http://www.gilbane.com/ Content Management and XML news, analysis, white papers, and conferences en-us Copyright 1993-2006 Bluebill Advisors Inc. webmaster@gilbane.com editor@gilbane.com http://www.gilbane.com/rss/gilbane_logo_rss.jpg http://www.gilbane.com 140 89 Gilbane Report logo Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:41:05 GMT Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT Traction Software announced the general availability of its Traction TeamPage FAST Search Module. The Module is an integrated option, based on Fast Search & Transfer's FAST InStream OEM search technology solution. The Module is priced at USD $15K per Traction TeamPage Server. By embedding FAST InStream, TeamPage: Extends the TeamPage standard search capability by adding permission-filtered search across over 370 formats of documents attached to Traction TeamPage blog posts or stored in TeamPage web folders; Adds linguistic analysis to automatically extract and rank relevant key words and entities. Entities include company names, person names, locations, and e-mail addresses; Provides interactive drill-down navigation, including AND and OR selection, enabling users to quickly understand their search set and narrow ten's or hundred's of thousands of results down to just a few that are highly relevant using keywords, entities, and metadata attributes; Adds a "Find Similar" choice to posts, comments and search results to make it simple to find other relevant content; Adds automatically calculated Rank order to Newest First and Oldest First sort options. Rank order is determined by automatic linguistic and link analysis, and; Adds search by content types including posts, pages, comments, emails and files. http://www.tractionsoftware.com/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4596 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4596 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT Canto Software announced the immediate availability of BrandAssistant, offering professional digital asset management from within QuarkXPress 7. Designed for Brand Managers, who need absolute control over the assets they manage, BrandAssistant is meant to reduce production and approval delays, decrease time to market and increase asset security and distribution control. In addition to finding cataloged files and composition zones (and using drag & drop to place them in layouts), BrandAssistant enables layout artists to catalog new layouts, autocatalog assets used in those layouts, and even mark files ready for review, without leaving the QuarkXPress environment. The complete text used in layouts can be cataloged as searchable metadata, making it easier to find files based on their content. The asset-relations tracking technology first introduced with Cumulus 7 is included, enabling users to find assets based on their relationships with other assets: contains/is contained in, references/is referenced by, and more. PDF variants of layouts can be created automatically by BrandAssistant, making the review process easy for those without access to QuarkXPress. BrandAssistant is based upon a full version of Cumulus 7 Workgroup, offering complete, version-controlled digital asset management, even for projects outside the QuarkXPress workflow. All file formats are supported, and Cumulus offers enhanced metadata support for the most popular file formats, including PDF, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Illustrator, TIF and many more. From within QuarkXPress 7, users can access and place any file format supported by QuarkXPress, including text, images and composition zones. Outside QuarkXPress 7, users can access asset libraries using the Cumulus Native Client included for Mac OS X and Windows. BrandAssistant can be purchased from authorized Canto resellers at an introductory cost of EUR/USD 5,995 until 1/31/07, and afterwards at EUR/USD 6,795 for a 3-user license. (BrandAssistants Web access for clients ties up no user licenses.) Each system comes with a years worth of Software Maintenance, offering free updates and expert technical support. The BrandAssistant Server is available for Mac OS X (Universal Binary) or Windows (2000, 2003, XP). Cumulus Client software is available for Mac OS X, Windows and the Web. http://www.canto.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4594 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4594 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) introduced new, free enterprise search software with Web search services powered by Yahoo! that enables departments and businesses of all sizes to find, access and capitalize on information stored within organizations and across the Web. IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is a no-cost, entry level enterprise search product developed to help eliminate financial and technology barriers to intranet and Web search. The new offering from IBM with Web search services powered by Yahoo! can be downloaded for free and is simple to install and use with existing hardware. The offering supports up to 500,000 documents per server, more than 200 file types and documents in more than 30 languages. It features a three-click installation process and takes customers only minutes to go from download to live search and information access. IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition also uses the open source Lucene indexing library to provide cross-platform full text indexing. IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition offers automatic spell correction, support for synonyms and shortcuts, wildcard support to substitute for unknown characters, query reporting, and graphical user interface customization. In addition, it is fully integrated with Yahoo! Search, providing one-click access to send queries to Yahoo! web, image, video, audio, directory, local and news search services. The new software complements IBM's existing OmniFind search and content discovery software. It provides a no-cost entry point for clients who want to get started with basic search but might have future needs for advanced secured search, or capabilities beyond traditional search such as business analytics, quality insight reporting, e-commerce or customer service self-help, or who want to leverage their unstructured information more broadly as a service throughout the enterprise. Worldwide, enterprise-class phone support (for a fee) is available from IBM. IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is available at no charge and can be downloaded at http://omnifind.ibm.yahoo.