February 2007 Archives

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that it is bringing Google Gadgets - or consumer-style web utilities - into commercial portal software. Available at no cost to WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Portal Express Version 6.0 customers, IBM now lets users create, customize and use rich Internet applications with Google Gadgets directly from within WebSphere Portal so they appear as ready-to-use services. Users can choose from nearly 4,000 Google Gadgets such as language translators, package delivery tracking, Podcast searches, Wikipedia information, YouTube postings and more. These features can be offered through a company's portal with a click of a button. IBM is also announcing its search sitemap utility, based on a new sitemap protocol, agreed on by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, that will make it possible to optimize publication of portal content for improved search by public search engines. This feature also includes the ability to notify search engines of the update frequency, last modification date, and relative priority of the content that is being published. The end result is an improved content relationship with external search engines so that all of the public content in a portal can be found and crawled efficiently. The IBM Portlet for Google Gadgets will be available in April via IBM WebSphere Portal catalog. WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 customers, including those using WebSphere Portal Express to deploy solutions for Small and Medium Sized businesses and WebSphere Portal Server Version 6.0 are entitled to use Google Gadget at no cost. Enablement for the Sitemap 0.90 protocol will be delivered for WebSphere Portal as a sitemap utility that customers can download from the WebSphere Portal catalog later in 2007. http://catalog.lotus.com/wps/portal/portal,
http://www.sitemaps.org/

Atlassian announced the release of Confluence Hosted, a new hosted service to make wiki-based collaboration more accessible for small, mid, or large organisations or groups with limited IT resources. Confluence Hosted is based on the Atlassian Confluence enterprise wiki. Features include: Immediate accessibility with no installation required, Unlimited pages and unlimited spaces, WYSIWYG interface, Ability to store and search across all types of files (PPT, Word, PDF, GIF, etc), Enterprise-grade security and permissioning, and Email and RSS integration and support. Confluence Hosted customers can remain on Hosted indefinitely or they can bring the wiki on-premise at any time. Contegix, a provider of managed hosting applications, was selected to provide hosting services. A free, fully functional 30-day evaluation of Confluence Hosted is available. Its tiered pricing model starts at US$49 per month. http://www.atlassian.com

Gilbane Group Inc. announced the completion of the first phase of its planned expansion for 2007. In the first quarter of this year, the Gilbane group has added three new analysts, four new consulting practices, and six new analyst blogs. Enterprise Search expert Lynda Moulton, Collaboration expert Geoffrey Bock, and Web Content Management expert Tony White join the Gilbane roster of industry veterans: New Enterprise Search Practice & Blog - Lead Analyst Lynda Moulton covers enterprise search and information access technologies and applications at http://gilbane.com/search_blog/; New Collaboration Practice & Blog - Lead Analyst Geoffrey Bock covers tools and practices for business collaboration, including the use of "social media" tools such as blogs and wikis at http://gilbane.com/collaboration/; New Globalization Practice & Blog - Lead Analyst Leonor Ciarlone and Mary Laplante with Contributor Kaija Poysti cover content globalization & localization at http://gilbane.com/globalization/; New Web Content Management Practice & Blog –Lead Analyst Tony White covers web content management technologies and strategies at http://gilbane.com/web_content_management_blog/; New Publishing Technology & Strategy Blog –Our existing Publishing Practice led by Steve Paxhia, with Senior Analysts Bill Trippe, Bill Rosenblatt, and Thad McIlroy now has a blog to complement their service at http://gilbane.com/publishing_blog/; and our New Industry News Blog seamlessly continues our 8-year coverage of hype-free information and content management technology news, but with added “Web 2.0” features for finding, organizing and sharing news at http://gilbane.com/news/. In addition to growing the analyst team to meet the increasing demand for reliable information and advice on the information technology areas they cover, the Gilbane group has built a new platform for collaborating with customers and partners using enterprise blog technology. The new platform includes tagging, comments, trackbacks, and topic-oriented newsfeeds, allowing Gilbane Group analysts to collaborate more dynamically, and combined with the Gilbane series of conferences and webinars, to do so all year round. Analyst biographies, contact information, and links to all Gilbane Group content are at http://gilbane.com.

HiSoftware, a provider of software, services and managed operation solutions that monitor and optimize Web content governance, quality and regulatory compliance, today announced the release of Compliance Sheriff, a hosted management solution that provides testing and reporting for standards-based policies including accessibility and privacy. HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff allows organizations to integrate an automated solution for managing Web Governance standards as part of a corporate Risk Management strategy. HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff’s modules allow users to test for standards-based and custom factors including: Accessibility Compliance module can report on Section 508, WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0, CLF, XAG and any standard derived from WCAG or Section 508; Privacy Policy Compliance module can report on a number of multi-national regulatory and compliancy standards including: Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), Children’s Online Privacy Act (COPPA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), US Privacy Act and other key US and international standards; Custom Guideline and Policy Compliance for all content including but not limited to: HTML, XHTML, SVG, XML and any other text or element based content. HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff provides an integrated digital Dashboard Reporting System that provides access to executive level summary reports. HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff is available immediately through HiSoftware and its authorized resellers as a hosted server solution. Solutions start at $4,995 for SMB offerings to $25,000 per module. http://www.hisoftware.com

Surety, LLC, a provider of data integrity solutions, announced an exclusive technology partnership with SRC Solutions, a Xerox business partner. The alliance focuses on the integration of Surety’s AbsoluteProof digital time-stamp solution with the Xerox DocuShare enterprise content management (ECM) solution to enable SRC's customers to protect their intellectual property, defend their electronic evidence in litigation and comply with regulatory mandates by proving that their electronic records have never been tampered. The integration of Surety's AbsoluteProof service into the Xerox DocuShare platform provides an electronic document solution that offers an independent, third-party means of validating the date and time of generation as well as the integrity of any electronic record within the system. Surety's AbsoluteProof is a time-stamping method that offers long-lasting protection, provides objective proof of record integrity independent of a company's people, processes and systems, and complies with domestic and international standards. The AbsoluteProof timestamp service is compatible with any file format. Development of the integration module is now complete, and the joint solution is available to the general market immediately.
http://www.surety.com, http://www.src-solutions.com

