http://www.gilbane.com/ Content Management and XML news, analysis, white papers, and conferences en-us Copyright 1993-2006 Bluebill Advisors Inc. webmaster@gilbane.com editor@gilbane.com http://www.gilbane.com/rss/gilbane_logo_rss.jpg http://www.gilbane.com 140 89 Gilbane Report logo Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:33:40 GMT Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Mediasurface launched the latest version of its content management suite (CMS). Version 5.3.5 marks the arrival of the Morello Web Client, the company's new web-based content management interface. 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. http://www.mediasurface.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4132 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4132 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT X1 Technologies announced the availability of the X1 Content Connector for Interwoven WorkSite. Now users of X1 Enterprise Edition have a pre-built connector to the Interwoven WorkSite 8 document management repository, enabling a unified presentation of search results across both local and server-based content upon which users can immediately act. Through the new X1 Content Connector, the client interface provides access to WorkSite document management functionality, including "open," "check-in," "check-out" and "send" features. X1 Enterprise Edition aligns with existing Interwoven security schemes and provides schedule-based indexing, so that users can take action on the search results. Law firms can now expand their enterprise desktop search capabilities to include designated repository systems, such as WorkSite 8, enabling their users to quickly produce information that may be relevant for a civil or criminal case. http://www.x1.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4125 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4125 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT DolphinSearch, Inc. announced the release of its new Online eDiscovery Review Console for electronic discovery management. The DolphinSearch Online eDiscovery Review Console provides new work flow management, estimation tools, and management dashboards for complex eDiscovery projects. The Console is designed for large corporations, government agencies, and law firms involved with complex legal projects, including class action lawsuits, which can span years, international borders and multiple languages. It is for large and complex litigations where cases can require the review and analysis of millions of pages of documents, terabytes of data and tens of thousands of hours of attorney and paralegal time. The new dashboard technology finds all of the information attorneys and review managers need to track their team's progress through the review. The dashboard is available now to all DolphinSearch eDiscovery customers. Coming soon is an enhanced version with a built in work-assignment wizard that allows review managers to distribute work among any number of reviewers. http://www.dolphinsearch.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4126 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4126 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Alfresco Software Inc. announced the Alfresco Partner Network Program to help organizations market, configure, customize and implement solutions leveraging Alfresco software for customers. More than 25 companies are already on board from the USA, Canada, UK, France, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Columbia, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela and Australia. These range from open source software providers to systems integrators, OEM, training and hosting companies. Companies that have already joined the program include System Integrators: Cignex, Comanaco, CorraTech, Enomaly, Evoltia, Lateral Minds, Lemontech, Mayastec, NeoDoc, Optaros, Rivet Logic, Saillant, SuiteSpot Solutions, TS Group, and ukwebworks; OEMs: Aimset and NeoDoc; Hosting: Hoike and Siennax; Training: Cignex and Rivet Logic. Alfresco is also adding to its existing ISV partner ecosystem with Technology Partners: BitRock, JBoss, MySQL AB, Novell, SugarCRM, Zend Technologies, and 3BView. http://www.alfrescosoftware.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4127 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4127 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Inxight Software announced that it has joined the Google Enterprise Professional program. Inxight and Google will integrate their technologies for both the enterprise and government sector. Companies and government agencies who use the Google Enterprise Search Appliance can now extend their searches to federate and filter the results set with Inxight's federated search solution, SmartDiscovery Awareness Server. Google Enterprise Search Appliance users can also integrate it with Inxight SmartDiscovery Analysis Server to automatically identify concepts, people, organizations, places and other information, providing structure to unstructured text as XML-out for use in routing, categorization, search and business intelligence applications. The Google Enterprise Professional program includes developers, consultants and independent software vendors that provide value-added services for Google enterprise products. http://www.google.com/enterprise/, http://www.inxight.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4128 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4128 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Bamboo Solutions Corporation, a technology provider specializing in collaborative information management solutions for government and industry, announced the immediate availability of a new web part for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. The List Integrity Web Part enforces various constraints and performs background "housekeeping" tasks while maintaining referential integrity between SharePoint lists. SharePoint lists, as they are designed today, can be linked using a "look up" field, where one list can refer to data from another list, thus supporting a 1:N (one-to-many) relationship. This lookup capability allows developers to architect information using a familiar relational approach. In a standard SharePoint environment, managing the relationship between different lists is left to the end user, often leaving data unidentified or orphaned during basic list operations. The List Integrity Web Part allows for a referential integrity relationship between two data sets to be defined much like a traditional database defines relationships between tables. It then enforces (based on user selections) various constraints and performs background "housekeeping" tasks to maintain the relationship automatically. The List Integrity Web Part is available for immediate purchase and download via Bamboo's online store. http://www.bamboosolutions.