October 2007 Archives

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

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

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

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

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/

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/

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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/

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

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

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/

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

Radar Networks announced the invite-beta of Twine, a new service that gives users a way to share, organize, and find information with people they trust. Twine helps people band together to share, organize and find information and knowledge around common interests and goals. Individuals can use Twine to share and keep track of information, regardless of where that information is primarily stored. Groups and teams can use Twine to collaborate and manage knowledge. Twine understands the meaning of information and relationships and automatically helps to organize and connect related items. Using the "Semantic Web", natural language processing, and artificial intelligence, Twine automatically enriches information and finds patterns that individuals cannot easily see. Twine transforms any information into Semantic Web content. Users of Twine also can locate information using new social and semantic search capabilities so that they can find exactly what they need, from people and groups they trust. Twine pools and connects all types of information in one online location, including contacts, e-mail, bookmarks, RSS feeds, documents, photos, videos, news, products, discussions, notes, and anything else. Users can also author information directly in Twine like they do in weblogs and wikis. Twine is designed to become the center of a user's digital life. Twine is built on Radar Networks' platform for social Semantic Web applications and services. The platform enables a range of API's and features for outside applications and services to connect with Twine. Individuals can sign-up to be invited to the beta testing phase on the Twine homepage, and users will be let into the service in waves. http://www.twine.com

Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ: IWOV) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Optimost, a supplier of software and services for Website optimization. Optimost's solution, delivered via a software-as-a-service model, helps companies with creating a compelling, engaging, and relevant online experience that delivers measurable business results. Interwoven's acquisition of Optimost will add real-time multivariable testing and Website optimization to its portfolio and enhances Interwoven's recently announced capabilities for delivering targeted content to Website visitors. Under the terms of the agreement between Optimost and Interwoven, Interwoven will pay approximately $52 million in cash for all outstanding shares of Optimost and assume certain existing employee stock options. As businesses continue to spend unprecedented amounts to drive traffic to their Websites through search engine marketing, pay-per-click ads, banner ads, e-mail, and other tactics, they face a significant challenge in converting traffic into revenue-generating customers. The combination of Interwoven’s content management solutions and Optimost’s optimization solution helps businesses address this challenge by providing marketers with the industry’s most complete set of capabilities for creating, deploying, testing, analyzing, and optimizing targeted content to Website visitors. While this transaction is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2007, the acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions. http://www.interwoven.com/

Clay Tablet Technologies, a provider of software that integrates content management systems with translation management systems, announced a strategic partnership with SDL, a leading provider of Global Information Management (GIM) solutions. The partnership will result in out-of-the-box integration software from Clay Tablet to enable multiple Content Management Systems (CMS) to be integrated with the SDL Translation Management System (SDL TMS). Clay Tablet and SDL achieved early integration success with a joint solution at Mitutoyo, a worldwide manufacturer of precision measurement instruments. www.Clay-Tablet.com www.sdl.com

NewsGator Technologies, Inc. announced the general availability of NewsGator Social Sites, an add-on to the NewsGator Enterprise Server (NGES) that enhances the social computing capabilities for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. NewsGator Social Sites enables discovery of what colleagues within an organization are doing and making connections between people. NewsGator Social Sites is a collection of site templates, profiles, Web parts and infrastructure that integrates directly with SharePoint Server 2007's existing architecture and security models. Social Sites works in conjunction with NGES to make SharePoint 2007 an Enterprise 2.0 destination. Administrators can bring in RSS feeds from outside of SharePoint Server 2007. Users can mark items as read, filter by tags and subscribe to the underlying feeds with one click. With one-click subscriptions for all SharePoint Server 2007 feeds, users can keep up with updates or changes from their desktop, e-mail client or mobile device. The "Social Sites" rollup view also facilitates content discovery in SharePoint by showing the most active users as well as "colleagues," allowing users to quickly assess the most popular content, feed trends and tag clouds. By clicking on a link for the content author or tagger, the user sees an in-line profile with their contact information, blog and wiki entries, articles and feeds that they read, tag and recommend. NewsGator Social Sites 1.1 is currently available. http://www.newsgator.com

