November 2007 Archives

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced an expansion of its WebSphere Portal software portfolio with the availability of two additional business-ready packages, called accelerators, that can be added to a customer's portal to drive online training projects and automate business processes. These two new accelerators provide training, development and education projects through an IBM Lotus Sametime Web conference, and also make it easier for customers to automate core business processes with easy entry and integration of data and electronic forms across numerous systems. The two accelerators add to the collection that IBM has released incrementally since April. These include: IBM Self-Service Accelerator for human resources tasks, IBM Dashboard Accelerator, IBM Collaboration Accelerator for team collaboration, IBM Content Accelerator for building and managing websites, and IBM Enterprise Suite Accelerator which supports multiple portal projects, including Web content management and electronic forms. Customers can purchase individual accelerators and snap them onto their existing WebSphere Portal environment, or they can purchase the entire solution together with WebSphere Portal. Learning Accelerator is available now for $36 per user. The IBM Business Process Accelerator consists of IBM WebSphere Portal Server and IBM Lotus Forms Server. Those products are available now at $515 per value unit and $400 per value unit, respectively. http://www.ibm.com

Fast Search & Transfer (OSEAX: FAST.OL) (FAST) announced that its browser-based Business Intelligence (BI) portal, FAST Radar, will be available in Japanese in the first quarter of 2008. FAST Radar is a key component of FAST's Business Intelligence Built on Search, a business intelligence solution built on an underlying search platform by combining Radar with FAST's Adaptive Information Warehouse (AIW). As the business intelligence interface into FAST AIW, Radar brings information and statistical analysis to decision-makers throughout the organization. This provides them with insight into data through personal dashboards that move intelligence in the enterprise from IT and business analysts to everyday business users. They have three main focuses in the Japanese market: Monetization, Information Discovery and BI Built on Search. http://www.fastsearch.com

Ephox Corporation announced that EditLive! now offers web content authors a JavaScript editor that enables quick and easy editing. The Express Edit feature is tightly integrated with Ephox's product EditLive!. The combined solution offers editors the speed of JavaScript and the power of a Java-based editor. With its Java applet architecture EditLive delivers a consistent and full-featured authoring interface on all major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera) and operating systems (Mac, Windows, Linux, Unix). The Express Edit mode uses JavaScript so content authors can now edit content even if Java is not installed. Some authoring environments either do not support Java applets or cannot ensure that they are installed, for example interactive websites that allow the public to make edits or highly distributed environments such as online education. Express Edit is for quickly editing small amounts of plain text. For richer editing requirements the HTML editor is available at the click of a button. EditLive! includes the ability to paste content from MS Word, table editing, spell checking and image management while creating pure W3C compliant HTML code. The software is available for immediate download. http://www.ephox.com

FatWire Software announced the launch of FatWire TeamUp, a new solution that offers enterprise 2.0 collaboration capabilities including wikis, blogs and social tagging, plus an advanced content integration platform. FatWire also unveiled its strategic roadmap for Web Experience Management, an integrated set of capabilities that enable organizations to deliver a personalized, interactive web experience to users. FatWire TeamUp is a solution for facilitating internal and external, enterprise collaboration and is the result of FatWire's recent acquisition of Infostoria. FatWire TeamUp enables non-technical users with a single click to set up a wiki, blogs, invite participants from within the enterprise or partner organizations to join, and start working together and sharing content of all types. It facilitates user-generated content and community-building among customers and other site visitors. Site owners can enable blogs, wikis, and content tagging on any part of the site. TeamUp also includes Content integration and reuse, and Digital asset management capabilities. FatWire also unveiled a roadmap for rapid integration of FatWire TeamUp with FatWire Content Server, their web content management solution. http://www.fatwire.com

Ektron Inc. unveiled Version 7.5 of Ektron CMS400.NET, featuring search and forum enhancements, a comprehensive "Web 2.0" toolbox and support for social networking. The new social networking platform provides out of the box functionality for communicating with friends and colleagues, discovering people, groups and information, interaction with content and people, and developing your own personalized workspace. Ektron's new release also adds taxonomy support to its threaded discussions. This allows Ektron CMS400.NET customers to build community driven knowledge bases where posters categorize threads and rate posts, helping others find answers to questions. Search also gets some additional functionality with Version 7.5 as Ektron CMS400.NET can now support keyword selling with its suggested results and synonym search functionality. http://www.ektron.com

