News For October, 2006

Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN) announced an expanded relationship with Sun Microsystems. The alliance, utilizing Sun hardware and software products, will provide content management and delivery technologies aimed at the telco, media and entertainment industries. The Vignette and Sun solution combines Vignette's content management and presentation capabilities with Sun Fire servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System and Identity Management system to provide a single and unified model for controlling and delivering all forms of digital objects, media content, services and applications on multiple platforms to multiple devices such as phones, set-top-boxes, IP television and PDAs. Vignette's Web solutions are available today on the Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 Operating Systems on the UltraSPARC processor-based platform, with planned availability on Solaris 10 on the Sun x64 (x86, 64-bit) platform in the first half of 2007. http://www.vignette.com

Google Buys JotSpot
10/31/2006

Google has bought enterprise wiki vendor JotSpot. There is very little information that is public, but the deal has closed. Most of the available information is at: http://www.jot.com/google/faq.html#1

Mark Logic & InfoTrust Partner to Provide Content Solutions for the Airline Industry
10/30/2006

Mark Logic Corporation announced a partnership with InfoTrust, Inc., solutions provider for the commercial aerospace market, through which the companies will deliver content solutions to the airline industry, including commercial airlines, fleet operators, aircraft manufacturers and OEM equipment providers. Working together, Mark Logic and InfoTrust will help customers convert maintenance, engineering and flight operations publications systems into modern, automated systems that provide faster access to required data. Using MarkLogic Server, InfoTrust has recently released a new version of its FlightLine solution. FlightLine streamlines and automates the process of reusing existing content to create new publications, such as maintenance procedure job cards and internal manuals and publishing to Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) devices. With MarkLogic, FlightLine now supports publishing to multiple formats and channels including PDF-formatted documents, web portals, standalone CDs for remote unconnected repair stations and EFB devices. For example, airline customers using FlightLine can now aggregate data, filter it specifically for the task at hand and specific aircraft being worked on and generate a single instance of all the information required to perform a particular task. This operational efficiency helps reduce the time it takes to service an aircraft so it can quickly return to revenue-generating status. http://www.marklogic.com, http://www.infotrustgroup.com

Socialtext Releases SocialPoint - a Wiki Integrated with SharePoint
10/30/2006

Socialtext released SocialPoint, a wiki integrated with Microsoft Corporation's Sharepoint to help IT managers within large enterprises develop a collaborative platform to facilitate work and information sharing across teams. Socialtext developed SocialPoint using the Wiki Web Services, which the company released in Socialtext 2.0 earlier this month, and a collection of Sharepoint Web Parts. Integrated with a SOAP API, SocialPoint enables Sharepoint to authenticate to multiple wikis, display "Recent Changes" and pages within the portal while offering them up for editing. For example with SocialPoint, a marketing team working on a product launch can collaborate on product marketing materials within the wiki, and then share those materials with field contacts who link to the SharePoint portal so the field is informed about the launch. Conversely, SocialPoint enables the field to provide the market team with direct and timely feedback from customers. SocialPoint is available immediately and included within Socialtext Professional and Socialtext Enterprise. In addition, SocialPoint will be released under an open source license in the near future. http://www.socialtext.com/

Nuxeo Releases Nuxeo Core 1.0
10/27/2006

Nuxeo, provider of open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM), has released Nuxeo Core 1.0, the first release of the "embeddable document management core" that is the foundation of its upcoming Nuxeo 5 ECM platform. Nuxeo Core provides core services and functionalities needed to build a complete ECM product: a repository model, documents storage management, schemas and document types management, a query service, a security model, a document life cycle service, and a flexible core event service. With a liberal open source licensing (LGPL), third-party ISVs and open source developers can start embedding Nuxeo Core into their products now. Source code for Nuxeo Core 1.0 is available as a SVN bundle on the Nuxeo SVN repository. Packaged binaries built for JBoss AS and Eclipse RCP are also available. A demo application embedding Nuxeo Core in Eclipse RCP and showing *some* of the features of Nuxeo Core is also available in prebuilt form for Windows, Linux, MacOS X. A 27 pages developers guide is already available for Nuxeo Core. http://www.nuxeo.com/, http://www.nuxeo.org/

Vignette Announces Relationship with Microsoft to Deliver Rich Multimedia Content
10/25/2006

Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN) announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft to deliver media solutions on the Microsoft platform. Vignette Next-Generation Web solutions help ensure rich multimedia content can be created, managed and delivered to any Internet-enabled device including Windows-based PCs, Windows Mobile powered devices, set-top boxes and the Xbox 360 console. As part of the relationship, the two software companies will work together to help ensure content stored in a 2007 Microsoft Office or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 repository, or subscription-based and paid-for content downloaded to a PC, can be managed and delivered to any Internet-enabled device through Vignette. http://www.vignette.com

Autonomy Enhances Aungate eDiscovery Solutions
10/25/2006

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. , LSE: AU.L) announced new releases of its Aungate Electronic Document Discovery (EDD) and Real-Time Monitoring solutions. Based on Autonomy's IDOL platform, these latest releases help organizations reduce the costs and risks associated with information. The latest releases of the Aungate intelligent real-time EDD and Real-Time Monitoring solutions enable the rapid collection, preparation, investigation, review and production of electronic evidence. Built on the IDOL platform, they allow investigators to apply a range of investigative techniques across a spectrum of data types. The Aungate Real-time Monitoring solution now also includes automated policy creation and culling options which enable the enterprise to rapidly extract concepts from terabytes of irrelevant data. http://www.autonomy.com

CMS Watch Releases New Edition of Enterprise Portals Report
10/24/2006

The new "Open-Source Edition" compares 5 open source portal vendors head to head: eXo, Jetspeed, JBoss, Liferay, and Plone. According to the report, open source enterprise portal packages are seeing substantial uptake in the marketplace, but vary substantially in features and usability, and tend to target a limited set of simple scenarios. CMS Watch has found prospective portal customers taking a longer look at open source portals as well. Those customers are finding that open source alternatives can provide an acceptable platform for simple standards-compliant portlets, but may not yet be capable for more complex transactional, process-oriented scenarios. Other Report findings include: Open source portal packages tend to excel at scenarios emphasizing web application development and simpler informational portals. They tend not to fit well for more complex, transactional or process-oriented portals and also offer less in the way of pre-packaged integration capabilities; All the major open source portal platforms are based on Java, with the exception of Plone, a Python-based alternative. There are no significant Microsoft-based open source portal packages to challenge Office SharePoint; Community size and vibrancy varies substantially among open source portal projects. Established projects like Liferay can boast highly dynamic communities, while Apache Jetspeed and Red Hat JBoss Portal have yet to gain significant developer traction; Sun is in the midst of releasing its portal offering into open source. Sun's portal is now free of charge, but not all of the source code has been made available yet. The new Edition of the Enterprise Portals Report provides 8- to 16-page comparative product surveys of 15 enterprise portal products as well as information about 6 other packages across 3 product categories. Vendors covered include ATG (NASDAQ:ARTG), BEA (NASDAQ:BEAS), Broadvision (OTCC:BVSN), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Red Hat/JBoss (NASDAQ:RHAT), SAP (NYSE:SAP), Sun (NASDAQ:SUNW), Apache, eXo, Liferay, and Plone/Zope. Report pricing begins at $925 for the entire report or $350 for individual vendor chapters. http://www.cmswatch.com