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4593 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4593 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT Liferay announced the release of Liferay Portal 4.2. The latest version offers added back-end enhancements to workflow and content management via integration with ServiceMix JBI, jBPM workflow engine, and Alfresco, as well as new features such as chat and other user-interface enhancements to improve end-user experience and collaboration. New upgrades in Version 4.2 include integration with the ServiceMix JBI (Java Business Integration) engine, which acts as a single point of connection for disparate enterprise applications. ServiceMix simplifies the integration, upgrade and substitution of siloed applications such as CRM, ERP, and ECM, reducing development time and lowering maintenance costs. Other new features of Liferay Portal 4.2 include: jBPM workflow engine allows developers to quickly change application workflow to reflect evolving business processes; Liferay Chat a secure, portal-based instant messaging solution with an intuitive AJAX/Web 2.0 interface; Alfresco integration allows users to manage enterprise content directly through the Liferay Portal environment; A new parallel portlet rendering engine reduces end-user wait time by allowing portlets to load independently. Liferay Portal, available at no cost under the MIT license, supports all major middleware and database platforms including JBoss JEMS, BEA Platform, WebSphere, Tomcat, Oracle, mySQL and SQLServer. It also complies with major standards such as JSR-168 and JSR-170. Version 4.2 is available in both current editions of Liferay PortalLiferay Portal Professional, the standard product; and Liferay Portal Enterprise, which includes all Professional features plus the ability to cluster portlet transactions across multiple servers. The product is available for immediate download in both editions at http://www.liferay.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4595 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4595 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT Intalio, Inc. announced that Intalio|BPMS Community Edition will be released under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) amended with the Generic Attribution Provision submitted to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) earlier this year.Intalio|BPMS Community Edition includes an Eclipse-based business process design tool that supports the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). It also generates executable processes using the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), a BPEL execution engine that can be deployed on top of any J2EE application server, and a workflow framework that supports the BPEL4People model developed by IBM (NYSE: IBM) and SAP (NYSE: SAP). Users of the Open Source Intalio|BPMS Community Edition can later on upgrade to Intalio|BPMS Enterprise Edition through a yearly subscription plan. Using a model similar to the one pioneered by other commercial open source companies such as JBoss, SugarCRM and Zimbra, customers of Intalio|BPMS Enterprise Edition get access to professional support, patch updates, advanced enterprise features, and a comprehensive Open Source indemnification program. While Intalio|BPMS Community Edition will be developed through Intalio's own Open Source community, Intalio will continue to increase its participation to the STP BPMN project hosted by the Eclipse Foundation, and the ODE BPEL project hosted by the Apache Software Foundation. The code produced by both projects and originally donated by Intalio will be integrated back into Intalio|BPMS Community Edition on a regular basis. The code for Intalio|BPMS Community Edition will be released in the first quarter of 2007 and will be available at http://www.intalio.org http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4589 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4589 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT ClearStory Systems, Inc. announces the availability of ActiveMedia PowerDeck, a presentation management solution designed to manage the effectiveness, compliance and brand consistency of Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. By providing access to a centralized library of approved presentation content, PowerDeck gives individual users or cross-departmental teams the ability to share ideas, eliminate redundancy and ensure messaging accuracy. By applying specific rules-based policies, companies gain more value from their business communications and the assurance that messaging and branding remain consistent. When graphics or templates need to be changed, all presentations sharing common content can be automatically updated with PowerDeck. Tracking mechanisms and usage reports provide information on delivery and use of presentations. PowerDeck also provides easy portability by offering users the ability to email