http://www.gilbane.com/ Content Management and XML news, analysis, white papers, and conferences en-us Copyright 1993-2006 Bluebill Advisors Inc. webmaster@gilbane.com editor@gilbane.com http://www.gilbane.com/rss/gilbane_logo_rss.jpg http://www.gilbane.com 140 89 Gilbane Report logo Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:08:38 GMT Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Mondosoft announced the availability of MondoSearch Enterprise. Designed as a low-cost packaged solution to support sites with large numbers of documents and visitors, MondoSearch Enterprise searches and indexes millions of pages while providing capability to align search activity with organizational goals. In addition to enhanced crawl speed, MondoSearch Enterprise features comprehensive re-design for enterprise-class search database and memory-handling to boost search performance. Search performance is also improved through multithreaded connection pooling, reducing server load on both search and content servers. The MondoSearch Enterprise algorithm optimizes large volumes of data for indexing and rapid retrieval. MondoSearch Enterprise is easily integrated into an organization's IT infrastructure through Microsoft .NET and Web services. www.mondosoft.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3649 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3649 Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Adobe Systems Incorporated announced results of its collaboration with the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) and IDEAlliance with development of a new public specification, IPTC Core Schema for XMP. Exposed through Adobe Creative Suite software, "custom panels" are now available at www.iptc.org, giving photographers and news services immediate access and compliance with a standard that aims to streamline data capture for images used in news outlets. Additionally, Adobe announced that it is working with the AdsML Consortium (Advertising Mark-up Language) and IDEAlliance to implement advertising standards using XMP within advertising workflows. Software developers and system integrators can build support for Adobe XMP into their products via the XMP software development kit, available, free-of-charge, under Open Source License from Adobe. The SDK and additional information about Adobe XMP is available at http://www.adobe.com/xmp http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3651 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3651 Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Leading Edge Design & Systems (LEDS) announces the newest addition to its Media Archive System (MAS) product suite. The MAS RSS Module gives companies the ability to search, organize and publish their managed content for worldwide syndication. Content that is selected is published to an RSS feed that allows an existing service to distribute the desired content to subscribing Web sites and news services. MAS's security model allows users to configure which data elements will be syndicated as well as restrict other chosen content and metadata from syndication. MAS RSS will also support Media RSS. MAS RSS' dynamic infrastructure allows a user to publish an asset to any number of RSS feeds, while also allowing multiple users the ability to distribute content simultaneously to a single channel. http://www.media-archive.com/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3652 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3652 Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Thomas Technology Solutions, Inc. (ThomasTech), a software and systems integrator, has entered into a partnership agreement with Houston-based Riversand Technologies, Inc., a provider of Product Information Management (PIM) solutions. ThomasTech is a provider of content management and publishing solutions for industrial manufacturers, commercial publishers and other industries. Riversand PIM product suite will be integrated into ThomasTech's content management solutions for developing electronic catalogs. http://www.riversand.com, http://www.thomastechsolutions.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3653 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3653 Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Verity Inc. announced that Stellar Technologies, Inc. has integrated the Verity KeyView Filter Software Development Kit (SDK) into its new high speed attachment/document management module of the Stellar E-Mail Manager. Stellar Technologies is an provider of employee Internet management and security solutions. The Stellar E-Mail Manager is a module of its newly-released Stellar Internet GEM software suite that monitor, archive, block and provide real-time reporting for e-mail, instant messaging and Web browsing. The Stellar E-Mail Manager module monitors and blocks attachments to e-mails based on the business rules and policies of a global enterprise. The Verity KeyView Filter SDK allows the E-Mail Manager to extract text and metadata from a wide variety of documents on numerous platforms and can recognize over three hundred document types (.PDF, .DOC, .XLS, .ZIP, etc.), allowing users to effectively manage, evaluate and take action on high-value content. Stellar has plans to expand the use of the Verity KeyView Filter technology across its entire Stellar Internet GEM suite, applying its capabilities to the Stellar Instant Message Manager and Stellar Web Manager. In the future, the company expects to offer more managers, such as peer-to-peer, document library and VoIP data to extend consistent policy management to all data forms moving within, to and from an organization. www.verity.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3646 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3646 Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT ACIS Consulting Inc, a Canadian reseller and systems integrator of search solutions from Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), announced the release of RapidAnswer, a partner-designed and developed Search Derivative Application (SDA) for Self Service. RapidAnswer provides Customer Support Representatives (CSRs) with a unified point of access to all relevant product and customer-related information that may be scattered across various disparate websites, knowledge bases, document repositories, databases and CRM applications. The RapidAnswer solution leverages FAST ESP capabilities in natural language processing, rank tuning and relevancy modeling to deliver answers to customer questions. It enables call center managers to continually monitor and identify the most frequently asked questions that generate high volumes of customer support calls and to develop a knowledge base of short and concise answers. RapidAnswer is used to provide website visitors with a dynamic self service environment that quickly captures their intent and directs them to the correct and most relevant response. In addition, RapidAnswer continually tracks customer satisfaction feedback on presented questions and answers and identifies those topics that are leading to customer support calls and customer dissatisfaction. www.acisconsulting.com, www.fastsearch.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3648 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3648 Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Hummingbird Ltd. unveiled Hummingbird Enterprise Client for Microsoft Outlook. The new Client provides an interactive, business-based view of the entire suite of Hummingbird Enterprise functionality from within Microsoft Outlook. Building on the concepts of Hummingbird's document management client for Microsoft Outlook, Hummingbird Enterprise Client for Microsoft Outlook allows knowledge workers to interact with all their business content, applications, and processes without having to leave the Outlook client interface. A corporate banker will work with a deal management view of business content, manage an engagement, and collaborate with colleagues on complex, linked company valuation spreadsheets by sharing content in a secure collaborative deal room. A government employee will interact with all incoming and outgoing correspondence including e-mail, fax and mail through a correspondence management view. And a senior partner of a law firm will organize and view all the pleadings and correspondence related to a client matter, and also instantly generate a report with the most up-to-date information on billable hours - all from within Outlook. At the core of the new Client is a Business Solution Framework, encompassing business logic, vertical specific taxonomies, and role-based presentation rules. Leveraging the Business Solution Framework and the supplied vertical templates, organizations will be able to tailor Hummingbird Enterprise to fit their business model. Hummingbird Enterprise Client for Microsoft Outlook will be an interface option for Hummingbird Enterprise 2005, which is expected to be generally available this summer. www.hummingbird.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3650 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3650 Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Verity Inc. announced availability of Verity LiquidBPM Software Developer's Kit (SDK) for independent software vendors (ISVs). The integrated Verity LiquidBPM SDK offers an application programming interface (API) set that gives the developer capabilities when building applications that require or would be enhanced by workflow process automation. The API is based on Java, XML, SOAP, LDAP, HTTP and JDBC. Other LiquidBPM SDK features include code generators to simplify integration with external systems through custom tasks and for interfacing with RMI, COBRA, EJB and Web services; and source code for pre-built end-user interfaces. www.verity.