http://www.gilbane.com/ Content Management and XML news, analysis, white papers, and conferences en-us Copyright 1993-2006 Bluebill Advisors Inc. webmaster@gilbane.com editor@gilbane.com http://www.gilbane.com/rss/gilbane_logo_rss.jpg http://www.gilbane.com 140 89 Gilbane Report logo Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:05:27 GMT Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT XyEnterprise announced the pre-release of Content@View - a software solution suite for publishing and delivering interactive electronic technical manuals or publications (IETMs or IETPs) online or via CD-ROM. Content@View provides a complementary content distribution channel for XyEnterprise's XML Professional Publisher (XPP), as well as XSL-FO composition engines, rounding out the suite of end-to-end solutions for technical publications. While Content@View is fully integrated with XyEnterprise's Content@ content management software, it can also be deployed as a standalone product or publishing output channel for other SGML/XML content management solutions. The Content@View suite offers a customizable interface, and is capable of handling any SGML or XML document type. It includes an indexing and rendering engine (Content@Gen) for generating on-the-fly, new and revised electronic technical publications, as well as an optional reasoning module for diagnostics and prognostics. The reasoning module reduces the number of false component removals and includes an expert "learning" feature that enables less experienced technicians to benefit from information resources available through Content@View. This module also provides automated troubleshooting tree creation from a visual system representation or an XML file, and can output S1000D-compliant process modules. IETMs or IETPs have been in use for many years, primarily in the DoD and commercial aviation sectors where large volumes of complex technical information must be referenced for repairing or performing scheduled maintenance on mission critical equipment such as aircraft. The information resource is consulted in a non-linear fashion as the sequence of presentation is determined by inputs from the user, external sources or events (e.g., diagnostics or fault codes). IETPs, which are distributed online and integrated with other applications, allow single-click access to parts inventory and other engineering & maintenance systems, further reducing the time required for maintenance and repair. http://www.xyenterprise.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4322 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4322 Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT SiberLogic announced the availability of a new evaluation option for SiberSafe S1000D Edition. SiberSafe S1000D Edition combines an XML CMS with knowledge modeling technology to provide an environment for authoring teams producing complex, evolving documentation in defense and aerospace. Now, SiberSafe S1000D Edition is available for evaluation online. With no requirement to download, install and configure client and server software, this is a way to evaluate SiberLogic's unique approach to S1000D compliance. The online evaluation package includes a ready-made sample S1000D content application, along with the ability to create and model your own information. A live introductory tutorial is also available free of charge. http://www.siberlogic.com/S1000D/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4323 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4323 Fri, 26 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ:HUMC) (NASDAQ: TSX:) (NASDAQ:HUM) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with affiliates of Symphony Technology Group under which a company owned by Symphony will acquire all of Hummingbird's outstanding shares pursuant to a plan of arrangement in an all-cash transaction valued at US$26.75 per share, or approximately US$465 million. As part of the transaction, Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC will invest $135 million to finance the transaction. The Board of Directors is recommending that Hummingbird shareholders vote in favour of the transaction. The transaction is to be carried out by way of a statutory plan of arrangement and will be subject to the approval of two-thirds of the votes cast by Hummingbird's shareholders at a meeting of shareholders, currently expected to be held in late July, as well as court approval. The transaction is also subject to certain other customary conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals. The proposed transaction is expected to close at the end of July, shortly after receipt of shareholder and court approvals. Hummingbird expects to send an information circular relating to the transaction to shareholders in mid June. A copy of the agreement providing for the transaction will be filed with the Canadian securities regulators. The information circular and the agreement providing for the transaction will be available at http://www.sedar.com, http://www.hummingbird.com, http://www.symphonytg.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4321 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4321 Tue, 23 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Inxight Software launched Inxight Search Extender for Google, an application that allows Google Search Appliance and Google Desktop users to find relevant documents faster and locate hidden information in document sets and individual documents. Powered by Inxight's ThingFinder extraction technology, Inxight Search Extender for Google automatically clusters search results on-the-fly, enabling users to filter their results sets by the people, companies, places, concepts and other information contained within them. The most important details in a document also augment keyword-in-context summaries, revealing hidden content within documents. And Search Extender automatically creates an automated index for all documents in the "cached document view", making it simpler to locate the relevant people, companies and other information contained in very long documents. Inxight Search Extender for Google also enhances keyword-in-context summaries with an automated "Top Mentions" list, revealing the most important people, places, companies and other information contained within the full text of a document. An automated document index makes it easier to locate that one mention of a potential new competitor within a large pdf file. Customizable right-click actions allow companies to also customize and extend the solution to do tasks like click on an address and access Google Earth to pinpoint addresses, or click on a company name to access LexisNexis or Hoover's lookups. Inxight Search Extender for Google will be generally available in June 2006. http://www.inxight.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4316 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4316 Tue, 23 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Innovasys announced the release of Document! X 5, the fifth version of their documentation solution for developers using Microsoft Visual Studio or the .NET Framework. Document! X 5 automatically produces professional quality technical documentation and on-line help for Microsoft .NET Framework assemblies (.NET Framework 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 are all supported), COM components and controls, Visual Basic source code, Access, SQL Server and Oracle databases and XSD Schemas. New features included in Document! X 5 include full support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, documentation of .NET Framework 2.0 features including generics and nullable types together with new templates to replicate the fresh look and feel of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 MSDN documentation. The existing Visual Comment Editors integrated into Visual Studio have been enhanced to make it easier to work with complex content such as examples and See Also links directly within a preview of the generated documentation. http://www.innovasys.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4317 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4317 Tue, 23 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Quark Inc. announced the release and availability of QuarkXPress 7, the newest upgrade to QuarkXPress. This upgrade combines new and enhanced design features with multi-channel publishing, collaboration, and job-driven workflow capabilities to deliver faster creative development for print and Web publishing. Through Composition Zones, Job Jackets, transparency, OpenType, Unicode, and many other new features, QuarkXPress 7 makes it easier for creative professionals to work together, optimize design, and minimize production errors. QuarkXPress 7 is shipping now and is available through Quark resellers and partners worldwide as well as the Quark online store. http://www.quark.