WebsiteASP, Inc., provider of web content management systems (CMS) for higher education, announced the release of OmniUpdate version 7. OmniUpdate 7 is a CMS that allows institutions to manage both legacy HTML content and XML-based content within a single environment. This ability to support both static web pages and dynamic XSLT template-controlled publishing targets the need for all-or-nothing site conversions and the risks of implementing an XML-based CMS. OmniUpdate 7 supports full page, in-context editing for all data content types including XML, rather than having to choose between full page editing and no XML support, or XML support with restricted forms-based editing. Based on XML/XSLT standards, OmniUpdate version 7 provides template controlled publishing and repurposing to multiple outputs including XML, XHTML, HTML, text, and virtually any other file type. The ability to mix HTML/XHTML and XML, with output controlled via XSL transformation templates, offers institutions a complete solution for handling legacy content while utilizing the latest technologies. OmniUpdate version 7 is available immediately and is delivered as an on-demand service. http://www.omniupdate.com

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) announced the availability of the EMC Documentum Process Suite, a comprehensive business process management (BPM) solution for analyzing, modeling, orchestrating and optimizing a wide range of enterprise processes involving people, systems, content and data. The Documentum Process Suite provide organizations with the ability to manage both processes and the information that drives them. The introduction of the Documentum Process Suite marks the integration of the process analysis and business activity monitoring software gained from EMC's June 2006 acquisition of Proactivity Inc., with EMC's existing Documentum business process management capabilities. Designed to work with the Documentum enterprise content management (ECM) platform, the Documentum Process Suite allows both structured data and unstructured content to be captured and utilized to improve operational efficiency, then archived and stored to meet regulatory compliance requirements. The software also provides process lifecycle management, with capabilities to optimize process performance at each stage in the process lifecycle, from design and analysis through execution and monitoring. EMC Documentum Process Suite is available immediately. http://www.software.emc.com/bpm

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced that it will offer its next release under the GNU Public License (GPL). Alfresco previously licensed its software under the Mozilla Public License with a clause requiring attribution. Alfresco provides its software under a number of flexible licenses, designed to meet the particular requirements of different types of customers. For Open Source Projects: If customers are developing and distributing open source software under the GPL they are free to use Alfresco under the GPL License. If they are developing and distributing open source software under an OSI-Approved License, but not the GPL, and want to link Alfresco's GPL software with theirs, Alfresco provides the GPL License with a FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open-Source Software) Exception. For Commercial OEMs, ISVs and VARs who distribute Alfresco with their proprietary products, and do not wish to license and distribute their source code under the GPL, Alfresco provides a flexible OEM Commercial License. For Enterprises, Government Organizations, Small-to-Medium-sized Businesses, Alfresco licenses Alfresco Enterprise under a Commercial License to paid subscribers, similar to how MySQL, Red Hat, and other open source companies license their technology. Those wishing to use Alfresco for free under the GPL are able to download Alfresco Community. The re-licensing will not affect community users' rights in code they have accepted under the modified MPL prior to February 2007. However, if community customers download an update from Alfresco after the February 2007 release of Alfresco Community 2.0, the update will be covered by the GPL plus FLOSS exception. The Alfresco FLOSS Exception enables software provided under existing OSI-approved open source licenses to incorporate the Alfresco Community software without having to license the entire software package under the terms of the GPL. The license change does not affect Alfresco Enterprise customers or use of any software customers received from Alfresco prior to February release of Alfresco 2.0. http://www.alfresco.com/legal/licensing/faq

Postini, Inc. announced that it has joined the Google Enterprise Professional program. Postini is offering new communications management and compliance solutions that are designed to allow businesses worldwide to recover lost messages, control business policies, protect from threats, and comply with legal and industry mandates for e-discovery and production of email. These new Postini solutions are integrated with Google Apps Premier Edition, and are available as unified and on-demand services. Postini is offering a range of communications compliance and management solutions for customers of Google Apps Premier Edition. They include: Message recovery - providing the ability for administrators to restore accidentally deleted messages; Centralized management of all user accounts - allowing administrators to centrally control policy and content; Threat management - delivering protection from a broad range of threats to critical business communications; Archiving for compliance and e-discovery - helping businesses comply with legal and industry mandates to archive, discover, and produce electronic communications. http://www.postini.com/google_apps/

Coveo Solutions Inc. announced the extension of its secure search solutions by introducing Coveo Audio Video Search (CAVS), a rich media content search application. CAVS accesses rich media content, enabling users to search across this content just as they would in document content. The new search application integrates with Coveo Enterprise Search using a technology that leverages enterprise knowledge to improve search precision, and enables proper names, employee names and domain terms to be automatically recognized. CAVS is seamlessly integrated with the Microsoft SharePoint collaboration and content management platform, transforming it into a multimedia content management system. http://www.coveo.com

Medicity announced it will provide portal applications and support to healthcare organizations for an open source, content management system. Medicity’s portal offering, called ProAccess CMS, combines the Company’s healthcare expertise with open source technology to help organizations address the communication requirements of employees, patients, and consumers. Medicity will market its library of modules and applications to healthcare organizations for developing managed content for both public and private web portals. The company has converted all of its most popular modules from their proprietary infrastructure for deployment on the DotNetNuke open source framework. Medicity will host a new web site to support its strategy. The site will offer details about DotNetNuke and the ProAccess CMS modules, including commonly asked questions and an open forum to post messages. Interested organizations can register for a log-in to the ProAccess CMS demonstration site to begin using the product. For organizations interested in traditional vendor implementation and support for their content management systems, Medicity will continue to provide professional services including project management, development, graphic design, help desk support, and hosting. ProAccess CMS is a major component in the Medicity line of products that manages the complex issues of clinical data integration between legacy systems within a healthcare enterprise and in cross-enterprise care communities. The complete Medicity product offering includes both MediTrust infrastructure and ProAccess clinical application components. http://cms.medicity.com

Inmagic, Inc. announced the general release of v2.0 of Inmagic Presto, its research asset management software. Presto is a Web-based enterprise software application that enables organizations with dynamic content in diverse formats and locations to actively manage that content and provide 24 x 7 access to it. Presto v2.0’s event logging capabilities enable information professionals to track all changes to Presto content and provide an audit trail. Through Presto v2.0’s alerts capability, individual Presto users can define multiple personalized alerts based on system or user events, or on search queries. End users may want to be alerted when information matching designated criteria or a previous search query is added to Presto. Information professionals who administer the Presto system may want to be alerted when end users make certain kinds of changes to Presto. Alerts can be received via email, through a "My Alerts" section of a portlet or by using an RSS reader. In Presto v2.0, non-technical users can configure each content type and determine how search results will be ranked for each of those types. Presto "puts a wrapper around" HTML and XML functionality so that non-technical users can work with a straightforward, easily-grasped user interface to configure how various types of content are presented in Presto. A preview screen shows how the resulting configuration would appear. Presto is a permission-based system. Presto v2.0 continues to support Microsoft SQL Server, and now supports Microsoft SQL Server Express as well. Inmagic offers both licensed and hosted SaaS delivery models. Presto can be installed locally on an organization’s own servers or hosted at Inmagic’s datacenter. http://www.inmagic.com

