News For April, 2006

The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars in cooperation with CMS Watch, announced that the inaugural Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies for Government will take place June 13-15 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington DC. The official Federal government media sponsor is Post-Newsweek Media, represented by Government Computer News and Washington Technology. For complete event information and registration, visit: http://lighthouseseminars.com/washingtondc/index.html. The conference program is divided into three tracks: Enterprise Content Management, Web Content Management and Enterprise Search & Discovery. Within these three tracks, the following topics will be addressed: Enterprise Content Management technologies, business applications, and solutions; How to get your Content Management project funded; Best practices in content governance and web operations management; Content technologies and 508 compliance; New standards in content interoperability; Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Content Management; Latest 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; and The future of the federal government web. There are also a number of tutorial sessions, including: A Manager's Guide to XML; Enterprise Portals: A Primer; and Enterprise Search - Principles, Players, Practices & Pitfalls. In addition to the conference program, attendees can meet with vendors in the exhibitor showcase to see the latest content management offerings. The exhibitor showcase is free to attend. http://www.cmswatch.com, http://gilbane.com, http://lighthouseseminars.com/washingtondc/index.html

PTC Announces Integration Between Windchill 8.0 & Arbortext 5.2
4/26/2006

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) announced the availability of the integration between Windchill 8.0 and Arbortext 5.2, delivering an end-to-end technical publications solution from a single vendor. The solution provides an integral connection between PTC's Windchill content and process management software and PTC's Arbortext XML authoring and dynamic publishing software. Built to help solve the challenge of creating and publishing complex, accurate technical documents concurrently with a manufactured product, this release serves both the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) markets. The PTC PDS is designed to deliver the full complement of capabilities on an integral architecture that supports the global nature of product development, including the technical publications process. Specifically for technical publications, the PTC PDS enables companies to create content using an XML-based component approach, collaborate within and across organizational boundaries, control and manage content configurations and related processes, and communicate relevant information to a wide variety of audiences. The integration is delivered with Windchill 8.0 M020 and Arbortext 5.2 M010, which will be available early May 2006. Windchill and Arbortext customers with current maintenance are entitled to receive these new releases free of charge. http://www.ptc.com

Hot Banana Software Announces 8 new Channel Partners
4/26/2006

Hot Banana Software Inc. announced the addition of 8 new Channel Partners to help meet the demand for the Hot Banana Active Marketing Web Content Management Suite. The new partnerships position Hot Banana to build upon its recent strong sales and revenue growth internationally and across North America. The announcement was made from the Hot Banana booth (114), at the Gilbane Content Management Conference, April 25 - 27, 2006 in San Francisco. The 8 new Hot Banana Channel Partners are: Momentum Web Solutions, Oxford, UK; Braincrumbs, Tulsa, Oklaholma & Denver, Colorado; Image Soup, St. Louis, Missouri; True Blue Technologies, Carmel, Indiana; Zoetic WebWorks, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Bridgecourt Technologies, Welland, Ontario, Canada; Floating Point - Kingston, Ontario, Canada; and SwiftKICX Solutions, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.hotbanana.com

QL2 and Traction Software Team Up
4/26/2006

QL2 Software and Traction Software announced a joint development partnership that makes data extracted from the deep web by QL2 Software's data extraction platform, WebQL, available to users of Traction's TeamPage enterprise weblog solution. WebQL seamlessly gathers difficult to reach unstructured data from online sources and integrates it into TeamPage's collaborative, secure blog workspaces. WebQL can monitor even password protected newswires, trade journals, websites and blogs. WebQL takes data extraction a step further by monitoring clinical trial, adverse events, legislation, pricing and other databases. WebQL watches web sites for page changes and reports the differences. WebQL may execute hundreds or thousands of queries in a given day, and provide only those results that match specified requirements. WebQL may run standing queries on a regular basis, or do one-off form driven queries launched directly from the Traction interface. When WebQL finds a relevant content match or page change, it extracts and publishes the relevant information to Traction TeamPage with appropriate category tags from any of the project blogs. Traction's interface delivers the content securely through a date driven newspaper style front page and project news pages, an automated newsletter, and a dynamic RSS feed. Users can query Traction to view any cross-section of topics of interest. For more information visit Traction at their booth at Gilbane San Francisco this week.http://www.ql2.com, http://www.tractionsoftware.com

eTouch Systems Introduces Enterprise Wiki eTouch SamePage
4/25/2006

eTouch Systems unveiled its enterprise wiki solution, eTouch SamePage, at the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies. eTouch SamePage delivers rich functionality and wiki with enterprise-grade scalability, security, and stability to effectively support, streamline, and manage team collaborative efforts. With eTouch SamePage, teams of any size can work together more effectively, making collaboration and sharing knowledge across projects, organizations, and geographies easier than ever. eTouch SamePage is available immediately in three deployment options: On-Demand, Appliance, and On-Premise. eTouch SamePage On-Demand starts at $100/month for the first 20 users and is available as a free trial for 30 days. http://www.etouch.net

Liquid Machines Announces Two New Enterprise Rights Management Solutions
4/25/2006

At the Gilbane conference in San Francisco Liquid Machines announced two new Enterprise Rights Management solutions to simply information protection without requiring changes to normal user behavior. Liquid Machines Google Mini Gateway enables organizations using the Google Mini enterprise search appliance to index and search rights-managed content. Using the Liquid Machines Google Mini Gateway, enterprises can create and maintain a comprehensive index of rights-managed enterprise content, and make that index available to authorized users via the Google search interface. The solution recognizes when the Google Mini appliance requests a protected document, and dynamically decrypts the document to provide a clear-text copy for indexing. When a request comes from a standard user, protected documents matching the key search criteria appear as links in the Google Mini interface. The requested file is rights-managed, with access and usage policies seamlessly enforced using Liquid Machines Document Control. Liquid Machines Fileshare Gateway enables customers to easily secure their regulated and confidential documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other electronic files that exist on network servers and file shares. Liquid Machines Fileshare Gateway extends the networked file server approach to managing and controlling access by placing the protection on the data, automatically encrypting files such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and diagrams as they are added to, or modified in, a folder or file share. This ensures protection not only when documents are stored, but during usage and distribution (e.g. open, edit, save, save as, copy/paste, drag and drop, print, etc.). http://www.liquidmachines.com/

Essential Security Software Announces Support for Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS)
4/25/2006

Essential Security Software, Inc. announced support for Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS), and the extension of its capabilities beyond Active Directory requirements, allowing enterprise organizations to set and enforce document and e-mail usage policies for the secure exchange of e-mail and documents with small businesses. The announement was made at the Gilbane Enterprise DRM Conference in San Francisco. Windows RMS-enabled applications help safeguard digital information from unauthorized access and use. Essential Security Software will extend the Windows RMS platform by enabling the following: Interoperability between Essential Taceo, Essential Security Software's peer-to-peer email and document security solution, and Microsoft's RMS; Identification and management of keys for small businesses by Essential Taceo to enable small businesses that do not run Active Directory to securely exchange email and documents with enterprises that do; Automatic identity translation through Microsoft's Rights Management Services to translate identity into and out of RMS for small business users of Taceo; and Rights translation and enforcement services through and between RMS and Essential Taceo. http://www.essentialsecurity.com