The CMS Myth, a blog aimed at exposing the myths and realities behind web content management systems and practices, launched today at the 2007 Gilbane Boston Conference. The blog was created by content management and web strategy experts at ISITE Design. The blog's mission is to fill a perilous 'expectation gap' among CMS adopters, a factor driving many CMS implementation failures. http://www.cmsmyth.com, http://www.isitedesign.com

Sitecore and Coveo Solutions, Inc., announced a partnership to integrate search engine functionality into Sitecore's CMS. By integrating Coveo Enterprise Search (CES), Sitecore's CMS will now provide businesses the ability to streamline the end user search experience, making it easier to find the right information from a wide variety of dispersed data sources. Integrating Coveo Enterprise Search will also bring guided search capabilities for website visitors and enhanced search optimization reporting for site managers. For website visitors, it provides faceted navigation, enabling users to drill down through a list of browsing categories to find more particular, targeted results. For website managers, this integrated solution provides analytical insight on search functionality. It provides reporting on how search is performing, what users are looking for, what they didn't find, what erroneous search results were delivered, and how to correct errors to get optimal search results. http://www.sitecore.net, http://www.coveo.com

IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled a new release of the free IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition enterprise search software with Web search services powered by Yahoo! that enables users to further customize and personalize their searches to find, access and capitalize on information stored inside organizations and across the Web. The new version of IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition offers the ability to separate content into different searchable document collections, an improved administration console that simplifies set-up and management of the search tool, and enhanced search support based on the latest open source Lucene indexing library. Other enhancements improve the performance, indexing and custom search field capabilities, as well as support for additional browsers. The new version of IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition provides the ability to create a number of collections, each indexing a different set of documents. This allows the user to limit the search to only the documents from a specific source, providing more accurate results. It also provides the ability to define additional custom fields in the index allowing field values to be mapped from HTML meta tags, extracted from the document's own metadata, or pushed in from the push API. For example, OminFind Yahoo! Edition can now allow the user to search within content intended for a specific country by specifying a custom country metadata field as part of the search request. IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is available at no charge and can be downloaded at http://omnifind.ibm.yahoo.com, http://www.ibm.com/software/data/enterprise-search/

Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) announced they will provide enterprise search for U.S. customers by selling the Google Search Appliance and the Google Mini, through Dell's direct corporate and public sales organizations. The Google Search Appliance starts at $30,000 and the Google Mini starts at $1,995. Both search appliances are covered by Google warranty and support services. The Google Search Appliance is designed for larger enterprises, while the blue Google Mini is targeted for the small and medium business market. These appliances deliver relevant search results from information sources within a company's firewall. http://www.dell.com/googlesearch

Day Software (SWX:DAYN)(OTCQX:DYIHY) announced that Oracle now offers Day's JCR/JSR 170-compliant connectors to facilitate integration between Oracle WebCenter and third-party content repositories, such as EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint. The new connectors are the result of a technology license agreement announced in the fourth quarter of 2006. Oracle WebCenter is designed to bring "Web 2.0" to the enterprise through an integrated, comprehensive, and standards-compliant user experience platform and allow Java developers to break down the boundaries between Web-based portals and enterprise applications, enabling them to create context-sensitive work environments that are based on Ajax-based components, portlets and content. Oracle WebCenter provides access to a range of enterprise services, including business applications, enterprise content, business intelligence, enterprise search, communication and collaboration services. http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/webcenter, http://www.day.com

Gilbane Group Inc. announced they have seven research studies underway that will be published over the next few months. The research for some of these studies is already complete, and preliminary results will be discussed at this week's Gilbane Boston conference at the Westin Copley Place Hotel. The 7 studies are: "Survey on the Web Content Management User Experience" – From our Web Content Management Practice, led by Tony White; "Enterprise Collaboration and Social Computing: A Report on Industry Trends & Best Practices" – From our Social Computing and Collaboration Practice, led by Geoffrey Bock; "Digital Magazine & Newspaper Editions: Growth, Trends, and Best Practices" – From our Cross Media Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice led by Steve Paxhia; "Enterprise Search Markets and Applications: Capitalizing on Emerging Demand" – From our Enterprise Search Practice, led by Lynda Moulton; "Enterprise Digital Rights Management: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness" – From our Cross Media Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice, study led by Bill Rosenblatt; "Digital Platforms & Technologies for Book Publishers: Implementations Beyond 'eBook'" – From our Cross Media Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice led by Steve Paxhia; and "Beyond Search: What to do When you're Enterprise Search System Doesn't Work" – A study authored by Steve Arnold, from our Enterprise Search Practice, led by Lynda Moulton. http://gilbane.com

