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J.L. Halsey (OTCBB:JLHY) announced that it has changed the company's name to Lyris, Inc. In conjunction with the name change, the company will adopt a new, to be determined trading symbol later this year. The new name reflects their integrated product offering of marketing technology solutions from their acquisitions: http://www.jlhalsey.com, http://www.lyris.com, http://www.emaillabs.com, http://www.clicktracks.com, http://www.hotbanana.com and http://www.sparklist.com

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and tagged: Clicktracks, emaillabs, Hot Banana, J. L. Halsey, Lyris, Sparklist, WCM
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Curl, Inc. announced its plans to release a significant body of code for the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform to the open source community. As the first step in its open source strategy, Curl will broaden its development platform and empower the Curl developer community by establishing a common repository of open source component libraries. As a result, developers will have all of the components required to support rapid development of enterprise-class RIAs. Curl's Open Source projects are provided under the Apache V2.0 License and hosted by SourceForge. As part of its first step to support open source technology initiatives, Curl has established three open source projects, which include the following: Web Services Development Kit (WSDK) - This provides components enabling the development of Curl applications that make use of web services such as SOAP/WSDL and an XML document model; Curl Data Kit (CDK) - This library facilitates data-centric application development in Curl. It features support for client-side SQLite databases, which is the same standard supported by Adobe AIR and Google Gears; Curl Development Utilities (CDU) - This provides functions supporting application development, including unit testing and project development. Curl's Rich Internet Application platform is available in base and pro versions. The base versions of each are free and offer a real alternative to developers creating web applications that require rich interactive interfaces. The pro versions enhance the base versions with additional security, performance and maintainability features for enterprise class applications. http://www.curl.com

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and tagged: Curl, open source, rich internet applications
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Connotate Technologies, Inc. announced the release of The New Research Platform powered by Agent Community GEN2 V1. The V1 release introduces a number of new Enterprise and Web 2.0 features, and furthers the platform's capabilities as a research tool for idea generation, mashups and the detection of trading signals. The New Research Platform powered by Agent Community GEN2 V1 offers: Agent Portal – A personalized, financial portal, the Agent Portal allows business users to create applications "on-demand" by dragging and dropping Agent results. A variety of view types are available including graph, table and news. Mashups and views can be shared with the community or held privately; Additional Agent Types – In addition to HTML, RSS, database and XML Agent types, new Agent types have been added. These include email, ftp, Excel and an intelligent spidering Agent type; Connotate Alerter and Toolbar – As Agents detect changes, signals, and important events, alerts are provided on the desktop with links to both the Agent Portal and to the source of the alert. Personalization limits unwanted noise. http://www.connotate.com

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and tagged: Connotate, search, Web 2.0
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Alchemy Software Development Ltd. and Welocalize announced that Welocalize will participate in the Alchemy LSP Gold program, a program designed to address the needs of Language Service Providers (LSPs) in their current and future technology strategies. Welocalize offers Integrated Globalization Services for deployment of enterprise content and applications to international markets. In response to unique customer needs, they provide globalization consulting, translation, localization and testing solutions that manage risk, improve repeatability and ensure transfer of knowledge from project to project. Alchemy provides CATALYST visual localization technology. http://www.alchemysoftware.ie

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and tagged: Alchemy, Globalization, localization, LSP, Welocalize
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Xythos Software announced Xythos Enterprise Document Management Suite (EDMS) and Digital Locker Suite (DL) 7.0. The new software suites feature enhanced business process automation and interoperability features, as well as support for popular Web 2.0 social networking features such as Wiki's, blogs and content tagging. Xythos' enhanced JSR-170 Level 2 support enables organizations to centralize content and metadata from multiple applications in a common storage repository. Full specification interoperability also allows the Xythos system to become a repository of record which can read and write to and from other enterprise applications such as the enterprise ERP, human resources applications and learning management systems. Xythos has redesigned the Xythos EDMS 7.0 user interface to add a Web 2.0 functionality including Ajax right-click menus and customizable content and metadata views. Additional end-user focused features include: Ajax Based User Interface, Right-click menus, User-defined Layout, Desktop to Web Drag and Drop, Social Networking, Integrated Wiki, RSS integration, Complete historical record, Enhanced Search & Discovery Capabilities, Free-form File Tags, and Upgraded Search and Bookmarks. Xythos EDMS and DL 7.0 will be available in the fourth quarter of 2007. http://www.xythos.com/