Lionbridge Launches Freeway 2.0
4/25/2006

Lionbridge Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:LIOX) introduced Freeway 2.0, a web-architected language collaboration platform. Freeway brings together the critical elements of a global enterprise translation program into a single on-demand, free application available to Lionbridge clients and translation partners. Using Freeway, local project management, in-country translation and reviews, offshore engineering, and quality control are now all managed real-time on a web platform. Using a secure login, clients, Lionbridge personnel, and translators can access their Freeway environment via a web browser in any one of 17 available languages. Once inside they can initiate projects, upload and download language assets, manage glossaries and translation memories (TMs), and track the status of a single project or their entire program history. Freeway can be configured for any user with no limitation on the number of "seats," and without any deployment costs. All language assets can be imported and exported. Freeway can be connected via web services to in-house and content solutions from EMC Documentum, Interwoven, Microsoft, Oracle, CrownPeak, and Vasont Systems, providing an automated workflow cycle from creation to global publishing. Freeway 2.0 is built on two production technologies: the Logoport linguistic engine and Lionbridge's collaboration portal. Freeway 2.0 is available today for Lionbridge clients and translators. http://www.lionbridge.com

SDL Connects Enterprise-wide Global Authoring with Translation Assets
4/24/2006

SDL International announced the release of SDL AuthorAssistant 2006, which accelerates time-to-market and improves brand consistency across enterprise-wide global authoring processes. SDL AuthorAssistant enables creators of corporate content to perform automated checks against existing translation assets, such as previously translated content and terminology glossaries, as well as against corporate writing guidelines. These capabilities have been enhanced with SDL AuthorAssistant 2006. The new release extends its reach to the entire global ecosystem by enabling organizations to access centralized translation assets in SDL Trados, SDL MultiTerm, SDLX and SDL TermBase formats. It saves time in the content lifecycle with additional customizable style checks and provides management insight into global authoring savings with a range of new reporting capabilities. http://www.sdl.com

CM4all Releases Web Storage Solution "WebDrive" To OEMs
4/24/2006

CM4all announced the release of WebDrive, a new ASP Web storage solution aimed at Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web hosts, telcos, and cable providers who want to serve the market in online file storage space. The WebDrive application is currently available for licensing, customization, and installation in data centers beginning today. CM4all's WebDrive application offers storage of files in their data center via an Web browser interface. CM4all WebDrive functions as a file manager, viewer, and a sharing application with data center levels of file protection, all of which can be controlled and managed on any computer or device with Internet access. CM4all's technology is based on a high-speed XML application server and is operated on an ASP model. The company's core product is the homepage tool kit CM4all WebsiteCreator, which is adapted for and licensed to individual OEM partners and is available in 11 different languages. http://www.cm4all.com

Inxight Launches SmartDiscovery Extraction Server (SDX) for Text Analytics in 30 Languages
4/24/2006

Inxight Software announced the general availability of Inxight SmartDiscovery Extraction Server (SDX), a solution for text analytics in more than 30 languages. This system delivers Inxight's ThingFinder extraction capabilities, reading text to discover the "who," "what," "where" and "when" of each document, enabling publishers, government organizations and enterprises to extract people, companies, places and other key entities from terabytes of unstructured text. SmartDiscovery Extraction Server was designed to fit into Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services environments. The basic SDX architecture is a horizontally scalable, distributed extraction platform, designed to be deployed in a variety of configurations from 4 CPUs to 40,000 CPUs and beyond. New nodes can be added to the running system dynamically to meet demand. Administration of the system (managing distributed nodes, providing configuration parameters, etc.) is controlled through a Web-based user interface. The next version of SDX, scheduled for release this summer, will also incorporate Inxight Summarizer and Inxight's new Categorizer product. Inxight SmartDiscovery Extraction Server is certified on Red Hat Linux ES 3.0 and 4.0, Red Hat Linux AS 3.0, Windows 2003 and Windows XP operating systems. Inxight SmartDiscovery Extraction Server (SDX) is generally available now. http://www.inxight.com

Siderean Software Unveils Seamark Navigator 4.0
4/24/2006

Siderean Software unveiled Seamark Navigator 4.0. Featuring new application integration, security and scalability enhancements, Seamark Navigator 4.0 enables business users to navigate and manage all types of structured and unstructured information across the enterprise. Key to Seamark Navigator 4.0 is the ability to enhance exploration and discovery from applications such as Google Enterprise Search and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search to help knowledge workers understand the scope and relationship of information available to them. With Seamark Navigator 4.0, users now have the ability to aggregate information from multiple sources regardless of format, navigate it quickly to illuminate previously unseen relationships so they can view what they don't know, and humanize the information to access it with the least amount of clicks. Seamark Navigator 4.0 offers several new capabilities: External Search Integration with Google's Search Appliance and Oracle's Secure Enterprise Search; Role-Based Security to provide security at the facet level by filtering results based on the source of the information and the role assigned to the user; User Tagging to enable communities of interest to tag content for easy reference and enhance the navigational experience for all other users; Information Management Policies; Facet-Based Relevancy to enable the user to "boost" a facet allowing keywords found in that facet to have a higher priority than the same keywords found in another facet; Usage Analytics; On the Fly and Dynamic Facet Creation; and sixty-four bit scalability. Seamark Navigator 4.0 is immediately available. http://www.siderean.com

Vignette Integrates Technology into HP Information Lifecycle Management Solutions
4/24/2006

Vignette Corp. (NASDAQ:VIGN) announced the integration of its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite of solutions with HP Reference Information Storage Systems (RISS) for financial services customers and Medical Archive Systems (MAS) for healthcare, including public sector medical, customers to manage the lifecycle of information. Vignette also announced support for HP's Integrity server platform. Customers using Vignette's Collaborative Documents and Records solution with HP's RISS hardware storage device can benefit from Vignette's document management, process automation and records management functionality and the assurance of high-performance, redundant mass storage and archiving provided by the HP RISS device. Vignette Integration with HP MAS - Digital storage of the "complete" electronic health record makes critical patient data more accessible to medical staff at point of care. HP MAS, combined with Vignette's Imaging and Workflow solution, provides an archive of clinical images and administrative documents to healthcare customers. Vignette and HP will offer a web solution running on Integrity servers to help customers leverage their content through an Intranet, Extranet or public Web site. http://www.vignette.com

WebSideStory Launches Search 4.0 - Integrates Site Search and Behavioral Data
4/24/2006

WebSideStory, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSSI) announced the launch of WebSideStory Search 4.0, a site search solution to automatically integrate site search and web site behavioral data. This technology, called Active Ranking, enables marketers to optimize the ranking of their search results based on any number of important visitor metrics, such as conversion rate, entry pages, most requested pages and visits, and improve their online business objectives, including increasing conversions or delivering the most relevant content. WebSideStory Search 4.0 integrates with WebSideStory's HBX Analytics solution via the company's Stream Reporting API. WebSideStory Search 4.0 offers a number of other capabilities, including guided site navigation, an increase in search capacity, and automated SEO sitemap and shopping engine feeds. http://www.websidestory.com