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4318 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4318 Tue, 23 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Day Software (SWX:DAYN) (OTC:DYIHY) and Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) (OSE:FAST) announced that FAST will bundle Day's standard connector technology as part of an original equipment manufacturer's (OEM) agreement. Under the terms of this agreement, Day will deliver a wide range of JCR (JSR 170) compliant connectors for legacy repositories. The FAST connectors are part of Day's repository connectivity family of products. Day's connectors enable enterprises to access all organizational content through a standardized API. Day's connectors leverage a company's information about the business, processes, products, customers, and documents that reside in proprietary repositories. http://www.day.com, http://www.fastsearch.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4319 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4319 Tue, 23 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Vivisimo introduced Velocity 5, an enterprise search platform designed to provide organizations with the flexibility and control of enterprise software and the simplicity and innovation of consumer search. Velocity 5 is the cornerstone for Vivisimo's new "search done right" strategy, designed to ensure Vivisimo meets the needs of both enterprise end-users and administrators. With Velocity 5, end-users can discover and explore more through simple searches. The enhanced solution lets users access and manipulate both structured and unstructured content at the same time by using new graphical interface controls. These controls put users in command of their own search experience and new meta-data visualization techniques, combined with clustering, give users the big picture for a faster, but more thorough, exploration of search results. Velocity 5 also provides architectural enhancements. Administrators gain flexibility in configuring the system to use meta-data to answer queries and group search results in ways that are meaningful to end-users. Structured and unstructured content elements can be extracted, normalized, and combined, regardless of location, to create virtual documents. In addition, Velocity 5 lets administrators control access not only at the document level, but also inside the documents at the content level. Other Velocity 5 architectural and administrative functionality includes formula-based sorting, filtering and grouping capabilities, and smart summarization functionality. Velocity 5 pricing can start as low as $25K annually. The product will be generally available in 30 days. http://vivisimo.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4320 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4320 Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Recommind announced MindServer 4.2, the latest release of its MindServer platform. The platform transforms high volumes of discrete files, documents, and messages contained in numerous enterprise applications into manageable information relevant to a user's specific purpose. MindServer 4.2 now provides enterprise users with search-based application integration, multi-level security, and Web 2.0 usability. The MindServer 4.2 platform incorporates a search-based application integration framework to solve complex, large-enterprise information search challenges. Based on the user's search request, the framework uses inference technology to combine and integrate otherwise-unrelated documents and files from a wide range of sources into a set of context-based results that precisely relate to the user's request. In the first application developed on this framework, Recommind's Projects & Expertise allows users to find information related to documents, projects, and people by drawing inferences from relationships mapped between these objects. For example, a user can find individuals with specific skills, based on projects they have worked on and documents they have authored. Search terms provide context for results that cannot be derived from a static resume profile. MindServer 4.2 respects the security of native systems, while allowing additional security rules to be layered on top, thus enabling organizations to effectively implement complex access rules. Enhanced Smart Filtering features provide a simple AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML)-based interface, enabling usersto quickly drill down into details of a specific result set. Recommind's MindServer 4.2 platform is built on the company's Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) algorithm. The platform scales to serve millions of users and search terabytes of data. The MindServer 4.2 platform is immediately available. http://www.recommind.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4311 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4311 Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Itemfield announced the availability of a jointly developed insurance solution that leverages ACORD XML to deliver straight through processing of insurance transactions. The new solution gives insurance carriers the ability to equip their agents and brokers with a compliant workflow for processing quotations, new business submissions and claims. The ACORD XML forms integration solution combines a set of intelligent forms, process-specific business rules and data-transformation capabilities to automate data entry and processing of insurance forms. The solution combines Adobe LiveCycle Forms, Adobe LiveCycle Designer, Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions, Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms software and Itemfield ContentMaster with the new ACORD PDF fillable Forms. ACORD forms can be pre-populated, and information captured within the solution can be delivered back into insurance applications. The solution also makes it easier for insurance carriers to apply business and security policies and rules to business processes helping to ensure compliance with corporate, industry and government mandates. The jointly developed ACORD XML forms integration solution is available today from both Adobe and Itemfield. Pricing varies according to configuration, deployment size and integration requirements, and is available on request from Adobe. http://adobe.com, http://www.itemfield.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4312 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4312 Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Sapient (NASDAQ: SAPE) announced it has entered into a partnership with Google to deliver search solutions to enterprise customers. Sapient will use its business applications, enterprise integration and Experience Marketing expertise to help customers maximize the value of their Google enterprise search technology. The Google Enterprise Professional Program includes developers, consultants and independent software vendors that provide value-added services for Google enterprise products. For more information on the Google Enterprise Professional Program, please visit http://www.google.com/enterprise/, http://www.sapient.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4314 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4314 Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT NextPage introduced its new product, NextPage 2 Document Retention, designed to help companies solve the challenges and reduce the risks of managing documents on the desktop. NextPage 2 Document Retention securely tracks document versions across e-mail, hard drives, removable media and servers, providing an audit trail to users about all document versions so they can purge working copies and post final versions to a central server for archival and lifecycle management. Capabilities of NextPage 2 Document Retention include: Automatically track document versions; Upload documents to a central repository; Send purge requests to delete appropriate documents; Provide the organization with an up-to-date status of documents under compliance. NextPage 2 Document Retention tracks Microsoft Office documents, works with the Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook clients and integrates with NextPage Data Services for shared drives and Lotus Notes. This rollout of NextPage 2 Document Retention is limited to customers working closely with NextPage. For customers interested in a pilot, they can contact NextPage. The general availability version will be released later this year. http://www.nextpage.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4315 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4315 Fri, 19 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Idiom Technologies, Inc. (Idiom) unveiled version 8 of the company's WorldServer globalization platform. The features of WorldServer 8 address business needs that include scalability, optimized workflow and measurable business metrics. For smaller global organizations, including departments within large international enterprises, WorldServer 8 supports the need for rapid technology adoption and closely monitored return-on-investment. Worldserver 8 includes support of TermBase eXchange (TBX), an XML-based standard format for terminological data. Translation Memory Management has been re-architected to improve scalability, promote better performance and support easier import and export of large TM databases. Workflow Monitoring enhancements help prioritize, scope and monitor all aspects of the items in a workflow queue. Editor Integration improves overall usability for authors with on-the-fly checkout, editing and offline ad hoc support. New tools allow users to customize projects and assets with reference materials, provide translator aids and support new attributes flags while aiding more dynamic and productive author/translator relationships. TAlso included are: improved integration Between CAT Desktop Tools and Server Products; New and enhanced filters for more support for more content types with filters for XML, FrameMaker, Office 2003, InDesign, etc.; Background Jobs (Processing) performs multiple tasks including TM imports, Translation Kit imports and publishing output generation while allowing WorldServer users to continue their work; and enhancements to the scoping and cost model functionality provide more flexibility, including support for additional currencies. WorldServer 8 is currently in beta, with general availability scheduled for June 2006. WorldServer is available in a number of pricing, packaging and licensing options. http://www.idiominc.