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) introduced Google Apps Premier Edition, a new version of Google’s hosted services for communication and collaboration designed for businesses of all sizes. Google Apps Premier Edition is available for $50 per user account per year, and includes phone support, additional storage, and a new set of administration and business integration capabilities. Google Apps, launched as a free service in August 2006, is a suite of applications that includes Gmail webmail services, Google Calendar shared calendaring, Google Talk instant messaging and voice-over-IP, and the Start Page feature for creating a customizable home page on a specific domain. Google Apps Premier Edition now joins Google Apps Standard Edition and Google Apps Education Edition, both of which will continue to be offered for free to organizations. Google also announced that all editions of Google Apps now include Google Docs & Spreadsheets. In addition, Google Apps now supports Gmail for mobile on BlackBerry handheld devices. Features unique to Google Apps Premier Edition include: 10 GBs of storage per user, APIs for business integration, 99.9 % uptime, 24x7 support, advertising optional, and $50 per user account per year. In addition to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk and Start Page, all editions of Google Apps now include: Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Gmail for mobile devices on BlackBerry, and Application-level control. Google Enterprise Professional partners like Avaya and Postini are developing solutions based on Google APIs, including email gateways, enhanced security, Google Calendar synchronization, third-party integration with Google Talk, as well as offering deployment, migration, and additional support services. Google hosted applications are available in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. http://www.google.com/

Flatirons Solutions their Dynamic Content Delivery Solution. This XML-based technology offering will provide enterprises with the ability to meet personalized content needs of their customers, vendors and partners. The Dynamic Content Delivery Solution leverages the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and XQuery standards and the search and retrieval capabilities provided by the MarkLogic Server. This solution provides for dynamically customizing content, and will give organizations the ability to deliver content, relevance and value to "an audience of one". The Dynamic Delivery Solution is designed for enterprises and government organizations publishing complex XML-based content to multiple audiences and formats. Industries include but are not limited to: computer hardware, software, semiconductors, medical devices, telecom, financial services, and manufacturing. http://www.FlatironsSolutions.com

Convera Corporation (NASDAQ:CNVR) launched the beta phase of Convera Publisher Control Panel. The new service enables print and online publishers to add, manage and refine vertical search capabilities so they can develop search-based revenues for their Web sites. Convera Publisher Control Panel is available for customers of Convera's hosted vertical search service that provides a customized search engine for content publishers serving professional markets. With Convera Publisher Control Panel, publishers can apply their industry and editorial expertise to define a list of relevant sites to improve the relevancy of search results. Convera also provides publishers with appropriate whitelists based on exhaustive industry specific taxonomies. Publishers can manage the indexing of their own content and provide refined search access to it. Publishers can rank Web sites to refine the relevancy of search results and determine the depth and frequency at which specific Web sites can be crawled. Through crawl and traffic reports, publishers can monitor the relevance of specific Web content and refine search capabilities based on search usage. Coming features will offer publishers the ability to manage site advertising; the capability to boost the ranking of the content based on time, popularity, authority and the relevance of individual sites; site and search analytics tools; and the capability to customize the look and feel of the user interface to best fit the needs of the online communities they serve. http://www.convera.com/

Mediasuraface announced Pepperio v4.4, the new version of their web content management solution for small and medium sized businesses. Pepperio v4.4 broadens introduces enterprise software concepts such as a taxonomy browser, blogs and RSS feeds. Customers can exploit the relationship between metadata and search engine optimisation with the Pepperio v4.4 Taxonomy Browser from Mediasurface. Enabling SME’s to leverage meta tagging, the taxonomy browser works to create a uniform approach to keywords so that each individual web page is accurately related to the business’s selected taxonomy tree. For example: tagging an item as 'Cheese' may also indicate it is a 'Dairy Product', related to 'Milk' or even 'Cows' Pepperio v4.4 allows content authors to upload and browse a taxonomy structure and add terms to their pages to work in conjunction with metadata driving better SEO, as well as improving the customer search experience. The latest version of Pepperio enables business users to select RSS feeds and blogs to display on their own site, within their own branding. In addition to improving external search and influencing search engine rankings through the use of the taxonomy browser, Pepperio v4.4 introduces the Google Site Map to SMB’s. The Google standard site map format is automatically generated with Pepperio v4.4 so that Google search algorithms can navigate through a website more easily. Pepperio is a hosted solution available through selected partners. http://www.pepperio.co.uk

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Working Group released the second edition of "XHTML 1.1 - Module-based XHTML" as a Working Draft in preparation for Proposed Edited Recommendation. XHTML 1.1 is a reformulation of XHTML 1.0 Strict based on XHTML modules. Not a new version, the second edition incorporates all known corrections and adds a new description in XML schemas. http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

OASIS announced that its members have approved version 1.1 of the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. The result of a collaboration between advocacy groups for the disabled and open source and commercial software vendors, this new version of the standard provides key accessibility enhancements to ensure that the OpenDocument format (ODF) addresses the needs of people with disabilities. OpenDocument 1.1 supports users who have low or no vision or who suffer from cognitive impairments. The standard not only provides short alternative descriptive text for document elements such as hyperlinks, drawing objects and image map hot spots, it also offers lengthy descriptions for the same objects should additional help be needed. Other OpenDocument accessibility features include the preservation of structural semantics imported from other file formats, such as headings in tables, and associations between drawings and their captions. The new version of OpenDocument reflects the work of the OASIS OpenDocument Accessibility Subcommittee, which is made up of accessibility experts from IBM, the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI), RNIB, Sun Microsystems, and others. The Subcommittee's recommendations were incorporated into the OpenDocument specification by members of the OASIS OpenDocument Technical Committee, which includes representatives from Adobe Systems, IBM, Intel, Novell, Sun Microsystems, and others. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/, http://www.oasis-open.org

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) announced support for the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) XQuery 1.0, a standard for accessing XML data. A query language for XML data, XQuery enables the data mining of structured and unstructured data sources ranging from emails, photos and Web pages to multi-terabyte relational databases. The integration of XQuery with Oracle Databases broadens Oracle's ability to manage all types of data with a database-native XQuery engine. Oracle has continued to enhance its XML-support through Oracle Database 10g with XQuery specification support and XML DB. Additionally, Oracle will continue to actively participate in the W3C XML XQuery Working Group. Oracle XQuery is included in Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition and Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Standard Edition at no additional cost.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/xml/xquery/index.html