Stellent Announces Universal Records Management Agent for Symantec Enterprise Vault
10/24/2006

Stellent, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEL) announced Stellent Universal Records Management agent for Symantec Enterprise Vault, the email and content archiving software solution. Stellent Universal Records Management allows organizations to define, manage and execute records and retention management policies for all enterprise content from a single application. It uses an agent architecture to enforce records management and retention policies and schedules in nearly any application or repository throughout an organization. Stellent's agent for Symantec Enterprise Vault extends the records and retention management capabilities of the Symantec software by automatically applying records and retention rules and litigation holds to email and other content within the archive in accordance with corporate policies. For Stellent customers, the combination of Stellent Universal Records Management with Symantec Enterprise Vault can increase email performance, and provide the opportunity for increased compliance and reduced e-discovery costs. By having a Universal Records Management agent monitoring the email in Symantec Enterprise Vault, companies can more efficiently apply centralized records and retention policies to email; apply legal and audit holds to email; and retrieve email for e-discovery purposes. Symantec Enterprise Vault customers will benefit from Stellent Universal Records Management's ability to centrally manage sophisticated records and retention file plans and schedules and consistently apply them to all content throughout an organization, whether it's located in Symantec Enterprise Vault, another application or content repository. The Stellent system also automatically categorizes content in such a way that emails are quickly matched to the most appropriate records and retention policies. The Stellent Universal Records Management agent for Symantec Enterprise Vault will become available in late 2006, with pricing from $10,000 to $150,000 depending on the number of users. http://www.stellent.com

Autonomy Announces New Strategic Partner for Chinese Venture
10/24/2006

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) announced a partnership with CCTV, China's state broadcaster and the world's largest Chinese-language broadcaster. The JV is providing video search to a broad range of companies and has launched its own digital video service now operating under the brand OpenV, featuring extensive content from CCTV. OpenV gets in excess of 5 million pages views per day, and one million users a day. OpenV has agreements with the leading content providers, such as CCTV, Beijing TV, Shanghai Media Group, Hunan TV, ZheJiang TV, JiangXi TV and NeiMengGu TV, in many cases on an exclusive basis. OpenV also has available web content from all major Chinese video sharing sites and web broadband sites. OpenV's service is now or will shortly be available on a syndicated basis through Chinese internet sites including CCTV.com (the Chinese TV broadband site), QQ (the largest Chinese community site), Yahoo! China, Nusports (the Chinese sports site), XinHua net (Chinese news agency site), China Radio International (the Chinese radio site) and SMGBB (the second largest Chinese TV broadband site), as well as other smaller sites. http://www.autonomy.com/

Hot Banana and FuseTalk in Alliance for Centralized Management of Discussion Forums & Online Communities
10/24/2006

Hot Banana Software Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of J.L. Halsey (OTCBB:JLHY), announced a strategic partnership with FuseTalk Inc. that gives users a way to build online communities, share information and manage discussion-forum logins from within Hot Banana's Web content management system. Both products are built on Adobe's ColdFusion MX platform. Under the agreement, both companies will resell and market each others products. FuseTalk, a wholly owned subsidiary of Future Path Development Group, is a provider of discussion forums, blogging tools and collaboration solutions. A single FuseTalk installation can run a thousand different forums all with different access rights and users. The joint Hot Banana/FuseTalk solution provides a single sign-on, so Web site administrators can simultaneously control forum logins and update the Web pages where FuseTalk resides. http://www.hotbanana.com, http://www.fusetalk.com

Oracle Announces User Interaction Environment: Oracle WebCenter Suite
10/24/2006

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) announced Oracle WebCenter Suite, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle WebCenter Suite is intended to improve information worker productivity by delivering a unified, context-aware user experience that integrates a full set of enterprise services. It delivers a unified environment that provides user access to business applications, structured and un-structured content, business intelligence, enterprise search, business processes, and communication and collaboration services. Oracle WebCenter Suite will provide a user interaction environment to break down the boundaries between web-based portals, enterprise applications, and Web 2.0 technologies to enable the rapid creation of flexible, context-sensitive work processes. The product will be based on a standards-based architecture and will be used customers to develop their own Web 2.0 centric applications. Oracle WebCenter Suite will also become the default user environment for Oracle Fusion Applications. Oracle WebCenter Suite is based on the assumption that expectations of end users within a contemporary organization are increasingly shaped by their experience on public web sites that offer highly participatory and personalized interfaces. Oracle WebCenter Suite supports integrating Web 2.0 services such as Mashups, Wikis, Voice-over-IP, RSS feeds, Discussion Forums and Online Web Content Publishing into structured applications. Enterprises can use Oracle WebCenter Suite capabilities to embed and synchronize task-oriented and information-oriented Portlets and Web 2.0 services to create composite applications or "Enterprise Mashups." Oracle WebCenter Suite will be licensed as an option on top of Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition at a cost of $50,000 per CPU. The product's first release, Oracle WebCenter Suite 10g R3, will deliver the Oracle WebCenter Framework, Oracle WebCenter Services and the Oracle WebCenter Studio and will include SIP-based instant messaging, online presence, threaded discussion and wiki services as well as Oracle Secure Enterprise Search and a limited use license of Oracle Content Database. It is scheduled to be generally available in calendar year 2006. Oracle WebCenter Composer and Oracle WebCenter Spaces are scheduled to be available in future release. http://www.oracle.com/

W3C Markup Validator, Link Checker Updated
10/24/2006

The W3C (WorldWide Web Consortium) has updated its W3C Markup Validation Service and Link Checker with bug fixes, documentation and usability improvements, and a new Validator API for developers. Along with W3C's other Web Quality Tools, the Markup Validator and Link Checker are developed as open source software with the participation of volunteers and support of a large community, and are among W3C's most popular and useful resources. http://validator.w3.org/, http://validator.w3.org/checklink, http://www.w3.org/Status

Mathon Systems Joins Google Enterprise Professional Program
10/23/2006

Mathon Systems, a provider of information risk management solutions, announced it has joined the Google Enterprise Professional program to integrate its information risk management solution, Mathon Integral, with the Google Search Appliance. The integrated solution will extend the Google search to enterprise organizations to reduce the risk of litigation, enable the rapid of discovery sensitive files (such as spreadsheets, emails, documents, etc.), prevent the loss of critical information, and reduce the cost of regulatory compliance. The Google Enterprise Professional program includes developers, consultants and independent software vendors that provide value-added services for Google enterprise products. http://www.google.com/enterprise/, http://www.mathon.com

