September 2007 Archives

Microsoft Corp. laid out the next phase in its strategy for online services, offering a road map for new offerings that synthesize client, server and services software. Microsoft plans to deliver a variety of solutions during the coming months under two families of service offerings: "Live" and "Online." "Live" services from Microsoft are designed primarily for individuals, business end-users and virtual work groups. These services emphasize ease of use, simplicity of access and flexibility, and are suited for situations where people either don’t have access to professional technical expertise or don’t require high levels of system management. "Online" services are for organizations with more advanced IT needs where power and flexibility are critical. Online services from Microsoft give businesses the ability to control access to data, manage users, apply business and compliance policy, and meet availability standards. Microsoft is providing business customers with the flexibility to choose between traditional on-premise implementations, services hosted by Microsoft partners and now Online services that reside in Microsoft's datacenters. Microsoft also unveiled: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, a new Web-based feature of Microsoft Office that lets people access their documents online and share their work with others; Microsoft Exchange Labs, a new research and development program for testing new messaging and unified communications capabilities in high-scale environments; Continued customer and partner support for Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM; The renaming of the Microsoft Office Live hosted small-business service, a service dedicated to addressing small-business pain points, including core IT services and sales and marketing services, to Microsoft Office Live Small Business; and Microsoft BizTalk Services, a building block service that enables developers to build composite applications. Anyone can pre-register for the English language beta of Office Live Workspace at http://www.officelive.com

Xyleme Inc. announced the immediate availability of Xyleme LCMS 3.1. This is Xyleme's newest version of its single-source solution for learning content reuse. Organizations use reusable learning objects from Xyleme LCMS to leverage training materials across any learning modality and to create a customized and contextual learning experience for each learner. Xyleme LCMS ease-of-use has been enhanced for its authoring component. A new configurable workspace provides multiple editor windows for simplified drag-and-drop and image and hotspot utilization, and new virtual document features such as find-and-replace and visual displays of version differences. A new tool allows organizations to automatically convert PowerPoint presentations into reusable XML learning objects. Text, bulleted lists, images, and tables are automatically transformed to individual assets that can be mixed, matched and reused across all blended learning solutions. Users have the ability within Xyleme LCMS to define the content assets to be included in any given output. Custom filtering also allows for the on-demand publishing of custom content that is based on user profiles, providing organizations the vital ability to provide a contextual learning experience. Xyleme has added mobile learning to supported outputs via the optimization of its search and navigation features. Reusable learning objects including text, images, audio and Flash can be pushed on-demand to mobile devices supporting these formats for real-time performance support. SCORM 2004 Release 3, is supported. http://www.xyleme.com

Author-it Software Corporation announced the introduction of Author-it 5.0, a content management system to include interactive authoring memory. This memory product feature will be known as Author-it Xtend. Author-it Xtend provides a method for the reuse and sharing of content and knowledge within an organization. Using intelligent "fuzzy logic" matching, this new feature makes all of the approved knowledge/content contained in a company’s database available to content creators. Once a user begins typing, matching or similar content is located and returned even if the user is unaware that the content exists. Suggestions can be revealed in as few as three words and in a fraction of a second. Users can choose to instantly insert any of the suggestions, see what documents those suggestions currently appear in, or continue typing to refine the suggestions. Options controlling the behavior of the suggestions make it as unobtrusive, or as conspicuous, as the user chooses. Content can be restricted based on the company's security restrictions. Author-it 5.0 has the look and feel of "Office 12" - the 2007 version of Microsoft Office. New publishing profiles and templates improve the ability to customize and publish print, online help, and Web-based outputs. Author-it 5.0 will run on Windows Servers and Windows-based PC's. Current Author-it users who have maintenance agreements will get an automatic upgrade to Author-it 5.0. Author-it 5.0 is available direct through the Author-it Web site. http://www.authorit.com

Intalio, Inc. announced the GA release of Intalio|BPMS 5.0, the Open Source BPM Suite. Intalio|BPMS supports the BPMN, BPEL 2.0, and BPEL4People set of industry standards for BPM. Release 5.0 for Intalio|BPMS is the culmination of 18 months of research and development, during which the BPMN modeler has been re-written from the ground up in order to support the upcoming BPMN 2.0 specification, the BPEL runtime optimized to support over 100,000 process models and 250,000,000 process instances deployed on a single server, and the workflow framework extended to support the emerging BPEL4People standard. Intalio|BPMS 5.0 also provides better support for process simulation, business rules management, and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM). Intalio|BPMS 5.0 is built on top of the Apache ODE BPEL engine that was contributed by Intalio and promoted as a top level project by the Apache Software Foundation last month, and the Eclipse STP BPMN modeler that has been integrated into the main Eclipse release earlier this year. This release has been integrated with several other commercial open source offerings, including the Alfresco Content Management System (CMS), the Mule Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), the Liferay Portal, and the OpenLexicon Business Rule Engine (BRE). It also embeds the Apache ServiceMix Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for which Intalio now provides commercial support. Intalio|BPMS 5.0 is available for download at http://bpms.intalio.com/

