News For February, 2005

IXIASOFT announced the availability of TEXTML Server 3.5. This new version builds on TEXTML Server's native XML storage and information retrieval technology and introduces new features designed to help OEM partners develop enterprise-scale content management solutions. Available with TEXTML Server 3.5 and above, TEXTML Universal Converter enables the conversion of over 220 data types to XML. TEXTML Universal Converter transforms unstructured data into an XML schema in the form of the SearchML standard. In addition to the COM, JAVA, WebDAV, and OLEDB APIs already available, developers will now be able to have access to a native .NET API. Each API interface fully supports all functionalities of TEXTML Server. The new version of TEXTML Server fully supports the XPath standard. Developers are now able to move and copy sets of documents from one folder to another, while maintaining the complete history/versions and properties of all documents. www.ixiasoft.com

Coveo Announces Enterprise Search for SharePoint
2/28/2005

Coveo Solutions Inc. has developed a version of its product Coveo Enterprise Search (CES) that securely indexes and retrieves content stored in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Technologies (SPT). The new product, called Coveo Enterprise Search for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Technologies, is set for release in early March 2005. With the introduction of CES for SPT, all search functionality of CES will be available for organizations that have deployed SPT. Enhancements that CES can offer for the SPT user, include: Intelligent summarization and concept extraction technologies; a "View as HTML" feature that provides cached HTML versions with highlighted query terms for Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDFs and other non-HTML documents; improved relevance with query capabilities based on syntax that supports spelling suggestion, stemming, exact phrase and Boolean operators; configurable search preferences; advanced handling of metadata and XML data; plug-in-style integration with SPT; search that leverages existing SPT security. CES for SPT is scheduled to ship in early March and will be priced according to server and user licenses. Product versions supported by CES for SPT will include SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS). Coveo has given GTSI, the leading government IT product and solutions integrator, exclusive distribution rights for offering CES for SPT to government entities. www.coveo.com

Aprimo & EMC Documentum to Integrate Marketing Resource Management and Content Management
2/28/2005

Aprimo announced it has joined the EMC Documentum Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Alliance Program and the Application Logo Program, which will result in an integration of Aprimo's Marketing Resource Management (MRM) offerings and EMC Documentum's Marketing Content Management offerings. The combined products will provide solutions to marketers with sophisticated needs for the creation of marketing digital assets, as well as the planning and execution of the marketing activities that use them. Through the alliance, marketers will have the opportunity to utilize the Aprimo Marketing MRM products addressing Planning and Financial Management, Production Management, and Fulfillment and Delivery Management, in conjunction with EMC's Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Rich Media, Marketing Content Distribution and Web Content Management capabilities. These integrated offerings will provide control of marketing campaigns from inception of the creative idea through the execution of all related marketing activities. www.aprimo.com

Gilbane Content Management Conference in Amsterdam Brings International Experts Together
2/23/2005

The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies to take place in Amsterdam at the RAI Centre, 24-26 May 2005, includes an unprecedented gathering of international experts in content management technologies. The Gilbane Conferences provide vendor neutral educational information for IT managers, system architects, and technically oriented business and project managers. At our Amsterdam conference, experts from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom, the US, and more, will cover a broad range of content management technologies including: enterprise and web content management, intranets, knowledge management, and collaboration, enterprise search, categorization and taxonomies, document management & compliance, and many other technologies for creating, managing and delivering with enterprise content. As an added bonus, attendees of the Gilbane Conference will be able to attend sessions at the co-located XTech 2005. Formerly known as the XML Europe conference, XTech has widened its scope to incorporate web development, browsers, open data, the semantic web and more. Justsystem is the Diamond sponsor of the Gilbane Conference. Adobe Systems, and Blast Radius/XMetal are Gold sponsors. Other exhibitors to date include: Antenna House, Astoria Software, AuthorIT, DataDirect Technologies, Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) Corporation, O'Reilly, Percussion Software, Quark, Quasar Technologies, Syncro Soft/oXygen, and Vamosa. The preliminary program for the conference is available at: www.gilbane.com/conferences/Amsterdam_05_program.html, www.lighthouseseminars.com

Autonomy Announces Acquisition of Structured Data Technology
2/23/2005

Autonomy Corporation plc and NCorp announced that Autonomy has acquired NCorp from private shareholders. Combining Autonomy's IDOL technology for unstructured information and NCorp's technology for structured information allows enterprises to fully integrate the processing and delivery of all enterprise content. Based upon mathematics and pattern matching, NCorp's Ijen technology puts the database into a multidimensional space in order to enable 'fuzzy queries'; by putting differing items into a multidimensional space, comparisons can be made by calculating their similarity. Combining Autonomy's IDOL Server with NCorp's Ijen technology produces a parametric search capability set which relates n-dimensional structured objects to each other conceptually where no direct field match exists. www.autonomy.com

