In-Q-Tel, a private venture group funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and Convera, a provider of search, retrieval, and categorization software, have announced a development and investment agreement that will fund Convera in the development of key technologies and tools to help address the IT challenges facing the Intelligence Community. These products will be made available over the next six months and are applicable to intelligence agencies as well as state and local governments implementing centers for homeland security. In-Q-Tel will pay Convera $1,532,500 for the enhancements to its products.  In conjunction with this transaction, In-Q-Tel will receive two-year warrants to purchase 137,711 shares of Convera common stock.

(http://www.convera.com), (http://www.in-q-tel.org)

FatWire Software, a provider of dynamic content management (dCM) and developer of the Web application assembly system and dynamic content management software UpdateEngine 6, has introduced a new dCM Integration kit with six free FatWire dCM portlets for IBM's WebSphere Portal. The portlets allow business users to create and modify both structured and unstructured content and publish it to the WebSphere Portal to provide users with fresh, relevant information. The dCM Integration Kit and six portlets are available at the IBM Portlet Catalog. The new dCM Integration Kit provides native J2EE integration between FatWire's dynamic content management software, UpdateEngine, and IBM's Web Sphere Portal v4.1 to allow business users to create, edit, and publish content to WebSphere Portals. FatWire's six new dCM content-rich display portlets are: the User Display Portlet, for fast mapping for portal users to the dCM software; the Launch Pad Portlet, for quick access to the full UpdateEngine interface for more rigorous CM functionality; the News Portlet, for personalized display of structured content items such as news articles; the Job Listing Portlet, for fast content edits to job listings that open to complete descriptions; the Document Portlet, for display of unstructured content such as MS Office or pdf files, with appropriate metadata and commentary; and the Advertisement Portlet, to display advertisements including text and graphics.

(http://www.fatwire.com), (http://www.ibm.com)

Tridion has launched a 'public sector taskforce in an effort to help government bodies cope with the boom in demand for content rich, transactional Web sites. The Enterprise Content Management company has already seen a tenfold increase in requests for ECM solutions from government organizations over the past 12 months. To cope with this demand and address future customer requirements, Tridion has created a team to help organizations make their Web sites more interactive. The taskforce will deliver help-desk support through its public sector hotline and will offer specialist consultancy advice. It will also help public sector bodies ensure they conform to standards such as the eGovernment Interoperability Framework (eGIF), the eGovernment Metadata Standard (eGMS), the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), and the Freedom of Information Act, amongst others. The team has also developed a public sector information gateway that includes technical documents, online demos, and customer references relevant to local and central government, charities, and non-profit and educational organizations. Together, the hotline and gateway aim to provide comprehensive answers to any question regarding online delivery. Tridion is headquartered in Amsterdam and has offices in all European countries and the US.

(http://www.tridion.com/uk), (http://www.tridion.com/uk/publicsector)

Research firm, the Yankee Group, has analyzed three instant messaging solutions and released recommendations in an effort to help businesses avoid critical and costly mistakes. The Yankee Group report, "Vendors Race to Get a Piece of the Enterprise IM Market," advises that corporate strategies must address EIM use both internally among employees and externally with customers and business partners. When deploying IM, enterprises have three models to consider: a public IM network, a proprietary hosted IM solution, or an enterprise server IM solution. In late 2002, six firms announced new enterprise instant messaging (EIM) products or significant upgrades: AOL, IBM/Lotus, Microsoft, Reuters, Yahoo!, and Oracle. Such competition in the enterprise IM space brings new options to companies, but does not make for easy decisions. Yankee Group expects that IM usage within enterprises will not only continue, but will heighten in the near future, and they advise companies not to block all forms of IM, nor to doing nothing to supervise or regulate the use of instant messaging.

