News For November, 2005

Day Software (SWX:DAYN)(OTC:DYIHY) announced that the company will offer special previews of its latest offering, Communique 4. Day's newest product launched for general availability just two weeks ago. Communique 4, a JCR (JSR 170) standard compliant enterprise content management solution decouples the content management application from the underlying repository. Applications developed that leverage the API can run on any JSR 170-compliant repository. Communique 4 ships with and runs natively on Day's Java content repository, Content Repository Extreme (CRX). http://www.day.com

FatWire Software Announces Content Server 6.3 & FatWire Analytics
11/30/2005

FatWire Software announced FatWire Content Server 6.3, the latest version of its content management platform, and FatWire Analytics, the newest module in the Content Server product family. Combined, these releases provide a platform for Web applications by adding analytics and design tools that enable marketers and other business users to monitor the success of online content and quickly change its delivery. These features build accountability into persuasive content initiatives and help to ensure their success. Content Server 6.3 and FatWire Analytics build on existing product family capabilities for business users to create and edit content, segment customers, and target content delivery. With FatWire Analytics, marketers and other non-technical users can now also view data on site visitor demographics and usage patterns, content usage, and campaign success. New features in Content Server 6.3 enable non-technical users to change the layout and design of content. FatWire will be available at the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies in Boston this week, November 29th thru December 1st. http://www.fatwire.com

Gilbane San Francisco Returns to Palace Hotel April 24-26, 2006; Adds Conference and New Tracks
11/29/2005

The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies San Francisco will take place April 24-26, 2006 at the Palace Hotel. Returning to San Francisco, the event is expanding its educational and conference programs to include in-depth discussions on enterprise search, automated publishing technologies for design-critical content, and how blogs and wikis fit into the enterprise. In addition, the event includes the new co-located Enterprise Digital Rights Management (E-DRM) Conference, chaired by noted authority Bill Rosenblatt, Editor of DRMWatch.com. This industry-analyst driven event brings together thought leaders and practitioners to provide attendees with actionable advice, techniques, best practices, and case studies to help successfully implement content technologies critical to their businesses. Proposals for papers are due on January 9th, but should be submitted as soon as possible. To apply visit: http://www.gilbane.com/speaker_guidelines.html. The Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies San Francisco will offer attendees with six tracks, including a: Content Management Track, Content Technology Track, Enterprise Search Track, Automated Publishing for Marketing Track, Blog & Wiki Track, and a Content Technology Works Case Studies Track. In addition to the educational and conference sessions is the Demonstration Pavilion, a forum that hosts 70+ content technology suppliers to demonstrate their latest products and features. http://www.lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_sf_06/sf_06.html

Xyleme Introduces Release 3.4 of its Application Development Kit at Gilbane Boston
11/29/2005

Xyleme Inc. announced the release of Xyleme Application Developer Kit (ADK) 3.4 at the 2005 Gilbane Conference, being held in Boston, MA from November 29th through December 1st. The release includes a new version of Xyleme Views and the first release of Xyleme Application Builder. The new version of Xyleme Views provides a drag-and-drop mapping interface so that developers can manage diverse content structures, build complex XML queries and generate web applications, without writing any code. The new ADK also includes Xyleme Application Builder, an extension of Xyleme Views. Xyleme Application Builder uses a simple web-based form and drop-down menus to allow technical and non-technical users to generate XML-based queries and applications. In the financial services industry, for example, traders and brokers on a Xyleme platform can now immediately query across multiple systems as if all the data were in a single XML schema, even if trades are stored in myriad data structures. For organizations managing a multitude of diverse legacy systems resulting from mergers and acquisitions, Xyleme Views and Xyleme Application Builder can assimilate diverse content into a single unified view to deliver real-time, global reporting across customers and lines of business. Xyleme will demonstrate Xyleme Views and Xyleme Application Builder in Pavilion Station G. In addition, Xyleme will also demonstrate its new generation Assemble-on-Demand Publishing Solution and its Single-Source Publishing Solution for Technical Documentation and Training. http://www.xyleme.com

Endeca Announced Information Access Solutions for Media & Publishing
11/29/2005

Endeca announced the availability of new Information Access Solutions for Media & Publishing. Built on Endeca's search and Guided Navigation platform, the solutions help online publishers, content providers and other information suppliers deploy retrieval capabilities for websites, customer and employee-facing content services and online directory applications. The solutions, directory solutions, online publishing solutions, and multimedia content solutions, are designed to simplify and speed access to desirable information. Each of the new information access solutions combine search and navigation functionality with "Content Spotlighting" capabilities, providing users and customers with multiple, integrated ways to explore, find and access content through a single interface. http://www.endeca.com

FAST Supports Solaris 10
11/29/2005

Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced that FAST now supports the Sun Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). FAST also joined the Sun Partner Advantage Program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Sun's Ten Moves Ahead partner initiative to speed market adoption of the Solaris 10 OS. The Sun Partner Advantage Program for ISVs will enable FAST to build, market, and sell enterprise search-based applications designed to leverage Solaris 10 OS. A critical component of FAST's OEM enterprise search strategy involves FAST InStream, an OEM-specific enterprise search solution developed specifically to meet the complex application-based search requirements of ISVs. FAST InStream runs on a wide variety of operating systems, including the Solaris 10 OS powered by UltraSPARC processors, HP-UX, Windows, Linux, and AIX software platforms. http://www.fastsearch.com

Hot Banana Signs Duo Consulting as Channel Partner
11/29/2005

Hot Banana Software, provider of Web Content Management (WCM) and Active Marketing solutions, announced that it has signed a Channel Partner agreement with a content management consulting specialist, Duo Consulting of Chicago, Illinois. Duo Consulting will be reselling, implementing and supporting Hot Banana's Active Marketing Web Content Management Suite. The announcement was made from the Hot Banana booth (# 106), at the Gilbane Content Management Conference, November 29 - December 01, 2005 in Boston. http://www.HotBanana.com, http://www.duoconsulting.com

Information Mapping Releases Topic-based Document Suite for Content Mapper
11/29/2005

Information Mapping, Inc. (IMI), provider of Information Life Cycle Solutions to the Global 1000, announced it has released a Topic-Based Document Suite for Content Mapper, including XML document Schemas in support of DITA, Mapping Object Model (MOM) and other standard document structures. Content Mapper is a Microsoft Word-based authoring tool that generates XML and integrates with content management systems (CMS). Combined with the Content Mapper Standard Schema, the Content Mapper Topic-Based Document Suite allows organizations to adopt the level of document structure that they find most practical for their business needs. Included in the document suite are tailored DTDs and Schemas for use by companies who have adopted DITA and MOM standards for content creation. DITA and MOM are complementary and can be customized to easily support additional document structures related to specific business needs or technologies. DITA is an open-source standard for topic-based authoring and information publishing. It allows authoring and effective metadata tagging for truly integrated authoring and content management. The DITA standard is being adopted by international companies including IBM, Intel, Nokia, Adobe, Autodesk and Texas Instruments. The Mapping Object Model standard ("MOM") supports Information Mapping's information architecture from Formatting Solutions(TM) which is used by more than 250,000 people around the globe. It supports 6 information types, hierarchical data structures, and the most common Information Mapping templates. This Schema allows users to easily import previously created Formatting Solutions documents into Content Mapper. IMI will demonstrate Content Mapper with the Topic-based Document Suite to customers, analysts and the press at the Gilbane Conference On Content Management Technologies in Boston, November 29-December 1. http://www.infomap.com