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3638 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3638 Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Software AG and Rivet Software announced a partnership to offer a complete Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) solution for implementing a business reporting supply chain. Software AG's Digital Reporting Platform (DRP) and Rivet's Dragon Tag enables financial professionals to create XBRL Financial Statements on their own, eliminating back office overhead. This lets organizations more quickly respond to and adopt XBRL financial reporting in response to increasing regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II compliancy. XBRL is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for defining, exchanging and storing financial business information by regulators, stock exchanges, statistical offices, banks, and corporations across the world. Many regulators will be introducing mandatory filing of financial statements in XBRL including the Belgium tax authorities in 2006 and the UK and Dutch tax authorities by 2007. Other regulators such as the SEC in the US will begin accepting voluntary filing of XBRL documents in April 2005. This partnership allows users of Software AG's DRP to easily create XBRL documents based on information that exists within Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel via Rivet's Dragon Tag. Users can markup, review, validate and export XBRL documents, easily, accurately and correctly. www.XBRL.org, www.softwareag.com, www.rivetsoftware.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3639 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3639 Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of A Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals. The document is a starting point for establishing standard guidelines for combined usage of the W3C RDF/OWL family and the ISO family of Topic Maps standards. The group expects to publish Survey and Guidelines Working Group Notes based on this draft. www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdftm-survey-20050329/, www.w3.org/2001/sw/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3640 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3640 Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Dozing Dogs released version 2.2 of their ASP.NET Content Management System. A new Getting Started Guide is now installed with the product and can be read offline. New administration menus and panels for all Content Management functions, from filtering and sorting your content to changing coverage, content type, visibility or using our abuse options when public membership is enabled. RSS 2.0 support has been added, plus improved HTML email and numerous small improvements, user controls and membership roles. The complete C# source code is available with the Enterprise Edition, now you can buy it separately to work with even the Personal Edition if necessary. A new Web Project source code add-on is included with the Professional Edition and can also be bought separately. They have added ComponentArt's WebUI Suite which includes vertical and horizontal menus, tree view, nav bar, tab strip, multipage, site map, rotator and snap controls. All controls are now XHTML compliant and ready for ASP.NET 2.0 & Visual Studio.NET 2005. Works seamlessly with Visual Studio.NET 2002 onwards. www.dozingdogs.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3641 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3641 Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Web Crossing, Inc. announced a new Content Blob Management plug-in to make site content management more accessible to non-technical administrators. Administrators with no HTML expertise can create access-controlled "blobs" of content that drop into Theme cells within the standard Web Crossing Theme manager. The new Content Blob Management plug-in facilitates easy site content management and organization, and installs in a few clicks directly from the "Shop For Plug-ins" link on an administrator's Control Panel. The new Content Blob Management plug-in requires no knowledge of HTML for elemental text-based content blobs. Creation is also straightforward for blobs that contain images and other elements. Once blobs are created, placing them on a page simply involves choosing the correct blob from a popup menu. Content blobs can also include Web Crossing Template Language (WCTL) scripting for dynamic content. Optional "blob boxes," which include titles and location-specific layout elements, ensure that repositioned blobs consistently look appropriate to their location. Blobs automatically inherit into subfolders, or can be individually set to never inherit into a subfolder. Complete access control, including host access controls, balance usability and control of the blobs. Free for a limited time, additional information and the new Content Blob Management plug-in is available today. www.webcrossing.com/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3643 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3643 Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Leading Edge Design & Systems (LEDS) introduces MediaIndexer, a digital media indexing tool based on MediaMiner, an engine that enables organizations to index, catalogue and annotate source files. Able to operate on Windows, Unix and Linux platforms, this engine can process digital video formats "faster-than-real-time" and can simultaneously process multiple streams. MediaIndexer extracts multi-resolution key frames from digital video and combines them with the audio track in a dynamically-generated SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) file for use in low-bandwidth situations. MediaIndexer can be used as a standalone engine and has the ability to automatically clip and segment video, producing results formatted in standard XML. www.media-archive.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3644 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3644 Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT DataPower announced the availability of fully streaming XML Processing in its DataPower XA35 XML Accelerator. Streaming processing allows an XML engine to begin producing output before the entire input has been parsed and requires only a constant amount of memory, independent of XML document size. Previously, streaming processing was only possible using low-level custom programming or special-purpose languages. DataPower's approach allows XML developers to continue using familiar XPath/XSLT standards, while seemlessly lowering latency and enabling XML documents of unlimited size to be processed. Some XML processing operations are not streamable by their very nature. For example, an XSLT transformation that reverses the order of elements in a file must necessarily buffer all of the input and wait for the last element before it can produce any output. This has also limited the development of general purpose streaming for XML processing, because of concerns that any solution would be unable to support intrinsically non-streamable operations. In a further complication, it is often difficult for a developer to determine whether a particular set of XML processing operations can be streamed, and to know how later changes may affect streamability. DataPower's compiler technology automatically determines which operations are streamable and processes them in a fully streaming fashion. With DataPower XG4, the user is not required to learn new languages or determine which processing is streamable, and the engine allows for operations in XSLT and XPath. www.DataPower.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3645 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3645 Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT SwiftView Inc. unveiled SwiftConvert, a product that converts documents and drawings from PCL, HPGL, or TIFF data formats into PDF, PostScript, PNG, text or other formats. SwiftConvert produces high quality images, avoiding errors introduced by vector conversions, and converts PCL to PDF at up to 3,000 pages per minute. An API lets makes it easy to embed SwiftConvert into applications and workflow processes. SwiftConvert combines conversion with searching, indexing, and other functions. Example 1: Zoom in on part of a CAD drawing and convert just that selection to PDF. Example 2: Find, extract, and convert individual bills out of a large PCL billing run for automated Web bill presentment. www.swiftview.com/swiftconverter http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3636 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3636 Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Insightful Announced InFact 3.0. InFact 3.0 delivers a new interactive text query language that enables users to execute custom, flexible, and complex searches from a simple Web interface. Other new features in InFact 3.0 include more precise and expressive linguistic data representations, improved scalability, and the ability to integrate an external "dictionary" of terms - often called a proprietary ontology - for rapid customization to address unique problems of specific vertical markets. InFact is designed to enable professional analysts and researchers to uncover facts and relationships within text documents. InFact reads every sentence in every document and is designed to develop a deep understanding of each statement it encounters. InFact tabulates the main sense or action of each sentence, determines who is driving the action, identifies the target of the action, and recognizes all entities that are affected or linked to the action. It also identifies modifiers of the action that may add insight, such as the date or location. Using linguistic data structures, InFact then compares ideas and events across document sources and databases. InFact is able to read thousands of pages in minutes, and to produce a "spreadsheet of ideas". InFact is available for Sun Solaris servers. InFact can be deployed on any desktop that can run a Web browser such as IE, Netscape, or Mozilla. www.insightful.