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4308 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4308 Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Omtool, Ltd. (Nasdaq: OMTL) announced its "OmReady" Partner Program. Omtool also announced the availability of its Software Developer's Kit (SDK). This partner program is specifically geared towards select technology and services companies who share Omtool's vision in delivering document routing and enterprise fax solutions to companies who face stringent compliance requirements and/or have paper intensive business processes. With a corporate strategic focus on the vertical markets of legal, financial and healthcare, Omtool's partners will be able to extend Omtool's reach from its specific vertical markets to the horizontal document routing market. A partial list of current partners includes: Hardware Manufacturers: Cantata Technology Inc. (formerly Brooktrout Technology), HP, Ricoh Corporation and Xerox Corporation; Cost Recovery Providers: Billback Systems, Control Systems, Inc., Equitrac Corporation, and nQueue, Inc.; Document and Content Management Systems: Accutrac Software, Inc., EMC Documentum, Hummingbird Ltd., Hyland Software, Inc., IBM Corporation, Interwoven, Inc., MDY, Microsoft Corporation, Refresh Software Corporation, Tower Software, and World Software; Facilities Management and Service Providers: Document Technologies, Inc., Merrill Corporation, Pitney Bowes Inc., Oce N.V., and Williams Lea Group; and Value-Added Resellers: CPI, LAN Associates, Laser Networks, and WordTech. http://www.omtool.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4306 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4306 Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars in cooperation with CMS Watch, announced that the "early bird" discount to its analyst and end-user driven conference program for the inaugural Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies for Government taking place June 13-15, 2006 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington DC. has been extended until May 19. Private sector and government rate information is available at http://lighthouseseminars.com/washingtondc/Registration.html, Conference information is at http://lighthouseseminars.com/washingtondc/ConferenceGrid.html, pre-conference tutorial information is at http://lighthouseseminars.com/washingtondc/Tutorials.html, and sponsor and exhibitor information is at http://lighthouseseminars.com/washingtondc/Exhibitors.html http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4307 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4307 Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT ADXSTUDIO Inc., a Microsoft announced the release of ADXSTUDIO CMS 2006, web content management for ASP.NET 2.0. ADXSTUDIO CMS 2006 is a web content management system built on the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 framework and tightly integrated within Visual Studio, IIS, SQL Server and Active Directory. New features of ADXSTUDIO CMS 2006 include document check in/out, content versioning, ASP.NET Membership, Role, and Profile providers, paste from Microsoft Word, user-selected templates, custom URLs, document resource library, and workflow enhancements. ADXSTUDIO CMS 2006 single server license sells for $3,950 USD, or $19,950 USD for a corporate site license. ADXSTUDIO CMS can be purchased directly from http://www.adxstudio.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4309 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4309 Tue, 16 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Stellent, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEL) released a new version of its multi-site management application Stellent Site Studio. Site Studio, a component of the Stellent Universal Content Management system, provides a software infrastructure for creating, maintaining and deploying multiple internal and external Web sites. The new version of Site Studio further offers Web site managers in-context site assembly and organization capabilities through a new Site Studio Manager tool. Additional Site Studio enhancements include built-in usage analytics and an expanded search engine offering. The new Site Studio Manager tool enables organizations to more easily distribute control of day-to-day site maintenance to business units. It is a completely Web-based application designed specifically for Web site managers, and it leverages asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) techniques for a rich user interface. Site Studio Manager empowers Web site managers with in-context site management features, allowing them to organize their Web site by modifying navigation; adding sections, such as those used for blogs; and selecting layouts from a pre-defined list of templates. The site managers navigate to the area of the Web site requiring modification, where they authenticate and begin rearranging and updating their site based upon security permissions. Web site developers can control and configure the appropriate amount of Site Studio Manager functionality exposed on a particular site. Additionally, to address the increasing importance of search engine optimization, Site Studio gives Web site managers the responsibility of ensuring the right keywords and search terms are available on each Web page and site. The new version of Stellent Site Studio offers a tighter integration with Stellent's repository analytics tool, Stellent Content Tracker, making it easier to incorporate service and content usage analytics within Web sites. With the new version of Site Studio, Stellent offers multiple search engines within a multi-site Web content management solution. Organizations can now power search capabilities within their Site Studio Web sites by using FAST Search and Transfer or Verity, or from a number of database options, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle or IBM DB2. http://www.stellent.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4299 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4299 Tue, 16 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT SpringCM launched a channel program to help resellers with its software-as-a-service solution. The solution that SpringCM provides resellers helps address the mid-market's need for a fully-integrated document management system. SpringCM's solution is Web-based and on-demand. The SpringCM solution is scalable and can integrate with a customer's own applications, databases, Web sites, intranet and extranet, and bank-grade secure. SpringCM is presently working with resellers and targeting customers in a wide range of industries including accounting and legal, manufacturing and distribution and non-profit and government organizations. http://www.springcm.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4302 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4302 Tue, 16 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Informative Graphics Corp. (IGC) announced its line of Brava! content visualization and Net-It content publishing products will directly support Microsoft XML Paper Specification (XPS). IGC's Brava Enterprise and Brava Desktop products provide view, annotation, redaction and secure publishing capabilities for a number of file formats like TIFF, PDF, CSF, Microsoft Office formats and native CAD drawing formats such as AutoCAD DWG and DWF. Informative Graphics plans to provide annotation and redaction of XPS files in the next release of Brava. Brava enables users to view, compare, annotate, measure and redact (block out) XPS document information. XPS files can then be published to Adobe PDF, TIFF, Autodesk DWF or IGC's secure CSF. Brava also opens more than 150 file formats that can be saved to XPS and then viewed directly by Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista or by the Microsoft XML Paper Specification Viewer on most other Microsoft Windows platforms. Informative Graphics plans to optionally offer server-side and batch conversion of native files, bulk redaction and annotation burn-in to XPS as part of its Net-It Enterprise and Net-It Central content publishing solutions. http://www.infograph.