EasyAsk Inc. (formerly Linguistic Technology Corporation) has been formed to provide Internet and Intranet search engine software for relational databases. EasyAsk Inc. will provide a family of natural language question/answer portal solutions specifically designed to address the idiosyncrasies of indexing, searching and generating the SQL required to access databases efficiently. New products, under the brand name EasyAsk, are being rolled out for a number of specific markets including electronic retailing, data warehousing and enterprise information portals that integrate the search process for text and database sources within a corporation, and ultimately the public portal market. www.easyask.com
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IntraNet Solutions, Inc. unveiled Xpedio Content Server, packaged enterprise Web software that enables organizations to easily build and support mission-critical, content-centric applications for the enterprise. IntraNet Solutions is also announcing today two new application modules. Xpedio Content Publisher provides advanced template-based technology to automatically publish standard business documents or content in HTML or XML as well-designed, fully linked Web sites. Xpedio ReportSite provides an enterprise report publishing capability that includes support for streamlining publishing and distributing enterprise reports and building partner extranet applications. Xpedio Content Server’s key functionality includes automatic Web conversion and publishing in both PDF and HTML, heterogeneous content input and management, personalized information delivery, enterprise security and scalability, and adherence to Web standards. The Xpedio Content Server system will be available October 15, 1999. Pricing starts at $125,000 USD and includes one development and production server for Windows NT and UNIX environments. Additional production servers start at $50,000. Xpedio Content Publisher will be available in December 1999 with pricing starting at $50,000 USD. Xpedio ReportSite will be available October 15, 1999. Pricing starts at $50,000 USD and comes with report parsing and publishing of enterprise report data, including programmatic input from business and reporting applications, a staging server, replication and an Extrasite read only server for extranet use. www.intranetsol.com
IntraNet Solutions, Inc announced it has signed an agreement to acquire InfoAccess Inc. The acquisition will allow IntraNet Solutions to provide a content management solution that can be fully integrated with an organization
UWI.Com announced a free addition to its InternetForms Commerce System (ICS) that enables enterprise users to securely sign XML e-commerce documents using smart cards and Netscape digital certificates. InternetForms Commerce System provides options for creating verifiable records through digital signatures, including third-party support for Netscape signatures, and support for Microsoft CryptoAPI, Entrust, and PenOp signatures. Through partnerships with VeriSign, Datakey, Entrust, Netscape, PenOp, GTE CyberTrust, and Digital Signature Trust, UWI.Com offers methods for securely removing paper from business processes. www.uwi.com
MicroScript, the healthcare business unit of New Era of Networks, Inc. announced support for XML as a key component of MicroScript’s @ppian Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) product line. MicroScript’s @ppian technology’s use of XML provides a way to integrate disparate healthcare applications into Internet/Intranet architectures and e-Business frameworks such as Microsoft’s BizTalk initiative. Configuration information, as well as data content and structure information can be transported and shared among various implementations by using XML. MicroScript’s @ppian implements XML as the storage structure for metadata. Messages processed through the @ppian engine can be serialized as XML documents. The @ppian DataMapper translates messages in a single pass to and from XML, in addition to transforming messages in other formats. Additionally, @ppian’s DataMapper uses XSL for data access syntax. www.neonsoft.com
Ardent Software, Inc. announced the general availability of RedBack Release 3, a Web Application Server for creating scalable, transactional applications for the Internet and corporate intranets. Using RedBack Release 3, companies can leverage existing IT assets, such as OLTP systems with proven business rules, to deploy real-time, e-business solutions. RedBack Release 3 is available immediately. Supported platforms include Microsoft Windows NT, Red Hat Linux, and all major UNIX platforms. www.ardentsoftware.com/redback.
Invisible Worlds, a San Francisco-based startup company unveiled the EDGARspace portal, a new Web service that delivers refined searches of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) EDGAR filings. The EDGARspace portal, one of the largest XML-based information systems ever developed, demonstrates the potential of XML by giving investment, financial and research professionals better ways to search for and find information that had been difficult to obtain. A trial version of the EDGARspace service is available free to the public at www.invisible.net/ for the next 90 days. It will then be available by subscription. Some features will remain free.
InfoAccess, Inc. announced the release of version 4.0 of Transit Central EDM for Lotus Domino.Doc. This new release enables Domino.Doc users to publish entire Websites in XML, HTML, or a hybrid — without changing the source material in their Domino.Doc repositories. Transit Central EDM for Lotus Domino.Doc is also offered from IBM as a soft-bundle with Netfinity servers and Domino.Doc. www.infoaccess.com.
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