eBusiness Technologies and Visionary Media, Inc. announced a technology relationship. The two companies are working together to integrate Visionary Media’s VIEWS technologies with eBusiness Technologies’ MediaBank digital asset management solution to deliver a complete workflow management system. VIEWManager enhances MediaBank’s workflow management capabilities, streamlining print production time for clients, such as corporate marketing departments and commercial publishers. VIEWPage adds automated page-building tools tailored to developing product advertisements. www.ebt.com, www.visionary-media.com
Category: Content technology news (Page 569 of 637)
Curated information technology news for content technology, computing, and digital experience professionals. News items are edited to remove hype, unhelpful jargon, iffy statements, and quotes, to create a short summary — mostly limited to 200 words — of the important facts with a link back to a useful source for more information. News items are published using the date of the original source here and in our weekly email newsletter.
We focus on product news, but also include selected company news such as mergers and acquisitions and meaningful partnerships. All news items are edited by one of our analysts under the NewsShark byline. See our Editorial Policy.
Note that we also publish news on X/Twitter. Follow us @gilbane
Netfish Technologies, Inc. made its debut with a B2B e-commerce solution that enables companies to streamline and automate their manufacturing, procurement and distribution processes with other organizations. In order to encourage rapid adoption by large value-chains, Netfish is giving away free Netfish XDI client software, allowing a single manufacturer to tie together all their trading partners without forcing additional costs on them.Based on XML and written in Java, the Netfish XDI system integrates with existing ERP systems, making it easy to automate and manage the workflows for complex transactions between trading partners with different applications, formats and systems. The Netfish XDI System requires no programming to integrate with ERP systems from vendors, and provides powerful graphical tools for creating custom workflow processes that reflect an organization
IXOS Software AG showed the major new developments in Release 4.0. The enhanced IXOS-DocuLink component allows holistic views of business processes in offline mode. The offline functionality allows access to business documents anytime, from anyplace. Notes users can now be integrated, allowing them to maintain a comprehensive overview of enterprise-wide business documents within familiar application environments. Version 4.0 also incorporates Java and XML technology. Release 4.0 takes advantage of the enhanced DocuLink 2.0 component that facilitates the end-to-end management of business documents from all kinds of sources within an SAP R/3 infrastructure. 4.0 uses XML to assign attributes to business documents which represent information, including metadata, in a system-independent form. Business documents can now also be accessed via XML-capable Web browsers. The ExchangeLink and NotesLink modules in IXOS-ARCHIVE 4.0 allow interactive and automatic archiving of Exchange and Lotus Notes documents. IXOS-ARCHIVE enables archiving of all documents with digital signatures, supports the current version 2.0 of ODMA, and adds a fax gateway. German and English versions of IXOS-ARCHIVE 4.0 are expected to be ready for shipment by the end of December. The availability of other international language versions is intended for the first quarter of calendar year 2000. www.ixos.com/en/press
Open Text Corporation introduced the next generation of its Web-based records management solution, RIMS product suite, enhanced by Open Text’s recent acquisition of PSSoftware. The Web client, iRIMS, facilitates the filing and retrieval of corporate records at an enterprise level, delivering its records management functionality to users via a Web browser. iRIMS productivity features, including automated email record filing and drag-and-drop capabilities, streamline the workflow lifecycle. Using the Web as the delivery platform helps record managers improve their quality of service and reduce implementation, deployment and maintenance costs. The introduction of iRIMS gives records managers and knowledge users access to all corporate record repositories through the Web client, and provides them with the ability to manage records across multiple repositories from any Web browser. www.opentext.com
iCopyright.com, announced that it has signed two new alliances to simplify the process of obtaining reprints. Rapid Reprint and Reprint Services, sister divisions of Taylor Corporation, will fulfill reprint requests from iCopyright.com
Web2PCS.com announced a strategic alliance with 7am.com to provide Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) news for the Web2PCS wireless portal. This alliance will allow users of the wireless portal to receive both wireless “push” and “pull” based news from multiple geographical locations. Users of the Wireless Portal can now receive headlines specific to 4 different countries including New Zealand, United Kingdom, Australia and the United States with additional country specific information to come in the near future. www.web2pcs.com
Vertex Industries, Inc. announced that they will develop XML and other webcentric interfaces for IBM MQSeries middleware products. The new functionality will be delivered in Vertex’s evolve middleware tools suite. Vertex Industries
QRS Corporation announced it will release QRS XML (qXML), an implementation of XML for the exchange of product information in the retail industry. qXML is an XML-based exchange-format designed specifically to optimize retail supply chains, simplify the integration of EDI-based product information and expand the breadth of product information exchanged between trading partners. QRS is currently working with major industry retailers and vendors to include information that normally can only be obtained outside of current electronic means. Retailers will now be able to collect all product information by a single method while vendors will be able to reuse data for multiple retailers, reducing rekeying of data. More information regarding specific qXML implementation will be available at www.qrs.com/qxml
Subscribe to the Gilbane Advisor