presentations as web links, instead of distributing hefty files across networks and the Internet. PowerDeck integrated with ActiveMedia manages presentations as part of an enterprise-wide business communications solution that can draw from an organization's entire repository of approved marketing graphics, photos and multi-media. Also offered as a hosted solution, PowerDeck provides a central repository of presentations with control mechanisms and centralized assembly, management and delivery. http://www.clearstorysystems.com/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4591 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4591 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference series is extending its reach into complementary technologies in 2007 with the co-location of both the LISA Forum and the CM Pros Summit. Having established itself as the industry's top forum for bringing together industry experts, vendors and end users to share new content management technologies and experiences, the addition of these new events to the Gilbane Conferences will help further educate attendees and drive business success. LISA (Localization Industry Standards Association) is one of the leading international associations for globalization professionals and organizations doing business around the world. It has distilled the right ways and wrong ways of supporting international customers, products and services over the last fifteen years from more than 500 corporate members, public & private institutions, government ministries and trade organizations. CM Pros (Content Management Professionals Association) is the worldwide organization for people who want to learn more about content management from other CM professionals. In its three years since inception, the Gilbane Conferences (Boston, Washington DC and San Francisco) have rapidly gained a reputation for being the premiere content management events to attend due to the focus of providing neutral and educational information to attendees. The events will offer attendees a chance to learn about Web content management, enterprise content management, collaboration, enterprise wikis & blogs, globalization & localization, enterprise search & search based applications, enterprise digital rights management, and automated publishing. For more information on the 2007 Gilbane Conferences, visit: http://gilbanesf.com, http://gilbanedc.com/, http://gilbaneboston.com. http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4588 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4588 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT ZyLAB announced that AITHERAS, LLC (AITHERAS) has joined the family of Authorized ZyLAB Document Conversion Partners. The two organizations will work together to provide full lifecycle solutions for archiving, finding, managing, and sharing scanned and stored information. AITHERAS provides document management services, including scanning, data warehousing and image compression, out of its facility in Pittsburgh, PA. Once this data is scanned and/or stored the ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform provides a foundation for the archiving and long-term management of information, from digitized paper documents, to electronic files, to email and attachments, to multimedia. The Information Access Platform's core technology means that finding, accessing, and organizing specific data can be performed through a standard browser in a secure fashion. http://www.aitheras.com/, http://www.zylab.com/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4592 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4592 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), a leader in content visualization, secure publishing and collaboration technology announced the release of Net-It Central 7.0. Net-It Central automatically indexes and publishes documents and provides a web-based interface for users to find and view content. Users simply save documents to a monitored directory using the source application, like Microsoft Word or PowerPoint, and Net-It Central detects and converts the new or updated file to PDF, Flash or CDL as part of a content searchable document library. Net-It Central is simple and has interoperability with other intranet and/or portal solutions. The Net-It Central 7.0 release improves publishing performance, fidelity, and the overall user experience. The Net-It Central server has a new interface and features that make document sites easier to set up and manage. The included viewer is now based on IGC's Brava! products, adding new features and enhancing usability. Customers who use Net-It Central for releasing policy and procedures will get the "I have read this" indicator, which tracks who has read each new policy document. Also included in the 7.0 package are the improved Subscribe (to folder) and Approval (before publishing) plug-ins. Net-It Central v7 now includes support for IGC's Content Sealed Format (CSF) with Visual Rights content security controls. Users can now create secure, CSF renditions of their documents (similar to PDF) using the free Net-It Now tool and contribute them to Net-It Central. This allows more secure, controlled access to document information. Or use IGC's Brava! products to redact (block out information) documents, save to either PDF or CSF and contribute them to the document site. http://www.net-it.com, http://www.infograph.