Fiorano Software, Inc. and Silicon Plains announced a strategic Partnership to promote each others products using their partner network and global offices. Both the companies will also migrate and test Silicon Plains BPM solution on Fiorano's messaging and SOA Platform to provide end-customers a complete business process framework. Fiorano and Silicon Plains will integrate the Fiorano SOA platform with Silicon Plains' DotSphere, an ECM and BPM accelerator that allows customers to leverage on their mission-critical workflow and enterprise content management infrastructure on a common enterprise backbone to manage the real-time flow of information. http://www.fiorano.com, http://www.sptech.com

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced the availability of Alfresco 2.0 for the distributed enterprise. Distributed content management provides users with integrated repositories, search across multiple different repositories as well as the Internet and enables simple applications to access to multiple repositories. This is complemented by a simple content solution packaging mechanism - Alfresco Module Packaging (AMP). Alfresco 2.0 also delivers an integrated content platform with the production release of Web Content Management and AMP-enabled Records Management. Alfresco 2.0 highlights include: OpenSearch - Search across multiple Alfresco content repositories and other RSS or Atom repositories including Blogs and Wikis; Web Content Management Production Release - Import of existing websites with support for any content authoring or web development tool; Alfresco Module Packaging (AMP) - Package up complete content solutions to share globally across all repositories. AMP packages include code, content model content and folder structures; and, AMP enabled Records Management. Alfresco 2.0 is immediately available for download at: http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/

FileNet, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company, unnveiled an updated P8 platform. IBM FileNet P8 4.0 offers more than 75 enhancements and new capabilities developed to help companies use information to make business-critical, cost-effective decisions that save time, increase productivity and improve customer service. FileNet P8 4.0 is the first major product release since IBM acquired FileNet in October 2006. To help potential FileNet P8 4.0 customers reap the benefits of the new software, IBM Global Business Services (GBS) announced an expanded content management services practice. More than 1000 IBM GBS professionals will provide a range of content management consulting services to FileNet P8 4.0 customers, ranging from initial strategy and planning through the build and management of enterprise-wide solutions. FileNet P8 4.0 features a unified metadata and catalog model for content, process management and compliance. The new software also features a J2EE content engine that offers a rich compound document model for managing complex documents, streamlining the authoring, translation, review and publishing processes. FileNet P8 4.0 also provides new and improved capabilities in for its Business Process Framework, and now supports Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), a standardized graphical notation to document and describe business processes. The platform offers multilingual global process support that recognizes end user settings to deliver information in the recipient's native language. The new software also provides Content Federation Services for third-party repositories, enabling content across an enterprise to be searched, cataloged, classified, secured, updated and deleted. FileNet P8 also now features support for federated annotations - items such as electronic "sticky notes," rubber stamps, and comments. IBM FileNet P8 4.0 is now shipping. http://www.filenet.com/

MadCap Software announced the launch of the MadPak suite and MadCap Capture 2.0, a screen capture and graphics editing program. MadPak enables multi-product single-source publishing to multiple channels, including the Web, intranets, desktop systems, and print documentation. Joining Flare 2.5 for content authoring and MadCap Mimic 1.0 for software simulation, Capture 2.0 features new points of integration as part of MadPak’s suite-wide single-sourcing. Both Mimic and Capture can be launched from within the Flare interface. Flare authors can insert Capture images into content, and they can insert Mimic movie links from topics, tables of contents, and browse sequences. Flare project variables can be inserted into Mimic and Capture. Capture 2.0 is designed specifically to address the needs of documentation professionals. Capture allows users to create images from a computer screen in multiple ways (including capturing a full screen, an application, an adjustable region, a UI element, and more). From the editor inside Capture, an image can be modified and enhanced in numerous ways, such as adding objects (e.g., shapes, text callouts), adding borders, resizing, cropping, and applying special effects. MadPak is available now; pricing for the suite is $1,099 per licensed user. Capture 2.0, Flare 2.5, and Mimic 1.0 can also be purchased separately. Pricing per single-user license is $89 for MadCap Capture; $899 for MadCap Flare 2.5, with upgrades for current users priced at $499; and $299 for MadCap Mimic 1.0. http://www.madcapsoftware.com

Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (NASDAQ:TSX:) (NASDAQ:OTC) said it will introduce a new solution for life sciences companies that manages regulated documents on proposed new drugs or medical devices in a controlled environment built on the 2007 Microsoft Office system. The solution, which will be available in March, lets users work in the Microsoft Office environment, while delivering compliance with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations. With Open Text Regulated Documents for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, companies will be able to use 2007 Microsoft Office applications to manage, author, review and approve content in a controlled environment that is compliant with specific FDA guidelines, such as its 21 CFR Part 11 regulations. The new solution takes advantage of the collaboration features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, such as the document information panel, Windows Workflow Foundation, InfoPath Forms and content management capabilities. For example, the solution uses metadata information supplied by the user (such as document owner or date created) to automatically update appropriate content inside a document, and then uses that metadata for ongoing records management and archiving. Microsoft content types are used to classify documents and related workflows so that the processes most appropriate for each type of document can be followed. http://www.opentext.com/2/sol-industry/sol-ind-pharma.htm

Thunderhead announced full support for the IBM FileNet P8 4.0 platform, which was announced earlier by FileNet. With this announcement, Thunderhead extends its out-of-the-box integration with the FileNet P8 platform to the newest product version, FileNet P8 4.0. The Thunderhead platform is a for the creation and management of multi-channel business communications and is often deployed in combination with Enterprise Content Management solutions. When deployed with IBM FileNet P8 Content Manager, the Thunderhead platform can reuse content that is stored in the FileNet P8 repository in the creation of Thunderhead templates and in the production of business communications. Additionally, documents and communications that are produced by the Thunderhead platform can be automatically archived to FileNet P8 Content Manager and, with the addition of FileNet P8 Records Manager, can be automatically declared, managed, and retained as corporate records. Thunderhead also provides full integration with FileNet P8 Business Process Manager (BPM). Through its support for Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL), Thunderhead can also dynamically invoke FileNet P8 BPM for exception handling and resolution. Thunderhead also announced plans to further its integration with the P8 platform to make full use of FileNet P8 4.0's new compound document management capabilities. http://www.thunderhead.com/

Mondosoft offers two versions of search for MOSS 2007: Ontolica Wildcard and Ontolica Search. The beta versions are released on February 26th. The Ontolica Wildcard edition is free, but limited to 1 server and 250 users. It will basically give you the same features as standard MOSS search plus wildcard search. Ontolica Search provides consistent search across MOSS 2007 and WSS sites, and has features - from image search to improved metadata search, from drill down to a highly configurable interface. The Ontolica Search edition is not free, but does come with a free trial license for two users. There is no expiration date on the free trial. For those sticking with SharePoint 2003, Ontolica provides an enhancement to the standard search features of SharePoint, and includes BehaviorTracking and PortalSearch. http://www.ontolica.com, http://www.mondosoft.com