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and tagged: document management, social computing, Web 2.0, Xythos
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SchemaLogic announced the availability of SchemaLogic Enterprise Suite (SES) for Microsoft SharePoint 2007. With this software, SchemaLogic enables employees to find and share corporate information assets stored across multiple SharePoint sites. SES for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 enables companies to develop, manage and connect the metadata structures that describe corporate information assets stored across multiple SharePoint sites and other systems. This combined structure is published to content management and search systems across the organization, providing a consistent foundation for unified information access. SES continuously updates and synchronizes the metadata across multiple sites and throughout diverse systems. http://www.schemalogic.com/

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and tagged: metadata, SchemaLogic, search, semantic technologies, SharePoint
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SurfRay announced the acquisition of Mondosoft. Covering DB systems, Internet, intranets and extranets, SurfRay offers solutions to almost every technical environment. The new combined company will continue to support all Mondosoft customers. Existing contracts may be extended without changes. All current Mondosoft employees will continue in their existing positions. SurfRay will separate Mondosoft into an independent business unit. This separate entity will be completely focused on extending and enhancing search in the burgeoning SharePoint market. Ontolica will look to expand its lead by offering even more functionality through significant development including reporting and categorization modules. http://www.surfray.com, http://www.mondosoft.com

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and tagged: acquisition, enterprise, Mondosoft, search, SurfRay
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FatWire Software announced that it has acquired Infostoria, a provider of Web 2.0 collaboration and content sharing tools for the enterprise. Infostoria's technology enables single-click wiki creation and blogging, and offers an advanced content integration platform to help organizations manage, find and securely share content stored in disparate repositories. http://fatwire.com, http://www.infostoria.com

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and tagged: acquisition, collaboration, content management, enterprise, FatWire, Infostoria, social computing, WCM, wiki
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Clearspring Technologies Inc. announced the release of Launchpad, a free Web-based developer toolset that reduces the time and effort required to convert Web content into sharable widgets. Developers now have a toolset designed to convert an entire Web site into widgets quickly. Launchpad lets end users recognize Web content that can be shared as widgets and makes it easy for them to post widgets to the participating social network, start page or blog of their choice, like MySpace, Facebook, Blogger, Windows Live and iGoogle. Launchpad also lets end users email newly created widgets to friends, or save them with bookmarking services like Digg, Slashdot, Technorati and Furl. Developers or end users can also use a single block of code to embed a widget into a Web site. Using code provided by Clearspring, developers can embed a sharing menu or button onto their Web site. Using this menu or button, end users can post, bookmark or embed widgets to their social network, start page or blog, or email them to friends or associates. Developers may also embed the sharing menu or button into an existing widget, providing end users another easy way to virally share widgets. Developers using Launchpad also have access to Clearspring’s analytics and reporting tools. These tools enable widget creators to track widget views, placements, unique viewers, time spent, interaction and more. Clearspring tracks this information by widget and domain and offers a variety of visualization options. The data can also be exported to Excel. Launchpad integrates with the developers' existing content management systems and HTML template software. http://www.clearspring.com/

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and tagged: Clearspring, social computing, WCM, widgets
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Hannon Hill Corporation announced the release of Cascade Server 5.0. Cascade Server 5.0 gives customers increased flexibility in a leaner, meaner web application proficient in handling more users and more concurrency. Cascade Server 5.0 incorporates the frameworks for persistence and web application deployment in Hibernate and Apache Tomcat for a re-vamped application that is both faster and more reliable under load. A faster and more dependable experience can be expected regardless of how many users are in the system at a given time. In addition to enhanced performance, Cascade Server 5.0 will provide users an optimized user experience with the following improved functions: smarter database traffic; support for application load balancing and database clustering; and more robust delete and copy functionalities. http://www.hannonhill.com

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and tagged: content management, Hannon Hill, WCM
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Hot Banana the Web Content Management Solution (CMS) from J.L. Halsey, announced that it is now available on salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace. The two-way integration between Hot Banana's Web content management solution and Salesforce will help marketing maintain control over Web forms and landing pages, while sales teams obtain lead generation data quickly and in their preferred format. Hot Banana is available immediately for test drive and deployment. Hot Banana users can build multi-level Web forms with CAPTCHA validation on basic Web pages or on advanced landing pages; set up Web analytics, lead source and conversion tracking; and transfer the captured lead-generation data from the Web form to Salesforce. This lead generation and data transfer capability is available "out of the box" and requires no additional programming or customization. The data obtained from registrations, subscriptions, promotions, newsletters and surveys flows directly into Salesforce, where it can be accessed by the sales team. http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange, http://www.jlhalsey.com, http://www.hotbanana.com

