Nuxeo announced the general availability of its open source Digital Asset Management offering, Nuxeo DAM. Nuxeo DAM is based on their open source ECM platform, Nuxeo EP. Designed with marketing and brand managers in mind, Nuxeo's DAM software aims to help take control of image, video or audio content. Nuxeo DAM meets the currently available draft of the OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification. CMIS is a proposed standard for interoperability across multiple ECM and WCM systems that is expected to be approved this year. Nuxeo EP includes a CMIS Server, based on the latest CMIS specification. As an open source offering, this release of Nuxeo DAM reflects input from the customer and partner community during the beta period. Nuxeo DAM 1.0 - Feature highlights: Asset Capture /Batch Import; Annotations; Intellectual Property and Rights Management; Renditions; Filter-based Navigation; Watermarking & Export of Media Files; Security & Access Control; Configurable Content Model; Browser--based Interface; and IT Ecosystem Integration. http://www.nuxeo.com
Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe premier development partner, announced the immediate availability of Version 6 of the vjoon K4 Cross-Media Publishing Platform. Key features of this update are increased support for cross-media input and output, a task-based workflow model, more options for remote users and enhanced flexibility in the system’s architecture. The latest version of K4 is designed to handle many content types in addition to Adobe CS4 layouts and articles, including documents, spreadsheets, images, rich media, PDFs, XML files, Flash movies, podcasts, presentations and more. The system is built to facilitate publishing to multiple media, allowing content to be pushed to many unique channels, such as print, Web, mobile devices, eBook readers, social networks, syndication and multiple languages. Version 6 manages all types of content, regardless of its source or destination, and allows publishers to define unique workflows for each type of content. K4 Version 6 introduces a workflow model in which users are presented with tasks that describe what has to be done. When a task is accepted, K4 automatically presents users with what they should need to do the job, such as a text file or picture to edit, a layout to work on or a metadata field to fill in. Once all tasks associated with a particular stage of the workflow have been completed, the associated files move forward in the pipeline. This model allows users and supervisors to see exactly what has been done and what still needs to be done. The latest version allows more users to collaborate and complete tasks simultaneously, by offering expanded Web-based interactivity. The built-in K4 Web Portal provides a platform for remote connectivity, which can be extended with server-side plug-ins. The K4 InCopy Editor lets writers and editors work on K4 articles without an InCopy client. The Web CMS Editor provides WYSIWYG authoring and editing for native HTML content. And the K4 File Manager gives K4 users Web access to tasks for a wide variety of content in the system, allowing them to open files in their native applications. K4 Version 6 is a multi-tier solution that supports Oracle, Microsoft SQL and MySQL database platforms and runs on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and SUN Solaris operating systems. http://www.maned.com
Omniture, an Adobe company (NASDAQ:ADBE) announced an integration with CrownPeak that combines Omniture Test&Target with CrownPeak’s content management system (CMS) through Omniture Genesis. Designed to allow marketers to manage content for tests and targeted campaigns from an integrated interface, the combination allows for the creation and deployment of content to drive A/B tests, multivariate tests, and content targeting. As a result, marketers could benefit from the speed and control of Test&Target as well as from the content creation and management workflow of CrownPeak. Through the integration, content is built within CrownPeak’s CMS, then deployed and managed by Omniture Test&Target from within the CMS. The integration should provide the following: Continuous testing and targeting that can automatically promote top performing content; rapid implementation of integration and ongoing deployment of tests without requiring IT involvement, putting control in the hands of marketers; API Integration allows one-step live deployment of offers; easy management of any testing scenario via an integrated interface. www.omniture.com www.crownpeak.com/
KonaKart (e-commerce) and dotCMS (web content management) have announced plans to release java based CMS-driven e-commerce plug-ins and tool sets they have co-developed. Both organizations worked closely together to design and implement the architecture and develop an integrated toolset, with workflows and templates, that could provide a presentation layer across an e-commerce platform. By developing an open architecture (standard plugins) between KonaKart and dotCMS, the framework and integration patterns should allow for marketing and social components to be distributed throughout the e-commerce experience. This architecture introduces system segmentation from core infrastructures, with the goal of stability and security for the e-commerce inner-workings. KonaKart and dotCMS plan to release these plugins and tool-sets in both their open source offerings by the 2nd Quarter of 2010, after which future offerings and support packages may follow. http://www.dotcms.org/ http://www.konakart.com/