Intellext Releases Latest Version of its Watson Search Tool
4/24/2006

Intellext announced the release of Watson 2.3, a search tool that proactively finds and delivers relevant information to users. The latest version of Watson improves the user experience with new usability features such as the addition of people and company content from Zoom Information, a Drag and Drop feature for easy information collection and Yahoo! Desktop Search integration. Watson recognizes when someone is looking at information about people and companies, and queries the ZoomInfo search engine for relevant results. Content from ZoomInfo is then delivered to the user in Watson's sidebar interface. Another new addition to Watson 2.3 is the Drag and Drop feature, which simplifies the process of incorporating information that Watson finds into the user's work. Any result that Watson finds, whether a web page, email or desktop file, can be dragged from Watson's sidebar interface into the program the user is working on, then dropped for information collection. Watson 2.3 also now supports and integrates with Yahoo Desktop Search, and includes several performance and stability improvements, such as the elimination of the need to reboot after installation. http://www.intellext.com

Adobe Acquires Trade and Technologies France
4/21/2006

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced it has acquired Trade and Technologies France (TTF), makers of computer-aided design (CAD) data interoperability software. The acquisition will help build on the existing 3D visualization and collaboration capabilities of Adobe software and solutions for the manufacturing industry and other markets. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. TTF is a privately held company headquartered near Lyon, France. Along with the industry expertise of its staff, TTF's technology includes CAD software interoperability translators and software libraries for high-end 3D visualization. http://www.adobe.com

SDL & Trisoft Expand Partnership
4/20/2006

SDL International announced a strategic technical and commercial partnership with content management vendor Trisoft. SDL and Trisoft have co-operated to deliver integrations between Trisoft's Infoshare content management system and SDL Translation Management System (SDL TMS). The new partnership is the result of investment at the executive level to provide tighter technical integration. The combined offering will enable customers to benefit from content management and translation management technologies, offering a single "user experience" whilst delivering an effective solution to create and maintain multilingual assets, which generally make up 90% of a companys global content. http://www.tri-soft.com, http://www.sdl.com

Late Breaking Updates for Gilbane San Francisco
4/20/2006

Lighthouse Seminars and the Gilbane Group released some late breaking news on next week's Gilbane San Francisco, including new sponsors and exhibitors, new details on the various debates, and preliminary survey results on the hot topics of most interest to attendees. Adobe's Enterprise Solutions and Developer Group has joined the event as a Gold sponsor. See other recent announcements on some of the new products and features to be shown by the 50+ exhibitors at http://gilbane.com/gr_news_4.11.06.html. In addition to Gilbane's popular analyst session, two analysts will face-off on 7 topics they disagree on in "Content Technologies: A Town Hall Debate". See http://lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_sf_06/sf_cm.html#CM9. These debates complement the CMS Idol competition taking pace that is open to all, see http://lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_sf_06/SpecialEvents.html. The early results from a survey on questions to ask the keynote panel show the topics attendees are most interested in are, in order: (78%) What are the top 3 technologies that must be considered in any content management strategies in the next 12-24 months? (60%) Are there any breakthrough classification or metadata tagging technologies on the horizon that you should be watching for? (57%) How will content management lite offerings from Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM affect the content management market? (55%) How is widespread adoption of RSS/Atom going to affect content delivery? And what does this mean to enterprise content management or publishing strategies? (55%) What new publishing technologies should we expect to see in the next 12-18 months? Will they make it easier to incorporate better design elements to improve customer facing applications? (55%) Is there any real breakthrough search technology search on the horizon that you should consider for your intranet or extranet applications? (49%) How will Blog and Wiki tools be used in enterprise content applications? How are they being used today? (49%) Are there authoring tools on the horizon that are both user-friendly and capable of authoring for both electronic and print output? Partial results of the responses to all the questions are available at http://gilbane.com/sf06_draft_survey.html. To participate in the survey go to http://app1.intellicontact.com/icp/sub/survey/start?sid=5513&cid=18079. Also, the top write-in question topic so far is on globalization and content management. This is a hot topic at the event - there are multiple sessions covering it, and many vendors showing related products and services - some of them have even put together a Content Globalization Pavilion. There are over 100 expert speakers covering these and other topics. The complete conference program is at href="http://lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_sf_06/sf_cm-confgrid.html. The event is immediately preceded by the Content Management Professionals Association Spring Summit. See the Summit program at http://www.cmprofessionals.org/events/summit/program.html

SchemaLogic Signs Agreement with Advent One to Extend Reach in Australia
4/20/2006

SchemaLogic announced that it has partnered with Advent One, an Australian IBM partner, to extend SchemaLogic's reach into Australia. As a result of the agreement, Advent One will be a major reseller of SchemaLogic's Business Semantics Management Software in the Asia Pacific region. SchemaLogic's solution leverages the terminologies, knowledge and know-how of the enterprise to be mapped to enterprise content (documents, text in databases, or rich media). These solutions harmonize how enterprise search, content management, and portal applications work together. Advent One will provide sales, marketing and support service in Australia for SchemaLogic SchemaServer, SchemaLogic Adapters for IBM Discovery: OmniFind, Content Discovery Edition and Classifier module, and SchemaLogic Adapters for IBM Content Management: Content Manager, Document Manager & Records Manager. http://www.adventone.com, http://www.schemalogic.com

Google Announcs new Search Appliance, with Google OneBox for Enterprise
4/19/2006

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced the new Google Search Appliance, featuring Google OneBox for Enterprise, developed in partnership with enterprise applications vendors. Google OneBox for Enterprise, one of many new features of the Google Search Appliance, gives corporations secure access to information in any application in the enterprise from the convenience of the Google search box. "OneBox" refers to the process of typing a query into Google.com for specific category information, such as airline flight times, local weather, or stock prices. With Google OneBox for Enterprise, corporate information, such as contact and calendar info, HR benefits, sales leads, or purchase order status, is now instantly searchable through a Google search box as part of the Google Search Appliance. Google OneBox for Enterprise functionality was developed by Google working with content in repositories from Cisco, Cognos, Employease, NetSuite, Oracle, Salesforce.com, and SAS. Google is also announcing the Google Enterprise Developer program, a community site where developers can get access to Google Enterprise SDKs, documentation, and post their work for sharing with other customers, partners, and developers. The new Google Search Appliance includes additional new features: Native File System crawler reaches all content in Windows-based file systems (more than 220 file types such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, PDF, etc.); Expanded enterprise security and authentication, including LDAP and standard SAML interfaces; Enhanced search relevancy through context-sensitive stemming and synonyms, learned from billions of searches on Google.com; New index of external metadata repositories in document and content management systems; Up to 25 queries per second on one server (500 percent increase); and up to 3 million documents on a single server (100 percent increase). These features, including Google OneBox for Enterprise, are available as part of the new Google Search Appliance or as free upgrades to current version 4 customers. http://www.google.com/enterprise