Vivisimo introduced the Vivisimo Velocity 5.5 enterprise search platform. With Velocity 5.5, network administrators can replicate instances of a single index across multiple services. For example, if one server crashes, the second or third server storing a copy of that index will fulfill the search request. In mission critical search applications. Velocity 5.5 also allows administrators to segment an index onto multiple servers for maximum application performance in high usage, data intensive scenarios. Both replication and segmentation of indexes are accomplished within the Velocity web administrative interface. Velocity now handles word proximity, complex date ranges, and natural language. In addition, Velocity 5.5 offers a tool for query expansion. For example, some names have many different spellings because they were transliterated into the Roman alphabet from other writing systems (Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, etc.). Velocity 5.5 offers the ability to suggest alternative queries for misspellings, word stemming, alternative translations and synonyms, based upon administrator defined content. http://vivisimo.com

Day Software (SWX:DAYN) (OTC:DYIHY) announced that their latest Java Technology API standard (JSR 170) repository connector is for Open Text Livelink. Other connectors that are in development include interfaces for Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Domino.doc, and Software AG Tamino, among others. The Open Text Livelink connector is part of Day’s Content Integration family of products that enable enterprises to access and manage all organizational content through a standardized API. This technology allows the implementation of content access, synchronization and consolidation, even if the content resides in data stores that do not provide a JCR compliant API. http://www.day.com

Ektron, Inc. announced a two-day Ektron Certified System Administrator Training Program designed for webmasters, web administrators and IT staff responsible for their corporate websites. Certified training courses will be held twice a month at the company’s training facility in Amherst, N.H. The workshop is designed to provide website administrators with a deeper understanding of how Ektron CMS400.NET can maximize corporate web content. The curriculum will highlight best practices, user management and core capabilities, including content creation and management, document management, metadata, search, taxonomy, blogs, forums and Ektron Markup Language. CMS400.NET users will learn to: Install CMS400.NET; Optimize frequently-used administrator and end-user tasks; Develop advanced website pages with Visual Web Developer; and, Train end-user staff to create, publish and manage web content, documents and multimedia assets. http://www.ektron.com/

Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle WebCenter Suite, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle WebCenter Suite integrates Web 2.0" technologies with business processes and data sources. Oracle WebCenter Suite is meant to help developers create effective solutions that meld transactional processes, business intelligence, structured and unstructured content, communication and Web 2.0 services into a rich on-line work environment. Oracle WebCenter Suite is the foundation for the user interface of Oracle Fusion Applications. Oracle WebCenter Framework is a J2EE development framework that adds modular content creation and role based personalization into J2EE and Java Server Faces (JSF) based Web applications. It provides a declarative development environment for building interactive, customizable applications that can host JSR-168 compliant portlets; with Oracle WebCenter Suite, Oracle provides support for the WSRP 2.0. The framework also provides a standard JSR-170 based content integration layer. Oracle WebCenter Services provide out-of-the-box support for multiple types of collaboration and information sharing. It is a collection of pre-built, horizontal, Web 2.0 services that includes content management, threaded discussions, wikis, secure enterprise search, instant messaging and online awareness. A free evaluation version of Oracle WebCenter Suite is available. Oracle WebCenter Suite can be licensed as an option on top of Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition at a cost of $50,000 per CPU. http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/webcenter.html

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) announced Mathcad 14.0, the latest release of PTC’s engineering calculation software. Since its acquisition of Mathsoft in April 2006, PTC has focused on making the broad capabilities of the Mathcad technology more widely available to customers operating across geographic boundaries. Mathcad 14.0 expands the ability of PTC’s customers to solve pressing engineering calculation needs and improves the associated documentation of these calculations throughout the product development process. With Mathcad 14.0, PTC now provides full Unicode support and will soon offer the product in nine languages. New languages will include Italian, Spanish, Korean, and both Traditional and Simplified Chinese. Mathcad 14.0 also delivers improved calculation power and clarity through new worksheet analysis functions, inline numeric evaluation enhancements, and enhanced symbolics. This will help users to derive formulas, demonstrate process and document engineering reasoning. Finally, specific enhancements to the Mathcad 14.0 mathematic solvers will allow users to solve and document a broader range of engineering design problems. Mathcad 14.0 is currently available in English. All additional language versions are expected later in February 2007. http://www.ptc.com

Appian announced Appian Anywhere a Business Process Management Suite available via an on-demand, software as a service (SaaS) model. The entire Appian BPM Suite is now available through the Internet browser - there are no downloads required for modeling or running automated processes. This subscription service provides all the functionality of the Appian Enterprise BPM Suite plus additional features. Full portal, collaboration and content management capabilities augment process and rules capabilities to enable subscribers to build and run useful processes faster than before. Subscribers will have access to many free ready-to-run processes as soon as they sign up. Business users can change these processes to reflect the specific way their businesses are run. Appian partners and independent developers can use Appian Anywhere to create applications for resale in both vertical and horizontal markets. Appian Anywhere subscription prices start as low as $15/month for entry-level users. http://www.appian.com

Proposion Software, a provider of integration and migration tools for IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft .NET, announced the availability of Proposion Portal Migrator 3.0, a tool for advanced migration of complex Lotus Notes application content into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3. Since Proposion licensed its Portal Migrator 1.0 code base to Microsoft Corporation (now shipping as Microsoft Application Transporter), Proposion has continued to develop and enhance the product. Proposion Portal Migrator 3.0 adds support for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3 and leverages new capabilities of SharePoint including document-level security, major and minor versioning, and folders. Portal Migrator 3.0 new security mapping options include mapping of Notes Users and Groups to SharePoint site collection members, mapping of Notes ACL Roles to SharePoint Groups, mapping of Notes ACL permissions to SharePoint list permissions, and mapping of Notes document level reader/writer permissions to SharePoint item permissions. Portal Migrator 3.0 also allows users to migrate rich Notes documents (images, attachments, tables, etc.) to MIME files in SharePoint document libraries. Alternatively, users can migrate those same Notes documents to Enhanced Rich Text fields in SharePoint lists, where the embedded images, attachments, and tables appear "in place". Support for dynamically assigning content types and approval status based on input data has been added. Portal Migrator 3.0 contains new options for mapping duplicate documents (Write new item, Replace existing item, Create new version, Skip item) which allow for running the same migration job repeatedly while always yielding the desired result. http://www.proposion.com

