Antarcti.ca Systems Inc. (ASI) announced the availability of Visual Net Enterprise (VNE). Visual Net Enterprise gives users an intuitive, efficient, and graphical “search and discovery” tool to organize, browse, and view large amounts of data in multiple databases and media formats. Visual Net Enterprise transforms enterprise information into large-scale data maps, and provides a navigation interface featuring context-rich visuals. VNE uses Antarcti.ca’s visual mapping technology to show relevant and related data as defined by the customer. Visual mapping of data enables users to go from merely searching for information to strategizing and organizing data. Users browse through categories of data laid out on a map to quickly understand the types of data available to them. At the same time, they get information about the most relevant data in a visual representation. This enables users to quickly see all pertinent data and determine what information best serves their needs. Visual Net offers: Navigation across multiple data sources in a variety of formats; Internationalized language capability; A customizable data display; Scalability; and Easy updating. Visual Net takes all category/object attributes, and supplements this data with metadata collected by ASI’s robot module. Based on all these attributes, the backend subsystem gives each category/object pairing a graphic representation and a unique X and Z location on a two-dimensional map. Visual Net can be utilized in a wide range of applications such as research libraries, corporate Intranets, eCommerce and retail cataloging. Visual Net is offered as a standalone application or as part of custom applications provided directly or through ASI’s partner channel. Visual Net Enterprise and Visual Net for Libraries, launched April 2001, are available immediately. Pricing varies based on application. www.antarcti.ca
Category: Semantic technologies (Page 63 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.
Interwoven, Inc. announced the release of TeamXML software, its XML repository, and Interwoven OpenSyndicate, the latest addition to its content distribution product suite. TeamXML allows customers to migrate individual Web assets, or even components of assets, to XML as circumstances dictate. This managed adoption maximizes upfront benefits and minimizes upfront costs. TeamXML offers a discovery model based on parametric search that provides ease-of-access to reusable content components. With the introduction of TeamXML, customers can now store all XML content natively. This important attribute boosts performance and increases scalability. Key product attributes of OpenSyndicate include: Content Packages — Controlled assembly of Web assets based on intelligent business rules; Targeted Delivery — Audience profiling for precise targeting, irrespective of format; and Secure Distribution — Guaranteed content delivery with a comprehensive audit trail. With easy-to-use subscriber management and group profiling, non-technical contributors can match content packages with target constituencies, whether it’s XML, PDF, WAP or any other output format. OpenSyndicate supports the two primary models for syndication required by global enterprises: Standard Syndication — delivery based on open-standards distribution protocols, and Email-Based Syndication — delivery based on an email-based subscriber model. In both cases, business managers are able to make decisions about when, how, and in what format content is syndicated. Interwoven OpenSyndicate software works in conjunction with Interwoven TeamSite software and TeamXML software. www.interwoven.com
Open Market, Inc. released Content Server 3.6 and Content Centre 3.6 providing integration with additional operating system platforms, language support, and search capabilities. Content Server and Content Centre, both pure J2EE technologies, are key components of Open Market’s product family, Content Server Enterprise Edition. Content Server 3.6 introduces support for two new operating system platforms, IBM AIX and Microsoft Windows 2000. In addition, there are new capabilities in the area of internationalization with certification for most European languages as well as Japanese, Chinese and the UTF-8 character set. And Content Server now offers optional imbedding of the Alta Vista search engine V3.0 and the Verity Connector for customers who have installations of the Verity Information Server. Content Centre 3.6 is the CSEE browser-based application that enables non-technical business managers to create, manage, manipulate, and deliver content to numerous targets, including Web sites, PDAs, cell phones, and other wireless devices. It also provides out of box, automated workflow and version control. Improvements in this version include a new rendering model for dynamic sites which encourages site designers to take full advantage of the disk caching options; a new sample site that serves as a blueprint for all aspects of site design; Java Server Page support which allows developers to code page elements with either XML or JSP; and a Share Assets option that allows site operators to re-use content assets across multiple sites and other delivery devices. The Content Server 3.6 and Content Centre 3.6 are available now on the electronic distribution site and CD-ROM. The pricing is unchanged from previous versions. www.openmarket.com
FileNET Corp. announced plans to integrate its Panagon suite of eContent and eProcess management products with Microsoft’s latest Digital Dashboard as part of its commitment to support Microsoft’s SharePoint Portal Server. FileNET’s integration efforts with the SharePoint Portal Server include support of Digital Dashboard, enhanced search capabilities, and integration with Office XP. The Digital Dashboard is a customizable portal framework that enables knowledge workers to view and collaborate on personal, team, corporate, and external information. Web-based content can be integrated into the portal via Web Parts, which offer companies an effective way to integrate any existing enterprise systems, such as analytical and collaborative tools in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server, into their corporate portal. www.filenet.com