Mondosoft Introduces New Web Services Development Tool
4/19/2006

Mondosoft announced the availability of Mondosoft Integration Services, a new toolkit allowing Mondosoft partners to add search and search analytics capabilities and build customized applications. Mondosoft Integration Services is a Web Service that provides a new point of entry to Mondosoft's product suite. It enables a licensee to tap into search data and analytics functionality without being limited by a pre-defined user interface, as it decouples the search engine from its out-of-the-box presentation. For developers, Mondosoft Integration Services liberates data and allows search functionality to be integrated into knowledge management applications. Mondosoft Integration Services enables Mondosoft technology partners and system integrators to integrate MondoSearch, InformationManager and BehaviorTracking with CMS solutions like Sitecore and EPiServer and other applications such as Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. The new development toolset controls crawling and indexing from within third-party applications. The Mondosoft approach permits seamless access to Microsoft XP, Advanced Server, and Vista functions and enables a partner or licensee to extend the reach of the search system and its analytics components into AJAX interfaces. The Mondosoft implementation extends the functionality to other operating systems and content management systems, including those running on UNIX and Linux. http://www.mondosoft.com

Free Enterprise Portal Released for Microsoft, Novell, Redhat, and Other Linux Distributions
4/19/2006

Lumen Software announced the release of their Lumenation v6.0 Portal with unlimited User Licensing. The Portal can be downloaded from the company's website. Organizations can immediately begin providing key information to users appropriately based upon who the user is and what role they play in the organization regardless of the underlying OS (Microsoft, Mac, Linux, Unix). The Lumenation Portal is web based, allowing secure access from any computer with Internet access and a browser (Mozilla, Firefox, Microsoft IE, etc.). Users have access to manuals, tutorials and Forums directly from the Lumenation users support Portal designed to allow organizations to setup and administer the Portal minimizing implementation and operational costs. Lumen Software also offers a full range of services including complete turn key implementation or just fulfilling specific parts of the deployment process such as data integration. The Lumenation v6.0 Portal "knows" who a user is, what applications they have access to, what content they may access within an application, what files, even the users language. The system is also LDAP compliant, allowing the integration of directory services to authenticate and provision users. If you do not have a directory service, Lumenation inherently provides all the necessary user management tools. Organizations are able to create multiple Portals on one server, or different servers to communicate to specific groups, locations and departments. http://www.lumensoftware.com

Optaros & Astoria Software to Sponsor CM Pros Spring Summit
4/18/2006

Content Management Professionals (CM Pros), the international content management community of practice, announced that Optaros and Astoria Software will support its Spring 2006 Summit as the event's exclusive sponsors. CM Pros Spring 2006 Summit will be held 23-24 April 2006, co-located with the Gilbane San Francisco event. Focused on the theme "Content Management and the Customer Experience," this Summit - the fifth since the organization was founded in Fall 2004 - features three keynote sessions: Engaging Customers with Actionable Content by Bill Trippe of the Gilbane Group; Content Management in Call Centres: Delivering a Great Customer Experience by James Robertson of Step Two Designs; and Developing a Customer-Centric Model for Content Management by Ann Rockley, past president of CM Pros and president of The Rockley Group. Registration for the Spring 2006 CM Pros Summit is currently available online, and onsite registration will open at 1:00 p.m. on 23 April 2006. Individuals who are not currently CM Pros members are eligible for a discounted CM Pros Summit/Membership package. View the detailed program at http://www.cmprofessionals.org/events/summit/program.html, http://www.astoriasoftware.com, http://www.optaros.com

Ektron Releases CMS400.NET Version 6.0
4/18/2006

Ektron, Inc. announced the availability of Ektron CMS400.NET Version 6.0, its all-in-one application for creating, deploying and managing interactive web, intranet and extranet sites. With new features, such as site analytics, blogging, forums, polls, surveys and content ratings, the company expands CMS400.NET with more out-of-the-box capabilities. In CMS400.NET Version 6.0, Ektron brings together more functionality, including: Website analytics - Understand and optimize web, intranet and blog usage with built-in measurement, analysis and reporting; Blogging - Automate and control the blog posting process, including RSS syndication, pinging and trackbacks, support for structured blogging and microformats to syndicate content; Forums - Create and manage discussion forums to encourage online community; Surveys, polls and content ratings - Gain feedback from site visitors with built-in surveys, quick polls and ratings that allow readers to evaluate and comment on content; AJAX-enhanced search - Improve visitors' search experience and help them find information quickly with AJAX-powered results; Multimedia asset management - Manage multimedia assets, such as Flash, RealAudio and RealVideo, Microsoft Windows Media and QuickTime, track changes, reference and display files within website templates or content, and define and assign metadata to the multimedia files, optimizing them for search engines; and Multi-site management - Use one interface and one installation of CMS400.NET to manage multiple sites and subsites. In addition, CMS400.NET Version 6.0 introduces document management support for OpenOffice.org, and Oracle Database 10g for storing site data. Ektron CMS400.NET Version 6.0 is available immediately. Pricing starts at $8,640 USD for a 10-user, one-URL license with one year of maintenance, which provides access to all product upgrades and Ektron support. http://www.ektron.com

Pegasystems Updates SmartBPM Suite
4/17/2006

Pegasystems Inc.(NASDAQ:PEGA) announced a major upgrade of its SmartBPM Suite designed to optimize the management of constantly changing business processes. The enhanced capabilities include AJAX "hover and see" automation for end users; "develop once, deploy everywhere" language localization capabilities; and fast, flexible ease-of-use for developers. The AJAX enhancement to PegaRULES Process Commander offers a "hover and see" functionality that provides immediate feedback to the end user, increasing interactivity, speed and usability of Web applications. The language localization capability provides a means to have a localized customer experience, including language, interfaces and logos, while the application is developed and managed in just one language. This enables multinational businesses to develop and maintain a solution in the home language, and deploy it globally. The SmartBPM upgrade also features enhanced ergonomics for developers including easier-to-find tools, the ability to iteratively test application components during development and flash-based movies providing step-by-step tutorials. http://www.pega.com

Inmagic Announces Genie Express
4/13/2006

Inmagic, Inc. announced the general release of Version 1.0 of its Genie Express online catalog software. Inmagic Genie Express is a Web-based application designed to manage and provide Web-based access to a single database, catalog or archive. Genie Express is for online catalog situations such as a corporation making a core set of research available via its intranet, a museum/archive publishing its image collection on the Internet, or a government agency publishing a specific collection of documents on the Internet. Optimized to support online catalogs, Genie Express supports traditional and non-traditional information assets, such as documents, news, images, URLs, books, etc. Genie Express is based on Microsoft SQL Server and .NET technologies and makes extensive use of XML and Web services. http://www.inmagic.com

Clarabridge Unveils BI Search
4/13/2006

Clarabridge announced availability of the next generation of Clarabridge BI Search, a search capability to enable users to rapidly find reports and other useful information generated by all major business intelligence solutions from a single, unified search box. The product's search functionality indexes the full data content of reports, in addition to titles, descriptions, or metadata, and includes all relational data sources supported by MicroStrategy, Business Objects, and Cognos. Providing one integration point to access existing BI content. Clarabridge's software combines the structured and unstructured analysis worlds, allowing businesses to extend the value of their existing BI investments. http://www.Clarabridge.com