Mambo Announces Version 4.5.2
2/22/2005

Mambo has released Mambo Version 4.5.2., a significant update to its open source point-and-click website publishing software. This is the first maintenance release on the 4.5.x series and it addresses many usability enhancements, sports many library updates and the addition of the patTemplate templating system. Mambo is released under General Public Licence courtesy of Miro International PTY. Mambo requires a Unix, Windows 2000 or XP server, running Apache 1.3 or above, MySQL 3.23.55 or above, PHP 4.2.1 or above. Users should be browsing the net with Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, Mozilla 1.7 or higher or FireFox 0.9.3 or higher (Firefox is best supported for Macintosh). You can read more about Mambo and download the latest version of Mambo at www.mamboforge.net, www.miro.com.au.

telerik Launches Sitefinity
2/22/2005

telerik announced the launch of telerik Sitefinity - a Web Content Management System for ASP.NET that introduces the notion of "100% WYSIWYG" site construction. Featuring telerik r.a.d.controls, the application establishes a environment that enables non-technical business users to build sites, contribute content, and perform workflow tasks in a visual manner. Sitefinity, however, is built with the developer in mind. Its modular architecture and a fully-exposed API enables developers to modify the provided out-of-the-box functionality, reuse existing code from non-CMS driven sites, and add new modules in the form of standard ASP.NET controls. The cornerstone of the environment is a modified version of the r.a.d.designer control, which is responsible for the page layout and content visualization. Layout templates can be created and managed directly from the browser, which eliminates the need for a desktop IDE and file transfer. There are no preview buttons the user workspace is the actual web-site, so that content authoring can be made in-context and on-the-fly. All modifications pass through the approval and publishing stages of the workflow. Sitefinity is offered with a 30-day free trial and 5 commercial licenses, depending on the number of site administrators and the supported database. A server license with unlimited users and unlimited implementations is also available. www.sitefinity.com

Syntext Updates its WYSIWYG XML Editor
2/22/2005

Syntext, Inc. announced the second version of its Serna WYSIWYG XML Editor. Serna's WYSIWYG XML editor incorporates on-the-fly XSL-driven rendering technology that allows users to work with XML documents close to their "print appearance." The new functionality includes very large document support, graphical CALS table support, on-the-fly document profiling with switchable XSLT parameter sets, advanced XML-aware Find & Replace, instant setup of enterprise-specific configuration settings, C++ API, and many other features. The PDF Publishing Package for Serna allows authors to generate high-quality PDF documents right from Serna with just a single button click. This package utilizes the Antenna House XSL Formatter. The key features of Syntext Serna include: out-of-the-box support of XML standards such as DocBook, DITA, TEI, XHTML, and NITF; on-the-fly XSL rendering and document validation (based on XML Schema); support for XML catalogs; XSL-FO and CALS table support; multilingual spell checking; and availability for Microsoft Windows (2000, XP), Mac OS X, and Linux. www.syntext.com

MultiCorpora Releases MultiTrans 3.7
2/18/2005

MultiCorpora announced toay the release of version 3.7 of MultiTrans, their software based Enterprise Language Management solution. Among other new capabilities, MultiTrans 3.7 delivers a scalable multilingual and multidirectional text repository, a flexible software-based license manager, enhanced project analysis, and an automated text repository update manager. The new multilingual, multidirectional Global Text Repository allows an organization to manage large volumes of content that has been translated into many languages in a single repository. A software-based license manager enables MultiTrans software licenses to be securely activated and transferred between computers with a simple activation code. The new license manager significantly streamlines the deployment and management of licenses for nomadic workers and across distributed workgroups. Enhanced project analysis capabilities provide comprehensive data to support optimal project workflow decisions. Also, automated pre-processing of distributable Project Reference Packages enables external, off-line users to leverage common language assets, improving productivity, consistency and accuracy. The new text repository update manager automatically updates the Global Text Repository with newly completed multilingual content on an ongoing basis. www.multicorpora.com

Snowbound Software Offers Text Extraction for Content Aggregation
2/17/2005

Snowbound Software introduced several enhanced options for its RasterMaster Imaging SDK to help streamline content aggregation processes. By enabling content from Microsoft Word, AFP, and PCL files to be batch extracted developers can create content aggregation tools for asset and content management applications. After the text and formatting data is extracted from Microsoft Word, AFP, or PCL files, the data streams can be imported directly into a variety of databases. The content can then be repurposed for publishing, archiving, or searching. The options are available for the Windows platform including Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, and Server 2003, and will soon be available for the Java Platform. www.snowbound.com

Liquid Machines Announces Beta of Document Control 5.0 for Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services
2/16/2005

Liquid Machines, Inc. announced the Beta release of Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 for Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) for Windows Server 2003. Liquid Machines Document Control v5.0 extends RMS policy enforcement to desktop and enterprise applications including Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Visio. Additionally, Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 will allow customers to make optimal use of existing Microsoft investments and use Microsoft Office 2000 and Office XP to view and modify RMS-protected documents created in Office 2003. Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 for RMS provides users with persistent protection of electronic information throughout the collaborative business process from the moment of creation through distribution, editing, storage, and subsequent destruction and disposal. User actions, such as distilling a rights-protected document to Adobe Acrobat, maintain the RMS policy of the original document on the derived file. In conjunction with the beta availability of Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 for RMS, Liquid Machines also announced support for RMS Service Pack 1 (SP1). RMS SP1 will enable integration with 3rd party server-based applications. www.liquidmachines.com