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3642 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3642 Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Inxight Software, Inc. announced a partnership with Agent Logic, a provider of enterprise event detection and response software, which offers customers a new way to access, exchange and use information. Using Inxight SmartDiscovery, Agent Logic's Enterprise Agent Server automatically processes data and event information from existing enterprise data sources such as search engines, databases, live data streams, Web page inputs, incoming e-mail reports/alerts, and legacy systems. Based on pre-defined subscriber profiles, any new or changed data is processed and delivered directly to systems in other organizations, or to multiple users in the form of alerts through email, pagers, Instant Messages, or real-time Web browser displays. The joint solution features include Personalized Instant Alerts, Information Summarization, Actionable Data, Monitoring, Storage, Visualization, and Link Analysis. Enterprise Agent Server is available immediately. www.agentlogic.com/, www.inxight.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3647 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3647 Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Macromedia announced the immediate availability of a Macromedia Web Publishing System update that includes Macromedia Contribute 3.1 and Macromedia Contribute Publishing Services 1.1. WPS provides everything an organization needs to affordably build and manage intranets and public-facing websites. The WPS update offers users additional enterprise control and oversight features as well as expanded web services connectivity and extensibility solutions. The WPS update supplies a host of enhancements and capabilities, along with Really Simple Syndication (RSS) activity feeds and deployment management. Administrators can now customize WPS to receive notifications about website changes in any RSS reader. Sub-site management gives enterprise administrators the ability to distribute administrative tasks to employees while maintaining complete, granular control over websites and users. Other new features include an enhanced LDAP/AD connectivity interface, Macromedia Breeze integration, staging-to-live deployment, and streamlined document publishing. Current users of WPS can download the free English update. Volume discounts and government and education licensing are also available. www.macromedia.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3635 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3635 Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Nacio Systems Inc., a California-based hosting service provider announced a partnership with Ektron, Inc., to provide a fully managed hosting solution for Ektron's content management (CMS) customers. By partnering with Nacio, Ektron will be able to offer its customers the Ektron CMS product line in an ASP-environment. www.ektron.com, www.nacio.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3637 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3637 Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT The Gilbane Report announced it has published two new white papers. Dale Waldt looks at W3C standards in practice in "Using XML and Databases", and Bill Trippe reports on meeting the demands of the most complex content applications in "Component Content Management in Practice". Both white papers are available at no charge at www.gilbane.com/whitepapers.html. Additionally, the Gilbane Report's Bill Trippe and Jeroen van Rotterdam, X-Hive CEO, explain why component content management systems enable reuse that's flexible and can be adopted over time in a webinar on Tuesday April 6 1:00 PM EST. Both white papers and the webinar are sponsored by X-Hive Corporation. Register for the webinar at www.x-hive.com/news/upcoming.html http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3625 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3625 Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Knowledge Anywhere, Inc. unveiled its new Global Content Manager. The Global Content Manager solution streamlines the development of content for multinational audiences and makes it easier for clients to review, translate, and post content in their native language. Knowledge Anywhere builds technology-based learning solutions and channel solutions to help companies improve employee performance and drive sales. www.knowledgeanywhere.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3628 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3628 Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT RedDot Solutions announced a new version of its Web Content Management System, RedDot CMS 6.1. The latest version offers several new features designed to make complex Web projects easier to administer, faster to implement, and simpler to test against diverse standards. Among the new features, RedDot CMS 6.1 includes drag-and-drop functionality, enhanced editing tools, preview options and comparison templates for improved version control. Late this spring, RedDot plans to release a new add-on module to RedDot CMS, the Web Compliance Manager, to ensure compliance with Section 508 and WCAG A, AA and AAA standards. www.reddot.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3629 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3629 Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Endeca unveiled Endeca Latitude, a data analysis solution built on Endeca's information retrieval platform. Endeca Latitude introduces a new way to access, discover and analyze critical business data. The new software gives employees and customers the combined exploration, reporting and analytical capabilities that today only a handful of trained power users, analysts, and IT enjoy. Built on Endeca's information retrieval platform, Endeca Latitude brings the simplicity of searching and browsing online to the world of business intelligence. Latitude combines this intuitive accessibility with charting and data visualization capabilities, allowing non-technical, business users to interact with business-critical data. This combination of simplicity and accessibility empowers employees and customers to reach intelligent and informed decisions on their own, without the dependencies, bottlenecks and delays inherent with traditional BI and OLAP tools. www.endeca.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3631 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3631 Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT EMC Corporation announced the next-generation EMC Documentum enterprise content management (ECM) platform. As an integral element of EMC's strategy to help customers align their IT infrastructures with their business based upon the changing value of information, the platform showcases a completely unified architecture that advances the world of enterprise content management. In addition, EMC introduced a wave of content management products. Building upon technologies for the management of documents, XML files, rich media, web content and business process management, the new Documentum platform unifies collaboration, federated search and retention management capabilities into one platform. EMC Documentum enables all content management applications to share the same unified architecture with a common code base, security model, repository, object model and API. The Documentum ECM platform and suite of products will be generally available March 31, 2005. At that time, the platform and products will also be available in seven languages on all supported operating systems, databases, directories, application servers and storage systems. www.emc.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3632 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3632 Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT ZyLAB announced the opening of its new North American headquarters located at 1577 Springhill Road, Vienna, Virginia, 22182. In 2005, ZyLAB will focus heavily on selling its low-cost solutions to small and medium-sized business (SMB) that are publicly-traded and must adhere to today's compliance challenges. The company also plans to continue building out its channel program. In addition, the company will continue to expand its Federal government sales. www.zylab.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3633 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3633 Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Socialtext has relaunched its product line to provide greater focus on the broad enterprise market. Socialtext has aligned its offerings according to its three primary market segments: Socialtext Enterprise, for businesses that are looking to leverage their existing investments in enterprise systems for scalability, security and reliability as the enterprise strength, wiki simple solution; Socialtext.net, for small-to-medium size businesses looking for quick and simple collaboration; and Socialtext.org, for non-profit organizations, academic institutions and internet communities. Socialtext Enterprise, which is available in appliance or hosted service options, comes with a number of different features required for enterprise use including enterprise-class backup, monitoring and storage, directory integration, security, and easy migration between intranet and secure extranet uses. Both Socialtext Enterprise and Socialtext.net also offer integrated email, IM and weblogs. Socialtext also released a new interface and new email integration features. Users can simply 'CC to wiki' to communicate with groups, including sharing attachments, routing email to a wiki page, category or weblog post. Socialtext also supports Kwiki. Socialtext Enterprise is available in both Appliance and Hosted Service options for $40 per user per month. Socialtext.net, is available for $10 per user per month. A Starter Package for 5 users for one year is $495. Socialtext.org, is available for $5 per user per month for qualified non-profit organizations. A Starter Package for 5 users for one year is $245. www.socialtext.