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posted 11 May 2004

Product updates

FCG releases First Doc Clinical Trials

FIRST CONSULTING Group, a supplier of outsourcing, consulting, systems implementation and integration services for healthcare, pharmaceutical and other life-sciences organisations, has released the fifth module in its enterprise-content-management suite.

FirstDoc Clinical Trials aims to deliver real-time management and status reporting of received clinical documents to researchers, reducing errors and time to drug development.
www.fcg.com

FileNet unveils Team Collaboration Manager

FILENET, A provider of enterprise-content-management solutions, has revealed its new Team Collaboration Manager solution.

Team Collaboration Manager aims to capture related content and streamline processes to increase productivity, lower costs, promote knowledge exchange and aid better, faster decision-making, while helping to implement corporate guidelines for best-practice execution and regulatory compliance.
www.filenet.com

Introducing Sitekit CMS 5

SITEKIT SOLUTIONS, a supplier of web-content-management solutions, has released version 5 of its CMS platform, which features a redesigned interface mirroring the look and feel of Windows XP, a graphical site structure and scalable preview frames.

The platform is targeted towards mid-level companies looking to invest in their first web-content-management platform at a reasonable price.
www.sitekit.net

Ixos launches finance solutions

ENTERPRISE-CONTENT-management specialists Ixos Software has introduced a suite of financial solutions intended to tackle the intricacies of managing content related to accounts payable, accounts receivable and equivalent business processes.

Ixos Solutions for Finance aims to enable enterprises to automate and streamline business-critical processes to achieve new levels of operational efficiency and lower costs.
www.ixos.com

Convera’s industry-specific taxonomies

CONVERA, A supplier of search and categorisation solutions, has introduced five industry-specific taxonomies that aim to reduce the time and cost of organising an enterprise’s information.

The taxonomies are tailored towards genetics, finance and business, general enterprise, technology and US government.
www.convera.com

Mediasurface releases Morello

MEDIASURFACE, A provider of content-management software and related services, has unveiled Morello, which it claims is the world’s first smart-client-office application for content management.

Morello is part of Mediasurface 5 and aims to bring content management to the desktop.
www.mediasurface.com

Verity launches K2 Enterprise 5.5

ENTERPRISE-SOFTWARE provider Verity has released the latest version of its search, classification and recommendation software, K2 Enterprise 5.5, which offers five additional capabilities for managing intellectual capital.

The features are advanced query analytics, event-driven indexing, session-based recommendations, query-based summaries and spelling suggestions.
www.verity.com

Merant Collage 4.5 available

ENTERPRISE-WEB-content-management company Merant Collage has developed a new version of its content-management system.

Version 4.5 is said to feature automatic workflow generation, incremental content deployment, and broader support for web services and industry platforms, such as Windows Server 2003.
www.merant.com

Xerox launches categorising tool

XEROX, THE document company, has developed software that it claims is powerful enough to automatically ‘read’ an electronic document, classify and post it to the right person’s e-mail address or online document-management system.

The categorising tool aims to help businesses keep their e-document collections orderly and accessible.
www.xerox.com

Workshare 3, version 3.5 now available

WORKSHARE, A provider of content-change applications, has announced the availability of Workshare 3, version 3.5.

The solution aims to allow Microsoft Word authors to view interactively and incorporate changes from different people, audit those changes in various built-in reports, prevent document corruption and integrate with document-management systems.
www.workshare.com

SmartDiscovery 4 Inxight

ENTERPRISE-SOFTWARE company Inxight has launched SmartDiscovery 4, which aims to give users a direct path to the information they require.

Version 4 includes enhanced entity extraction, categorisation and taxonomy capabilities.
www.inxight.com

Percussion delivers Lyrix 2

PERCUSSION SOFTWARE, a provider of enterprise-content-management solutions, has introduced version 2 of its Lotus Domino content-integration product, Lyrix.

Lyrix 2 is intended to allow organisations to convert Domino content into formats accepted by J2EE and .Net to enable enterprise-wide content reuse.
www.percussion.com

Kwickee populates mobile internet

KWICKEE GUIDES, an information provider, has launched Kwickee Bitesize, a mobile-data platform, where people share knowledge by submitting text-based information available for downloading onto browser-enabled mobile phones.

Kwickee claims it has a library as large as Amazon and search capabilities equal to Google.
www.kwickee.com

ATG develops adaptive self-service solution

ATG, A software company that aims to enrich the online experience, has releasedS the first in a series of new, web-based, self-service solutions.

ATG Adaptive Customer Assistance is intended to help guide online customers to the most relevant, highly personalised answers to their queries.
www.atg.com

Documentum reveals solutions at AIIMExpo

DOCUMENTUM, A provider of enterprise-content-management solutions, has unveiled a host of new products at AIIMExpo.

The company’s offerings include Documentum AX5, a web-compliance solution incorporating web-content and records-management components, as well as risk-management software, Documentum Compliance Manager and e-Room Enterprise 7.2.
www.documentum.com

Adobe releases XML/PDF design software

SOFTWARE PROVIDER Adobe has launched a public beta of its XML/PDF design software, Adobe Designer. The software enables organisations to build solutions for automating form-based workflows.

