POET Software announced the integration of Staffware 2000 workflow with POET Content Management Suite (CMS). The integration of the two products will provide corporate and commercial publishers with higher quality content and significant cost savings through workflow-enabled XML/SGML content management solutions. POET CMS and Staffware 2000 workflow can be quickly deployed throughout the organization. The combination of POET CMS and Staffware 2000 workflow streamlines the processes that are crucial to team-based XML content publishing. While POET CMS provides large teams with concurrent management of XML content, Staffware 2000 workflow automates the tasks that connect the creation, review, translation, and production of XML content. As a result, the content publishing process is faster and more efficient, producing higher-quality content. www.staffware.com, www.poet.com
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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
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
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
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
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