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4129 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4129 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT SpringCM launched as an on-demand content management company for businesses of all sizes. Dozens of customers, ranging from service and manufacturing businesses to state agencies and non-profits, are already leveraging SpringCM's solutions to share and manage documents, images and multi-media files, inside and outside the organization. By combining software-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies with a complete and integrated solution, SpringCM can provide any businesses an affordable alternative to installed client server solutions. With SaaS there is no need to install or download the software. http://www.springcm.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4130 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4130 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Whale released its newest module optimized for EMC Documentum Webtop, providing enterprises with secure and seamless access to corporate repositories and content management services from any web browser. Whale's Intelligent Application Gateway products are based on SSL VPN technology and include Whale-developed endpoint security and application security components. The solutions enable organizations to provide, in a portal-like manner, secure access to corporate information resources and applications, both web and non-web, offered by varying vendors. With Whale's out-of-the-box module enterprise users can now access virtual documents, My Files, content subscriptions, and lifecycle management and also enter collaborative rooms, discussions, notes and contextual folders through a single secure gateway from virtually any fixed and mobile endpoint. In addition to applications such as EMC Documentum Webtop, Whale provides secure access to applications from vendors including Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Citrix and Novell. Whale's pre-configured application-optimized modules are bundled into Whale's appliance. The modules provide positive logic URL filtering, seamless single sign on, integrated two-factor authentication, clearing of proprietary caches and secure logoff. http://www.whalecommunications.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4131 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4131 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT FileNet Corporation (Nasdaq: FILE) announced FileNet Web Site Manager, a Web content management solution that manages the user experience and delivers content for large numbers of global Web sites from a single platform. FileNet Web Site Manager provides dynamic content management, allowing Web content to be personalized and targeted to a specific audience, while also ensuring that content is timely and relevant. Web authors can take advantage of a Web content management interface or simply manage their content directly in FileNet P8, portal environments, Microsoft Office or SharePoint environments. FileNet Web Site Manager also provides multi-site management capabilities, supporting localized content, in a multilingual environment, while conforming to overall branding and site structures. FileNet's WCM suite utilizes a single source content management model, allowing business users to publish to multiple audiences via multiple channels, in multiple formats and languages from a single underlying item of content. FileNet's WCM suite includes FileNet Web Site Manager, FileNet Document Publisher and FileNet Site Publisher. FileNet Web Site Manager is currently scheduled to begin shipping in the first quarter of 2006, and is available now. Pricing starts at $100,000. http://www.filenet.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4133 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4133 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Market Central, Inc. d/b/a Scientigo, Inc. (OTCBB: MKTE) and FatWire Software announced the signing of a joint development, sales and marketing agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, the Companies will jointly integrate Scientigo's tigo|search technology with FatWire's Content Server. In addition, the Companies will jointly market, sell, and support the integrated solution. Scientigo's tigo|search blends artificial intelligence, machine learning, rules-based systems, and XML technology to deliver a platform that will enable users of FatWire's Content Server to use natural language queries to find any information anywhere in the enterprise, including digital text and images, databases, e-mail, Web and intranet pages, even scanned paper documents. http://www.FatWire.com, http://www.scientigo.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4121 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4121 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT SDL International announced the latest releases of its enterprise GIM applications, SDL Translation Management System 2006 and SDL TeamWorks 2006. SDL Translation Management System and SDL TeamWorks unify the translation and localization supply chain and link multiple vendors to provide the collaboration, control, integration and process flow required to prepare content for a global audience. The new releases integrate SDL and TRADOS technologies. SDL GIM applications support XML, DITA, TMX and XLIFF. SDL Translation Management System 2006 delivers new capabilities for enterprise administration and integration, including LDAP for user authentication, enhanced Web services and richer metadata support to facilitate greater process automation. Also included is interoperability with SDLX 2005.1, SDL TRADOS 7.1 for translation memory and SDL MultiTerm 7.1 for terminology management and enhanced standards support for processing DITA-compliant XML. SDL TeamWorks 2006 delivers enhanced performance, scalability and usability, and adds editing and review capabilities in an easy-to-use browser-based environment, as well as a new QA verification plug-in framework. Also included is simplified vendor interaction through a new browser-based vendor portal and integration with the latest SDL TRADOS 7.1 and SDL MultiTerm 7.1. http://www.sdl.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4117 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4117 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq:IWOV) and Kofax (LSE: DCM.L) announced a deepened partnership through a new reseller agreement to provide enterprises with seamless integration of imaging and information capture capabilities with Interwoven ECM solutions. Under the new agreement, Interwoven will resell the Kofax Ascent Capture product, providing customers an ECM solution from a single vendor to reduce costs and improve efficiencies through the unified management of paper and electronic content. Under the reseller agreement, Kofax Ascent Capture will be integrated with Interwoven's Web Content Management, Document Management, and Content Intelligence offerings. With the integration of Kofax with Interwoven Content Intelligence metadatainformation about contentis automatically applied to content to help users more accurately file and search for content. http://www.interwoven.