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4303 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4303 Tue, 16 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Alfresco Software Inc. announced Alfresco 1.3. Alfresco 1.3 offers new features and functions that simplify development of new applications in such areas as Web content management and records compliance, including: Simple server configuration with server-based JavaScript methods and actions, making it possible for novice programmers to add business logic close to the content for security and reusability; Simple client configuration with an extensible user interface framework, enabling pluggable components to the Alfresco Web client - this makes possible new applications such as task management, AJAX-based tools, blogs, wikis and other application components; Records management capabilities for retention policies, archival, scheduling, timed events and lifecycle actions to provide an open source implementations of records management; Extended validation and integrity tools that allow for modeling of content management control requirements, including integrity constraints and time-based actions for deletion, archival or workflow review; and the zero-client Microsoft Shared File System interface (CIFS) has been extended to provide direct Web-based access from within Windows Explorer. Both the Alfresco Community Network and Enterprise Network are open source, so the same functionality is available across all product lines. Customers have the option of purchasing support, consulting, integration and training through Alfresco. The Alfresco Community Network 1.3 is available immediately and the Alfresco Enterprise Network 1.3 will be available at the end of May. The Enterprise Edition is priced at $2995 for 20 users per year for the Small Business Network, while the Enterprise Network is $7500 per CPU per year for unlimited users. http://www.alfresco.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4304 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4304 Tue, 16 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Liferay, provider of an enterprise-class open source portal platform, announced the pending release of a bundled version of Liferay Portal with Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Suite, as well as a new partnership with Colorado-based Virtuas Open Source Solutions, LLC, to certify Liferay Portal on the Geronimo open-source application server. Liferay has teamed with Virtuas to optimize Liferay's compatibility with the Apache Geronimo open-source application server. Liferay Portal offers compatibility with JBoss JEMS, BEA WebLogic Platform, IBM WebSphere, and Oracle. An integrated web publishing CMS, large number of bundled portlets, EJB or servlet flexibility, and a liberal open source license are included. Version 4.0 of Liferay Portal adds enhanced security including portlet-level permissioning, enterprise-level taxonomies, public/private pages, full-page caching for static content, and real-time style editing. Further enhancements across the board include performance improvements, improved user experience and a refactored portlet suite. Version 4.0 also supports JSR-170 via Jackrabbit integration. Liferay's new Liferay Portal-Alfresco bundle will be available shortly in both the Professional and Enterprise editions of Liferay Portal. The Liferay Apache Geronimo certification is also expected to be completed by the end of May. http://www.liferay.com, http://www.virtuas.com, http://www.alfresco.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4305 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4305 Tue, 16 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT EMC Corporation announced EMC Documentum Archive Services for Imaging software, the latest addition to its family of enterprise archiving software products. The software offering provides customers a single, unified archiving platform for collecting, retaining, securing and retrieving all types of document images for compliance and legal discovery, content re-use, improved decision-making and operational efficiency. Documentum Archive Services for Imaging is a packaged offering that combines EMC Captiva InputAccel document capture software with EMC Documentum technology and is designed for customers who manage large volumes of paper documents. It converts paper documents to electronic images to free-up physical storage space; enables rapid and secure electronic access to stored information within the enterprise; and facilitates enterprise-wide search and discovery to eliminate unmanaged archives and minimize document loss. EMC also announced EMC Captiva InputAccel for EOBs document-capture software. Available immediately, Captiva InputAccel for EOBs is designed to help healthcare providers streamline and accelerate the processing of Explanation of Benefits (EOB) forms, reduce errors and recover medical procedure revenues otherwise left unclaimed. http://www.emc.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4310 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4310 Tue, 16 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT iWay Software, an Information Builders company, announced a solution that allows a single Google OneBox for Enterprise module to tap into a wide variety of packaged applications, legacy systems, and databases. Leveraging its 300-plus adapters, iWay Software can access transactions in existing ERP, CRM, B2B, database, and legacy systems. The iWay Universal Adapter Suite support a single module for Google OneBox for Enterprise that provides access to 300 different systems. It will ship at the end of May. Pricing starts at $15,000. http://www.iwaysoftware.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4313 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4313 Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Algorithmic Research (ARX), a provider of electronic signatures and data security solutions, announced a business partnership with DocuWare. The partnership provides an integrated solution for DocuWare users to electronically sign documents within applications such as Microsoft Word, InfoPath, Excel and Adobe Acrobat. DocuWare, a modular based software suite, offers solutions that can automate business processes by managing any type of document, regardless of format or source, from a central document pool, that may be accessed from anywhere. CoSign's electronic signatures are based on standard PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). Using electronic signatures ensures signer authenticity, data integrity and non-repudiation of documents managed within DocuWare. Compliance with worldwide legal and security regulations, such as the FDA's 21 CFR Part 11 for the Bio-Pharma market, HIPPA for the healthcare industry, and others, is also ensured. http://www.docuware.com, http://www.arx.com/CoSign.html http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4289 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4289 Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Compiere, Inc., provider of open source business applications, announced a Collaboration Management System for its Compiere ERP & CRM solution, an open source ERP and CRM application. As part of the version 2.5.3c release of the product, the Collaboration Management System consists of a content management system, chat capability and web store improvements. These components enable users to chat in a secure, focused online environment about any of the documents on the system and to share thoughts and suggestions throughout the company. The content management portion of Compiere's Collaboration Management System allows users to host multilingual dynamic content and create collaboration platforms. The content management system was contributed to Compiere by ComDivision. The system is part of the company's enterprise content management offering, which was originally developed for the German Research Foundation and is now used by enterprises and public sector organizations worldwide. Compiere's new Content Management System is based on XSLT and XML formatting and supports high volume environments including clustering and distributed locations. Content from the core ERP and CRM application is integrated and can include public product detail information or internal budget or revenue data. Users can access this content from anywhere and provide real-time feedback allowing system administrators to adapt the content to the user's needs. http://www.comdivision.com, http://www.compiere.org http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4290 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4290 Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced a partnership with Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN). The partnership is the foundation for a new FAST integration that joins the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP) with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. The combination of FAST ESP and Cognos 8 BI with Cognos Go! Search Service delivers a solution which enables users to leverage enterprise search functionality to find reports, analysis, scorecards, dashboards, and other business intelligence information, along with corporate content such as documents, e-mail and other forms of structured and unstructured business information distributed across the enterprise. With Contextual Insight, FAST ESP looks to analyze and interpret the underlying meaning behind reports, not just the reports themselves. To support the continued engineering and sales activity, Cognos and FAST have joined each other's Alliance Partner programs. http://www.cognos.com, http://www.fastsearch.