Mediasurface Announces Morello Web Client
11/29/2005

Mediasurface announced the arrival of the Morello Web Client, its web-based content management interface and the company's most recent product. Following on from its Morello Smart Client, launched last year. The Morello Web Client is almost indistinguishable from its Morello Smart Client desktop equivalent. It allows web-based content contribution through both Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers, delivering the features of Morello to everyone within the organisation, regardless of browser and operating system. http://www.mediasurface.com

Gilbane Boston Adds Live Interview on Massachusetts OpenDocument Format Controversy
11/29/2005

Lighthouse Seminars and Bluebill Advisors announced that the Gilbane Boston Conference taking place this week has added a special live interview on Massachusetts OpenDocument format controversy. David Berlind, Executive Editor of ZDNet, will interview Morgan Reed, Vice President of the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) live on the stage in the exhibit area of the Gilbane Conference at the Essex ballroom at Westin Copley in Boston. Thursday, December 1, 1:00 p.m. The State of Massachusetts is currently embroiled in a controversy about its decision to standardize on the OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF). ODF competes with the Microsoft Office format, and the decision is strongly opposed by Microsoft. The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), a lobbying organization focused on the "...interests of small and mid-size entrepreneurial technology companies..." also opposes the State's decision. David will quiz Morgan why ACT is supporting Microsoft's position. The Massachusetts decision is being watched very closely by other state and national governments as well as private industry, and if it stands, it will have dramatic effects on both the technology governments buy, and on the way they manage and store all their documents. This interview is a chance to hear what is really at stake, and why a lobbying organization for small technology companies would support Microsoft's position. The interview is free for all expo visitors. The contact for Press/Media Sponsors is Evan Weisel, (703) 628-5754, evan@w2comm.com. http://www.lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_boston_05/ConferenceProgram.html

Research & Markets Forecasts Content Management Market Size
11/29/2005

Research and Markets announced their content management market analysis indicates that the combined software license markets at $1.3 billion in 2004 are anticipated to reach $4.5 billion by 2011. Their view of the market: "The market for enterprise content solutions relates to management of unstructured information. The ability to control enterprise content is central to IT. 90% of information transmitted on the network is unstructured. Content management offers a range of capabilities. Digital asset management, lifecycle management collaboration, web content management, storage management, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and document process management are aspects of the content management markets. The trend is for enterprises to depend on content management software to achieve more efficient business process operation. Enterprise content management solutions are industry specific and may span several different product sets. Market growth of the content management market segment is tied to the transfer of the paper-based enterprise to an enterprise that manages all information electronically. Publishing information to the Web is a small part of the total content management markets. Content management relates to being able to move documents, media, and images around on the network in a manner that is easy. Content management is the management of unstructured information that complements the structured transaction content that has been the entire focus of enterprise computing systems." http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c28576

Content Management Professionals (CM Pros)
11/28/2005

EContent Magazine has selected Content Management Professionals (CM Pros), the international content management community of practice, for inclusion in the EContent 100, the list of the 100 organizations that matter most in the digital content industry. Opening today in Boston, the Fall 2005 CM Pros Summit an exclusive members-only event co-located with the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies will offer more than seven intensive sessions on content personalization and customization. Founded in 2004, CM Proswhich has grown from a founding group of 30 content management experts to more than 600 membersprovides information, expertise and support to content management professionals and the organizations they serve. Through peer-to-peer interchange, the collaborative development of best practices, a series of educational events and definitive knowledge resources such as a content management glossary and resource library, the organization fosters a better public understanding of this critically important discipline. Join CM Pros on the Web at http://www.cmprofessionals.org, http://www.cmprofessionals.org/events/summit/#05fall

RedDot Announces New Content Integrator for Enterprise Content Integration; Extends Partnership with IBM
11/28/2005

RedDot Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM), announced the new RedDot Content Integrator - a solution based on IBM's Information Integrator Content Edition, formerly known as Venetica's Venice Bridge. With the new Content Integrator from RedDot, users can access and connect the content repositories of most ECM providers through Web sites, intranets, extranets and portals powered by RedDot's CMS and LiveServer Content Management and Content Delivery Software. The new RedDot Content Integrator will aggregate content from many other ECM solutions into one system and make it securely accessible via the intranet, extranet, Web sites and portals, through a single sign-on. RedDot's new content integration software enables organizations to access information such as business documents, still images, digital media and Web pages, and integrate the content into RedDot's CMS and LiveServer. The RedDot Content Integrator provides complete access to most major ECM solutions, and will be available in Q1 2006. http://www.reddot.com, http://www.hummingbird.com

Translations.com & Percussion Software Partner
11/28/2005

Translations.com and Percussion Software announced a strategic partnership under which the companies have integrated their product offerings to enhance the creation and management of global web content. The integration of Translations.com's GlobalLink Globalization Management System as a multilingual module for Percussion's flagship Rhythmyx 5.7 Content Management System (CMS) solution allows content managers to produce and update global content in as many as 100 languages. The combination of GlobalLink translation technology and the Rhythmyx Content Management System creates a one-stop-shopping solution for organizations that want to roll out a scalable multi-site Web presence. http://www.translations.com, http://www.percussion.com

Vamosa to Announce Content X-Change (VCX)
11/25/2005

Vamosa has chosen the 2005 Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies - Boston to announce their new product - Vamosa Content X-Change (VCX). For enterprises with an investment in Enterprise Content Management Systems such as Interwoven, Stellent and Documentum, integrating these systems, especially if the organisation has multiple CMS applications, into the IBM Websphere Portal can be difficult. Typically, integration involves the development of custom portlets. VCX is an infrastructure solution which allows enterprises to maintain their authoring and workflow investment in their ECM platform, while seamlessly integrating that ECM platform into the IBM Websphere Portal platform for personalisation, content rendering and content caching. The product is being developed co-operatively with several Vamosa partners and customers. Further product announcements will be made in early January 2006. http://www.vamosa.com

Software AG Releases Tamino XML Server 4.4 with WebDAV Support
11/23/2005

Software AG, Inc. announced the worldwide availability of Tamino XML Server 4.4, which has implemented WebDAV support directly in the kernel. Through WebDAV support and automatic document versioning, Tamino 4.4 provides data management facilities to unstructured data currently residing in local file systems. These facilities include extended search functions for content and metadata, authorization and security, and data integrity. In addition, Tamino 4.4 provides the high availability (hot standby), replication mechanisms, enhanced scalability and security required in mission-critical IT environments. For the user, the tight WebDAV integration means that Tamino appears as a normal directory or directory tree, and acts as a transparent and flexible Internet file system that also provides versioning capabilities. Users can store, share, search and retrieve XML documents with 'drag and drop' as well as using XQuery. Furthermore, binary data, such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, PDF, ZIP or other Office files can be stored and indexed for XQuery-based searches. In addition to the access via HTTP and a wide range of available APIs, external systems and applications can access Tamino via the integrated WebDAV interface, an extended HTTP standard Internet protocol. Tamino XML Server also now incorporates SOAP and UDDI. Tamino 4.4 is available for the Microsoft Windows Server and XP, Sun Solaris, HP-UX (64-bit), and Linux for Intel platforms. Additional platforms including AIX, HP-UX (Itanium), and z/Linux are scheduled to follow in December. http://www.softwareagusa.com

Microsoft Offers Office Document Formats to ECMA for Standardization
11/22/2005

Microsoft Corp. announced it will take steps to offer the file format technology behind Micosoft Office as an international standard. Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, the British Library, Essilor, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, NextPage Inc., Statoil ASA and Toshiba will co-sponsor a submission to Ecma International, the standards organization, of the Microsoft Office Open XML document format technology. Microsoft will also make available tools to enable old documents to capitalize on the open standard format. These organizations have agreed to work together as part of an open technical committee that Ecma members can join to standardize and fully document the Open XML formats for Word, Excel and PowerPoint from the next generation of Office technologies, code-named Office "12," as an Ecma standard, and to help maintain the evolution of the formats. The group will ask Ecma to submit the results of their collaboration to the International Organization for Standardization for approval. Since its inception in 1961, Ecma International (Ecma) has developed standards for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Consumer Electronics (CE). Publications can be downloaded free of charge from http://www.ecma-international.org

See our comments on Open Document Formats on our blog.