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3634 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3634 Sat, 19 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Managing Editor Inc. (MEI) announced an agreement with Wave2 Media Solutions Limited (UK) to market and support Wave2 products in the U.S. and Canada. Wave 2 produces workflow and content management software, including the Wave2 Publishing Platform. The agreement provides MEI exclusivity within all vertical segments of the publishing industry for the U.S. and Canadian territories. Third-tier support for MEI will be provided by Wave2's offices in the UK and in Toronto. www.maned.com, www.wav2.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3626 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3626 Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT The Gilbane Report's Bill Trippe discusses the benefits that DITA-oriented, XML publishing brings to global enterprises like Information Builders, Inc., and Idiom founder and CTO Eric Silberstein weighs in on other customer successes. Hosted by Idiom Technologies, Inc. Join Bill at "Topic-Oriented Information Development and Its Role in Globalization" on Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 1:00 PM EST. www.idiominc.com/news/webinar_registration.asp http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3624 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3624 Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Day Software announced that Obinary will embed Day's Content Repository Extreme (CRX) across its entire product set. CRX is a full implementation of JSR 170, the future standard for enterprise content. Obinary is the developer of the "obinary compass," an enterprise-solution for process-oriented knowledge-management. Obinary specializes in communication efficiency and technology control. www.day.com, www.obinary.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3627 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3627 Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Interwoven, Inc. announced that it has extended its Digital Asset Management (DAM) system with the introduction of MediaBin Presentation WorkBench. Available as part of the latest version of Interwoven's MediaBin Asset Server, Presentation WorkBench enables enterprises to manage and share Microsoft PowerPoint files within a centrally-managed system for all digital assets. Interwoven's MediaBin Presentation WorkBench provides: single window access to multiple PowerPoint presentations, custom presentation assembly, pre-approved templates, and efficient storage. MediaBin Presentation WorkBench will be available as a standard component of the latest release of Interwoven MediaBin Asset Server beginning March 31, 2005. www.interwoven.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3620 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3620 Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Bowne Global Solutions (BGS) and TRADOS announced that they have teamed to deliver integrated global content solutions for multinational companies. The BGS and TRADOS alliance helps with the content delivery challenges of global enterprises, including product introduction delays, inconsistent branding, customer dissatisfaction, and escalating costs. BGS provides services for creating, localizing and publishing content including authoring, terminology management, localization, language quality services, and content hosting. TRADOS contributes its enterprise solutions that manage and automate content globalization for a broad range of publishing media (web, electronic, and hardcopy) related to multinational branding, marketing communications, sales support, technical support, and maintenance. As a first step in delivering collaborative solutions, BGS is standardizing core elements of its production on the TRADOS platform for all facets of their global services. www.bowneglobal.com, www.trados.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3622 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3622 Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Index Engines announced the commercial availability of an enterprise search appliance that indexes data inline with the existing backup process. Unlike traditional enterprise search solutions that crawl networks and desktops in order to find data, the Index Engines Appliance sits in the path of the data backup and transparently indexes data as it is flows through the storage network. The Index Engines Appliance shifts the indexing of unstructured data off the overburdened data network and onto the storage network, where file and email are collected and archived using existing backup procedures. The Index Engines Appliance supports the most common file types including, Microsoft Office files, text, html, Adobe PDF, compressed zip files and more. Additionally a beta version that includes support for Microsoft Exchange email as well as PST files is also available. The Index Engines Appliance is available in two models. The ES-100 model supports the indexing of four million files and sells for $29,500. The ES-200 model supports eight millions documents and sells for $34,500. www.indexengines.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3630 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3630 Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT IBM and Ascential Software Corporation announced the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire the equity of Ascential Software in an all cash transaction at a price of approximately $1.1 billion or $18.50 per share. The acquisition is subject to Ascential Software shareholder and regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2005. The acquisition complements IBM's information integration business, a key part of the company's information management efforts and a unit that produced triple-digit growth in 2004. Ascential Software's ability to gather, move and enhance the quality of large amounts of data complements IBM's WebSphere Information Integrator product portfolio. WebSphere Information Integrator software enables customers to centrally manage and access data that is stored across a variety of structured and unstructured sources, from IBM and non-IBM vendors. IBM will: establish Ascential Software's operations as a business unit within IBM's Information Management software division; incorporate Ascential Software technology and solutions into IBM's Information Management and Software Group offerings; and market and sell Ascential Software products through IBM's and Ascential Software's worldwide sales channels and Business Partners. www.ibm.com, www.ascential.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3614 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3614 Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Ektron Inc. announced the release of DMS400, a document management system that supports the requirements of mid-market and enterprise-level organizations. With DMS400 knowledge workers can collaborate on projects, as well as search and access documents, images, multimedia and other information assets within a process-driven Web-based solution. Ektron DMS400 enables organizations to streamline processes for creating, editing publishing and sharing documents and other assets while providing organizations with real-time monitoring of information to address accountability and auditing issues associated with managing these files. Because it's tightly integrated with Microsoft technologies, individuals can create and manage Microsoft Office files, and a wide range of additional file types including PDF's, images, and audio and videos files. It also enables users to collaborate on projects and search and access documents via the Web. Ektron DMS400 is currently available as an add-on to the Ektron CMS product line. Pricing begins at $11,400 USD for a 10-seat CMS-DMS bundle and $46,000 USD for an enterprise bundle (unlimited users). DMS400 will be available as a stand-alone product in May. www.ektron.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3615 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3615 Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT ebrary announced that several new collections specifically for government and military libraries are now available through the ebrary Dynamic Content Platform (DCP). ebrary's DCP is a hosted content delivery service that combines software with full-text books, reports, and other authoritative content from STM, academic, and professional publishers. The new collections include Business, Management & Leadership, Computers, Technology & Engineering, International Relations & Military Affairs, Government Affairs, and Science & Environmental Studies. Additionally, ebrary announced that it is seeking pilot customers for its new, server-based technology, which will ship in Q3 2005. Code named "Isaac," this technology will change how PDF content can be distributed, shared, and managed from behind an institution's firewall. Both the ebrary DCP and Isaac include the ebrary Reader and InfoTools. The ebrary Reader optimizes page-by-page delivery of PDF documents. InfoTools links search queries to multiple online databases, as well as information on the Web. www.ebrary.