Vignette Corp. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Intraspect Software, Inc., a provider of enterprise collaboration solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Vignette will pay $20 million, comprised of $10 million in cash and approximately 4.2 million shares of Vignette stock, for Intraspect. The transaction is subject to approval from the Intraspect stockholders and customary closing conditions. The Intraspect product line includes Java-based collaboration functionality and a complete collaborative applications framework so users can customize the user interface and collaboration services flow. Services provided by the core Intraspect platform include indexing and search, security, communications, data management and subscription notification. In addition to the core Intraspect 5 platform, Intraspect offers several packaged horizontal and vertical solutions that help customers solve more complex collaborative business process needs. As part of Vignette, the Intraspect 5 platform will continue to be sold, supported and enhanced as well as offered in an integrated suite. Vignette also will integrate Intraspect technology with its content management and portal solutions. www.intraspect.com. www.vignette.com
Category: Semantic technologies (Page 44 of 72)
Our coverage of semantic technologies goes back to the early 90s when search engines focused on searching structured data in databases were looking to provide support for searching unstructured or semi-structured data. This early Gilbane Report, Document Query Languages – Why is it so Hard to Ask a Simple Question?, analyses the challenge back then.
Semantic technology is a broad topic that includes all natural language processing, as well as the semantic web, linked data processing, and knowledge graphs.
Entrieva, Inc. and Northern Light Group LLC announced the signing of a marketing and technical co-operation agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will integrate the Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine with Entrieva’s Semio classification engine so that a customer of either would have the option of using the other component seamlessly. The companies further agreed to work on joint sales and marketing opportunities together. www.entrieva.com, www.northernlight.com
The Gilbane Report announced that it has agreed to administer an industry initiative to be known as The Gilbane Content Technology Works Program. Under the auspices of this program, best practices and success stories will be documented, assessed and published. Founding partners represent leaders from every segment of the content technology marketplace including enterprise infrastructure, content management, portal, XML databases, search and categorization, digital asset management and content integration. Gilbane Content Technology Works founding partners include Software AG, Sun Microsystems, Artesia Technologies, Atomz, Context Media, Convera, Vignette, and WebWare. Material will be developed in collaboration with enterprises able to share their experiences and will be written in “the enterprise’s voice.” Final editorial review and the essential components of these works will be established by the enterprises whose stories we relate. In order to develop this valuable information at no cost to the consumer, leading content technology vendors have been invited to subsidize the expense of developing and distributing content technology best practices. Vendor partners do not determine which enterprises we collaborate with and will be subsidizing success stories that do not include their technology. The first collection of success stories and best practices will be rolled out through all of our channels during the 4th quarter of 2003. www.gilbane.com/technology_works.html
IXIASOFT and Ingeniux announced a new technology partnership to integrate TEXTML Server with Ingeniux Content Management System (CMS). Combining these two XML technologies will provide customers with a comprehensive XML-based Web content management solution. IXIASOFT’s TEXTML Server is an XML content server designed for software developers who require advanced storing, indexing, and searching capabilities for their applications. Ingeniux CMS provides a complete Web content management and publishing system for developing, managing and deploying Web content throughout the enterprise. Ingeniux CMS empowers non-technical users to contribute to and manage the Web publishing process. Adding TEXTML Server, a native XML repository, to Ingeniux Content Management System will extend its functionality by providing users with advanced searching and publishing capabilities. The joint product offering is aimed at organizations who wish to take full advantage of a pure XML architecture. As part of this technology partnership, IXIASOFT and Ingeniux will collaborate on and coordinate sales and marketing efforts. www.ixiasoft.com, www.ingeniux.com
Vivisimo announced the upcoming Release 4.0 of its Clustering Engine, which organizes internet or intranet search results on the fly into meaningful folders. The Clustering Engine now integrates a fully compliant XSLT processor, allowing administrators to customize the end-user interface. Corporate information managers can customize the installation by adding company or industry-specific knowledge such as synonyms, acronyms, abbreviations, spelling variants and type-of relations as XML declarations or via a web-based interface. Or they can select Vivisimo’s built-in knowledge bases for news, science, government, medicine, and others. Using XSLT, regular expressions, and an enhanced conversion framework, the Vivisimo Clustering Engine can extract meta-data and convert any type of data sources to XML. New versions of Vivisimo’s Content Integrator, Enterprise Publisher and Software Development Kit are included in Release 4.0. Customers and OEMs now get an integrated solution that solves the twin challenges of organizing information and providing a single entry point to multiple information sources. www.vivisimo.com
Basis Technology and Endeca announced that Endeca will incorporate Basis Technology’s Rosette Language Analyzers into their software for commerce and enterprise search, Endeca InFront and Endeca ProFind. The combination of the two companies’ products and expertise will give Endeca’s multinational customers new multilingual features, and it opens new government and commercial markets for the company’s products. Endeca’s enterprise search offering, Endeca ProFind, features advanced search and Guided Navigation and is able to handle both structured and unstructured information for access to all types of enterprise data and documents residing across a wide variety of repositories. The Rosette Language Analyzers are part of the Rosette Globalization Platform, Basis Technology’s suite of interoperable products designed for applications that analyze and process all the world’s languages. www.basistech.com, www.endeca.com
Tridion has launched a new version of its enterprise content management solution, Tridion R5 version 5.1. New features include the creation of ‘Virtual Folders’, which allow users to save and store the results of their searches in personalised compartments. The solutions document management capabilities have also been enhanced. All document types can now be stored in a single, central source, allowing content to be repurposed for use in Intranets, extranets and websites. In addition, users can now search within unstructured (such as presentations and PDF files) as well as structured content. Upgrades to security and platform compatibility (R5 v5.1 now supports Oracle 9i) mean that the new version is more secure, reliable and scalable. Tridion is also launching two new products modules. Tridion Content Porter allows organisations to extract and re-purpose content residing in legacy systems. Tridion Word Connector 3.0 allows end-users to work directly in Word, rather than using the interface of the content management system. Documents are saved as XML components. www.tridion.com/uk
Hummingbird Ltd. has renewed its licensing agreements of Inxight Software’s natural language processing platform, LinguistX Platform and Inxight’s document summarization technology, Inxight Summarizer. The inclusion of Inxight’s technology for understanding text at its most granular level provides Hummingbird Enterprise customers with multilingual search capabilities in 21 languages. Inxight Summarizer provides an intelligent solution to many problems inherent to online searches. The solution generates abstracts of any document in a fraction of a second, enabling users to scan large sets of information faster than reading the entire text. www.hummingbird.com, www.inxight.com
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