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4590 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4590 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT Fast Search & Transfer (OSEAX: FAST.OL) (FAST) announced an OEM partnership with Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc., a leading provider of secure, web-based repositories to the legal, insurance and financial markets. Catalyst will leverage FAST InStream, FAST's OEM-specific search technology, as the core search platform for its Catalyst CR data repository. Catalyst CR 6.0 (Grid Edition), running FAST InStream, will be available to the public on December 12, 2006. Information about Catalysts use of the FAST technology can be found at http://www.fastsearch.com/crs, http://www.catalystsecure.com, http://www.fastsearch.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4585 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4585 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT Mondosoft and EPiServer released the complete software integration of MondoSearch for EPiServer CMS. Mondosoft has been working closely with Swedish CMS vendor EPiServer for several years, with more than 100 implementations of the first integration, the 1.0. The launch of MondoSearch 2.0 for EPiServer is a tighter integration between the two software solutions. MondoSearch for EPiServer is 100% integrated in EPiServer and gives web editors the possibility to access data on how the site is performing, search statistics and analysis of visitors' behaviour on the site. More information about the integration is available on http://www.mondosoft.com/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4586 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4586 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced the immediate availability of the Adobe Acrobat Connect software product line for communicating and collaborating instantly through real-time, interactive web conferencing. The Acrobat Connect product line addresses online collaboration needs from casual to intensive web conferencing users. The entry-level Acrobat Connect hosted service provides users with essential collaboration tools, such as screen sharing, whiteboarding, chat, video conferencing, and audio conferencingall for unlimited usage for up to 15 participants for one low monthly fee. Additionally, with one-button "Start Meeting" access from Acrobat 8 and Adobe Reader 8 software, users can launch Acrobat Connect directly from a document to start collaborating immediately. The entire Acrobat family consists of Acrobat 8 Professional, Acrobat 8 Standard, Acrobat 8 Elements, Acrobat 3D Version 8, Acrobat Connect, and Acrobat Connect Professional. The Acrobat Connect hosted service is currently available as a free trial version through the end of the current calendar year. The commercial release of Acrobat Connect, initially available in English, is expected to be available in January 2007 for a subscription price of US$39 per month, or US$395 per year per personal meeting room. Acrobat Connect Professional is available in English, French, German, Japanese, and Korean, starting at US$15,000 depending on configuration, and is licensed on a named user, as well as concurrent port basis. Existing licensed customers of the Macromedia Breeze solution with up-to-date maintenance plans may be eligible for updates to Acrobat Connect Professional and new versions of the Adobe Connect servers. Adobe also released Reader 8, which features a new, streamlined interface with user customizable toolbars. Adobe Acrobat Professional users can now enable Adobe Reader users to fill and submit forms, save data and digitally sign documents. Adobe Reader 8 also has graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration, which boosts performance when viewing graphics-intense PDF files, such as 3D content. A free trial version of Acrobat Connect Professional is available at http://www.adobe.com/go/tryconnectpro, http://www.adobe.com/go/getreader/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4587 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4587 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT JustSystems, Inc. announced plans to launch its new xfy XBRL Solution. Designed to provide organizations with major benefits in the preparation, analysis and communication of financial information, the xfy XBRL Solution will enable more accurate and less expensive financial reporting. The JustSystems xfy XBRL Solution is designed to drive down the cost of compliance, and reduce the time and cost involved with increasingly stringent SEC and other regulatory filings. This financial reporting tool features dynamic, visual presentation of financial data while leveraging the accuracy and reliability inherent to the XBRL standard. Scheduled for availability in Q1 2007, the JustSystems xfy XBRL Solution is based on xfy Enterprise Edition, which allows end users to connect disparate internal and external information silos with two-way information capability, while also enabling the end-user to benefit from highly-customizable visual presentation capabilities. http://www.justsystems.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4578 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4578 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT Xythos Software announced the introduction of its Xythos on Demand secure file storage and collaboration service. The new service is intended to meet the needs of small to medium sized organizations which do not have the resources to install and manage their own document and file management systems. However, Xythos on Demand operates on the same Xythos enterprise-class platform employed by Fortune 500 and federal government organizations. The new service provides collaborative features that simplify how users share information both within and between organizations, including document level access control and versioning, content change notification and email integration. Xythos on Demand offers both individual and group accounts, including a free 30 day trial for either service. Ongoing monthly service costs as little as $4.95 per month for a single user account or $39.95 per month for a 10 user account. Customers can also increase storage and bandwidth quotas at any time. Xythos on Demand utilizes enterprise-class security for user authentication and file encryption. http://www.xythosondemand.