Category: Content technology news (Page 594 of 645)

Verity, Inc. announced that the new version of its Verity K2 Toolkit (v2.1) is shipping and provides enhanced performance and application development options for online stores and online publishers. The product is designed to turn online browsers into buyers by arming Web-based businesses with more advanced text retrieval precision, scalability and application integration features needed to customize product catalog navigation and search on extremely large volumes of content. Newly added support for Active Server Pages and Java technology is included.The Verity K2 Toolkit is available for the Microsoft NT, IBM AIX, HP/UX, Digital Unix, and Sun Solaris operating systems and uses hardware vendors’ latest SMP architectures. Customers can run the Verity K2 applications using any combination of servers running one or more of these operating systems. Verity also offers a full range of consulting services for Verity K2 projects. Pricing is based on specific application requirements. www.verity.com

Information Mapping, Inc. announced the launch of three seminars aimed at helping organizations optimize information delivery over intranet, extranet, and Internet Web sites. The three seminars, “Designing Information for the Web”, “Writing for the Web”, and “Making Web Content Work”, teach participants to maximize the utility of Web documents by applying techniques for organizing and presenting information. The seminars provide training for organizations that use Web technology to publish large amounts of complex information. Rather than instructing participants in Web programming languages or software, the seminars focus on how to develop and structure compelling site content that takes full advantage of the Web’s capabilities. www.infomap.com.

NCompass Labs Inc. announced the opening of its U.S. center of operations in Silicon Valley. The company’s newly appointed vice president of sales, Chris Sterbenc, will be responsible for all operations at NCompass Labs USA, which is headquartered at 2155 South Bascom Avenue, Suite 210, Campbell, Calif. Also new to NCompass Labs USA is Stan Shull, the company’s vice president of business development. Previously, Sterbenc was the vice president of sales for Rainmaker Systems, a business process outsource company for large software publishers. Prior to Rainmaker Systems, Sterbenc managed the reseller channel at Edify Corporation, a provider of intelligent software agents for the Web. Prior to joining NCompass Labs, Shull was the director of business development at Boeing Enterprises, the investment arm of The Boeing Company. www.ncompasslabs.com

Microsoft Corp. announced the immediate worldwide availability of Microsoft Vizact 2000, which allows users to add the dynamic and engaging features of the Web to their HTML documents. The Vizact 2000 technology allows users to add multimedia functionality such as timing, animation and interactivity to their Web documents, turning them into “active documents.” With Vizact 2000, document authors can control multimedia functionality (e.g., text, images and sound) in their documents to increase attention to key messages, enhancing readers’ understanding and retention of ideas. Via the Vizact Timeline, users can control when elements appear and disappear, the movement of elements, and the reaction of the elements to a user’s mouse. Since Vizact looks and works like the Office family of applications, new users can get up and running quickly and easily. Vizact includes professionally designed wizards and templates, giving users impressive, professional results without requiring them to master new technology. Part of Microsoft’s overall knowledge management strategy, Vizact is an example of providing knowledge workers with the right information at the right time. Vizact 2000 is available now in stores for the suggested retail price of $149. www.microsoft.com

Sequoia Software Corporation announced a reseller agreement with The Windward Group. The Sequoia XML Portal is a platform upon which Windward’s technical staff will deliver customized enterprise information portals.This agreement will extend Sequoia Software’s presence throughout the western United States via Windward’s headquarters near San Jose and its affiliate offices near Seattle, San Diego and Salt Lake City. Sequoia’s XML Portal delivers personalized information snapshots assembled from any of the XML data elements managed by the portal’s patent-pending XML index. www.sequoiasoftware.com, www.wwg.com

Interleaf, Inc. announced the appointment of Jaime Ellertson as Chairman of the Board for the Company. In addition to his current responsibilities as President and CEO, Jaime moves into this position to lead Interleaf to its next phase of aggressive growth as the Company continues to strengthen its position as a provider of XML-based content management solutions. www.interleaf.com

Xerox Corp. and INSCI Corp. announced that the two companies have signed a strategic agreement whereby Xerox will incorporate and resell the INSCI suite of COINSERV enterprise digital transaction document archive and Web delivery products. Under terms of the agreement, Xerox will resell INSCI’s products initially within North America, with planned future expansion to other geographies. Xerox has been reselling INSCI products in areas such as Latin America and Asia since 1996. www.xerox.com, www.insci.com