Stellent Universal Content Management 7.1 Achieves SAP Integration Certification
2/15/2005

Stellent, Inc. announced that SAP has certified the integration of Stellent Universal Content Management 7.1 with the SAP ArchiveLink 4.5 interface, which connects optical archive and document management systems to the SAP R/3 software solution. Through the certified integration, users can archive business content and documents in the Stellent Imaging and Business Process Management server and link them to an SAP R/3 business object, enabling search and retrieval of documents and content objects that facilitate user processing and decision making in SAP R/3. With the Stellent ERP Integration for SAP, SAP users can integrate content stored in the Stellent system with SAP solution-based forms. www.stellent.com

FAST Launches Search Best Practices Consulting Service
2/15/2005

Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced the launch of its FAST Search Best Practices consulting services (FAST SBP). Designed to help clients maximise the value they extract from their investment in search technology, FAST SBP provides organisations with the framework to fully understand their opportunities, and the tools to optimize their search related results and develop mechanisms to deploy, manage, and continuously improve their enterprise search solution. FAST SBP provides organisations with two engagement options: 1. FAST SBP Focus - a half-day workshop designed to help existing and prospective customers focus on the immediate goals of their search implementation; and 2. FAST SBP Total - a multi-day workshop designed as a deep knowledge transfer, helping organisations to analyse and review complex strategic questions, unique sets of functional requirements, and specific technical questions. www.fastsearch.com

CM Professionals Announces Second Semiannual Member Summit
2/15/2005

CM Professionals (CM Pros), a rapidly growing organization with members engaged in a wide spectrum of content management activities, industries, and geographies, today announced its second semiannual member Summit to be held in San Francisco on April 11, 2005. The event will take place at the Palace Hotel in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies. The one-day Spring Summit will provide an open, interactive format to enable participants to get acquainted and exchange ideas with others working in similar areas of endeavor. Activities being planned for the Spring Summit will build on the tremendous success of the first Summit (the Fall Summit held November 30, 2004, in Boston). Participants in that meeting praised the CM Professionals organization, the meeting format, and the agenda. Participants in the Spring Summit will have an opportunity to get advice and recommendations from experts who are already well established in the field, and to exchange ideas with other professionals working in this dynamic, increasingly important community of practice, which involves creating, managing, and delivering the content that helps to drive the success of 21st century organizations worldwide. Cost of the Spring Summit for CM Professionals members is $120US until March 22 and thereafter $145US. For non-members, the price is $170US (which includes the CM Professionals membership fee of $50US) until March 22 and thereafter $195US. These prices include lunch and a Gilbane conference discount of $150US. www.cmprofessionals.org, http://www.gilbane.com/conferences/San_Francisco_05.html

Enterprise Search Engine Indexes CAD, PLM and PDM Documents
2/15/2005

IRISCO, a specialist in extraction and processing of PDM metadata, announced the immediate availability of its Elmo Search 2005 software. Elmo Search is an enterprise search product designed to meet the distinct needs of CAD Managers, R&D Managers, IT managers, end-users and senior managers. Elmo Search enables searching within AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Word, Excel, PDF files, emails, and many more document types. It also allows the creation of separate groups of documents, or "collections", each targeted at specific groups of interests within the enterprise, while complying with existing file security permissions. Elmo Search also constantly monitors document changes in a document collection, automatically indexing new and updated documents on-the-fly within seconds. Easy to use, deploy and manage, it can be installed in "less than 10 minutes". This software solution ships in two languages (English and French), and is available to qualifying organizations as a free, fully functional, permanent 5,000-document license for download directly from the Elmo Website. The free license can be upgraded to accommodate much larger numbers of documents, at a cost that can be as low as 5 cents per document. Elmo Search 2005 not only addresses the needs of Autodesk users, but also those of all their colleagues, particularly those who share data with them throughout the enterprise. elmo.irisco.com

Topologi Releases New XML Utilities
2/15/2005

Topologi announced the availability of a new product line of lightweight, Windows-based tools for processing XML data. The initial products to be released are called Judges, designed to perform a range of validation and data checking, and Detectives, designed to query and analyze XML documents and schemas. These are the first of several applications to be released in the near future. XML Judge lets you validate one or more files using XML Schemas, DTD, RELAX NG and Schematron. Generate usage schemas from a document set to check that new files do not contain valid but previously unused markup. XML Detective reports all the elements, attributes and namespaces: their parents, children, positions, XPaths and in which files these objects do, or do not occur. Topologi Complexity Detective with DTD Trimmer reports the Document Complexity Metric for XML documents, and includes a DTD trimmer that reduces a DTD to a minimal valid structure based on sampling document instances. Topologi Word Detective is a point and click XML indexing tool that reports on all the words found in elements or attributes in individual documents or across entire collections. Topologi Graphics Judge validates JPEG and TIFF files. This utility allows validation of JPEG files against the ISO standard. Good for ensuring that images and image metadata conform to format specifications. The initial products are all priced at US$29. www.topologi.com