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4119 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4119 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Document Sciences Corporation (Nasdaq: DOCX) announced the general availability of xPresso, the newest design component to its dynamic content publishing suite xPression. xPresso enables companies to automate the creation of personalized marketing collaterals, brochures and catalogs, as well as customer invoices, bills and statements for both online and print distribution. xPresso provides a WYSIWYG document design technology for designing dynamic, rule-based documents using Adobe InDesign Creative Suite. xPresso can import static content and digital assets from enterprise content management systems and transform them into graphically-rich, dynamic document templates that can be used to produce hundreds of thousands of personalized documents in multiple formats, distributed across multiple channels. xPresso is for creating well-designed relationship statements and billing notices that combine transactional data with targeted marketing messages. Built on a service-oriented architecture, xPresso utilizes Java and XML to enable integration with other enterprise systems such as ECM systems. xPresso has received the EMC Designed for Documentum accreditation. xPresso outputs to multiple formats including PDF, IBM AFP, and Adobe Postscript. http://www.docscience.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4122 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4122 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT EMC Corporation unveiled new advanced retention management software for the EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) platform that helps customers address various complicated day-to-day, governance and regulatory requirements. The new capabilities let organizations more effectively manage their archived information throughout its lifecycle. The new Centera features enable authorized application users and administrators to identify and extend retention periods for specific records or objects in the Centera archive. The new Event-based Retention (EBR) and Litigation Hold features help Centera Governance Edition and Centera Compliance Edition Plus customers deal with more varied and complex scenarios. For example, e-mail messages and documents that are scheduled to be automatically deleted per policy can be easily identified and retained if they are material to legal, regulatory or other events. The record or object can then be deleted when appropriate. Additionally, EMC is introducing new enhanced security features for Centera that provide greater levels of control. The ability to now create management profiles gives organizations greater flexibility to determine who can have access to specific data and at what level. The new feature also provides a full audit trail of all configuration and management activities for further governance and compliance purposes. The new Centera advanced retention software is available now and is licensed in four-node increments with a list price of $2,800. http://www.emc.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4124 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4124 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Meadows Publishing Solutions (MPS) announced that they have released MPS Index Builder, a software module for QuarkXPress users that creates catalog indexes. Using the new software, catalog publishers can reduce the production time of creating a catalog index from hours to minutes. MPS Index Builder, compatible with QuarkXPress 6.5, is now available from MPS and its distributors. MPS Index Builder was designed for catalog-specific workflows. Index entries can be entered by hand at any time, or imported from a tab-separated text file. In addition, AutoPrice users can also extract SKU information to include in the final index. You can import existing indexes, make changes, and start tagging for the future. Index entries can also be saved, exported and shared by any other workstation. Included is a built-in batch processing feature that will process any number of individual QuarkXPress documents in a single session. www.meadowsps.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4120 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4120 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Five New York State agencies presented the lessons learned and benefits gained from their participation in the Center for Technology in Government's (CTG) XML Testbed. The Testbed served to assist New York State agencies in examining the benefits as well as the challenges of Web site management using the emerging technology of XML. The Testbed was undertaken in partnership with the Governor's Office of Employee Relations (GOER), the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), and the Office for Technology (OFT). Beginning in the summer of 2005, five New York State agencies were selected to take part in CTG's XML Testbed and underwent six months of intensive hands-on training and workshops, which led to an XML-based Web site prototype and a business case analysis for each agency. The five participating agencies are the NYS Department of Civil Service, NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal, NYS Higher Education Services Corporation, NYS Office of Cultural Education, State Education Department and NYS Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. In the second phase of the Testbed, CTG will examine the Testbed activities and the agency results to produce a set of practical guidelines and case studies that draw on the experiences of Testbed participants to provide guidance for others trying to improve the management, performance, and value of their Web sites. In addition, the Testbed will produce a sharable library of XML technical resources to be made available in the spring of 2006. More information on the XML Testbed Project can be found at: http://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/xmltb http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4123 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4123 Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT The Gilbane Report, Lighthouse Seminars and CMS Watch announced the launch of The Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies for Government, taking place at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C. June 13-15, 2006. Modeled after the overwhelming success of its Boston and San Francisco events, this end-user driven event will offer attendees actionable advice for managing enterprise content to meet today's Federal requirements. At the Content Technologies for Government Conference, topics covered will include: Enterprise content management technologies, business applications, and solutions; How to get your content management project funded; Content technologies and 508 compliance; New standards in content interoperability; Enterprise architecture and enterprise content management; Latest enterprise search and text-mining technologies: beyond the hype; Comparative approaches for using XML to manage authoritative content; How different agencies have successfully implemented records management solutions; Comparative approaches to e-mail archiving; Role of new media technologies - blogs, wikis, and RSS - in public agencies; Best practices in content governance and web operations management; and, The future of the federal government Web. In addition to two days of conference sessions, attendees can participate in introductory tutorials on key topics. An advisory board of leading federal and industry experts will shape the final program. Information and the call for papers is available at: http://lighthouseseminars.com/washingtondc/, http://www.cmswatch.com, http://www.gilbane.