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Pivotal Corporation announced Pivotal eRelationship 2, a B2B Web solution for increasing revenue by enhancing relationships with customers and business partners, and conducting personalized online commerce. The Pivotal eRelationship 2 solution fuses an advanced eCommerce server-the Pivotal eRelationship CommerceServer – and an intelligent business portal, the Pivotal eRelationship SmartPortal, with Pivotal’s customer relationship management applications to establish an all-Web platform for eBusiness Relationship Management (eBRM). www.pivotal.com.
Autonomy, Inc. announced that it has shipped its Portal-In-A-Box software, which eliminates the need for costly manual labor in the creation and maintenance of personalized portal sites. Autonomy’s Portal-In-A-Box software automates the tasks of categorizing, tagging, linking and personalizing information for new media and enterprise information portals. Portal-In-A-Box is for anyone who wants to create a portal site, from online publishers creating vertical industry portals to intranet developers or knowledge managers putting together enterprise portals that offer employees the best of the Web and their company’s internal sources of information. Portal-In-A-Box runs on Windows NT and most versions of Unix. Pricing for Portal-In-A-Box is expected to start at $100,000. www.autonomy.com
InfoOffice Inc. announced InfoOffice RedDot View and Edit Technology. Based on the InfoOffice Web Content Management and Publishing System RedDot let’s anybody contribute content to a Website or Intranet. Working with RedDot is so intuitive that no training is required to publish Web pages and update documents. RedDot runs in any Web browser and does not require installation. Organizations using InfoOffice with its RedDot can concentrate all Web-building competence in the webmasters hands while the non-technical authors and editors can participate efficiently and intuitively in the website or Intranet. RedDot will be generally available as part of the InfoOffic Content Management and Publishing System on November 1st, 1999. Pricing for InfoOffic CMS starts at $ 19,900. www.infoofice.com
Infoteria Inc. announced the immediate release of its XML Style Wizard 1.0. This simple and clear XSLT file generator for XML is offered free of charge and is available for download from Infoteria’s web site. Infoteria boasts that by answering only six simple questions, the XML Style Wizard can produce an XSLT file for XML. XML Style Wizard creates the XSLT file by analyzing existing XML data. It allows users to create a table from the XML data, or create a list table from multiple records of XML data. The XSLT file created by XML Style Wizard is used by XML browsers such as Internet Explorer 5.0 from Microsoft and for XSLT processors such as iXSLT from Infoteria. In addition, XML Style Wizard supports both W3Cs latest XSLT specification and the specification implemented in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0. www.infoteria.com
InSystems Technologies, Inc. announced the newest version of FastForms. FastForms V4.1 enables carriers to provide their sales force with customized and personalized access to the latest forms over the Internet. FastForms “VirtualCD” feature allows carriers to send forms over the Internet for agents to view and print from their desktop through a Web-browser, using industry-standard Adobe Acrobat. This functionality has significant cost-savings for carriers by eliminating the need to mail paper
TSI International Software Ltd. announced it will acquire Novera Software, Inc. TSI Software is acquiring all of the capital stock of Novera for approximately 1.8 million shares of TSI Software common stock. In connection with the transaction, TSI Software will assume all outstanding Novera stock options in exchange for a maximum of approximately 350,000 shares of TSI Software common stock. The acquisition will be accounted for as a purchase transaction and is expected to qualify as a tax-free reorganization. The transaction is structured for immediate closing. www.novera.com, www.tsisoft.com
The e-content company and UWI.Com announced a strategic partnership.By integrating BladeRunner and InternetForms, companies will have the ability to cleanly and securely collect important data with XML-based Internet forms and transform it into e-content information. E-content information is key to the success of e-business initiatives because it gives companies the ability to reuse and repurpose vital information to automate digital transactions, such as electronic procurement and purchasing processes with little or no human intervention. The integration of BladeRunner and Internet Forms Commerce System will be available in the upcoming quarter. www.uwi.com www.xmlecontent.com
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