(http://www.yankeegroup.com)

SurfControl, a Web and email filtering company, has announced a strategy for helping enterprises manage Instant Messaging (IM) and P2P file-sharing with the launch of a new product to be delivered later this spring. Codenamed "Project Blackbeard," SurfControl said its new product will provide companies with content filtering tools to manage the growing network security risks posed by the adoption of IM and P2P file-sharing in the workplace. Central to the new product will be the ability to manage unauthorized Instant Messaging on America Online, MSN, and Yahoo as well as tools to manage the unauthorized use of P2P networks like Kazaa and Morpheus. IM and P2P communications pose risks related to security penetrating techniques and protocols, including breached corporate firewalls, network-wide virus infections, legal liability issues, and inadvertent or malicious release of confidential company information. SurfControl's Project Blackbeard is designed to give companies the ability to gain better control over their communications networks, secure unauthorized communications, and identify new risks. SurfControl's new IM/P2P product will also feature the ability to: block or allow communications down to the IM client or P2P network level or the individual or group-based IP address; customize policy violation notifications based on each IM client; and operate with the Windows 2000 platform. Detailed features and pricing for the SurfControl IM/P2P product will be announced as part of the company's product launch. Project Blackbeard is the first major IM and P2P product offering from SurfControl.

(http://www.surfcontrol.com)

Vignette Corp. has announced the immediate availability of Vignette Application Builder 4.0. Designed to empower the business user and increase the speed at which portal applications can be developed and deployed, Vignette Application Builder enables organizations to graphically create, integrate, and deliver custom composite Web applications. The Builder was developed in response to customer demands to reduce the cost of developing and integrating portal applications. Vignette Application Builder is designed to unify the enterprise's Web strategy under a single framework for the development and deployment of enterprise Web applications. In addition, Vignette Application Builder assembles these component views into unified portal applications that cut across enterprise resources, providing integrated views of application data to the right users. Vignette Application Builder is designed to streamline portlet development efforts through an intuitive, code-free development environment that integrates with the Vignette Application Portal. Vignette Application Builder capabilities include the following: a code-free view builder enables application designers to drag and drop controls in their browser; support for composite Web applications provides a mechanism for combining and relating distinct data sources; integration with existing data provides a variety of integration technologies; application templates use prepackaged applications that provide a starting point for application development; and an application navigation map provides a graphical representation of the navigation that is defined for a particular application. The Vignette Application Builder 4.0 will be available to customers by March 31, 2003.

(http://www.vignette.com)

Infotrieve has signed article distribution agreements with six publishers in the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) fields. Articles from the six new publishers now available through Infotrieve will push the total number of full-text articles available for online searching, purchasing, and desktop delivery to more than 2.8 million. The six publishers now making their content available through Infotrieve are: The American Academy of Pediatrics, which publishes six peer-reviewed journals, including its official journal, Pediatrics. The American Society of Clinical Oncology, a professional organization representing physicians worldwide who treat people with cancer. The Journal of Clinical Oncology, ASCO's flagship publication is a peer-reviewed biomedical journal focusing on clinical cancer research. The Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), whose mission is to encourage and assist research, training, publication, and dissemination of knowledge in vision and ophthalmology. ARVO's official journal, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, covers the 13 sections represented by its membership. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, a non-profit, independently published scientific journal, whose mission is to publish basic science, clinical, and related information about the musculoskeletal system. The New York Academy of Sciences, an independent, nonprofit, global organization committed to promoting science and technology in order to foster social and economic development. Its The Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences has been published continuously since 1823. The Society of Nuclear Medicine, founded in 1954, an international scientific and professional organization whose membership of physicians, technologists and scientists are involved with the application of nuclear medicine. Its flagship journal, The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, is a peer-reviewed journal in nuclear medicine and related disciplines.

(http://jnm.snmjournals.org), (http://www.aapjournals.org), (http://www.annalsnyas.org), (http://www.infotrieve.com), (http://www.iovs.org), (http://www.jco.org), (http://www.jbjs.org)

Verity, Inc., a provider of enterprise software, has announced the U.S. Army has employed the K2 Enterprise (K2E) software on its Army Knowledge Online (AKO) intranet. More than 1.27 million Army employees and retirees are currently registered to use AKO. Col. Timothy Fong, director of chief technology office, NETCOM, has explained that, "AKO is the Army's enterprise portal. It is the only site that any soldier, retiree or civilian needs to go to handle a myriad of operational, procedural, and personal information matters, from administrative tasks, online education, and training, to checking benefits. The Army uses the Verity K2E product to index, search, and retrieve the large and growing amount of information on the AKO site.