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4115 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4115 Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT SAXOTECH, a software development and systems implementation company serving the publishing industry, and Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), announced an OEM partnership that will bring search features to SAXOTECH's web publishing application platform for online media sites, as well as other SAXOTECH products. SAXOTECH will integrate FAST InStream with SAXOTECH Online, its web publishing platform developed exclusively to enable the rapid flow of content from news sources to dynamic, multimedia Web sites. By integrating FAST InStream with SAXOTECH Online, SAXOTECH's customers can realize real-time indexing of content from multiple sources, a useful service to new media sites that typically produce hundreds of new articles and online classified advertisements per day. General availability of the initial FAST-integrated, search technologies will be with the mid-2006 release of SAXOTECH Online. http://www.saxotech.com, http://www.fastsearch.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4116 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4116 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Alfresco Software Inc. announced that it has partnered with BitRock to enable Alfresco to be installed in minutes as part of an integrated open source stack, to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) for installation, upgrades and management. The joint offering provides an installer and configuration wizard for Alfresco and the surrounding open source ECM stack. It also provides a management and delivery tool for Alfresco to provide updates to its software, and to other stack components such as MySQL and JBoss. The stack supports a variety of Linux distributions and Windows versions. The new Alfresco installer will perform all required configuration tasks, so users will have a complete, ready-to-run ECM system as soon as installation is complete. http://www.alfrescosoftware.com, http://www.bitrock.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4109 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4109 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Acrobat 3D, new desktop software that helps extend document-based 3D design collaboration capabilities to virtually anyone across global organizations. With Acrobat 3D, design engineering, technical publishing and creative professionals in manufacturing industries such as automotive, aerospace and industrial machinery, as well as the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) market, can convert 3D models from a wide variety of major CAD formats and embed them into Adobe PDF files-regardless of whether the user has the native CAD application. Acrobat 3D is available in English, French and German language versions. The Japanese language version is expected to be available in February 2006. The product has an estimated street price of US$995. Registered users of Acrobat 7.0 Professional and Acrobat 6.0 Professional can upgrade to Acrobat 3D for estimated street prices of US$545 and US$699, respectively. The product is available for Microsoft Windows 2000 (with Service Pack 2), Windows XP Professional, Home and Tablet PC Editions, and IBM AIX 5.2, HP UX 11.0, SGI IRIX 6.5, and Sun Solaris 2.8 (for Acrobat 3D Capture utility). http://www.adobe.com/acrobat3d http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4110 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4110 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN) announced a new release of its WebIntegrity service, which incorporates dynamic navigation permitting the WebIntegrity scanning technology to move into areas of a Web site not previously accessible. Using WebIntegrity 4.0, companies can ensure the quality of content for Web site pages, including forms, checkout pages and targeted secure areas, by finding broken links, bad content and privacy and compliance issues. WebIntegrity scales with large enterprise Web sites. WebIntegrity can spider along paths that require deliberate client interaction in order to move to the next page. This new scripted option in the scan, provides extensive dynamic navigation support, deeper penetration through form and search fields, paths generated with JavaScript and forms and submissions used for navigation. Available as a hosted service or as an appliance that resides inside the customer's network, WebIntegrity allows enterprises to run on demand or scheduled tests. Keynote WebIntegrity 4.0 is available immediately. WebIntegrity pricing for a typical 100,000 page enterprise Web site starts at $29,995 for the hosted version or $39,995 for the appliance. http://www.keynote.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4111 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4111 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT IBM announced availability of new releases of its core IBM Workplace products, including Workplace Collaboration Services 2.6, Workplace Managed Client 2.6, Workplace Forms 2.6, and Workplace Designer 2.6. The 2.6 versions of these products include more than 50 new features and functions, including enhancements to cross-platform and open standards support. IBM Workplace Collaboration Services is a single, integrated product that includes a wide range of collaborative capabilities or "services," such as e-mail, calendaring, team spaces, instant messaging, on-line learning, Web conferencing, document, and Web content management. The 2.6 release includes user interface enhancements across all components, an enhanced document search engine, support for ODF, iCal support for calendar interoperability with IBM Lotus Notes, and a new instant messaging gateway to Lotus Sametime, which will connect communities of users between IBM Lotus Sametime and Workplace Collaboration Services. Additions to Workplace Collaboration Services cross-platform support include clustering for iSeries, DB2 Enterprise Server Edition V8.2 as a data store, and IBM Directory Integrator V6.0. Release 2.6 also provides increased scalability and performance. IBM Workplace Forms is new electronic forms (e-forms) software that can help companies streamline and customize the way business data is captured, processed, and exchanged. IBM Workplace Collaboration Services 2.6, IBM Workplace Managed Client 2.6, IBM Workplace Designer 2.6 are available immediately. IBM Workplace Collaboration Services server sells for $90,000 per processor. IBM Workplace Managed Client is $69 per user. IBM Workplace Forms 2.6 will ship in the second quarter of 2006: The IBM Workplace Forms Server will be $25,000, IBM Workplace Forms Viewer will be $188, and IBM Workplace Forms Designer will be $649. http://www.ibm.