Zoho announced users can now view and edit Zoho Writer documents in offline mode. The new editing functionality supplements the read-only capabilities initially offered in Zoho Writer's offline mode. To work offline, Zoho users log on to Zoho Writer and click the “Go Offline” link at the top of the Zoho Writer screen. First-time offline users are prompted to install Google Gears, the browser plug-in, if it is not already installed on the local machine. Once Google Gears is installed, the user restarts the browser, logs back into Zoho Writer, and clicks "Go Offline." Zoho Writer then automatically downloads personal and shared documents based on the sort order selected in the Zoho Writer main page. More or fewer documents can be downloaded by clicking on the down arrow next to the "Go Offline" link. Next, users are automatically redirected offline, to http://writer.zoho.com/offline, where they can view, edit, and save their documents using Zoho Writer's browser-based interface. Users who have previously used Zoho Writer's view-only offline mode will have editing capabilities automatically enabled the next time they click "Go Offline." To return online, users click "Go Online." Zoho Writer then prompts users to synchronize their offline and online documents. http://www.zoho.com, http://www.adventnet.com/

Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) announced the formation of the Content Management System (CMS) Alliance Program, an ecosystem of CMS providers and system integrators who are committed to simplifying global content management and publishing. Combining the expertise of all participants, Lionbridge is using Web Services to connect Freeway, Lionbridge’s free, hosted translation management platform, to leading CMS platforms, helping companies greatly improve processes and lower the costs of global content management. In forming the CMS Alliance Program, Lionbridge has established alliances and connections with an initial group of leading CMS providers, including Ektron, CrownPeak, Interwoven, Acumium, and Vasont, with an open invitation for additional systems providers to join the program. In addition, key system integrators, including, Klish Group, Armedia, and iSITE Design, have lent their support in providing a simple Web Services solution for customers to globalize their content. “A major challenge for organizations today is the integration of the people, processes, and technologies within the global content lifecycle,” said Leonor Ciarlone, Globalization Practice Lead Analyst, The Gilbane Group. “Lionbridge’s work with a number of integrators and CMS providers addresses this challenge by focusing on integrated content and translation management as an enabler of automation and decreased time-to-market. Providing a SaaS delivery model with Web services-based connectivity enhances the focus through a centralized, yet flexible approach for real-time collaboration.” In formalizing the CMS Alliance Program, Lionbridge is offering customers a new way of distributing their content on a global scale, with several benefits over more traditional methods including improved workflow for content managers, seamless connection to automate processes, and no need for additional technology purchases (Freeway is a Software as a Service platform delivered free to Lionbridge customers.) http://www.lionbridge.com/cms

Zoho announced key updates to Zoho Writer. The company's online word processing application now provides access to pagination, headers and footers, a 43-language spell checker, and other new features. The latest enhancements to Zoho Writer include features designed to encourage enterprise adoption and improve multi-language support. Users can view their document in discrete pages by clicking on the 'Page View' link. Meanwhile, Zoho now recommends using the 'Print Using PDF' option for printing Zoho Writer documents. This option overcomes the browser-based printing limitations users sometimes experience using the older 'Print Preview', 'Print' option. Users can define headers and footers from the 'Page Setup' link or the 'Page Setup' icon in the Zoho Writer toolbar. The headers/footers that are defined will appear when the document is printed. They will also be intact when the document is exported to PDF/DOC. The enhanced spell checker now supports 43 languages. Regardless of which language was used to write a document, users can now spell check the content in that language. The spell check setting is made at the document level, so each document can be spell checked with a different language. Additional enhancements include: improvements to import/export of .doc files; public documents can be downloaded or sent to others by email in different formats; users receive an email notification whenever comments are made to their public documents; and Zoho Writer user interface is now available in Chinese. http://blogs.zoho.com/, http://www.adventnet.com/