Iron Mountain and Microsoft Collaborate on E-Records Management
10/23/2006

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) announced plans to collaborate with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) and capitalize on Microsoft's forthcoming 2007 Microsoft Office system platform to help organizations address the e-records management challenges they face in connection with compliance and litigation. In marrying Iron Mountain's expertise in records management policy, process, and archiving with Microsoft's commonly-used office and collaboration platform technologies, the two companies intend to build a policy-based, lifecycle e-records management solution that will be practical and cost effective. Drawing on enhancements in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007, customers will be able to apply records classification and retention policies to documents, as users go about their normal computing activities. As information grows in volume or becomes less frequently accessed, businesses will be able to automatically archive these records from SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server to Iron Mountain's hosted digital archive, where the retention policies will be consistently administered. Iron Mountain Consulting services will help each customer create its own policy, process and compliant records management program that can be specifically implemented through Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007. Iron Mountain's Records Management Consulting is a professional service organization that helps businesses implement compliant and legally credible records management programs. Its retention policies and legal research are the most widely used in the industry. Engagements are customized to each client's needs and include: records retention program development and implementation for both paper and digital records, inventory cost reduction, records management gap analyses, benchmarking, and business process re-engineering. http://www.ironmountain.com/

OmniUpdate Launches Solution for Admission Sponsored Blogs
10/23/2006

WebsiteASP, Inc., provider of web content management systems (CMS) for Higher Education, announced the release of OU Blogs, a blogging solution that combines WordPress with its OmniUpdate solution. Offered as an optional module to OmniUpdate, OU Blogs allows entries in WordPress blogs to be monitored using OmniUpdate's workflow and approval system. Email notification is automatically sent when blog entries are ready for approval, encouraging bloggers to create content while ensuring that only appropriate content is published to the website. Additionally, OU Blogs streamlines and simplifies blog management by providing a single, consistent interface for managing both web pages and blogs. OU Blogs is available immediately and is offered in configurations both with and without support for WordPress. http://www.omniupdate.com/ou/blogs

Factiva Enhances Taxonomy Warehouse
10/23/2006

Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, announced the introduction of its enhanced Taxonomy Warehouse. Taxonomy Warehouse is a trusted community directory and information source for taxonomies, thesauri and classification schemes. It provides enterprises and academic and government organizations with the information they need to categorize internal and external data collections and aims to ensure that relevant answers to search queries are found with speed and precision. Factiva's Taxonomy Warehouse enhancements include: The addition of more than 100 new taxonomies, including Alternative Medicine, American Industries, Business, Energy, Explosives and Related Items, Genetic Disorders, Health, Safety and Environmental Data, and the Public Health; A newly designed Web site featuring easier navigation among taxonomies and classification schemes; A new A-Z index for browsing; A new search function that enables users to find vocabularies, publishers and categories using keywords of their choice; Up-to-date information about taxonomy references, resources, latest news and events; and Links to professional associations and organizations for solutions to a company's taxonomy needs. TaxonomyWarehouse.com lists more than 650 taxonomies arranged in 73 subject domains, produced by nearly 300 publishers in 40 languages and helps answer over 10,000 user queries per month. Factiva also offers a taxonomy consultancy, Factiva Taxonomy Services. http://www.factiva.com/, http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/

Xyleme Announces LCMS 3.0
10/23/2006

Xyleme Inc., provider an XML-based, SCORM 2004 certified learning content management system, announced the general availability of Xyleme LCMS 3.0. This product release provides hundreds of unified instructional design templates to support virtually any blended learning product including: instructor guides, student guides, web courses, assessments and exams; all from a single development process. Xyleme LCMS gives customers an authoring environment through tools such as drag-and-drop document creation and a WYSIWYG editing mode, providing XML support without the complexity. Xyleme LCMS can be delivered with Xyleme Courseware Player to provide existing SCORM 1.2 learning management systems with SCORM 2004 capabilities; and Xyleme Offline Player to allow offline launching and tracking of SCORM 2004 courseware. http://www.xyleme.com/

Oracle and Adobe Collaborate to Enable Enterprise Rich Client Development
10/23/2006

Oracle and Adobe announced they are working together to enable developers to create Web 2.0 applications for the enterprise. Enterprise applications will be able to include animations, charts and graphs in Adobe Flash combined with other AJAX content surfaced in a Java-based portal such as Oracle Portal, which is part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family. This effort opens the door for "Enterprise Mashups," to mix technologies and interactive user interface features to incorporate real-time animated graphs and visualizations based in Adobe Flash, HTML, or other AJAX-based components. With the integration between Oracle Fusion Middleware and Adobe, Oracle Applications users have new opportunities to extend their applications and include rich, graphical interfaces for users to access applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Siebel. This integration will work with the current generation of Oracle Portal and with future user interaction environments being developed by Oracle. http://www.adobe.com/go/flexportalintegration, http://www.oracle.com

IBM Announces Expanded E-Mail Archiving & Storage Solution
10/19/2006

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced an e-mail archiving and storage solution, which includes Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 software and IBM server and storage hardware, software and services. The IBM and Microsoft software is pre-loaded and pre-tested as part of the solution delivery. The IBM e-mail archiving and storage solution will be available through IBM Business Partners and is designed to enable companies to retain e-mail for corporate governance and legal discovery purposes, as well as help to address immediate and future challenges with growing e-mail systems. The solution extends the existing IBM CommonStore eMail Archiving Preload with e-mail search functionality, pre-tested on an IBM System x BladeCenter Server platform powered by Next-Generation AMD Opteron processors, and integrated with archiving capabilities via IBM System Storage Archive Manager software, as well as the IBM System Storage DS4200 Express disk storage system with Serial ATA (SATA) storage capacity. The solution, including storage and services, will be available from IBM and IBM Business Partners in the first quarter of 2007 starting at a list price of $55,000 with optional eMail Search for an additional $2,000. http://www.ibm.com/software/data/commonstore/email.html

PTC Acquires Technical Illustration Software Provider ITEDO
10/18/2006

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) announced it has acquired ITEDO Software GmbH and ITEDO Software LLC (collectively, ITEDO), headquartered in Germany, for approximately $17 million in cash. With its IsoDraw family of products, ITEDO delivers comprehensive software solutions for creating and maintaining technical illustrations. ITEDO's IsoDraw and related products IsoView and IsoCompose are special-purpose technical illustration solutions, optimized for the process of creating isometric technical illustrations for manufacturing, marketing, customer service, and support documentation. Illustrations can be created from scratch and from legacy illustrations, but they can also be derived quickly from existing 3D and 2D design data, including all major mechanical CAD applications. IsoDraw enables users to leverage the rich content that resides in the engineering department in a way that is relevant to consumers of technical publications. ITEDO solutions will become an part of PTC's Arbortext product family, providing extensive 2D technical illustration capabilities today and further enhancing PTC's 3D interactive content for technical publications in the future. Combining ITEDO's capabilities in 2D isometric drawing and technical illustration with PTCs expertise in 3D CAD and associative content will provide a solution for 2D and 3D graphics within technical publications. Customers will continue to be able to leverage all ITEDO products, including IsoDraw, IsoView and IsoCompose, as stand-alone solutions or as an integral part of PTC's Product Development System. Customers with multi-CAD environments or those who use CAD solutions other than Pro/ENGINEER will still be able to take advantage of IsoDraw's ability to derive technical illustrations from the CAD model and maintain the illustrations. Additionally, PTC will continue to support a variety of graphics file formats to enable customers to create technical illustrations that are compliant with international standards for technical publications such as WebCGM, Airline Transport Association (ATA) specifications and S1000D. http://www.itedo.com/, http://www.ptc.com

