Archive | May 4, 2005

Latest Release of Interstage Contentbiz Extends Support for Web Services and SOA, Provides Audit Trail for Compliance, and Improves Efficiencies of Enterprise Content Integration

Fujitsu Software Corporation today announced the availability of Interstage Contentbiz v7, the newest version of Fujitsu’s scalable application platform for enterprise content integration. Interstage Contentbiz v7 extends support for Web services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), offers a new extensible audit trail and enhances integration capabilities. Together, these features allow companies to more effectively access, modify and search structured and unstructured enterprise content resident in disparate, networked systems, independent of format or location. By providing more effective management of corporate intellectual capital assets, Interstage Contentbiz v7 enables businesses to optimize employee productivity, improve customer service and partner relations, comply with government mandates and maximize enterprise value. Key features and enhancements include:

• Bidirectional WebDAV Agent enables integration with any enterprise content management (ECM) system that complies with the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) standard.
• New Extensible Audit Trail ensures that proper audit trail information is maintained for all compliance documentation.
• Enhanced Web Services Interface enables enterprises to leverage a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to create Web services and integrate reusable content integration services with applications.
• New Web Content Agent extends the reach of content integration solutions to intranet and Internet content.
• New Content Portlets, which comply with JSR 168 (Java Specification Request for Portlet API), provide commonly used content navigation and search functionality that can be easily deployed on enterprise portals.

Interstage Contentbiz v7 builds on the application platform’s proven performance in enabling enterprises to leverage their entire knowledge asset base – pooling knowledge through content integration and delivering transparent access to information in real-time. It provides simple, extensible content integration services that adhere to open standards. With Interstage Contentbiz, companies can access structured and unstructured enterprise content from different systems and sources, facilitating unified content views, maintaining content integrity across the company and enabling better content repurposing and reuse.

“Faced by competitive pressures to better optimize customer and supply chain relationships, as well as growing demands for government compliance, companies need to turn their isolated silos of knowledge into unified views and processes,” said Robert Sepanloo, senior vice president of Interstage at Fujitsu Software Corporation. “With Interstage Contentbiz v7, we continue our commitment to helping companies achieve their strategic and financial objectives by providing best-in-class technology for harnessing corporate knowledge and intellectual capital – regardless of location or format.”

Interstage Contentbiz v7 Features and Enhancements

Interstage Contentbiz is a scalable, extensible platform for viewing, searching and modifying content from a range of sources, including data from enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other enterprise applications, relational databases and a variety of enterprise content management systems. It also repurposes content for many different audiences without the difficulty and cost of duplication. The Java-based, modular architecture leverages open standards, such as WebDAV and Web services, and includes a proven metadata repository, SDK and a set of services and content agents. With v7, Interstage Contentbiz offers significant new features and enhancements to facilitate enterprise content integration, including a WebDAV agent, extensible audit trail, Web services interface, Web content agent and new content portlets.

WebDAV Agent

Interstage Contentbiz v7 offers a new WebDAV integration agent to extend support for the WebDAV standard for editing files and folders remotely over the Internet. The WebDAV Agent makes it possible to search multiple WebDAV-compliant enterprise content management repositories simultaneously and modify content and metadata from each ECM system based on content access policies.. By providing a standards-based approach to integrating content from multiple repositories, the WebDAV agent eliminates the time to develop and maintain custom integrations.

Extensible Audit Trail

A comprehensive content audit trail is a key requirement for any compliance application. The new extensible Interstage Contentbiz audit trail contains a variety of content events, such as content creation, update and delete, and all content life cycle transitions, such as content approval, publishing and archiving with the timestamp information and the name of the user responsible for each state or transition. It also keeps track of system security-related events, such as when users were added or removed, the roles and access that users are assigned, and when each user logs into the system. All audit trail information can be viewed and queried in the Web-based content browser or any custom client application, based on time, audit events or content types.

Web Services Interface

The Interstage Contentbiz Web Services Interface enables enterprises to leverage a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to integrate reusable content integration services, such as full-text search, with applications that need access to both structured and unstructured content sources. The Web Services interface enables Web service client applications to access the Interstage Contentbiz virtual repository to retrieve a content item or a list of content items from multiple sources as if they were all stored in one repository and request for metadata information. With v7, the Web Services Interface adds a new, extensible Web Services Management component for creating and publishing Web services for any new Interstage Contentbiz service that customers may build for their content integration applications.