Recommind announced the availability of the MindServer 5.1 platform, which combines navigation and grouping controls over external content with multi-layered security to deliver a federated search framework. The MindServer 5.1 release expands Recommind's enterprise search functionality in several ways, most notably in the deep federated search capabilities that allow users to search multiple internal and external systems from a single integrated search interface. In addition to finding information from within an enterprise's many applications, databases, file servers and other repositories, MindServer 5.1 delivers external results to a single UI via out of the box integrations with a number of online publishers as well as public sources such as EDGAR Online, the US Food and Drug Administration, the US Federal Trade Commission, Association of Corporate Counsel, UK government departments, the European Union, London Stock Exchange, Wikipedia, Google, the BBC and many others. Search management controls support restrictions across secure content, enabling only users with specific access rights to perform searches on certain external content (e.g. on password protected subscription sites or pay per search sites). MindServer 5.1 provides automatic phrase extraction functionality. MindServer 5.1's incremental crawl functionality allows particularly time-sensitive information to be updated within a user's query results. Another feature of MindServer 5.1 is its ability to extend information navigation to email attachments and archived content (e.g. in an email archive). MindServer 5.1 is available immediately with pricing upon request. http://www.recommind.com

Six Apart announced the commercial release of the Movable Type Community Solution (MTCS), a package of social media features built on top of the Movable Type 4 platform. The Movable Type Community Solution is a complete, out-of-the-box social media solution that enables the deployment of online communities. Site owners can now use Movable Type to power entire websites, including blogs, social communities, member profiles, forums, recommendations and ratings, content management, podcasts and rich media, under a unified management system. MTCS is a solution for media companies that want to power communities, encourage user-generated content, and manage web publishing from a single, scalable application. Advanced reporting and management tools designed for site administrators provide management of content and assets, permissions and user management, and fine-grained controls that allow site managers to develop and maintain a community. Designers can customize every part of the site's experience: templates and design, login and registration forms, email notifications, and user profiles. The Community Solution extends the Movable Type platform with advanced user registration with support for the OpenID authentication standard, member profiles for registered members which list all of a user's contributions to a site as well as customizable fields, ratings and recommendations to let your users promote their favorite content, member blogging, allowing any registered user to submit site content, and integrated commenting and profiles between forums, communities, and blogs. The Movable Type Community Solution is available in English, Japanese, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish and may be purchased by contacting Six Apart. MTCS comes bundled with one year of support, which includes guaranteed response times, access to an account manager and support personnel, and all updates. http://www.movabletype.com/

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced the integration of Alfresco with Facebook to deliver a platform for developing content-centric applications. This integration makes publishing content to Facebook as "controlled and effective as publishing to a corporate Web site". The Alfresco Enterprise Content Network application, which is built on this framework, enables collaboration and makes secure, audited, sharing of content in Facebook as "simple as sharing a photo". Alfresco has integrated the Facebook platform, allowing enterprise content to be uploaded and shared with customers and employees in a controlled, secure and audited way. New platform functionality includes: Application registration, Facebook authorization and single sign-on, FBML support, and Facebook model support. The Alfresco integration with Facebook provides a platform for employees to access and utilize organizational information effectively with tools they know and like. In a secure environment users can: Upload documents, View My Documents, All Documents or Recently Added Documents, and View documents from colleagues and friends through the Facebook news feed. http://www.alfresco.com/

Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSK) (NASDAQ:CMCSA) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) have launched a new Internet-based communications product for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), giving SMBs access to services that have traditionally only been available to larger companies with IT staffs. Comcast's SMB customers will receive Microsoft Communication Services from Comcast, which will provide them with corporate-class e-mail, calendaring and document sharing. This product is Internet-based, so SMBs do not need additional server capacity and is backed by 24x7 Business Class customer support from Comcast, which will serve as an SMB's "help desk." Comcast makes this product available at no additional cost with its broadband services. Microsoft Communication Services enables SMB teams to share documents and access calendars, track tasks, and use e-mail through corporate-class productivity and collaboration solutions based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. It also improves communication by letting SMBs extend access to these collaboration tools, such as document sharing, to business partners or suppliers. Microsoft Communication Services is the first major product to be launched in conjunction with Comcast's introduction of high-speed Internet, phone and video services for small businesses across the country. http://www.comcast.com/