Choose the Questions for the Experts at Gilbane San Francisco
4/12/2006

Lighthouse Seminars announced a new survey to collect votes on the questions the opening keynote panel at Gilbane San Francisco will be asked. Anyone can vote, whether attending the conference or not. All voters will be entered into a drawing, and one lucky voter will win a free conference pass to either Gilbane San Francisco or a future Gilbane event. The results of the survey, plus the answers to the top 3 questions will be published after the conference. Vote here! Details of the keynote panel can be found at: http://lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_sf_06/sf_cm.html#KeynoteA

Belus Technology Releases XStandard Version 1.7
4/12/2006

Belus Technology released version 1.7 of XStandard, a WYSIWYG editor for Windows desktop and browser-based content management systems. The new version of XStandard accelerates the authoring process by incorporating content locking, content markers, subdocument support, a collapsible/expandable editing window, and support for keyboard shortcuts. For developers, new features include more programmatic APIs, support for almost all CSS 2.1 selectors, and for IE 7. Locking portions of content against editing, or exposing areas of content for editing, reduces the risk of publishing inaccurate or unauthorized information. Markers are used to flag elements of content with short, informative text messages. Used in combination with content locking, markers can guide authors to appropriate editing areas quickly and smoothly. A third and significant new feature in XStandard 1.7 is support for subdocuments. This permits authors to snap chunks of reusable content into documents as required. Classic examples of subdocuments include frequently used information such as author bios or company backgrounds that, for consistency, are edited and stored elsewhere in the content management system. XStandard's support for subdocuments now safely places this type of content at the service of authors throughout the organization. By year-end, XStandard will transition to an entirely new interface that will be fully keyboard-accessible, and compliant with W3C's Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG). Markup generated by XStandard already complies with W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Within CSS, the selector's role is to pattern-match and determine which style is applied to elements in a document's structure or "tree". By supporting W3C's latest Working Draft of CSS selectors (CSS level 2 revision 1), XStandard anticipates the spec's eventual release as a Recommendation, anticipated for later this year. http://xstandard.com

SealedMedia Launches Enterprise Digital Rights Management (E-DRM) Platform
4/11/2006

SealedMedia Inc. launched Version 5.0 of its enterprise digital rights management (E-DRM) platform. The new release delivers scalability, improved corporate compliance controls, and Web-based administration tools that simplify enterprise deployments. SealedMedia 5.0 features a Standard Administrative Model and a Web-based Management Console. These enhancements, coupled with the overall simplification of the implementation process, are aimed at positioning SealedMedia 5.0 as a mainstream E-DRM solution for everyday enterprise users who need to safeguard digital content within, across and between organizations. SealedMedia 5.0 was designed with corporate compliance in mind. The software's Standard Administrative Model provides a hierarchical system that manages rules and enforces auditable segregation of duties. For instance, SealedMedia 5.0 can ensure that financial managers can't access HR records, and vice versa. SealedMedia 5.0 supports enterprise-wide administration of policies. This helps ensure that SealedMedia 5.0 scales in global environments. http://www.sealedmedia.com

50+ Vendors to Showcase and Unveil Latest Content Management Technologies at Gilbane San Francisco
4/11/2006

The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies San Francisco, taking place April 24-26, 2006 at the Palace Hotel, will offer free attendance to its exhibit hall featuring over 50 content management technology vendors. Attendees will see some of the most innovative and cutting-edge content management solutions available on the market today. To see the full press release with the new products and features to be highlighted see: http://gilbane.com/gr_news_4.11.06.html

CrownPeak Helps Online Marketers Create & Manage RSS Feeds with New Capabilities
4/11/2006

CrownPeak announced new media features aimed at helping online marketers create and manage RSS feeds. Through new RSS and Content Syndication capabilities, CrownPeak is offering companies an easy way to automatically create RSS feeds for their Web sites, without the hassle of maintenance or management. Any Web site marketing manager can be enabled to create RSS feeds by simply publishing a piece of content on an RSS feed. Feeds can also be automatically created from any part of their existing Web site content. Visitors can define a search using a keyword or phrase, based on special interests, and subscribe to personalized RSS feeds when new content related to that keyword or phrase appears on the Web site using CrownPeak. On the publishing side of RSS Feeds, companies can use CrownPeak CMS to import and publish any kind of XML, including RSS Feeds. Any RSS feed can be automatically imported into the CMS on any frequency and can then either itself be published as an RSS feed, or as a static piece of content to the customer's web site. CrownPeak RSS Solutions are available now. Pricing starts at $250/month. http://www.crownpeak.com/RSS

Inxight Partners with Clarabridge to Integrate Text Analytics Solutions for BI Applications
4/10/2006

Inxight Software and Clarabridge, provider of text mining software, announced an agreement to integrate and jointly market the Inxight SmartDiscovery suite with the Clarabridge Content Mining Platform. The combined solution allows users to rapidly extract meaning from text, alongside structured data sources. The partnership is meant to provide customers with a comprehensive suite of text processing technologies to transform unstructured content such as contracts, filings, forms, call center notes, medical records, insurance claims, emails, etc., into rich, structured data so it can be efficiently and effectively understood and analyzed within existing or future BI applications. The Inxight SmartDiscovery suite is a solution for text understanding in all major languages. Its set of text analysis tools includes search, categorization, and entity, event and relationship extraction. Automatically identifying concepts, people, organizations, places and other information, SmartDiscovery provides structure to unstructured text, providing that structure as XML-out, for use in routing, categorization, search and BI applications. The Clarabridge Content Mining Platform provides customers with the ability to source, transform, store and analyze unstructured data, and do it in a way that is easy to manage, allowing it to perform like structured data within an existing or future BI deployment. http://www.Clarabridge.com, http://www.inxight.com

Stellent Introduces Version 7.6 of Its Sarbanes-Oxley Solution
4/10/2006

Stellent, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEL) announced the release of version 7.6 of the Stellent Sarbanes-Oxley Solution, designed to help companies streamline their 404 and 302 processes for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Stellent Sarbanes-Oxley Solution version 7.6 further simplifies global enterprise compliance with enhancements to the application's shared component and process libraries, language and localization capabilities, internal audit testing and management assessment processes, and configuration features. The new features in version 7.6 are designed to increase efficiency, speed implementations and improve ease-of-use in organizations striving to meet the complexities of global compliance legislation. The functionality was designed with input on the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance process from Protiviti Inc., an internal audit and business and technology risk consulting firm, with whom Stellent holds a strategic integration and consulting agreement. http://www.stellent.com

ceTe Software Releases Version 4.0 of DynamicPDF Products for .NET
4/7/2006

ceTe Software, a company which specializes in components for real-time PDF generation and manipulation, announced the release of DynamicPDF Generator v4.0 for .NET and DynamicPDF Merger v4.0 for .NET. These versions provide many new features such as linearization (fast web-view), creation of interactive form fields, PDF/X and prepress support, XMP, PDF417 bar codes, JavaScript, ordered and unordered lists, etc. Additionally, many enhancements were made to existing features. The DynamicPDF products enable software developers to provide PDF content dynamically from enterprise applications for presentation, distribution or archiving. These products are available with flexible licensing including royalty-free developer licensing and server-based licensing. DynamicPDF Generator v4.0 for .NET is a class library that can be used by software developers to create PDF documents from their applications programmatically. It offers an object model that is extensible and allows a high degree of customization. With DynamicPDF Generator, PDF documents can be generated straight to a file, byte array, Web Form or System.IO.Stream object. A free Community Edition of this product is available on the company website. DynamicPDF Merger v4.0 for .NET can be used by software developers to programmatically merge, split, stamp, form-fill and personalize PDF documents. The updated version 4.0 includes many new features such as retention of annotations, preservation of bookmarks, addition of interactive form fields to existing PDF documents, and preservation of document-level JavaScript. A free Evaluation version of Merger is available. http://www.cete.com