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4579 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4579 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT Whitehill Technologies, Inc. announced the release of Whitehill Enterprise 5.6, a document generation solution for legal and professional services firms. Whitehill Enterprise 5.6 is a server-based solution that automatically transforms text-based output from time and billing systems into professional-looking documents. Whitehill Enterprise gives firms the ability to capture information from multiple print and data streams, intelligently recognize and identify it, format the data, and generate a range of customizable document types and styles. Whitehill Enterprise also distributes finished documents automatically via a range of print or electronic delivery options. Enhancements in Whitehill Enterprise 5.6 include integration and support for Interwoven WorkSite 8, a document management solution commonly used in legal and professional services firms. Generated documents can be automatically stored in Worksite for secure access by firm staff, and can be included in Workspaces to facilitate matter-centric collaboration. The new release of Whitehill Enterprise features an updated user interface and a number of enhancements such as improved logging, and more flexible integration with time and billing systems via improved file transferring. Version 5.6 also provides the ability to override the document production method at the template level, enabling gradual adoption of the efficient WordML engine. http://www.whitehilltech.com http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4580 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4580 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT CollabraSpace announced the release of CollabraSuite 5.0 BEA Edition. This newest version, which is designed to complement BEA WebLogic Portal 9.2 and AquaLogic Interaction (ALI), includes updates that are designed to place more control in the hands of the end user to help them to configure their virtual work environments for real-time collaboration. Using the new CollabraSuite 5.0 BEA Edition, organizations can deploy a secure, real-time collaboration solution, including features such as presence awareness, instant messaging, shared whiteboard, audio/video and web conferencing and room locking. The software has also been designed to integrate seamlessly with BEA AquaLogic Interaction (ALI), part of BEA's AquaLogic User Interaction family, a portal suite built from the ground up to support both Java and .NET environments. CollabraSuite 5.0 BEA Edition is immediately available and can be downloaded at http://commerce.bea.com/showallversions.jsp?family=COLLABRASUITE, http://www.collabraspace.com/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4581 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4581 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT W3C has revised the widely deployed XML formatting standard XSL-FO 1.0 (now 1.1)to support the creation of back-of-the-book style indexes, revision bars, PDF bookmarks, conditional text "markers" in tables (for example to support partial sums of financial data), access to the number of the last page of a group, and multiple flows on a page, and to include other popular features. The new XSL-FO 1.1 Recommendation increases interoperability by standardizing these features and other enhancements, formerly only available as proprietary extensions. In addition to adding these features to XSL-FO 1.1, the XSL Working Group enhanced a number of XSL-FO 1.0 features, providing for multiple color profile references, more complex page numbering schemes, and clarifications for internationalization. These changes, and the incorporation of corrected errata, represent the incremental evolution of the XSL-FO 1.0 specification. The Working Group has made these changes with careful attention both to backwards compatibility and to interoperability between existing implementations. At the W3C International Workshop on the future of the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL-FO) Version 2.0 in October 2006, nearly 40 participants agreed that work should begin on XSL-FO 2.0. W3C expects this work to begin in earnest in January 2007. Non-Member organizations interested in participating are encouraged to contact W3C for information on joining the Consortium and this Working Group in particular. See the XSL-FO 1.1 Recommendation at http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xsl11-20061205/http://www.w3.org/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4584 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4584 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced significant product line enhancements along with pricing and availability of the Microsoft Expression Studio for creative professionals. Expression Studio, a component of Microsoft's strategy for improving the user experience delivered by applications, provides designers with a tools platform that boosts collaboration with developers in the delivery of user experiences for the Web and Vista applications. Expression Studio comprises Expression Web for creating standards-based Web sites; Expression Blend (formally Interactive Designer) for designing rich interactive experiences for Windows; Expression Design (formally Graphic Designer) for the design of visual elements for Web and Windows experiences; and