Hyland Software Inc. announced the release of version 7 of its OnBase enterprise content management (ECM) software suite. OnBase 7 introduces process modeling and business activity monitoring (BAM) capabilities to help organizations model, monitor and continuously improve document-driven business processes. The new release features the ability to search the OnBase repository using Microsoft Office SharePoint Search as well as several new content-enabled vertical applications for hospitals, law enforcement agencies and universities. The Business Process Modeling tool provides graphical modeling capabilities that allow process managers to optimally design a document-centric process. In addition, it enables managers to simulate process activity with "what-if" scenarios that identify potential bottlenecks. Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) portlets deliver real-time, dashboard views into the performance of document-driven business processes and allow process owners to identify and correct problem areas such as work overloading, stagnating work and incomplete transactions. OnBase BAM Portlets can be extended to enterprise portals built with Microsoft SharePoint and/or IBM Websphere. The OnBase Integration for Microsoft Search enables OnBase-managed content to be indexed and searched directly using Microsoft Office SharePoint Search. This integration benefits employees who have the need to conduct authorized searches for content across both SharePoint and OnBase repositories. The Integration for Microsoft Search provides search results in a single list sorted by relevance regardless of whether the content resides in Microsoft SharePoint or the OnBase repository. http://www.onbase.com/

Percussion Software introduced its Community Marketing Solution, the latest in its Percussion 2.0 Solution Series. The Community Marketing Solution enables marketers to more easily leverage blogs, RSS feeds, external content feeds and user-generated content as part of their online marketing efforts, while delivering the kind of controls and accountability that marketing management requires. Percussion's Community Marketing Solution allows marketers to embrace the world of blogs, RSS feeds, social sites and user-generated content to achieve marketing goals, including increased customer loyalty, wider brand awareness, more effective lead generation and prospect qualification as well as improved sales lead conversion. The solution enables marketers to manage the balance between how much to embrace the unrestrained characteristics of the new social media, and how much to exert control by selecting, utilizing and processing only the best content and channels for any given initiative. It transforms almost any blog or external content source from a separate, isolated channel into a cohesive part of delivering a consistent, multi-channel customer experience, regardless of whether content is company, or customer-generated. The Percussion 2.0 Solution Series 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 WCM platform. http://www.percussion.com

Idiom Technologies, Inc. announced it named WhP its newest LSP Platinum Partner. WhP, a provider of comprehensive localization solutions for worldwide content deployment, achieved Platinum status because of its commitment to make WorldServer a key part of its integrated solution for its global customer base. The Idiom LSP Partner Program provides independent language service providers (LSPs) free access to the scalable translation management technologies provided by WorldServer for their internal production processes. The Platinum tier of the LSP Partner Program recognizes those partners that have contributed substantially to the program and show the greatest capacity to accelerate the adoption of WorldServer GMS solutions in the translation and localization industry. http://www.idiominc.com, http://www.whp.net

Oracle Announced Updates to their Content Management Solutions, including new releases of imaging and process management and information rights management software that extend the integration of Stellent technology. Oracle Imaging and Process Management 10g Release 3 delivers new certification with Oracle BPEL Process Manager; and broader certification with Oracle Applications including Oracle Financial Management, Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management, Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne; and third-party applications such as SAP ArchiveLink. New features in Oracle Imaging and Process Management 10g Release 3 include a customizable, user-friendly web interface; improved performance through streamlined management of storage devices; and optimized load balancing. Oracle Information Rights Management 10g Release 3 includes a new web services API, updated support for Adobe Acrobat, PDF watermarking and AES 256-bit encryption. Oracle Imaging and Process Management 10g Release 3 is priced at $50,000 per processor or $1000 per named user plus. Oracle Information Rights Management 10g Release 3 is priced at $500 per named user plus. Oracle Imaging and Process Management 10g Release 3 and Oracle Information Rights Management 10g Release 3, components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, are now generally available. http://www.oracle.com