Coveo Solutions Inc. announced that NEC Australia, in partnership with Hyperinsight Pty Ltd, will be providing Australian businesses with the Coveo Enterprise Search solution. The new NEC partnership with Hyperinsight means NEC can meet the enterprise search demands across the full spectrum of Australian businesses. For more information, and to test drive Coveo Enterprise Search free for 30 days, visit http://www.coveo.com, http://www.nec.com.au, http://www.hyperinsight.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced Adobe Technical Communication Suite software, an integrated solution for authoring, managing, and publishing technical information and training content across multiple formats and languages. Using the Adobe Technical Communication Suite, technical communicators and instructional designers can create documentation, eLearning courses and user assistance programs containing both traditional text and graphics along with rich media, including Adobe Flash Player compatible video and 3D. The suite includes Adobe RoboHelp 7, a major upgrade to Adobe's help system and knowledge base authoring tool, as well as Adobe FrameMaker 8, Adobe Captivate 3 and Adobe Acrobat 3D Version 8 software. Product and workflow integration and support for rich media formats, including Adobe Flash Player compatible video, SWF, MP3 and AVI files, Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), XML and Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) are included. Adobe Technical Communication Suite will be available for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows XP and is expected to ship by the end of October 2007 at an estimated price of US$1,599. Users can upgrade for an estimated price of US$999 if they have prior versions of Adobe Captivate, FrameMaker or RoboHelp. http://www.adobe.com

Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (NASDAQ:TSX:) (NASDAQ:OTC) announced new offerings providing "Web 2.0" capabilities integrated into the company's RedDot Web Content Management suite. RedDot now makes the integration of interactive applications and Web 2.0 functions possible in all Web-enabled media with new modules for Web 2.0. RedDot allows organizations to expand their Web initiatives to include blogs, forums, wikis, comment fields, and ratings by selecting files or images and incorporating these applications into the Web site. Editors can initiate discussions in an intranet setting, or write an editorial entry, attach documents, and expand it with a forum or blog. Specific user groups can be easily granted "read" and "write" authorization. Components can be easily reused for multiple Web projects. http://www.opentext.com/

Armedia LLC announced the release of its new content caching server product Ligero, enabling the dynamic integration of portal, intranet and enterprise applications to content repositories. Ligero serves new content directly from a repository to a caching server, eliminating the need to publish files to a static web or portal server through scheduled jobs. Ligero can then be configured to cache content for efficient delivery according to security and business policies with access to content either through anonymous sessions or user credentials. In addition, a set of functions are available to customize the presentation, to assemble content from different documents or to create RSS feeds from dynamic queries. The initial release of Ligero is certified for EMC Documentum 6 and 5.3 repositories. Later releases will provide integration to other common content management products. http://www.armedia.com/

SpikeSource, a provider of packaged and maintained open source solutions, released a new SpikeIgnited version of the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution. Alfresco SpikeIgnited has been tested, integrated and certified on both Windows and Linux using the company's SpikeIgnite platform. Through the SpikeIgnite platform, SpikeSource delivers tuned and optimized solutions that are ready for the enterprise, yet priced to be attractive to smaller companies. Solutions are integrated and packaged with the components they depend on, and then built and tested on an automated framework that includes over 300,000 nightly tests. Additionally, the SpikeNet update service ensures that all software is continuously monitored for software, security and operational updates. http://www.spikesource.com

Omtool, Ltd. (OTCBB: OMTL) – and Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the companies will deliver an integration of Adobe Acrobat software with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Document Management systems (DMS) through technology developed by Omtool. The solution will focus on streamlining PDF processes in the legal industry that are driven by Acrobat. To support the integration, Omtool is delivering product extensions of its Swiftwriter product, part of the company's AccuRoute document handling platform that captures, converts and distributes files to ECM and DMS systems. Specifically, Omtool and Adobe will deliver a solution that allows users of Acrobat 6, 7 and 8 to download a plug-in, free-of-charge, from the Omtool Website enabling them to open and save PDF files from and into DMS systems prominent in the legal market, including Interwoven and OpenText, using the native document profile, check-in, search and retrieve dialogs of the DMS system. This functionality will be accessed directly from within Acrobat, as well as the free Adobe Reader software. The Omtool plug-in for Acrobat is expected to be available for download from the Omtool Website by the end of the current calendar year. http://www.omtool.com

