by expanding their Web presence to global markets. The partnership also immediately extends Idiom’s distribution channel, furthering the company’s position as the leading vendor for Web globalization solutions. Idiom’s globalization approach will help Vignette customers leverage their current StoryServer applications seamlessly across their global locations and global Web teams. WorldServer for Vignette will be available in March 2000 directly from Vignette Corp. with prices starting at $35,000. www.vignette.com
Verity, Inc. announced an integrated package of software and services to enable customers to easily integrate the Verity K2 Toolkit with Vignette StoryServer. The QuickStart program provides customers with a straightforward integration of Verity’s scalable K2 toolkit and StoryServer. The program, priced at $30,000, includes two weeks of Verity consulting services. The integration is StoryServer version-number-independent and is transparent to any pre-existing search software. Use of the familiar Vignette user interface reduces the need for retraining of administrative staff. The QuickStart program is available now from Verity. www.verity.com
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