The e-content company, a division of Interleaf, Inc. announced a new addition to their roster of international e-Partners. Salience Netherlands, a consultancy that specializes in XML-based technology will collaborate with the e-content company to deliver e-business solutions with BladeRunner. Salience will work closely with the e-content company in the Netherlands to help companies realize the value of their content to drive e-business initiatives. www.xmlecontent.com
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Macromedia, Inc. shipped Macromedia Dreamweaver 3, its professional Web authoring environment. Dreamweaver, which can be easily extended and customized using HTML, JavaScript, XML, Java and C, enables third-party developers to easily modify Dreamweaver to create applications tailored for their needs. Dreamweaver extensions deliver interoperability with application servers, media extensions, databases and software solutions providers. www.macromedia.com
Pixo, Inc. announced it has joined the WAP Forum as part of its drive to offer the broadest support for Internet standards in the wireless industry. Through its support of WAP, Pixo gives high-volume mobile phone manufacturers increased flexibility and a means to ensure easy integration of third-party WAP applications. Pixo’s software platform can accommodate both a WAP browser for use in accessing specialized WAP-based content and services as well as Pixo’s own HTML browser. While WAP networks are expected to proliferate in the near future, many wireless networks are expected to be upgraded in the next year to packet data standards compatible with an HTML approach, such as GPRS and CDMA-2000. As a result, Pixo is well positioned to provide wireless Internet support, regardless of the technologies involved. www.pixo.com
Informative Graphics Corp. introduced Brava! 2.1 – a 100 percent Java-based drawing and document collaboration application designed for business-to-business commerce. This product optimizes Java for viewing performance with CAD and image file formats, and it now offers a Java Bean interface to enable embedding into an array of web-based collaboration solutions and Project Web Sites. Brava! allows users, collaborators and contractors to share information and exchange ideas without requiring the same hardware platform, native software application or browser. With Brava! users can now view and share ideas using drawings and image documents over intranets and the Internet. Brava! is the second generation of jMYRIAD technology. It includes significant new functionality directed at web-based collaboration, including: Enhancements for viewing and printing of native CAD and image formats; Performance improvements (data compression) for lower bandwidth connections; High resolution printing to A and B size devices; Metadata-based print and watermark banners; Ability to interactively browse and load drawings & document files from the shared server; Bean interface to build integrations to E/PDM or embed into other Java/web-based collaboration solutions; and support for an optional print/plot server for native Windows driver printing/plotting at scale or a percentage of scale www.infograph.com.
Communication Intelligence Corporation (“CIC”) announced that it released a new version of its e-signature solution with support for Palm handheld devices. Sign-it 2.0 provides enterprise customers with a solution for secure electronic document approval and on-line transactions within Adobe Acrobat 4.0 for applications such as document workflow, contract execution, and e-commerce. CIC has seen a trend toward electronic service providers subsidizing the device costs to purchasers of their services, similar to the current cellular phone industry. Some financial institutions and on-line providers may soon be providing handheld devices with Internet access, such as the Palm VII wireless organizer, to their customers to encourage an increase in transactions while offering them the convenience of mobile access. Sign-it 2.0 will offer a cost effective and reliable means to both secure and authorize transactions and documents electronically whether in the enterprise or a mobile environment. www.cic.com
Intuit Inc. and Microsoft Corporation announced proposed additions to the next version of the Open Financial Exchange (OFX) specification. The new features would include 401(k) extensions, 1099 capability and transfers between brokerage accounts. In addition, the companies are proposing XML compliance in version 2.0 and intend to make the new version backward compatible with OFX 1.0.2, OFX 1.5.1 and OFX 1.6, the versions widely used by financial services companies today. Finally, Intuit and Microsoft have indicated that they will propose adding insurance data and transactions in subsequent versions of OFX. Intuit and Microsoft are actively engaged with the Interactive Financial Exchange (IFX) Working Group to support the creation and rollout of the IFX standard. At whatever point IFX becomes established and a certification process exists for high-quality implementations, Intuit and Microsoft plan to work closely with the IFX Working Group to create a migration path for existing OFX Solution Providers and to preserve the existing investment in OFX by these companies. This will be important as the number of financial institutions and technology providers that use OFX continues to grow, because OFX is here now, it works, and these companies have relied on OFX to bring their online financial services offerings to market quickly. Intuit is drafting the proposed 2.0 specification and will submit it to Microsoft and CheckFree for their review and input. Together, the three companies develop and maintain the OFX specification. Intuit is targeting release of the specification in Q1 2000. www.intuit.com, www.microsoft.com
webMethods, Inc. and KPMG LLP announced a joint software and services solution for implementing B2B e-commerce initiatives based on the RosettaNet standards. RosettaNet’s primary goal is to streamline the information technology supply chain and to improve the flow of critical information allowing information technology supply chain partners to fully leverage e-commerce applications and the Internet as a B2B e-commerce tool. This joint offering is specifically designed to address the needs of RosettaNet’s key constituents
Versant Corporation announced enhancements to its suite of software products for Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) compliant development environments, plus an early developer release of the Versant XML (VXML) Toolkit. VEC 2.1 now supports IBM’s WebSphere 3.0, IBM’s most current family of application servers. Versant’s early developer release of the VXML toolkit allows Versant’s ODBMS product to be used in applications based on emerging Internet corporate data interchange standard, XML. The VXML toolkit allows XML content to be cached in the middle-tier as objects, thereby leveraging Versant’s ODBMS product as a platform for transactional, fault-tolerant eBusiness applications. WebSphere 3.0 Advanced Edition brings improved deployment of EJB technology, application-level security for EJBs, and the IBM SecureWay Directory, which provides LDAP availability to other LDAP-enabled directories. WebSphere 3.0 also includes advanced XML support, to enable easier, standardized exchange of data between multiple web sites. VXML toolkit includes the XML parser, XSLT for content translation, XML/object mapping tools and APIs. VXML is available from the Versant web site as an early developer release. Commercial availability is scheduled for Q1 2000. www.versant.com
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