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4291 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4291 Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Autonomy Corporation plc and Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN) announced they have established a partnership and have developed in-depth integration that converges results of unstructured information with structured data for business intelligence. Cognos enterprise customers collect unstructured information today such as customer feedback, complaints, and interviews through phone conversations, e-mails, word documents, and other sources that sit outside the scope of traditional databases. The integration of Autonomy and Cognos 8 BI provides visibility, insight and analysis of an organization's business critical data. With Cognos Go!, enterprise users can use concept-based search to quickly access enterprise information. http://www.cognos.com, http://www.autonomy.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4292 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4292 Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT UBmatrix, a provider of software and services leveraging the global XBRL standard, announced the beta release of UBmatrix XBRL Taxonomy Designer version 2.5. The new name and versioning happens in conjunction with the renaming of the company's application integration platform and solutions of XBRL software applications, now called UBmatrix Enterprise Application Suite v2.5. UBmatrix Enterprise Application Suite v2.5 includes applications for the development and extension of taxonomies, taxonomy management, report creation, reporting management, and an XBRL processing engine. UBmatrix Enterprise Application Suite includes: UBmatrix Taxonomy Manager, UBmatrix Reporting Manager, UBmatrix XBRL Processing Engine, UBmatrix XBRL Taxonomy Designer, and the UBmatrix XBRL Translator Module. The UBmatrix XBRL Processing Engine fully supports the XBRL 2.1 specification and is offered in both .Net and Java editions. http://www.ubmatrix.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4293 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4293 Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Mondosoft announced the availability of version 5.2b of Mondosoft's search suite, now compatible with Microsoft's latest development tools: NET Framework 2.0. With the new product release, Mondosoft's search suite (comprised of MondoSearch, BehaviorTracking and InformationManager) can run on machines installed with either .NET Framework 2.0 or .NET Framework 1.1, as well as on machines with side-by-side installations of the two frameworks. Mondosoft estimates that the majority of their certified partners use .NET framework 2.0 when developing new sites for their customers. Mondosoft provides a search tool for Web Parts in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. In addition, the new version allows partners to integrate MondoSearch with Microsoft's new ASP.NET 2.0 Web Design Tools. MondoSearch 5.2b is currently available for download at no charge for customers with a support and upgrade agreement. It installs on top of existing MondoSearch installations. http://www.mondosoft.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4294 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4294 Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT JupiterResearch announced it found that 63 percent of large companies plan to syndicate content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) by the end of 2006. According to a new report: "RSS Comes of Age: Budgeting, Deploying, and Measuring RSS", currently only 29 percent of large companies (with more than $50 million in annual revenues) publish content via RSS. The growth of RSS is also highlighted by the fact that 48 percent of current RSS publishers are spending $250,000 or more to deploy and manage syndicated content. However, JupiterResearch has also found that spending at this level is inconsistent with the current rate of adoption. RSS users are heavier consumers of online media than traditional online users, and thus represent a prime demographic for online media publishers. Marketers can either modify their RSS feeds to individual users through individualized RSS or create traditional broadcast feeds. Individualized RSS feeds are subscriber-centric and created in much the same way as targeted e-mail campaigns, including all of the measurement benefits associated with e-mail marketing. http://www.jupiterresearch.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4296 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4296 Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT MindTouch, provider of appliance-based Intranet wiki solutions for the small to medium-sized business (SMB) market, announced it is recruiting authorized reseller partners to market, distribute and support its MindTouch Managed Office Server (MOS) solution. The program also provides participants with sales and marketing tools through a new online partner portal, numerous lead generation programs, in-person training sessions, online product and service demonstrations and conference calls. http://www.mindtouch.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4297 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4297 Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Idiom Technologies, Inc. announced it will support the next generation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Idiom WorldServer globalization platform provides users with access to powerful translation technology and collaboration tools that facilitate the translation and localization of content through Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. WorldServer will support the new "content variations" feature of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The presentation of content accessible through SharePoint Server 2007 can appear in multiple forms. For example, a paragraph in a product collateral document may appear differently online than it does in print. Likewise, that same paragraph may be presented in multiple languages. With WorldServer, SharePoint 2007 customers will be able to optimize the translation and localization of SharePoint managed content and maximize reuse of all previously translated content. By combining the WorldServer and SharePoint platforms it will be possible for global enterprises to accelerate the delivery of content variations while keeping translation and localization costs in check. As a 2007 Microsoft Office system and SharePoint Server 2007 beta partner, Idiom has been working on the integration of its WorldServer software platform and SharePoint Server 2007 for several months. The company expects to make the new integration capabilities available upon the release of SharePoint Server 2007. No pricing changes are planned. Currently, WorldServer software solutions support the Microsoft Content Management Server. http://www.idiominc.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4300 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4300 Fri, 12 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Magnolia Organization released Magnolia 3.0 Beta 1, the next generation of its open-source Enterprise Content Management System (ECM). Magnolia 3.0 integrates web content management and document management through a single web-based, AJAX-powered user interface. Magnolia's main new features include workflow, versioning, JSR-168 support, single-sign-on, scheduling (time-based content publishing), a new meta-template (simply create your custom layout directly in the browser) and a new, improved user interface. Magnolia is available in more than 15 languages including Russian, Chinese, English, French, German and Spanish. Three Magnolia editions are available: Magnolia Community Edition is a free enterprise content management system based on JSR-170; Magnolia Enterprise Edition offers additional features, availability of professional support and an upgrade path to new versions for mission critical enterprise content management. Magnolia Business Process Edition lets you draw and document business processes directly in the browser without the need of additional client software. Download Magnolia 3.0 beta 1 at http://www.magnolia.info http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4295 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4295 Thu, 11 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT EMC Corporation announced that it has acquired Interlink Group, Inc. (Interlink), a privately held North American-based IT professional services firm that specializes in application development, IT infrastructure, enterprise integration, enterprise content management and customer relationship management for Microsoft environments. The acquisition is not expected to have a material impact on revenues and on EPS for 2006. Interlink will become a part of EMC's Microsoft Practice within EMC Technology Solutions, EMC's professional services organization. Interlink's services will be marketed and sold through their existing team as well as through EMC's North American sales channels and business partners. Details of the transaction are not being disclosed. http://www.EMC.