Document Sciences Corporation, a provider of customer communications management solutions, has completed the acquisition of CambridgeDocs, a developer of document transformation and repurposing technology. "This acquisition represents a natural extension to Document Sciences' customer communications management platform and adds several new components to the xPression product suite," states Jack McGannon, president and CEO of Document Sciences.

The acquired technology will allow xPression to import and repurpose content from several formats, including Word, HTML, PDF, Excel, RTF, and Adobe FrameMaker, enabling customers to leverage the tens of thousands of documents existing throughout an enterprise without having to recreate the content manually. "This acquisition moves us one step closer to our vision of taking content in any format and data from any source to produce any type of personalized and customized document for any distribution channel," says Nasser Barghouti, CTO of Document Sciences.

Document transformation and repurposing--which provides for the conversion of content into an XML format--has become increasingly important due to the proliferation of document formats. Once transformed, the content can be made available for delivery through Document Sciences xPression product suite as well as independently through XML-based Web services. In addition to tighter integration with CambridgeDocs technology, Document Sciences will continue to develop CambridgeDoc's xDoc product suite as an open platform to better service existing customers. Rizwan Virk, CEO and CTO of CambridgeDocs, will be joining Document Sciences as chief technologist for XML publishing.