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) CSS Working Group has released two updated Working Drafts for Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). "Generated Content for Paged Media" describes features such as cross-references, footnotes, headers and footers often used in printed publications. "Behavioral Extensions to CSS" allow bindings like XBL to be linked from CSS style sheets, so bindings can be used with user and alternate style sheets and media selection. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

Active Up released the latest version of their .NET web control suite, Active Web.Controls 2007 V1, their excel compatible component Active Cells V2 and a new text suggestion component Active Auto Suggest V1.0. Web.Controls is a set of Content Management and Input Controls with Rich UI support designed for ASP.NET. The suite contains UI components for the following tasks: HTML Editor, Content Rotator, Popup Engine, Image Editor, Multiple Upload, Pager, Page Loader, INI Manager, Color Picker, Spell Checker, Calendar, Web Toolbar, Tree View, Web Timer, Protector, Localization, Form Input, Ajax Panel, Panel Bar and Web Menu. ActiveCells provides features to make your application fully compatible with Excel. The component is standalone and doesn't require Excel to be installed on client or server machines, this is pure managed .NET code. Active AutoSuggest adds a drop down menu of suggested values to a standard text field. The user can either click directly on a suggestion to enter it into the field, or navigate the list using the up and down arrow keys and escape key to close the suggest list. Active Web.Controls 2007 V1 is priced at $595 per single developer license. ActiveCells is priced at $375 per single developer license. Active AutoSuggest is priced at $195 per single developer license. A fully functional 30-day evaluation copy is available from http://www.activeup.com

Nuxeo has just released the first stable version of Nuxeo EP 5.0, their ECM platform for web content management, document management, records management, collaboration, intranet portals and workflow using previously Zope technologies, and now Java EE 5, JBoss Seam and OSGi. Nuxeo EP is open source software, under a business-friendly license (EPL and/or LGPL), developed in the open and supported by Nuxeo SAS and third party system integrators and ISVs. Feature highlights for this release: Full document lifecycle, including versioning, check-in/check-out, etc.; Access rights management; Workflow, including document approval; Relations between documents; Audit trails; Drag'n'drop document management inside the web browser; and, Desktop and office suite integration using plugins for IE, Firefox and MSOffice. Technical highlights: Based on an "embeddable ECM core", Nuxeo Core, which can be embedded both in server-side applications like Nuxeo EP, and client-side like in the forthcoming Nuxeo RCP rich client for ECM: Based on Java EE 5 technologies: JSF, JCR (Java Content Repository), EJB3, JBoss Seam, jBPM, OSGi; Fully extensible using an extension points and plugin system; Nuxeo Runtime, very similar to the Eclipse plugin system and based on OSGi; Uses XML schemas (XSD) as the schema language for defining content types; and, Includes 3000 unit tests. http://www.nuxeo.org/

WoodWing Software has released the latest version of its Smart Connection Enterprise editorial solution with a host of new features. The advanced deadline-management feature of version 4.2 allows deadlines to be set individually for each issue, section, status and even individual files if needed. The system automatically takes holidays and non-working days into account. The Web Editor of Smart Connection has been enhanced with version 4.2. Using AJAX technology, the Web Editor now offers the user an improved experience with WYSIWYG previews and fitting information being updated in the background while the user is editing. All you need to run the Web Editor is a Web browser and an Internet connection. LDAP (Active/Open Directory) integration ensures single-user definitions and group assignments through the organization’s global directory. The new Access Profiles feature offers easier setup of access rights, while at the same time increasing the flexibility by an enhanced granularity. Individual application features, such as applying text formatting and viewing thumbnail overviews, can also be access controlled. The query capabilities have been enhanced to allow hierarchical queries showing elements placed or planned for a page, as well as the individual text components of an article. The 3D search technology has been further optimized for more flexible searching and the instant update functionality has been expanded. Query performance has been improved as well. Other features include hierarchical queries, full audit trailing, configurable password rules and expiration, and usability improvements. Enterprise version.4.2 is available today through WoodWing’s authorized System Integrators. http://www.woodwing.com

Altova announced compliance with the new Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) standards specifying Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), the XML Path Language (XPath), and the XML Query Language (XQuery). Support for the official W3C versions of XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery 1.0 will provide advanced capabilities to users of Altova XMLSpy 2007, MapForce 2007, StyleVision 2007, and the AltovaXML processor and enable them to transform, access, and query XML data in a standardized and interoperable manner. Altova previously supported draft versions of the specifications. Altova has released Software Version 2007 Service Pack 2 (v2007 SP2) with up to date, compliant support for these standards. Altova XMLSpy 2007, MapForce 2007, and StyleVision 2007 are all immediately available for download and purchase with the (USD) list price for single-user licenses starting at $499.00, $249.00, and $499.00 respectively. All three products are also included in the new Altova MissionKit 2007, which bundles Altova’s intelligent application development, data management, and modeling tools at 50% off their regular prices. The Altova MissionKit is available in a variety of configurations tailored to the needs of XML developers and software architects with (USD) list prices for single-user licenses starting at $740.00. The software may be downloaded and tried free for 30 days. http://www.altova.com

UGS Corp., a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, announced a new content management solution for Teamcenter software. The new dynamic publishing solution is integral to the overall PLM process, enabling companies to automate the assembly and publishing of product or service information in multiple languages and formats. The new offering builds on Teamcenter’s data management and collaboration technology to deliver a content management solution that treats product-related documentation as an intrinsic part of the product itself. The result is a solution that eliminates the manual, repetitive, error-prone steps typically associated with the development of technical publications. Using Teamcenter’s content management solution, companies can develop richer, more interactive and accurate documentation that is synchronized with the underlying product data and is generated in significantly less time. The new offering also makes it easy to localize documents with multiple language support, reconfigure to reflect product variants, or adapt to match a customized product. Teamcenter’s content management offering helps with a variety of technical publishing applications including: Product manuals such as user manuals and owner’s manuals as well as parts and product catalogs; Work instructions which include manufacturing process sheets, assembly/disassembly instructions, logistics support documents and service and repair manuals for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO); and, General documents such as resource descriptions, costing and estimating documents and product labels. Teamcenter’s new content management solution is available immediately. http://www.ugs.com/teamcenter

