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
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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
Nimble.com, announced that it has received a first round of equity financing from Madrona Investment Group and ARCH Venture Partners. The company will use the funding to ramp operations and plans to release its first product early next year for advanced XML database technology for enterprise and e-commerce products. In addition to VC funding, the company has received financial backing from David Pool, CEO of DataChannel. headquartered in Bellevue, Wash. Nimble.com was founded in June, 1999. www.nimble.com
Manage.Com and DataChannel, Inc., announced an alliance aimed at helping the emerging generation of on-line businesses make effective use of XML in managing the disparate systems and applications on their networks. The alliance calls for DataChannel to develop XML-based product extensions that will assist Manage.Com’s partners and customers in adapting its FrontLine e.M management software product, which is used to discover, monitor, analyze and diagnose problems across the extended electronic community, or extranet. The development effort will result in an XML “wizard” that gives users an automated way to create documents in manageXML, Manage.Com’s extension of XML specifically for e-management; the documents will specify XML data access, content and display rules for specific, commonly-used network devices, NT systems, web servers and applications. The wizard will be available by the end of 1999 from Manage.Com. www.datachannel.com, www.manage.com.
Bowstreet Software Inc. has appointed Robert D. Crowley to the post of president and chief executive officer. Crowley comes to Bowstreet from Arbortext where he was president and CEO. Bowstreet’s current CEO and co-founder, Jack Serfass, will assume the role of co-chairman of Bowstreet, along with co-founder Frank Moss. Bowstreet, was founded in January 1998 and last week announced a $20M second round financing. The company’s Web Services Architecture, which combines XML and directory services technology, is technology for dynamic, frictionless B2B e-commerce. While President and CEO at Arbortext, Crowley positioned the company as a leader in Web-based e-content for e-business, tripling the company value in twelve months. Prior to Arbortext, Crowley was vice president of business development at Kenan Systems Corporation, an enterprise customer care, billing and analysis products firm. Prior to Kenan, Crowley was a senior vice president at USCS International. During his 11 years with California-based USCS. He earned his BS in finance from Villanova University. www.bowstreet.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
LivePage Corporation today introduced Version 3.0 of LivePage Enterprise, designed to enable the delivery of Enterprise Information Portals which improve customer service and increase productivity by providing effective access to corporate information.New Features and Benefits of LivePage Enterprise 3.0 include: Enhanced XML Support – LivePage Enterprise 3.0 advances support for XML with a new implementation of XSL and improved integration with leading XML editors including ArborText Adept*Editor, Adobe FrameMaker+SGML, Microsoft Office 2000 and Corel WordPerfect Office 2000: Simplified Deployment of Personalized e-Business Solutions With new LDAP support and the LivePage Extensibility SDK, LivePage Enterprise 3.0 can leverage user profile information enabling dynamic content and site personalization based on the end-user; Text Searching in Word and PDF Documents – In addition to advanced XML, SGML and HTML content searching, LivePage Enterprise will allow for the indexing and searching of content stored in native Word and PDF documents. Matching search results are highlighted in the body of the document for enhanced end-user productivity. The beta version of LivePage Enterprise 3.0 is expected to be available within four weeks. General Availability of LivePage Enterprise 3.0 is expected in the fourth quarter of 1999. Pricing and packaging will be announced at that time. www.livepage.com
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