IxReveal, announced it has renamed its technology to better align with the merging of the traditional search and business intelligence markets. Effective immediately, "uReveal" replaces the product formerly known as "IxReveal Workgroup Edition." uReveal is a “plug-in” product that allows analysts to automatically read for concepts, uncovering trends, patterns, relationships and exceptions across both unstructured and structured data. uReveal provides solutions for crime prevention, fraud analysis, homeland security, consumer “Voice of the Customer” feedback, market intelligence, and call center analytics. Both uReveal and uReka provide out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft's Sharepoint product and Google's search appliance. uReveal's techniques dynamically abstract concepts and their relationships from the underlying semantic index, allowing multiple analysts with different needs to analyze the same set of documents without impacting each other. Analysts are able to immediately create and change the dimensions of their OLAP cube without asking IT to modify algorithms and "re-mine" the data. This announcement follows the recent renaming of IxReveal's other major product line, uReka! (formerly known as IxReveal Desktop Edition). uReka is a "search and analyze" product that automatically reads for meaningful concepts while simultaneously providing access to multiple search engines. Desktop and intranet editions are available. http://www.IxReveal.com

Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:RVBD) announced it has partnered with Interwoven to provide customers with solutions that optimize the performance of back office processes and services and improve access to critical documents. The combination of Riverbed's high-performance WDS (wide-area data services) solutions and Interwoven WorkSite, a solution for managing the lifecycle of client and engagement files, allows professional services firms with offices distributed around the globe to work more collaboratively. Riverbed’s WDS solutions enable organizations with more than one office to overcome problems such as poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. http://www.riverbed.com, http://www.interwoven.com

ZyLAB announced that it has finalized a technology partnership with Google that enables users on the internet to find and access public archives information located within secure ZyIMAGE XML repositories via the Google internet search engine using Sitemaps. When a Sitemap file is stored in the WWW root of the server with access URL's, the internet crawlers can index the data in the ZyIMAGE repositories by launching a URL for each document. The text of a document is then returned to the crawler. The text is added to the internet search engine index. When a user then uses Google, Google can point to the URL that shows the document, even if it is an image-based scanned document. http://www.zylab.com

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language." Comments are welcome through 24 October. Used to control and organize the flow of documents, the XProc language standardizes interactions, inputs and outputs for transformations for the large group of specifications such as XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude and Canonical XML that operate on and produce XML documents. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xproc-20070920/

Olive Software announced the release of their digital publishing platform, ViewPoint 2.0. For organizations that need to ensure relevancy in the digital age, including publishers facing ad revenue and subscription challenges, ViewPoint 2.0 provides a way to capture, preserve, access, componentize, repurpose and monetize content for the web, as well as redefine the traditional markets for rich content. With the introduction of ViewPoint 2.0, Olive is opening up its digital publishing solutions, currently in use by publishers, to a broad enterprise market. The Olive ViewPoint platform breaks publication content from any source - printed, electronic, TIF, PDF, MS Word as well as microfilm and microfiche - into individual components such as articles, images, chapters, clauses, headlines, sections, etc. that people can search, discover, view, and share online and through mobile devices. The Olive ViewPoint platform automates the standardization and transformation of all types of documents into XML components. Users can search across document collections, individual documents, and sections within documents, and view the results through a Web browser without needing the original application in which the document was created. Olive is also introducing ActiveMagazine 3.0, the latest version of its digital publishing solution for magazine publishers. ActiveMagazine 3.0 is built on the ViewPoint 2.0 platform and allows publishers to deliver a reading experience that blends e-edition viewing, web-based content, and rich media advertising, and yet preserves a magazine's original layout. ViewPoint delivers support for PRISM, the XML-based metadata standard for the magazine industry. ViewPoint 2.0 is available now. Microcontent-ready, PRISM-compliant, Web 2.0-enabled ActiveMagazine 3.0 will be available December, 2007. In Spring of 2008, Olive’s flagship ActivePaper Daily and ActivePaper Archive applications for newspapers will also take advantage of the ViewPoint platform. http://www.olivesoftware.com

Effective October 1st, Thomas Technology Solutions, Inc. and ThomComp, Inc., integrators for ThomasNet.com, will combine into a single business unit under the name of Content Data Solutions, Inc. The new company will continue to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Thomas Publishing Company, publishers of the global industrial buying guide, Thomas Register. Content Data Solutions' management team will be led by President and CEO Darryl Fisher. Prior to the merger, ThomasTech and ThomComp operated as sister companies. The new company will continue to provide prepress and content management solutions to publishers, manufacturers, and other industries, as well as the Digital Publishing Website Solution, Directory Publishing Solution, and Database Extract Tool. ThomComp, with expertise in systems integration and database technologies, will add to the level of services now being provided by Content Data Solutions. http://www.contentdsi.com