Antenna House Releases XSL Formatter V3.4
11/22/2005

Antenna House, Inc. announced that XSL Formatter V3.4, their newest XSL-FO processor, is now available. As an option Antenna House is offering with V3.4 the ability to support PANTONE Colors. The PANTONE Option provides the ability for more than 1000 PANTONE Colors to be converted into RGB or CMYK values automatically. V3.3 also offers improvements many new enhancements that have been implemented through FO extensions. These include: 1) PANTONE Colors can now be supported using the new PANTONE Option; 2) show-distination is now effective with Distiller; 3) axf:document-info has been extended and the magnification and the action, etc. when opening PDF can be specified. The document information dialog for this function is also newly added; 4) in SVG is supported; 5) Line Numbering is now able to be output; 6) Extension for European Rule is newly provided; 7) axf:avoid-widow-words is now available to specify so that the last line of the paragraph does not become one word; 8) overflow="error-if-overflow" is supported; 9) When layout="auto" is specified for the table, the number of rows can now be controlled by the option setting file. http://www.antennahouse.com

Ipedo Releases New Version of Enterprise Information Integration (EII) Platform
11/21/2005

Ipedo announced the latest version of its EII platform. Ipedo XIP 4.1 incorporates several new product enhancements that focus on improving the user experience in enterprise deployments. Web Services Tables, a dynamic mapping of Web Services to virtual relational tables, allows seamless integration between SQL-based business intelligence applications and XML-based Web Services. The release also features a new management console that improves system manageability, and several additions to Ipedo's query optimization engine that improve the performance of large and complex queries. Ipedo XIP leverages SQL and XQuery to integrate and manage information from disparate, complex data sources to enable real-time business decisions. A complete set of Ipedo XIP demos is available online. Ipedo XIP 4.1 will be available on December 20, 2005 for Windows 2000, Windows NT, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux and SuSE Linux. Pricing is on a per-CPU basis. http://www.ipedo.com

Nexidia Launches New Business Unit to Expand into Rich Media Search
11/21/2005

Nexidia announced the formation of a media business unit to address audio-video search and content management using Nexidia's core phonetic search technology. Currently, Nexidia's technology is used to enable both government and commercial enterprises to leverage untapped information previously locked away in audio files. The growth in rich media content has created a market need to go beyond traditional metadata approaches and unlock the rich information contained in audio and video in order to easily index, search and access this content. http://www.nexidia.com

W3C Hosts Feed Validation Service
11/21/2005

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced a W3C Feed Validation Service, a free online tool which helps check the syntax of syndication feeds in formats such as RSS and Atom. This service is based on the open source software feedvalidator (the same software running the service at feedvalidator.org). Feedvalidator was written by Sam Ruby, Mark Pilgrim, Joseph Walton, and Phil Ringnalda and is under development over at sourceforge. In addition to the existing features of the feedvalidator, the W3C has made available a SOAP web service for the W3C feed validation service, and hopes that it will be a useful resource for the automatic or batch validation of feeds. This service is, for the moment, still quite experimental, and may have bugs or problems. http://validator.w3.org/feed/

SDL Introduces Technology Partner Program
11/18/2005

SDL International introduced the SDL Partner Program for technology partners. This new initiative is designed to accelerate the delivery of GIM solutions. The SDL Partner Program establishes an ecosystem for global information management (GIM). Technology partners offer content-related technology that can be incorporated into GIM solutions, ranging from authoring to content management to localization to publishing. The SDL Partner Program proactively assists partners to effectively deliver GIM solutions by providing marketing and sales support, technical materials and SDKs, and access to SDL software and technology. The program so far includes EMC Documentum, Interwoven, Blast Radius, Trisoft, Tridion, Astoria Software, Day, XyEnterprise, Alchemy, and PASS. http://www.sdl.com

Justsystems Adding Native XML Support to IBM's DB2 'Viper'
11/16/2005

Justsystems Inc. announced that it is working with IBM to deliver a solution for native XML applications based on IBM's next version of DB2, code-named 'Viper'. The combination of Viper and Justsystems' xfy front-end application platform will provide native support for XML content handling and business intelligence. xfy Enterprise Solution for DB2 Viper1 serves as a platform for creating and running native XML applications extremely rapidly. It is based on xfy Basic Edition 1.0, released in Oct. 2005. On the xfy platform, a document becomes the fundamental executable unit of an XML application, an "XML Object" that contains both data and business logic. xfy Enterprise Solution for DB2 Viper provides semi-automated, real-time application creation from existing XML resources, such as XML Schema or XQuery results. xfy Enterprise Solution for DB2 Viper is written in Java and runs on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. xfy Basic Edition 1.0 and xfy Developer's Toolkit 1.0 are available free for noncommercial individual or academic use. xfy Enterprise Solution for DB2 Viper consists of xfy Enterprise Solution 1.0 and DB2 Viper Extension kit. xfy Enterprise Solution 1.0 is scheduled for release in June, 2006. The DB2 Viper Extension Kit will follow. http://www.xfytec.com

Inxight Announces SmartDiscovery Awareness Server 5.4
11/16/2005

Inxight Software announced Inxight SmartDiscovery Awareness Server 5.4, which allows users to query a variety of internal and external sources from one search box, and then to cluster and filter the results by the most relevant people, companies, concepts (noun phrases), places and other entities mentioned in them, speeding access to information. For example, government analysts can access open and classified sources with a single query and then see and filter by the most relevant concepts, weapons, organizations and people mentioned in documents to pinpoint information of interest. Brand managers can search multiple news agencies, analyst reports and internal information to see the companies, concepts and products most often mentioned in conjunction with their own company and a search term of interest. Drug researchers can access Medline, subscription journals and other relevant websites to see and filter results by the genes, kinases and other information most commonly associated with a given search term. SmartDiscovery Awareness Server is preconfigured out of the box to search and track data from more than 600 online and enterprise sources. It ranks this information by relevance and provides a variety of intelligent filtering and preview options, including entity, category and source clustering. Customized alerts and page tracking automatically inform users of new and updated information. Entity extraction is accomplished when used with Inxight SmartDiscovery Analysis Server, which "reads" text and automatically detects people, companies, places, concepts (noun phrases) and many other entities out-of-the-box, without the need for complicated taxonomies, tuning or pre-defined lists. The system leverages existing Single Sign-On (SSO) and authentication schemes to provide secure access to subscription and other password-protected data sources. http://www.inxight.com

