Hyper.Net updated to provide numerous new functions, improved Microsoft SharePoint integration and tight native integration with Java, IBM Websphere Portal Server, IBM DB/2 and Lotus Domino 6.51
Stuttgart, Germany, 19 October, 2004 – Coextant Systems today announced the availability of Hyper.Net R4.6, the newest release of its Enterprise Content Integration and Transformation technology. Hyper.Net enables organizations to tie authoring tools and content stores to relational databases and portals without direct integration, making it possible to automatically populate consumer-optimized web sites and employee portals with document-based content. Hyper.Net’s primary power is derived from transforming Microsoft Office and other documents stored in document managers into XML-based relational data released in Microsoft SQL, IBM DB/2 or Domino databases.
The new release includes native content integration and transformation support for the IBM product line, a new XML parser for Microsoft Office 2003 and a large number of new and enhanced features. The native support for IBM Websphere Portal Server, J2EE, IBM DB/2 and Lotus Domino 6.51 allows customers to leverage the full power of these technologies to create full-featured solutions with decreased cost and time-to-completion. The new XML parser creates a foundation for building advanced XML-driven solutions and opens Hyper.Net to future development possibilities. The new and enhanced features enable e-business applications to create a robust interactive experience for content consumers.
“Hyper.Net 4.6 is a significant milestone for Coextant and its customers because it completes Hyper.Net’s multiplatform support across the technologies companies use most,” states Coextant Systems CEO Paul Caspers. Customers are now able to use a single product to integrate content from various sources with Portals and Web solutions created with varying technologies. This version of Hyper.Net also allows customers to leverage varied skills and technologies to secure an impressively fast Return On Investment.”
Recent projects implemented with a pre-release version of Hyper.Net 4.6 include integrations with Microsoft Content Management Server and SharePoint, Lotus Workplace WCMS, Domino Document Manager, SAP Portal and multiple enterprise Websphere Portal solutions. A multilingual Web site project at Rieter Management AG - recently ranked as the best Internet Web site of 2004 in Switzerland - illustrates Hyper.Net’s fit in the area of content-intensive global Internet Web site deployments.
New Features
New features provided by Hyper.Net 4.6 include:
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Hyper.Net Microsoft Office 2003 WordML Parser
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Reads the XML output from Word and uses this information as the basis for transformation. This provides a more consistent and better quality of output, and ensures better reliability of the Content Transformation Server. New features include support for:
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Preserving alternative text entered for images in the source document, and reproducing this as ALT-Tag text in transformed HTML
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Preserving Tool Tip information entered for hyperlinks in the source document and reproducing this as the "title" text in transformed HTML
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Preserving links to anchors inside the same topic and in other topics
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Nested tables
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Unicode character set publishing
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Populates IBM DB/2 databases with transformed content from Hyper.Net. Connectors for Microsoft SQL and Lotus Domino databases were previously released
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Hyper.Net Framework (JDK) - Java Development Framework
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Java version of Hyper.Net’s Rapid Solution Development Framework enables fast integration of content for technologies like IBM Websphere and other J2EE-based web servers, Microsoft CMS solutions and Portal frameworks from various vendors
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Support for IBM Lotus Domino 6.51
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Support for IBM Lotus Domino version 6.51 and Domino Document Manager 6.51
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Support for Adobe Acrobat Distiller 6
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A technology upgrade to move Hyper.Net to the latest version of Adobe Acrobat
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Enhancements
Hyper.Net 4.6 enhancements include:
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New Hyper.Net Master Index Administration Tool
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The Hyper.Net Master Index Web Administration Tool has been significantly redesigned to provide new functionality and a simplified interface. It also supports user roles and security, improved logging, provides a web service that provides the publication status for any publication to any applet requesting it. Such applets can be integrated in any DMS (e.g. Domino Document Manager and SharePoint), and allow an author to view the real-time status of the document as it goes through the Hyper.Net transformation process
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Improvements in the existing connectors for Windows SharePoint Services, Domino Document Manager and the Windows File System
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Hyper.Net Framework SDK .Net Development Framework
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Numerous improvements, including validation that all server controls are HTML W3C-compliant, and improved navigation and search functionality for selections with multiple meta information
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Enhancements in the automated installer to transparently install integration libraries, and to ease installation of the DocEvents/Document Type Subform in Domino Document Manager
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Updates to the Installation and Configuration Guides and to the Consulting Redbook
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