a new tool, Expression Media, which provides digital asset management and unifies team workflow across the suite. Expression Web is shipping today, and the full Expression Studio is planned for delivery in the second quarter of 2007. Expression Media, based on the iView MediaPro product acquired by Microsoft earlier this year, supports more than 100 media formats and provides offline access to visual catalogs. Expression Media includes Expression Media Encoder, a solution for the preparation, encoding and deployment of rich video and audio for Web and Windows experiences. A first CTP of Expression Media is expected early in 2007. Also made available is the first CTP of Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/E). WPF/E is a cross-platform browser plug-in for delivering rich media, animation and video content based on Windows Media technology. Expression Web is available for an estimated retail price (ERP) of $299 (U.S.), and qualifying users of FrontPage can upgrade to Expression Web for $99 ERP. Shipping in the second quarter of 2007, Expression Blend will be available for $499 ERP, Expression Media for $299 ERP, and the full Expression Studio for $599 ERP. When it ships, Expression Studio will also be available as a $349 ERP upgrade to users who have purchased Expression Web and other qualifying Microsoft products. http://www.microsoft.com/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4576 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4576 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT Kapow Technologies unveiled openkapow, a software service and developer community designed to accelerate mashup adoption and industry best practices in mashup design. Mashups represent an approach to building composite applications utilizing a host of Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX, Ruby, RSS, ATOM, REST, and SOAP-based web services. openkapow is based on the Kapow Mashup Server, a solution for building mashups. Using a new visual programming language built into openkapow, tasks can be completed quickly, purely through visual point-and-click techniques. openkapow is built on the Kapow Mashup Server version 6.2. Any application component with a web interface can be repurposed using the Kapow Mashup Server, including Web-based content, data or business logic. The Kapow Mashup Server is a Java-based solution that supports all leading operating systems, databases, and key Internet and Web 2.0 protocols. http://www.kapowtech.com/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4582 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4582 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT X1 Technologies announced an enterprise search content connector for the Symantec Enterprise Vault. By integrating X1 with Symantec Enterprise Vault, the email archiving solution, joint customers can quickly find, preview and take action on all email locally in a single interface, whether it resides in a Symantec Enterprise Vault archive, PST file, public folder or Outlook. With the X1 Content Connector for Symantec Enterprise Vault, security is maintained with full searchabilty and usability. The integration, which was achieved through certification by the Symantec Technology Enabled Program (STEP), is transparent to end users. Users do not need knowledge of where email or attachments reside in order to search, preview and take action. X1 preserves the integrity of the company's security model, allowing search but preventing deletes or moves from the Symantec Enterprise Vault archive. In addition the X1 Content Connector for Symantec Enterprise Vault enables: Post-search actions such as Open, Forward, Reply, Print; Automatic detection of Symantec Enterprise Vault archives and addition to the X1 index; Export of selections to PST, and; Leverage of the full X1 Enterprise Platform for information search across all enterprise and desktop content. X1 Content Connector for Symantec Enterprise Vault is available immediately. http://www.x1.com/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4583 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4583 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT Bitrix Inc. announces the release of new Bitrix Site Manager 5.1 - web content management system. The new version has been globally tested and optimized. There is a new AJAX-enabled user interface, and a new module to create blogs, training courses, examination tests, and manage affiliate networks. The e-Store now features a flexible system of discounts and coupons. Version 5.1 offers a new tabbed Control Panel with the three modes: "Public section" to view the site as-is; "Edit site" in which system control areas are highlighted and powered with management tools; and the common "Control Panel." The new interface provides for fast switching between the three modes. For convenience, the tab bar can be pinned on top of the browser window. All product editions now can import and export data from/to information blocks in the CSV format (e.g. for communication with MS Excel). The Small Business edition now contains the Forum and Newsletter modules. The Professional and Enterprise editions now include the Blogs and e-Learning modules. Additionally, the Enterprise edition is empowered with the AD/LDAP module. All users of older versions of Bitrix Site Manager whose techsupport subscription is active can update their systems for free via the SiteUpdate to upgrade to Bitrix Site Manager 5.1. You can test-drive Bitrix Site Manager by downloading and installing the fully functional trial version at http://www.bitrixsoft.com/download/ http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4577 http://gilbane.com/content_management_news.pl/2006/12/content_management_news.html#4577