In brief: Documentum to integrate disparate data

EMC's content management software division, Documentum, has purchased Xerox's askOnce technology for integrating content from disparate data sources. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Documentum cited the acquisition in its announcement of a product for cross-repository content management. Virtual Repository, scheduled for release early in the second quarter, is intended to link structured and unstructured content from internal corporate applications and external resources. AskOnce enables the Virtual Repository's integration capabilities.

Start-up Oversight Technologies this week will unveil an appliance called Oversight for Accounts Payable. It is designed to reside in a data center near the ERP server to periodically determine if error, fraud or an intrusion has occurred. The device watches over the customer's payment process by checking the ERP's database of account information and comparing it with an issued payment.

The Oversight appliance is certified to work with the PeopleSoft and JD Edwards ERP systems and will work with SAP systems in the future, the company says. The appliance costs $85,000.

Vericept last week announced anti-fraud software that monitors outbound corporate IP-based communications to prevent loss of sensitive data that could lead to identity theft. Identity Theft and Fraud Management software, which runs on a Linux server, passively scans ports on switches and routers for about 60 categories of personal information.

If the Vericept software sees suspicious activity leaving the organization via HTTP transfer, FTP, e-mail, instant messaging or peer-to-peer file sharing, it notifies the security manager. The anti-fraud and identity-theft software is a module that can be used with Vericept 6.0 software. Pricing starts at $9,500.