Mark Logic Corporation announced a partnership with Trinity Technologies. Trinity works to meet the high content demands of retail and commercial banking, investment banking and research, asset management, retail brokerage, and insurance firms. A number of Trinity customers have XML content and want to take advantage of an XML content server like MarkLogic Server to help them unlock the value of their content, improving how they integrate, enrich, and contextualize it to deliver new products and services. Together Mark Logic and Trinity Technologies will focus on providing the financial services industry with XML content delivery capabilities. http://www.trinitytechnologies.com, http://www.marklogic.com

Six Apart announced the commercial release of the Movable Type Enterprise Solution (MTES), a package of enterprise-grade features and support that extends the functionality of the Movable Type platform. MTES is built upon Movable Type 4. The Movable Type Enterprise Solution announced is the successor to Movable Type Enterprise and enables companies to set up, deploy, and manage thousands of blogs and blog networks throughout an organization. MTES also enables large-scale content management and community capabilities. It introduces "web 2.0" elements to the enterprise such as tagging and blogging from the iPhone or other mobile devices, and also includes support for the OpenID single sign-on protocol, and provides integration with enterprise-grade databases and directory services. Movable Type Enterprise Solution is also a social media platform that lets enterprises scale deployments from small, one-off departmental initiatives into strategic global enterprise deployments. The Movable Type Enterprise Solution includes LDAP directory support, connecting Movable Type to a variety of LDAP-compliant directory servers such as Active Directory, OpenLDAP, iPlanet, and others. Support for Oracle 10g the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is also included in the Enterprise Solution, extending existing support for MySQL and PosgreSQL databases that is built into the Movable Type platform. The Movable Type Enterprise Solution is available in English, Japanese, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish. MTES comes with priority support, which includes guaranteed response times, access to an account manager and support personnel, and all updates. http://www.movabletype.com/

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced IBM Lotus Symphony, a suite of free software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Anyone can download this enterprise-grade office software, which is the same tool inside some of IBM's most popular collaboration products, such as the recently released Lotus Notes 8. In addition, these tools can be used to seamlessly extend a business process or custom application to create dynamic composite applications. There are three core applications that make up the Lotus Symphony tools: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations. These software tools, which support Windows and Linux desktops, are designed to handle the majority of office productivity tasks that workers typically perform. Lotus Symphony supports multiple file formats including Microsoft Office and Open Document Format (ODF), and also can output content in PDF format. Last week, IBM announced its membership in OpenOffice.org and intent to make important technical and resource contributions. http://www.ibm.com/lotus

DocZone.com announced the introduction of a new Pay-Per-Minute pricing plan, designed to make the benefits of XML content management more affordable. The new pricing option, immediately available, allows DocZone customers to purchase blocks of minutes for a fixed per-minute rate, with discounted rates available with the purchase of larger amounts of usage time. There are no restrictions to the number of users that can share the purchased minutes within a customer's DocZone environment. This model is similar to the pricing plans offered by many mobile phone service providers. http://www.doczone.com

Vamosa announced Vamosa Content Migrator for IBM Lotus Quickr, a new way for organizations to fast start their Lotus Quickr implementation. Lotus Quickr is a Web 2.0 based collaborative content offering, designed to transform the way everyday business content, such as documents and rich media, is stored and shared, to enable more effective team collaboration for innovation. Vamosa Content Migrator for Lotus Quickr enables organizations to unleash the potential of their collective IQ faster by pre-loading documents and rich media into Lotus Quickr team places with automated content migration tools. Vamosa's software enables faster implementation of Lotus Quickr's set of collaborative content and team services including wikis and team blogs. By migrating content from file servers, intranets and legacy systems into Lotus Quickr’s scalable content repositories, Vamosa helps organizations implement Quickr faster. Vamosa Content Migrator for IBM Lotus Quickr software is expected to be available before the end of 2007. Pricing will be available later in the year. http://www.vamosa.com

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zimbra, Inc. for approximately $350 million. The acquisition of Zimbra will help Yahoo! to expand its presence in universities, businesses and through ISPs by enabling organizations to host e-mail on or off premises with their own domain. Zimbra's offerings include AJAX-based e-mail, calendar, and contact management features that can be used both on and offline. Their platform enables mash-ups called Zimlets that tie in Web services to e-mail, and can be tailored to fit the needs of every customer. Following the acquisition, Zimbra will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yahoo!. Satish Dharmaraj will continue to lead the Zimbra team based in Yahoo!'s Sunnyvale headquarters and will report to Brad Garlinghouse. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval. It is expected that the transaction will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2007. http://www.zimbra.com/