Web Content Agent

Many large enterprises have numerous dedicated intranet sites for its business units or departments with constantly growing content volumes, but no means to search across all of these independent sites. Interstage Contentbiz v7 introduces a new Web Content Agent, which goes beyond the dedicated search and query tools of other systems, to extend the reach of content integration to intranet and Internet information. The Web Content Agent enables organizations to register all required site URLs in the content integration solution. It then crawls the registered sites and their sub-structures on predefined intervals, making the site content fully searchable in Interstage Contentbiz full-text searches.

Content Portlets

Enterprise portals typically require portlets to handle each of the many content sources on which they rely, from databases and business applications to document repositories. Interstage Contentbiz provides a common content integration layer to help ease the cost and difficulty of integrating various content sources with portals. This allows portal users to navigate to all content sources via a unified navigation tree, which can be exposed as a single portlet. Interstage Contentbiz v7 now features a set of portlets that comply with the Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 Portlet API and provide commonly used content navigation and search functionality.

About Fujitsu Software Corporation

Fujitsu Software Corporation, based in Sunnyvale, California, is part of the Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) family. The wholly owned subsidiary delivers one of the world’s broadest lines of application infrastructure software products, including the Interstage® Suite. Fujitsu Software Corporation leverages Fujitsu’s international scope and expertise in developing and providing information technology solutions, including more than 4,000 software developers worldwide. To learn more about the Interstage Suite, visit www.fujitsu.com/interstage.

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Sun Fire x64 Servers With the AMD Opteron Processor Increase Computational Simulations, Reduce Heat Generation by 30 Percent; Solaris 10 Operating System Selected Over Linux

At the NewEnergy Forum 2005, the conference for energy industry leaders, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced that NewEnergy Associates, a Siemens Company and provider of end-to-end energy IT and consulting solutions for decision support and energy operations, has selected Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers over all top-tier x64 server offerings, and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) over standard Linux distributions as part of its high-performance grid infrastructure. The solution, powered by the AMD Opteron[TM] processor, is designed to accelerate applications by increasing computational power, maximize system efficiency and uptime, and provide 30 percent lower heat output than competing alternatives.

With the advent of grid computing and Monte Carlo analysis (data obtained by simulating a statistical model in which all parameters are numerical), NewEnergy’s datacenter has grown rapidly. Due to an increase in the computational power used for these simulations, NewEnergy’s datacenter experienced a dramatic increase in air-conditioning costs caused by the heat created by the large numbers of servers that were not from Sun. Sun’s x64 servers run 30 percent cooler than competing alternatives, making them an ideal choice.

In addition to being a Sun customer, NewEnergy Associates, a Siemens Company provides software, energy business solutions and industry expertise to more than 200 clients throughout the world. The company enables customers to meet the largest challenges in strategic and financial planning, energy market and transmission analysis, energy trading, risk management, as well as retail and wholesale energy market operations.

“After 29 years of business, for the first time NewEnergy is no longer vendor agnostic,” said Neal Tisdale, vice president of software development, NewEnergy Associates. “We owe it to our customers to recommend the virtually unmatched price-performance and reduced heat generation of Sun’s x64 server line powered by the AMD Opteron processor over all other tier-one vendors evaluated. The ability to upgrade to higher throughput dual-core CPU’s without increasing the heat output, and the flexibility to run Solaris OS, Windows or standard Linux distributions, provides a great investment and a dramatic decrease in operational costs.”

In addition, NewEnergy selected Solaris 10, over competing operating systems, for its unparalleled track record, its innovative and comprehensive Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) capability, expansive global support network, and the ability of Solaris 10 to be binary- compatible with other versions.

“As a leading global provider of energy IT solutions expertise, NewEnergy Associates represents a growing category of customers who are demanding more from their IT systems,” said Lisa Sieker, vice president of marketing, Network Systems Group at Sun Microsystems. “With extreme performance, reliability, serviceability and flexibility, Sun’s x64 systems provide NewEnergy with virtually unrivaled return on enterprise IT investment. These stellar benefits, coupled with the powerful and innovative features of Solaris 10, provide a winning combination for NewEnergy Associates, and its need for higher computational grid technology.”

NewEnergy’s investment in Sun technology includes Java technology, Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition, the Solaris 10 OS, and latest Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers. Sun’s technology offerings help NewEnergy establish a thorough grid computing infrastructure, run Oracle databases with large memory requirements, and conduct faster risk analysis, which previously required overnight computations. More information on NewEnergy Associates, a Siemens Company can be found at: http://www.newenergyassoc.com/.

For more information about Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers, please visit: http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision — “The Network Is The Computer” — has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun Fire, Solaris and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron, and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.