The company has also announced forms-processing software that uses 2-D barcode technology to speed up and simplify forms processing for customers.
www.adobe.com

Active Navigation presents desktop research department

ACTIVE NAVIGATION, the information-management-solutions provider, has introduced a new product capable of searching and analysing the meaning of electronic information.

Cyberwize works in conjunction with standard internet search engines as an advanced research tool or with files on private networks and intranets.
www.activenavigation.com

Metropolis uncovers WCM v1.0

INTERNET-BASED technology provider Metropolis Technologies has released version 1.0 of its web-content-management software.

The new product is said to offer a combination of content management, version control, workflow and web development on an open, standards-based platform.
www.metropoliscorp.com

Next level for Ektron’s CMS 300

EKTRON, THE web-content-management company, has delivered version 4.1 of its CMS300 content-management solution.

New features of the software include support for task assignment, highlighted search, as well as membership groups and integration with IXIASOFT TEXTML.
www.ektron.com

Enhancements to Manchester Web Portal

INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY company Manchester Software has further developed its Manchester Web Portal with the intention of providing more electronic marketing tools, enhanced information sharing and robust image management.

Manchester Web Portal supports company websites, business extranets and a corporate intranet on a single technology platform.
www.manchestersoftware.com

YouView develops image-enabling technology

INFO-IMAGING company YouView has unveiled image-enabling technology designed to allow businesses to publish pictures on a range of online platforms.

YouView aims to offer simple, fast access to images through PCs via the internet and plans to move into the mobile arena in the next few months.
www.youview.co.uk

Factiva search technology now available

FACTIVA, THE global information provider, has introduced Factiva iWorker Search Technology, an algorithm-based product platform capability intended to change the way people search for information, with increased emphasis on quality.

The technology will be available in the following Factiva products: Factiva.com, Factiva.com Individual Subscription, Factiva Search Module and Factiva Search in Microsoft Office 2003.
www.factiva.com

Callidus releases Sarbanes Oxley solution

CALLIDUS SOFTWARE, a provider of enterprise-incentive-management solutions, has introduced support tools for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

TrueComp is said to automate, standardise and document the incentive-compensation-management process to align sales activities and the use of corporate resources with shareholder interests.
www.callidussoftware.com

Dunstan Thomas launches Imago: CRM

DUNSTAN THOMAS, a supplier of technology solutions to the financial services market, has launched Imago: CRM to enable effective handling of customer enquiries about the progress of new and existing pensions and investment policies.

Imago: CRM offers a workflow interface that allows providers, third-party administrators and intermediaries to access administrative details about policies, determine fund applications, run validation checks, and perform other activities from the desktop.
www.dthomas.co.uk

IBM adds compliance functionality to selected product suites

GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY supplier IBM has added new compliance technology to its content management, Lotus and Tivoli product suites.

The new tools – Content Manager for Message, Monitoring and Retention, Tivoli Security Compliance Manager, and Lotus Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting – are intended to enable companies to automate tasks associated with managing, retaining and securing business information.
www.ibm.com/uk

Mobile content purchases streamlined by BT

COMMUNICATIONS SOLUTIONS provider BT has launched an online payment solution, BT click&buy, for the purchase of mobile-based content and services directly from the handset.

Accountholders will be able to pre-authorise payments so that purchases can be debited to their online account and settled by credit or debit card, direct debit or through their BT phone bill.
www.btclickandbuy.com

Translation software released by AuthorIT

SOFTWARE CORPORATION, AuthorIt has released Localisation Manager, a translation tool designed to track and manage translation and localisation of source content in any single or double-byte language.

Localisation Manager will know when content is translatable and what has been previously translated or amended. It is believed it will help reduce the cost of multi-language translations.
www.author-it.com

KVS unveils new version of Enterprise Vault

CONTENT-ARCHIVING-solutions company KVS has released the latest version of its e-mail archiving and content-management software suite, Enterprise Vault 5.

Enterprise Vault aims to provide a unique framework for customised archiving of e-mails, file system documents, instant messages, as well as Microsoft SharePoint Portal server documents.
www.kvsinc.com

Vamosa completes Content Suite

CONTENT-MIGRATION company Vamosa has launched two new products in the Vamosa Content Suite.

Vamosa Content Analyser and Vamosa Content Enhancer will operate alongside the existing Content Migrator application to offer optimum data-management functionality.
www.vamosa.com

Latest Livelink server launched

OPEN TEXT, a provider of enterprise-content-management solutions, has released Livelink Discovery Server 9, a powerful search-engine product aimed at companies that publish large quantities of customised information, such as news and information archives, technical standards documentation or patent data.

The server is intended to allow users to create custom applications that increase the speed of searches and improve productivity.
www.opentext.com/livelink

New digital media provider launched by BT

BT, THE communications solutions provider, has launched BT Rich Media, a digital-media-platform provider that allows anyone to become an online content provider to the mass market.

Working in partnership with Real Networks and WIi, BT Rich Media offers easy-to-use management tools and an interactive content platform enabling content owners to edit and produce online material remotely.
www.bt.com

FreezeFrame unveiled

MACRO 4, the global business software company, has launched FreezeFrame, a new application performance-measurement tool designed to enable organisations to pinpoint and resolve the application failures that cause system downtime and affect the bottomline.

The new tool is said to provide visibility of bottlenecks, session time-outs and system backlogs, so companies can monitor system resources effectively.
www.macro4.com