CMS Idol to Crown Most Innovative Content Management Solution at Gilbane San Francisco
4/5/2006

There are hundreds of vendors that claim to have the answer to today's content management challenge. Now it is your opportunity as an end user to attend, for free, CMS Idol. Have your opinion count as you vote for the content management solution you think is most innovative. CMS Idol is taking place at the Palace Hotel on April 25th at the upcoming Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies San Francisco. Not only is CMS Idol free to attend but attendees can visit with over 50 vendors showcasing their latest content management solutions. Vendors registered to participate in CMS Idol include: Hot Banana Software, Interwoven, Paperthin, Refresh Software, and Vasont. Round I - 3:45pm: Help crown the "2006 CMS Idol" in a fast-paced, entertaining set of competitive demos. CMS vendors will present 6-minute demos showing the best features of their systems. An expert panel of judges will offer pithy commentary, but the best part is: you vote for the winner! The top 3 finalists will face off in Round 2 during the reception. Round II - 5:30pm - "The Finals": Help crown the "2006 CMS Idol" in a fast-paced, entertaining set of competitive demos. Three vendor finalists will present 8-minute demos showing something special about their solution. An expert panel of judges will liven up the show, but it is you the attendee who votes for the winner! The winner will be announced and officially crowned during the reception. Visit with vendors in the exhibit hall before or after CMS Idol. The exhibit hall is open April 25-26. Hours to meet with exhibitors each day are: 10-11am, noon-2pm, and 5-7pm. For conference details, visit: http://lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_sf_06/sf_06.html. To register, visit: http://lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_sf_06/Registration.html

Vignette & Lombardi in Alliance
4/5/2006

Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN) and Lombardi Software announced a go-to-market alliance to better enable content-centric applications and the business processes that drive them. The alliance is intended to allow joint customers to create, deploy and manage web applications based on a Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that leverages standards such as BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation), JSR-168 (Java Specification Request), and Web Services. http://www.vignette.com, http://www.lombardisoftware.com

EMC & NEC Expand Strategic Alliance
4/5/2006

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) and NEC Corporation (NASDAQ:NIPNY) announced an expansion of their strategic business and technology alliance. The broader and deeper arrangements involve new technology development, distribution, joint marketing, customer service and support, and increased collaboration and integration of the two companies' information management and infrastructure solutions. EMC and NEC intend to collaborate on the development of content management solutions for emerging customer requirements. EMC and NEC intend to jointly develop and resell these solutions globally, with a focus on Japan, to help customers better address certain business issues such as regulatory compliance, security and collaboration. EMC and NEC have agreed to collaborate on the development, manufacturing, distribution and support of certain future storage technologies and entry-level products. EMC and NEC intend to license various technologies from their respective resource management products (EMC Smarts and NEC WebSAM) and will incorporate them into future releases from each company. The companies will further ensure tight integration of the WebSAM framework and the EMC Smarts model-based architecture. Within Japan, EMC and NEC intend to deepen their relationship by further aligning each company's sales and marketing, solution development, consulting, customer support and service functions. http://www.EMC.com, http://www.nec.com

WebSideStory Launches HBX Analytics 3.5
4/4/2006

WebSideStory, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSSI) announced the launch of HBX Analytics 3.5, which expands the dimensions of analysis beyond the tracking of traditional HTML content to include streaming media and mobile device user behavior. These capabilities enable marketers to analyze the activity of an entirely new set of visitor demographics. HBX 3.5, which is currently available to customers at no extra charge, includes: Streaming Media Tracking - Customers can quantify audience levels and interaction with streaming audio and video content served on their own web site or distributed to an external web site via Windows Media Player, QuickTime or RealPlayer; and Analysis of Mobile Device User Behavior - Marketers can now get rich information about visitors who access their HTML and WML web sites through mobile devices. This includes defining active segments for all mobile audiences to better understand their unique navigational behavior and content preferences. HBX 3.5 also provides detailed reporting on the mobile devices used by visitors, including brands, models and service providers. http://www.websidestory.com

Interwoven Announces Solution for Buy-Side Financial Institutions
4/4/2006

Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ:IWOV) announced a solution for buy-side financial institutions to automate the incoming confirmations process for Over-the-Counter (OTC) derivatives, extending Interwoven's solutions within the financial services industry. The new solution, Scrittura BuySide, enables buy-side firms to achieve increased regulatory compliance and reduce trade processing times by automating and validating the confirmation process for OTC derivative instruments such as interest rate, credit, equity, FX, and energy. A Workflow Manager enables the automation of most manual processes, such as routing of incoming confirmations for matching to internal trading records; checking for legal language, approval and signature; and dispatch back to counterparty. Using fax server technology, the solution employs methods such as side-by-side views of received confirms and internal trade records, optical character recognition, and a matching engine to help professionals match inbound counterparty agreements to outstanding trades. Document management capabilities enable all associated trade documents and versions to move together through the workflow process until the trade is confirmed. The solution also enables these documents to be stored where they can be indexed and easily searched. Users can also dispatch trade documents automatically to any recipient via fax or e-mail. A document generation engine creates and dispatches replies to dealer counterparties pinpointing incomplete or erroneous legal language and trade data. An audit trail allows the user to locate a document in the workflow process at any given time. Interwoven's Scrittura BuySide Solution is available now. http://www.interwoven.com/solutions/otc_derivatives/index.html

Content Management and the Customer Experience Focus of CM Professionals Spring 2006 Conference
4/4/2006