Day Software announced the immediate availability of its content management system (CMS), CQ 5.3. CQ 5.3 introduces enhancements for online marketing in Day’s unified Web Content Management (WCM), Digital Asset Management (DAM), and Social Collaboration (SoCo) suite. New with CQ 5.3, Day also introduces its Targeting module, providing online marketers capabilities for customer segmentation and content targeting to optimize online communications and customer experience. CQ 5.3 WCM adds enhanced support for campaign management and optimization. Marketers can now schedule campaigns and target promotions in real-time based on customer site visit behavior. Multi-Variant Testing (MVT) support could help every online marketer to optimize campaign promotions. CQ 5.3 DAM provides Marketing support for site visitors to browse and access an online library of marketing assets. New lightbox supports enables pick lists of marketing assets - including presentation slides, documents, images, videos, and more - to be downloaded as a ZIP file. New drag-and-drop components for uploading, tagging, commenting, and rating assets open up digital libraries for community-generated content. CQ 5.3 DAM also adds MediaRSS support to provide three-dimensional visualization and fly-over navigation of large libraries of digital assets leveraging external service provider CoolIris. Social Collaboration adds new support for Social Calendaring. With an enhanced drag-and-drop calendar component, online marketers can create and target different displays of upcoming events. Targeting provides a library of potential segmentation criteria for both anonymous site visitors as well as registered users. Support for external site browser history, geo-location, and observed site preferences enables segmentation of even anonymous visitors to drive targeted promotions. For repeat visitors, profile-based criteria such as age, gender, past site visit history and others enhance marketing’s ability deliver tailored home page and landing page promotions to reach their target audiences. CQ 5.3. CQ 5.3 is available immediately to current Day customers and partners. http://www.day.com
Atex announced their content management system, atex content, supports direct publication to e-readers and tablet devices. Media companies can capitalize on these technologies to publish content without custom development. The functionality could also allow publishers to develop new digital revenue streams while increasing the level of customer interaction. As e-reader demand is expected to increase as the technology develops, consumers will require more of their content to be delivered digitally. Atex content could help media companies take advantage of this trend with functionality to streamline digital content publishing. Whether it’s from print or the Web, editors can take content and reuse it in digital devices without needing additional staff or hardware. Instead of relying on a few products, e-readers could help media companies diversify what they provide to consumers. Depending on the model used, a media company will be able to track the content customers like most and allow readers to leave comments and answer poll questions. These social features should help publishers build tighter relationships with their readers and understand what content will retain their interest. www.atex.com
Nuxeo announced that it will be introducing Nuxeo Studio. Nuxeo Studio, a configuration and customization environment for Nuxeo ECM, is available as a component of the Nuxeo Connect subscription service. Nuxeo Studio is available as a web-based administrative tool for Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (Nuxeo EP) and packaged applications such as Nuxeo Document Management (Nuxeo DM) or Nuxeo Digital Asset Management (Nuxeo DAM). With a graphical interface, Nuxeo Studio enables information architects and business analysts to configure both Nuxeo EP and Nuxeo DM to adapt to their organization's requirements. Nuxeo Connect is the comprehensive subscription offering delivering software maintenance and support for Nuxeo ECM. In addition to Nuxeo Studio, Nuxeo Connect customers have access to other premium tools and support packages. The support packages target developers and operations, tiered by Silver, Gold, or Platinum service level agreements. www.nuxeo.com
Adeptol released its Document Viewer Enterprise Edition Version 4.4 with a buffering and rendering technology to load documents of size up to 0.5 GB in one second. This new version of Enterprise Viewer introduces features for developers and business users as well as advanced document search capabilities, thumbnails support, watermarking, and page rotation. The Enterprise Viewer uses a built-in optimization technology to get pages directly from the server as they are being rendered. What this means is, users can start reading page one of document immediately and continue to do operations such as search, text selection, scrolling between pages, while rest of the document loads. The viewer estimates the network connection speed, document size, server load among other factors such as browser, client machine memory and is designed to optimize the load time appropriately. Users can view more than 300 document types without the need to download plug-ins or ActiveX components. The new Document Viewer Enterprise Edition is available immediately for existing and new customers. http://www.ajaxdocumentviewer.com
Alfresco announced they will be changing from the GPL license to a LGPL license for Alfresco Community. While GPL is the most common open source license in use today, Alfresco feels that an LGPL license will best suit their plans for their software platform moving forward. One of the key differences between LGPL and the current GPL is that after linking to the Alfresco software, it will not affect the status license of the proprietary software linking to it. The license change will be incorporated into the next update to Alfresco Community, which is due for release in March. www.alfresco.com/
Acquia has launched Drupal Gardens into private beta today, e-mailing out invites to the intial batch of people who signed up to be beta testers. Drupal Gardens is a hosted version of Drupal which is remotely installed, hosted and upgraded. It is designed to have an interface similar to sites such as Wordpress.com or Ning. Equipped with multi-user blogging, commenting, forums, custom content types, and advanced user management, Drupal Gardens aims to be a tool for organizations that want to build social sites. While currently on a private beta you can sign up to request an invite, and Acquia expects to tranisition to a public beta by spring 2010. Drupal Gardens will be available for free to the public throughout all of 2010. www.drupalgardens.com/
