OnDisplay, Inc. announced CenterStage 4, a business-to-business integration software solution to address the full range of online marketplace interactions. CenterStage 4 addresses the needs of multiple trading partners that must exchange dynamic content and transactions in multiple formats simultaneously. Designed specifically to power secure transactions among thousands of trading partners, CenterStage 4 delivers complete back-office to back-office exchange capabilities through any XML standard or other business document format. Priced beginning at $75,000 per application, the CenterStage 4 application suite will be available in Q4 1999. The product will be sold directly and through OnDisplay resellers worldwide. www.ondisplay.com
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Extricity Software, Inc., announced the availability of a new e-business software solution based on the electronic business standards developed by RosettaNet. Extricity AllianceInteract for RosettaNet provides support for the RosettaNet Implementation Framework, as well as pre-configured, graphical models of RosettaNet Partner Interface Processes (PIPs). It also provides end-to-end process visibility, full PIP auditing and analysis capabilities, support for a wide variety of firewall configurations and security policies, and the ability to integrate with enterprise applications and middleware systems. Extricity AllianceInteract for RosettaNet is available immediately. www.extricity.com
Mediasurface Inc. announced an alliance with SDL International. The partnership will enable localization of Web content to the desktops of corporate users throughout the world. Based on the content management application offering from Mediasurface Inc., business users will be able to submit content for localization into the languages of their choice through a Web browser-based interface to the skilled resources, version control and translation memory technologies of SDL International. Mediasurface 2.0 will be used as the application through which users will submit content for translation, which is then returned through email or via web browsers. www.mediasurface.com, www.webflow.sdlintl.com
Hummingbird Communications Ltd. launched the newest version of its information retrieval software. Hummingbird’s SearchServer 4.0 supports Linux, in addition to Windows and UNIX environments, providing users with text indexing and search capabilities on the platform of their choice. Key features of SearchServer 4.0 include: Browser-based administration, Enhanced Proximity Searching, Extended search term highlighting, Linguistic feedback, and URL text reader www.hummingbird.com
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
Formark Ltd. and UWI.Com, announced a strategic partnership. Formark has integrated UWI.Com’s InternetForms Commerce System with Open Text’s Livelink Intranet to create LiveForms, an XML application that enables Livelink users to automate business processes and undertake e-commerce on Livelink supported intranets and extranets. Formark’s LiveForms brings secure, legally-binding InternetForms to Livelink users, and provides a range of features. Formark LiveForms support: role-based workflow distribution; multiple electronic signatures; easy to use designer and database connectivity; ability to work offline; and legally-binding records. UWI.Com’s InternetForms Commerce System is a suite of products based on XFDL (Extensible Forms Description Language), an XML protocol for legally-binding transactions on the Internet. Formark LiveForms targets business process automation where sophisticated XML e-commerce forms with built-in calculations, data validation, and user confirmation and external database connections are required. www.formark.com, www.uwi.com
Running Start Inc. announced the release of ArticleBASE, an integrated content management, workflow, and dynamic publishing system designed for medium-sized to enterprise-class companies to centrally manage distributed digital content such as text, graphics, video, and audio files and publish it to the Web. Developed under the Apple WebObjects 4 platform for optimum scalability and platform independence, ArticleBASE can run on Windows NT, Sun Solaris, and Mac OS X Server operating systems and supports industry-standard databases including Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL, and Informix. Running Start’s technologies include ArticleBASE, a digital content management, workflow processing, and dynamic publishing system; and RSCommerce, an e-commerce solution. www.running-start.com
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