New Systems Sport IxiaSoftt XML Technology

By: E&P Staff Montreal-based XML database and search engine developer IxiaSoft announced the fruits of partnerships with three systems developers and a technology provider.

From a partnership announced at Nexpo 2004, Spain's Protec produced the Quay archive solution for cross-media publishing -- created for media companies such as newspapers, magazines, and ad agencies, with the aim of saving resources and improving content re-purposing and copyright management.

Quay can manage any document type (PDFs, text, image, video, audio), from editorial content to interdepartmental business documents. Protec embedded TextML Server into Quay to manage all XML content and provide advanced searching, allowing users to perform multi-criteria searches, sort results, refer to relevant documents/images, save searches, and other, in-depth search functions, while respecting profile-based security access rights.

"With TextML Server's advanced search engine, Quay users will be able to quickly locate important information from across a range of different types of cross-referenced files, ultimately making employees more productive and cost efficient," Protec CEO Fernando Gomez said in a statement.

Cross-media publishing solutions provider KnowledgeView Ltd. announced its Rapid Archive for large publishing groups which integrates IxiaSoft's TextML Server.

Rapid Archive is the long-term archive-management module for KnowledgeView's news-management Rapid Browser. Independent News and Media (INM) and Media Communications Group already use Rapid Archive, which is being tested by other media groups. Rapid Archive is INM's group-wide Editorial Sharing and Archive (ESA), designed for the publisher by KnowledgeView. Fully integrated with Rapid Browser, Rapid Archive allows editors belonging to 170 publications (including leading U.K. newspaper The Independent) to quickly search news packages from these publications and re-use material within the group in its existing production systems.

Media Communications Group uses Rapid Archive for editorial content and images in Arabic publications such as Al-Hayat daily, Al-Wasat weekly, and Laha, a women's magazine. Media Communications editors in London, Beirut, and other locations can access a centralized archive, while editorial input from Rapid Browser is added daily.

Madrid-based Quasar Technologies has integrated IxiaSoft's TextML Server in its Getready enterprise publishing solution, which offers a browser-based collaborative environment for content management at newspapers, magazines, ad agencies, catalog publishers, and corporate publishers.

The combination of TextML Server and Getready targets organizations concerned with keeping productivity up and costs down. According to IxiaSoft and Quasar, benefits of the integration include unlimited flexibility in storing and managing information, a unified and replicated low-maintenance repository, quick and easy access to critical information in multiple data types, multi-criteria searching and results sorting, and real-time indexing for access to information as soon as it is published.

IxiaSoft also announced integration of Stellent Outside In XML Export transformation technology with IxiaSoft's flagship product, TextML Server. IxiaSoft said its OEM agreement with content-management software provider Stellent will give its customers the ability to store and index a much range of document types, enabling "normalization of content and quick access to information."

Stellent Outside In XML Export technology converts over 225 document types to XML and supports a wide variety of document formats, such as word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, database export, graphics, Adobe Acrobat (PDF), and vCard. The technology will be fully integrated into TextML Server's next release.

Enabling TextML Server to store and index most enterprise content throughout an organization, said IxiaSoft Sales and Marketing Vice President Jean-Paul Chauvet, "will appeal to partners developing applications" that manage large volumes of business content "from all types of unstructured documents."