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Optika Inc. announced the company has signed Xerox Professional Services (XPS) as a reseller of the company’s products, including Optika eMedia. Optika’s strategic alliance with Xerox provides sales access to the Xerox customer base and broadens the worldwide distribution of Optika eMedia technology. Under the agreement, XPS will market Optika eMedia to customers worldwide. Optika eMedia, Optika’s extranet-based software solution, automates all types of business transactions between companies and their supply chain partners. It is an-integrated software solution that combines imaging and document management, workflow and COLD applications with a Web-based architecture to manage the full range of business documents and transactions — both in paper and electronic formats. www.optika.com, www.xerox.com

IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced that it has expanded its executive marketing team to provide leadership and direction for the company’s global marketing efforts. Dan Ryan, a former marketing vice president at Foglight Software (formerly Resolute Software), an enterprise performance management solution for Web commerce, joins IntraNet Solutions as its new vice president of marketing. Vern Hanzlik, the current vice president of product marketing will be taking on the new role of vice president, strategic business alliances and development. At Resolute Software, Ryan led the marketing launch behind their Real-Time Application Performance System products and championed several strategic relationships with leading organizations such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, Rational Software, Cisco Systems, eBay and Netscape. Ryan is relocating to Minnesota from Silicon Valley where he has spent the last 14 years in marketing and business development roles for several emerging technology companies. www.intranetsol.com

Optika Inc. announced that the company has entered into a strategic partnership with Arthur Andersen. Optika eMedia will be included in the software solutions Arthur Andersen offers its enterprise clients. Optika’s strategic alliance with Arthur Andersen will provide Global 2000 companies with a fully-integrated solution to manage business-to-business transactions and communications over the Web. www.optika.com

Hynet Technologies Inc., developer of a dynamic electronic publishing solution that combines document management technology with unique electronic publishing capabilities, today announced they are now a member of OASIS. OASIS is the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, a nonprofit, international consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of product-independent formats based on public standards. www.hynet.com

Extensibility announced the beta release of XML Authority, a new class of schema development tools designed to allow XML developers to quickly model, create and manage XML schemas from a variety of sources. XML Authority can construct schemas from many sources including existing DTDs, Java classes, ODBC data structures, COM objects and XML documents — enabling users to migrate existing application schema to XML. XML Authority’s ability to output schemas in multiple formats means that developers can support new standards without compromising corporate mandates or emerging standards. Schema output formats include standard DTD syntax, Microsoft’s XML-Data, Data Definition Markup Language (DDML), Document Content Description (DCD), Schema for Object Oriented XML (SOX) and an example XML document. XML Authority fully supports the XML 1.0 schema specification, enhancing it with support for data typing and namespaces. With the introduction of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 5 and its support for XML-Data, users can easily convert existing schema formats for use with IE5.XML-based schemas identify the objects, properties and relationships for XML solutions. XML Authority allows developers to quickly create, modify and manage these elements in a visual environment, streamlining the process and thus improving productivity. XML Authority features a graphical user interface that allows users to import or create schemas, and view document elements, attributes, entities, and other objects in a hierarchical tree. With cut and paste support, modular schema development is easily achieved. Collaborative schema management within and between organizations is enhanced with audience-specific notes and change logging support. www.extensibility.com

Dataware Technologies, Inc. and Net Explorer, Inc. announced a VAR partnership to deliver business critical knowledge management solutions to targeted vertical industries. The Dataware VAR reselling program is intended for solutions integrators that are leaders in geographic or vertical markets. Through the partnership, unique knowledge management solutions will create value for organizations looking to maximize their effectiveness and increase profitability. Net Explorer, Inc. is a provider of on-line knowledge management solutions for information technology, business processes and visual communications. www.dataware.com, www.netexplorer.com

Interleaf, Inc. announced a comprehensive migration solution to upgrade its document management customers (RDM) to its XML-based e-content solution, BladeRunner. Designed to leverage existing customers’ investment in their document management solution, Interleaf’s upgrade solution, RDM-X, enables RDM customers to implement the benefits of content management and of the emerging XML and Extended Style Language (XSL) information standard. RDM-X will be available as a phased approach enabling a seamless upgrade path for RDM customers to move to XML-based content management. RDM customers will initially receive BladeRunner’s authoring and publishing capabilities integrated with the RDM repository, providing the ability to create XML, store the files in the RDM repository, and begin publishing XML to multiple formats using XSL. Ultimately the customers may purchase BladeRunner’s repository to implement complete XML-based content management. www.interleaf.com

Companion BV introduced Companion, a new tool for web development and management. Companion addresses the needs of professional web developers confronted with the ever-increasing challenge of managing web sites. Based on a component-based model, Companion comes with a complete set of features for development and organized maintenance of medium-sized to large-sized web sites. The beta version of Companion 2.0 is available now at http://www.companion.nl. The definitive release of Companion 2.0 is scheduled for June 1999. Contrary to other web management systems, Companion adopts a ‘true’ component model. Components in Companion are not mere boilerplate code fragments to be ‘re-used’ with a copy-and-paste routine. Rather they are ‘programmable bricks’ that interact with and adapt to the context they are used in. A web developer can de-compose the web site into reusable segments of code, to any desired level of granularity. A component could contain a complete page, a page element (e.g. a navigation bar), a query script, a javascript, or whatever segment of code the developer wants to reuse within the web site. The web developer can assign any number of parameters to any component, in order to increase its reusability. Components can contain any combination of HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, VBScript or ASP. They are created and maintained with a script editor supporting features such as Syntax Coloring, Auto Completion, context sensitive Syntax Tips, and Drag and Drop editing. www.companion.nl