Since January 1, 2007 our news has been posted on our new new blog at: http://gilbane.com/news/.

This page, and all the archives will remain in place, and all links to news items between January 1999 through December 2006 will continue to work without change.

The new link for newsfeeds is http://gilbane.com/news/atom.xml

The news blog is at http://gilbane.com/news/

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The Gilbane Group has launched a new blog for publishing its popular information and content technology industry news. The new blog will publish selected industry news chosen by the Gilbane Group NewsShark team, that has been publishing the news since January 1999. The existing news archives from 1999 through 2006 remain in place, and all links to individual and monthly news items continue to work as before. The almost-weekly NewsShark email newsletter will continue to be published as before. The only readers who need to make any changes to continue to receive uninterrupted news are those who subscribe to our news via RSS or Atom newsfeeds. The new link for newsfeeds is http://gilbane.com/news/atom.xml. (Feeds to the archives continue to work on the archives as before). The new blog offers many new features for readers, including standard blog features like commenting and trackbacks and organization of news by category, and new built-in tagging features that allow for search and subscriptions by tag as well as one-click integration with popular tagging tools such as del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, Google, My Yahoo, and Newsvine. The news blog is at http://gilbane.com/news/. The news archives from 1999-2006 are at: http://gilbane.com/news.html.

Gilbane Group Launches New News Blog
1/1/2007

The Gilbane Group has launched a new blog for publishing its popular information and content technology industry news. The new blog will publish selected industry news chosen by the Gilbane Group NewsShark team, that has been publishing the news since January 1999. The existing news archives from 1999 through 2006 remain in place, and all links to individual and monthly news items continue to work as before. The almost-weekly NewsShark email newsletter will continue to be published as before. The only readers who need to make any changes to continue to receive uninterrupted news are those who subscribe to our news via RSS or Atom newsfeeds. The new link for newsfeeds is http://gilbane.com/news/atom.xml. (Feeds to the archives continue to work on the archives as before). The new blog offers many new features for readers, including standard blog features like commenting and trackbacks and organization of news by category, and new built-in tagging features that allow for search and subscriptions by tag as well as one-click integration with popular tagging tools such as del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, Google, My Yahoo, and Newsvine. The news blog is at http://gilbane.com/news/. The news archives from 1999-2006 are at: http://gilbane.com/news.html.

Traction Offers Integrated FAST InStream Search Technology
12/18/2006

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/

Canto Announces BrandAssistant DAM for QuarkXPress
12/14/2006

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

Liferay Unveils Liferay Portal 4.2
12/13/2006

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

IBM and Yahoo! Unveil Free Enterprise Search Software
12/13/2006

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

ClearStory Systems Announces ActiveMedia PowerDeck
12/12/2006

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/

Intalio to Release Entire BPMS under Open Source License
12/12/2006

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

ZyLAB and AITHERAS Partner
12/11/2006

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/

LISA Forum and CM Pros to Co-Locate with 2007 Gilbane Conferences on Content Management Technologies
12/11/2006

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.

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