divine, inc. announced the availability of divine Enterprise Content Center (dECC) 1.5, a content Web service that delivers digital business content and advanced integrated searching capabilities to the desk-top. dECC gives administrators the tools to analyze, report and control spending on these resources. This new version expands upon the current dECC offering by providing access to more content through the integration of the Northern Light Special Collection and Multex. Version 1.5 empowers more portal platforms and offers SOAP interface support, fully automated portlet installation with leading portals, and enhanced scalability and performance. divine Enterprise Content Center is immediately available through portlets for portals, including the BEA WebLogic Portal; CleverPath Portal from Computer Associates International, Inc., the IBM WebSphere Portal Server, and the iPlanet Portal Server from Sun Microsystems. dECC is also available as a stand-alone hosted and branded solution for companies that do not have portal infrastructures in place. www.divine.com
Category: Semantic technologies (Page 57 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.
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that Documentum has completed a license agreement with Adobe to include Adobe AlterCast as a core component of Documentum’s ECM Platform. The combined solution allows web and print production teams to automate the image production process by connecting content contributors across the enterprise for updating of images and graphics. Adobe AlterCast, together with the Documentum Media Services product, brings dynamic image and digital asset management capabilities to large-scale publishing applications. The Documentum Media Services product provides intelligent handling of all rich media assets. This includes media-specific indexing, browsing and search capabilities, editing, automated file transformation features, and the ability to fully manage these digital assets with other types of content. AlterCast automatically optimizes files for delivery on any Web-enabled device. By streamlining the image production process, AlterCast lets graphics professionals focus on more strategic and complex creative tasks. www.documentum.com, www.adobe.com
Verity, Inc. announced the availability of a new version of K2 Developer, a product specifically designed to be incorporated into large business software applications. Verity K2 Developer, or K2D, is the company’s newest offering for the OEM market. It gives enterprise software developers the ability to add any of Verity’s three tiers of knowledge management infrastructure – search, content categorization and social networks – to their applications. According to Verity, K2D is compatible with Java, COM, and C/C++. In addition, it offers full support for inclusion within an enterprise software vendor’s .NET or J2EE applications, and includes comprehensive management APIs. www.verity.com
Documentum announced the availability of Documentum Content Intelligence Services (CIS). CIS, an extension to the Documentum platform, automates and controls the enrichment and organization of enterprise content. Documentum CIS streamlines the organization, indexing and linking of content residing in multiple disparate systems throughout an enterprise enabling fast, sophisticated searches, easy navigation and personalization of content. Documentum offers a full spectrum of content intelligence features in one integrated platform — auto-tagging, auto-categorization, auto-linking and use of pre-built or custom taxonomies.
www.documentum.com
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced that FAST Data Search now integrates with Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 and fully supports Microsoft Content Management Server 2001. FAST Data Search is designed specifically to tackle the real-time data-intensive search and information retrieval challenges of large-scale enterprises. Under terms of an agreement signed today, Microsoft Corp. gains the right to distribute FAST Data Search for sales promotion, demonstration, and marketing purposes with Microsoft’s integrated solution platform for e-business. www.fastsearch.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced a new version of FrameMaker, its enterprise authoring and publishing solution. FrameMaker version 7.0 software allows corporations to take advantage of XML’s ability to search, share and repurpose content across the enterprise. The new XML capabilities allow content creators to distribute information to multiple channels, including print, the Web and PDAs. Also announced is the new Adobe FrameMaker Server, which gives companies the ability to produce personalized, data-driven content for output to print or PDF. Users can choose to work in the structured environment to address single-source information publishing needs and create valid XML files, or choose a simpler interface to create well-formed XML files for general word-processing usage. Adobe’s new FrameMaker Server software gives companies the ability to extract existing content housed in databases, document management systems and XML repositories to be manipulated in FrameMaker. Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 and FrameMaker Server 7.0 will be available in the second quarter of 2002 in the United States, Europe and Canada. Estimated street price for FrameMaker 7.0 desktop version will be US$799 for the full product with a special 90-day post ship upgrade offer (Mac and Windows only) of US$209 (US$349 thereafter). Estimated street price for FrameMaker Server 7.0 will be US$7,999. www.adobe.com/products/framemaker
Stellent, Inc. announced the Stellent Content Management system now supports the Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS). Organizations can use the Stellent Content Integration (CI) Kit to integrate business and Web content with other enterprise applications running on Oracle9iAS, giving users dynamic delivery of content, access to content management functionality and the ability to transform enterprise portals into content-rich business communities. Stellent allows Oracle9i e-business applications to access the business and Web content managed by Stellent, as well as Stellent Content Management functions such as full-text and metadata searching, library services, and workflow. www.stellent.com
iPhrase Technologies, Inc. announced the availability of iPhrase One Step 3.0, the latest version of iPhrase’s product for accessing high-value enterprise content. iPhrase One Step 3.0 brings to market a search and navigation system that can be implemented in just a few days, and fully deployed within 4-6 weeks. One Step 3.0 also allows enterprises to customize the results of queries based on the users’ entitlement status, allowing organizations to personalize content for different constituencies. One Step combines retrieval of unstructured Web content and live access to structured databases into a single interface. The spider ensures deep content coverage, handling complexities such as frame sets, JavaScript, forms and dynamic URLs. Rich workflow integration with content management systems and external knowledge tools, such as Interwoven’s TeamSite and MetaTagger, allows for exposure of all content. New in One Step 3.0, results can be personalized based on the user’s entitlement status, enabling a single search solution to meet the needs of various constituencies. One Step supports XML, SSL, CSS, Microsoft .NET/Web Services, SOAP, ODBC, ASP and Java. In One Step 3.0, operating system support has been extended to include Sun Solaris and FreeBSD, as well as Windows NT/2000 and Red Hat Linux. www.iphrase.com
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