Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the immediate availability of Adobe GoLive 6.0 software. With the new Adobe Web Workgroup Server, GoLive Dynamic Content authoring, and Web layout tool all in one package. The Workgroup server included in GoLive 6.0 enables teams to collaborate on projects and effectively manage Web and cross-media assets. New Dynamic Content authoring capabilities and native support for ASP, JSP and PHP lets designers easily configure a Web site to support data-driven transactions for e-commerce. GoLive 6.0 offers Web and cross-media professionals integration with Adobe’s professional design products, including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and LiveMotion. XML support enables content to be re-purposed from print to Web, while new wireless authoring capabilities offer developers the ability to design, preview and deploy wireless content directly from GoLive. QuickTime 5.0 editing and SMIL support for RealOne Player are included. GoLive 6.0 is available in the United States and Canada for an estimated street price of US $399. Registered users of GoLive may upgrade for an estimated street price of US $99. GoLive 6.0 also will be available in a bundle with LiveMotion 2.0 at the estimated street price of US $449 in the United States. www.adobe.com/golive
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Interwoven Inc. and Venetica announced that they have signed an agreement allowing Interwoven to sell Venetica’s VeniceBridge product and the new Content Provider for TeamSite. Using Content Provider for TeamSite, users can search from within the TeamSite software environment to discover assets, regardless of how or where the content is stored – such as in repositories from Documentum, FileNET, Lotus, Microsoft, Open Text and others – and leverage the appropriate content to support their ongoing initiatives. For example, a manager preparing for a product launch will now be able to access existing documents such as technical publications and regulatory submissions housed in various repositories. Once available to TeamSite, Interwoven MetaTagger, Interwoven’s enterprise metadata solution, will enable users to enrich and repurpose content across initiatives, including enterprise portals, CRM and eCommerce. www.venetica.com, www.interwoven.com
Mediagrif Interactive Technologies Inc. announced that it has purchased Flow Systems Corporation, a software company specializing in catalogue content management and cross-media publishing, from Nurun Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Flow Systems’ solutions span the product information lifecycle from acquisition of product data through catalogue publishing for industrial manufacturers and distributors with large or complex product lines. Flow Systems solutions allow enterprises to build and maintain a product information database for all its catalogue publishing needs including automatic updating of e-commerce systems, Web, print and CD-ROM catalogues. Mediagrif’s content management technology coupled with Flow Systems’ cross-media and printed catalogue automation expertise, provides customers with an enterprise wide, product content management and publishing solution. www.mediagrif.com
ePlus, Inc. announced the availability of ePlus Content Framework, an extensible schema for the creation and management of eCommerce-enabled product catalogs. The ePlus Content Framework contains pre-defined product classifications, and enables users to match their business requirements by adding to or modifying the existing structure. The ePlus Content Framework provides a schema consisting of over 44,000 structured product classifications that facilitate the creation of user-friendly, intuitive, easy-to-navigate catalogs. ePlus Content classifications cover a wide range of commodities, attributes and coding to pinpoint and narrow the search for goods in a wide range of categories – from electrical and automotive equipment, to medical and hazardous material supplies, consumer goods, and more. The schema simplifies complex product information to enable easy creation of digital catalogs. Organizations can cross-reference product data with common terminology and standards such as the UN/SPSC or other pre-developed categorization scheme, ensuring standardized, reusable data. www.eplus.com
SAQQARA Systems Inc. announced availability of SAQQARA Cornerstone for the Microsoft Solution for Supplier Enablement allowing manufacturers, distributors and industry exchanges to leverage product content as a strategic and global eCommerce asset. Microsoft Solution for Supplier Enablement (MSSE) is part of the .NET Enterprise initiative. MSSE offers a fully integrated, tested, documented and supported solution that addresses the complexities of sell-side, multi-channel eCommerce. SAQQARA Cornerstone is an integral component that complements the Microsoft Solution. SAQQARA Cornerstone provides B2B suppliers and exchanges with SAQQARA ContentWorks. ContentWorks, when combined with the Microsoft Solution, enables suppliers and exchanges to build an Internet-ready product information asset by combining existing product information with internal product expertise to create cleansed, classified and attributed product information that can be published in an on-line catalog or exchanged with customers and business partners. www.saqqara.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated introduced Adobe AlterCast, a new dynamic imaging server software. AlterCast allows Web publishers to automatically generate and repurpose images and graphics within existing content management and e-commerce solutions, enabling the efficient creation of visually rich Web sites. AlterCast is built on Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator technology, while also supporting industry-standard image file formats. AlterCast automates the process of managing large image libraries. With AlterCast, graphics professionals will be able to replace text within graphics on the fly while still maintaining support for transparency, animation and layer effects.
AlterCast automatically optimizes files for delivery on any Web-enabled device, including PDAs and cell phones. By using a single image source file to generate multiple iterations, AlterCast helps reduce data storage requirements. Adobe also announced agreements with Documentum and Interwoven to integrate AlterCast with their content management systems. Adobe AlterCast is expected to ship at the beginning of 2002 in North America only. AlterCast will be priced on a per-CPU basis, with processor packs ranging from an estimated street price of US$7,500 for a one-CPU system to an estimated street price of US$60,000 for high-performance enterprise applications. www.adobe.com/altercast
Software AG, Inc. and PureEdge Solutions, Inc. announced a joint marketing and sales campaign of their complementary XML products. Together the company’s products enable commercial and government organizations to more quickly and easily move important documents and transactions online. PureEdge Internet Commerce System allows users to design, deploy, complete, and digitally sign intelligent and enforceable XML documents. In an enforceable transaction, all components of an e-document are saved as a complete object – complete with layout, logic, content – using XFDL technology to ensure no component of the final document can be modified. Because both products are native XML, complete solutions for creating, processing, and archiving enforceable documents are easy to build, maintain, and integrate with other XML applications. www.pureedge.com/products/ics/index.htm, www.softwareagusa.com
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and Requisite Technology, Inc., announced a strategic business alliance that allows Mitsui to resell Requisite’s catalog content management solutions to help drive the adoption of e-commerce and e-procurement in Japan. As a master reseller, Mitsui will market and sell Requisite’s eMerge content management system, eMerge Contract Manager, and its BugsEye catalog finding engine. Also available through the alliance will be the newly launched Requisite Supplier Hub, an interactive, collaborative environment for suppliers to create and maintain their product information and content, making that content available to buying organizations and e-marketplaces. www.requisite.xm.mitsui.co.jp
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