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Reuters (LSE: RTR; NASDAQ: RTRSY) has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of ClearForest Ltd., a privately held provider of Text Analytics solutions, whose tagging platform and analytical products allow clients to derive business information from huge amounts of textual content. ClearForest has received sufficient shareholder approval to complete the transaction, which is expected to close in approximately 30 days, subject to customary closing conditions. The financial terms were not disclosed. Reuters plans to retain and continue to work with the existing management team and their highly skilled workforces in the US and Israel. It also plans to continue to support existing products and customers. Reuters believes that search will be a pivotal element to the future of how financial information is sourced and consumed. As part of its drive into this space, it has created a new strategic group within Reuters and appointed former head of search for AOL, Gerry Campbell, who will oversee the integration of ClearForest and drive this business. http://www.reuters.com, http://www.clearforest.com

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and tagged: ClearForest, merger, Reuters, search, tagging, text analytics
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Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) announced Oracle Universal Content Management 10g Release 3, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. The new software delivers a hot-pluggable ECM platform that helps organizations capture, store, manage, find, publish and retain unstructured content, while fitting into heterogeneous infrastructures. Oracle Universal Content Management allows organizations to consolidate enterprise content and multiple Web sites on a single platform and rapidly deploy synchronized multiple line-of-business applications, such as multilingual Web sites, secure intranets and extranets, compliance processes, call center knowledgebases and brand management solutions. Oracle Universal Content Management 10g Release 3 includes five new features that promote improved enterprise scalability and the ability to leverage existing infrastructures: Microsoft Sharepoint Integration, Flexible Content Storage, Enhanced Portal Integration, Content Conversion from Any Enterprise Application, and Integration with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search. Oracle Universal Content Management is available immediately and is priced at $100,000 per processor or $2,000 per Named User Plus. Oracle Universal Content Management is also sold as a part of the Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite, which bundles Oracle Universal Content Management, Oracle Imaging and Process Management, and Oracle Universal Records Management at $150,000 per processor. http://www.oracle.com/goto/contentmanagement

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and tagged: ECM, Oracle, Stellent
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Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN) and Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ:OMTR), a provider of online business optimization software, announced a strategic global partnership that will enable joint customers to measure and analyze the value of their online customer interactions. The partnership includes joint development, sales training and support and provides customers with an analytics solution to support Web initiatives. Vignette's systems engineers, support and sales personnel are participating in Omniture training to become certified on Omniture SiteCatalyst, which will prepare them to effectively work with joint customers on their content optimization. Together, Omniture SiteCatalyst and Vignette's Web solutions intend to enable organizations to gain greater insight into their Web investments by analyzing their customers' behavior in real-time and providing in-depth reporting. As part of the partnership, Vignette will become an accredited Omniture partner and part of the Omniture Genesis Network. Omniture Genesis is a "plug and play" solution that automates the integration of marketing applications in the Omniture Online Business Optimization platform. http://www.vignette.com, http://www.omniture.com

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and tagged: analytics, Omniture, Vignette, WCM
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XyEnterprise and Idiom Technologies, Inc. (Idiom) announced the companies are jointly developing a software extension that lets XyEnterprise customers easily integrate their Contenta XML content management solution with the Idiom WorldServer GMS solution. Customers will be able to combine these solutions into a platform for content creation, management, translation and delivery. The software extension will support either SaaS or on-premise editions of Idiom WorldServer. By integrating the Contenta and WorldServer solutions, customers will have full editorial, workflow, translation and publishing capabilities based on reusable content components. It will allow authors, editors and publishers to identify which content components have changed and the impact these changes have across products that share this content. By translating only changed content components, the time and cost associated with localizing content will be reduced, and the quality, integrity and accuracy of the data will be enhanced. The integrated solution will enable: Automatic tracking of all language variants for any content component or documents in the Contenta and WorldServer solutions, Real-time information and version control on work-in-process at every step in the workflow, and Storage and management of approved data in all languages for multi-channel delivery. http://www.xyenterprise.com, http://www.idiominc.com

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and tagged: content management, Globalization, Idiom, XyEnterprise
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Siderean Software announced that it has entered a reseller agreement with Inxight Federal Systems. Effective immediately, Siderean will be added to Inxight's GSA-approved price list. Inxight's software structures unstructured data by "reading" text and extracting important entities, such as people, places and organizations. It also extracts facts and events involving these entities, such as travel events, purchase events, and organizational relationships. Siderean's Seamark Navigator then builds on this newly structured data, providing an relational navigational interface that allows users to put multi-source content in context to help improve discovery, access and participation across the information flow. Seamark Navigator uses the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL) standards developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Siderean's Seamark Navigator will provide an important add-on to Inxight's metadata harvesting and extraction solutions. Inxight's government customers will now be able to leverage Siderean's relational navigation solutions to access more relevant and timely results derived from the full context and scope of information. As users refine their searches, Siderean dynamically displays additional navigation options and gives users summaries of those items that best match search criteria. Siderean also enables users to illuminate unseen relationships between sets of information and leverage human knowledge to explore information interactively. http://www.siderean.com, http://www.inxightfedsys.com