Endeca Technologies, Inc. unveiled the Endeca Discovery Suite, a new series of modules designed to extend the capabilities of the Endeca Information Access Platform (IAP). Built to increase online revenue by boosting conversion rates and content consumption, the new capabilities are intended to make it possible to rapidly design dynamic websites, accelerate online community building, and integrate online and offline assets. The suite’s first two entries are the Social Navigation Module and Search Engine Marketing Module. Future modules will focus on personalization and recommendations, closed-loop reporting, multi-channel operations, and back-end integrations, all with support for "Web 2.0" interactivity. Social navigation gives site owners new ways to take advantage of user-generated content. It leverages content such as product reviews, opinions, ratings, posts, user-generated tags, as well as contributor profiles to help people discover information and products based on the paths and contributions of individuals with similar needs and preferences. Endeca’s Social Navigation Module can be used with social-media software from Endeca’s strategic partners as well as in-house solutions. Endeca’s Search Engine Marketing Module is designed to improve both organic and paid search strategies by helping search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft Live Search, and Ask.com more accurately rank Endeca-powered sites. The module includes multiple, complementary SEO capabilities that make dynamic pages appear as static pages when being crawled or indexed by major Internet search engines. http://endeca.com/

In.vision Research and Vasont Systems announced a partnership designed to closely integrate their products in order to further meet the needs of publishing clients. Under the terms of the agreement, Vasont Systems, whose content management system enables organizations to manage and store multilingual content, will create an extension that allows Xpress Author for Microsoft Word users to access, store, search, and reuse structured content stored in Vasont databases. http://www.vasont.com, http://www.invisionresearch.com

Recosoft Corporation, the developer of the PDF2Office family of products, cross platform file format conversion solutions and PDF converters, has started shipping PDF2ID v1.0 for Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3. PDF2ID v1.0 operates as a plug-in for InDesign CS2/CS3, a PDF converter that yields an editable InDesign document by recreating the intended construction and layout of the document. PDF2ID forms paragraphs, applies styles, regroups graphic elements, extracts images, creates tables and recovers annotations and other complex elements automatically; converting every PDF page to an equivalent page in the final InDesign document. PDF2ID operates as a plug-in for Adobe InDesign. PDF2ID uses computing modeling technologies in recreating the intended construction of the PDF document, supporting complex abstractions such as text on a path, gradients, transparencies, clipping paths and mathematical transformations, and includes options for font substitution, text frame reduction, annotation management and image resolutions designed for fine-tuning the conversion result. PDF2ID supports both InDesign CS2 and CS3 for the Macintosh and Windows platforms and is certified to run under the 32-bit and 64-bit variants of the Operating Systems. PDF2ID supports English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Western European-language data contained in PDF documents, and is available immediately from the Recosoft online store in for: PDF2ID v1.0 for Mac OS X at US$249.00, and PDF2ID v1.0 for Windows at US$249.00.
http://www.recosoft.com/

J.L. Halsey Corporation (OTCBB: JLHY) announced that it has tightly coupled its ClickTracks Web analytics solution with its email marketing platform, Lyris ListManager. This is part of the companies goal of providing marketers with a platform that integrates the core technologies of email marketing, Web analytics and Web content management. In the coming months and year, the company will announce a number of new products and enhancements that combine these three core technologies. The new integrated solution automatically exchanges information between ListManager and ClickTracks, enabling marketers to track the behavior of email list subscribers from the time they open a company's email to their activity on that company's Web site, including any subsequent page views, downloads, purchases, time on site and more. This insight allows marketers to continually hone their email message content, special offers, list segments, Web site content and site design to improve response rates and ROI. http://www.jlhalsey.com, http://www.lyris.com, http://www.clicktracks.com

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) announced the availability of a comprehensive out-of-the-box solution for creating, publishing and delivering technical service manuals. Built on Arbortext dynamic publishing software, this solution enables customers to publish service manuals with embedded interactive illustrations quickly with minimal configuration. The service manual application includes capabilities to create text and interactive graphics, collaboration, content management and configuration, and dynamic publishing. It is enabled by the latest release of Arbortext dynamic publishing software. Built on the Arbortext dynamic publishing software, this application is now available. http://www.ptc.com