Atlassian announced the integration of Microsoft (MSFT) Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Atlassian Confluence enterprise wiki. Users of SharePoint and Confluence will be able to access and share content across these two technologies. The connector will feature: Search -users can search SharePoint and Confluence content together from one place; Content sharing - from within SharePoint, users can embed Confluence page contents allowing users to blend content; Linking - within Confluence, users can access SharePoint document facilities so users, in a single click, can edit Microsoft Office documents, and; Single Sign-On and Security - with one login, users can access both systems while seeing only what they have permission to view. The SharePoint Connector for Confluence is available now at http://www.atlassian.com/sharepoint

Inmedius, Inc. announced the acquisition of LogPerspective’s DITA Storm, a full-featured DITA editing tool that enables authors to easily create DITA-compliant content in WYSIWYG mode regardless of their DITA XML knowledge. The editing environment is 100% browser-based and is completely customizable for a superior DITA user experience. DITA Storm will be available for purchase worldwide through Inmedius’ international network of offices and resellers. http://www.ditastorm.com, http://www.inmedius.com

Teragram announced the launch of Semantic Term Manager v. 2.0 (STM v. 2.0), software that enables management of content and maintenance of ontologies in enterprise content repositories and databases. STM v. 2.0 helps corporate librarians to maintain ontologies and integrate this information directly with Teragram’s TK240 taxonomy management tool. The combination of these two programs allows knowledge workers to maintain metadata across repositories and databases and to automatically tag documents according to the defined taxonomies. One example use for STM v. 2.0 would be to maintain information in different authority lists in the enterprise and build relationships between them. For instance, a corporate librarian could easily manage relationships between terms in the sales lead database (i.e. primary contacts, companies and locations) and cross-reference this with a list of internal salespeople and their territories. Additionally, STM v. 2.0 creates a uniform approach to tagging content across different divisions in a large company. For example, if a pharmaceutical development lab maintains a database of drugs, diseases and side effects, several research scientists can log in to make changes to the database. An administrator approves or rejects these changes, allowing the information to be updated as it is generated by the people working in the field. STM v. 2.0 works in tandem with Teragram’s TK240 taxonomy management program. Information stored in the STM v. 2.0 database can be exported to Teragram’s database management tool, TK240, to build complex taxonomies which can be used to automatically categorize documents and to extract entities and events from documents. For example, if a publishing company wishes to create dynamic topic pages on a website, STM v. 2.0 could be used to maintain a database of terms that relate to general information about a company (e. g. ticker symbol, location, CEO). TK240 could actively add hyperlinks to company names mentioned in documents as they pass through the content management system. Working in concert, these two programs maintain both the static and dynamic content of the page. http://www.teragram.com/

Sitecore announced the launch of its Search Engine Optimization (SEO) module, which is seamlessly integrated into its Web CMS. This e-marketing solution embeds SEO analytics into the day-to-day CMS process, and allows keywords and content to be quickly adjusted over time to keep pace with ever-changing search pattern rules. Now, businesses can build and maintain highly optimized content that is highly rated by search engines into their websites. The SEO module builds on a set of standard SEO capabilities within the Sitecore CMS today including SEO-friendly URLs, and content and template inheritance which allows keywords and content to be automatically distributed throughout relevant sections of a site. Engineered with the marketer in mind, the SEO module allows businesses to view and deliver "content optimized" versions to search engine devices. The module lets marketers see how the search engines will view the website, identifies other sites linked to the website and helps optimize for keyword combinations, density and placement. The module also provides at-a-glance reports of image and linking errors, and provides alerts if fields such as alternate text, description or other meta values are not complete. http://www.sitecore.com

Coveo Solutions Inc. announced the availability of Coveo Enterprise Search (CES) 5.0. Distributed indexing capabilities enhance the overall end-user experience in environments such as Microsoft SharePoint. Through the use of index "mirrors," data located in different geographic locations is automatically synchronized into a single, integrated set of index results. Coveo expanded the free library of connectors to index content from the most commonly used enterprise repositories including Salesforce.com, Microsoft Exchange, Documentum and Symantec Enterprise Vault. With API connectivity to Google OneBox for Enterprise, users can also obtain federated query results from content in enterprise repositories and business applications, such as SAP, Cognos and Business Objects. Query Ranking Expressions (QRE) allow administrators and end-users to customize the rank of search results, enabling specified data to have a greater or lessened emphasis within the results set. With improved search navigation, live indexing and quick views of search results from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 libraries, users can now get to the right information quickly. A media player for Microsoft Silverlight is included, as are audio-video search capabilities in UK English and French, allowing businesses to extend their searches to include a wide assortment of content from Web 2.0 applications, such as webinars, podcasts and other critical audio/video content. New security options, including early and late binding, enable search across the enterprise for quick and easy access to all relevant information within user security profiles. CES 5.0's user interface includes pop-up "quick views," documents thumbnails, and the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds of search results. Users can customize and further refine their search queries by selecting sets of data to include or exclude from the search results, such as document formats, dates, languages, authors, and more. Test drive Coveo Enterprise Search 5.0 free at: http://www.coveo.com

Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ:IWOV) announced an enhanced version of the Interwoven Composite Application Provisioning (CAP) solution. The Interwoven CAP solution allows businesses to automate and standardize the deployment of custom Web applications. The new version, Interwoven CAP version 3.0, provides enhanced automation, graphical reporting, and a more intuitive user interface. Interwoven CAP 3.0 provides several new capabilities, including project automation, new graphical reporting, and a more intuitive user interface. End-to-end automation includes no-touch deployment capabilities for Web environments (transactional, fan-out, multi-tiered, scheduled and automated, rollback, etc), and scheduled workflow tasks, managed and monitored through a graphical workflow modeler, makes the change and release process more automated. Graphical reports can be used to provide a visual representation of statistical data associated with applications. Graphical reports include: success vs. failed deployments, workflow and deployment throughput, and average duration of jobs and deployments. Interwoven Composite Application Provisioning solution 3.0 will be generally available in November 2007. http://www.interwoven.com/

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced that it is now offering Alfresco JLAN, formerly known as the Alfresco Intelligent File System, under the GNU Public License (GPL), the open source software license. Alfresco adopted GPL licensing for the rest of its open source enterprise content management software earlier this year. Alfresco JLAN is an implementation of an embedded virtual file system that offers a Java client and server implementation of Microsoft Window's CIFS (Common Internet File System) protocol, allowing content, system administration information, and rows in a database to appear as a shared drive. Last spring, Alfresco offered JLAN, which was previously incorporated within Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Server, as a standalone embeddable option for OEMs. The availability of Alfresco JLAN as an OEM license enables partners to add JLAN features and functionality to their products rapidly and at lower cost. Alfresco JLAN is available for download at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=248550, http://www.alfresco.com/partners/solution/

IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled enhancements to the IBM Content Management 8.4 family of software. The new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) offerings are designed to provide improved performance, scalability and usability to help customers make better, more informed decisions, and also help improve associated business processes and enable compliance more cost effectively. IBM Content Management 8.4 features new capabilities that help organizations better manage, access and integrate critical business information. This includes the IBM Web Interface for Content Management (WEBi) V1.02, an interactive client that allows users to access documents from an IBM Content Manager repository via a Web browser. IBM WEBi makes it easier for more users to access, use, combine and reuse content. Based on technologies such as AJAX and DOJO, IBM WEBi also provides content search and retrieval capabilities. IBM Content Manager V 8.4, IBM Document Manager V 8.4, IBM CommonStore V 8.4 and IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Content Edition V 8.4 will be available during Q4 2007. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/ecm

Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN) announced the worldwide availability of its enhanced Vignette Content Management (VCM) product. As the flagship product within Vignette’s Web solution suite, VCM adds usability features which streamline the content contribution process and enable organizations to deliver richer, more interactive Web experiences. VCM now features personalized and customizable start pages for content contributors, which reduces the amount of time and steps required to publish or update content. In-context editing leverages the Web site as the management interface to create and modify content and allows for entire pages to be replicated for use anywhere within the site. VCM provides organizations the ability to manage the entire content process from creation to delivery from a single location and distribute that content to multiple channels and devices. Also included are enhanced presentation management capabilities that enable business users to quickly control the site experience and new AJAX-based content components to help end users find what they are looking for more quickly. http://www.vignette.com

KickApps, an on-demand social media platform, announced the integration of the Company's community-building platform with the open source content management systems (CMS), Joomla!. Developers and web publishers using this CMS can now integrate their KickApps powered communities with their existing websites to increase audience growth and engagement via social networking, user-generated content, programmable video, and Widgets for content syndication. With this integration, via a plug-in, developers and publishers can provide a seamless login and registration experience between their Joomla! installation and their KickApps community, enabled by the KickApps Single Sign-on API. This results in a smoother experience for the end user and deepens the white label relationship with KickApps. Additionally, live Joomla! instances with existing members do not need to do an initial member export into KickApps; existing members will be registered into KickApps passively as they sign in to Joomla!. http://www.kickapps.com