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN) (TSX: CSN) announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Cognos in an all-cash transaction at a price of approximately $5 billion USD or $58 USD per share, with a net transaction value of $4.9 billion USD. The acquisition is subject to Cognos shareholder approval, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. It is expected to close in the first quarter of 2008. The acquisition of Cognos accelerates IBM’s global Information on Demand initiative to unlock the business value of information for our customers. IBM will provide broader reach for Cognos solutions across multiple industries and geographies with a more complete set of offerings, including consulting services, hardware, and other middleware software. Cognos provides a BI and performance management platform, integrated on a service oriented architecture (SOA). The combination of IBM’s information management technology and Cognos could help organizations discover new ways to use trusted information spread across their enterprises to identify new business opportunities. IBM intends to integrate Cognos as a group within IBM's Information Management Software division, focused on Business Intelligence and Performance Management. IBM also will appoint current Cognos President and CEO, Rob Ashe, to lead the group, reporting directly to General Manager, Ambuj Goyal. http://www.ibm.com/software/data/info/cognos, http://www.cognos.com/

Traction Software announced the latest version of TeamPage, Traction's enterprise blog and wiki software. TeamPage 3.8 can now show the 'latest stable version' of wiki pages without inhibiting the ability to edit collaboratively and reach consensus, making it easier to follow compliance requirements and do blog-style communication in the same space and context as wiki-style page editing. Traction will introduce a forward linking feature set with full referential integrity, name aliasing and cross-wiki project name aliasing, all combined with page name history (in addition to page content history). TeamPage project spaces now support integrated blog and wiki style collaboration using a combined name space, or can enforce a wiki style unique name space in any or all projects. Authors can collaborate on changes over time without disturbing the "latest stable" view of the wiki. Page changes can be published later, when all the pages are ready, or have been reviewed and approved. Authors can see, search and review the combined effect of all drafts for collaboration, or flip back to see and use the latest stable view of all pages. New permissions allow control over who can publish drafts, edit drafts, read drafts and even lock pages. Traction TeamPage Release 3.8 will be available for preview use this month and will ship in the fourth quarter of 2007. http://www.tractionsoftware.com/

Clickability, Inc. and Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced a strategic relationship to improve the speed, reliability and performance of shared customers' Web sites. Clickability will offer Akamai's Dynamic Site Accelerator solution to its corporate publishers' customer base for use in conjunction with Clickability's cmPublish software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. The integrated offering is designed to create a more rewarding user experience while increasing businesses' profitability through content management optimization. The Clickability cmPublish platform provides customers resources to build a Web business, including site hosting, Web content management, newsletter and RSS delivery, ad serving, integrated analytics, and a recently announced social media toolkit. Akamai's Dynamic Site Accelerator solution is designed to provide customers with consistently high performance across their sites. The Akamai and Clickability integrated publishing solution is available now. http://www.akamai.com, http://www.clickability.com

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) announced that its Brava! Enterprise, previously accredited as "Designed for EMC Documentum," has been validated on the Documentum 6 enterprise content management platform from EMC Corporation. The validation approval demonstrates that Brava has met a comprehensive set of criteria for testing and quality integration with the next-generation Documentum 6 platform. Through participation in the Designed for EMC partner program, IGC received early access to the Documentum 6 platform software in order to test Brava for integration. Brava extends the Documentum 6 content management platform to provide fast and accurate viewing and annotation for virtually any file. Brava works within the Documentum platform, maintaining security, aiding user adoption and speeding collaboration and other workflows. http://www.emc.com/applicationportfolio, http://www.infograph.com

MuseGlobal announced the adoption of its content integration platform by Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 enterprise suite. With Muse technology, SharePoint customers are now able to present local and licensed content to their enterprise users in a controlled and protected environment. The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is an enterprise portal platform that makes it easy to build and maintain portal sites. Through consolidated access to existing business applications and content, companies can drive consistent performance of common business tasks, and SharePoint's integrated Web content management capabilities enable people to publish Web content with a content authoring tool and a built-in approval process. MuseGlobal search integration and management systems enable institutions to build search products and services, unifying a wide range of content sources into custom search solutions. http://www.museglobal.com

