New strategic integration points and deepened alignment with Microsoft Office, SharePoint Products & Technologies and the Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM) offerings.
Stuttgart, Germany, October 31, 2005 – Coextant Systems today announced the availability of Hyper.Net R4.8, the latest upgrade of its Enterprise Content Integration and Transformation infrastructure.
The release introduces numerous new features and improvements that help customers further reduce TCO by making Hyper.Net solutions faster to implement and easier to administer. "The ability to effectively integrate content authored in the Microsoft Office System is vital to most Enterprise Portal and Content Management projects, and our customers see Hyper.Net as a fundamental component of their solution architecture. In this release we've added new functionality that enables customers to leverage their Microsoft Office investment to meet 'line of business' requirements and deploy content-intensive Web solutions more effectively," stated Paul Caspers, CEO of Coextant Systems International AG.
An enhanced installation program, including new features for re-installing, upgrading and adding components, reduces administrator effort associated with modifying the Hyper.Net software environment and installing future upgrades. An improved, Web-based administration console provides easier access to the Master Index of publications and centralizes Hyper.Net configuration. New functions allowing administrators to provide better service include the ability to cancel any publication request at any time, e-mail notification for publication errors and extensions to the logging facility that produce an audit trail of the entire transformation process for each individual version of a document.
To extend Hyper.Net's ability to integrate with content coming from almost any content storage application, a new, customizable document lifecycle synchronization manager has been added to the product. This new internal component not only provides better error handling, but also provides tighter integration with Microsoft SharePoint document libraries.
Updates to Hyper.Net's content transformation features include enhancements to the product's XML parser enabling support for the most complex document constructs, support for Word master/sub-documents stored in SharePoint or on the Windows File System and improved image processing to improve speed and thumbnailing options.
The new release contains numerous improvements to reduce solution development timeframes, among others improved support for failover and load balancing between multiple services/servers, an enhanced multimedia repository for sharing objects between documents and Web pages, and a new List Generator module that makes it possible to create dynamic views of transformed content such as newsletter lists, sitemaps, periodicals, and product lists. The updated Virtual Taxonomy Designer (formerly Info Mapper) provides the ability to easily and flexibly create and maintain navigational constructs and multi-level categorizations in SharePoint and SQL-based Web sites. Features include individual knowledge maps, flexible menu systems (with multi-language support), external taxonomy integration, auto-indexing and synonym searching. The Hyper.Net Frameworks for both Java and .Net have also been enhanced for ease-of-development and speed.
Supplementing the new release is Version 2 of the Hyper.Net Web Parts collection for Microsoft SharePoint Products & Technologies. The Web Parts make it possible to quickly pull transformed content into a SharePoint solution using standard drag-and-drop techniques.
Customers with large amounts of content authored in Lotus Notes often face the challenge of integrating this content with non-Domino Web sites in a homogeneous way to make solution development and ongoing maintenance affordable. Hyper.Net's new Lotus Notes Connector Version 1 allows IBM Domino customers to transform Notes-native content into well-formed XML content without the Domino rendering engine and integrate it into any intranet, extranet or internet Web site as vendor-neutral Web data. The Lotus Notes Connector can be used in numerous content-related projects, and can function in both co-existence and migration scenarios. With this module, Notes-native content from various Notes applications can be combined with content coming from Office documents in flexible, unified and dynamic views.
Preparing for Microsoft Office '12'
“We are committed to enabling customers to build scalable, totally automated content solutions that positively impact corporate flexibility and at the same time dramatically reduce TCO," said Paul Caspers. "To make this happen, we've taken Hyper.Net 4.8 to the next level and aligned it to match Microsoft's ECM strategy. With a new point release scheduled for Q2 2006, and Release 5 planned for Q4 2006, we are investing extensively into the next release of Microsoft Office, which is certain to be the most significant release of Microsoft Office since Office 95. We are excited about Office '12' and our 2006 development efforts will focus on the new Microsoft Office Open XML formats, support for the creation of PDF documents without the Acrobat Distiller, and integration with SharePoint Version 3, which will provide new workflow services, extended document management capabilities, integrated content management and support for records management."