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and tagged: content management, Hot Banana, J. L. Halsey, Salesforce.com, WCM
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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced that it is offering Adobe Flex Builder 2 software at no cost to students and faculty at educational institutions worldwide. The Flex Builder 2 integrated development environment (IDE) is part of a toolset for designing and developing rich Internet applications (RIAs). Web 2.0 technologies have spurred the development of RIAs that enable data sharing, collaboration, user participation, social networking, and more. Flex is an advanced framework for building cross-operating system RIAs for the Web. By offering Flex Builder 2 at no cost, educational institutions will be able to improve students' and researchers' knowledge of RIA development. With Flex 3, currently in public beta, students will be able to extend their RIAs to the desktop using Adobe AIR. Flex applications can be commercially created and deployed today with the free Flex 2 SDK, which includes the Flex compiler and the ActionScript 3.0 libraries. Beginning with the release of Flex 3 in early 2008, the Flex SDK will be made available as open source, enabling developers to extend and contribute to the source code for the Flex compiler, components and application framework. Adobe Flex 2 will be available to qualified education end-users for free download on Adobe.com in early November. http://www.adobe.com

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and tagged: Adobe, education, Flex
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PaperThin, Inc. announced the release of CommonSpot Version 5.0. This latest release introduces a new authoring interface; RSS feeds, Blogs, and Wikis; and XML publishing and rendering capabilities. Business users can now get their message out by delivering content to any news reader, Web browser, or email program as an RSS, Atom, or Podcast feed without writing any code. Users can also create live bookmarks on a page so visitors can subscribe to feeds of interest through CommonSpot's Feed Index Element. The listing is automatically generated, displayed, and updated based on filtered metadata criteria. With this release PaperThin has made available four open source applications: a Blog, Wiki, RSS Reader and multi-view Events Calendar, each built using the Custom Application Development Framework. The browser-based rich text editor includes enhanced editing features, wide browser and platform compatibility, improved standards-based support, and Microsoft Word-like toolbars. New image editing functionality allows users to easily edit and manage digital assets, such as: images, photos, and other graphics directly within the system. http://www.paperthin.com

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and tagged: content management, PaperThin
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ISYS Search Software announced the availability of an ECI Adapter to enable customers of EMC Corporation's Documentum Enterprise Content Integration Services (ECI Services) to access data indexed by ISYS:web and to federate ISYS:web's search results. ECI Services is a federation engine that processes and distributes queries to corporate content already indexed by various third-party search tools; it then normalizes and displays the consolidated results. This level of functionality provides end-users with a comprehensive access point to search all of a corporation's content repositories from a single window. By creating its ECI Adapter, ISYS now provides ECI Services customers with a cost-effective, high-performance search engine, enabling customers to include ISYS:web indexes in their searches, as well as providing administrators with the ability to incorporate content not already indexed by other tools. ISYS' ECI Adapter communicates with ISYS:web via HTTP. http://www.isys-search.com/

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and tagged: content management, Documentum, ECM, EMC, enterprise, isys, search
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Liferay and Pentaho Corp. announced a technology partnership to enhance integration between their product lines. By working together, Liferay and Pentaho will leverage standards to simplify deployment for enterprise organizations looking to leverage commercial open source software to securely enable access to BI content as part of an overall enterprise portal strategy. Portals provide a framework to integrate business intelligence with other enterprise applications and content. An enterprise portal framework helps deliver the benefits of business intelligence to large numbers of users, while enhancing BI with application context, integrated collaboration, and a multi-application user interface. Portals can also make it easier for users to create personalized views of information, including dashboards that integrate BI with other enterprise content. Pentaho and Liferay both support the JSR-168 portal integration standard. The companies are planning to work together to make integrated deployment even easier with minimal customization and configuration effort. The next phase of integration is expected to be delivered in Q1 of 2008. http://www.liferay.com, http://www.pentaho.com

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and tagged: Bitstream, content management, Liferay, open source, partners, Pentaho, portal
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Xythos Software announced updates to Xythos on Demand, the company's software as a service (SaaS) offering for SMB's and departments of larger organizations. The new features are designed to help organizations better access and share content on the Web using "Web 2.0" technologies such as Ajax, and offer support for Wiki's and social tagging for improved contextual collaboration. Integrated Wiki support also provides a dynamic view of content stored in the service as well as discussions which occur around it. Xythos on Demand delivers advanced Web collaboration features directly from the desktop including offline file access and synchronization. Xythos on Demand 2.0 is available for trial or purchase today. Xythos also announced versions 7.0 of its Digital Locker and Enterprise Document Management Suites which will be available by the end of this year. Xythos Enterprise Document Management Suite 7.0 introduces an enhanced workflow module for business process automation in addition to the Web 2.0 collaboration enhancements now available in Xythos on Demand 2.0. http://www.xythos.com/