W3C Publishes "Character Model of the World Wide Web: Fundamentals" as a Recommendation
2/15/2005

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published the "Character Model of the World Wide Web: Fundamentals" as a W3C Recommendation. It provides a well-defined and well-understood way for Web applications to transmit and process the characters of the world's languages. This architectural Recommendation gives authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers a common reference, enabling interoperable text manipulation on the World Wide Web. It builds on the Universal Character Set, defined jointly by the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646. The goal of the Character Model for the World Wide Web is to facilitate use of the Web by all people, regardless of their language, script, writing system, and cultural conventions. As the number of Web applications increases, the need for a shared character model has become more critical. Unicode is the natural choice as the basis for that shared model, especially as applications developers begin to consolidate their encoding options. However, applying Unicode to the Web requires additional specifications; this is the purpose of the W3C Character Model series. This Recommendation is the first in a set of three documents. In development are "Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Normalization," specifying early uniform normalization and string identity matching for text manipulation, and "Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Resource Identifiers," specifying IRI conventions. www.w3.org

NextPage Releases NextPage 1.5
2/14/2005

NextPage released NextPage 1.5, a new subscription service that provides users with real-time status and notifications about all documents on which they collaborate. NextPage 1.5 doesn't require IT infrastructure and works with e-mail and Microsoft Office. In addition, users can still work with non-subscribers, and the service automatically knows when a new document arrives that it is a version of the original. The service adds a "Digital Thread" of accuracy and control to document versions. The service also includes the NextPage Version History, which provides a graphical reporting tool, telling users what has happened to every tracked document. NextPage 1.5 also attaches a Document Signature to any e-mail with an attached NextPage-tracked document, providing detailed information about the document version. With that signature, recipients can click on a link to perform a NextPage Version Check to see if the document they received is still the latest version. The Version Check takes users to a Web page that displays whether or not the document is the latest version. NextPage 1.5 tracks Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel files and runs on Windows. NextPage 1.5 is available for purchase and a free trial version is available. www.nextpage.com

HSS Introduces ECM Pro for Health Care Applications
2/14/2005

HSS, Inc. introduced ECM Pro, an enterprise content management (ECM) system that helps healthcare information technology vendors and providers by enabling them to depend on one current source for managing the complexities of code-based reimbursement. ECM Pro, through its "Knowledge-Server" architecture, manages both structured (code lists, classification systems, edit rules, pricing algorithms) and unstructured (program memoranda, industry research) content. ECM Pro's Knowledge-Servers are based on Web Services technology, so regulatory content can easily be published where and when users need it. For example, Medicare's frequent updates are cascaded automatically to both local and remote users in a timely manner. Rapid access is provided to all of the information necessary to effectively manage code-based data collection, editing and reimbursement including CPT-4, ICD-9-CM, DRGs, APCs and more. ECM Pro is designed to be either embedded into the advanced technology solutions of healthcare IT vendors, or integrated into the information systems healthcare providers already have in place. ECM Pro's Knowledge-Servers can be used by multiple software applications from different vendors within the same enterprise. www.hssweb.com

Authentica Announces Enterprise Rights Management Platform
2/14/2005

Authentica, Inc. introduced its Active Rights Management (ARM) platform, an integrated ERM solution that combines document and email protection in a single platform. Authentica's ARM delivers a broad range of integration support, extending its benefits to enterprise compliance/archiving, content management and mobile email applications. Authentica's ARM platform protects documents and email at rest, in transit and after distribution to recipients. Organizations can systematically identify, audit and continuously control protected content as it flows into and out of an enterprise. The Authentica ARM platform gives enterprises and government agencies a single, centralized solution for intellectual property protection (IP) and compliance adherence. The ARM platform has been designed to integrate with existing applications and infrastructures to ensure that sensitive information is protected without impacting existing enterprise workflow. Centralized policy and key management allows auditing and control of sensitive information, regardless of where it is distributed. Authentica's Active Rights Management platform is available immediately. Pricing begins at $50,000. www.authentica.com

Interwise Joins EMC Documentum's ISV Alliance Program - Will Integrate Collaboration Products
2/14/2005