Xenos Releases infoWEB 5.2 Document Management Solution
11/16/2005

Xenos Group, Inc. (TSX: XNS) announced availability of a new release of infoWEB that extends the solution's enterprise report delivery functionality with a broad range of new features to enable document, e-forms, and scanned image management. The solution, Xenos infoWEB 5.2, supports versioning, annotation, and metadata, and also offers a workflow engine to automate internal routing of critical business information. Xenos infoWEB 5.2 also offers a single interface that features a consolidated view to stored reports across multiple instances of the solution. http://www.xenos.com

Tarari Announces RAX-XSLT
11/16/2005

Tarari Inc. announced an Early Adopter Program and general availability of its XSLT processing engines, named RAX-XSLT that are designed and optimized for Web Services and transactional XML processing. RAX-XSLT is a new addition to Tarari's Random Access XML (RAX) family of XML Content Processors. Tarari's Content Processors are components that are designed to accelerate and harden the processing of XML on network devices, switches, appliances, blades, and servers. RAX-XSLT is now available as both a silicon-based component and a "pure software" library. A new Tarari XSLT Script Analysis Profiler, also included with RAX-XSLT, helps developers optimize performance by eliminating script "hotspots" that reduce processing speeds. RAX-XSLT automatically detects Tarari's XML RAX Content Processor, available on a PCI/PCI-X board that plugs into an available server or network appliance slot. The RAX Content Processor provides instant and transparent hardware (silicon) acceleration for processor-exhausting XML processing tasks such as document parsing, XPath processing, schema validation, XML security, XML content-based routing and XSLT. RAX-XSLT is capable of sensing when acceleration silicon is available, and transparently switches over to hardware-accelerated operation at that time. RAX-XSLT is compliant with W3C XSLT 1.1, JAXP, and eXSLT. Developers who sign up for Tarari's RAX-XSLT Early Adopter Program by the end of December can purchase the pure-software version of the RAX-XSLT Development Kit for $895. For the duration of the Early Adopter Program, the Tarari XML RAX Content Processor Development Kit will include the RAX-XSLT technology with the hardware-based XML RAX Content Processor on a PCI/PCI-X card at no extra cost at the current price of $4,995. http://www.tarari.com

Exegenix Annouces Document Migration Toolkit for DB2 "Viper"
11/16/2005

Exegenix announced that it has enabled its XML conversion technology to simplify the migration of unstructured material into structured XML data in IBM's next version of DB2 code-named "Viper". With DB2 Viper IBM is adding a Native XML store in its DB2 repository, taking a more holistic approach to combine XML and relational systems. XML support is incorporated deeper in the DB2 data engine than can be achieved via content shredding or BLOB storage. Data storage is centralized for applications with broad capabilities that support both structured content modules and tabular data. Exegenix's intelligent conversion technology uses visual cues to uncover each document's structure automatically. People rarely have problems determining the hierarchical structure of any document they encounter, because they look at a document as a whole, taking into consideration each graphical object's format, position, and context. Exegenix technology does the same thing it interprets a document's logical structure based on the appearance and position of its components, with no dependency on consistently formatted input. This rules-free XML construction process requires no mapping, no scripting, and no programming. Exegenix has incorporated this conversion technology into the Exegenix Document Migration Toolkit for DB2, which emulates the "extract, transform, load" methodology commonly employed for structured data migration. The Exegenix Document Migration Toolkit for DB2 is available to beta testers via an IBM-supplied registration and password, at the secure portal http://www.exegenix.com/db2

ISYS Announces ISYS:sdk 7
11/16/2005

ISYS Search Software announced the immediate general availability of ISYS:sdk 7, the company's embedded search solution for system integrators and OEMs. ISYS:sdk is designed to provide everyone from independent software vendors to professional services organizations with a solution for embedding advanced search technology into custom applications, from email archiving and records management to document imaging and document management. New features that are core to ISYS:sdk 7, include: Support for C-callable libraries, COM, Java and .NET, complete with full documentation and samples written in C, Visual Basic, Delphi, ASP and C#; The ability to index an unlimited number of documents and search several billion documents in a single query, over a broad range of document formats; A semantically rich query language; On-The-Fly document categorization; A plug-in API; Increased index capacity and greater scalability allowing indexes to be built using multiple processors; and Unicode indexes, which enable content in various languages to reside in a single index. http://www.isys-search.com

Siderean Announces New Solution for Metadata Generation & Harvesting to Support Navigation of Digital Content
11/16/2005

Siderean Software announced a product and services solution for extracting and aligning metadata from large amounts of unstructured and structured data based on the IBM Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA). The new Seamark Metadata Assembly Process Platform (MAPP) improves digital content navigation capabilities by expanding and enriching available metadata so Seamark Navigator can present more accurate and complete scope of available content and context for accessing information. Seamark Navigator offers a harvesting back-end for accessing and generating metadata prior to loading it into its store. The existing harvester is best suited for applications where the metadata is reasonably evolved and well-organized outside Seamark Navigator, requiring little transformation and processing before incorporating the feed into the store. For more complex environments, where large volumes of diverse and unorganized digital assets must be processed for navigation, a more formalized framework is needed to manage and align the metadata representation to the business. This new solution uniquely combines the richness of the semantic Web with existing Web services and UIMA standards. Seamark MAPP is a configurable framework for generating and analyzing metadata from diverse sources including file systems, content management solutions, databases, Web pages, RSS feeds and blogs. Seamark MAPP is expected to be generally available before the end of the year. http://www.siderean.com

Hummingbird Announces Launch of Hummingbird Enterprise 2005
11/15/2005

Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ:HUMC) (NASDAQ:TSX:) (NASDAQ:HUM) announced the official launch of Hummingbird Enterprise 2005. Hummingbird Enterprise 2005 focuses on usability, integration and performance. Hummingbird's Business Solutions Framework is designed to minimize deployment complexities and reduce total cost of ownership by ensuring that content enabling processes can be transparently accessed from the client applications users most commonly deploy in their daily work habits. The Hummingbird Enterprise Client for Microsoft Outlook provides an interactive, business-based view of the entire suite of Hummingbird Enterprise functionality from within Microsoft Outlook. Hummingbird Enterprise 2005 delivers integration between all the key phases of managing content lifecycle. At its core is Hummingbird Enterprise Workflow that links content lifecycle processes by automating critical business tasks and simplifying repetitive activities associated with content creation, profiling and records retention and disposition practices. Content Drive is a technology designed to improve the way desktop applications interact with the Hummingbird Enterprise 2005 content repository. It leverages network connectivity to control how an application talks to a repository. With Content Drive all file operations to the content repository are handled natively at the Microsoft operating system kernel level, eliminating the need to write and maintain specific code to transfer documents. http://www.hummingbird.com

Microsoft Delivers Free Desktop Search Capabilities for Enterprise Customers
11/15/2005