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced the fifth generation of the Google Search Appliance hardware, version 5.0, which provides universal search capabilities for secure access to enterprise content systems - including EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, OpenText Livelink, and Microsoft SharePoint. The company also announced improvements in reach, security and relevance, in addition to business search technology developments available at the new Google Enterprise Labs site. The new Google Search Appliance includes "universal search" (a term that describes how search technology can work across information silos). The Google Search Appliance 5.0 now includes an enterprise connector framework for access to enterprise content management (ECM) systems. This framework extends the reach into 220 file formats, file shares, intranets, databases, applications, and hosted services. The connectors, which are available under open source licenses, include: EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, OpenText Livelink, and Microsoft SharePoint. Security has been enhanced to include support for Microsoft Windows Integrated Authentication (WIA), secure crawling and serving of file system content, and performance increases in the SAML-based Authentication and Authorization API. In addition, Google also announced Google Enterprise Labs, a site dedicated to improving the search experience inside businesses by providing early access to search innovations. The new Google Search Appliance supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese. http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/index.html

Researchers from Xerox Corporation (NYSE:XRX) have demonstrated a software technology that can link text and general images together to improve fundamental document management tasks like retrieving information from a database or automatically routing documents. For example, if a brochure from an isolated hotel in the French Alps describes the hotel's features and includes maps and pictures of mountainous surroundings, the categorizer will automatically discover the content and link the text and the images together. Then someone searching for an isolated mountain lodge within a certain price range would retrieve the brochure even if "isolated lodge in the mountains" were never mentioned in the actual text. A second application, according to Xerox, could be at Xerox's imaging centers, where the company scans and digitizes documents to create secure, accessible and searchable online information archives for its customers. Currently the process of scanning, labeling and indexing documents is partially supervised by operators. Hybrid categorization can streamline document management in this application, improving accuracy and reducing manual operations. Enabling Xerox's hybrid categorizer are recent advances in machine learning and pattern recognition, advances in computer vision and the large body of hybrid content now available. XRCE has extensive experience with text categorization and, in 2005, demonstrated a generic image categorizer. The new categorizer combines earlier text and image categorizers to handle hybrid content, with powerful results. The software remains under development. Xerox has filed a number of patents on the technology. The Xerox Innovation Group conducts work in color science, computing, digital imaging, electromechanical systems, novel materials, linguistics, work practice analysis and nanotechnology connected to Xerox's expertise in printing and document management. http://www.xerox.com/innovation

across Systems (Germany) and Clay Tablet Technologies (Canada) have announced a strategic partnership. To provide integrated translation solutions for enterprise clients and translation service providers, Clay Tablet software will support connectivity with across Systems technology. The across Language Server is a platform for all corporate language resources and translation processes. It comprises a translation memory system and a terminology system as well as tools for project management and workflow control. Clay Tablet software uses the open interfaces of the across Language Server to help connect it to any content management system, ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems or other data sources, and to automate recurring translation processes. http://www.across.net, http://www.Clay-Tablet.com

Vivisimo debuted social search for the enterprise with the introduction of the Vivisimo Velocity 6.0 enterprise search platform. Velocity is designed to enable enterprises to increase collaboration among workers, accelerate innovation, and gain insight into the collective intelligence of their organizations. Velocity 6.0 harnesses the human knowledge about content resident in an organization with social tagging by giving end-users the ability to vote on or rate search results using a numerical scale. This combined insight into the usefulness of information can be used to adjust relevancy of results in real-time, or can be used to convey feedback to others. Also, Velocity 6.0 empowers users to tag search results with keywords, providing a more efficient and faster search experience. Enabling users to vote on, rate, tag, save and share content within the search interface is just the first step in creating a collaborative information-enriching environment. Velocity 6.0 allows users to add their own knowledge about information found via search directly into the search result itself in the form of free-text annotation. Rather than sending an email with a file attachment to colleagues with commentary about a document, users can have a dialogue about content right within the search interface. And social bookmarking within Velocity 6.0 allows users to save search results into virtual folders for future reference and use or to share with others, such as a project team. Velocity 6.0 supports social networking with search for experts within an organization. Profiles of colleagues are developed based on data from different repositories and are displayed as a mash-up application of pictures, contact information, biographical data and recent tagging activity in a single view. Velocity 6.0 also provides a visual map or executive dashboard of hot topics within groups, departments or across the entire enterprise, based upon information that has been tagged, saved or shared, providing a window into the collective intelligence of the organization. Velocity 6.0 will be available within 45 days. http://vivisimo.com