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and tagged: inxight, OWL, RDF, search, Siderean, text analytics
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Really Strategies Inc. announced the release of RSuite CMS 2.0. RSuite an XML content management system built on top of MarkLogic Server, provides XML-aware search along with element-level XML access and versioning. Native XML management means access to every node of XML. Version 2.0 adds workflow, automation, and scheduling to RSuite’s existing editorial and production tools. Workflow designers create new processes using a browser-based, graphical tool. They make publishing workflows more efficient by including steps to run automated procedures inside or outside the system, and they help ensure product quality by enforcing procedures and adherence to content standards. http://www.reallysi.com

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and tagged: Mark Logic, Really Strategies, XML, XQuery
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Mondosoft announced the release of Ontolica Search for MOSS 2007. Ontolica Search provides search across MOSS 2007 and WSS sites. Ontolica Search has been designed to be configurable, so that all customers can tailor the web parts to suit their individual needs. Ontolica Search of course includes all standard SharePoint search features. Ontolica Search includes: Consistent search across WSS and MOSS, Federated search, Drill Down, Wildcard search (*), People search with Wildcard option, Improved Boolean search (AND, OR, NOT), and NEAR search. Free Wildcard Search and 30-day Ontolica Search Trial with full functionality for unlimited users and servers. http://www.ontolica.com, http://www.mondosoft.com

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and tagged: Mondosoft, search, SharePoint
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Bluewolf, an on-demand enterprise consulting company, announced its selection as a consulting partner of Clickability to deliver consulting services to extend Clickability's web content management platform, which is delivered as a software service (SaaS) over the Internet. Specifically, Bluewolf will bring to market products and services to help organizations integrate and deploy Clickability's products, which include cmPublish, a content management software-as-a-service that helps organizations create and maintain web content along with imWare, an interactivity and analytics package built exclusively for web publishers. http://www.bluewolf.com, http://www.clickability.com

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and tagged: bluewolf, Clickability, SaaS, WCM
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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) announced plans to release source code for Adobe Flex as open source. This initiative will let developers worldwide participate in the growth of the framework for building cross-operating system rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web and enabling new Apollo applications for the desktop. The open source Flex SDK and documentation will be available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Available since June 2006, the free Adobe Flex SDK includes the technologies developers need to build effective Flex applications, including the MXML compiler and the ActionScript 3.0 libraries that make up the Flex framework. This announcement expands on Adobe's contribution of source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation under the Tamarin project, the use of the open source WebKit engine in the “Apollo” project, and the release of the full PDF 1.7 specification for ISO standardization. Using the MPL for open sourcing Flex will allow full and free access to source code. Developers will be able to freely download, extend, and contribute to the source code for the Flex compiler, components and application framework. Adobe also will continue to make the Flex SDK and other Flex products available under their existing commercial licenses, allowing both new and existing partners and customers to choose the license terms that best suit their requirements. Starting this summer with the pre-release versions of the next release of the Flex product line, code named “Moxie,” Adobe will post daily software builds of the Flex SDK on a public download site with a public bug database. The release of open source Flex under the MPL will occur in conjunction with the final release of Moxie, currently scheduled for the second half of 2007. http://www.adobe.com/go/opensourceflex

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and tagged: Adobe, Apollo, Flex, open source
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Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ:IWOV) announced a new version of its digital asset management product, Interwoven MediaBin 4.6. MediaBin 4.6 is also a key component of the Interwoven Brand Management Solution, also announced. The new functionality introduced in MediaBin 4.6 is designed to meet the needs of creative services and marketing teams. The product update encompasses numerous new capabilities, performance enhancements, and usability refinements including: OS Support for Windows Vista & Office 2007, Updated browser support for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0, Server optimizations for Oracle 10i & Microsoft SQL Server 2005, New support for Digital Camera RAW file formats and the Digital Negative (DNG) specification, New support of CAD and 3D modeling file formats, and Numerous usability refinements within Web, Windows and Mac clients. Interwoven MediaBin 4.6 will be available in May 2007. The Interwoven Brand Management solution is generally available. http://www.interwoven.com/