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) launched Windows Desktop Search enabled for enterprise deployment, which allows corporate information workers to find and retrieve what they're looking for on their personal computers, in e-mail and on network file shares from a single starting point. Microsoft's vision is to enable a complete enterprise search experience with search across the PC and e-mail through Windows Desktop Search, across the enterprise intranet environment with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and across the Web with MSN Search. Microsoft plans to continue expanding the capabilities of Windows Desktop Search and augment them with Windows Live services to search across new data sources and provide the future opportunity to build services on top of the desktop platform. The new enterprise version of Windows Desktop Search takes the consumer version of the product offering and provides a simple way to deploy and manage this product across the enterprise environment. Enterprise customers have the option to deploy the MSN Search Toolbar, which provides a new beta feature that gives people the ability to see integrated Windows Desktop Search results within Microsoft Office Outlook. IT managers can customize Windows Desktop Search and the MSN Search Toolbar to allow users to switch the scope of their search experience from their desktop to the Web or to a corporate intranet, all from one ubiquitous search box. These products have been designed to respect the privacy of multiple users on a single PC by utilizing the Windows authentication and user account management infrastructure. IT professionals can deploy, customize and manage these search capabilities via Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 or third-party deployment tools. IT professionals can also extend Windows Desktop Search to index additional information sources and file types using IFilters and protocol handlers that are documented on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site. Enterprises can tap into additional product assistance through Microsoft Product Support Services. Currently supported in 15 languages, with others available soon, Windows Desktop Search for the enterprise can be downloaded for free with a Windows License at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/enterprise

SiberLogic announces SiberSafe DITA Edition
11/15/2005

SiberLogic announced the DITA Edition of its content management system, SiberSafe, a DITA solution that combines semantic knowledge modeling with a CMS. Using SiberSafe Visual Modeler, knowledge is contributed directly into the semantic model by the subject matter expert. The user interface is optimized for DITA-compliant topics and components, and can be pre-populated with concepts, tasks, and references that support individual specialization requirements. Information can be incrementally added to the semantic model as it becomes available during the product development lifecycle. Once the model is complete, draft topics can be automatically generated. SiberSafe establishes associations between topics and appropriate parts of the semantic model, and will automatically notify topic owners about any relevant changes in the model. Content can be authored both online and offline using Blast Radius XMetaL, Arbortext Epic, and Adobe FrameMaker 7.2, and output to IETP/IETM, SCORM, PDF, HTML, and PowerPoint, for delivery on paper, CD-ROM, or online. SiberSafe DITA Edition modeling technology is built on the open W3C Semantic Web standards RDF and OWL. http://www.siberlogic.com

Day Unveils Communique 4
11/15/2005

Day Software (SWX:DAYN)(OTC:DYIHY) announced the availability of Communique 4, a native JCR (JSR 170) standard compliant enterprise content management solution. Communique 4 decouples the content management application from the underlying repository. Applications developed that leverage the API can run on any JSR 170 compliant repository. Communique 4 ships with and runs natively on Day's java content repository, Content Repository Extreme (CRX). Communique 4 provides an easy transition from older releases. Existing Communique projects can be migrated "in place" with help of an update installer, leaving the existing deployments and architecture intact. New projects can readily use the standardized API and can benefit from the new technology. Communique 4 will run as a Servlet inside its own Servlet container or inside J2EE application servers. http://www.day.com

Fuji Xerox Information Systems Partners with PTC to Deliver its Arbortext Publishing Software
11/15/2005

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) announced that Fuji Xerox Information Systems has become a reseller of its Arbortext solutions for dynamic publishing. PTC solutions for dynamic publishing enable companies to automate the assembly and publishing of product or service information in multiple languages and formats. The Arbortext family of products will enable Fuji Xerox Information Systems' customers to create, manage and publish large amounts of technical systems information. Fuji Xerox Information Systems offers services that range from consulting and process reengineering to systems deployment and documentation. http://www.ptc.com

thePlatform Enhances Media Publishing System with RSS
11/15/2005

thePlatform announced thePlatform Media Publishing System (MPS) has added support for RSS. MPS is a digital media publishing solution, enabling content owners, aggregators and enterprises to manage and deliver digital media content. thePlatform MPS enables content owners and aggregators to publish their audio and video content in multiple digital media formats, bit-rates, content categories and device profiles. Now, with built-in support for RSS publishing in MPS-powered media portals, streaming or downloadable content can be discovered by a wide range of RSS-enabled podcasting media aggregators, digital media search engines and directories. MPS enables content owners and aggregators to manage and publish their media in a variety of digital audio and video codecs and formats, including Windows Media, Flash, MP3, MPEG-4, 3GPP. With the integrated content management features in MPS, content owners can manage and organize their media. Integrated RSS publishing support in MPS enables content owners to make their video publishing portals discoverable. Content owners can also publish categorized feeds. Using built-in MPS features for authentication, digital media content can be secured and accessed via proper authentication or made freely available. Through commerce and digital rights management support, content can be published with recurring subscription, pay-per-view or advertising business models. Content owners or aggregators can deploy MPS as a hosted solution, or as a self-hosted or hybrid application. http://www.theplatform.com

ClearStory Releases ActiveMedia 7.0
11/15/2005

ClearStory Systems (BULLETIN BOARD: CSYS) announced the release of ActiveMedia 7.0, enterprise-class software application for managing the digital media communications supply chain from creation to delivery. Designed for the demands of global teams, ActiveMedia has capabilities to drive rich media-centric business processes, user adoption, and administrative simplicity. This includes a security-driven user experience, new workflow capabilities and a flexible metadata model based on business rules and user role. Developed on ClearStory's Enterprise Media Server (EMS) platform, ActiveMedia 7.0 provides geographically-dispersed teams with unique views into the system, based on their privileges and role. ActiveMedia can be deployed as a hosted solution or installed application. http://www.clearstorysystems.com

SourceCode Delivers Microsoft SharePoint Collaboration Tools
11/15/2005

SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc., provider of enterprise business process management software built on the .NET platform and a Microsoft Gold partner, announced the release of K2.net 2003 Collaboration Tools for Microsoft SharePoint Products & Technologies enabling business users to define and create document workflows within Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS). Based on the Microsoft .NET platform, K2.net 2003 now provides seamless integration to Microsoft's SharePoint Products and Technologies by providing the tools and out-of-the box wizards that help define, create and manage complex business processes in the collaborative SharePoint environment and extending out to related systems as needed in the workflow such as Lines of Business and e-mail systems. Deeply integrated with the K2.net Server workflow management and execution platform, K2.net Collaboration Tools for SharePoint allow business users define serial, parallel and multi-stage workflows, with escalation logic, e-mail notifications, related instructions and more. The design experience is integrated within the familiar Web-based SharePoint environment with the addition of enterprise workflow features such as tracking and audit trailing. http://www.k2workflow.com

Justsystems Announces Integrated XML Development & Runtime Environment
11/15/2005

Justsystems Inc. announced the release of xfy Enterprise Solution 1.0, an integrated development and runtime environment for enterprise XML applications. Justsystems plans to release the product in June 2006. xfy Enterprise Solution 1.0 helps application developers create user interfaces for service-oriented architectures (SOA) and web services. xfy Enterprise Solution 1.0 also allows end users to optimize workflow through an easy interface for the rapid development of customized applications. xfy Enterprise Solution 1.0 combines an XML document creation and editing environment; an application execution environment; and an application development platform for business. Built around the xfy Enterprise Client Runtime, the xfy Enterprise Solution suite also includes xfy View Generator 1.0 for automatically creating xfy components from existing XML schema, XSLT support, xfy View Designer 1.0 for creating an interactive display, and xfy Developer's Toolkit 1.0. In addition, xfy Enterprise Solution 1.0 introduces xfy Server 1.0 to manage client components and user authentication, enabling businesses to re-use components. Annual licenses for the xfy Enterprise Client are available at US $50 per client. The annual server license is US $3,000 per processor. http://www.xfytec.com

