Context Media, Inc. announced the availability of Interchange PortalPLUS, which enables organizations to make portals their primary interface for accessing and managing digital content stored anywhere in the enterprise. Interchange PortalPLUS provides out-of-the box integration between Context Media’s content integration software, Interchange Suite, and portal platforms, including Sun Microsystems’ Sun ONE Portal Server, BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere. This allows organizations using portals in conjunction with Interchange Suite to access enterprise content stored in disparate content management, document management and digital asset management systems directly through their portal interface. Interchange PortalPLUS leverages Web services technology to provide access to and management of all forms of digital content and content management systems through a portal framework. Interchange PortalPLUS is available immediately for the Sun ONE Portal Server 6. Interchange Portal Plus for BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere will be available early in the fourth quarter of 2003. Pricing for Interchange PortalPLUS begins at $25K. www.contextmedia.com
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Venetica announced the general availability of VeniceBridge 5.0. The release increases the types of content repositories that can be integrated with enterprise applications and extends the cross-system services available through VeniceBridge. VeniceBridge 5.0 expands its universal view to include a common inbox to disparate workflow engines such as Documentum and FileNET, and independent BPM engines such as IBM MQSeries Workflow. Target engines also include Microsoft BizTalk, Open Text, Staffware and others. In addition to documents, scanned images and media assets, VeniceBridge 5.0 makes statements, invoices and other information stored in enterprise report management (ERM) systems available. Current ERM systems include FileNet Report Manager and IBM OnDemand. The release also includes an event subscription model that can provide notification when a document or workflow change has been made. Other enhancements have been included such as support for Linux and new features for handling of geographically dispersed content sources and extremely large content such as audio, video and high-resolution images. Venetica also announced support for JSR (Java Specification Request) 170. Their implementation of the Java Content Repository (JCR) API is written against the 0.7 draft of the standard.www.venetica.com
Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) announced a2X, a proprietary company process that quickly and professionally converts printed or digital content into XML. a2X (pronounced “A-2-X”, for “Anything To XML”) can cost-effectively extend the value of any organization’s storehouse of learning materials by making those materials available to today’s Internet-using audience in the most strategically useful web format possible. a2X can accommodate virtually all common forms of printed and digital content. Supported standards include: Adobe PageMaker, FrameMaker, QuarkXpress, and Macromedia Flash files; Microsoft Word documents; PDF, HTML, and other online formats. Other capabilities found in a2X include XSL templates and a TIS-built publishing engine that transforms XML to HTML, using XSLT. Using XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects), a2X can also create accurate, print-quality PDF representations of the original printed page. www.tatainteractive.com
Venetica announced its plans to support integration to the Interwoven 6 Platform. Through an alliance formed in December 2001, Interwoven delivers Venetica’s enterprise content integration capabilities to Interwoven TeamSite Content Server customers through its ContentProvider Integration Server allowing business users to discover and work with critical documents from within Interwoven TeamSite Content Server – regardless of how or where the content is stored. In addition, Venetica is planning to make available a Bridge for Interwoven TeamSite Content Server repositories. This will enable companies to more easily leverage content created and managed within TeamSite Content Server from various business applications and portals. www.interwoven.com, www.venetica.com
Intraspect Software, Inc. introduced the Intraspect Collaboration Solution for BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1, in conjunction with the launch of WebLogic Portal 8.1 and WebLogic Platform 8.1 by BEA Systems, Inc. The joint solution allows organizations to augment their BEA-based corporate portals with a full suite of collaboration and knowledge management capabilities to enhance corporate portals. The two technologies can allow users to create contextual communities within the BEA corporate portal that manage collaboration and knowledge around products, services, functions, expertise, customers, or other areas relevant to an organization. Intraspect’s Portal Collaboration Solution for BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 will be available in August 2003. www.intraspect.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced the general availability of Interwoven’s new ContentProvider for IBM DB2 Content Manager, which allows customers to discover and utilize operational content, workgroup documents, and rich media stored in IBM DB2 Content Manager. ContentProvider also gives customers the ability to publish these same asset types from Interwoven TeamSite into IBM DB2 Content Manager for archiving and storage. Interwoven ContentProvider for IBM DB2 Content Manager, used in conjunction with Interwoven TeamSite Content Server software, gives customers a single interface that allows content integration and federated searching capabilities across the enterprise regardless of where the content is stored. The new offering enables users to create, classify, transform, approve, and publish any enterprise asset from Interwoven TeamSite into IBM DB2 Content Manager. Using Interwoven ContentProvider Integration Server, based on technology from Venetica, users can search, browse, and aggregate content such as images, documents, and HTML pages from within the TeamSite software environment, and in repositories from Documentum, FileNET, Lotus, OpenText, and now IBM DB2 CM. www.interwoven.com
Ipedo, Inc. announced the availability of two new XML-based solutions for regulated industries. Based on their XML Information Hub, these solutions offer an automated approach to fulfilling government and industry mandated reporting requirements in life sciences and financial services organizations. Partnering with Liquent, Ipedo offers life sciences organizations and financial institutions an end-to-end process for converting and assembling submissions documents. Using Liquent’s Xtent engine, existing documents are converted into XML and linked directly to the Ipedo XML Information Hub, which harvests the needed information, combines with other data sources, and formats into the required submission format. The Life Sciences solution will allow pharmaceutical and biotech companies to streamline drug submissions by converting old clinical, status, and research reports into XML. The Financial Services solution will expedite conformance with financial filing requirements and XBRL. www.liquent.com, www.ipedo.com
Cognos continued its support for the IBM DB2 product family by announcing support for IBM’s new DB2 Information Integrator software. The federated data access capabilities of DB2 Information Integrator extend Cognos’ reach to include non-relational data sources such as any remote SOAP Web Service, Flat Files, and XML files. By accessing message queues, Cognos NoticeCast can monitor real-time data within organizations that have EAI systems. Designed for customers needing critical elements of business activity monitoring (BAM) and guided analysis, Cognos NoticeCast users can define personalized business alerts that can be delivered to any e- mail-enabled device. www.cognos.com
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