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and Business Objects S.A. (Nasdaq:BOBJ) (Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 – BOB) announced that the companies have reached an agreement that will bring together two of the information technology industry’s leaders. Under the terms and conditions of the tender offer agreement, SAP will make a cash offer of € 42.00 per ordinary share and for American Depositary Shares (ADS) at the US$ equivalent based on the EUR/US$ exchange rate as of the settlement of the tender offers. The transaction volume taking into account the transaction costs will be slightly above €4.8 billion. The Business Objects board of directors has approved the tender offer agreement between the two companies and anticipates recommending the offer to its shareholders subject to fulfillment of certain regulatory requirements. Together, SAP and Business Objects intend to offer high-value solutions for process- and business-oriented professionals. The solutions will be designed to enable companies to strengthen decision processes, increase customer value and create sustainable competitive advantage through real-time, multi-dimensional business intelligence. The closing of the transaction is expected within the first quarter of 2008. Business Objects will operate as a stand-alone business as part of the SAP Group. When the transaction is complete, John Schwarz will continue as the CEO of the Business Objects entity and is expected to become a member of the SAP Executive Board. Doug Merritt, Corporate Officer, Business User, SAP, will then join the Business Objects entity and report to John Schwarz. Subject to the closing, SAP’s Supervisory Board intends to propose to elect Business Object founder Bernard Liautaud to the SAP Supervisory board at the company’s next shareholders meeting. Until that time, Liautaud will have an advisory role to Henning Kagermann on aspects of strategy and integration.

Bluespring Software announced the release of BPM Suite – SharePoint Edition. BPM Suite – SharePoint Edition is designed for businesses looking to deploy SharePoint in an environment with complex process or workflow needs. BPM Suite – SharePoint Edition comes pre-packaged with SharePoint, SQL Server and Office 2007 licenses to get started. By purchasing the unified solution set, customers will enjoy a 20% discount on all of the Microsoft and Bluespring products included in the bundle. BPM Suite – SharePoint Edition brings the following complex workflow capabilities to SharePoint. Rapid Process Deployment – Design processes in a “zero code” environment and deploy them with the push of a button. Graphical Process Monitoring – Visually track the progress of processes in-flight. Process Agility – Modify in-flight processes by stopping, changing & restarting processes from any point in the process. Interoperability – Configure processes that span not only SharePoint, but other disparate systems and desktops across the enterprise. Data Repurposing – Dynamically create Office documents with data captured throughout the process to present the right information to the right people at the right time in the right format. http://www.bluespringsoftware.com/

Zoho announced Zoho DB. Zoho DB is an online database and reporting application that blends database functionalities with visual data analysis. Zoho DB lets users easily create, share, and collaborate on database applications and reports. Highlights of Zoho DB include: Familiar spreadsheet-like user interface for simple data manipulation and navigation; Support for data import/export from a variety of spreadsheet formats, including .xls, .csv, and .tsv files; Drag and drop-based reporting and visual analysis, with support for creating charts, pivot tables, summary views, and table views; SQL (Structured Query Language)-based querying of databases; Understanding of SQL queries/dialects from multiple databases - Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Informix, and ANSI SQL; Databases, tables, and views can be shared in read-only or read-write modes for collaborative development and analysis; Professional looking reports can be created and embedded into a Website with copy/paste of code; and Scalable database with access from anywhere, anytime. Zoho DB differentiates from Zoho Creator largely in its backend flexibility and its data visualization capabilities. Zoho Creator gives users flexibility in designing the user interface, prompting users to describe it as the Web equivalent of Microsoft Access combined with Visual Basic. Zoho DB offers similar flexibility in its ability to manipulate and analyze the backend data. http://www.zoho.com/

Translations.com, a leading provider of technology-enabled language solutions, announced that it has completed a merger with Adams Globalization, a localization service provider with over 25 years’ experience. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Austin-based Adams Globalization will become a division of Translations.com and will continue to be led by current President Bernd Cafulli, a veteran of the localization industry. Cafulli will join the senior management team of the combined companies and report to Translations.com Vice President, Hans Fenstermacher. Fenstermacher joined Translations.com as the result of a merger in May 2006. Allan Adams, Founder and Chairman of Adams Globalization, will be retiring from the business. Adams’s localization services team will remain in place and continue to serve their clients going forward.