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4118 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4118 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Ontopia announced that Ontopoly, the new web-based tool for creating, populating and managing corporate ontologies, is now available as part of the Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS) 3.0 release and the OKS Samplers free download. Whether a corporation uses a taxonomy, a thesaurus or an ontology for its knowledge organization, Ontopoly can be used to define the underlying structure and populate the knowledge base. The knowledge base is then populated through a combination of automated processing and human intellectual effort. Using the Ontopia Knowledge Suite, integrators can aggregate content from databases, documents and web feeds. Additionaly, "tacit" knowledge and links to information resources (as required) can then be added manually using Ontopoly's ontology-driven interface. Ontopoly is based on the ISO Topic Maps standard. It allows Ontopoly to support any kind of knowledge structure, ranging from simple indexes and taxonomies, through thesauri and glossaries, to full-blown ontologies. Ontologies built using Ontopoly can be used to organize portals, structure Content Management Systems, drive autoclassification of information, and underpin many other processes, thereby providing a foundation for knowledge management and publishing solutions based on semantic technology. Free versions of Ontopoly and Omnigator, Ontopia's topic map browser, are now available for personal use via download as the OKS Samplers. The free download includes over 20 sample topic maps. Commercial licensing for corporate use is also available. http://www.ontopia.net http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4107 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4107 Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Alfresco Software Inc. announced that it has partnered with Inovox to deliver open source email archiving to address business requirements driven by numerous federal and state regulations including Sarbanes Oxley, SEC 17a 3-4, HIPPA, Basel II and NASD to name but a few. The solution, developed by Inovox, supports Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Postfix, Sendmail and Kolab allowing email to be archived into Alfresco. The email monitoring operates as a SMTP proxy and uses Alfresco's Web Service interface to store the emails and all of their attachments. Alfresco is able to manage these emails with full auditability and the option of transforming them into a different format for easy access or long-term readability. The emails and attachments can be automatically categorized, full text indexed with meta-data extracted to enable easy, rapid searching and access. This allows customers to reduce cost through open source and manage compliance, litigation discovery and productivity. http://www.alfrescosoftware.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4108 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4108 Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced the availability of the newest version of FAST ProPublish, a solution for gathering, processing and delivering professional reference material to online and offline users. Based on the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP), ProPublish 4.1 is designed specifically for premium content providers whose research-oriented users demand complex search and navigation capabilities. FAST ProPublish 4.1 provides publishers with both graphical and automated tools so they can quickly pull data from multiple sources, apply rules for enhancing that data, and deliver it via a Web-based interface. FAST ProPublish is designed to meet the needs of both commercial publishers offering subscription-based data access and information-intensive corporations tasked with delivery of internal premium or reference content to their users. http://www.fastsearch.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4114 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4114 Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the Product Development Company announced a partnership with IHS, Inc (NYSE: IHS) to deliver electronic components content to users of PTC Windchill. Windchill is a content and process management solution that helps companies optimize their product development process. Electronics companies today face a difficult challenge to comply with new environmental regulations from the European Union (RoHS and WEEE), as well as emerging regulations from across the globe. The partnership between PTC and IHS will provide the foundation by which a comprehensive environmental regulatory compliance management solution will be offered to address these challenges. This solution provides tools that help companies to manage component compliance data, determine the compliance of a product structure or BOM against a selected regulation (e.g., RoHS), and manage the change process to bring a non-compliant product structure into compliance. http://www.ptc.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4113 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4113 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Content Management Professionals (CM Pros), the international content management community of practice, announced that Mary Laplante and Scott Abel have been elected to the 2006-2007 CM Pros Board of Directors and that Janus Boye and Mollye Barrett have been elected to serve on the organization's Management Committee as director of member relations and director of communications, respectively. A member-driven organization, the CM Pros Board of Directors and Management Committee are nominated and elected in an open process by the members of the organization. Scott Abel and Mary Laplante were elected to replace two outgoing Board members - Frank Gilbane and Ann Rockley - whose terms expire this month. Directors Seth Gottlieb, Erik Hartman, and Samantha Starmer remain on the Board until January 2007. Established in October 2004 with founding support from more than 100 content management professionals, this is CM Pros second annual election. Over the past 15 months, the organization has grown to more than 600 members and continues to expand rapidly. The newly elected directors will be seated officially at their first Board meeting on Friday, January 20. http://www.cmprofessionals.org http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4104 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4104 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Alfresco Software Inc. announced that has integrated the open source programming language, PHP, into its development environment. This enables PHP developers to create new content-centric applications and dynamic web pages that access Alfresco. PHP is an open source programming language. It is a simple scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded in HTML. This makes PHP an especially complementary language for the Alfresco ECM environment. Alfresco has used connectivity tools that use Web Services and a Service Oriented Architecture to hide much of the complexity for the PHP developer. This enables the full range Alfresco capabilities to be made available to PHP developers. http://www.alfrescosoftware.