Design Science announced the release of MathType 6 for Windows, a major upgrade that is compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. New features include TeX input, the ability to copy equations to and from Wikipedia, and more. MathType is the full-featured, professional version of the Equation Editor in Microsoft Office and many other products, and is used by math and science educators, engineers, research scientists, students and publishing professionals to include mathematical notation in printed documents, presentations and web pages. MathType 6 takes full advantage of Office 2007's new Ribbon user interface by adding a new MathType tab in Word and PowerPoint to do equation operations in documents and presentations, and introduces new equation numbering and browse features that work with all Word 2007 equation types. MathType 6 enables the user to copy equations from existing TeX documents, and scientists who already know the TeX typesetting language can now type expressions directly into MathType. MathType is US $57 for academic users, $97 for non-academic users; upgrades are US $37 for academic users, $49 for non-academic users. http://www.dessci.com

Inform Technologies has entered into a partnership with Clickability, a leading content management system widely used by media properties. Inform is a new technology solution for established media brands that automatically searches, organizes and links content. Under the agreement, Clickability will introduce Inform’s capabilities to media companies that use the Clickability content management platform. Inform’s artificial-intelligence and natural language-based technology scans millions of pages of content and identify topics and articles that are similar and relevant to each other. Based on these relationships, the Inform technology creates editorial-quality links within online articles that provide one-click access to new, automatically generated, topic-specific pages, pulling together articles, videos, blog posts and other content on a given subject. http://www.clickability.com

Intalio, Inc. announced that its open-source BPEL process engine named Orchestration Director Engine (ODE) has recently graduated from the Apache incubator to a Top Level Project. ODE was contributed by Intalio to the Apache Software Foundation in July 2006, following Intalio's acquisition of FiveSight Technologies. Intalio|Server is built on top of the ODE engine. ODE is the an open-source BPEL engine currently available under a liberal open-source license and supports all versions of the BPEL specification (1.0, 1.1, and 2.0). Intalio|Server is capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of different process models deployed on the same server, and hundreds of millions of process instances running concurrently on a single CPU. The ODE engine is now part of the Apache Software Foundation's collection of enterprise-class servers, among which is the Apache HTTP server. ODE version 1.1 is available for download from http://ode.apache.org/, http://www.intalio.com

The World Wide Web Consortium is connecting the Semantic Web and microformats communities. With "Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages", or GRDDL (pronounced "griddle"), software can automatically extract information from structured Web pages to make it part of the Semantic Web. Those accustomed to expressing structured data with microformats in XHTML can thus port their existing data to the Semantic Web. Microformats refer to sets of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards, including HTML, CSS and XML. The Semantic Web-based communities have pursued ways to improve the quality and availability of data on the Web, making it possible for more intensive data-integration and more diverse applications that can scale to the size of the Web and allow more powerful mash-ups. The Web-based set of standards that supports this work is known as the Semantic Web stack. "Each approach to "getting your data out there" has its place. But why limit yourself to just one approach if you can benefit, at low cost, from more than one?" GRDDL is the bridge for turning data expressed in an XML format (such as XHTML) into Semantic Web data. With GRDDL, authors transform the data they wish to share into a format that can be used and transformed again for more rigorous applications. GRDDL Use Cases provides insight into why this is useful through a number of scenarios, including scheduling a meeting, comparing information from various retailers before making a purchase, and extracting information from wikis to facilitate e-learning. http://www.w3.org/

BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) and Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) announced they have signed an agreement across four products. The companies will work together to provide customers with a design environment for rich Internet application (RIA) development. Separately, they will bring together application server technology to help enterprises develop customer engagement applications. BEA will bundle Adobe Flex Builder 2 software with BEA Workshop Studio, allowing developers to build cross-platform RIAs that integrate with SOA and Web 2.0 infrastructure for enterprise mash-ups. Further, every Workshop Studio developer will now have access to Flex technology for building RIAs. The agreement also calls for Adobe to distribute evaluation licenses of BEA's application server, WebLogic Server, with Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES) software. The new Workshop Studio bundle includes Flex Builder 2, Adobe's Eclipse-based IDE, and the Adobe Flex SDK, which is planned to be released under the open source Mozilla Public License. These RIAs can then be integrated with other BEA products, such as those from the company's WebLogic and AquaLogic product families. Organizations also will be able to deploy these applications using Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), a new cross-operating system application runtime that allows developers to extend RIAs to the desktop. http://bea.com, http://www.adobe.com