Xythos Announces OEM Relationship with SAP
10/18/2006

Xythos Software announced that SAP has licensed the Xythos Drive, renamed the Portal Drive, to enhance integration between the Windows desktop and the SAP NetWeaver Portal. The Portal Drive provides access to the SAP NetWeaver Portal from any Windows application, which helps to simplify enterprise content publishing and improve workforce collaboration. With Portal Drive, SAP NetWeaver Portal content (more precisely all content accessible by the Knowledge Management capabilities of SAP NetWeaver) appears as standard Windows files and folders which are securely accessible over the web. Users can manage SAP NetWeaver Portal content when they're not online using the Portal Drive's offline synchronization features. http://www.xythos.com/

Quark launches QuarkXPress Server 7
10/18/2006

Quark Inc. announced the launch of QuarkXPress Server 7, a publishing technology that combines the design and collaboration functionality of QuarkXPress with server-based performance to deliver a solution for producing creative Web-based or data-driven communications. By employing a Web-based, template-driven process, the technology allows channel and business users to preview communications online, customize design and content, and print locally or remotely. Users can develop and deploy data-driven applications to automate production, eliminate redundant steps, and publish to multiple channels. QuarkXPress Server can be integrated with existing IT infrastructures and data sources and is typically offered as part of a packaged solution from a Quark system integrator or OEM partner. QuarkXPress Server incorporates the new features of QuarkXPress 7, granting users access to functionality such as layout-independent spaces and Job Jackets technology for collaboration, and enhancements for variable-data printing, including Personalized Print Markup Language (PPML) and optimized PDF output support. QuarkXPress Server includes QuarkXPress Server Manager, a tool that centralizes system administration, manages processing load on multiple servers, and provides reporting on automated publishing tasks. QuarkXPress Server Manager enhances Quark's support of industry standards by providing high-level programming interfaces, including HTTP, SOAP, PHP, .NET/ASP, and Java/JSP. Quark partners with software developers and system integrators to deliver QuarkXPress Server solutions that enable advertising automation, catalog production, Web-to-print, and one-to-one marketing. Partners include DeskNet, GLUON, and Stibo Catalog, Capps Digital, Integrated Software, Intuitive Solutions Group, ONUS LLC, Responsive Software, and RoboCatalog. http://www.quark.com/

SearchInform Technologies Updates SearchInform to Version 3.0.03
10/18/2006

SearchInform Technologies Inc. introduced a new version of SearchInform, a program of full text search and search for documents similar in their content, featuring new interface settings as well as an enhanced indexing and information search algorithms and a modified functional. Upgraded information search and indexing algorithms increased the program's performance speed and consequently its convenience. Improvements also took place in the way the program works with the index and TheBat mail client. Working with the program became much more convenient as the user can now set file description columns in the results window himself. Now not only the column's width can be modified, but also the number of columns shown, their location and headings. Main features of SearchInform 3.0.03: Phrase search with due consideration to stemming and thesaurus, New SoftInform Search Technology of search for similar documents, High indexing speed (from 15 to 30 Gb/hour), Index size of 15-25% from the actual size of the text data, Query caching system, Support of over 60 text formats, Outlook & TheBat electronic messages, mp3 & avi tags, and logs of MSN and ICQ instant messaging programs, Correct work with archives, and Universal data sources (indexing of DBMS). http://www.searchinform.com/

Alfresco Releases Java Software Developer Kit
10/17/2006

Alfresco Software Inc. announced the availability of the Alfresco Software Development Kit (SDK) for JCR and Web Services API development. The Alfresco SDK includes all the components required to develop standalone or embedded applications and plug-ins against the Alfresco repository. The Alfresco SDK bundles pre-built libraries, packaged source code, Javadoc and Eclipse projects and samples facilitating the creation of simple or complex Java applications. For example, the Alfresco SDK can be used in conjunction with Web Content Management as developers build content centric applications. Other examples of use include: Embedding Alfresco through the JCR API or Web Services API, JCR and Web Services examples with a WIKI demonstration, Custom Action and Aspect development, Custom JSP web client development, and Custom Plug-in development. The Alfresco SDK requires the following: JDK 1.5.x, Eclispe IDE 3.x, and a database of choice - MySQL recommended for development purposes, and is available immediately from SourceForge at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373, http://www.alfresco.com

SDL Announces SDL PerfectMatch
10/17/2006

SDL International announced the availability of SDL PerfectMatch technology, fully integrated within SDL Trados Synergy 2006. SDL PerfectMatch technology accelerates the delivery of global content by removing the need for lengthy human review times within the translation supply chain. The goal of all Corporations is to define a message once and enforce consistency of that message across global markets in local languages. To achieve this takes significant manual checking of how phrases are used and matched within Corporate literature. SDL PerfectMatch technology cuts time from the human verification process by automating in-context translation management. SDL PerfectMatch is available now. For a complete listing of the features and capabilities of SDL PerfectMatch, visit http://www.sdl.com/synergy

CambridgeDocs Announces Out-of-the-Box Support for ACORD XML Standards
10/16/2006

CambridgeDocs announced out-of-the-box support for ACORD XML standards throughout its product line. This new feature will provide the insurance industry a way to generate custom forms compatible with the ACORD XML standard, and to also extract ACORD XML from existing sources of content. Beginning in 2007, CambridgeDocs will include samples of its ACORD publishing feature with each product it ships. Insurance companies using CambridgeDoc solutions will be able to experience how quickly they are able to build and integrate document-generation and document-extraction functionality into their insurance-related applications. CambridgeDocs products that will provide the ACORD XML support will include Word FO Designer - This tool will support visual layout for creating ACORD forms. It will include samples that demonstrate how to render ACORD XML as both standard ACORD forms and vendor-specific forms. The samples will help customers create visually sophisticated output without the need to write large amounts of XSLT code. Also included is xDoc Converter This tool will enable extracting XML data from existing forms in PDF format. It will include samples that will demonstrate how to produce the ACORD XML standards from the PDF files. The ACORD XML samples will ship in Q4 of 2006 and Q1 of 2007. http://www.cambridgedocs.com

JustSystems Releases xfy Enterprise Solution for IBM DB2 9 Software
10/16/2006

JustSystems announced the launch and availability of xfy Enterprise Solution for IBM DB2 9 in North America and Europe. xfy (pronounced 'x-fie') enables IBM enterprise customers to manage and deliver information across multiple reporting sources, dynamically, to end users. Key advantages of the new product are its native XML architecture and SOA capabilities. The result is the ability to unify all types of information, add business structure and deliver it visually. xfy addresses information re-use and delivery challenges across business functions such as finance, marketing, customer service and operations. Through this release, the company is also making available its xfy Blog Editor, which enables corporations to easily publish and re-use blog information based on XML. With the xfy Blog Editor, end users, such as customer service analysts, product managers or marketers can add structure to blog information and efficiently repurpose it for their business needs and applications. Key features of the xfy Enterprise Solution for IBM DB2 9 include: An enterprise development environment to facilitate deployment of SOA client applications for information delivery and reporting based on web services; A vocabulary builder that automatically provides visual context for data templates, brand elements, graphics and text framing; A view designer to create dynamic visual representations of multiple data types from disparate data locations, inside or outside the enterprise; A built-in xfy database adapter for IBM DB2 9; and, The xfy Blog Editor for publishing corporate product and service information to blog servers including MovableType and TypePad from SixApart, Ltd. xfy Enterprise Solution for IBM DB2 9 is now shipping. http://www.justsystems.com, http://www.xfy.com

