Interleaf, Inc. announced QuickSilver, a comprehensive XML-based workgroup publishing solution for complex documents. QuickSilver offers customers a bridge to the rapidly emerging XML standard by extending the power of the complete line of Interleaf’s high-end desktop publishing solutions known as Interleaf 5, Interleaf 6 and Interleaf 7. With QuickSilver, customers gain the ability to convert legacy documents to the open XML standard and to publish to multiple formats including Web, CD-ROM or hardcopy distribution. QuickSilver is available immediately and as part of the introduction to QuickSilver, Interleaf will be offering a special migration package to its existing Interleaf 7 customers this September. www.interleaf.com
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IHS Group announced it has formed IHS Enterprise Solutions Group, a division that provides information management solutions to customers worldwide. Companies that need help managing their information will be the target market for this IHS Group division. IHS Enterprise Solutions Group will manage and host product Web sites, conduct custom publishing, provide content integration, perform document management, and provide data conversion services to a wide variety of industries. In forming this division, IHS Group is leveraging the services of seven existing companies within the IHS umbrella. Together, the companies that make up IHS Enterprise Solutions Group employ over 350 people in 10 countries. The companies that make up the new group include: NexData Solutions (www.nexdata.com), IHS Information Integration (www.solutions.ihs.com), IHS Technologies (www.ihs.de), IHS Publishing Solutions (www.ihspsl.com), Technical Indexes Ltd. (www.techindex.co.uk), IHS Enterprise Solutions (www.ihs.com.au), IHS Nordic (www.ihsnordic.com). IHS Enterprise Solutions Group also includes the IHS Web Hosting facility in Englewood, Colo., and the IHS Conversion Centers in Mexico, Malaysia and India, which provide data conversion services and programmer training. www.solutions.ihs.com
eBusiness Technologies also announced version 2.6 of MediaBank, its media asset management system. Shipping in October, the upgrade will feature integration with IBM
Enigma, Inc., announced the INSIGHT 5.0 product suite update. Enigma’s INSIGHT content publishing suite delivers unified and highly functional Web and CD-ROM publications from any combination of PDF, FrameMaker, word processing, SGML/XML, and graphic/image source data. INSIGHT automates the content assembly and e-publishing process, integrating content with a wide set of integrated navigation, view, and search tools. New features within INSIGHT 5.0 include an Enhanced Illustrated Parts Catalog (eIPC), FrameMaker plus PDF support, Web user interface enhancements and Web annotation capabilities. In addition, Enigma’s “Distributed Intranet” capabilities have been further automated for delivering e-publications to customer intranets and corporate portals. Incorporated within the INSIGHT 5.0 suite are packaged add-on modules and developers toolkits for integrating INSIGHT e-publications to ERP and DMS systems. www.enigma.com
Cascade Systems Inc. introduced two new products, Cascade Commerce Server and Cascade Profile Server, at the Seybold San Francisco Conference. The systems are components of Cascade
Cascade Systems Inc.and Zapotec Software announced an agreement to coordinate their marketing, sales and development efforts. Under the alliance, the two companies will combine the functionality of the Cascade Merchant Publishing Solution and Zapotec
POET Software announced that they have become a member of Allaire Corporation’s Allaire Alliance Partner program. POET Software has developed Web Plug-ins that integrate POET’s Content Management Suite (CMS) 2.0 with Allaire’s ColdFusion to provide more flexible and robust solutions for Web-based XML/SGML content management and delivery. The CMS Web Plug-ins for ColdFusion allow dynamic, Web-based XML and SGML management and delivery to any Internet browser. POET’s Content Management Suite version 2.0 is the industry’s only second-generation XML content server. Founded on POET’s object-based XML technology, CMS 2.0 simplifies XML publishing for the technical documentation market. The CMS Web Delivery Plug-in works with ColdFusion to dynamically deliver SGML/XML content to the Web. By converting SGML/XML to HTML, applying presentation and navigation on the fly, the need for HTML page management is eliminated. In addition, the CMS Web Delivery Plug-in leverages SGML/XML’s separation of content from formatting to let publishers create multiple content views for personalized content. www.poet.com.
POET Software and SoftQuad Inc. announced a strategic alliance to integrate SoftQuad’s XMetaL XML authoring environment and POET Content Management Suite (CMS). The integrated products will provide customers with a complete solution for developing, managing and publishing XML content for a wide variety of e-Business applications, including web publishing, knowledge management and web-based product information. www.poet.com, www.softquad.com
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