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4105 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4105 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT EMC Corporation announced the addition of Google Desktop for Enterprise as the newest information source available to users through a single query within EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) Services. This announcement also marks a strategy between EMC and Google to give joint customers greater access to enterprise content. Documentum ECI Services is a federated enterprise search solution that integrates content within and outside the enterprise. By combining Documentum ECI Services with Google Desktop for Enterprise, users have a single point of access and an integrated user experience to search their local desktops in addition to a variety of internal and external information sources, regardless of whether the information resides in an application, database, Web site, or content management repository. Documentum ECI Services for Google Desktop for Enterprise will be available later this quarter. http://www.emc.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4106 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4106 Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Syncro Soft Ltd has announced the availability of version 7.0 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Debugger. Version 7.0 of the XML Editor adds more than 50 new features. Document validation has been improved by adding continuous validation support (validate as you type), error markers and overview ruler, multiple external validation engines and support for CSS validation. Parsed schemas are being cached to improve the validation speed. XPath support benefits now from an XPath aware content assistant showing functions and axes, variables and parameters as well as name tests for elements and attributes in context. For XPath 2.0 queries the XPath default namespace can be configured/automatically detected and used when writing XPath queries. XSLT editing features an XSLT input document view presenting the tree structure of the XML document set for the current stylesheet in the associated transformation scenario. You can create templates or other XSL snippets by dragging the nodes from the tree into the stylesheet; the generated XPath expressions are context aware. XQuery debugging has been added. The debugging support is based on the Saxon XQuery processor from Saxonica. XML Editor and XSLT Debugger is available in two editions: Multi-platform Academic/Non-profit license costs USD 48.00 Multi-platform Professional license costs USD 180.00 (20% off from the list price) if you buy before January 31st, 2006. Version 7.0 is available for free trial download from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4103 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4103 Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT iUpload announced that its enterprise blogging solution is now integrated with NetSuite's on-demand business application software. This integration is driven by iUpload's membership in NetSuite's recently launched NetFlex Applications Program, which is an on-demand development environment to allow third party applications to integrate rich transaction data such as orders, inventory, invoices and shipments with their applications. The iUpload integration lets NetSuite users leverage iUpload's blog and wiki technology to securely transform corporate blogs into sophisticated personalized web sites that feed customer and company information into the NetSuite platform. By providing this flexible and rich format of communication, iUpload gives NetSuite customers the opportunity to broadly collaborate with contacts, customers, workgroups and partners. With iUpload, sales and customer support personnel can share information securely through posting to their blog without ever leaving the NetSuite service. By choosing which NetSuite accounts and contacts they would like to give access to, users can invite customers or other employees to comment on or even edit information within the blog. The user can share a variety of information with customers and allow the attendees to add or edit its contents. With a customer login, customers can even contribute new content like product suggestions and industry news by simply posting to the blog. iUpload's NetSuite integration is available immediately to NetSuite customers. http://www.iupload.com, http://www.netsuite.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4102 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4102 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT dtSearch Corp. announced Version 7.2 of its product line for searching terabytes of documents across a desktop, network, Internet or Intranet. The new version adds a .NET Spider API for the dtSearch Engine for Win & .NET, and updates the dtSearch Engine for Linux to the "terabyte indexer" code base. The new release also adds OpenOffice to the list of supported file types. dtSearch Desktop with Spider searches files on a PC. dtSearch Network with Spider searches across a network running in a client/server capacity. Both search and display with highlighted hits: email messages (Outlook, Outlook Express, Exchange, Eudora and other .MSG formats) along with the full text of email attachments, MS Office and now OpenOffice files, PDF, XML, HTML, ZIP, CSV, Unicode and other content. Through the dtSearch Spider, both applications can also add Web-based content to a local or network search. The dtSearch Engine for Win and .NET supports SQL, C++, Delphi, Java, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, C++.NET, and ADO.NET. The new release adds additional .NET APIs, including a new .NET Spider API. The new release also updates the dtSearch Engine for Linux, with C++ and Java APIs, to the current "terabyte indexer" code base. Pricing is $199 for dtSearch Desktop with Spider, from $800 for dtSearch Network with Spider, from $999 for dtSearch Web with Spider, and from $2,500 for dtSearch Publish. dtSearch offers a variety of royalty-based and royalty-free pricing options for the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine. http://www.dtsearch.