Wave2 Media Solutions LLC Announces US Office Opening
10/16/2006

Wave2 Media Solutions Ltd announced the formation of Wave2 Media Solutions LLC. Founded by Brian Gorman, Vice President of Sales, Andrew Zimmon, Vice President of Operations and James Spurrell, Vice President of Engineering. Corporate offices opened October 16th in Waltham, Massachusetts. Wave2 offers an enterprise publishing solution incorporating a rules engine for self-service intelligent publishing. Wave2 UK has developed the Wave2 Publishing Platform which offers Self Transactional Intelligent Publishing to save publishers, advertisers and corporate marketing groups thousands monthly over traditional publishing allowing them to more easily market products across media channels. Wave2 Media Solutions Ltd. has an ownership position in the US company and is providing the US company with sales, marketing and development rights for both North and South America. The Wave2 LLC founders have extensive experience in the content management space with a focus on high end newspaper, magazine publishing and the retail/catalog vertical. Wave2 has implemented a Java based platform that utilizes the Adobe InDesign Server. It allows publishers to launch or expand existing self service web sites for the creation and production of advertising materials, marketing collateral and catalogs for both print and on-line workflows. It offers: An out of the box self service intelligent web application called W2PP with a host of easy to use document makeup features; A self service web application to utilize intelligence through a rules engine; The rules engine makes calls to InDesign Server to match the content to an appropriate template automating and simplifying the difficult task of creating compelling content and advertising; This is all done using the W2PP out of the box rather than a grouping of Adobe InDesign plug-ins; This approach provides enterprise level scalability allowing W2PP to handle many different types of publishing applications from display ads to catalogs to corporate marketing collateral; W2PP is an extensible platform developed in Java and runs as a J2EE applications for easy integration with 3rd party business, production and other content management systems; The W2PP offers a published API for OEMs and system integrators. http://www.wave2media.com

Ephox Announces EditLive! 6.0 with Track Changes Beta
10/12/2006

Ephox Announced the Beat version of EditLive! 6.0 with the ability to track changes online. EditLive! track change features are self contained and don't rely on external modules so integration is straightforward. It speeds collaboration on documents, allowing each change in a document to be accepted, modified or rejected. It also offers: Colour coding of changes according to who made the change; Author, date and type of each change is shown; Text, table and formatting changes tracked. Other new features: a thesaurus, context sensitive WYSIWYG styles dropdown menus, and content preservation in a browser session means you don't lose your edits if you accidentally navigate away from your editor page. EditLive! is a cross-platform rich text editor. It is built into Content Management System (CMS) offerings including Vignette, Percussion, EMC Documentum and OpenText. Customers of Stellent and IBM CMS platforms also choose EditLive! as their editor. http://www.ephox.com

SchemaLogic Introduces Integrator Adapter V 2.5 for IBM Websphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition V 8.4
10/12/2006

SchemaLogic announced the SchemaLogic Integrator Adapter for IBM OmniFind Edition will be enhanced to integrate with new capabilities of the upcoming 8.4 release of IBM's OmniFind enterprise search engine. The Adapter will be available with the release of OmniFind 8.4. The SchemaLogic OmniFind Integrator Adapter enriches IBM OmniFind Edition by allowing enterprise taxonomies, semantic, and linguistic data developed and managed from SchemaLogic's SchemaServer application to be integrated with OmniFind via its OmniFind Rule-based Taxonomies, Synonym Dictionaries, Boost Word Dictionaries and its Stop Word Dictionaries. These tools are designed to enhance and expand search results, content browsing and increase search relevancy. The SchemaLogic solution for IBM OmniFind provides a common semantic foundation leveraged throughout the Enterprise. Combined with the SchemaLogic Integrator Adapter for IBM Classification Module, the SchemaLogic solution provides a bridge mechanism to allow customers to utilize a single, consistent set of categories both for classification of content using the Classification Module and for content searching and browsing utilizing OmniFind. http://www.schemalogic.com

New Clickability Release Streamlines Web Content Delivery Options
10/12/2006

Clickability announced the immediate availability of its Content Delivery release that offers new ways to package and deliver content and advertising online. The release combines Clickability's recently introduced content intelligence features with new content delivery options to help publishers attract new audiences, and package content to suit their audience's tastes, immediately analyze the results and adjust the mix. The Content Delivery release offers publishing capabilities which enable content extensibility and IT independence. Features available within the Content Delivery release are available as a part of select packages of Clickability's cmPublish solution and are delivered in a Software-as-a-Service model. These new features include the following: Configurable Feeds, Scheduled Dashboards, Proactive Alerts, Web Publishing API, Remote Publishing, Batch Import & Export, Sidekick AdTracker, Impression Management, Frequency Capping, Newsletter Analytics, Newsletter Advertising Analysis, Campaign Audit Trail, HTML Ad Support, Full Text Attachment Search, Descriptive URL Support, and Copy Content. cmPublish uses Ajax, Flash, Java and SOAP/XML. http://www.clickability.com

Really Strategies Announces RSuite CMS
10/11/2006

Really Strategies unveiled RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers. RSuite CMS is a flexible content management system that leverages MarkLogic Server XML management and search capabilities. With a customizable browser-based user interface, content can be organized into browsable and searchable folders, assemblies, documents, and other objects. Version control of the XML content as well as check in and check out capabilities allow the user to manage complex XML at the level they want. With XML node level management content reuse is a few clicks of the mouse. With an open and scalable architecture, RSuite CMS can integrate other content tools and applications and allows for future expansion as the publishing environment changes. http://www.reallysi.com, http://www.marklogic.com

Nstein Launches Content Management Suite with Semantic Analysis Solution for the E-publishing Industry
10/11/2006

Nstein Technologies Inc. "Nstein" (TSX-V: EIN) announced the launch of the Ntelligent Content Management Suite (NCM), a comprehensive content management and semantic analysis solution available to the e-publishing industry. The new solution combines Nstein's text mining technology and content management applications from the European-based company Eurocortex. NCM is designed to deliver cross media publishing and to help publishers boost their print and online revenues. The Ntelligent Content Management Suite is a complete and modular solution that integrates seamlessly within e-publishers' legacy workflows. It allows for the management of all digital and text assets, ensures XML normalization, automated content enrichment with intelligent metadata generation, semantic search and dynamic delivery of Web 2.0-enabled output formats such as blogs and RSS feeds. http://www.eurocortex.fr, http://www.nstein.com