Liquid Machines, Inc. announced that Symantec has licensed its ERM technology as part of Symantec's Enterprise Vault content management, archival and retrieval system. The Liquid Machines' ERM functionality ensures that electronic content protected and encrypted using Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) can be processed by Enterprise Vault in a way that complies with government regulations and company policies. Additionally, all licensing metadata is preserved in the archive and can be indexed and searched as appropriate. Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) for Windows Server 2003 is information-protection technology that works with RMS-enabled applications to help safeguard digital information from unauthorized use, both online and offline, inside and outside of the firewall. Combined with Enterprise Vault, the Liquid Machines ERM technology enables the integration of enterprise rights management into a corporation's existing archiving features and workflows, such as search and index for electronic discovery. http://www.liquidmachines.com

Adobe has acquired Antepo, Inc. Antepo developed the Antepo Open Presence Network (OPN) System, a platform for Enterprise Instant Messaging and Presence capabilities, for real-time communication and collaboration while meeting critical business requirements for control, security, integration, and compliance. The Antepo technology provides both XMPP and SIP support. Additionally, Antepo’s technology supports federation with certain other IM systems, including connectivity to Google Talk, IBM Lotus Sametime, and Microsoft Live Communications Server, as well as the ability to expose presence to applications beyond chat. The current plan is to incorporate the technology into a future release of Connect and Acrobat. Integrations with other Adobe products are being evaluated. Adobe also acquired certain assets of Amicima, Inc., a privately held corporation dedicated to developing improved Internet protocols for client-server and peer-to-peer networking. Amicima’s protocol suite provides secure client-server and peer-to-peer networking that supports both one-to-one and scalable group communication, quality-of-service prioritization and latency control for multimedia communication. Antepo’s presence capabilities and Amicima’s peer-to-peer technology is expected to enhance future versions of the Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Connect software and services product lines. http://www.adobe.com/special/antepo/, http://www.adobe.com/special/amicima/

Open Text Corporation announced it has received records management certification with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 under the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), certification program. The certification is based on the combined offering of Open Text's records management with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that passed the rigorous certification process. Open Text had the solution tested with SharePoint Server 2007, showing that it could declare content stored in SharePoint Products and Technologies as a record, thereby applying records management policies and managing the entire lifecycle of the information. The solution is the first in a series of new capabilities and extensions Open Text will be rolling out for the new 2007 Microsoft Office system over the next few months. Open Text is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. http://www.opentext.com/2/strategic-partners/part-strat-microsoft.htm

SDL International announced that it has entered into a strategic relationship with Tridion to enable corporations to more effectively combine modern web content management with efficient language delivery to drive business advantage on a global basis. SDL’s Global Information Management technology, combined with Tridion’s web content management system deliver a seamless capability to enable corporations to author content once, translate once and re-use across all web requirements in marketing, sales and customer support in any language. Organizations can efficiently re-use multi-lingual assets whilst any requirement for additional multi-lingual content is automatically delivered into the translation supply chain for instant publishing across the web. http://www.tridion.com, http://www.sdl.com

Inxight Software, Inc. announced the general availability of Inxight SmartDiscovery Awareness Server for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g. Inxight also announced its participation in the Oracle Secure Search Initiative. Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g gives users rapid access to enterprise information while enabling users to enforce corporate security policies. Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g allows for authenticating and searching within and between Oracle applications such as Oracle's Siebel and PeopleSoft. It also indexes and searches public, private and shared content across internal and external Web sites, databases, file servers, document repositories, enterprise content management systems, applications and portals. The new Inxight SmartDiscovery Awareness Server for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, powered by Inxight's ThingFinder entity extraction, clusters search results on the fly, enabling users to filter their Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g result sets by the people, companies, places, concepts and other information contained within them. It augments keyword in context summaries with the "Top Mentions" contained within the full text of the document, making it easier to find relevant documents. In addition, personalized page and term alerts automatically inform users of new information of interest in their Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g indexes, open Web or other federated sources. http://www.inxight.com/products/smartdiscovery_as, http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oses

The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars announced conference tracks for the Gilbane Conference San Francisco, taking place April 10-12, 2007, at the Palace Hotel. The 2007 event returns to San Francisco with a greatly expanded collection of educational programs, including tracks focused on web and other enterprise content management applications, enterprise search and information access technologies, publishing technology, wikis, blogs and collaboration tools, and information on globalization and translation technology. Tracks at the Gilbane Conference San Francisco include: Content Management Track, Web Content Management Track, Enterprise Search Track, Collaboration & Enterprise Blogs & Wikis Track, and Publishing Technology and Best Practices. In addition, the co-located LISA Forums and Global Strategies Summit includes tutorials, workshops and conference sessions such as: Authoring for Global Audiences - Closing the Gap Between Authoring and Localization and Managing Content Globally - What Works, What Doesn’t. The conference program schedule, tutorial, track and session descriptions are all available on the conference site. http://gilbanesf.com/conference_grid.html,
http://gilbanesf.com/registration_information.html, http://gilbane.com, http://lighthouseseminars.com

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) announced the Oracle Secure Search Initiative to expand the development of secure connectors to critical enterprise data source and applications. The program offers partners a comprehensive security framework for connectors built to deliver greater access to enterprise data sources and usability features to Oracle's standalone search engine. Oracle also introduced a range of secure connectors from partners currently engaged in the Oracle Secure Search Initiative. These connectors enable Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g's secure crawling of data sources such as BusinessObjects Universes, EMC Documentum Content Server DocBases, FileNet Content Engine object stores, IBM Lotus Notes databases, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Sharepoint, and Open Text's Livelink ECM, among others. Through the Oracle Secure Search Initiative, Oracle and its partners develop a wide-ranging set of secure connectors to help reduce the complexity and cost of searching across various third-party data repositories. Oracle's secure connectors allow users to find relevant information that reside in disparate data sources and applications, launching a single query from a single interface within Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, without the need for separately searching each individual application and repository. ISVs and system integrators have joined the Oracle Secure Search Initiative including Business Objects, Clarabridge, HCL Technologies, Inxight Software, Kazeon, MphasiS (an EDS company), Open Text, and Siderean. http://www.oracle.com/

Clarabridge, a text-mining software company, announced its participation in the Oracle Secure Search Initiative. The company’s involvement in the initiative enables it to provide integration capability between Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g and business intelligence (BI) tools. The enhanced Oracle-Clarabridge offering will consolidate knowledge stored in various BI applications across the enterprise and make it securely available to business users from an Internet-like search box. Many organizations use multiple BI applications, often from different vendors, and the integrated Oracle-Clarabridge offering allows seamless search across all of these deployments. The Clarabridge BI connector retrieves all reports from enterprise servers and pushes them to an indexing engine, which automatically performs updates as necessary. Results from one BI tool can be presented against another to ensure that the user finds the precise report desired, no matter what the underlying technology. http://www.oracle.com, http://www.clarabridge.com