Interwise announced that it has joined the EMC Documentum Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Alliance program and will integrate the two company's live and asynchronous collaboration products. The ECP Connect for eRoom solution will provide integration between EMC Documentum eRoom's collaborative workplaces and Interwise ECP Connect's integrated web, video and voice conferencing solution to create a core communication and collaboration utility. This solution will offer unlimited live and asynchronous collaboration to the extended enterprise for a fixed price, and also will bring live ad hoc and scheduled collaboration to Enterprise Content Management solutions via EMC Documentum eRoom Enterprise. With ECP Connect for eRoom, customers will be able to add live web, video, and voice conferencing functionality to their Documentum eRoom solutions. ECP Connect for eRoom offers companies the opportunity to reduce their overall conferencing costs by leveraging advanced VoIP capabilities. ECP Connect for eRoom also supports Documentum eRoom Enterprise, providing customers the benefits of live collaboration integrated with the advanced enterprise content management capabilities of the EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management platform. The ECP Connect for eRoom solution will be available in the second quarter of 2005 through both the EMC Documentum and Interwise organizations. www.interwise.com

Gilbane Content Technology Works Program Publishes Case Study on HP's Global Content Management
2/14/2005

The Gilbane Report announced that their Content Technology Works program has published a case study on HP's global digital content management initiatives to optimize the delivery of product content to global markets. The case study describes how HP has deployed a digital content management infrastructure in order to serve its global customer base, reduce costs, and increase efficiencies. It outlines the content management business processes that connect HP content owners with content consumers in local languages that enable commerce. It details how HP uses rigorous and repeatable regionalization, translation, and localization practices to interact with its customers. Finally, it lays out the results that HP has achieved to date. The case study, like alll Content Technology Works case studies, is available at no charge.www.gilbane.com/case_studies/HP_case_study.html, www.gilbane.com/ctw_success_stories.html

Onfolio & Feedster Bring Persistent Web Searching Capabilities into Onfolio 2.0
2/14/2005

Feedster, Inc. announced that Onfolio has joined its Developer Network with the introduction of Onfolio 2.0. With Onfolio 2.0, users can create and monitor Feedster searches directly within Onfolio as part of the overall RSS reading and web information management capabilities of the product. The integration of Onfolio 2.0 and Feedster provides improved Internet researching capabilities to these audiences that track information in real time. Designed for business, professional and academic research, Onfolio 2.0 is a solution for reading RSS news feeds, collecting and organizing online content and publishing to email, weblogs and websites. Built into the browser, this tool speeds up the process of discovering relevant information quickly, organizing it for future use and sharing it with clients, colleagues, students, and others. www.onfolio.com, www.feedster.com

DPM introduces Intelledox
2/14/2005

DPM introduced Intelledox, an enterprise platform with features that include rapid and accurate document creation, increasing productivity, and centralized template management. Intelledox Desktop, integrated with Microsoft Word, eliminates reliance on document macros and simplifies the construction and delivery of complex documents. Intelledox Web allows enterprises to access and create rich content documents accurately and consistently from any browser-based platform, without requiring a local word processor. Intelledox utilizes Active Directory integration, and audit features necessary for corporate compliance, including Sarbanes-Oxley. Organizations no longer need to develop templates with macros, reducing security and virus risks. Intelledox facilitates migration to new versions of Microsoft Word, without template version issues. Intelledox's XML server based engine centralizes storage of all document structure. With graphical drag and drop, the intelligent wizard leads users through the construction of complex documents. Content and layout are then dynamically reassembled on demand creating up-to-date, accurate documents. IntelleDox is available as a web application or an add-in for desktop applications. www.intelledox.com

iUpload Launches Business Blogging Platform
2/13/2005

iUpload launched Perspectives, a business blogging application that allows users to create content in their blog and instantly reach multiple communities and sites. The number of Perspectives that can be applied to content ranges from: customer relationship and contact management applications like salesforce.com and Plaxo; search portals like Yahoo!; social networks applications like Tribe; classified and auction sites like eBay; product and service review sites; contests and promotions from large brands like Idol; and user generated tags like Technorati and Flickr. iUpload Perspectives offers a way for businesses to tap into the blogosphere, launch consumer generated marketing programs, conduct promotions and contests, and create, expand and promote participation in their community. Administrative tools allow organizations to manage and distribute content coming from individuals as appropriate, turning bloggers into potential authors and allowing them to leverage content into any of their web properties. iUpload Perspectives is automatically available to existing customers now. Individuals can also utilize Perspectives at no charge by signing up for a free blog. Organizations interested in offering a Perspective(s) should contact iUpload to review the host of options and administration tools available. Perspectives is an integral part of all of iUpload's tools, so it can be accessible from within their Personal Publisher, Community Publisher and Content Manager solutions, as well as third party tools. www.iupload.com

Siebel to OEM FAST InStream Search Technology
2/9/2005

Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST) announced that Siebel Systems, Inc. has entered into an OEM licensing agreement for FAST InStream search technology. The FAST agreement with Siebel Systems, Inc. is based on software license, maintenance fees, and professional services. www.fastsearch.com