Idiom Technologies, Inc. announced WorldServer 9, the next-generation of their translation management solution. WorldServer 9 is a GMS solution with new capabilities such as machine translation and translation memory integration. The new capabilities in WorldServer span the following key areas: translation quality and review, project management, terminology lifecycle management, machine translation and translation project tracking. New translation quality and review features make it easier to maintain consistency, ensure accountability and streamline compliance auditing. A series of manual steps is now fully automated for greater translation speed, efficiency and quality. Version control and workflow enhancements give project managers a more accurate, up-to-date view of how each open job, as well as their total project, is progressing. Customizable business rules and centralized multilingual terminology management streamline the term proposal, editing, translation and approvals process. Administrators can set different rules for both internal and external contributors. Machine translation integration is built into WorldServer to make it easier for customers to include both machine-translated and human-translated content in their workflows. A new TransPort Portal Interface extends the benefits of WorldServer to business users in the translation and localization supply chain. This includes new quote and file management tools that automate many of the project outsourcing and management steps. All the new capabilities in WorldServer 9 extend to both on-premise and SaaS customers. http://www.idiominc.com/

Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN) announced it has added email interaction capabilities to its Imaging and Workflow solution. The latest release of Vignette IDM gives organizations that handle document-driven business processes like claims processing and mortgage applications the ability to provide updates and gather supporting information via email and enforce business rules. For example, if an insurance agent requests additional information on a claim, the customer can now respond via any email-enabled device. Once a response is received, it is automatically attached to the claim file and routed back to the case officer for further processing. http://www.vignette.com

Zoho announced Zoho Business for small and medium-sized businesses, which integrates the company's broad array of office productivity applications and services with management features, including user, location, and time zone management. Available as a private beta program, organizations interested in participating in the program can request access at business.zoho.com. Zoho Business is planned for general availability in October. Zoho Business provides a single sign-on and a unified, single-screen interface to the following applications: Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show, Zoho Wiki, Zoho Planner, Zoho Notebook, Zoho Chat, Zoho Viewer, Zoho Mail, Zoho Meeting, Zoho Creator, Zoho Projects, and Zoho CRM, as well as applications for managing personal and group calendars, tasks, contacts, and notes. To simplify application and user management, Zoho Business features an administration console that supports a single, company-wide super-administrator as well as multiple, location-specific administrators. The super-administrator can create locations, set time zones, and establish local administrators in addition to performing local administrator functions, including managing user and group accounts. Other features of Zoho Business include multiple levels of security, including SSL; telephone support; remote back-up; and self-service document and data storage management. Zoho has also enabled co-branding and domain management, which lets companies place their own logos on the Zoho Business user interface and access the Zoho Business applications using their own corporate URLs. http://www.zoho.com, http://www.adventnet.com

SoftCare and CoreMedia announced the integration of their systems – SoftCare K4 and the CoreMedia CMS. This solution crosses system borders to allow publishing houses, agencies and corporate publishers to take advantage of the spectrum of cross-media publishing and to enable content distribution via print, Web and mobile output channels as well as taking advantage of advanced web features. Initially, articles are created and edited in K4. They are then exported using the K4 XML Exporter, at which point the CMS takes over and publishes them using their own layout. At this stage, special online ads can be placed. CoreMedia CMS further extends the Web-based functions to include an automatic Top 10 List, breaking news, full-text search, RSS feeds, and comment and e-mail functionalities, plus an image and video gallery as add-ons to the print edition. The publishing system SoftCare K4 can be integrated into existing production environments and offers existing connections to asset management, newspaper/ad planning and automated output systems as well as to systems for data sourcing and management. The K4 Web Editor offers external editors an additional, browser-based access to the system. SoftCare K4 supports the latest Adobe Creative Suite 3. http://www.coremedia.com, http://www.softcare.de

Coghead introduced Business Essentials, a set of pre-built applications that let small businesses replace manual paper-based processes and spreadsheets with automated and collaborative web-based applications. Offered at no additional cost to any small company that registers for a Coghead multi-user account, Business Essentials includes applications for asset tracking, basic project management, company directory, lead management, PTO management, and recruitment. The Coghead platform offers a way for tech-savvy businesspeople to create, use, and share web-based applications. With Business Essentials, small businesses now have a set of "starter applications" that automate key business processes and complement standard office productivity applications. Business Essentials are totally web-based, which means the applications require no additional IT infrastructure and can be accessed using any standard browser and Internet connection. By using Coghead web gadgets, called Coglets, businesses can make the Business Essentials applications available to virtually any number of public and private users. Business Essentials are available immediately at no cost for a 30-day trial period. Pricing for a multi-user account starts at $49 per month for five users. http://www.coghead.com/