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3616 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3616 Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) unveiled FAST mSearch, a mobile search solution to collectively integrate content such as music, games, ring tones, and images with highly relevant content from the mobile Web, providing users with an optimized and more personal search experience on their mobile devices. FAST mSearch, the latest Search Derivative Application (SDA) to leverage the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP), enables carriers to provide integration of their own content with relevant results from content providers and the Mobile Web. FAST mSearch allows revenue opportunities for carriers and content providers by powering a number of business models, such as personalized local search, targeted mobile commerce and advertising services, and multimedia search. www.fastsearch.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3617 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3617 Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT OASIS announced that its members have approved the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) version 2.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. SAML v2.0 enables the secure exchange of authentication, attribute, and authorization information between disparate security domains, making vendor-independent Web single sign-on and secure e-business transactions possible. Version 2.0 adds key functions to create and manage federated networks that combine and appropriately share pre-existing repositories of identity information. SAML leverages core Web services standards including XML, SOAP, Transport Layer Security (TLS), XML Signature (XMLSIG), and XML Encryption (XMLENC). Over 27 member organizations globally participate in this ongoing work, including representatives of AOL, BEA Systems, Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton, Computer Associates, Entrust, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Neustar, Nokia, Novell, Oracle, RSA Security, SAP, and Sun Microsystems. Participation remains open to all. OASIS hosts an open mail list for public comment and the saml-dev mailing list for exchanging information on implementing the standard. www.oasis-open.org http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3618 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3618 Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT The Gilbane Report's Bill Trippe addresses XML integration in "Technical Integration of Taxonomies". Save the date: March 18 at 2:00 PM EST. Fourth in a series of webinars presented by Earley & Associates. For information or registration http://www.earley.com/events.htm http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3621 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3621 Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Metadot Corporation announced the availability of the Metadot Portal Server Business Edition. With subscriptions starting at $2,000 per year for varying levels of customer support, the Metadot Business Edition enables individuals to easily create and maintain extranets, intranets, corporate Web sites, project and community portals. The Metadot Business Edition user interface is browser-based, enabling authorized content editors to update Web pages from any location. Anyone who can type can create Web pages and edit content, which eliminates the need to call the IT department to correct typos or add information to a page. The application allows users to manage files, calendars, to-do lists, online forums, documents, online discussions, database queries, customer surveys and newsletter mailing lists from a Web interface. The Metadot Business Edition also includes login support, where Metadot engineers can log in to a customer's system and fix problems. Annual subscription fees for the Metadot Business Edition start at $2,000, which includes the Metadot Portal Server, installation support, software updates, professional customer support, access to Metadots online training center and optional managed hosting. The Metadot Portal Server runs on Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl, although it also runs in commercial environments such as Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows, Oracle and more. www.metadot.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3623 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3623 Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Microsoft Corp. announced that it will acquire Groove Networks Inc. The addition of Groove products to the lineup of Microsoft Office System products, servers and services builds on the capabilities of Microsoft's current collaboration products. The acquisition also brings to Microsoft founder Ray Ozzie, a creator of IBM Corp.'s Lotus Notes. Ozzie will assume the role of chief technical officer, reporting to Bill Gates, with responsibility for influencing corporate-wide communication and collaboration offerings and associated platform infrastructure. Ozzie also will continue his work with the Groove team, which will be part of Microsoft's Information Worker Group. Groove has worked closely with Microsoft for nearly five years. After the deal is completed, the nearly 200-person Groove organization will continue to operate from its Beverly, Mass., headquarters as part of Microsoft's Information Worker Group. The acquisition is expected to be complete in the second quarter of 2005. Groove will continue to operate as a separate company until regulatory requirements have been met and the acquisition is finalized. A free trial edition of Groove Virtual Office is available. www.groove.net, www.microsoft.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3608 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3608 Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Infrae, based in Rotterdam and Nuxeo, based in Paris, announce their cooperation on developing enterprise-grade software, with a focus on Zope 3 application technologies. The two companies focus on enterprise CMS software using the Zope 3 platform. Infrae is the creator of the 'Silva' CMS, and Nuxeo of the 'Collaborative Portal Server' (CPS). The Zope 3 platform is an advanced version of the Zope application server, developed by Zope Corporation together with an international group of open source developers. Zope 3 is written in Python. Built around a component architecture, Zope 3 offers increased reusability and customizability. Infrae and Nuxeo remain committed to the Zope 2 platform. During the preceding months the companies have used Five to extend Silva and CPS with Zope 3 technology. Five is a component - developed by Infrae and now maintained by an open source community - to integrate Zope 3 technologies in Zope 2. Nuxeo has made significant contributions to Five, for instance exposing the full power of the Zope 3 schema/forms machinery. Five is now ready for production use. ww.infrae.nl, www.nuxeo.com/en/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3610 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3610 Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Day announced the release of the Beta version of the company's Java Content Repository. The new product is based on the new Java standard for Enterprise Content, JSR 170. Day's Content Repository Extreme (CRX) provides a complete commercial implementation of all functionalities defined in the specification. Day's new Java Content Repository provides standardized enterprise content services such as indexing, search, versioning, check-in/check-out or access control for all documents. Simultaneously, other applications can be accessed via the same interface on all documents and content services. This new architecture allows for the use of completely different documents corporate-wide and overall systems. JSR 170 will be officially introduced worldwide in the first half of 2005. www.day.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3611 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3611 Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Altova announced general availability of Altova software version 2005 release 3 (v2005r3), which features several significant enhancements to MapForce 2005, including expanded support for Electronic Data Integration (EDI) standards. MapForce 2005 now supports EDI output and the ANSI/ASC X12 standard. Additionally, MapForce 2005 and other products within the Altova product line have been updated to include support for the latest versions of the W3C XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery 1.0 specification working drafts. The company also announced that the Altova SchemaAgent 2005 graphical schema management tool is now available to all customers as a standalone product and included within both the Enterprise and Professional Editions of the Altova XML Suite 2005. The updated products within Altova software version 2005 release 3 - XMLSpy 2005, MapForce 2005, StyleVision 2005, Authentic 2005, and SchemaAgent 2005 - are all immediately available for purchase. Customers with valid SMP are eligible for a free update to v2005r3 production software. A 30-day free trial may be downloaded. www.altova.