Hyperwave, provider of collaborative Enterprise Content Management solutions, and In.vision Research Corporation, provider of XML authoring in the Microsoft Office System, announced a cooperative effort to bring the benefits of In.vision's XML authoring to Hyperwave's secure, collaborative environment. The purpose of the agreement is to meet the immediate needs and long-term goals of national defense.
"The partnership with In.vision is another example of Hyperwave's commitment to deliver real solutions to promote cross-domain intelligence sharing within the Intelligence Community's net-centric environment. This joint effort provides users with a highly-scalable, end-to-end XML platform for managing the content lifecycle, including web authoring, document authoring, collaboration, workflow, publishing, search, and archiving," said Peter Watson, Vice President at Hyperwave.
"Hyperwave and In.vision are veteran providers of intelligence solutions, with roots going back to original efforts of the DoD to use XML for critical information production and sharing. This partnership resulted from broad support throughout the defense and intelligence community for our individual, and now combined product offerings," said John Friske, CEO of In.vision. "Our commitment will speed the delivery of critically needed tools to the men and women that are charged with the safety of this country."
Hyperwave and In.vision teamed up to deliver a net-centric intelligence production and dissemination system within the Horizontal Fusion Project. This system enables agencies to move away from the traditional book-building model of creating intelligence reports by allowing users to build smaller, self-contained pieces of information, which can be assembled into knowledge products. This reusability increases analysts' productivity and reduces the development time of intelligence products. Referencing reusable components and thereby eliminating the old copy/paste approach helps avoid outdated information.
In.vision's Xpress Author for Microsoft Word allows users to author documents in Microsoft Word without concern for the technical complexity of XML. Documents are then published to Hyperwave's Information Server (IS/6) document store and can be browsed and displayed as HTML with a standard browser. At this point, analysts can visualize document components and simply reuse them with simple drag and drop into In.vision's enhanced Microsoft Word authoring environment. Analysts also have access to tools for contacting component owners (i.e. email, chat, video conferencing) when it is necessary to discuss the impact of changes. Analysts are notified via email about relevant component changes and additions, ensuring immediate dissemination of critical information that may materially impact current and future decisions.