Adobe & Satyam Deliver Intelligent Statements for Financial Services Organizations
11/15/2005

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE:SAY) announced the Intelligent Statements solution for financial services organizations. Now, banks and other financial institutions can use intelligent bank and credit card e-statements for more secure and cost-effective delivery of highly targeted, personalized communications. Based on Adobe LiveCycle software and developed and distributed by Satyam, the Intelligent Statements solution enables banks and other financial institutions to add transaction-level intelligence to electronic statements, which are batch-processed and delivered to customers in Adobe PDF. Using Adobe Reader customers can view and interact with these statements for transactions such as updating personal information, disputing an erroneous transaction, or taking advantage of a special offer. Once the customer clicks the submit button, the data is protected and automatically sent back to the institution's core systems for processing. Additionally, the statement can be saved to a local hard drive for completion or submission at a later time. Adobe LiveCycle software makes it easier for financial services organizations to more effectively create and deliver information by combining the business logic and data exchange capabilities of XML with the visual fidelity and security features of Adobe PDF. The software is built on a common server architecture based on Java 2 Enterprise Edition and XML. The Intelligent Statements solution is available immediately through Satyam. http://www.satyam.com

Vasont Systems Releases Vasont Version 10
11/14/2005

Vasont Systems announced the release of Vasont 10, the latest version of its single-source content management system. Vasont 10 will be unveiled at the Gilbane Conference on Content Management in Boston, MA, on November 29 - December 1, 2005. Vasont transactions can now be processed up to six times faster on corporate networks due to Vasont 10's enhanced server-side processing on the Oracle server. Vasont utilizes the most current version of Oracle, 10g. Digital asset management capabilities have been added to Vasont 10. Users can simply drag-and-drop multimedia components, in a wide variety of file formats, from their desktop into Vasont. They can be viewed in the Vasont File Explorer several different ways, including thumbnail, detail, or list views. Vasont 10 provides users with the ability to capture, organize, and search unstructured documents and structured component-level content together in the same database. Users can now drag-and-drop entire unstructured documents from their desktop directly into the Vasont repository. The new Pointer Log in Vasont 10 manages modular reuse in a similar way that Vasont's Global Change Log manages component reuse, giving users control over the implementation of changes to reused content. The Pointer Log tracks and time-stamps all changes made to referenced content and tells the user exactly what changes need to be approved for a particular pointer/reference. http://www.vasont.com

Inxight Software & Kapow Technologies Integrate Products
11/14/2005

Inxight and Kapow Technologies have entered into an agreement to integrate and jointly sell the Kapow Web Integration platform with Inxight SmartDiscovery Analysis Server. The combined solution enables clients to reach and analyze any structured or unstructured information available on the Web. The Kapow Web Integration platform integrates any application or information through the Web front-end, and integrates these into portals, content/knowledge management systems, databases or solution frameworks like Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) as Web services. Inxight will resell Kapow's products to customers seeking additional functionality to collect information from Web resources for processing within the Inxight SmartDiscovery Analysis Server platform. Using the Kapow Web Integration Platform, users are able to collect Web data, and extract relevant content and information in conjunction with their enterprise content. Customers can keep their content collection fresh through automated or scheduled synchronization of content. In addition, if information is not found in the customer's current collection, an ad-hoc query system that is part of the solution can collect and normalize the content in real-time and insert it into Inxight SmartDiscovery. http://www.kapowtech.com, http://www.inxight.com

Microsoft & Open Text Announce New Strategic Relationship
11/14/2005

Microsoft Corp. and Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX)(TSX:OTC) announced a strategic relationship to optimize Open Text's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for the Microsoft platform. As part of the announcement, Open Text, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, becomes a worldwide ECM partner with Microsoft. By deepening the relationship between Open Text and Microsoft, the companies will work to enhance Open Text solutions in ways that combine the Microsoft platform and Open Text's understanding of the ECM needs of large enterprises. The resulting solutions from Open Text will include vertical-market offerings in financial services and government.Open Text is also introducing two new solutions that use Open Text's Livelink ECM suite and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. The new solutions include an Open Text records management solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Open Text is also introducing Web Parts that expose Livelink ECM content and functionality in SharePoint Portal Server 2003. This new level of integration will allow SharePoint Portal Server 2003 users to utilize specific Livelink ECM capabilities and access content stored anywhere in Livelink ECM. Future versions of Open Text solutions will be built on Microsoft Office "12," the code name of the next major release of Microsoft Office products. Livelink ECM will connect directly with Microsoft's ECM capabilities and extend the content created in Office "12" into business processes. Open Text has also agreed to support the latest version of Visual Studio 2005, for the development of new Livelink ECM solutions that integrate with SharePoint Portal Server 2003. http://www.opentext.com, http://www.microsoft.com

Pound Hill Software Unveils MetaGrove
11/14/2005

Pound Hill Software announced MetaGrove, an integrated suite of software tools for Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP). The toolkit consists of MetaGrove Developer, MetaGrove Plug-ins for Adobe's Creative Suite, and MetaGrove XTension for QuarkXPress. Available for Windows and Mac, MetaGrove provides for standardized cross-platform and cross-application metadata consistency, server-based support for controlled vocabularies, and the ability to automatically enforce corporate and departmental standards. MetaGrove Developer provides a drag-and-drop environment for initial setup by the organization's data expert. It defines the metadata to be embedded in digital assets and the look and feel of the user dialogs used to collect the data. Features such as auto-complete, tool tips, validation, thumbnail support, and dynamic server support ensure complete and accurate metadata tagging. The MetaGrove suite will be available for delivery by the end of January 2006. Enterprise pricing is based on quantity, with typical pricing of $65 to $85 per Plug-in or XTension. http://www.poundhill.com

60+ Vendors Set to Showcase Latest Innovations at the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies Boston
11/14/2005

The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies Boston will host over 60 vendors exhibiting a broad range of content technologies available for enterprise applications. Taking place November 29-December 1 at the Westin Copley Place, attendees can learn more about widely deployed technologies like content management and enterprise search as well as newer technologies for corporate content applications, such as blogs, wikis, RSS, and "rich internet" applications. Highlights of some of the exciting and innovative content management technologies and solutions that will be on display are available in the full press release at: http://www.gilbane.com/gr_news_11.14.05.html To view the entire list of exhibitors visit: http://www.lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_boston_05/Exhibitors.html To register for the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies Boston visit: http://www.lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_boston_05/Registration.html

CrownPeak 360 Degree Site Management Offers Integration to Marketers
11/14/2005

CrownPeak announced 360 Degree Site Management, which allows marketers to integrate solutions with Web Content Management. Through several recent partner integrations, 360 Degree Site Management integrates all the technology, including Web hosting, CRM, Web analytics, Web content management and site search, necessary to manage and deliver quality Web sites. CrownPeak's integration partners include IBM and RackSpace for Web hosting, Salesforce.com and Convio for CRM and WebTrends for Web analytics. By using 360 Degree Site Management, both current and prospective customers can rely on one vendor to implement, integrate, manage and support all of their core online marketing functions. http://www.crownpeak.com

MoonLite Vision Introduces eCommerce Content Management Solution
11/11/2005

MoonLite Vision, Inc. introduced bizBaron, a new content management software solution which incorporates an online store, online appointment scheduling, subscription content, memberships, and community forums within one application. The release of bizBaron provides web merchants, whether a service provider or seller of goods, a one-stop non-technical solution for their Internet commerce needs. Merchants can purchase bizBaron for use on their web server, or elect to use bizBaron-provided web hosting. bizBaron is currently only available in the United States. http://www.bizbaron.com

