INSCI Corp. announced the acquisition of WebWare. The acquisition was made for cash and stock. Further terms of the transaction will be disclosed on Form 8K to be filed with the SEC by the end of the month. This transaction is anticipated to accelerate the development of the next generation of ActiveMedia SOAP/J2EE platform. WebWare ActiveMedia software brings INSCI a digital asset management platform for integrating rich media contentsuch as images, illustrations, layouts, slide presentations, video and animationinto content management systems, web publishing systems, and e-commerce portals. This complementary technology is expected to broaden INSCI’s product suite, which is designed for the capture, long-term preservation and web presentment of such content as banking and financial statements, explanations of benefits (EOBs), claim images, and e-mail. The resulting expanded enterprise solution manages wide-ranging business contentfrom documents to e-mail, graphic images to video. www.webwarecorp.com, www.insci.com
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Alfa-XP Web Software Company announced Microportals.NET, a “portal-on-demand” Web application hosting service that offers everything needed to design and operate microportal solutions in real-time, in a reliable secure environment totally controlled by the user. It is built on the latest Microsoft .NET technologies and on XML. This service is intended for users whose needs have out grown basic, simplistic Web hosting but who cannot afford high-priced content management or collaboration suites. Users can open an account and create their own microportal in a matter of minutes. Templates and wizards are provided to guide users in customization. Administration tools are made for business users, and allow for intranet or extranet setup and user management, including defining access rights for various user groups (roles), folders, pages and even individual content objects within a particular Web page. accounts include a gallery of XML-compliant, reusable WebSnippets that can be customized. Additional galleries are available for workflow management, Web syndication, group collaboration, data collection, transformation and warehousing, analysis and reporting (data mining), business process modeling, and e-commerce. Pricing starts at $20 per month for a personal edition and ranges to $25,000 per year for a 250-license enterprise edition. www.microportals.net
WebWare Corporation announced the release of WebWare ActiveMedia 4.5 digital asset management software suite. ActiveMedia Enterprise 4.5 and ActiveMedia Access 4.5 are the latest versions of the ActiveMedia software family, an extensible, out-of-the-box platform for integrating rich media content into web content management systems, sales and marketing portals, multi-channel content distribution systems, and e-commerce portals. The release features RetrievalWare software from Convera media processing engine that includes natural language search dictionaries for the pharmaceutical and financial markets. Other new features in the 4.5 release include greater integration with Adobe Graphics Server, a redesigned user interface built on J2EE, distributed file processing, release of Microsoft Office integration plug-ins that enable the seamless submission of Microsoft Office documents, and a comprehensive installer. ActiveMedia Enterprise 4.5 and ActiveMedia Access 4.5 are currently available. www.webwarecorp.com
Cadmus Communications Corporation announced it has launched ArticleWorks, a content delivery and digital rights management system that enables publishers and other content providers to deliver content on demand in either printed or secure electronic formats. The ArticleWorks system includes two content delivery services: RapidCopy is a turnkey solution for ordering, tracking and delivering single or multiple copies of the print version of a document. RapidCopy offers a range of features including e-commerce and a service module with reporting features; RapidRights is an application for securing a document with multiple options for accessing the content. RapidRights encrypts and locks a PDF file to a user’s computer and requires no special readers, plug-ins or additional software. www.cadmus.com
A2i Announces WebSphere Commerce 5.5 Support & Integration for Product Content Management & Catalogs
A2i, Inc. announced that its xCat system will support the new version of IBM’s e-commerce platform, and also provide even tighter integration between the catalog content management capabilities of xCat and the e-commerce capabilities of version 5.5 WebSphere Commerce. In addition to support for WebSphere Commerce 5.5, which expands its capabilities for both B2B and B2C applications, A2i offers compatibility across all of IBM’s strategic software products, including its DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ software, running on a variety of different operating systems, including Linux. www.a2i.com
iManage, Inc. announced two partners in the legal and corporate markets: eCM, a provider of outsourced electronic content management and cataloging systems, and Hubbard One, a provider of software to legal departments and law firms. iManage partners resell, deploy and build products and add-ons that complement the iManage WorkSite suite, which delivers document management, collaboration, workflow and knowledge management accessible through an integrated portal in a single integrated Internet solution. eCM provides complete outsourced content management and cataloging solutions for corporate and corporate legal clients. The firm converts content to structured formats to prepare it for electronic distribution applications including e-commerce, electronic publishing and online information services. Hubbard One develops intranets, extranets and Web sites for corporate legal departments and law firms increase. Hubbard One will work with customers to integrate the iManage WorkSite suite with their own software suites: LegalConnect for corporate legal departments and FirmConnect for law firms. www.electriccm.com, www.hubbardone.com, www.imanage.com
XAware, Inc. announced partnerships with eight application server, data access, XML editor and e-commerce channel vendors. XAware’s application server partners are BEA, IBM, Sun and JBOSS. XAware leverages the common services of these application server partners by providing reusable XML-views of disparate data sources. For software vendors, businesses or IT shops that don’t use application servers within their application stacks, XAware can run as a component to add interoperability, XML integration and Web services to packaged applications or custom applications. XAware, through its embeddable integration components, offers an approach to data integration and an alternative to EAI solutions and custom development. XAware’s application, database and information access partners include Attunity and Insevo. These allow the XAware iServer integration engine to talk to ERP, CRM, SCM, financial and other packaged applications. XAware’s XML editor partner is Altova. www.xaware.com
Octave Software, Inc. announced WebOctave M-Class, targeting the small to mid-size business (SMB) market. WebOctave M-Class will be available on Linux and included in the IBM eServer Integrated Platform for e-business. The IBM eServer Integrated Platform includes xSeries hardware, WebSphere Application Server supporting Web Services, and DB2 database software for Linux. The offering will support JAVA-based applications including solutions for finance, retail, e-commerce, telecommunications, distribution and manufacturing. WebOctave M-Class is providing the CM capability for the offering. WebOctave M-Class uses the same architecture as Octave Software’s product for the enterprise, now branded WebOctave E-Class. WebOctave M-Class also includes pre-built components for rapid deployment. WebOctave M-Class will be available on Linux in the first quarter of 2003. Additional platform support will follow. The eServer Integrated Platform for e-business is available through Mainline Information Systems and other authorized IBM Business Partners. www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/integrated, www.octavesoftware.com
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