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4100 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4100 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Workshare announced DeltaView 3.0. DeltaView 3.0 features Word Act on Changes from DeltaView redlines, more than 100 enhancements to document comparison quality and accuracy, and updated email and document management platform integrations. The Act on Changes feature, also now available in the Workshare Professional suite, has been the #1 feature request from current DeltaView users. Workshare also announced the Workshare Customer Choice Program, a set of tools and resources to assist DeltaView 2.x customers in making their future plans for upgrading to DeltaView 3.0 or for migrating to the Workshare Professional 4.5 platform. In addition, Workshare introduced the Workshare Platform Migration Incentive, which provides up to 70 percent off of the list price of migrating from DeltaView to Workshare Professional. For a perpetual license, pricing starts at $1,495 for a five-seat minimum plus a $299 annual software support subscription for upgrades and hotline support. All DeltaView customers on a current software support subscription will receive DeltaView 3.0. DeltaView 3.0 will be released in March 2006 through all Workshare channels including value-added resellers, corporate resellers, online resellers and the Workshare online store. Volume purchase discounts are available. http://www.workshare.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4101 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4101 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) begins testing this month on NewsML 2 Architecture, a proposed standard for news exchange formats. Developed by a consortium of more than 40 of the world's major news agencies and news system vendors, NewsML 2 Architecture is based on XML. The basic goal of the NewsML 2 Architecture is to provide a single generic model for exchanging all kinds of newsworthy information. Not only will this give news agencies and software developers a unified method for handling news, but it will also provide an XML framework for a future family of IPTC news exchange standards covering such diverse specialties as sports, entertainment and financial news. Under the IPTC model, text, photo, graphics, video or any combination of media types, can be bundled into packages that neatly wrap the news content, information about the content and a management layer. Senders can make the XML wrapper as simple or complex as desired, tailoring the final package to the exact needs of their customers. As with all IPTC standards, when work is completed NewsML 2 standards will be released for use without payment or royalties. In addition, it is compatible with the World Wide Web Consortium's "Semantic Web" framework, building a universal data exchange using XML and other standard tools. NewsML 2 Architecture Version 1.0, Experimental Phase 1, will end on 15 February 2006. Although testing is generally intended for IPTC members, non-members may be invited to join. All documents and specification files for the current draft of the NewsML 2 Architecture are available at http://www.iptc.org http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4096 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4096 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT CambridgeDocs announced that it would provide out-of-the-box support for the DITA XML standard in all of its upcoming content migration and distribution products. DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is an XML standard that is both a set of DTD's (Document Type Definitions) and an architecture for re-using and dynamically assembling content. Developed by IBM, DITA is widely regarded as an ideal architecture for fragmenting XML content and enabling content re-use. CambridgeDocs' xDoc Converter product will include sample content and templates for transforming Microsoft Word content into DITA XML, including transformation into DITA topics and topicmaps. These samples can be customized to convert any legacy content, such as Microsoft Word, Framemaker, HTML, and PDF files, into the database DTD or into their own DTD-based DTD's and architecture. The sample templates will also automatically break up DITA topics into separate XML fragments and generate a DITA topicmap for the source content. The fragmented content can then be put into an XML repository, Enterprise Content/Document Management System or other XML based publishing system. By combining xDoc Converter with the DITA Toolkit available from IBM, the fragments can then be re-displayed or re-assembled into new documents. http://www.cambridgedocs.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4098 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4098 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Centric Software, Inc., leading provider of OpenPLM for the extended enterprise, announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Product Sight Corporation of Bellevue, WA, a privately held developer of product data and enterprise search technology. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Centric will immediately integrate Product Sight's data search technology into its existing product line to offer solutions that leverage existing product data and resolve immediate, high-value product development challenges common to all manufacturers. Centric InSight searches for information in multiple sources of product data content and other enterprise data and classifies the results presenting a unified view of information sources. Centric MultiSight BOM manages global part and BOM data from multiple sources delivering different BOM views to different teams in different locations, based on their role and function in the product development process. Centric Software is now a PLM vendor with the ability to search, classify and connect to multiple MCAD, EDA, CAE, PDM, ERP, SCM and document management systems for related pieces of product data. The combination of search, classification and connectivity provides distributed product and project teams with automatic extraction and aggregation of real-time product and operational data, presenting cross-disciplinary information that enables more informed decision making. http://www.centricsoftware.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4099 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4099 Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Blast Radius announced it will include bidirectional support for XML content creation in its upcoming release of XMetaL Author and XMAX. Prior to this release, XMetaL supported the creation of content in Cyrillic and Asian languages, such as Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Korean and Russian. This release now incorporates the additional support of Middle Eastern languages - Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew. As a result of this new capability, organizations serving audiences in those languages, such as financial services, consumer goods and electronics manufacturers, can capitalize on their content assets by translating web and print materials with higher quality and consistency. Typical XML-powered content localization projects yield enormous time savings due to better efficiencies introduced with localization systems and through parallel and componentized authoring and translation.http://www.blastradius.