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posted 5 Oct 2004

Two new releases from Vignette

Content-management vendor Vignette has enhanced its content management and portal solutions as part of a strategy to deliver a unified platform for information management and delivery.

The improvements include expanded presentation management, real-time delivery of information from its native sources via real-time page generation and assembly and advanced caching. The new features allow users to quickly deploy web properties, decrease business users’ reliance on IT and facilitate dynamic web interactions across the enterprise.

Vignette has also released its records and document-management product which is designed to provide customers with a platform that delivers compliance, risk management and business automation within a single, standards-based framework.

Vignette says the combination of records management and production capabilities allows customers to automate business processes such as loan originations, customer support requests and claim adjudications for improved efficiency, while capturing records and process audits for compliance.

www.vignette.com

Hummingbird and Certus provide SOX solution

Content-management vendor Hummingbird has signed a technology-partnership agreement with Certus Software to provide a Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance solution.

Hummingbird will integrate Certus’ Governance Suite with its enterprise-document and records-management product to provide internal controls and assurance software based on a compliance platform for sections 103, 302, 404, 409, and 906 of the Act. Certus’ software helps corporations document, implement and sustain reliable internal and disclosure controls required by law, reducing risks and improving transparency for management.

In related news, Hummingbird has also enhanced its enterprise product for use in the legal industry. These features include advanced information retrieval from within Microsoft Outlook and enhanced BlackBerry support for access to knowledge assets.

www.hummingbird.com

www.certus.com

New version of search product from Anacubis

Data-visualisation software vendor Anacubis will release version 3.0 of its visual research and analysis product, Anacubis Desktop, in October.

New features include a database importer that enables the user to import data from Microsoft Access, Oracle and SQL servers; a relationships-summary feature that enables the user to aggregate and generate networks of entity relationships at will; and a path-finder feature that gives the user the ability to take any two entities in a document and find the path and all its associated links between the two of them.

www.anacubis.com

Verity releases Ultraseek 5.3

Enterprise search vendor Verity has made available version 5.3 of its downloadable enterprise-search software product, Ultraseek.

The product allows employees, partners and customers to locate intellectual capital on public websites and intranets. The latest features include a page expert that recognises patterns in HTML pages, relevance tuning and editorial-control options, an enhanced secure search and expanded platform support.

www.verity.com

FAST releases e-directory search product

FAST Search and Transfer (FAST) has released FAST AdVisor, an e-directory search application that targets publishers of online classified advertising and directories.

FAST says the solution allows those types of businesses to provide a quick, intuitive search for users. The company is working with T-Online and Wanadoo in Europe, while Vodafone Live is already using the technology for its mobile browser.

www.fastsearch.com

New content-integration software from EMC

Information and storage-management vendor EMC has released its Enterprise Content Integration Services software, which allows users to discover, access and assimilate structured and unstructured information from multiple internal and external sources, in multiple languages, with one query.

The product works across numerous content sources such as enterprise applications, databases, content-management systems and groupware. It also works across web search engines, industry-specific databases, local archives and government portals.