X1 Technologies, Inc. announced the immediate availability of X1 Enterprise Search Suite v6, a suite of products designed to seamlessly integrate critical business systems by providing secure, unified access to personal and IT managed content throughout the enterprise. The X1 Enterprise Search Suite v6 consists of the X1 Professional Client v6, X1 Enterprise Server v3, and a suite of 16 packaged Content Connectors, providing unified access to enterprise repositories and applications. The Suite also includes new Content Connectors that provide search federation with 3rd party search engines from vendors such as Autonomy, FAST Search & Transfer, IBM, and Oracle. X1 Enterprise Search Solutions can be deployed on the desktop and expanded throughout the enterprise. X1 Content Connectors are packaged software modules that extend the reach of the X1 Enterprise Search Suite, providing access to and the ability to take action on content stored within enterprise data sources and applications. Available X1 Content Connectors securely integrate with popular enterprise systems, including Lotus Notes and Domino, Mozilla Thunderbird, Centralized PST Archives, Symantec Enterprise Vault, Meridio eDRM, Network File Servers, Relational Databases from vendors such as Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and MySQL, Microsoft SharePoint, Interwoven WorkSite, Autonomy IDOL and K2, FAST ESP, Oracle SES, IBM OmniFind, Yahoo! Web Search, RSS/Atom Feeds, and Web Services. With the introduction of the X1 Enterprise Search Suite, X1 has also enhanced its email management offerings, including updated and enhanced support for Symantec Enterprise Vault, the email archiving solution. Symantec Enterprise Vault users can leverage the X1 Enterprise Search Suite to quickly find, preview, and take action on all email and attachments, whether they reside in an online or offline Vault, PST archive, Exchange public folder, or within Outlook. http://www.x1.com

Microsoft Corp. unveiled Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, a new addition to its enterprise search lineup. Search Server 2008 Express. A release candidate of Search Server 2008 Express is available today for download and evaluation. Microsoft has taken the enterprise class search capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and made them available as a stand-alone server for free. Search Server Express is designed to be easy to configure and administer, allowing IT professionals to go from download to search in as little as 30 minutes. In addition, Search Server Express has no preset document limits, so it will scale to meet a company's evolving needs. For users, Search Server Express provides advanced security and access to relevant results using a Web search experience. Microsoft also announced two search product portfolio enhancements that provide connectivity to a number of common customer information sources. First, free connectors that index content from EMC Corp.'s Documentum and IBM Corp.'s FileNet are scheduled to be available across the portfolio of Microsoft search products in early 2008. Microsoft has also added new federated search capabilities based on the OpenSearch standard. Many applications and services already support OpenSearch, and Microsoft is working with a number of partners, as well as with its own product groups, to create new connections based on the standard. Several companies, including Open Text Corp., Business Objects SA, Cognos Inc. and EMC, have already signed on to develop federated search connectors that will enable Microsoft's enterprise search customers to connect to their information systems. Search Server 2008 Express is the newest addition to Microsoft’s enterprise search lineup, which includes the new Microsoft Search Server 2008, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch

Stone Bond Technologies announced enhancements to its Enterprise Enabler (EE) integration solution for accelerating the deployment of Microsoft BizTalk Server (BizTalk) and facilitating the integration of diverse and complex information into the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server environment. Enterprise Enabler can be used as a universal adapter to make information available and provide the necessary transformations and semantic alignment; allowing for advanced process and data integration, and supporting the processing and display of almost any data on these combined environments. Enterprise Enabler complements and enhances SharePoint and BizTalk installations, handling behind-the-scenes complexities that can require custom coding. Its extensible .NET based environment makes it easier to quickly build and maintain one or thousands of processes and data interfaces. Stone Bond's transformation engine augments Microsoft's XSLT engine, handling non-XML formats in native mode, and supporting cross-database virtual relationships. EE extends and enhances the value of existing BizTalk systems, connecting other integration architectures, platforms and deployed SharePoint environments. Enterprise Enabler extends SharePoint's range of connectivity by automatically creating entries in SharePoint's Business Data Catalog (BDC). http://www.stonebond.com

Armedia LLC has released the Armedia Mobile Experience for EMC Documentum, enabling real-time access from mobile devices through a partnership between VSR Networks and Armedia. This partnership produces the Armedia Mobile Experience, which enables users to work with EMC Documentum on the go. Mobile AppWatch gives EMC Documentum users instant access to the status of business processes. Business and IT managers can remotely monitor Documentum environments proactively through a dashboard with detailed status reports. Also included in this solution is the Incident Management System (IMS), created for EMC Documentum’s D6 Developer Challenge. Armedia and VSR Networks will expand Mobile Content Management through the Armedia Mobile Experience by releasing solutions and products targeted at organizations looking to extend their content to mobile platforms. Both Mobile AppWatch and Incident Management System are certified for D6. Mobile AppWatch has been given Design for EMC accreditation. http://www.VSRNetworks.com, http://www.armedia.com