Content Management Professionals (CM Pros), the international content management community of practice, announced that the theme of its Spring 2006 Summit, to be held 23-24 April 2006 co-located with the Gilbane San Francisco event, is Content Management and The Customer Experience. The Spring 2006 CM Pros Summit will kick off with a keynote session on Engaging Customers with Actionable Content by Bill Trippe, Senior Editor of The Gilbane Report. followed by two presentations: A User-Centered Approach to Content Management Design by Theresa Regli; Benefits of a User-Centered Approach to Information Architecture by Joan Lasselle and Mira Wooten of Lasselle-Ramsay. Rounding out the day are two breakout sessions: Microformats and the Future of Syndication from Nate Aune of AdaptiveWave and Portals: From Idea to Reality - the Dangers of the Current State of Portals in the Marketplace, facilitated by Tony Byrne of CMS Watch and Janus Boye of Boye IT. The days closing keynote features an address from James Robertson of Step Two Designs on Content Management in Call Centres: Delivering a Great Customer Experience. Day two of the event begins with two roundtable sessions: interactive development of the Content Lifecycle Poster facilitated by Erik Hartman of Hartman Communicatie BV and Scott Abel of The Content Wrangler, and Best Practices vs. Practicalities: Qualitative Decisions for Delivering the "Best" Content to Customers, facilitated by Rahel Anne Bailie of Intentional Design Inc. and Trevor Paterson of CHC Helicopters. Two parallel breakout sessions The Importance of the Community in Open Source Content Management Systems by Renaud Richardet of Wyona Inc., and Achieving Structure in Enterprise Content from Peter Meyer of Elkera Pty Limited will enable attendees the opportunity to examine in detail these important issues. Ann Rockley, past president of CM Pros and president of The Rockley Group, offers the event's closing keynote: Developing a Customer-Centric Model for Content Management. Underscoring the many valuable benefits of CM Pros membership, CM Pros members will receive with each USD $145 Summit registration a USD $150 discount coupon for the Gilbane Conference. Individuals who are not currently CM Pros members are eligible for a discounted CM Pros Summit/Membership package. For more information and to register, please visit http://www.cmprofessionals.org/events/summit/, http://lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_sf_06/sf_06.html

Index Engines Updates Platform to Version 2.0
4/4/2006

Index Engines announced a significant upgrade to their enterprise indexing platform. Version 2.0 extends unstructured data indexing to include secondary storage and boosts processing speeds to 2 Gigabits per second wire speeds. This new release indexes information throughout its lifecycle as it is backed up, replicated, snapshoted, archived, or vaulted, for more comprehensive search, classification and management of data enterprise wide. Previous versions of the Index Engines solution supported indexing of primary storage data. With Version 2.0, files residing in secondary storage, even backup tapes, are fully indexed allowing comprehensive discovery of this data across the enterprise. Version 2.0 of the Index Engines platform is available immediately for early access clients and generally available on April 28, 2006. Prices start at $29,500 for an environment consisting of 2 million documents. http://www.indexengines.com

ComponentOne Releases ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2006 v1
4/4/2006

ComponentOne released ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2006 v1. This new version enhances the Help authoring experience with new features and functionality for Documenter and NetHelp. Doc-To-Help helps users author or import documentation in Microsoft Word or any HTML editor to create online Help systems and professional printed manuals. Help systems produced with Doc-To-Help can be created in virtually any popular format including HTML Help, Cross-Platform HTML-based Help, JavaHelp, WinHelp, Visual Studio .NET-style Help, and printed documentation. Current Doc-To-Help subscribers will receive these new features and enhancements via the yearly subscription service as a part of their subscription plan. The Doc-To-Help subscription delivers the latest updates and e-mail support for one full year from the date of purchase. Doc-To-Help is available in two versions, Doc-To-Help Enterprise and Doc-To-Help for Word with respective pricing of $999.95 and $749.95. Competitive upgrades, renewal pricing, telephone support and volume discounts are also available. http://www.componentone.com, http://www.componentone.co.uk

ABREVITY Announces FileData Classifier Information Value Management Solution
4/3/2006

ABREVITY, Inc. announced availability of its FileData Classifier Information Value Management (IVM) solution. At $1497 for the first three terabytes and $995 per terabyte thereafter, FileData Classifier is a solution in the Information Classification and Management (ICM) space suitable for Small to Medium Businesses (SMB) or Small to Medium Enterprises (SME). Leveraging ABREVITY's SLICEbase metadata database engine, FileData Classifier is not built on or require the use of a relational database. This provides for a rich feature set that includes user-selectable metadata parsing, Boolean file query (search) and ABREVITY's exclusive Drag2Tag file tagging for data classification. The later feature allows users to query based on granular file attributes, such as specific file or directory words combined with file types, dates, creators, etc., and then simply drag selected files into one or more category "tags" such as Critical, Compliant, Legal, Tier One, etc. New categories and tags can be created. An upgrade option "sees inside" common file types such as Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF files, and extracts parsed file content such as social security numbers, etc. FileData Classifier software runs on standard Windows PCs or severs and supports Windows (CIFS) network or desktop storage systems. The software manages up three terabytes of data per single dataset. Users can also upgrade to ABREVITY's FileData Manager software which offers features such as UNIX (NFS) scanning, more than three terabytes of federated data management and file content extraction for laboratory instrument files, 200+ common file types or email. http://www.abrevity.com

Coveo Enterprise Search 4.0 Now Available
4/3/2006

Coveo Solutions Inc. announced general availability of Coveo Enterprise Search (CES) 4.0 for secure, unified search across all documents and multimedia content located in file systems, databases, enterprise applications, email servers, intranets and Web sites. Coveo Enterprise Search for SharePoint (CESS) 4.0, a version seamlessly integrated with Microsoft SharePoint is also available. CESS 4.0 allows SharePoint customers to securely find information inside of SharePoint, as well as content in repositories in the corporate network. This latest version of Coveo's search solution offers new capabilities including: Improved user interface supporting faceted search, saved queries and an interface editor; The ability to securely search across Lotus Notes, Novell Netware, sound, image, and video files; An open crawler API to index virtually any data source; The ability to scale to more than 100 million documents with load-balancing and distributed indexing across multiple servers; Personalized rating that enhances relevancy via user behavior tracking; Collaborative ranking that enhances relevancy by applying personalized rating through groups of related individuals; Chinese (traditional and simplified), Japanese and Korean language support; Richer real-time analysis and comprehensive reporting for administrators; and 10-25% faster query and indexing performance over the previous release. Coveo Enterprise Search 4.0 installs with "out-of-the box" document level security, and delivers transparent integration with permissions on Windows file system, SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange. http://www.coveo.com

Axaio Announces MadeToCompare for Adobe InCopy CS & CS2
4/3/2006

Axaio Software, Callas software's sister company unveiled MadeToCompare, a new solution for the collation and comparison of texts and versions in Adobe InCopy CS and CS2. The product is intended in particular to be integrated with Adobe InCopy-based editing systems such as Softcare K4. The Plug-In analyzes different versions of open InCopy documents and then presents all text-related discrepancies in a dynamically-generated HTML document. MadeToCompare identifies words which are missing or have been changed, spaces which have been added or deleted, or paragraphs and line breaks which have been displaced. The results from the searched documents are contrasted using the browser, and all differences are pinpointed with the help of punctuation marks. MadeToCompare lends itself to integration with InDesign and InCopy-based editing systems; a connection to Softcare K4 has already been developed; versions for other editorial systems will be available shortly. The Plug-In runs both on Mac OS X and Windows 2000/XP. A single-user license costs 990 EURO. Demo versions can be downloaded for free at http://www.axaio.com

