In.vision Research CorporationAcquisition Information
Quark Unites Key Dynamic Publishing Capabilities into One Integrated Offering with
Acquisition of the Assets of In.vision Research Corporation
On July 17, 2008, Quark announced the acquisition of the assets of In.vision Research Corporation, a privately held software company that developed the industry-leading add-in to Microsoft® Word for XML authoring. This acquisition will allow Quark to be the leading company to bring together professional design and simple XML authoring into one integrated system.
XML authoring allows companies to produce content that is suitable for dynamic publishing. With this acquisition, Quark gains Xpress Author for Microsoft Word, an XML authoring tool that lets users easily create XML content in a familiar word processing environment that will feed into Quark® Dynamic Publishing Solution.
This integrated offering will empower customers to easily adopt a dynamic publishing solution that will improve their productivity and reduce costs, while enabling them to communicate more effectively with audiences across multiple types of media, including print, the Web, mobile, and electronic devices.
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from the Forrester Blog for Information & Knowledge Management Professionals
"The acquisition is a smart one for Quark as they will now be in close partnership with Microsoft, providing support for Microsoft Word users, the largest group of content creators on the planet." Read more
"Ease of use is critical to the mainstream adoption of dynamic publishing solutions within enterprises of all sizes. At the same time, XML is key to realizing the full power of dynamic publishing. In.vision's Word-based XML authoring, together with Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution, address these important requirements and will help Quark significantly broaden the reach of its new product."
"To create greater market penetration within the Dynamic Publishing market it is essential for vendors to reach out to the market with tools that most knowledge workers use ubiquitously, which in most cases is Microsoft Word.
Quark's acquisition of In.vision Research provides Quark with an industry leading add-in to Microsoft Word for XML authoring. This acquisition will help address many needs of the end-user market in terms of providing knowledge workers with an easy XML authoring & content contribution tool that would empower productivity and reduce cycle-time. This marriage will allow Quark to rapidly deploy globally and position itself as one of the only mainstream Dynamic Publishing solutions."
"This acquisition moves In.vision from a small XML solutions company into a much larger realm, and this allows Quark to move closer to XML-based enterprise dynamic publishing." Read more