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Xerox Corporation provided the first public look at a new release of its DocuShare software. DocuShare is a secure, web-based software product for managing and sharing knowledge throughout any organization. DocuShare 2.1 is easy to install, use, and maintain, and provides a secure, convenient environment to manage documents and information. Users can access DocuShare through any current web browser on any platform to share, search for and manage information. New features include: Saved Queries – “Query Collections” can be created and saved so frequently used queries are always available and up to date. Notification – email is sent to users notifying them of defined collection changes via DocuShare 2.1

Xerox Corporation provided the first public look at askOnce, information agent software that helps organizations leverage the information in documents and take action on it. askOnce is meta-search software that provides secure access to multiple internal and external knowledge sources (e.g., DocuShare or other corporate repositories, databases, web sites) to simplify and improve search, retrieval and manipulation of information. askOnce passes queries to many search engines, directories, or databases and then summarizes all the results. askOnce can even search “metadata” from each information source that is not normally visible (this might include information about the data

Sequoia Software Corporation announced a partnership with Architag University to offer the public training courses in XML at Sequoia’s Columbia, Maryland corporate offices. The joint training program addresses the exploding demand for programmers with experience at developing XML-based information systems and reflects Sequoia’s long-standing commitment to accelerating the adoption of XML. Schedules and registration information for January, February and March 2000 sessions are posted on both the Sequoia Software and Architag University Web sites. Among the classes scheduled, Architag University will present XML 101, a five-day session covering a wide range of content from XML basics to using XML for developing data-driven Web architectures, from January 10 to 14. For the latest class information visit www.architag.com/university or www.sequoiasoftware.com

At their recent meeting in Amsterdam, members of the IPTC agreed to revamp their operating structure and establish a new work program, IPTC2000, which will deliver an XML-based standard to represent and manage news through its life-cycle, including production, interchange and consumer use. Entitled NewsML, it is intended that the new framework standard will build on the intellectual property invested in existing IPTC standards such as the Information Interchange Model (IIM), News Industry Text Format (NITF) and the IPTC’s widely used Subject Classification Standard. Using XML, it is intended that NewsML will draw appropriately on existing and emerging W3C recommendations. Three working groups have been established to develop the key components of the programme. These are News Structure and Management, News Text and News Metadata. Earlier this year, the IPTC announced the publication of its first XML based standard, News Industry Text Format (NITF). This work, together with the Information Interchange Model (IIM), will form the basis of NewsML. All existing IPTC standards are copyright IPTC and are administered by the International Press Telecommunications Council, based in England. Information on NITF, IIM and Subject Matter Coding is available at www.iptc.org

Interwoven, Inc announced an alliance with Cisco Systems, Inc. Under the agreement, Interwoven will team with Cisco to co-develop Web content management best practices, align market strategies and jointly market solutions to customers. The combination of Interwoven’s TeamSite Web content management system and Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions provides an infrastructure for customers to optimize and accelerate their transformation to eBusiness. The synergy between Cisco and Interwoven creates a combined domain expertise in helping customers build and maintain Web sites. Interwoven will benefit from Cisco’s Internet business technology experience as well as its market share in networking products and services. Both companies will benefit through joint technical development and integration. www.interwoven.com

Andromedia, Inc. announced ARIA for Vignette and LikeMinds for Vignette – Andromedia’s Web site analysis and personalization solutions optimized for customers using Vignette’s StoryServer. ARIA for Vignette is a Web site analysis solution that tracks StoryServer page titles and Profile Marks out-of-the-box. ARIA for Vignette enables e-marketers to know their customers better, analyze dynamic content, and gauge campaign and site effectiveness in realtime. It tracks dynamic content on sites built with Vignette’s StoryServer and delivers the power and intelligence to analyze visitor behavior across geographically dispersed, multi-server StoryServer sites. Vignette Lifecycle Personalization approach enables a Web site to provide a dynamic, personalized experience based on demographics and viewing behaviors. Andromedia’s LikeMinds collaborative filtering technology complements and extends these capabilities by making use of every interaction with Web visitors-individual clickstream data, purchase history, explicit preferences and product similarities-to engage Web visitors with highly accurate product recommendations. Optimized for StoryServer sites, LikeMinds for Vignette enables the two technologies to work together to deliver accurate realtime personalization capabilities. ARIA for Vignette and LikeMinds for Vignette will be commercially available in Q1 2000. The Andromedia Worldwide Services Group will provide implementation support for the deployment of ARIA for Vignette and LikeMinds for Vignette as part of the product offerings. Different levels of consulting are available to meet unique customer requirements. www.vignette.com

net.Genesis Corp. unveiled net.Activator, an integration of event-driven technology into an analytical platform. net.Activator is a patent-pending, XML-based extension of the net.Analysis platform that enables e-businesses to leverage e-customer intelligence into marketing action in an automated environment. net.Activator utilizes the e-customer data that has been collected, stored and analyzed by net.Analysis to trigger events–ads, content, mail and e-mail–that enrich one-to-one marketing. net.Activator leverages XML capabilities, building them onto its event-driven engine, triggering events based on the information that net.Analysis has filtered, cleansed and correlated into actionable business views. net.Analysis then tracks the effectiveness of the triggered ad, content or mail, closing the loop in the customer intelligence value cycle. net.Activator extends the existing net.Analysis Scheduling and Publishing system to encompass subscription requests from other applications. net.Activator generates and distributes reports automatically to interested applications. It is implemented with a programmatic, event-driven, publish-and-subscribe mechanism. www.netgen.com

Lernout & Hauspie announced that it has licensed its language technologies to Symbian. Symbian has integrated L&H’s linguistic technologies into its platform, whose licensees include Ericsson, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia, Philips and Psion. This agreement helps to expand L&H’s technologies to the fast growing worldwide market for Smartphones and other Internet-enabled consumer devices. Symbian licensed both L&H’s International CorrectSpell and the Intellifinder Reference Engine technologies. International CorrectSpell uses language-specific text analysis to spell check and correct documents; IntelliFinder uses advanced indexing and retrieval methods coupled with linguistically motivated algorithms to find information in structured reference works. Both technologies are available in a variety of languages. The L&H technologies licensed to Symbian are included in the current generation of the Symbian platform. Providing key commercial and technological advantages for manufacturers of Wireless Information Devices, the Symbian platform provides an operating system, customizable user interfaces, color support, fit-for-purpose application suites, advanced Internet connectivity, and PC connectivity software. www.symbian.com, www.lhs.com