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3612 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3612 Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT IBM unveiled a new software portfolio that extends the reach of content management using web services to enable all types of data to be captured, managed and searched. IBM is delivering a content and information integration platform to leverage information across diverse repositories, providing a single view of business critical information. The company also added new offerings for the banking and life sciences industries to its portfolio of more than 160 industry-specific content management solutions. IBM's new software includes the improved performance and integration of Project Cinnamon, part of the company's effort to improve the speed and efficiency with which XML documents are processed. The technology also delivers automated indexing and searching capabilities, providing better control over structured and unstructured data repositories. IBM's enhanced content management portfolio includes: DB2 Content Manager 8.3, DB2 Document Manager 8.3, and DB2 CommonStore 8.3. Planned availability for DB2 Content Manager 8.3, DB2 Document Manager 8.3 and DB2 CommonStore 8.3 is March 25, 2005. IBM DB2 Content Management is available through IBM and through IBM Business Partners. www.software.ibm.com/data http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3619 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3619 Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Wrensoft has released Zoom Search Engine 4.0, a software package that allows enterprises to add a custom search engine to their website. There are no complicated server setup procedures. You can use Zoom to create search engines for your website, local Intranet or CD-ROM, and offline distributions. It is a self-contained solution and does not depend on any external web services, so you have control over the look and feel. There are no banners or advertisements, and with the use of HTML and CSS templates, you can customize the appearance of the search page without any scripting knowledge. Zoom can also run on a variety of server platforms (or without a server at all), and is compatible with all standard hosting packages. Zoom can index over 100,000 documents and satisfy up to 200 search requests per minute. It provides searching capabilities that include: results ranked by relevance, wildcard and exact phrase matching, "Google-like" context descriptions, results highlighting, category searching, and more. This is coupled with configurable indexing options such as: spider and offline indexing modes, stop words and skip pages, multiple domains support, word weighting options, and support for PDF, Word and Excel. The advanced features of Zoom allow you to log the searches made on your website, and analyze them with generated statistical reports, providing pie-charts on the Top 10 searches, and graphs of the number of searches per day, week, or month. Zoom Search Engine 4.0 is available for free for small websites (up to a 50 page limit), Standard Edition ($49 USD) and Professional Edition ($99 USD), which supports larger websites and more file formats. www.wrensoft.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3609 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3609 Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Verity Inc. announced the appointment of Dataintro Software as a Verity Technology Partner. An immediate result of this alliance is the addition of Dataintro's UltraForms technology for 2D barcode generation to Verity LiquidOffice business process management (BPM) software. UltraForms is a technology that allows online, PDF-based forms to generate 2D barcodes based on user data input. These dynamically-generated barcodes contain an encoded version of the information that was entered by a user into the fields of the Verity LiquidOffice, PDF-based electronic form. Using the UltraForms and LiquidOffice technologies, users are able to print out a paper version of the online form that contains the data in both readable text and barcode formats. They can review, sign and submit the paper form for processing. The paper form is scanned or captured from a fax transmission, and the information is automatically read from the barcode. The data is then directed to the appropriate business system, including an image of the signed form, then stored in an electronic records management system. This creates an ideal way for customers to process and electronically file forms that require a "wet" signature. UltraForms can work in Acrobat Reader from version 4.0 and higher. www.verity.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3613 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3613 Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT ACG and 55 Minutes have joined forces to deliver business solutions for the enterprise including Digital Asset Management, Workflow Automation, and Distribution Portals. Specializing in the organization, retrieval, and distribution of rich media content, the goal of the partnership is to work jointly on Rich Media Management projects providing clients all the services and support that are needed to build cost effective rich media management systems. The combined teams have experience with various DAM and rich media products and are providing an unbiased and broad array of services like business analysis, vendor selection, project and change management as well as application integration and web development for unique non out-of-the-box requirements. http://arthurconsultinggroup.com, http://55minutes.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3597 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3597 Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Dialog announced that DialogLink 5 is now available for free downloading. The new DialogLink 5 software package, designed to help enhance the role of information professionals in their organizations, has a new interface and tools to streamline the process of finding, retrieving and distributing information found through the Dialog online service. DialogLink 5 features report-building tools and linking capabilities that provide a faster and more efficient means of integrating retrieved information into management reports, company publications and internal information-sharing systems, such as company intranets and portals. The software also includes Electronic Redistribution and Archiving (ERA), a service that guarantees copyright clearance for copying, storing and distributing documents retrieved from Dialog. The new integrated report builder makes it easier to produce reports by providing a selection of pre-formatted Microsoft Excel and Word templates. Another feature of DialogLink 5 is its new built-in, automated research assistance. Users can instantly link to related information in other files, choose a display format based on search results, access relevant support materials with one click and ask questions of the Dialog support team directly. DialogLink provides further assistance by automatically analyzing a researcher's initial search query and then recommending alternate sources and search strategies to be pursued for more in-depth research results. www.dialog.com, www.thomson.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3601 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3601 Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT EDS announced the launch of an e-mail archive service that eases compliancy woes by managing corporate e-mail assets. EDS will sell the service to new and existing clients challenged by more than 15,000 global regulations, including SEC 17a-4, HIPAA, Sarbanes- Oxley and Basel II. EDS' managed service is based on EMC Centera; a content addressed storage (CAS) solution that provides simple, scalable, secure access to fixed content. The managed archival service is offered as an extension to EDS Managed Storage Services, or as a complement to EDS Workplace Services and EDS Enterprise Content Management services. This service will also address organizations that are self-imposing new internal standards and procedures to contain costs and improve efficiency. Retention and disposition of electronic records, such as e-mail, is increasingly more complex and corporate control over e-mail is critical to efficient operations. EDS e-mail archiving is offered as a per-mailbox per-month subscription service that includes application-aware policies supporting Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino/Notes messaging platforms. www.eds.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3602 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3602 Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Navisware announced FileLine, its design documentation security product, will support the Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server for providing rights management capabilities to a variety of enterprise applications. The combination of FileLine and Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server expands DRM capabilities to include a wide variety of document types critical to the engineering design process, including AutoCAD, SolidWorks, and Microsoft Word documents. Now, FileLine customers can use LiveCycle Policy Server to apply usage policies to engineering documents for controlling how, when, and by whom the documents can be used. LiveCycle Policy Server lets the document owner update the file with new policies as often as desired without having to redistribute the document or file. Additionally, the document owner can easily view an activity log of how often the recipient has attempted to perform controlled actions (e.g. Save, Print, Cut/Copy/Paste, etc.). This same rights management technology ensures that version control of documents is maintained when the owner invokes immediate or date-based expiration, preventing contractors from making costly mistakes based on outdated documents or intellectual property falling into the wrong hands. Content developers can now share design information in the manner and for the time that they intended. www.navisware.