Recosoft Corporation has started shipping PDF2Office Personal and PDF2Office Standard v4.0 for Windows. DF2Office Personal and Standard v4.0 represents a major upgrade to PDF2Office Personal and Standard v3.0. PDF2Office Personal and Standard v4.0 interface with the Office 2007 product family via the ribbon interface and complies with Windows Vista. Both PDF2Office Personal and Standard contain 200+ new enhancements and improvements. Additionally, PDF2Office Personal and Standard take advantage of modern multi-core processor systems resulting in conversion performance improvement through its client-server architecture. PDF2Office enables you to recover the data stored in PDF documents, making them available for use by anyone. Since PDF2Office interfaces directly with the Microsoft Office family of products it is not necessary to acquire and install additional PDF editing software and tools. PDF2Office Personal and Standard v4.0 now includes the latest PDF Reconstruction v4.0 engine offering enhancements when converting PDF documents; including enhanced table recognition and processing, graphics processing, complex layout and PDF data recognition. Gradients in PDF files are also processed and limited clipping path support have also been introduced. PDF2Office Personal 4.0 and Standard v4.0 are available immediately from $29. USD. http://www.recosoft.com/

Day Software (SWX:DAYN)(OTCQX:DYIHY) has expanded its technology relationship with IBM by joining the IBM ECM ValueNet Partner Program. Day's Communiqué Web Content Management (CQ WCM) and Communiqué Digital Asset Management (CQ DAM) applications have been integrated with IBM FileNet P8 providing a single comprehensive solution for managing digital content. Day and IBM will work together throughout the implementation process, through training, delivery, feedback and documentation, to provide the most relevant ECM solution for joint customers. http://www.day.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virtual Ubiquity and its online word processor, Buzzword. Separately, Adobe added a new file sharing service to its current online document services. Codenamed "Share," the beta service will make it easier than ever for people to share, publish and organize documents online. Buzzword, an online word processor, enables individuals to work together to create high quality, page perfect documents. Built with Adobe Flex software and runs in the Adobe Flash Player, Buzzword enables great document quality, typography, page layout controls, and support for integrated graphics, regardless of the browser or device. The application also will run on Adobe AIR, offering users a hybrid online/offline experience and the ability to work with both hosted and local documents. The collaboration capabilities in Buzzword enable multiple authors to edit and comment on documents from anywhere, at anytime, while document creators can set permissions that virtually eliminate version control chaos. The founders of Virtual Ubiquity will be joining Adobe. Adobe also made available a free online document sharing service, codenamed "Share." Users simply select the documents they want to share, send a message to recipients, and set whether the files will be publicly accessible or restricted. Additionally, the beta will include a set of REST APIs to let developers create mash-ups with their applications, including storing and accessing files, as well as creating thumbnails and Flash-based previews of documents. People can learn more about the service and sign-up for access at http://www.adobe.com/go/labs_share, http://www.adobe.com/go/buzzwordfaq

Liferay, Inc. and Terracotta announced a partnership to integrate the Liferay Portal feature set with the scalability provided by Terracotta. In addition to technical integration, Liferay will bundle Terracotta and serve as a reseller of support. Terracotta offers IT organizations a lightweight approach to scalability that eases the load on application servers and databases. Terracotta uses high-performance mapping of server memory changes, called Network-attached Memory, to share temporary "work-in-progress" data among servers. That makes an application available without placing such temporary data in a relational database. http://www.liferay.com, http://www.terracottatech.com

Elmo Solutions, experienced in the extraction and processing of CAD and engineering metadata, announced the official launch of Agni Enterprise Search 2008. Agni Enterprise Search is an enterprise search solution designed to meet the distinct needs of CAD, R&D, Engineering and IT managers, end-users and senior managers. Agni Enterprise Search 2008 allows CAD and non-CAD users to index and retrieve a wide range of document formats, including AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Office, eMail, Acrobat, image formats, SolidWorks, Lotus Notes, Visio, etc. Agni Enterprise Search 2008 was designed specifically to maximize document usability and reusability. Agni Enterprise Search allows not only free-form keyword-based searches, but also structured-form metadata-based searches as well. Agni Enterprise Search 2008 features include: Display of document thumbnails, Stemming, Phonic searches, and a query language. The software ships in English and French, and is available as a free, fully functional, 30-day trial license for download directly from the Elmo Website. http://www.elmosolutions.com/