Informatica Corporation and Viador Inc. announced a joint partnership to develop a single, end-to-end, Web-based architecture to provide global businesses with access to critical enterprise data assets. The jointly developed solution, which initially will be targeted at emerging e-business applications, will feature two products for integrating and accessing enterprise data: Informatica’s data-integration platform, anchored by the PowerCenter data-integration hub, and the Viador E-Portal Suite, an enterprise portal that allows users to securely search, access, and distribute business information from any source via a single, personalized view. The Viador and Informatica integration effort will exploit the capabilities of XML. The two company’s products can already exchange metadata through the use of Informatica’s MX (metadata exchange) interface, the data warehousing industry’s first viable solution for exporting metadata to business intelligence reporting and query tools, and enterprise portals. The planned integration of Informatica and Viador products is a logical next step as XML takes center stage and becomes a widely accepted language for exchanging data and metadata among a whole of new class of Web- and e-business-enabled applications. The PowerCenter data-integration hub consolidates data from any source, including ERP systems from SAP and PeopleSoft, and delivers it and the underlying metadata to a data warehouse, data mart or operational data store (ODS). The data can also be written to message queues, flat files and XML files. www.informatica.com, www.viador.com
Category: Semantic technologies (Page 70 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.
Verity, Inc. announced the promotion of Anthony J. Bettencourt III to president and his election to its Board of Directors. Bettencourt joined Verity two years ago, and has served as Verity’s senior vice president, worldwide sales and product marketing for the past eighteen months. With nineteen years of high-tech sales and marketing experience, Bettencourt will now be responsible for all of Verity’s sales, marketing, professional services and product development activities. Bettencourt will continue to report directly to Gary J. Sbona, Verity’s chairman and CEO. Verity also announced the promotion of Joseph J. Lawless to the position of vice president, North America and Rest of World Sales. Lawless joined Verity in July 1996, and most recently served as vice president, Eastern Sales Region. www.verity.com
EasyAsk Inc. (formerly Linguistic Technology Corporation) has been formed to provide Internet and Intranet search engine software for relational databases. EasyAsk Inc. will provide a family of natural language question/answer portal solutions specifically designed to address the idiosyncrasies of indexing, searching and generating the SQL required to access databases efficiently. New products, under the brand name EasyAsk, are being rolled out for a number of specific markets including electronic retailing, data warehousing and enterprise information portals that integrate the search process for text and database sources within a corporation, and ultimately the public portal market. www.easyask.com
J.D. Edwards and Open Text Corp. announced a technology alliance that enables J.D. Edwards OneWorld and WorldSoftware customers to integrate with Livelink using Livelink Enterprise Activator. This solution allows J.D. Edwards’ customers to integrate unstructured knowledge and external information into core business processes, providing access to enterprise information. Using the Livelink Enterprise Activator to search and retrieve information directly from the OneWorld and WorldSoftware systems, J.D. Edwards customers will be able to catalog and retrieve unstructured information types that are not typically available within enterprise business software. This integration will also enable Livelink users to participate in business processes that may originate from outside of the enterprise system. By providing users with access to corporate knowledge and unstructured information, management teams are able to make more informed decisions and more deftly respond to changing market conditions. www.opentext.com, www.j.d.edwards.com
LivePage Corporation today introduced Version 3.0 of LivePage Enterprise, designed to enable the delivery of Enterprise Information Portals which improve customer service and increase productivity by providing effective access to corporate information.New Features and Benefits of LivePage Enterprise 3.0 include: Enhanced XML Support – LivePage Enterprise 3.0 advances support for XML with a new implementation of XSL and improved integration with leading XML editors including ArborText Adept*Editor, Adobe FrameMaker+SGML, Microsoft Office 2000 and Corel WordPerfect Office 2000: Simplified Deployment of Personalized e-Business Solutions With new LDAP support and the LivePage Extensibility SDK, LivePage Enterprise 3.0 can leverage user profile information enabling dynamic content and site personalization based on the end-user; Text Searching in Word and PDF Documents – In addition to advanced XML, SGML and HTML content searching, LivePage Enterprise will allow for the indexing and searching of content stored in native Word and PDF documents. Matching search results are highlighted in the body of the document for enhanced end-user productivity. The beta version of LivePage Enterprise 3.0 is expected to be available within four weeks. General Availability of LivePage Enterprise 3.0 is expected in the fourth quarter of 1999. Pricing and packaging will be announced at that time. www.livepage.com
IntraNet Solutions, Inc. announced a new PDF to HTML conversion capability for the Intra.doc! Management System. The new capability converts PDF documents into HTML (including those that have embedded GIF or JPEG images) and displays them in a standard Web browser without having to use Acrobat(R) Reader or other client software. Key benefits of the Intra.doc! and Adobe integration include the ability to view, navigate and search PDF documents with any browser without using Acrobat Reader. Users will get faster performance in browsing large files while still retaining the original fidelity of the PDF format. The PDF to HTML conversion capability also provides users with a toolbar so they can easily navigate and search for content without invoking a helper application. Because the product is server-based and works with any browser and standard operating systems, like Windows NT and Sun Solaris, all users will be able to access, view and navigate PDF generated documents across the enterprise. The core Intra.doc! Management System automatically converts all major file formats to PDF; Intra.doc! Legacy, a paper-to-Web scanning solution, incorporates Adobe capture technology; and Adobe Forms fill-in functionality is integrated with Intra.doc! Forms to allow fast and easy forms fill-in and meta data extraction capabilities. The PDF to HTML Conversion capability for Intra.doc! is available now and pricing starts at $15,000 USD and is sold as an optional module to the Intra.doc! Management System for Windows NT and Sun Solaris environments. www.intranetsol.com
Excalibur Technologies announced the Excalibur RetrievalWare Power Search Plug-in’ for Lotus Notes that will deliver advanced search and retrieval functionality to Lotus Notes Domino. The product was announced in conjunction with the release of Excalibur RetrievalWare 6.7, the latest version of the company’s enterprise knowledge retrieval solution Lotus Notes/Domino customers may now elect to choose the new RetrievalWare Power Search Plug-in which enables faster indexing and better performance for simultaneous indexing and retrieval from distributed Lotus Notes servers. It provides plug-in access to Excalibur’s knowledge retrieval system, enabling advanced concept-based, natural language searching on more than 200 standard and proprietary document formats including Microsoft Office and other groupware and document repositories that frequently co-exist in Lotus Notes environments, all from a single query. www.excalib.com
Global Compliance, LLC announced Enterprise Desktop for Domino.Doc, a customizable Windows interface for Domino.Doc. Using Enterprise Desktop, line-of-business personnel throughout an enterprise simply profile any electronic document according to an area, sub-area, document type, etc. and it is automatically stored inside the Domino.Doc library. Since Enterprise Desktop remembers which documents each user has been working on, they can be quickly retrieved. For more complex document research situations, users can conduct profile, full-text, or combined searches. Enterprise Desktop includes innovative features like complete email integration, project foldering, quick viewer, Windows Explorer integration, and support for mobile users. Built as a Visual Basic application, and optionally licensed with source code, Enterprise Desktop gives organizations an alternative interface to the Lotus Notes and Web browser interfaces that come standard with Domino.Doc. Customers can further tailor the interface and easily integrate other business applications such as ERP, financial, legal, and compliance systems with their document management system. www.globalcompliance.com
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