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
Paladyne Corporation unveiled its Datagration e-Business Suite software. Datagration integrates new techniques for data discovery, data quality and job management into a Web enabled solution. Among the new integrated functions is the Metadata Distributed e-Nterprise Architecture (DNA) Manager. This metadata repository stores both technical (structured) and business (unstructured) data. Users no longer need to write and rewrite code to run replicable jobs. The business logic in Datagration is available to others within the company. Datagration’s extraction, transformation and load functions are integrated through the Metadata Distributed e-Nterprise Architecture Manager, Data Discovery Manager, Data Quality Manager and Process Manager. Data Discovery Manager. www.paladyne.com
Persistence Software announced a partnership and product licensing agreement with webMethods, Inc. to deliver a transaction processing hub for business-to-business e-commerce. Combining the productivity of an EJB application server with the flexibility of an XML-based business-to-business integration server gives customers the ability to integrate business systems across enterprise boundaries. The combination of Persistence PowerTier and webMethods B2B enables developers to create dynamic real-time supply and demand chains that leverage the Internet to integrate the business systems of diverse suppliers, customers and partners worldwide.The integration of the two products enables ubiquitous, real-time e-commerce services. Customers get the high-performance processing power and forward caching of data provided by PowerTier, along with the broad support for emerging XML-based B2B protocols, data mapping and transformation, rich security, and reliability provided by webMethods B2B. PowerTier customers can now leverage interoperability with e-commerce standards including XML, RosettaNet, FpML, cXML, OBI, OAG, ACORD, Microsoft BizTalk and legacy EDI. www.webMethods.com, www.persistence.com
Enigma, Inc. announced the release of INSIGHT for Livelink, an e-publishing suite. This new suite will enable users to automatically assemble and deliver document collections as e-publications directly from Livelink. INSIGHT for Livelink creates unified e-publications from a wide variety of source document formats managed in a Livelink repository, including MS Word/RTF, Adobe FrameMaker, PDF, as well as virtually any graphics file format. Structured documents such as those tagged with XML, HTML or SGML may also be incorporated into an e-publication. The e-publishing process maps document paragraph tags and Livelink Attributes (author, date, and so forth) to search topics that help the e-publication consumers to quickly find the information they need from a simple menu-driven search dialog. The e-publishing process also automatically creates hyperlinks, a dynamic table of contents, and a custom look and feel for the entire collection. Once created, INSIGHT e-publications can be delivered and accessed as a vertical portal within a portal on the Livelink platform. INSIGHT also provides alternative offline distribution methods, such as CD-ROM or extranets. www.enigma.com, www.opentext.com
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