McLaren Software Releases Enterprise Engineer Version 3.5
4/3/2006

McLaren Software, an independent software vendor specializing in applications for engineering process and content management, has announced the release of Version 3.5 of its application suite, Enterprise Engineer. The new release extends the broad, document-centric capabilities of earlier versions of Enterprise Engineer, thanks largely to its comprehensive work-management capabilities. This allows executives to gain insights into their company's engineering operations and centralize control of key processes across the enterprise. Version 3.5 features include: A work management and audit-trail capability that enables companies to oversee and manage engineering tasks; A formal review and approval process that allows engineers to mark up individual sections of large-scale drawings with interactive comments and ensures all approvals are recorded with appropriate sign off information - including electronic signatures (double-blind signoff for 21 CFR Part 11 compliance) as well as an indication of the reason for specific approval; A new EE Transmittals application that provides audit trails, multiple notification mechanisms, automatic rendering of transmittal documents and reporting on transmittal status; A new EE Transmittals portal providing support for the auditable transmission of controlled documents and drawings to external organizations; A new EE Office Manager that integrates with Microsoft Office, allowing users to utilize all Microsoft applications as part of their engineering process; New business reports for managing engineering projects and tasks, including status reporting and exception reporting; Enhanced EE Drawing Manager providing direct access to the complete set of Enterprise Engineer functionality from within leading CAD environments; and Flexible integration with both the EMC Documentum and FileNet P8 platforms. http://www.mclarensoftware.com

Xythos & Softricity Partner
4/3/2006

Xythos Software and Softricity announced they will join each other's certified technology programs as part of a solution to deliver web-enabled content management and collaboration with application virtualization and on-demand streaming. http://www.xythos.com, http://www.softricity.com

EMC Unveils Documentum Archive Services for Email and Reports
4/3/2006

EMC Corporation unveiled EMC Documentum Archive Services for Email and EMC Documentum Archive Services for Reports software. The new products leverage capabilities from the EMC Documentum content management technology and are based on a unified archiving platform. Through EMC products including Archive Services for Email and Archive Services for Reports, EMC's unified archiving platform will enable customers to employ a common set of services for collecting, retaining, migrating, securing and discovering all types of information to be better equipped to search and retrieve information for compliance and legal discovery, and content re-use. EMC Documentum Archive Services for Email captures and archives all incoming and outgoing e-mail messages to ensure compliance with regulations and internal e-mail policies. Enhanced compliance capabilities enable customers to validate email compliance to regulators and the courts. In the event of litigation, investigators can search the archive and deliver high volumes of messages quickly, accurately and with assurance that the chain of custody is intact. Together, Archive Services for Email and EMC EmailXtender comprise EMC's complementary set of e-mail archiving software. EMC Documentum Archive Services for Reports captures large volumes of computer-generated reports from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, invoices, statements, bills, as well as system-generated content from wireless devices, debit cards and web services. The content is converted into ISO-standard PDF-A format for long-term preservation, retention policy management and lifecycle-managed storage. EMC's unified archiving software platform is supported by the full range of EMC's storage systems, including EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS), EMC CLARiiON and EMC Symmetrix storage systems as well as non-EMC storage platforms. EMC Documentum Archive Services for Email and EMC Documentum Archive Services for Reports are available immediately. EMC Documentum Archive Services for SAP has been available since May 2005. Prices vary by configuration. http://software.emc.com

Interwoven & SDL Partner on Global Customer Experience Management Solution
4/3/2006

Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV) and SDL International (London Stock Exchange: SDL) announced that they have entered into a partnership to deliver a joint solution for global customer experience management. Powered by a combination of software, process management, and best practices, the solution enables multinational companies to increase their customers' loyalty and satisfaction in markets around the world. Interwoven and SDL aim to empower enterprises to provide an optimal customer experience worldwide by unifying companies' global information lifecycles, from authoring to content management to localization to publishing. Enterprises can deliver global content efficiently and responsively through the integration of Interwoven content management, content intelligence, digital asset management, and multi-channel publishing capabilities with SDL translation management, authoring assistance, and language services. Additionally, approved messaging and content is made available across multiple languages and channels, enabling simultaneous product and campaign launches on a global scale. The Interwoven-SDL solution for global customer experience management is available now. http://www.sdl.com, http://www.interwoven.com

First Enterprise DRM Conference Program Finalized
4/3/2006

The Conference on Enterprise DRM at Gilbane San Francisco is the first event devoted exclusively to DRM for corporate applications. The conference, chaired by Bill Rosenblatt of DRM Watch, will be a unique opportunity to explore DRM technologies and how they apply to a wide variety of business environments and technology architectures; several vendors will be on hand to demo their solutions. The program will include several case studies of Enterprise DRM deployments in such applications as financial services, human resources, high-tech manufacturing, and distance learning. The program will also feature leading analysts, including Rosenblatt, Jarad Carleton of Frost & Sullivan, and Trent Henry of Burton Group who will present a framework for analyzing Enterprise DRM solutions. Executives from Enterprise DRM vendors, including Adobe, Cloakware, EMC/Authentica, Essential Security Software, Fasoo.com, Intelligent Wave, Liquid Machines, SealedMedia, and WorkShare will offer insights into technology and the market. The conference will feature panel discussions on technology issues such as Enterprise DRM for mobile devices, secure inter-enterprise collaboration, and integration of Enterprise DRM with content management. DRM Watch and Gilbane readers can get a special $100 discount off the eDRM conference price of $495 by registering online with discount code "drmwatch". http://lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_sf_06/sf_edrm.html

Hot Banana Software Releases Hot Banana Version 5.4
4/3/2006

Hot Banana Software Inc. announced the availability of Hot Banana Version 5.4. The upgrade is focused on new Web Content Management functionality and the further integration of multiple eMarketing modules to help give marketing users a single platform from which to manage their Web site content and eMarketing campaigns. Administrators can now assign and manage tasks to groups of users to specific sections of the Web site, and the workflow can now be configured and managed more closely to the organizations' business processes. Agencies and organizations managing multiple Web sites are able to apply and manage multiple design templates across multiple Web properties. The Digital Asset Manager can be opened in either a file or thumbnail viewer, this combined with enhanced file folder and sub-directory management of digital assets now offers a more simplistic Digital Asset Management process for non-technical users. Additionally, multiple assets can be mass uploaded and advanced search can be conducted on all assets. All aspects of Landing Page creation and management are now looked after by Hot Banana. Landing Pages have built-in lead tracking from multiple lead sources (search engines, affiliates, email campaigns etc.), A/B testing with click and conversion stats, multi-step form builder for conversion best practices, Web analytics, scenarios, report integration, and design template management. eMarketing campaigns can now capture Landing Page form data and passing it directly into salesforce.com. Data from multiple sources can be passed directly to a Web page to auto-populate and personalize Landing Page forms so personal information can be delivered to unique Web page visitors. Hot Banana now has a complete event registration process available. The event management process includes, custom event landing page, multi-step registration form builder, email confirmation, registrant database, attendee name labels, email event reminders, billing, invoicing, and management reporting. Hot Banana Version 5.4 is available immediately as licensed software, or as a Service (SaaS) solution. http://www.HotBanana.com

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