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4094 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4094 Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced it has acquired the FileLine Digital Rights Management (DRM) division of Navisware, a technology company bridging computer aided design (CAD) and enterprise intelligence. The acquisition will provide new capabilities for Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server to persistently protect business critical documents in PDF, Microsoft Office and CAD formats, independent of how they are stored or delivered inside and outside the firewall. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Navisware developed FileLine to provide DRM capabilities for a wide variety of document types critical to the engineering design process, such as CAD and Microsoft Word documents. These capabilities will be integrated into LiveCycle Policy Server, enabling organizations to apply policies directly to a broad range of documents such as financial, government, or engineering documents containing intellectual property for controlling how, when, and by whom the documents can be used. Additionally, managers and auditors can easily view an audit log of who accessed the document, and indications of improper usage or disclosure. This same DRM technology will help ensure that version control of documents is maintained when the document owner invokes immediate revocation or date-based expiration. Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server for applying policies to PDF documents is currently available. The new DRM capabilities for Microsoft Office and CAD documents are expected to be integrated into LiveCycle Policy Server and available in Fall, 2006. http://www.adobe.com/security http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4095 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4095 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT Infotrieve, Inc. announced that it had converted ArticleFinder, its online scientific, technical, and medical (STM) database with more than 26 million citations and eight million abstracts from over 54,000 journals, to a free access model. The move provides scientists and researchers, who work for corporations and are subject to different copyright regulations than their academic counterparts, with a solution for conducting STM searches across literature from multiple providers. The solution seamlessly retrieves full-text scholarly journal articles that they need on a pay-per-view basis. ArticleFinder is similar to GoogleScholar. Utilizing ArticleFinder in conjunction with the Infotrieve Virtual Library technology platform, corporate clients can also securely include their holdings and electronic journal subscriptions within user searches in order to increase the body of content that is searched and minimize duplicate purchases. While ArticleFinder searches are executed at the citation and abstract level rather than the full-text, Infotrieve does provide full-text searching with "key word in context" previews within the Life Science Research Center search solution that it offers. http://www.infotrieve.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4093 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4093 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT SoftLogica LLC announces WAPT 4.0, the new version of its load, stress and performance testing tool for web sites, web servers and applications with web interfaces. WAPT is designed to minimize the learning curve and give the user an ability to create a heavy load from a single regular workstation. You can create a basic test scenario and get meaningful information about your performance landscape in a matter of minutes. WAPT is able to generate up to 2000 simultaneously acting virtual users for an "average" test scenario using standard hardware configuration (Pentium 4 2GHz, 512MB RAM, Gigabit Ethernet). WAPT creates a test workload which is virtually the same as the load experienced by a web site in the real world. For example, for retail sites, some users may be surfing the catalog, others searching for a specific product and submitting an order, while an administrator may be updating the catalog. Basic and Integrated Windows (NTLM) authentication methods are supported. Graphs and reports are shown in real-time, thus helping to manage the web site performance testing process. The command line interface allows you to integrate WAPT into the existing development environment. XML files are used to store test scenarios and can be modified by third party software. WAPT supports different language encodings, so you can test web sites in virtually any language, including forms and dynamic content. WAPT is designed for Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003. The 30-day trial version with full set of features limited to 20 concurrent virtual users can be downloaded at http://www.loadtestingtool.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4097 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4097 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT i2 Technologies, Inc., (Nasdaq:ITWO) announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with Endeca. Under the terms of the initial agreement, i2 can now offer and resell specific Endeca-powered product information access solutions to enhance the i2 Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) solutions and better support component reuse and product cost management business processes across the entire enterprise. The partnership is designed to provide current and new i2 SRM customers with the ability to deploy highly advanced and intuitive search and navigation capabilities to simplify user access to products, components and parts information. The Endeca solution will be offered to existing i2 clients as a value-added module for Guided Navigation and to new SRM customers as a bundled solution. Endeca's approach is designed to guide users to the best products and parts options available given specific technical and business criteria, and incorporating organizational objectives like reducing hazardous materials, increasing the use of preferred parts and ensuring appropriate lifecycle properties. Guided Navigation can complement searching and browsing through automatic user prompts based on available data and the user's unique question/search query, providing drill-down to meaningful answers, and exposing tradeoffs to help optimize decision making. http://www.i2.com, http://www.endeca.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4092 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/01/content_management_news.html#4092