Canto Releases Cumulus 6.5
2/8/2005

Canto announced the release of Canto Cumulus 6.5. Cumulus 6.5 supports an enhanced built-in user management module, LDAP directory servers as well as a new authentication API. User authentication can be based on passwords stored in the built-in authentication method or an LDAP server, on system passwords (e.g. domain passwords), and with the new authentication API, on any other authentication system. To simplify the Administrator's task Cumulus 6.5 introduces the Server Console, a centralized administration tool for the Workgroup Server Solutions and Cumulus Enterprise. Enhancements have been made to the permissions management in the User Manager. It is much easier to use, comes with a performance boost, and allows the setting of permissions, even on the Sets. These include View Sets, Assets Handling Sets and also Metadata Templates. Actions and Metadata Templates have been introduced in all versions of Cumulus 6.5. The 'Quicksearch' function is now customizable and queries can now be selected from the toolbar by a mouse-click. Version 6.5 will also find duplicates and records of which the assets are missing. These functions will keep users' catalogs up-to-date. Cumulus 6.5 Single User, Workgroup (Server Solutions) and Enterprise are immediately available in English, German, French and Japanese. Server versions for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris, and Client and Single User versions for Mac OS X and Windows are offered. www.canto.com

WebSideStory to Acquire Atomz
2/8/2005

WebSideStory, Inc. simultaneously announced an agreement to acquire Avivo Corporation, a California corporation doing business as "Atomz," and the launch of a new suite of integrated services for online marketing professionals. Upon completion of the merger, WebSideStory will combine Atomz's hosted site search and web content management applications with WebSideStorys HBX web analytics service to create the a suite of integrated, on-demand digital marketing applications. WebSideStory's Active Marketing Suite will also include a keyword bid management product, scheduled for release this summer. The Active Marketing Suite will offer a single, shared environment in which businesses can optimize their online performance across multiple marketing channels, while reducing their vendor management costs. The Active Marketing Suite will include: HBX Analytics an on-demand web analytics service; Bid an on-demand keyword bid management product; Search an on-demand web site search application, and Content Manager an on-demand web content management solution. WebSideStory will issue approximately 3.1 million shares of common stock and options to purchase common stock and will pay approximately $4.3 million in cash, in exchange for the outstanding capital stock and options of Atomz. The transaction has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies and is subject to customary closing conditions. www.atomz.com

Mobius & Network Appliance Integrate ViewDirect with NearStore
2/7/2005

Mobius Management Systems, Inc. and Network Appliance, Inc. announced integration of Mobius ViewDirect TCM software with NetApp NearStore disk-based nearline storage systems. The new collaboration is meant to deliver a solution that simplifies the archiving, recall, and management of content from any source, on platforms including UNIX, Windows, Linux and mainframe z/OS. The integrated solution addresses customer challenges of managing growing volumes of diverse content while satisfying the need for rapid retrieval and high availability not possible with traditional tape and optical media. Together, the Mobius ViewDirect TCM suite and NetApp NearStore offer a long-term content management and storage solution. ViewDirect TCM integrates enterprise content in a single, consolidated repository or through access to multiple, disparate repositories and includes a complete suite of content-centric applications that enable regulatory compliance and automate business processes. NearStore combines the Data ONTAP operating system with inexpensive ATA disk drives for near-primary storage performance. The solution scales from 8TB to 96TB with a single NearStore system, while multiple NearStore systems provide petabytes of storage at near-tape costs to support growing content stores. www.netapp.com, www.mobius.com

Hummingbird Unveils Enterprise 2005
2/7/2005

Hummingbird Ltd. announced the unveiling of Hummingbird Enterprise 2005, the next generation of its enterprise content management platform. Leveraging the new capabilities of Hummingbird Enterprise 2005, Microsoft Outlook users will be able to manage and organize e-mail, documents, physical records, reports, workflows and more, all from within Outlook. The customizable business views expose all the capabilities of Hummingbird Enterprise including content management, records management, collaboration, workflow, search, and reporting from within Microsoft Outlook. Hummingbird Enterprise 2005 also includes a brand new desktop search capability, and an enhanced hierarchical security model and enhanced security of metadata with DoD 5015.2 certification including the Chapter 4 requirements. In addition, the integrations of Business Intelligence reporting and Data Integration capabilities provide a facility for customers to track and report on how Hummingbird Enterprise metadata and content is used. A beta program for Hummingbird Enterprise 2005 is scheduled to commence in Q1 2005. The suite is expected to be generally available this summer. www.hummingbird.com

Hummingbird's announcement served as food for thought for my blog entry, "What Makes an ECM Suite?" Leonor Ciarlone

Ingenta Expands Relationship with Infotrieve
2/7/2005

Ingenta and Infotrieve, Inc. announced an expanded partnership that will enable Ingenta-hosted content to be indexed by Infotrieve's full-text crawler. This relationship will enable Infotrieve to provide full-text article searches via its discovery research portals, increasing the depth of discovery resources for Infotrieve customers and generating additional document delivery traffic for Ingenta-hosted publishers. www.ingenta.com