Microsoft Corp. announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire NCompass Labs Inc. Released in March 2001, NCompass Resolution 4.0 is a Web content management system that enables businesses to quickly and cost-effectively deploy highly dynamic and personalized e-business Web sites. Microsoft is acquiring NCompass Labs in response to customer demand for Web content management solutions and because it recognizes the essential nature of this technology in any end-to-end e-business solution. As Web sites continue to evolve into strategic business communication tools, there is an increasing need to manage the content that drives that communication. Web content management systems ensure that organizations derive the maximum value possible from their investments in Internet, intranet and extranet Web sites. NCompass Resolution offers a scalable, dynamic architecture, and is specifically designed to ensure rapid time to market. NCompass Resolution was built for the Microsoft platform and integrates with Commerce Server 2000 for online business creation; it also builds on SQL Server 2000 for content storage and search capabilities. NCompass Resolution also complements the rest of the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server family for creating end-to-end e-business solutions such as Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 for XML-based, business- to-business integration and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001 for employee document management and collaboration. NCompass Resolution 4.0 is available today. A re-branded offering, Microsoft Content Management Server 2001, is scheduled to be available in fall 2001. Customers who acquire NCompass Resolution 4.0 in the interim will have continued product support and product updates from Microsoft. www.ncompass.com, www.microsoft.com
Interwoven, Inc. unveiled its new Content Infrastructure direction and announced the 5.0 release of TeamSite, TeamSite Templating, and OpenDeploy software, along with the introduction of two new products – Interwoven OpenChannel and MetaTagger 2.1 software. This broad new product functionality addresses Content Aggregation, Content Collaboration, Content Management, Content Intelligence and Content Distribution and provides an underpinning for multiple eBusiness initiatives and applications. Content Aggregation captures all content necessary for delivering a compelling Web experience, including database, file system, application code and XML. TeamCatalog streamlines the process of moving legacy catalog content to the Web by aggregating product data, and then automating the cleansing and categorization to make product information transaction-ready. Content Collaboration accelerates eBusiness initiatives with virtualization and branching. Interwoven TeamSite 5.0 software now adds single-click collaboration with email content entry, and ease-of-use of the new WebDesk interface. Content Management extends contribution throughout the enterprise without any loss of operational control, including process functionality such as templating, versioning and workflow. TeamSite Templating 5.0 software offers single-click templating and rich text-editing with WYSWYG formatting. Content Intelligence leverages enterprise Web assets across multiple initiatives and applications. By automating the assignment of accurate and consistent metadata, MetaTagger 2.1 software improves personalization, search and syndication. All metadata and vertical vocabularies are defined in, and captured as, XML. Content Distribution controls the multi-tiered delivery of content across multiple servers, devices and initiatives, both within and beyond the enterprise. OpenDeploy and DataDeploy 5.0 software have been enhanced to simplify complex deployments of both file and database assets to any production environment including ATG, BEA, IBM, BlueMartini, iPlanet. Interwoven OpenChannel software enables an organization to create content once, and re-use it across multiple delivery channels including the Web, wireless, voice and print. Interwoven Content Infrastructure integrates with application and transaction infrastructure products from ATG, BEA, IBM, TIBCO and webMethods. www.interwoven.com
Plumtree Software announced the release of two new Plumtree plug-in components for integrating Documentum enterprise content management capabilities into the Plumtree Corporate Portal platform: a suite of Plumtree Portal Gadgets incorporating the content management capabilities of Documentum 4i, and a Plumtree Crawler for scanning Documentum 4i repositories for new content to index in the portal. The Plumtree Gadget Suite for Documentum 4i allows business users to create, edit and approve Documentum-managed content from a personalized portal page that also incorporates those users’ e-mail, sales leads, inventory reports, and market news. The gadgets were developed by Infodata. The Plumtree Documentum Gadget Suite, available as a web-hosted solution or to customers who have purchased both software solutions, includes gadgets for developing, routing, approving, and publishing content. The Plumtree Crawler for Documentum 4i adds to a collection of crawlers for Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, the Internet, corporate intranets and extranets, and File Systems, giving customers a unified view of all documents across the enterprise, regardless of the repository in which they are located. The Plumtree Crawler for Documentum 4i automatically publishes content that has been staged through Documentum workflows, integrating content in an enterprise-wide searchable directory that includes Web pages, reports, e-mail and documents from file systems. www.documentum.com, www.plumtree.com
North Plains Systems Corp. unveiled the newest release of TeleScope. TeleScope Enterprise 6.1 includes TeleScope’s database abstraction layer, called Database Brokers, which provides a fault-tolerant cross-platform interface to leading database manufactures like Oracle, Microsoft and Informix. Database Brokers communicate with both TeleScope clients and external systems through North Plains’ designed XML standard-MIMiX (Metadata Interchange Model in XML). MIMiX, is a dynamic data model for the exchange of assets and their metadata, providing easy integration between disparate systems. NPS has extended its QuarkXPress integration, which allows users to “flip” through color previews, copy and paste text, and extract linked images, to other document types like Word, PowerPoint and 40 additional document formats. Detailed multi-page views of these documents can be accessed directly from within TeleScope and TeleScope.web without the need of the authoring application. TeleScope Enterprise 6.1 offers built-in full text searching. The new Content Search includes a “Conceptual” search, a simple natural language query, and an “Advanced” search, allowing users to choose between prefix, binary operations, phrasing, proximity and stemming. TeleScope Enterprise 6.1 also gives global departments the ability to simplify the user interface by only showing metadata fields that are appropriate for the file type, class or project that it belongs to. www.northplains.com
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