Thunderstone Software LLC has added customizable "sort by" and "group by" capabilities to the Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance. The Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance can index and make searchable large quantities of full-text data with defined attributes (e.g. "manufacturer," "price," "publication date,") as well as targeted web content, file server-based content, application database content and other enterprise-based content in a variety of popular formats. Supporting full-text keyword searches combined with a user-selected "filter" on up to 50 data fields, the Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance allows complex queries utilizing standard SQL commands while also taking advantage of capabilities such as concept-based, fuzzy logic, full-text searching and "bounded box" geographic searching. Administrators and searchers can optimize "findability" by specifying how they want the Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance to sort and/or group its query results. Results can be sorted and grouped by any defined attributes in the data, and any of the available fields can be used to provide navigation links enabling the searcher to browse the results.The DataLoad API allows data to be populated from any source, and a variety of connectors have been developed for many common enterprise data sources. The Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance provides a way to create applications that combine SQL structured queries with full-text retrieval without programming. http://www.thunderstone.com

HiveLive, an enterprise social software platform provider, announced the launch of a community platform to integrate social networks with information networks. The LiveConnect Community Platform allows businesses to configure custom-fit enterprise communities built around people, their relationships, and their shared knowledge. The foundation of HiveLive's technology is a Web 2.0 building block, called a Hive that combines people, information, and permissions to create flexible information resources. Hives can be configured by clicking, not coding, to support an infinite range of community activities such as communication, collaboration, discussion, media and file sharing, idea voting, and more. With Hives users can choose the people, create the type of information, and define the interaction shifting one-way, controlled messages into two-way collaborative conversations that are inclusive, open, and timely. http://hivelive.com

Day Software (SWX:DAYN) (OTCQX:DYIHY) announced general availability of its new Web 2.0 collaboration solution. Part of Day's Communiqué family of products, Communiqué Advanced Collaboration (CQ AC) offers wiki, blog, and calendar functionality. Providing centralized management for social media and essential metadata information, CQ AC enables connectivity to social computing, social networking and user participation. By providing management through a central repository for all departments in the enterprise, CQ AC extends the value of rich media. The product also leverages Web 2.0 design features, such as an AJAX user interface. Fully integrated with Day's CQ Web Content Management, CQ AC leverages JSR 170. CQ AC Wiki offers easy editing via standard wiki syntax, version history and comparison and email notification for content changes. Material created within the wiki is immediately indexed and available for full-text search. CQ AC Blog provides easy creation of blogs and posts, a rich text editor for content editing and RSS support. CQ AC Calendar allows users to create event schedules, different views for time-based events, including calendar view and display of multiple event hierarchies. http://www.day.com

Syncro Soft Ltd announced the immediate availability of version 9.0 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger. The main feature of version 9.0 is a CSS-based visual XML editor allowing WYSIWYG like editing of XML documents. Oxygen allows you to work with XML frameworks (DocBook, DITA, TEI, XHTML, etc) easier than before. Version 9 adds a new concept called Document Type that allow users to provide ready to use support for a framework or an XML language and share that with other users. This version also brings improved error reporting for validation against Relax NG schemas and Schematron, additional side view helpers, some component updates and a number of other features. The WYSIWYG like rendering of the visual XML editor is driven by CSS stylesheets conforming with the W3C CSS 2.1 specification. Oxygen XML Editor and XSLT Debugger is available immediately in three editions: Multi-platform Academic/Non-profit license costs USD 48.00, Multi-platform Professional license costs USD 225.00, and Multi-platform Enterprise license costs USD 275.00. http://www.oxygenxml.com/, http://www.syncrosvnclient.com

Ektron Inc. announced the launch of "Ektronville," its state and local government Starter Site. Ektronville is a fully functional Web site with an information architecture and functional framework designed to help state and local governments meet their online goals and solve Web challenges unique to government agencies. The Ektronville site enables government to citizen communication while making a community's Web site a place to discuss town issues. Town agenda items, police reports and parks can be mapped. Residents can submit reports of potential road hazards while community officials can demonstrate their responsiveness to residents' reports. Government officials can blog and offer unfiltered opinions on local issues while constituents interact in online forums and build a neighborhood wiki of local information. http://www.ektron.com/startersites/