Quark Announces Strategic Alliance with DeskNet
2/7/2005

Quark Inc. announced a strategic alliance with DeskNet Inc., a provider of enterprise customer communications software to financial services organizations. This new partnership enables organizations with regulatory obligations, such as financial services, to deploy a single platform that supports the on-going convergence of compliance requirements with marketing's strategic objectives. This platform automates the creation and distribution of all transactional, sales, marketing and educational materials on demand. By adding Quark Dynamic Document Server to DeskNet's ContentWelder platform, the solution will furnish customers with the ability to leverage the QuarkXPress design community while ensuring centralized business, branding and compliance logic. Additionally, the distributed layout and tagging of complex documents is easily validated with immediate testing available through the centralized platform, a feature for global companies that market locally yet must comply with broad branding and compliance guidelines. www.desknetinc.com, www.quark.com

eCopy Connections Alliance Program (eCAP)
2/7/2005

eCopy, Inc. announced the eCopy Connections Alliance Program (eCAP). The Program enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to create software integration between their enterprise applications and eCopy's document scanning services operating on a range of multifunction peripherals (MFPs) and scanners. eCopy's software, coupled with a scanner or digital copier, enables organizations to transform paper documents into electronic documents. Using eCopy, organizations can provide open access to scanning that connects to enterprise applications, such as document management, e-mail, and fax. eCAP is part of an eCopy program called The Paper Connection, which is designed to make it easy for any office worker to integrate paper-based information into enterprise applications, such as enterprise content management (ECM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and e-mail. The Paper Connection complements information lifecycle management (ILM) and addresses the challenge of distributing, managing, accessing, and protecting paper-based information. Connectors that provide integration to the eCopy Open Platform are currently available for ECM applications from EMC, Interwoven, Hummingbird, and Open Text. www.ecopy.com

Workshare Launches Workshare Professional Release 4
2/7/2005

Workshare introduced their next generation of document lifecycle compliance technology for corporations, professional services firms and the public sector. Workshare Professional Release 4 (WP4) works in-line with Microsoft Office and safely controls the flow and auditability of document events inside and outside the perimeter across email servers, portals and repositories. WP4 introduces 97 new features including: Always On Audit, Dynamic Document States, Secure Conditioning, Email Synchronization, Policy-based Security, Report Wizard, One-click PDF conversion, DeltaView Accept and Reject, Delegate Authorization, Microsoft SharePoint Integration, Documentum Integration, and Expanded Standards Support. WP4 is available in three editions: WP4 for Outlook, WP4 for Notes and WP4 for GroupWise. All are US $349 per seat for a perpetual license with volume discounts. Term licensing is also available. Supported integration options include Microsoft SharePoint, Interwoven, Hummingbird and Documentum. WP4 for Outlook, with Interwoven and Hummingbird options, is available immediately. WP4 for Notes and WP4 for GroupWise will be released in March 2005. All remaining integration options will be available in March 2005. All Workshare 3 customers on a current software service subscription will receive Workshare Professional at no additional charge. www.workshare.com

Inxight Releases ThingFinder Advanced
2/7/2005

Inxight Software, Inc., announced the general availability of Inxight ThingFinder Advanced, which extends the power of Inxight's entity extraction by enabling the definition of custom, pattern-based entities. Out of the box, the original Inxight ThingFinder automatically identifies and extracts 27 key entities - such as people, dates, places, companies or other things - from any text data source, in multiple languages. Using Inxight ThingFinder, developers can maximize and extend the value of their applications by enabling end-users to find the most important pieces of information within large volumes of documents. The new Inxight ThingFinder Advanced is an add-on module that extends ThingFinder's power by allowing users to define custom patterns of tokens in regular expression syntax. Enriched with deep understanding of natural language, ThingFinder Advanced can extract such custom entities as date/timestamps, chemical compound names or formulae, serial or part numbers, internal project codes, etc. ThingFinder Advanced supports discovery of entities and languages not supported out of the box. The 20 languages ThingFinder Advanced currently supports include: Arabic, Bokmal, Danish, Dutch, English, English MTF, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Nynorsk, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese. More languages are planned for a future release. Inxight ThingFinder Advanced is generally available now. www.inxight.com

UDDI v3.0 Ratified as OASIS Standard
2/3/2005

The OASIS international standards consortium announced that its members have approved the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) version 3.0.2 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. Advanced through an open process, UDDI is commonly regarded as a cornerstone of Web services, defining a standard method for publishing and discovering network-based software components in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Version 3.0.2 adds the ability to affiliate registries in keeping with SOA's emphasis on supporting a variety of infrastructural variations and providing a means to define relationships among a variety of UDDI registries. Although from its inception, the specification included concepts such as delegation and distribution among server peers, earlier UDDI definitions relied upon proprietary means of interaction. By contrast, UDDI v3.0.2 provides an open, standardized approach to ensure widely interoperable communication. Other v3.0.2 features include support for digital signatures, allowing UDDI to deliver a higher degree of data integrity and authenticity. Extended discovery features can combine previous, multi-step queries into a single-step, complex query. UDDI now also provides the ability to nest sub-queries within a single query, letting clients narrow their searches much more efficiently. www.oasis-open.org