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4288 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4288 Wed, 10 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Enterpulse announced the next generation of its portal software product, EnterConnect, an asset management system and employee/partner collaboration intranet and extranet. The software provides collaboration features such as Company News, Calendar, Discussion Boards, Contacts, Company Projects, and a personalized page allowing employees to customize their own dashboard view of projects, links, email, news and more. To help companies manage the proliferation of content and documents, the software includes a service interface for searching, retrieving, and updating files. EnterConnect is targeted for companies in the mid-market. EnterConnect leverages enterprise search, workflow, and document management and the product is equipped with content publishing templates for the most common types of content, offering an RTF editor, publishing workflow, as well as integration with the EnterConnect asset repository for inserting images and files directly into web content. r those companies who already have BEA Portal, EnterConnect offers a way to leverage that investment and get up and running with an intranet/extranet. http://www.enterpulse.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4287 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4287 Wed, 10 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT SDL International (London Stock Exchange:'SDL') announced the formation of SDL Business Consulting, a new division to provide strategic guidance for enterprises faced with the information management challenges of reaching global markets. Led by Kel Commins, Vice President Professional Services, will offer global enterprises the opportunity to benefit from the business insight that SDL has gained working with leading global brands, such as AMD, GSK, HP, and Philips. SDL has over 1,000 highly-skilled service professionals across more than 50 offices in 30 countries. SDL business consultants advise clients on GIM solutions, localization process and methodology, and integration of enterprise solutions utilizing the latest in Web technologies such as XML, XLIFF, DITA, and TMX, and leading methodologies, such as Create, Cleanse, Maintain (CCM). SDL has progressed from creating translation Web portal solutions in 1999 to now having over 150 successful hosted and in-house deployments of integrated GIM solutions, supported by over 130,000 personal desktop licenses of terminology and translation memory software across a global ecosystem of publishers and service providers. http://www.sdl.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4301 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4301 Tue, 09 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars in cooperation with CMS Watch, announced its analyst and end-user driven conference program for the inaugural Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies for Government taking place June 13-15 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington DC. The conference program is divided into three tracks: Enterprise Content Management, Web Content Management and Enterprise Search & Discovery. The following highlights several conference sessions taking place at the event: Opening Keynote Panel: Industry Analysts Debate Current and Future Trends in Content Technologies; Government Keynote Panel: Key Issues in Federal Content Technologies; ECM and the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA); The Interoperable Enterprise Content Management (iECM) Standard: what's in it for you?; Building a successful business case for your agency CMS; Role of new media technologies in Government: Blogs, Wikis, and RSS; The Future of the Federal Government Web; Enterprise Search: the federal experience; and much more. To view the full conference program, visit: http://lighthouseseminars.com/washingtondc/SessionDescriptions.html, http://www.cmswatch.com, http://gilbane.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4286 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4286 Tue, 09 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT SiberLogic released Version 6 of SiberSafe XML CMS, including SiberSafe DITA Edition, and SiberSafe S1000D Edition. The SiberSafe content management product range combines an XML CMS with knowledge modeling technology for ontology/taxonomy management. SiberSafe XML CMS provides an environment for authoring teams producing complex, evolving documentation using XML. Designed specifically for collaborative authoring and review, SiberSafe increases the efficiency of XML content development, maintenance, and retrieval - across teams, across organizations, and across linguistic boundaries. SiberSafe supports all major authoring and publication tools, and any JDBC-compliant database. SiberLogic's RDF/OWL-based knowledge modeling technology for ontology/taxonomy management is now available via the SiberSafe Knowledge Modeling application extension. http://www.siberlogic.com/sibersafe http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4298 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4298 Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Sonic Foundry Inc. (NASDAQ:SOFO) announced new capabilities to Mediasite.com. The latest enhancements include the ability to search for specific keywords that are contained within the graphical content window of a rich media presentation. Sonic Foundry augments online search technology with algorithms that incorporate optical character recognition (OCR) technology to sharpen the search process within rich media content to more granular detail. For instance, a visitor searching for the term "bird flu" will find not only a complete listing of relevant, publicly-available presentations, but also the exact slides where the term appears. Sonic Foundry's Mediasite is a communication medium for delivering critical information and sharing knowledge. The Mediasite webcasting and content management system automates the capture and delivery of presentations and lectures via the web. The new search advances are currently deployed on all publicly-available presentations. Through a managed services offering, Sonic Foundry will apply the new search capability to private network content libraries. The new functionality now applied to the Mediasite platform stems from the base of knowledge Sonic Foundry acquired in 2001 from an investment in research and development at Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.mediasite.com, http://www.sonicfoundry.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4279 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4279 Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT JBoss, Inc. announced JBoss Portal 2.4, which adds support for the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) specification, a standard for enterprise portals and service-oriented architectures (SOAs). Supporting both the Java portlet API (JSR-168) and now WSRP, JBoss Portal is an extensible portal framework that integrates dynamic Web pages, applications and content within reusable portlets. Instead of bundling portlets and the portal into a single application, users can deploy portlets remotely and let the portal consume portlets as needed via WSRP. WSRP support in JBoss Portal 2.4 extends to both the producer, i.e., portlet containers, and the consumer, which is the system communicating with presentation-oriented Web services on behalf of users. Version 2.4 supports service description and markup interfaces and implicit cloning for both producers and consumers. In addition, version 2.4 extends support on the consumer side to standard window states and mode and the registration interface. The company also announced that it has joined OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and WS-I (Web Services Interoperability). The JBoss community is also enhancing the JEMS platform with related technologies such as portlets and content management systems that enable enterprises to pick and choose the extensions that make the most sense for their portal applications. A library of portlets, themes and layouts contributed by the community is available. Licensed under the open source GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), JBoss Portal is free to download and use for both development and production deployments. http://www.jboss.com, http://www.portletswap.