This month's updates feature a string of Workplace software packages for network-centric computing from IBM, a second-generation e-mail content filter product from Computer Mail Services, a project management portlet from Genius Inside and more.
Distance learning package for Domino developers
The Learning Continuum Company, based in Boca Raton, Fla., has released an educational package geared toward Notes 6 developers who want to learn to develop Domino Web applications. Domino 6 Web Development Package includes two courses. The first course, Developing Domino 6 Web Applications, teaches Domino Web development and how Domino works with Web browsers. This course covers how to add HTML to a Notes application, security, cascading style sheets (CSS)
and input validation techniques.
The second course, _javascript_ for Domino 6, covers the _javascript_ Object Model and how to use client-side _javascript_ to work with Windows and validate user entered data. The Learning Continuum Company claims these two courses will enable Notes developers to convert their Notes databases into dynamic Web applications. Domino 6 Web Development Package is currently $799.
Portlet targets project management for Workplace
Genius Inside announced a project management portlet that runs on the Lotus Workplace/WebSphere Portal Server platform. The Genius Enterprise Project suite comprises of products that offer Web-based project management capabilities to Domino users. The Timesheet module allows team members or external consultants to register daily and weekly hours spent on specific tasks and/or customer engagement modifications.
With the product, information is filtered into a project plan and managers can view, on demand, actual hours spent on tasks versus forecasts. By converting the Timesheet module to a portlet, users benefit from a single sign on; integration of data with other concurrent applications, such as financial, human resource, and other portlets; and gain a three-dimensional view of this and other data from the desktop. Genius Inside is currently porting other GEP modules to Workplace and plans to have
these additional modules available early next year.
Praetor G2 content filter improves heuristics
Southfield, Mich.-based Computer Mail Services, Inc., an e-mail security and management software provider, has released Praetor G2 -- the second generation of its e-mail content filter product. Praetor G2 implements new features to more effectively identify and filter spam e-mail messages including Bayesian statistical filtering that can be trained, heuristic analysis of the message header and body content and the creation of new weighted wordlists
that are used to score text within the message.
Essentially a comprehensive messaging firewall, Praetor protects any SMTP mail server such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Novell GroupWise and Sendmail. The application can be installed on any Windows machine including, but not limited to, the mail server itself.
IBM launches Workplace offerings
Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM rolled out a string of Workplace software packages for network-centric computing. Software in the offing includes IBM Workplace Services Express v2.0, IBM WebSphere Portal 5.1. and IBM Lotus Web Conferencing Service.
IBM Workplace Services Express v2.0. is positioned as a simple-to-deploy pack that includes team collaboration, document management, Web forms, task lists and portal services. IBM Workplace Services Express v2.0. is scheduled for release on December 9, 2004.
Meanwhile, IBM claims WebSphere Portal 5.1. will link business processes with portal application delivery via an orchestrated workflow. IBM WebSphere Portal is scheduled for release on November 30, 2004.
IBM Lotus Web Conferencing Service enables organizations to deploy Web conferencing without an investment in new IT resources or skills. An internet connection, Web browser and telephone are all that is needed to access this service. Lotus Web Conferencing Service will be available on demand from IBM and will be offered through pay-per-use and subscription usage plans. This service is scheduled for release in December of 2004.
Pricing for all products will be announced upon availability.
Native format support for legal review of Notes e-mail
Attenex Corp. announced the Attenex Patterns E-Discovery Platform version 2.5, which enables the processing and review of Lotus Notes e-mail messages in their native format. Export with XML metadata to TIFF formats is supported. The software is said to automate the bulk of the clerical and the technical processing involved in the legal document response process, while providing tools to speed document review and maintain an auditable chain of evidence.
Using Attenex Patterns 2.5, customers can process Lotus Notes e-mail messages without first converting the messages to .PST, .TIF or .PDF format. Once processed, Lotus Notes messages can be reviewed in either rich text (RTF) or text format. Document tagging -- review teams can tag documents for further categorization based on specifications, significant issues, privilege rationale or other requirements.
Groove Enterprise Data Bridge
Groove Networks has launched the Groove Enterprise Data Bridge, a product bundle that includes products developed by CASAHL Technology. It comprises: CASAHL ecKnowledge with Groove connector for mapping data between Groove forms applications and enterprise data sources; Groove Enterprise Integration Server & Groove Publisher bot service for single-point integration between Groove forms applications and enterprise data sources; and Groove Virtual Office
software to integrate data sources with Groove workspaces.
The package also includes one of the following CASAHL ecKnowledge connectors to be selected by customer: DBMS, Oracle, XML, Lotus Notes and Domino, Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint Portal. The Groove Enterprise Data Bridge is priced at $24,995 per unit.
Meeting software links to Lotus groupware environment
First Virtual Communications, Inc. released Click to Meet 4.1 and Conference Server 7.3.100 with enhanced IBM Lotus groupware integration and Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS) integration. Click to Meet provides a rich-media platform that allows multiple users to communicate in an on-line meeting with audio, video, data and text through a client-server software solution. Through a Web browser, Click to Meet allows people to attend meetings and
classes, see and hear everyone in the conference, and do it all through a single windowed interface.
The software can provide IBM Lotus Instant Messaging users with the ability to create a rich media conference directly from their existing Instant Messenger, leveraging existing contact list and presence capabilities. Additionally, the IBM Lotus integration option allows users to log into Click to Meet using their Domino directory usernames and passwords simplifying administration and access to Click to Meet's rich media communications capabilities. Administrators don't need to manage
multiple directories when deploying Click to Meet 4.1. Pricing starts at $7,400 US.
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