Convera's Web Initiative Achieves 1 Billion Page Web Index
2/2/2005

Convera Corporation announced that it has completed the second stage of its development initiative aimed at applying portions of the Company's existing technology to searching and indexing contextually relevant information on the World Wide Web. As the Company has previously disclosed, this next-generation search technology achieved its initial development milestone in October 2004 by creating an "Alpha" stage, search platform for open-source Web content. The Company has now advanced its efforts as the technology presently contains more than 1 billion documents in the index. The Company expects to launch a service offering during the next two quarters. Convera's web indexing technology has been developed to add structure to the Web through the use of proprietary taxonomies and ontologies, semantic analysis and deep knowledge resources capable of providing end-users with more relevant search results. The technology also supports complex queries, offers built in video and image search, and provides geo-locational data. The offering may be used in concert with RetrievalWare, Convera's internal search solution, or with an organizations existing internal application to create an integrated portal offering "blended" results from both Intranet and open-source searches. www.convera.com

Stellent Releases Version 7.5 of Its Sarbanes-Oxley Solution
2/1/2005

Stellent, Inc. announced the release of version 7.5 of the Stellent Sarbanes-Oxley Solution, a product designed to help companies streamline their processes for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The new features and functionality in version 7.5 are enhancements developed to speed implementations, increase ease-of-use and augment reporting capabilities. The enhancements also were shaped in conjunction with input from Protiviti Inc., an internal audit and business and technology risk consulting firm, with whom Stellent holds a strategic integration and consulting agreement. Stellent provides content management-based solutions to help companies streamline processes related to complying with a variety of regulations, such as the Patriot Act, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), ISO, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Stellent's compliance solutions allow companies to manage and approve content related to financial and non-financial disclosures, as well as documentation associated with an organization's enterprise risk management process. The solutions are based on Stellent Universal Content Management system, which offers document management, Web content management, digital asset management and imaging, supported by collaboration, records management and business process management services. Stellent Sarbanes-Oxley Solution 7.5 is available today. www.stellent.com

Trusted Edge & Open Text to Deliver Automated Records & Retention Management Solutions
2/1/2005

Trusted Edge, Inc. and Open Text Corporation said they will partner to deliver software solutions that extend records and retention management capabilities beyond central document repositories, capture content saved on desktops or shared network drives, and dispose of expired information wherever it exists. The solutions will simplify and automate the retention and disposal of documents across the enterprise, so that companies can improve compliance, reduce litigation exposure and enhance knowledge management. The companies will initially target customers in financial services, healthcare and the public sector, and plan to start introducing solutions in the second quarter of 2005. The targeted solutions will monitor previously unmanaged content for compliance and allow quick access to files for discovery purposes. The solutions will extend the retention process to the desktop, enabling complete lifecycle management and offering true digital disposal of information. www.opentext.com, www.trustededge.com

Stellent Releases Universal Content Management 7.5
2/1/2005

Stellent, Inc. announced the release of Stellent Universal Content Management 7.5. Stellent's new metadata management model allows users to view metadata fields in context. In other words, users only see metadata applicable to them at a certain point in time. For example, rather than only controlling metadata fields based on document type, Stellent now offers the ability to control metadata based on user roles, document status and a variety of other criteria. With version 7.5, Stellent folders automatically appear on the email client without client software, and Stellent users can now drag and drop email messages and attachments directly from their email system into Stellent Content Server. Version 7.5's new digital asset management (DAM) capabilities make it easier for organizations to utilize images and videos. For example, version 7.5 automatically converts image files from a single source into a variety of formats, such as GIF and TIF files. This process optimizes images for various types of consumption, such as PowerPoint presentations and Web sites, while managing all of the renditions as a single object. Universal Content Management 7.5 also offers similar conversion capabilities for video files. In version 7.5, Stellent Desktop Integration provides a common interface for users desiring richer functionality than that exposed in Web interfaces, WebDAV or email server integrations. Stellent Universal Content Management version 7.5 is available today. www.stellent.com

Stellent's announcement served as food for thought for my blog entry, "What Makes an ECM Suite?" Leonor Ciarlone

Elcom & IMPAQ Partner for Hosted Supplier Enablement Solution
2/1/2005

Elcom International, Inc. announced a partnership agreement with IMPAQ Business Solutions Ltd. IMPAQ's newly released hosted HxDE Supplier Enablement System ("SEP") provides electronic catalog management and XML transaction processing support for purchase orders and invoices. The HxDE suite of XML-based solutions enable the electronic transfer of business-critical documents between Elcom's eProcurement and eMarketplace systems and suppliers who access IMPAQ's supplier portal. The IMPAQ HxDE SEP automates the handling of purchase orders, PO acknowledgements, invoicing, remittances and transmission of supplier electronic catalogs. To simplify deployment, HxDE is remotely-hosted by Elcom. The HxDE SEP is specifically targeted at all suppliers who want to participate in eCommerce with their customers but who lack the IT infrastructure to do so cost effectively. www.elcom.com, www.impaq.co.uk

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