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4280 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4280 Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT The OpenDocument OASIS Standard (also known as ODF - OpenDocument Format), a format which enables users of varying office suites to freely exchange documents, has been approved for release as an ISO and IEC International Standard. OpenDocument was balloted through the Joint Technical Committee on Information Technology (JTC1) of the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The OASIS OpenDocument submission has been given the designation, ISO/IEC 26300. OpenDocument defines an XML file format for office applications. Suitable for text, spreadsheets, charts, graphs, presentations, and databases, the standard frees documents from their applications-of-origin, enabling them to be exchanged, retrieved, and edited with any OpenDocument-compliant software or tool. In May 2005, OpenDocument was ratified as an OASIS Standard and subsequently submitted by OASIS to the ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, subcommittee SC 34, Document description and processing languages. As ISO/IEC 26300, the standard will continue to be maintained and advanced by the OASIS OpenDocument Technical Committee and the recently formed OASIS ODF Adoption Committee, both of which remain open to participation from users, suppliers, government agencies, and individuals. Current members of OASIS committees focusing on OpenDocument include representatives of Adobe, IBM, Intel, Novell, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems, as well as government agencies and other organizations, such as the Chanfeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance in China, National Informatics Center of the Government of India, Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration, Royal National Institute for the Blind, and Duke University. http://www.oasis-open.org, http://www.iso.org http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4281 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4281 Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Stibo Catalog announced the next generation of STEP. With STEP 4.8 Stibo Catalog will release a new merchandising planning module to help catalogers drive sales. STEP Merchandiser gives product managers on-demand visibility and lets them analyze product performance of products and pages. The tool lets merchandisers pre-plan pages, as well as initiate product, image and copy writing workflows. Designed to tear down the walls between product managers and creatives, STEP Merchandiser will help reduce review cycles and increase the speed to market of new promotions and multiple versions. STEP Document Author is a new optional module designed to create documents such as data sheets and provide detailed information about a product that will often include tables, diagrams and long descriptive text and editorial text. Data sheets are updated regularly and reused throughout the life of a product. These characteristics lead to publishing workflows that can be very different to those used when producing catalogs and other direct marketing publications. The new tool will include an authoring interface within STEP PIM that provides both creation and reuse of data within a document format STEP'n'design will provide a print publishing tool for documents enabling a multi-page document to be paginated fully formatted with a single drag & drop. STEP 4.8 will support print publishing with QuarkXPress v7 and Adobe InDesign CS2 as well as Quark DDS and Adobe InDesign Server. Other enhancements will include Proof views in STEP PIM, Image Workflows, user password authentication using LDAP and support of external digital asset management systems via Asset Push. Stibo Catalog will be working with selected customers on testing STEP 4.8 and expects to commercially release the solution in Q4, 2006. http://www.stibocatalog.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4282 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4282 Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT CambridgeDocs announced xDoc Server Version 2.02, and with it the ability to publish Microsoft Word .DOC files to PDF in a cross-platform environment. The Java-based xDoc Server can be called from any J2EE application server, including the popular platforms IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and Apache Tomcat. Organizations can now process and publish high volumes of Microsoft Word content on Windows, Linux and Solaris serves - free of the licensing and performance issues related to installing Microsoft Office or Adobe Acrobat or Distiller on a server. This links business users' preferences for Microsoft Word into IT departments who are consolidating servers and implementing applications ranging from contract generation to custom publishing. Previous generations of PDF publishing have relied on direct "print-stream" approaches, which rely on the original desktop applications "print to" a PDF format. By using Java and XML, the multi-threaded xDoc Server can also merge individual Word files, add data from databases into document "templates", and publish as XML, HTML, or Microsoft RTF. A benefit of using XML as the file format transformation medium for xDoc Server is it helps companies in maintain corporate branding for document "templates" for policies, applications or contracts that are created in Microsoft Word, and that then require database information to be merged into these "templates" as part of a multi-threaded J2EE application. In these scenarios, the documents can be concatenated or merged together as necessary before being published to PDF and thereby retain their corporate "look and feel". http://www.cambridgedocs.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4283 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4283 Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (NASDAQ:TSX:) (NASDAQ:OTC) announced that it has extended its global agreement with HP to provide customers with solutions that improve the way documents, emails and other information are managed though complex business processes. The solutions from Open Text and HP will help better manage information throughout its lifecycle in ways that meet both compliance rules and efficiency demands. The solutions will use Open Text's Livelink ECM software and compliance solutions with HP Integrity servers and the HP StorageWorks File System Extender offering. In addition to Europe, the companies will focus on opportunities in North America to work with systems integrators and consultants on compliance solutions. Open Text and HP's combined offerings help customers manage the massive volumes of documents and other content generated by ERP systems that run critical business functions, such as finance and human resources. Open Text is a member of the HP StorageWorks Information Lifecycle Management Partner Program. http://www.opentext.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4284 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4284 Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Mediasurface announced the launch of Pepperio. Pepperio is a solution created specifically for small to medium sized businesses enabling them to manage and maintain a robust and professional company website, offered on a rental ("ASP") basis exclusively by accredited partners such as design and website agencies. Pepperio offers: Web based user interface for the creation and maintenance of content, pages and sections; WYSIWYG editing tools; Search engine; Brand consistency with every page; Separate site structure from content giving flexibility to site layout; Better SEO with system generated 'metatags' and friendly URLs' and Multilingual content. Small and medium sized businesses will be able to gain better control of their websites with Pepperio. In addition to enabling website management, directly from their own desktop, Pepperio allows them to accurately forecast their website costs, eliminating the need to go through lengthy and difficult internal decision making processes for a new website. Mediasurface is currently recruiting partners, who can serve as a 'one stop shop' offering a full range of services, without having to worry about the technicalities of creating, running and hosting a software application. Pepperio is offered at a special introductory price of only GBP 99 per month. http://www.pepperio.co.uk, http://www.mediasurface.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4285 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4285 Fri, 05 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT RealObjects Announced PDFreactor, a formatting processor for converting XML and XHTML/HTML documents into PDF. It uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define page layout and styles. The brand new server-side tool enables a great variety of applications in the field of ERP, eCommerce and Electronic Publishing. It allows you to dynamically generate PDF documents such as invoices, delivery notes and shipping documents on-the-fly. The integration into business- and publishing-workflows, multi-channel publishing using CSS (e.g. Web and Print) or the automatic generation of technical manuals, data sheets, reports and product information is also possible. PDFreactor offers software architects and developers a Java-based XML and XHTML/HTML print solution, which is based on W3C standards, but does not require any XSL-FO skills. PDFreactor has extensive CSS 2.1 and 3 layout capabilities allowing flexible control over pagination and PDF output options. Vector graphics (SVG), Barcodes and XSLT are supported as well. Besides the Java API for easy integration with Servlets, EJB and Java Web Services PDFreactor also offers a command line interface for batch, script and CGI-applications. All common J2EE application servers are supported. Direct integration into automatic build processes using Apache Ant is also possible. A free evaluation version is available. http://www.realobjects.