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3603 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3603 Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT First Consulting Group announced the addition of new functionality and modules to its FirstDoc ECM product suite. These new features are part of FCG's efforts to ensure its clients are more able to respond to regulatory and policy shifts such as Sarbanes-Oxley, the FDA's Structured Product Labeling (SPL), and the EMEA's Exchange of Product Information (PIM). FirstDoc Enterprise is designed to prepare life sciences firms for compliance while helping to synchronize business processes, improve business agility, and create a more responsive IT infrastructure. FCG enables companies to extend existing compliance functions, such as document audit trails, typically used for GMP and 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, to other areas of their business. New FirstDoc functionality included in FirstDoc Enterprise, version 3.3 include the ability to create and manage XML components and documents, the ability to perform dynamic XML content assembly and publishing, an electronic records management feature that includes automatic calculation of retention dates as well as automatic purging of documents that have expired and that have been confirmed for deletion, the ability to route multiple documents and/or virtual documents in one workflow operation for review and approval, and the availability of product dictionaries and aliases to all solutions based on FirstDoc Enterprise. www.fcg.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3604 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3604 Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT SilkRoad technology, inc., a provider of enterprise content management and collaboration software, introduced its new Silkware platform, bringing together audio and video blogging application and an assortment of communication and collaboration tools on one common platform. The new Silkware platform offers enterprise-class blogging, audio/video blogging, instant messaging, chat, surveying and polling software, available together or separately, in a subscription-based, software-as-a-service model. The SilkClips audio/video blogging tool allows bloggers to capture, publish and play back audio and video clips. The video blogging offering allows independent media outlets to leverage the Web as a vehicle for content delivery. Silkmessenger is an instant messaging and chat product that has security, auditing and advanced features for business needs while also offering an immediate consumption and community feel. Silkblogs is a Web publishing application that makes it easy for companies to efficiently and securely collaborate and communicate. Silksurveys is a dynamic Web survey and feedback management tool to create, publish and distribute multi-question, multi-page, Web-based surveys and then analyze and interpret the results. www.silkroadtech.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3605 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3605 Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Authentica, Inc. announced that it has extended its Active Rights Management (ARM) platform with support for the newly released Adobe Acrobat 7.0 for Windows. Additionally, Authentica will support Acrobat 5.0 for Sun Solaris and digital certificate authentication with Sun Solaris workstations. This enables U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence agency customers to leverage their existing PKI infrastructure to create and share sensitive data securely on Sun Solaris workstations. In addition to Adobe Acrobat, Authentica's ARM platform integrates with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Netscape web browsers. The ARM platform also allows content owners to enforce information security policies and track access to information from their desktop applications, or organizations can automate protection and policy enforcement by integrating Authentica within content management systems, email gateways and portal applications. www.authentica.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3606 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3606 Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT ScanSoft, Inc. announced the ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer for Google Desktop Search. The beta release of the plug-in, which is available free on the Google Web site, automatically creates text-index information from PDF files and faxes, as well as scanned books and documents - making them visible to Google Desktop Search. The OmniPage Search Indexer uses ScanSoft's optical character recognition (OCR) and PDF conversion technology to recognize the text within image-based content, creating the index information needed by the search application. The OmniPage Search Indexer is based on technology found in ScanSoft OmniPage Pro Office 14. OmniPage is also used to batch convert various formats into searchable PDF archives for content management systems. ScanSoft also provides this capability to developers who wish to add imaging and PDF capabilities to their applications, via the OmniPage Capture SDK. The English language beta release of the OmniPage Search Indexer for Google Desktop Search is available via download. Versions for Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish will be made available within 30 days. Pricing for the final release of the plug-in has not been set. The plug-in indexes the image text found within PDF normal, PDF image, JPEG/JPG, TIFF/TIF (FAX), BMP and PaperPort MAX file formats, and supports personal computers running Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2000. www.ScanSoft.com, http://desktop.Google.com/Plugins.html http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3607 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3607 Sat, 05 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT The Content Management Professionals organization (CM Pros) is looking for an Executive Director. The role of the Executive Director is key to the success of Content Management Professionals. This position has been held by Bob Doyle, who has put a tremendous amount of work into the organization. He will be stepping down from this role to participate in CM Pros in other ways so we are looking for a new Executive Director. The position Executive Director is appointed by the Board of Directors and is largely a volunteer position, but an honorarium will be provided. It is expected to require 10-20 hours of work per week. The ideal candidate will be a proven leader and seasoned professional manager who will take overall responsibility for building and expanding the organization. For more information see the job description. Please provide your response to board@cmprofessionals.org by March 18. http://www.cmprofessionals.org/, www.cmprofessionals.org/organization/roles/ExecutiveDirectorCMPros.pdf http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3596 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3596 Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Infotrieve, Inc. announced plans to launch its new web-based search and discovery research environment, the Life Science Research Center (LSRC), in March 2005. The LSRC simplifies scientists' daily workflow by providing a user interface to search diverse types of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) information and to identify relationships across traditionally disparate sources of content. The LSRC will utilize full-text searching of pre-processed STM content such as literature, patents, drug pipeline data, genes, technical protocols, laboratory products, and industry news. In addition to full-text searching and the identification of relationships through entity extraction and concept clustering, the Life Science Research Center features secure meta searching of external and internal corporate data sources, personalization for individuals and collaborative workgroups, and other search capabilities. Infotrieve is currently integrating the Infotrieve Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) with the LSRC, as well as literature retrieval, and laboratory product purchasing. www.infotrieve.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3600 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3600 Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Stellent, Inc. announced the release of Stellent Outside In Technology version 8.0. Version 8.0 is a new release of the entire suite of Outside In products: Outside In Viewer Technology, Outside In Content Access, Outside In Search Export, Outside In HTML Export, Outside In XML Export, Outside In Image Export and Outside In Transformation Server. The new release features performance improvements, and new file format and operating system support. Additionally, it includes an architectural enhancement that consolidates graphics handling code into one module, which will reduce time-to-market for future Outside In releases. Outside In 8.0 includes a new SDK -- Outside In Search Export -- designed specifically for application developers in the search, indexing, computer forensics and electronic evidence discovery markets. This product provides these customers with search-specific transformation options, including a choice of output formats for converting files to XML, HTML or text. Outside In 8.0 allows for the searching and indexing of MSG, PST, OST, MIME and other email formats. The new version also provides support for Visio 2003; Project 2003; Corel Word Perfect Office Suite 12; Office 2004 for Macintosh; the Korean and Japanese word processing programs Hangul 2002, and Ichitaro 13 and 2004; and updates for Star Office Writer 6.0. The Viewer Technology SDK also includes enhanced bi-directional text display for Arabic and Hebrew. The Outside In 8.0 release adds support for four new platforms: HP/UX Itanium 64 bit and 32 bit, Linux Itanium 64 bit, and Windows AMD 64. www.stellent.