Openpages, Inc., Announces ContentWare Suite Which Includes XML and Java Server Pages Support.Business/Technology Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2000 Next Generation Internet See Internet2. Content Management System is First to Deliver True End-to-End Solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business , B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B. and E-Business Openpages, Inc., a leading provider of content management software solutions for e-business, today announced a new version of Openpages ContentWare(TM) -- the company's award-winning product suite. ContentWare 2.5 is designed to help commerce and e-media organizations more effectively create, manage and deploy timely, accurate and compelling content. Unlike other vendors, Openpages, Inc., provides the highest level of integration with popular desktop applications for deployment to any channel, including Web, print and wireless. The new version includes enhanced support for Java, extensible markup language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. (XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. ) and the Apple Macintosh Apple Macintosh - Macintosh OS. It also features direct integration with leading desktop software packages, including Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. , Adobe Photoshop See Photoshop. , InDesign, Macromedia's Dreamweaver, Microsoft's FrontPage, SoftQuad's XMetaL and QuarkXPress, giving organizations--and their individual content creators--greater flexibility to produce, change, archive, deploy and re-use business-critical content. A growing number of Fortune 1000 companies are turning to Openpages ContentWare(TM) to ease the burden of managing their ever-changing and expanding portfolios of e-business content. Openpages' newest clients include, Knight-Ridder, RealCities.com, Thomson Financial Thomson Financial A major provider of information, analytical tools, and consulting services to the financial community. The firm, a division of Thomson Corporation, is best known to investors for its First Call segment, which publishes consensus earnings Services and Grant's Investor, Inc. Collectively, these companies represent millions of pages of information on the Web. "Our clients are increasingly looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a complete end-to-end approach to Web content management with integration to desktop applications tied to a rich metadata database. We are seeing next-generation solutions emerging, from companies like Openpages, that are addressing these real-world needs," said Victor Votsch, research director at Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. . "We chose ContentWare to automate and streamline the production of our RealCities.com Web sites because it offers the best integration to our e-news front-end," said David DeMilo, vice president of technology, KnightRidder.com. "This provides our editorial staff with the most full-featured tools for deploying content to variety of output channels." Any Content, Any Process, Any Channel Openpages ContentWare provides businesses with the only complete end-to-end content management solution. Unlike other management systems, ContentWare integrates all the critical steps of content creation, management and deployment into a single easy-to-use environment. "We are solving a critical e-business problem: the inability to efficiently create, deploy and manage meaningful information on the Internet. Our solution uniquely automates what is currently disparate, non-integrated steps, providing reduced cost-of-ownership, increased revenue and increased customer loyalty," said Warren Huff, president and chief executive officer at Openpages, Inc. New Features in Openpages ContentWare Suite 2.5
Enhanced XML Support--for the creation, management and
distribution of XML-based content.
-- Integration with SoftQuad's XMetaL now enables businesses
committed to XML to create, store, and manage content as XML
data.
-- Added support of XSL templates for deployment of XML content.
-- Integration between ContentWare and XML content created using
Microsoft Word.
Support for Java Server Pages--ContentWare now supports automatic
generation of Java Server Pages (JSP) along with Active Server Pages
(ASP).
-- Support for JSPs and ASPs enables content to be dynamically
updated to customers' Web sites, giving the flexibility to
choose their Web deployment.
Cross-platform Client Support--new integration to desktop
applications and operating systems.
-- Added support for both the Macintosh and Windows 2000
platforms--ContentWare Palette enables native integration with
applications such as Microsoft Word, Adobe's Photoshop &
Illustrator, SoftQuad's XMetaL, Quark's QuarkXPress and
Macromedia's Dreamweaver.
Deploy Multimedia Microsoft Word Documents Directly to the Web--New support allows multimedia Word documents containing graphics and hyperlinks to be converted to HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. pages with accurate layout intact. Advanced Search Capabilities--Content creators, editors, and Web designers can search across multiple metadata elements using the new Boolean search A search for specific data. It implies that any condition can be searched for using the Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT. For example, the English language request: "Search for all Spanish and French speaking employees who have MBAs would be expressed as follows. capabilities. About Openpages ContentWare Suite Openpages ContentWare is a powerful next generation Internet content management solution that automates the entire content production process for e-business and e-media companies. A complete end-to-end system, ContentWare automates the creation, collaboration, workflow and deployment of content. Content Creation - ContentWare integrates directly through the APIs of best-of-breed desktop applications such as Microsoft Word, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, QuarkXPress and Microsoft FrontPage. Users simply point and click within their application to deploy content directly to the Web and to work with others in the organization. Content Management - ContentWare tracks the workflow, collaboration, and deployment of each and any content element including text, photos, graphics, video, audio, or scripts. ContentWare automatically captures extensive metadata on each of theses digital assets to enable complex search, workflow and deployment. This approach makes it easy to manage and re-purpose content elements and allows easy personalization and syndication of content. Content Deployment - ContentWare is the only system that provides deployment of content to any medium, or channel, including Web, print and wireless. ContentWare can automatically deploy content to Web templates such as ASP or JSP (JavaServer Page) An extension to the Java servlet technology from Sun that allows HTML to be combined with Java on the same page. The Java provides the processing, and the HTML provides the layout on the Web page. , and integrate with application servers or Web application platforms. Content is securely created, deployed and managed from anywhere in the enterprise or on the Web via the Openpages ContentWare Suite which includes: ContentWare Server, ContentWare Palette, ContentWare Composer, an SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. Manager and additional services. Pricing and Availability Openpages ContentWare 2.5 is shipping immediately to selected sites with volume shipping to begin in the third quarter of 2000. U.S. list pricing begins at $150,000 for multi-user configuration. About Openpages, Inc. Openpages, Inc. is a leading supplier of end-to-end Internet content management solutions. The company's award-winning software suite, Openpages ContentWare(TM), allows businesses to adopt the most cost effective, automated, and open content management system for B2B, B2C and E-media. The products' open architecture enables integration with leading Web application servers and e-commerce platforms. The company has a growing list of Fortune 1000 customers who rely upon Openpages products and support for every phase of the Web asset management process -- from content creation through approval, design, editing, deployment, syndication and archiving. Openpages, Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. supported by investors from the industry's leading high technology venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] including Matrix Partners, Sigma Partners and North Hill Ventures. Openpages, Inc., is a global company headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts with offices throughout North America, as well as Europe. For information on the company and products, visit the company website at www.openpages.com. Openpages and ContentWare are trademarks of Openpages, Inc. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.062600/bb9 |
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