SDL International, a provider of multilingual solutions offering translation technology and services, has announced a new version of SDLWorkFlow for the management of multilingual content. The system offers both forms of translation technology - "Translation memory" ('TM') and "Real-time Translation" ('RTT'). TM re-uses human translations, once captured in a database, when matched to new content, which reduces the cost of managing foreign-language Web sites and intranets. The new version--SDLWorkFlow 2003--is designed to manage any format of content within a translation process, reducing the overall timeframe within which foreign language information can be posted online. One of the major enhancements to the system is the incorporation of the latest Translation memory engine technologies from the SDLX Translation memory engine, a feature of which is support for the TMX file format for data-exchange across Translation memories. Other new features include support for 'Translation memory sequencing', where reference libraries of translation memories can now be used to automate the translation of matched sentences, specific to any particular translation project. Additionally, when working offline, translators can now choose to download TMX file format or legacy formats such as Trados TTX format files. This means that SDLWorkFlow 2003 can manage different forms of translation content in one workflow--enhancing the overall speed of project deliverables. Other enhancements to the system include: SDLTermBase Online is now available to Translators for immediate terminology research; customized workflow scripting can now be executed from any point in the workflow management; and reporting has been re-designed to accommodate more customization and scheduling.

(http://www.sdlintl.com)

WAM!NET Government Services (WAM!NET), an architect, developer, designer and manager of secure enterprise networks for digital content distribution and hosting, has been selected by CSC to complete a number of network management specific task orders totaling several million dollars through 2008 on the CSC-led Groundbreaker IT contract for the National Security Agency (NSA). WAM!NET's work through CSC provides PC- and Unix-based network engineering services to support a flexible, scalable, and reliable modernization of the NSA IT infrastructure, in an effort to provide better collaboration, more streamlined operations, and reduced costs. The NSA Groundbreaker IT Contract, awarded to CSC in 2001, is potentially valued at over $2 billion. It encompasses provisions for secure and non-secure telephony and network services, distributed computing services, and enterprise and security management of the non-mission critical information technology infrastructure.

(http://www.wamnet.com)

FileNet Corporation, a provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, has announced that Woori Bank, a Korean commercial bank with a customer base of 13 million, has selected FileNet's ECM solution in an effort to streamline its loan financing process. By automating many of its supporting loan processes, Woori Bank expects to realize customer service and employee productivity gains. FileNet's ECM offering is designed to be a complete enterprise content management infrastructure that helps organizations manage business processes and their associated content. All products will be supplied through Samsung SDS and Dawin Data Systems, FileNet ValueNET partners in Korea. By improving content and process management capabilities, FileNet's solution is intended to enable Woori Bank to strengthen capabilities in two key business areas: improved bank operations and rapid loan application processing.

(http://www.filenet.com)

London-based Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC has implemented Copyright Clearance Center's Rightslink, a digital rights management (DRM) solution, on Euromoney's flagship Web sites euromoney.com and institutionalinvestor.com. Copyright Clearance Center's licensing solution currently enables 24x7 permissions to use copyrighted materials from Institutional Investor, Euromoney, and other Euromoney titles, and intends to provide permissions for content from all Euromoney titles in the future. Copyright Clearance Center's Rightslink is designed to extend the value of content for rightsholders by creating revenue opportunities, increasing customer satisfaction, and improving operational efficiencies. The service facilitates Web-based content reuse in print or electronic publications, automates ordering of hard-copy reprints, and provides insight into customer behavior to support intelligent marketing decisions. Other financial information services organizations using Rightslink include Dow Jones and Company, MSNBC.com, and Thomson Media.

(http://www.copyright.com), (http://www.euromoneyplc.com)

The Sierra Club, a grassroots environmental organization, has selected iUpload's Web content management solution in an effort to help disparate webmasters and contributors to update their sites and share information. The Sierra Club determined that a Web-based content-management service was the best way to meet its requirements and selected iUpload, a Web content management service provider, to help them simplify how they publish information to some of the more dynamic parts of its Web sites. iUpload's approach provides a Web-based content management solution that is independent of site architecture, infrastructure, design platform, and hosting environment. iUpload's service is designed to allow non-technical users to author, publish, and edit content directly to a Web site in a secure, controlled environment. Its approach did not require Sierra Club volunteer webmasters to install any new software, did not impose any infrastructure changes, worked well with the existing Web sites, and allowed the volunteers to focus on content.  

(http://www.sierraclub.org), (http://www.iupload.com)