Near-Time Brings Enterprise Class Collaboration to a Wider Audience
10/11/2006

Near-Time, Inc. announced the addition of enhanced roles and permissions functionality to its namesake hosted collaboration platform that deliver an increased level of control, enabling enterprise-class collaboration for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs), enterprise-scale departments, and large groups spanning organizations. Hooks to social networking engines now make it easy for others to discover public content in Near-Time collaborative workspaces, and to deploy collaborative solutions that can work side by side with other enterprise or hosted solutions and also leverage interaction with the larger Web community. Near-Time integrates blogs, Wikis and group calendars. It combines the non-linear, ad hoc collaboration of Wikis with the time sensitive, broadcast nature of blogs, bringing these two distinct types of collaboration together. The roles and permissions feature allows four access levels, giving each the ability to perform different functions. The Editor level can create Wiki and blog pages and edit any content on the platform; the Author level can author pages and edit its own content; the Commenter level is only able to comment on any page; and the Reader level is only able to view content on the platform. Near-Time has made available enhancements that enable organizations to connect their Near-Time space to Web services, including Technorati, Del.icio.us, and Digg. These services enable Near-Time users to create outreach to the Web itself within their collaborative environment. These services are available to users of all Near-Time plans. http://www.near-time.com

Opticentre Signs Distribution & Systems Integrator Partner Agreement with Idiom
10/11/2006

Idiom Technologies, Inc. announced that Opticentre has joined the Idiom Global Partner Network. Opticentre will offer stand-alone WorldServer solutions and professional implementation services, as well as integrate WorldServer into the end-to-end workflow of complementary solutions and services it designs for customers. The Idiom Global Partner Network is a group of technology companies, systems integrators and language service providers that deliver translation and localization services, professional consulting and systems integration services and complementary products alongside Idiom. http://www.opticentre.net, http://www.idiominc.com

Endeca Unveils the Endeca Information Access Platform 5.0
10/10/2006

Endeca unveiled the Endeca Information Access Platform (IAP) 5.0, a major release that combines search with business intelligence. The Endeca IAP 5.0 brings together tools and techniques necessary to speed information discovery and analysis: search, Guided Navigation, ad hoc analysis, visualization and text analytics, into a single, interactive user experience. It also introduces new and enhanced capabilities, including Relationship Discovery, extended enterprise integration and business control features. Endeca IAP 5.0 technologies are designed to unite disparate content and data, while offering search, navigation, alerting and visualization to enable new classes of user-centric information access applications to solve information discovery, enterprise search, knowledge management and self-service business intelligence problems. Endeca IAP 5.0 will be generally available in November 2006. http://www.endeca.com

Gilbane Boston Keynote Panel to Debate the Future of Content Management
10/10/2006

The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars announced the opening keynote panel for the 3rd Annual Gilbane Boston Conference will take place November 28th 30th, 8:30am, at The Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. The dynamic keynote panel "The Future of Content Management Technologies & Solutions" will be moderated by Frank Gilbane, CEO, Gilbane Group, Inc. panelists include: Jared Spataro, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Office Servers, Information Worker PMG, Microsoft; David Nelson-Gal, Senior Vice President, Engineering, Interwoven; Detlef Kamps, President, RedDot Solutions; and Jim Howard, CEO, CrownPeak. The Gilbane Conference opens each of its events with a panel of content technology and market experts that is completely interactive (i.e., no presentations). The experts include industry analysts, consultants, enterprise IT and business senior managers, and technologists. This year's Boston conference has a cross section of different categories of content technology vendors, including a large ECM vendor, a mid-tier second generation vendor, a hosted CM vendor, and an infrastructure supplier. Each of these types of vendor could provide some, or all, of an organizations content and information management needs, but how do you decide which? Which of these approaches point towards the future and which will be legacy approaches? Do they complement each other or compete? What do they have in common? What do each of these technology experts think the future of content management and content-oriented applications will look like? This will prove to be a lively and educational debate! This annual event brings together thought leaders and practitioners to provide attendees with actionable advice, techniques, best practices, and case studies to help successfully implement content technologies critical to their businesses. The topics to be covered in-depth in the conference program will include: Web Content Management (WCM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Collaboration, Enterprise Wikis & Blogs, Enterprise Search & Information Access Applications, Enterprise Digital Rights Management (eDRM), and Automated Publishing. http://gilbaneboston.com/, http://gilbane.com, http://www.lighthouseseminars.com

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Xythos Partners with EMC-Captiva
10/10/2006

Xythos Software announced that it has established a partnership with EMC-Captiva to offer high volume scanning capabilities to customers needing to migrate large volumes of physical documents into its applications. The Xythos Export Module for EMC-Captiva enables users to classify documents during scanning to help improve content security and process integrity. The partnership will provide customers with a compliment to higher-end ECM systems that will help them better manage physical and electronic content together. http://www.xythos.com

Vivisimo Introduces Velocity 5.1
10/9/2006

Vivisimo unveiled a new version of its enterprise search platform, Velocity 5.1, which includes secure connectors for a variety of applications, as well as support for Windows and Solaris operating systems. As part of the Velocity Search Platform, these content connectors enable enterprises to securely link to, access and index content stored in leading third-party applications and databases through Velocity's web-based administrative interface without the need for any intermediary software layer or middleware. Seamless integration with Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange, Lotus Notes, EMC Legato Email Extender and other supported applications and databases enables users to easily search for information stored within these content repositories and view results organized into clusters or topical categories for enhanced navigation. Velocity's new connectors respect all existing security frameworks by connecting to Active Directory, LDAP or other directory servers to restrict document access based on users' rights. http://vivisimo.com

Adobe & Tradocs Help Automate Document Processes Across Global Supply Chains
10/8/2006

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Tradocs announced the availability of a jointly developed solution for the automation of international trade documents within supply chain processes with Intel Corporation. The solution is based on the Tradocs Trade Services Utility (TSU) Connector Suite, Adobe PDF and the SWIFT1 Trade Services Utility platform, powered by Intel Core 2 Duo processors. With this new solution, suppliers, customers and banks can manage their international trade documents more effectively. Now, supply chain partners have the ability to drive compliant workflows for inter-corporate information exchange and routing of trade documents to banks through the SWIFT Trade Services Utility platform utilizing PDF. Any form of document can be converted to PDF within the Tradocs TSU Connector Suite to facilitate the accessibility and tracking of information as it moves through a supply chain. The Tradocs TSU Connector Suite is enhanced through the integration of Adobe LiveCycle software for electronic forms, process orchestration, and document rights management. The enhanced Tradocs TSU Connector Suite for Adobe LiveCycle is immediately available at http://www.tradocs.net, http://www.intel.com/, http://www.adobe.com

Kofax to Support Microsoft's XPS Document File Format
10/5/2006

Kofax announced plans to support the Microsoft XML Paper Specification (XPS) document file format and Microsoft?s Windows Imaging architecture for production scanning and capture. With this planned integration, captured documents can be delivered in the XPS file format, a fixed-document format built into the Windows Vista operating system and supported in the 2007 Microsoft Office system. By integrating with Windows Imaging architecture, Kofax-based solutions will take advantage of the new features that support high volume scanning, and certified drivers. WIA-based scanner drivers are tested and certified by the Microsoft Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). XPS support will be available this winter with the Ascent Capture integration into SharePoint 2007. http://www.kofax.com/