SchemaLogic & WAND Join Forces to Offer Taxonomy Solution
11/9/2005

SchemaLogic, provider of enterprise metadata and taxonomy management software, and WAND Inc., provider of industry vertical product and service taxonomies, announced that they have joined forces to deliver a comprehensive taxonomy solution to global 2000 companies. The partnership will offer customers taxonomic content, coupled with a platform to view, manage and disseminate the taxonomies to their search and content management applications. WAND taxonomies coupled with SchemaLogic taxonomy management empowers customers to rapidly deploy an "out-of-the-box" taxonomic solution that matches their business domain. SchemaLogic offers the framework to manage and use metadata, taxonomies, vocabularies and schema across multiple systems to improve the way information is organized, accessed and shared across large enterprises. http://www.WANDinc.com, http://www.schemalogic.com

Mediasurface Updates CMS to v5.3; Introduces Instant Site
11/8/2005

Mediasurface launched the latest version of its content management suite (CMS) v5.3, introduced Instant Site, a new feature which enables the creation of websites in minutes. Mediasurface v5.3 also incorporates enhancements to its Morello Smart Client. Business users can select templates, page layouts and component pages, and in less than 10 clicks Instant Site can build a brand new fully managed site, which adheres to corporate branding and accessibility standards. Mediasurface's Instant Site feature enables IT to supply business users with a framework of components such as FAQ pages, a search facility, or even whole sets of pages, for example: a newsroom or newsletter with homepage, discussion areas, feeds and links pages. Mediasurface v5.3 now also includes a content classification tool. The new Taxonomy Browser enables editorial users to identify and select the right keywords and phrases to ensure content is always tagged correctly. It includes a searchable tree-structured representation along with predictive typing and identification, and an intelligent 'suggest' feature to help users find the preferred term. The system can also be configured to work with multiple taxonomies such as the Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary or Government Category List. Mediasurface v5.3 increases support for managing multiple websites, allowing the user to track content throughout the entire business operation. Content can be shared across all internet, intranet and extranet sites. By using the new Content Tracker, an impact analysis can be carried out on changes to content that is shared across these sites. Mediasurface v5.3 is now available as a free upgrade to existing Morello customers. http://www.mediasurface.com

Information Mapping Acquires XML Technology; Will Launch Content Mapper for Content Management Authoring
11/8/2005

Information Mapping, Inc. (IMI) announced it has acquired XML technology to be integrated with Content Mapper, a front-end MS-Word-based authoring tool that generates XML and links with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Systems. Scheduled to launch later this month, Content Mapper offers a Word-based authoring environment, round trip editing from Word to XML and back again, integration with ECM systems, meta-data tagging, import of legacy documents, flexible publishing and XML output. http://www.infomap.com

Bitform Releases SDK to Provide Access to Unstructured Data Locked in Complex File Formats
11/8/2005

Bitform Technology Inc. announced the availability of Bitform Extract SDK, a software component for high-performance access to the contents, including text, metadata and content structure information, of the most important file types used by global organizations. Cross platform support and a flexible API make Bitform Extract SDK a tool for a broad range of solutions that need access to file content. Target applications include analysis and inspection for security and compliance solutions and text extraction for indexing, categorization and other search, knowledge management and content management processes. On the surface, content extraction can be confused with "text filtering". It's a relatively simple task to develop a program that opens files and treats every element inside as text. This approach can produce impressive performance figures with regard to gigabytes of files processed per hour, but precision and accuracy suffer tremendously. Complex binary file formats such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF contain thousands of internal structures that can either be bypassed by a simple text filter - thus causing incomplete analysis of content - or can be incorrectly treated as text - thereby producing false positives. Bitform's approach of completely modeling supported file types and taking into account the unique structure of specific formats produces high precision with performance that meets market needs in multiple application segments. For security, policy and compliance applications, Bitform Extract SDK can be combined with Bitform's metadata and hidden information inspection tool, Bitform Secure SDK, to provide a comprehensive content extraction, inspection and remediation solution. Bitform Extract SDK is available immediately. http://www.bitform.net

Percussion Introduces Rhythmyx 5.7; Partners with Ephox
11/7/2005

Percussion Software announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Ephox, provider of XML and XHTML authoring tools for enterprises. At the same time, Percussion introduced Rhythmyx 5.7, the newest version of its Enterprise Content Management System. Rhythmyx 5.7 provides new content creation/editing and analysis tools, features a new cross-platform rich text editor, EditLive! for Java 5.0 from Ephox, which offers content authoring capabilities, international language support and accessibility features for Section 508 compliance. EditLive! for Java 5.0, is certified on all Rhythmyx-supported browsers and platforms - including Netscape, Internet Explorer and Firefox for Windows and Safari for Mac. Rhythmyx 5.7 also adds Content Lifecycle Analysis, a capability that allows Web site managers to track and analyze content as it proceeds through the production lifecycle. http://www.percussion.com, http://www.ephox.com

XyEnterprise & Quadralay Announce Strategic Partnership
11/7/2005

Quadralay Corporation and XyEnterprise announced a strategic partnership that will combine XyEnterprise's Content@ software with Quadralay's WebWorks AutoMap. These technologies streamline business processes, providing information-management capabilities and automated online publishing for midsize and large Adobe FrameMaker and Microsoft Word authoring groups. XyEnterprise's Content@ is a content management application that manages structured and unstructured content as whole documents or reusable components that can then be shared across multiple delivery channels. With FrameMaker Application Interfaces, content developers, managers and publishers have instant connectivity between Adobe FrameMaker and Content@. Additional support for FrameMaker's "Book" format means any FrameMaker document can be tracked and versioned within the Content@ application. Content@ also supports many Microsoft products and has several new offerings that support Microsoft's "XML" based applications. WebWorks AutoMap streamlines the traditional ePublishing process by extending control over formatting, look and feel, and content targeting. The joint solution is immediately available. http://www.xyenterprise.com, http://www.webworks.com

Altova XMLSpy 2006 Supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
11/7/2005

Altova announced that Altova XMLSpy 2006 includes full support for the newly released Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. From directly within the Visual Studio 2005 development environment, developers can access the functionality of XMLSpy 2006 to build XML-based applications. In addition to Visual Studio 2005 integration, the new 2006 version contains updated XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery support in compliance with the latest World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Working Drafts released on September 15, 2005, as well as schema-awareness in its XSLT 2.0 and XQuery engines. Similar to its support for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, XMLSpy 2006 provides "deep" integration with Visual Studio 2005. This gives Microsoft developers seamless access to the editing views and development tools of XMLSpy 2006 in the same environment where they develop .NET Framework-based applications. XMLSpy 2006 is currently available for purchase in both Professional and Enterprise Editions with (USD) prices for a single-user license starting at $499 and $999 respectively. Customers with a valid Altova Support and Maintenance Package (SMP) are eligible to update to XMLSpy 2006 software free of charge. http://www.altova.com

