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Multicosm Ltd., a provider of dynamic hypermedia and enterprise knowledge management solutions, announced the availability of its KnowledgeSuite, a flexible framework for managing information and expertise throughout an organization. KnowledgeSuite dynamically records metadata about documents and individuals. The software applies theme extraction and linking technology to find and organize new and archived information, visualize relationships between documents, and enhance a user’s understanding about the areas of expertise of other knowledge workers across an organization. Applications for the product include “super-charged” information retrieval and management, collaborative computing, and expertise identification. The KnowledgeSuite utilizes autonomous agents to monitor selected documents, Web sites, and new information in specified areas of interest. As new documents are presented, they are automatically populated with links to thematically related information on local drives, corporate intranets, and the Web. This allows workers to see their documents in the most up-to-date context and see relevant relationships to similar projects underway in other parts of the company, as well as discover colleagues with similar interests and expertise. www.multicosm.com

Open Market, Inc. and Deloitte Consulting, announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance to offer Internet commerce solutions. Deloitte Consulting will work with Open Market as an e-commerce technology vendor for the Customer Relationship Management practice. As firms finish implementing ERP systems, they face the challenge of how to integrate and streamline their customer-facing business processes. Deloitte Consulting and Open Market will work together by delivering Internet commerce solutions to the industrial business-to-business marketplace, helping users of major ERP applications deploy Internet commerce catalogs rich in merchandising and customer service features. www.openmarket.com, www.dc.com

Inxight Software, and Hewlett-Packard have concluded a licensing agreement for Inxight’s Summarizer and LinguistX Platform software components for use in HP Simple Trax. HP SimpleTrax enables users to save, manage and find files easily on CDs. The two natural language technologies from Inxight enable customers to search for and view summaries of text files on CDs – without necessarily having to replace the CD in the drive first. LinguistX Platform is component technology that uses a natural language approach for automatic meta content and knowledge extraction. With LinguistX Platform, developers and online publishers can differentiate their applications, services, and content by identifying concepts automatically. Inxight Summarizer is a software component technology that summarizes a typical document by extracting key sentences from the document in real time. It can be used for any collection of documents including digital libraries, file system management, and information retrieval. www.inxight.com

Interleaf, Inc. announced it has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Texcel International AB, provider of XML-enabled content management solutions. Texcel, founded in 1991, provides software and services to corporations and government agencies that depend on information access and efficient reuse for competitive advantage, through its product, Information Manager. The integration of Information Manager

NCompass Labs, a provider of Web publishing and content management solutions, and Information Access, Inc. (IAI), a value-added distributor of document management solutions, today announced that IAI has joined the NCompass Labs Partner Program. This partnership will allow IAI to resell NCompass Resolution, the leading Web content architecture application, as part of its Web document management solution offerings. www.ncompasslabs.com, .

BackWeb Technologies, announced an OEM license agreement with i7 Business Solutions that enables i7 to integrate its component-based Internet application INTELLIinformation with BackWeb’s Internet communications platform. This integration enables the delivery of time-sensitive, business-critical information from internal or external sources to targeted end-users within a single application interface. The INTELLIinformation Solution package, with BackWeb’s Internet communications platform, provides a document management and delivery process for consulting companies and systems integrators. BackWeb’s Flash technology will be used to deliver time-sensitive, project-critical information to the desktop of the user. The Flashes can contain any type of file or media, and are automatically delivered to a consultant or systems integrator’s desktop, regardless of the application in use. The notifications can be set for minimum, medium or maximum priority depending on the urgency of the message. In addition to the INTELLIinformation Solution package, i7 Business Solutions and BackWeb Technologies are currently working with several insurance companies in Europe to create an application designed specifically for the insurance industry. www.i7-business.com, www.backweb.com.

Miva Corporation, a provider of Web commerce software, today introduced Miva Empresa v3.6, an application engine designed for Web hosting companies, ISPs and enterprises to enable users on their servers with Miva Script, the XML-based scripting language used by more than 25,000 developers. Individual users on a Miva-enabled Web server can utilize Miva Script to create and deploy e-commerce and data-driven Web sites. The new Miva Empresa v3.6 edition includes full CyberCash, CyberSource, and PaymentNet support using the MvCOMMERCE tag which can be embedded in a Web page to automate robust payment processing. Miva Script is accessed through an application engine, included with Miva Empresa, which plugs into virtually any Unix or Windows Web server. Once the engine has been plugged into a Web server, files with certain extensions are automatically parsed and deployed by the engine. Web hosting companies and ISPs can use the execution environment to configure their systems on a global, per domain and per user basis for virtual domain setup, multiple user configuration, sandboxed execution and performance tuning. Enterprises can utilize Miva Empresa v3.6 to create and deploy commerce applications, data-driven Web sites and corporate Intranet applications such as a company store for requesting supplies. www.miva.com