SchemaLogic Introduces Integrator Adapters for IBM Content Management
10/5/2006

SchemaLogic released the SchemaLogic Integrator Adapters for IBM Content Management applications: DB2 Content Manager, DB2 Document Manager, and DB2 Records Manager. SchemaLogic enhances IBM's Content Management applications when prospects or accounts require taxonomy as an organizing structure of information and the ability to manage data models across various content repositories. SchemaLogic Content Management Integrator Adapters allow System Integrators and organizations to implement and comply with a standard governance policy and to facilitate information management and reusability by ensuring consistency of data models and semantics across the IBM Content Management suite of applications. SchemaLogic's integrated solution provides Business and Records Classification, Business Semantic Management, Data Modeling Services, Change Management, Consistency, Compliance and Findability. http://www.schemalogic.com

Adobe Adds Blogging Capabilities to Contribute 4
10/5/2006

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced immediate availability of Adobe Contribute 4 software, a new version of the web publishing solution designed for business, education and government workers to contribute content to the Web without having to learn HTML. Key features in Adobe Contribute 4 include new blog publishing capabilities, unified web publishing, enhanced Microsoft Office integration for Windows users, and Adobe Flash video support. The new unified web publishing feature of Adobe Contribute 4 enables users to post and publish content to multiple Web sites and blogs, all from a single application. Because of its visually intuitive authoring capabilities content authors and contributors can edit or update Web sites and blogs quickly. Users can also work offline without losing content changes due to a dropped connection or browser 'Back' button. Because Adobe Contribute 4 works seamlessly with Macromedia Dreamweaver from Adobe, site administrators give authoring permission and can maintain Web site integrity, and look-and-feel even when multiple authors update content across the site. Windows users using Adobe Contribute 4 also have a new ability to post and publish content to their Web sites and blogs directly from within Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel and Outlook. Adobe Contribute 4 makes it easy for web designers and developers, as well as web administrators to help their users get started with blogs using the same environment they use to update Web site content. Contribute also supports the most popular blog servers: Blogger, Typepad, and Wordpress, and gives the option of connecting to in-house blog servers, straight out of the box. Rich media support has been enhanced in Adobe Contribute 4 enabling users to drag and drop images, movies, and now Adobe Flash video files into their Web pages or blog entries. In addition, users can publish content from a browser to their Web site and blog. Contribute maintains the original formatting and automatically posts the source for the content as well as a link. Contribute 4 is available for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, and is immediately available through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store. Estimated street price is US$149 and registered users of qualifying earlier versions can upgrade for an estimated street price of US$79. http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute

Mondosoft MondoSearch for Sitecore CMS Now Available
10/5/2006

Mondosoft released the complete software integration of MondoSearch for Sitecore CMS. MondoSearch for Sitecore CMS is an integrated search engine and search analytics tool available for Sitecore. MondoSearch for Sitecore CMS is 100% customized to the Sitecore look-and-feel, with full access to actionable reports and analytics data directly from the Sitecore environment. Now web administrators can access reports on-demand, based on what visitors searched for and found, and what they did not find. Search and search analytics features added to Sitecore: Set up MondoSearch categories and languages in Sitecore, Detailed information about what visitors have searched for and found, Add search engine metadata to the site, Customized Search & Result page in Sitecore, Filter and return secure search results, Configure MondoSearch from within Sitecore, BehaviorTracking Top Lists as portlets for SC52, BehaviorTracking Search Terms details in Sitecore, BehaviorTracking details on document items in Sitecore, and Editor search. http://www.mondosoft.com

WebSideStory Launches Ajax-Enabled Site Search Solution
10/5/2006

WebSideStory, Inc. (Nasdaq: WSSI - News) announced a commercially available Ajax-enabled site search solution. This capability, called Active Browsing, is an extended service of WebSideStory Search and enables any e-commerce site to integrate one of Web 2.0's enabling technologies, Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), into their product search results. The result is enhanced speed and interactivity, and an improved customer shopping experience in which shoppers are able to engage in "clickless browsing", the ability to preview additional product facets and "more like this" categories just by rolling their mouse over specific search results. Active Browsing works by transforming site search into a highly interactive application that accesses server data optimally, and allows for user interface innovations such as "bubbles" that overlay the page to provide more information and navigation choices. This enables visitors to speed through product search results and related facets: color, size, gender, etc., without having to reload the page every time. Active Browsing lays the foundation for additional product capabilities that will take site search to whole new levels of interactivity, including more intuitive interaction conventions and user interfaces. http://www.websidestory.com

Stellent Releases Enhanced Version of Outside In Technology and New Clean Content SDK
10/4/2006

Stellent, Inc.'s (Nasdaq:STEL) Content Components group announced the release of an enhanced version of Stellent Outside In Technology, including the introduction of the Outside In Clean Content software development kit (SDK). The upgraded product suite will help original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers develop more robust search programs and applications for finding information in documents and other files as part of electronic discovery, compliance and risk management initiatives. Specifically, the new version of Outside In Technology allows software developers to build applications on the latest 64-bit operating systems, and enhances their ability to access and manipulate complex file formats and structures commonly searched during the litigation and forensics process. These formats include Microsoft Outlook PST files, embedded files and images, spreadsheet row and column content, and field content in PDF forms. The Outside In Technology suite also now includes the Stellent Clean Content SDK, which addresses the challenge of hidden data within documents that can create security and policy risks. This hidden information includes metadata, tracked changes and comments, revision and author history, fast-save data, and database connection details, among many other elements. The Clean Content SDK identifies and cleanses or strips files of sensitive, confidential or proprietary metadata and hidden information that may pose risks to organizations if exposed. Stellent's Clean Content SDK is derived from Bitform's Secure and Extract SDKs, which Stellent obtained through its acquisition of Bitform in August 2006. http://www.stellent.com

SearchInform Technologies Introduces SearchInform 3.0
10/4/2006

SearchInform Technologies Inc. introduced a new version of SearchInform, a program of full text search and search for documents similar in their content, featuring significantly enhanced indexing and information search algorithms as well as a new request caching system, influencing the work of the system as a whole and its speed. Due to the enabled cache request option, the speed of query processing has risen considerably. The number of unique queries generated by the users comes up to around 20% of all queries. That is why SearchInform 3.0 search tool with the help of query caching has to fully process only an insignificant one fifth of all queries. All other queries have ready results available in cache. Main features of SearchInform 3.0: Phrase search with due consideration to stemming and thesaurus; New SoftInform Search Technology of search for similar documents; High indexing speed (from 15 to 30 Gb/hour); Index size of 15-25% from the actual size of the text data; Query caching system; Support of over 60 most popular text formats, Outlook & TheBat electronic messages, mp3 & avi tags, and logs of MSN and ICQ instant messaging programs; Correct work with archives; and Universal data sources (indexing of DBMS) http://www.searchinform.com/