Siderean Software announced that the company is a participant in the Oracle Secure Search Initiative. Launched by Oracle, the Secure Search Initiative allows software vendors like Siderean to partner with the company to develop a set of secure connectors that enable Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g users to more easily access information from disparate enterprise data sources and applications. Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g users can now leverage Siderean’s Seamark Navigator relational navigation solution to illuminate previously unseen relationships across all formats of digital information to produce a 360 degree view of available information. With Seamark Navigator, Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g users have a view of the full range of assets that are available for decisions, tasks and projects. Seamark for Oracle is a comprehensive navigation solution specifically for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g. The solution’s contextual content view shows the entire scope of available information and incorporates precision search to help users quickly retrieve what they need. Seamark for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g operates as a web service and allows administration of the navigation experience from the Oracle interface. Additionally, the solution uses the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL) standards from the World-Wide Web Consortium. The Seamark relational navigation engine uses metadata facets to guide users to relevant content, generating unique views into the available assets based on a user’s navigation. Item counts for each metadata facet, as well as the number and type of metadata facets displayed, are updated with each user click. http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oses/partner/index.html, http://www.siderean.com

Day Software (SWX:DAYN) (OTC:DYIHY) announced that the company is delivering a Java Technology API standard (JSR 170) connector for FileNet P8 Content Manager. Other connectors that are in development include interfaces for Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Domino.doc, and Software AG Tamino, among others. The FileNet P8 Content Manager connector is part of Day’s Content Integration family of products that enable enterprises to access and manage all organizational content through a standardized API. This technology allows the implementation of content access, synchronization and consolidation, leveraging future-proof standardization, even if the content resides in data stores that do not provide a JCR compliant API. http://www.day.com

Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN) announced the immediate availability of the Vignette Digital Services Hub, which enables organizations to manage and deliver rich multimedia content to any Web-enabled device through a single unified framework. Vignette Digital Services Hub also provides tracking and analysis to ensure content reaches the intended audience with the desired effect. The initial offering targets telecommunications, media and entertainment companies that depend on differentiated and interactive content such as ring tones, video downloads and mobile TV to attract and service customers. However, the technology has broad application across all markets, such as financial services, healthcare, distribution and retail, which require anytime, anyplace connections with their customers. Vignette Digital Services Hub combines Vignette’s Web solution with technologies from partners to provide a single, flexible application for collecting, managing, approving and delivering electronic assets and rich media to customers based on preferences, demographics and demonstrated interests. Vignette Digital Services Hub go-to-market partners include: SafeNet-Digital rights management for content protection and rights enforcement; Sun- Identity management and integration hardware; Valista-Merchandizing, payments and settlement solutions; and, Volantis-Optimized and personalized mobile content push, device detection and recognition and asset resolution software. To bring the solution to market, Vignette is working with global and local systems integrators including DPCI, Future Technologies, Inc., Hyperlink, iFactory, Informatica El Corte Ingles, ioko, Morse Group, Sapient, Stefanini, Tata Consultancy Services, Tallence and Virtusa. http://www.vignette.com/

Document Sciences Corporation (NASDAQ: DOCX) announced it has completed the acquisition of CambridgeDocs a provider of document transformation and repurposing technology. The acquired technology will allow xPression, to import and repurpose content from popular formats, including Word, HTML, PDF, Excel, RTF, and Adobe FrameMaker, enabling customers to leverage the tens of thousands of documents existing throughout an enterprise without having to manually recreate the content. Once transformed, the content can be made available for delivery through Document Sciences xPression product suite, as well as independently through XML-based Web Services. The transformed content can also be classified and indexed within enterprise information portals, and aggregated, assembled and (re)published in multiple formats, including HTML, PDF, Postscript, IBM AFP, PCL and RTF. In addition to tighter integration with CambridgeDocs technology, Document Sciences will continue to develop CambridgeDoc's xDoc product suite. The xDoc products sold through OEM software agreements with vendors in the XML content management and publishing area. The entire CambridgeDocs team, located in Cambridge, MA, and Lahore, Pakistan, will be joining the Document Sciences. http://www.docscience.com, http://www.cambridgedocs.com

Printable Technologies, Inc., provider of Web to Print workflow and Variable Data Printing (VDP) solutions and Software as a Service (SaaS), announced the acquisition of certain assets of Prospect Smarter Inc. to create the full spectrum of marketing campaign management tools. The combination of Printable Technologies’ data-driven direct mail solution and the cross-media tools and workflow from Prospect Smarter deliver a marketing campaign execution solution and the means to track the ROI of marketing campaigns. The Prospect Smarter technology introduces new functionality to the Printable Technologies multi-channel marketing platform, including: Unlimited formats for personalized URLs pointed to the domain of choice; Microsite creation and management using Adobe Dreamweaver; Database integration with Microsoft CRM, salesforce.com, GoldMine, ACT, and other SFA/CRM systems; External integration with such systems as templatemonster.com, surveymonkey.com, cevents.com, myspace.com, Microsoft Live, and similar “build a survey,” event registration, or other applications; Functionality accessibility through XML Web services; Additional controls for Microsoft Visual Studio to simplify API calls; and, Flexible reporting based on ASP.net user controls and Microsoft SQL Reporting Services. http://www.printable.com

SYSTRAN Software, Inc. introduced the SYSTRAN 6 line of desktop products, the latest release of their translation software products. SYSTRAN 6 supports the new Microsoft Windows Vista operating system and Microsoft Office System 2007. With SYSTRAN 6 individuals and professionals can translate and understand foreign language information, as well as create and publish in multiple languages in real-time. SYSTRAN 6 represents a major redesign of the desktop product line. Among the features are a built-in dictionary lookup, a translation toolbar, new linguistic options, and a new interface. SYSTRAN 6 includes five products, each targeted to an audience with unique translation needs: Web Translator is enables individuals to search for and find relevant foreign language information on the Web in real-time; Home Translator enables home users to translate text, Web pages and Microsoft Word documents; Office Translator is designed for Microsoft Office users to translate text, Web pages, documents and emails directly from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Internet Explorer, and Firefox; Business Translator is a translation solution for small and medium sized businesses to compete in the multilingual marketplace; Premium Translator is a translation software suite for creating multilingual documents and managing large translation projects on a PC. SYSTRAN 6 desktop products are available for download at SYSTRAN’s Online Stores and will be available in retail stores and the channel this month. Price per product varies according to the language pair or pack selected: SYSTRAN Web Translator, from $49 and up, Home Translator, from $99 and up, Office Translator, from $199 and up, Business Translator, from $299 and up, Premium Translator, from $799 and up. http://www.systransoft.com, http://www.systran.fr