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and tagged: collaboration, document management, enterprise, SaaS, Web 2.0, wiki, Xythos
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Open Text Content Services allow information workers to manage and exploit all content types in a unified way at three levels: At the desktop, facilitating access and interaction to all content through customizable business views from within desktop applications, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Explorer and Microsoft Outlook; in business processes to facilitate content flows which leads to improved productivity and process efficiency; and for archiving and records management to consistently manage retention and compliance rules across all business content, providing a single trusted repository. The new content services form the basis for Open Text's content management framework that takes a repository-agnostic approach to ECM. The new capabilities are exposed as Web Services, so that customers and partners can integrate and extend their use of the ECM technology within their organizations. The new services include: Open Text Enterprise Connect - a new user interface that serves dynamic, personalized content in context from within a user's choice of desktop application, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Explorer and Microsoft Outlook; Open Text Enterprise Process Services - provides BPM enterprise process services which allow information workers to automate and manage the flow of business content both within and across departments; and Open Text Enterprise Library Services - provide the foundation for a single, trusted repository that delivers integrated records management, metadata management, archive and search capabilities for all business content in an organization including content stored in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server sites, SAP applications, file systems, email and Open Text content repositories. With Enterprise Library Services, content can be managed, archived and stored consistently across the entire organization. http://www.opentext.com

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and tagged: BPM, content management, ECM, integration, Open Text, web services
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Percussion Software introduced its Percussion 2.0 Solution Series which enables marketing and business professionals to buy packaged capabilities targeting specific line-of-business objectives for their customer-centric Web content managed by Percussion's Rhythmyx platform. The Solution Series is designed to automate on-line marketing functions, which now extend not only to Web sites and email, but also blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, new mobile apps and social networking. The Percussion 2.0 Solution Series maintains and consistently delivers branding and content across multiple channels. The first two offerings in the new 2.0 Series are the Blog Integration Solution and WebTrends Analytics Integration Solution. The Percussion 2.0 Solutions for Web Analytics and Blogging will be available this month and support Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux and Sun Solaris platforms. Percussion's WebTrends Analytics Integration Solution provides a way to track the behaviors of targeted audiences, measure the effectiveness of campaigns, and learn the channels and sites that Web users prefer. Percussion's WebTrends Analytics Solution provides the ability to understand Web usage data in the context of a Web site’s content and structure. Then it can be linked back to the content management system, so that WCM users can take action by modifying the site using the data to enhance the experience of Web site visitors. The Rhythmyx Blog Integration Solution transforms almost any blog from a separate, isolated channel into a cohesive part of delivering a comprehensive, multi-channel customer experience. http://www.percussion.com

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and tagged: analytics, content management, enterprise blogging, Percussion, WCM
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Team and Concepts, the developer of EditGrid announced the release of EditGrid Excel Plus, a new plug-in that streams data from EditGrid to Excel in real-time. EditGrid Excel Plus was created to bridge the gap between Microsoft Excel and EditGrid by allowing offline and online spreadsheets to work together in a whole new dimension. EditGrid users can now stream real-time data into Excel, and publish data online from Excel with just one click. Such capability opens up possibilities not previously available to Excel users in the financial and other data-intensive industries. For example, a current user incorporates real-time price data on EditGrid into an analysis spreadsheet on the desktop.EditGrid’s next development of EditGrid Excel Plus will be to enable the real-time update feature between two or more Excel spreadsheets. EditGrid users can register for the private beta program of EditGrid Excel Plus. EditGrid Excel Plus currently only supports Microsoft Excel 2003. Support for additional Excel versions will be available soon. http://www.editgrid.com/

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and tagged: collaboration, office software, Team and Concepts
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Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN) announced the launch of Rich Media Services. As an add-on module to the latest Vignette Content Management release, Rich Media Services leverages an optimized user interface for the creation and management of rich media assets including advanced image editing and automation features. Once those assets are ready for distribution, they can be delivered to multiple channels and devices. Vignette Rich Media Services enables organizations in any industry with rich media management needs to create multiple variations of specific digital assets such as images, video metadata, Podcasts, Adobe Flash and other interactive components. Those assets, even in different sizes and formats, can still be managed, approved and published as one unique item, making it easier and quicker to deliver to numerous channels such as the PC, set-top box and mobile applications. http://www.vignette.com

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and tagged: content management, DAM, rich media, Vigne