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4277 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4277 Fri, 05 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Eedo Knowledgeware announced the extension of its cross-media authoring and publishing capabilities to provide customers with a single source for content creation and delivery which allows users to create and maintain one single set of information for a range of different outputs. ForceTen's architecture makes it possible to directly view, edit and deploy "live" content from the XML repository at runtime and allows real time management of cross media publishing content. Content can either be edited in the print domain or in the e-learning domain with changes and updates immediately reflected on the other side. This does not mean that online and offline content has to be identical, content can be highly adaptive and allows for the best to be brought out in each chosen medium. ForceTen has further extended its print functionality to support the Darwin Information Typing Standard (DITA). DITA is an open source XML-based framework for designing and delivering well-structured content efficiently and consistently in a single-sourcing environment. Information is organized and stored as topics which can then be re-used as building blocks of content. Eedo's ForceTen Learning Content Management System provides a workflow development toolset for the creation, capture, management and transfer of knowledge within an organization with its knowledge repository and coupled with tools such as authoring, knowledge sharing, workflow management, simulation, content management and globalization features. http://www.eedo.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4278 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4278 Wed, 03 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Clarabridge announced a technology partnership with Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB). Clarabridge is working with Business Objects to seamlessly integrate Clarabridge Content Mining Platform with BusinessObjects XI to deliver a comprehensive solution for enterprise information management. The integrated solution will provide business users with capability to access and analyze unstructured and structured information for a more comprehensive view of their business. Using BusinessObjects Data Integrator, and Clarabridge solutions, unstructured data can be directly integrated into existing data warehouses and data marts for reporting and analysis. Joint customers will now be able to analyze unstructured content such as email, claims, service notes, press releases, and blogs, alongside traditional structured information sources, using their existing Business Objects end-user BI and performance management interfaces. http://www.Clarabridge.com, http://www.businessobjects.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4276 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4276 Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Stellent, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEL) announced it has integrated FAST InStream, the OEM enterprise search solution from Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), with Stellent Universal Content Management to provide Stellent customers with another enterprise-class search and retrieval platform. FAST InStream is designed specifically to increase the value of enterprise applications with FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP) technology within OEM environments. Stellent utilizes the FAST technology to search unstructured information within documents, Web pages, email, presentations and similar content, as well as the metadata for the unstructured information. In addition to offering a traditional search user interface and results presentation, the integration with FAST InStream provides metrics on how the information is distributed across relevant categories, and allows users to easily filter the results based on those categories. It also provides related search terms to help users discover previously unidentified data and relationships between information. The Stellent Universal Content Management integration with FAST InStream is available immediately. http://www.stellent.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4273 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4273 Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AUTN.L) announced availability of a new release of K2 Enterprise Search, K2 version 7, and a new support offering, the K2 Customer Assurance Program. Autonomy K2 version 7 (K2 7) extends the product line by delivering K2's robust enterprise search capabilities on the IDOL kernel, providing performance and scalability improvements and access to over 500 advanced features. The K2 product line includes K2 Enterprise Search, Profiler, Federator, Collaborative Classifier, and KeyView. The K2 Customer Assurance Program delivers a lifetime support guarantee to customers who are on Autonomy's maintenance program by providing support for all currently supported releases as well as an upgrade to K2 version 7 with no additional software license fees for previously licensed K2 functionality. No migration is necessary as existing K2 applications run without change. No additional hardware is required to realize significant performance improvements that include a doubling in indexing performance and seven times increase in simple keyword query performance. Autonomy is currently offering an Early Release Program that existing K2 customers on support and maintenance can participate in at no additional cost. This Program will provide customers access to the software, prior to general availability, which is scheduled for the summer of 2006. http://www.autonomy.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4274 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4274 Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN) announced the immediate availability of Vignette IDM 20.1, the foundation product of Vignette's Imaging and Workflow solution. The new release features more robust reporting and workflow automation capabilities and integrates with Vignette's Portal. Vignette's Imaging and Workflow solution helps organizations reduce their reliance on paper, lowering storage costs and mitigating the risk of catastrophic destruction of paper documents and records. Vignette IDM 20.1 provides the following enhancements: Automated retention schedules to enable adherence to record keeping regulations; New reporting capabilities to assess business volumes and analyze historical trends; Automated e-mail notifications when documents of interest are captured; and, Full integration with Vignette Portal, making possible the personalized Web delivery of digital documents and transaction information to key internal and external constituents. http://www.vignette.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4271 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4271 Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT Alfresco Software Inc. announced that 100 percent of the Alfresco Enterprise Edition will be open source. The model commercial open source companies are using is to offer the same functionality across all product lines. This gives the customer the option of purchasing, not extra functionality, but support, consulting, integration and training. This approach enables the customer to get the benefit of open source in the short-term, low-risk trial with easy access to source code, product details and roadmap, and also in the long-term by having the flexibility to stay with enterprise support or move to a community model with no loss of functionality and no code change requirements. Alfresco offers two functionally similar product lines - Enterprise and Community. The Alfresco Enterprise Network offers: Certified Stacks; Maintenance, Updates and Patch Support; Customer Support - Problem Resolution, Compatibility and Migration Advice; Customer Portal - Information, Bug Tracking and Case Tracking; Performance Tuning Advice; and Indemnity and Warranty. http://www.alfresco.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4272 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4272 Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT ClearStory Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: CSYS) announced its new ActiveMedia Essentials Business Group, a team that will offer a secure, entry-level hosted DAM service to the market. Aimed at departmental workgroups or small organizations, the ActiveMedia Essentials service offers a pay-as-you-go solution for digital mediaphotos, graphics, marketing materials, presentations, and video. With nothing more than a web-browser, companies can organize and manage digital media with secure anywhere, anytime availability for sales teams, distributors, partners, agencies, or other external users. http://www.clearstorysystems.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4275 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/05/content_management_news.html#4275