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and tagged: DAM, ECM, Interwoven, rich media, WCM
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SDL International announced that it has signed an agreement which is subject to, inter alia, Shareholder approval to acquire Tridion. Under the terms of the agreement, SDL will pay $94 million (£47 million), which includes $22m (£11 million) of cash in the Tridion business. The transaction is expected to close in May 2007. SDL’s acquisition of Tridion is intended to strengthen SDL’s position in Global Information Management by adding a WCM solution to the SDL solutions portfolio. SDL helps corporations to drive global brand consistency and accelerate time-to-market by providing software and services to manage the delivery of all corporate information into different languages. Tridion provides WCM solutions that enable corporations to deliver consistent, interactive and highly targeted customer experiences across multiple Web sites and channels. Through the integration of SDL’s Translation Management System with Tridion’s WCM system, SDL and Tridion will deliver a Global Web Content Management solution that allows corporations to communicate and interact with global audiences in multiple languages in an effective, efficient and timely manner. This is achieved by integrating Tridion’s BluePrinting technology and SDL’s TMS technology to manage the complex translation supply chain to create and maintain multilingual content for global companies. http://www.sdl.com, http://www.tridion.com

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and tagged: acquisition, content management, Globalization, localization, merger, SDL, Tridion, WCM
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OnDemand Software, a division of Global Knowledge, announces the release of OnDemand Personal Navigator 9.0. OnDemand Personal Navigator is a synchronized content development platform for business process documentation, test scripts, tailored role-based training and performance support. From a single authoring session, OnDemand Personal Navigator produces distinct outputs, including self-running and interactive simulations, assessments, in-application performance support, documentation, and training materials. The product is also one of the modules of OnDemand Professional - a solution for ensuring change management, achieving organizational readiness, and maximizing ROI. With OnDemand Personal Navigator 9.0, customers can reduce content development time with a collaborative, multi-user development environment. New translation and upgrade capabilities reduce the time and effort of creating or updating content in multiple languages. The enhanced content management library enables customers to produce content that mirrors true business processes regardless of application. http://www.ondemandgk.com, http://www.globalknowledge.com

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and tagged: authoring, collaboration, content management, Global Knowledge, techdoc
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Modera, Estonian content management system (CMS) and software specialists are to enter the UK market. The software company European headquarters in the Estonian capital Tallinn is now looking to the UK to expand its operation further into the UK and Northern Ireland. Modera aims to build its global internet software business using its presence in the UK to do this. Its objective is to sign-up 20 partners during 2007, targeting mostly small medium enterprises (SME) due to the cost and quality of the technology being more competitive. http://www.modera.net

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and tagged: intranets, Modera, portal, WCM
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Atex has taken the next step towards offering new and complementary delivery means for media content by partnering with Ektron, Inc. of Nashua, New Hampshire, to offer its CMS400.NET system for use in the media industry. The CMS400.NET system is integrated with Atex’s Editorial Content Management systems to allow flow of information to the Web site and from the Web site into the print publication system. Editors and content managers are able to make use of multiple publication delivery means, using print, online, e-mail, SMS messaging, vidcasts and podcasts. The Atex integration of CMS400.NET utilizes Web services to allow content, which could exist in many formats, text, audio, video, flash or images, to move easily between the two systems, along with its associated metadata. This provides a way to make the most of not only article and image content for the Web, but also to utilize online data, such as blog posts, comments, form data and poll data in the print system. http://www.atex.com, http://www.ektron.com

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and tagged: Atex, content management, Ektron, publishing, WCM
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Managing Editor Inc. (MEI) announced a joint development with Clickability to integrate the SoftCare K4 Publishing System with Clickability’s cmPublish, an on-demand Web content-management system. With this integration, MEI and Clickability are offering a multi-channel publishing solution that helps newspapers and magazines streamline their Web and print workflows. Clickability’s cmPublish is a Web publishing platform used by corporate content sites and online newspaper and magazine publishers combining design, publishing, ad server, subscription, newsletter, analytic and administrative capabilities. The integration supports a seamless exchange of content between cmPublish and K4, the database-driven editorial workflow system integrated with Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy. K4 content with XML tags is automatically detected, parsed and uploaded to cmPublish, allowing simple or complex scheduling and easy repurposing of content for online or print usage. http://www.maned.com, http://www.clickability.com

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and tagged: Clickability, Managing Editor, multi-channel publishing, WCM
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Claromentis has been helping companies in the UK streamline communications and benefit from business-centric portal technology. Claromentis announced they are bringing that technology to the US market. Claromentis’ portal environment has taken a business-centric approach for SMEs (SMBs). The Claromentis framework allows companies to manage and share their business information via an Intranet or Extranet. It also offers integrated business applications providing document, content, and sales management functionality, as well as collaboration, project management and business work flow tools. This enables employees to carry out and keep document trails of everyday tasks while using the portal. Claromentis V5.0 is available in the US market immediately. http://usa.claromentis.com