Ingeniux Releases Ingeniux CMS Version 5.2
10/3/2006

Ingeniux Corporation announced the release of Ingeniux CMS Version 5.2, a major upgrade to the company's content management system. Version 5.2 is the first Ingeniux release to feature AJAX-oriented software development. In Ingeniux CMS version 5.2 a number of the key dialogs and interactions were rewritten with AJAX, improving user experience. As an XML-based application, Ingeniux is a good platform for deploying AJAX applications, a benefit that Ingeniux leveraged in a new XML search solution bundled in version 5.2. Over twenty new features and enhancements went into version 5.2, including "MyCMS Dashboard", a personalized start screen that allows users to create new content with the click of a button, display snapshots of website reports, and collaborate with other users. Ingeniux Smart Paste is a new feature that allows administrators to configure how content is imported into the CMS. Paste options can clean up Microsoft Word formatting, meet Section 508a accessibility rules, and lock-in CSS stylesheet formatting to ensure consistent design and brand guidelines. A new History Tab in the client allows users to manage unlimited versions of a page and to easily roll back to prior versions. The Ingeniux CMS client for Macintosh OS X was upgraded with Version 5 features, providing a native Macintosh solution for managing Web content. Version 5 provides the option of publishing content custom structured URLs that makes content easier to navigate, index, and search. A new run-time XML search application indexes Ingeniux pages and allows for advanced searching of Web pages by section, type and even content field. Ingeniux CMS version 5.2 is available now. Per server licensing starts at $25,000 commercial and $20,000 for non-profit and education. http://www.ingeniux.com

EMC & Microsoft Form New Enterprise Content Management Alliance
10/3/2006

EMC Corporation and Microsoft Corp. announced a new enterprise content management (ECM) alliance. This alliance enables information workers to take advantage of the Microsoft tools and applications to access and contribute to the business processes available in their ECM infrastructure. As part of this strategic alliance, EMC will introduce a set of new content and archiving products that enable tighter integration between the EMC Documentum ECM platform and Microsoft solutions and platform technologies. EMC will bring to market new solutions that integrate the Documentum platform with multiple Microsoft solutions and platform technologies including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, SQL Server 2005 and enterprise search solutions. Information workers will be able to access the Documentum platform natively from within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Microsoft Office system, enabling users to use the Documentum platform in areas such as records management, business process management, imaging and rich media from their Microsoft applications. These solutions from EMC will allow manual or automatic archival of content from SharePoint repositories to a Documentum repository while keeping content accessible and searchable from within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. EMC has also extended the Documentum platform to support Microsoft SQL Server 2005. At the same time, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 customers can leverage enterprise-level content management capabilities including process and repository services for increased functionality and flexibility in collaboration, automation and security. EMC Documentum platform support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is scheduled to be available this quarter. EMC Documentum Content Services for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 and EMC Documentum Archive Services for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 is scheduled to be available during the first quarter of 2007. Prices vary by configuration. http://software.emc.com/, http://www.microsoft.com/

Ipedo Announces Support for Embarcadero ER/Studio & CA AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler
10/3/2006

Ipedo announced support for Embarcadero ER/Studio and CA AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler, two leading data modeling solutions. This support adds third-party data modeling capabilities to Ipedo's enterprise information integration (EII) server, allowing organizations to leverage existing logical data models in Ipedo deployments, and to document Ipedo views for use in other applications. Data architects can now leverage the top-down modeling capabilities that ER/Studio and ERwin offer in EII deployments using Ipedo XIP. An organization's logical data models can be used to generate the corresponding structures in Ipedo. Modeling tools simply create a set of virtual tables in Ipedo, using standard SQL DDL commands, which are then used to create EII views. Companies moving to SOA can also use this capability to automate the conversion of existing relational data models to XML Web Services. ER/Studio and ERwin can also reverse engineer views in Ipedo XIP. A set of virtual tables and views built using Ipedo's bottom-up modeling capabilities appear as standard relational tables, which ER/Studio and ERwin can read to recreate a corresponding logical data model. These models can then be shared and managed in a standard metadata repository, allowing organizations to document EII view models for re-use or compliance purposes. http://www.ipedo.com

Open Text Closes Hummingbird Acquisition
10/2/2006

Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (NASDAQ:TSX:OTC) and Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ:HUMC) (NASDAQ:TSX:HUM) announced that they have closed the transaction pursuant to which all of Hummingbird's common shares were acquired by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Open Text. Open Text, through its wholly owned subsidiary 6575064 Canada Inc. acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Hummingbird at a cash price of US$27.85 per common share which, together with the 764,850 common shares of Hummingbird owned by Open Text prior to the transaction, represent all of the issued and outstanding shares of Hummingbird. The transaction is valued at approximately US$489 million and was previously announced by Open Text on August 4, 2006. The transaction was completed pursuant to a plan of arrangement under section 192 of the Canada Business Corporations Act and an arrangement agreement made as of August 4, 2006, which was amended on September 19, 2006, among 6575064 Canada Inc., Open Text and Hummingbird. The transaction was financed using approximately $58 million of Hummingbird's cash, $25 million of Open Text's cash and by borrowing US$390 million by way of a term loan under new US$465 million senior secured revolving and term credit facilities. http://www.opentext.com

Inxight Offers Free Download of Search Extender for Google Desktop
10/2/2006

Inxight Software, Inc. announced that it is now offering a free download of its Inxight Search Extender for Google Desktop software to help users leverage Inxight's entity extraction and natural-language processing to enhance the Google Desktop search experience. Information that users are seeking is often hidden in the hundreds of pages of "most relevant" documents in a search query. Inxight Search Extender for Google Desktop allows users to see at-a-glance and filter search results sets by the relevant people, companies, products and other information contained within them. Using Inxight's extraction technology, Inxight Search Extender for Google Desktop is an easy-to-install Microsoft .NET application that helps users find documents faster and locate hidden information in document sets, email and presentations. Search Extender gives users better summaries, allows them to see filter search result sets by the relevant people, companies, products and other information contained within them, and makes it easier to navigate through long documents. Search results from Google Desktop are automatically clustered on-the-fly, enabling users to filter their results sets by the people, companies, places, concepts and other information contained within them. Keyword-in-context summaries are enhanced by 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 easy to see what key information is contained within documents, such as that one mention of a potential new competitor in a large PDF file, a certain version of a presentation, or a relevant phone number within a long email thread. To download the free Inxight Search Extender for Google Desktop, go to http://www.inxight.com/products/se_google/download.php

Bowne & Rivet Collaborate to Provide XBRL Data Management Solution
10/2/2006

Bowne & Co., Inc. (NYSE: BNE) announced the formation of a strategic relationship with Rivet Software. With this agreement, Bowne will be offering a comprehensive and flexible suite of solutions available surrounding XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language). Together, Bowne and Rivet will provide a complete interactive data solution, including the creation, management, submission and analysis of XBRL documents; related consulting services; and software support and maintenance. Clients may select from a full-service solution or a self-service model for organizations interested in participating in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC) Voluntary Filing Program. Collaboratively, Bowne and Rivet will provide the following solutions: Dragon Tag, a Microsoft Office-based product for creating instance documents and company extension taxonomies; Dragon View, an XBRL taxonomy and instance document viewer that enables exporting information into Microsoft Excel and forms the basis of the forthcoming SEC XBRL viewer prototype ; Crossfire Analyst, a business-focused application to deliver a solution that enables organizations to collect and analyze XBRL data; and SEC Markup Package, a complete software and service offering for creating and reviewing XBRL financials for submission to the SEC. The SEC this week awarded three contracts to several companies, including Rivet, to maintain and modernize its EDGAR system for the collection and distribution of financial data, as well as to develop a new generation of "interactive" investor tools on the SECs website. http://www.bowne.com, http://www.rivetsoftware.com