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3599 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3599 Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management, taking place April 11-13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California, will offer attendees an early look at how today's growing trends of blogging and wikis should be considered for use in enterprise applications. Also announced today is the immediate availability of a new Gilbane Report titled, "Blogs & Wikis: Technologies for Enterprise Applications?" Taking place at 8:30 a.m. PST on Wednesday, April 13, the conference is hosting a session titled "Blogs, Wikis, and RSS as Enterprise Content Applications." The session will offer attendees an opportunity to understand and consider how to use these technologies as enterprise applications or as components in these applications. Today, companies are using these technologies for collaboration, knowledge management, and publishing applications in corporate environments. Do these companies only represent the experimental fringe, or are they early adopters of technologies that will soon be part of every IT department's bag of tricks? This session will look at the suitability of these for corporate use and hear from both skeptics and proponents. The conference session will be moderated by Lauren Wood, Consultant, Textuality Services and views will be presented by Ross Mayfield, CEO, Socialtext, Inc. and Peter Quintas, Senior Vice President, General Manager, SilkRoad Technology. www.gilbane.com/conferences/San_Francisco_05_program.html, http://gilbane.com/articles.html, www.lighthouseseminars.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3595 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3595 Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT GlobalSCAPE announced CuteHTML Pro 6, a development tool for creating and managing Web sites. It combines editing capabilities with ease of use. New features in Version 6 include: File Editing Directly from the Server, Server Mapping, Improved User Interface, Code Snippets Library, and Full-Site Link checking. $34.99 until March 31, 2005. www.globalscape.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3598 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3598 Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT TRADOS Inc. announced the launch of TeamWorks 2. TeamWorks manages and optimizes the global information lifecycle defined as the aggregate of all processes required to create, localize, and publish information that meets the needs of global markets. TeamWorks 2 delivers capabilities in four areas to effectively reach global markets: accelerated localization and publishing; improved global information quality; reduced costs; and increased visibility and control over the global information lifecycle for executives and managers. The new release also extends the product's globalization workflow and its standards-based connectivity. TeamWorks 2 includes: expanded collaborative workflow services that create workflow templates for process automation, and that can work with companies' existing workflow software; project templating to speed project setup and simplify automation of the localization process; integrated vendor management to automate cost estimation and simplify vendor selection; personalized web-based portals where internal and external customers can initiate and track localization requests and projects; extended capabilities for active content monitoring that detects changes in repositories throughout an organization, and automatically takes action, triggers alerts and updates; and enhanced reporting. www.trados.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3589 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3589 Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Adobe Systems Incorporated and HP announced they are expanding their relationship to help technical professionals - including architects, engineers and construction (AEC) professionals - improve collaboration inside and outside their organizations and more effectively drive document-based work to completion. The first outcome of this expanded relationship will be a new offering for customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) that bundles Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional software with HP Designjet large-format printers. The combination helps improve efficiency and reduce costs by allowing technical professionals to reliably share all the components of a design project, both electronically in PDF and by printing the files in large format. The Acrobat 7.0 Professional and HP Designjet large-format printer bundle is immediately available in EMEA in English, French and German language versions. Spanish, Italian and Portuguese language versions are expected to be available by the end of March 2005. www.hp.com, www.adobe.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3590 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3590 Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced the availability of FAST ProPublish, an enterprise search-based publication production management and delivery solution. FAST ProPublish, the latest Search Derivative Application (SDA) to leverage the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP), gives professional and business publishers a solution for gathering and processing data. With FAST ProPublish, publishers can provide a Web-based interface designed specifically for researchers. This interface, combined with the products contextual navigation and relevancy tuning, allows business users to rapidly find the right information. The out-of-the-box application framework, templates, and user interface components delivered in FAST ProPublish facilitate the construction of researcher-centric user interfaces. Capabilities specifically designed for the business and production managers within publishing groups include the FAST Production Manager, a graphical tool that allows publishers to perform live updates on their online and offline published content, protect it from unauthorized use, and manage content processing, subscriptions and site structure. The products modular Content Processing Pipeline offers stages for automated entity extraction, linguistic analysis, and content classification. FAST ProPublish includes support for both controlling access and administering content licenses. The publications can be restricted to a given user for a given period of time and even be timed-out at the end of the subscription. www.fastsearch.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3591 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3591 Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT The Apache Lenya development community announced the 1.2.2 release of Apache Lenya. Apache Lenya is an Open-Source Content Management System written in Java and based on XML and XSLT. Lenya is built on top of Apache Cocoon and other components from the Apache Software Stack. Its XML-centric architecture allows for content delivery targeted to the capabilities of various devices, and avoids data lock-in. Apache Lenya is built around Off the Shelf components from the Apache Software Foundation. Apache Lenya comes with the features such as Revision Control, Scheduling, a built-in Search Engine, separate Staging Areas, and Workflow. Apache Lenya 1.2.2 is based on Cocoon 2.1.6. You can use Cocoon features such as robust Caching, multi-channel output, it's many connectivity options to quickly build customized solutions to meet specific needs that are not already covered by Apache Lenya today. http://lenya.apache.org http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3592 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3592 Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Arbortext, Inc. announced it has entered into a reseller partnership with Selens, a Brazilian integrated IT services and solution provider. Selens will work with Arbortext to provide sales, professional services and technical support for Arbortext publishing applications targeted at Brazil's businesses in the manufacturing, aerospace, life science and financial industries. www.selens.com.br, www.arbortext.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3593 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3593 Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT EMC Corporation announced software that allows customers to more effectively search, retrieve and utilize active enterprise archives created with EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS). The new EMC Centera Seek and EMC Centera Chargeback Reporter software enable the advanced search and retrieval of fixed content across multiple terabytes, making utilization-based reporting and billing possible. EMC Centera Seek provides a new, advanced search capability using metadata. EMC Centera Chargeback Reporter is a new reporting tool that provides detailed archive data reports for corporate chargeback systems. Centera Chargeback Reporter also leverages stored metadata to provide sophisticated and customizable capacity utilization reporting. Centera Seek's advanced searching capabilities can be leveraged by more than 170 applications from independent software vendor (ISV) applications that have been integrated with the Centera API. Centera Seek improves any type of discovery request through a more accurate and efficient search method. This new software is based on technology from FAST Search and Transfer (FAST) and its InStream enterprise search engine product through an OEM agreement with EMC. EMC also announced a rebranding of its EMC Centera Compliance Edition, EMC's CAS solution for regulated organizations, to EMC Centera Governance Edition. EMC Centera will continue to market its Compliance Edition Plus solution targeting the most stringently regulated environments. www.emc.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3594 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2005/03/content_management_news.html#3594