Open Text Collaborates with Microsoft on Digital Asset Management
11/7/2005

Open Text Corporation (TSX:OTC)(NASDAQ:OTEX) said it has committed to offering Open Text's Artesia Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database platform. To facilitate deployment of the combined solution, Microsoft has developed the SQL Server Migration Accelerator (SSMA) tool, software that accelerates the migration of back-end data to the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 platform. The SSMA tool reduces the cost and time required for analysis, migration and follow-up testing, streamlining the transition of customers' DAM solutions to the SQL Server platform. The Open Text Artesia Digital Media Group helps customers address the growing competitive and regulatory pressures to improve the management of digital media content. This group also leads Open Text's horizontal strategy for digital media as a key component of ECM, and champions the unique ECM requirements of media companies worldwide. Open Text anticipates an accelerated initial rollout of solutions in calendar Q1, 2006. http://www.opentext.com

FatWire & Translations.com Complete Integrated Product Offering
11/7/2005

Translations.com and FatWire Software announced the debut of a combined product offering to eliminate barriers to cooperation between global resources. The integration of these two products provides a collaboration-based solution for localizing global content into multiple languages. The two companies partnered to develop the FatWire Adaptor for GlobalLink, which embeds GlobalLink functionality in Content Server. From within the Content Server interface, users can identify which assets need to be sent out for localization and keep track of the progress of previously localized assets to facilitate updates and revisions. Assets requiring localization are automatically extracted from Content Server and routed to the appropriate user for localization. Upon completion of localization tasks, GlobalLink reinserts the asset into the appropriate place in Content Server. The solution provides workflow integration so that a localization task can be added to one or more existing workflows in FatWire Content Server. Then, whenever an asset reaches that workflow task, it will be sent out for localization through GlobalLink. Upon the return of the localized version of the asset, GlobalLink will initiate a configured workflow. http://www.fatwire.com, http://www.translations.com

Interwoven Adds Japanese Version of Document Management Product
11/7/2005

Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ:IWOV) announced the introduction of a Japanese version of its Document Management offering based on Interwoven WorkSite MP software. Enterprises that conduct business in Japan can ensure the broad adoption of document management company-wide; business professionals who utilize the system in Japanese can still collaborate and share with colleagues in other countries who may speak different languages. Other languages currently supported by Interwoven Document Management include: English, French, German, and Spanish. The Japanese version of Interwoven's Document Management offering is available now. http://www.interwoven.com

Autonomy Aquiring Verity
11/4/2005

Verity Inc. (NASDAQ:VRTY) announced it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Autonomy Corporation plc for approximately $500 million, or $13.50 per share. Shareholder directors and executive officers of Autonomy and Verity have agreed to vote shares they own in favor of the acquisition. The all-cash transaction, which requires shareholder approval, is expected to close in late 2005/early 2006 and is subject to customary regulatory closing conditions. When the transaction is closed, the combined entity will be branded Autonomy and maintain global headquarters in Cambridge, England while Verity will become the base for U.S. operations. Dr. Mike Lynch, Autonomy's group CEO and co-founder will continue as CEO of the expanded group. Anthony J. Bettencourt, CEO of Verity, will assume the role of CEO, Autonomy, Inc., the company's U.S. unit. Once completed, this transaction is expected to be earnings enhancing (before any amortization of intangible assets) to Autonomy in the first full quarter following completion. http://www.verity.com/

W3C Issues XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Candidate Recommendations
11/3/2005

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published eight documents in the XML family as Candidate Recommendations, sending a signal to the developer community that the new features are ready for implementation. XSLT 2.0 is a major revision to the XSL Transformations language. XSLT transforms XML content into other formats, including other XML formats. As an example, one may use XSLT to transform XML output from a database into an XHTML Web site or set of print-ready XSL-FO documents. XSLT 2.0 standardizes many features that were previously only available as extensions, such as the ability to create multiple output documents or to create user-defined XPath functions. With stronger support for internationalization and richer tools for the programmer, XSLT 2.0 is better suited for the large-scale mission-critical deployment for which XSLT 1.0 is already being used. In addition to new functionality, XSLT 2.0 introduces strong typing and supports the optional use of W3C XML Schema. Like XSLT 2.0, XML Query shares the use of W3C XML Schema to give a strongly-typed programming or scripting language and relies on XPath 2.0 as the selection vocabulary. With XML Query, one can run cross-vendor cross-database joins between multiple forms of data, including XML documents, XML-native stores, and relational database tables. XSLT 2.0 and XML Query 1.0 provide a standard for database integration. The Java Community Process has released initial work on XQJ, the XQuery API for Java, and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has already incorporated XML Query into SQL in part 14 of ISO SQL (SQL/XML). http://www.w3.org/2005/10/xslt-xquery-xpath-cr-pressrelease

Kentico CMS Adds ASP.NET 2.0 Support
11/2/2005

Kentico Software, a web content management solutions vendor, has added ASP.NET 2.0 support to the latest version of Kentico CMS. The new version works with ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, including their Express Editions. The new version 1.7b of Kentico CMS supports not only ASP.NET 1.1, but also the latest Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 platform, Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. The choice of the ASP.NET 2.0 platform allows web developers not only to create web sites with less code, but also to use the free Express Editions of Microsoft Visual Web Developer and SQL Server 2005. Kentico plans to support both ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0 platforms in the nearest releases, until majority of web developers switch to the new version. http://www.kentico.com

CrownPeak & WebTrends Partner
11/1/2005

CrownPeak and WebTrends have formed a technology partnership to arm marketers to optimize web marketing content, and have integrated WebTrends 7 On Demand into CrownPeak's web site management services. Marketers can optimize web site content and marketing campaigns on the fly by leveraging WebTrends content, marketing, and conversion analytics and CrownPeak's workflow features that enable the Content Management System to automatically execute rules based on the web analytics results. Marketers can use WebTrends SmartView to display conversion metrics and visitor segment behavior superimposed on links, promotions and web pages for easy identification of the best areas to feature items. Using CrownPeak's CMS, thresholds for views, revenue or "add to cart" clicks can be set so that products needing awareness are promoted to these 'hot-spots' once the previously featured item reaches the threshold as tracked by WebTrends. CrownPeak CMS users could setup product pages to always reflect what visitors are most interested in, automatically displaying the hottest product families on top-level pages and the current best-selling product SKUs on deeper pages. CrownPeak also automates the process of adding WebTrends SmartSource tags to web pages to minimize missing or erroneous tags. The CrownPeak-WebTrends integrated solution is available immediately, and is sold by both WebTrends and CrownPeak's sales teams and channel partners. http://crownpeak.com, http://www.webtrends.com

IBM Acquires iPhrase
11/1/2005

IBM announced it has acquired the business of iPhrase Systems, Inc. Financial details were not disclosed. iPhrase develops software that improves e-commerce sales, online service and support, and call center productivity by allowing Web site users to more easily find answers, make purchases and solve problems without expert assistance. For example, retailers use iPhrase technology to help interpret and understand online customer queries, even if they are misspelled or contain jargon. iPhrase software also enables merchandisers to dynamically generate customized Web pages with relevant products and shopping cart links, based on individual customer needs. iPhrase's technology is compliant with Unstructured Information Management Architecture, developed by IBM Research that provides an open framework for the composition of sophisticated analytic applications that discover and leverage meaning from unstructured information. iPhrase software can tailor information specifically for the industry or domain in which it is used, providing a higher-level understanding of user queries. It adapts findings and results and presents them in a format that is easy to use and understand. iPhrase software complements IBM's existing technology for delivering information in context through search and text analysis of enterprise databases, content management systems, file systems, collaboration systems and external web sites. http://www.ibm.com

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