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eTouch Systems announced the release of SamePage 3.2, the latest enhancement of its enterprise-grade wiki offering. eTouch augmented SamePage 3.2 with additional features and functionality to enable business users to more effectively support, streamline and manage their collaboration and communication activities. SamePage provides business users a wide range of functionality to create blogs, forums and mashups. New features have been added to the SamePage 3.2 enterprise wiki solution: Favorite projects to advance users ability to personalize and organize projects content; Watchlists with alerts to inform users about relevant changes to pages; Advanced search improvements to quickly find information by narrowing down the scope the search by project workspace, type of content, author or date modified; Additional plug-ins for YouTube and GoogleMaps enable enterprise users to quickly create mashups that can leverage external Web 2.0 service offerings; Improved use of templates to create any type of content, e.g. discussion and forum threads; and Single Sign On (SSO) support is available out-of-the box. The SamePage enterprise wiki also comes with role-based security with fine-grained access controls at the page-level to manage what users can do. SamePage has clustering support out-of-the-box, and integrates with existing enterprise infrastructure leveraging built-in LDAP adapters and SSO support. http://www.etouch.net

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Language Service Provider VistaTEC and Clay Tablet Technologies, developer of translation system middleware, are now pursuing joint opportunities. Clay Tablet’s software lets companies automate the flow of text and documents between content management and translation systems. When translated content returns, it’s routed back to the correct destination. Capable of connecting any content storage system to any globalization system, Clay Tablet helps customers integrate and manage the diverse content storage and authoring systems that may be used across an organization, and simplify localization. VistaTEC has had a long-term partnership with globalization management system provider Idiom Technologies and its WorldServer product, as well as experience implementing translation workflow based on WorldServer and other tools. VistaTEC and Clay Tablet’s new joint offering, in conjunction with WorldServer, provides a way for global customers to connect their content systems with translators for maximum efficiency and cost savings in the translation process. http://www.Clay-Tablet.com, http://eee.vistatec.ie

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and tagged: Clay Tablet, Globalization, localization, translation, VistaTEC
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Percussion Software introduced Rhythmyx 6.5, the newest version of its WCM solution. Rhythmyx 6.5 provides sales, marketing and business professionals with a Web Content Management solution specially designed for managing their customer-centric content on the Web. The new release includes a number of new enhancements to Rhythmyx's Active Assembly user interface, all designed to make it easier for sales, marketing and other business professionals to create, maintain and manage their content. Rhythmyx's newly-enhanced Active Assembly interface provides a straightforward, drag-and-drop interface that enables users to create pages, arrange and change page layout and content for specific audiences; embed images; place inline links to related content and sites; and directly edit any content in the context of specific Web pages, all within a live WYSIWYG Web page environment. The new Active Assembly taps AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript) to deliver more immediate control over page elements. Users can control content, layout and formatting without giving up any of the underlying functionality of Rhythmyx's unique Active Assembly. They can also make split-second content presentation decisions without requiring template changes or other assistance from IT. Rhythmyx 6.5 also makes it easier to contribute content to multiple channels, with a variety of types of interfaces that allow you to quickly author, edit and approve content. In addition, enterprises can leverage content from every corner of their organization, using a forms-based authoring approach for direct contribution of data and other needed content not just from frequent Rhythmyx content authors. Rhythmyx 6.5 is available next month and supports Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux and Sun Solaris platforms. http://www.percussion.com

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Day Software (SWX:DAYN) (OTC:DYIHY) is releasing a new, standalone digital asset management solution. Part of Communiqué, Day’s enterprise content management suite, Communiqué Digital Asset Management (CQ DAM), will leverage a Java Content Repository (JCR) that is JSR 170-based, the standard for content access. CQ DAM is expected to distribute in mid-2007. Delivering global asset distribution and sharing through a centralized storage system, Day’s CQ DAM provides global, enterprise-wide access to digital assets via the web. The new solution includes essential DAM services such as a metadata management engine, version control, user and workgroup management, as well as integration with relevant third-party tools. Day’s CQ DAM also provides intellectual property protection by creating dynamic rules for each asset or asset class, in order to control access and user rights. The system includes the ability to watermark and track digital information, and control the use of individual components. The product also offers a workflow engine that enables the implementation of cross-organizational processes for content creation, editing, approval processing, quality control, metadata management, distribution and archival. http://www.day.com

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