Sosius, a new, free online collaboration and business social networking service, unveiled its beta version. With Sosius, SMEs (small- to medium-size enterprises) and business professionals have a new way to converge all the spheres of work and personal life without the need for multiple or complicated combinations of services and providers. Sosius brings one’s entire work life to the web in one central location. In Sosius, users create different workspaces, inviting other users to join and collaborate via document management, database and project management tools. For the owner, everything comes together in one view: what’s new in each workspace, one consolidated calendar, news and information from custom RSS feeds, text and voice chat, and more - all via a free account with 1.0Gb of space. Anyone else interested in Sosius is encouraged to sign up for the public beta at http://www.sosius.com

Huddle.net announced the U.S. launch of its hosted team collaboration solution. Huddle.net is an Enterprise 2.0 service to combine social platforms with enterprise collaboration tools. Huddle.net is a secure, network of workspaces that enable companies and their partners to work better together by working in teams. Huddle.net instantly creates a network of secure collaborative workspaces, bringing together the right people for the right project on either side of the firewall. Permissions control who sees and has access to what content. Employees can become part of a single Huddle or multiple Huddles without additional passwords. Key features of Huddle.net include: Combination intranet, extranet, FTP & team collaboration tools; Connect internal & external teams into secure environment; Enterprise 2.0 document and knowledge management; Project calendar and task tracking; Whiteboards, team and collaboration features; Automated workflows, reminders and alerts; Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail address books integration - invite contacts into Huddles straight from the tool bar; Localization - customize Huddles for your international team using language localization capabilities; Open Huddles - allow all teammates to quickly and naturally invite others to work online. Small Business Basic Packages of Huddle start at $19.99 per month. http://www.huddle.net/

EditGrid announced the launch of the iPhone Edition of its Web-based spreadsheets. EditGrid subscribers will now be able to easily access and use their online spreadsheets right on their mobile phones. EditGrid recognized that knowledge workers want a spreadsheet application to keep up with the latest figures and not necessarily for data crunching. EditGrid's real-time update (RTU) feature allows users to get the information they need immediately without worrying about syncing files – all files are stored and updated on EditGrid's server. The iPhone Edition of EditGrid is a customized version of EditGrid which enhances mobile usability. Due to the limitation of screen size and speed of iPhone's Safari JavaScript engine, EditGrid was optimized for different usages in three modes: Edit Mode: Allows users to do simple data crunching with better data formatting support. The data inputted are automatically saved to EditGrid's server. View Mode: Enables the best possible performance for users to read their spreadsheets. Hybrid Mode: Allows users to view a larger spreadsheet with simple editing capabilities. To save bandwidth and loading time, EditGrid loads spreadsheet data to the iPhone on demand. By using two-finger scrolling, a signal is sent to the EditGrid server which triggers loading of additional data and smart preload. http://www.editgrid.com/

TEMIS announced a strategic alliance with Mark Logic Corporation, to provide publishers with a unique content intelligence application based on their solutions Luxid for Publishing and MarkLogic Server. TEMIS addresses the unstructured multilingual information management needs of content providers. Luxid for Publishing, its information intelligence solution, provides media and publishing corporations with automated content indexing through semantic annotation and content categorization. Mark Logic Corporation works with providers of information products to accelerate new product creation, deliver products through multiple channels, integrate content from different sources, repurpose content into multiple products, build custom publishing systems, and mine content to find previously undiscovered information. MarkLogic Server enables publishers to convert, query, manipulate and render XML content using the W3C-standard XQuery language. http://www.temis.com, http://www.marklogic.com

Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE) announced the release of a Word Processing Module for WordPerfect Lightning, the company's hybrid note-taking and Web collaboration software. The new Module allows PC users to integrate WordPerfect Lightning into Microsoft Office-based workflows. The new Word Processing Module for WordPerfect Lightning enables users to aggregate information from Microsoft Word, WordPerfect and PDF files, as well as from photos, images and Web-based content, into Lightning Notes. This content can then be sent seamlessly to Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 to create formatted, professional-looking documents. The new Word Processing Module also allows WordPerfect Lightning users to save directly to the Microsoft Word (.doc) file format. The new Word Processing Module is available as part of the latest version of WordPerfect Lightning. The module comes with a free 30-day trial and may be purchased thereafter for $49 US. http://www.corel.com

Outerthought announced the 2.1 release of Daisy, their open source CMS. The 2.1 release contains numerous feature additions and productivity enhancements. Most notable additions are: a new Spring-based runtime container for the document repository that makes developing additional or third-party components a lot easier, backed also by a simplified build setup; support for document variables, i.e. for managing parametrized content; the addition of a document pre-save interaction hook which can be used for eSignature support in controlled authoring environments; a WYSIWYG (HTML-based) document version diffing tool which has been developed in collaboration with the Google Summer of Code program; and various important improvements of the Daisy query language and publishing environment. A full list of other changes and improvements is available from the installation instructions on the Daisy website. http://www.daisycms.org