December 2007 Archives

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) and Document Sciences Corporation (NASDAQ: DOCX) announced that they have signed a definitive agreement whereby EMC will acquire publicly-held Document Sciences Corporation in a cash transaction valued at approximately $85,000,000. Document Sciences Corporation is a provider of document output management (DOM) software that facilitates personalized, multi-channel communications to customers, partners and suppliers. The acquisition adds to EMC's position in the transactional content management (TCM) marketplace. The board of directors of Document Sciences Corporation approved the transaction with EMC based, in part, upon the recommendation of a special committee of the Document Sciences board of directors that was established to evaluate strategic alternatives. Under the terms of the agreement, Document Sciences Corporation stockholders will receive $14.75 in cash for each share of Document Sciences Corporation common stock. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including Document Sciences' stockholder and regulatory approvals, and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of calendar year 2008. This transaction is not expected to have a material impact on EMC financial results in 2008. Upon completion of the acquisition, EMC intends to operate Document Sciences Corporation as a business unit within the EMC Content Management and Archiving division. http://www.docscience.com, http://www.emc.com

IXIASOFT announced the signature of an OEM partnership with 4DCONCEPT. 4DCONCEPT will leverage IXIASOFT's TEXTML Server, a native XML database and search engine, within its Doc'Advance solution to optimize the management of XML content. 4DCONCEPT is headquartered in France where it conducts the majority of its business. Aimed at the aviation industry, Doc'Advance is a document management solution which offers authoring, management and publishing modules. Customizable, the solution supports the specific requirements of various aircrafts and helicopters including those established for the A400M, RAFAEL, FELIN, NH90 and TIGRE. Doc'Advance provides a modular approach to content management and is composed of a number of modules: Module Author: authoring environment for Data Modules, Module 3D Author: authoring environment for 2D / 3D data graphics, Module Manager: management of environment for Data Modules, Module Publisher: publishing framework, and Module S2000M: production environment and procurement management. The DocAdvance solution based on TEXTML Server is now available. http://www.4DCONCEPT.fr, http://www.ixiasoft.com

Quark Inc. and Alfresco Software, Inc. announced a new partnership to develop integrated enterprise-class publishing and content management solutions for professional and corporate publishers. Quark has designed technologies such as Quark Publishing System 7 (QPS 7) to streamline the editorial and creative workflow processes. Alfresco, the open source alternative for enterprise content management (ECM), couples open source with the stability of an enterprise-class platform. This new partnership will enable Quark and Alfresco to provide end-to-end content management and publishing solutions, enabling integration with an organization's existing business system. http://www.quark.com, http://www.alfresco.com

WorkLight Inc. announced its new WorkBook secure Facebook solution for enterprises. WorkBook, an addition to the WorkLight 2.0 software platform currently in use by Global 500 companies, allows employees to interact with their colleagues using the Facebook service, while eliminating the security issues that have concerned organizations looking to leverage social networking. The WorkBook application combines all the capabilities of Facebook with all the controls of a corporate environment, including integration with existing enterprise security services and information sources, allowing companies to harness the capabilities provided by the social networking service and provide their employees with a safe and secure solution for increased productivity and communication. With WorkBook, employees can use Facebook to find and stay in touch with corporate colleagues, provide status updates, publish and receive company-related news and create bookmarks to enterprise application data and securely share these bookmarks with authorized colleagues. Secure provisioning ensures the application can be used only by authorized employees Information security. Enterprise security integration authenticates WorkBook users via corporate authentication facilities and supports Single Sign-On Integration with the company's directory or applications to provide information to Facebook profiles. WorkBook is currently in limited release and is licensed to enterprises as part of the WorkLight server by yearly subscription. Pricing starts at $10 per user per month, with volume discount pricing available. http://www.myworklight.com/

Index Data has released a major upgrade to its open source Zebra indexing engine that makes it UNICODE compliant. With this upgrade, Zebra is now able to support indexing and searching in any UNICODE compliant script. The new version of Zebra can interact with the ICU libraries. ICU stands for "International Components for Unicode" and is a development project sponsored, supported, and used by IBM, and that consists of a set of open source program libraries that help applications process Unicode data in any script. The following organizations participated in this effort: Library of Congress, the libraries of OPALS-NA (OPen-source Library Automation System-North America), the South Asia Union Catalogue based at the University of Chicago, and the University of Crete (Greece). Zebra is an XML-based indexing engine and database server that can index, retrieve, and serve up text in any format, and natively understands MARC and Z39.50/SRU. Zebra is distributed under the GNU General Public License: documentation and software downloading are freely available at http://indexdata.com/zebra

Teragram announced that its Automatic Metadata Generation Suite, which includes the company's automatic categorization, entities extraction and TK240 taxonomy management software, now fully integrates with the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) content management system and Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Search. As a result of this integration, Teragram automatically adds metadata to documents stored in MOSS, enabling users to browse the content by topics and to perform faceted search with SharePoint Enterprise Search. Users can now view their search results broken down by category and linked to related topics. When documents are added to the MOSS content management system, Teragram's software automatically tags the content based on a set of predefined rules, which can be customized by industry and company name using the TK240 taxonomy management software. Teragram's industry-specific taxonomies can be used out-of-the-box with MOSS, or enterprises can create their own taxonomies using TK240 to automatically classify their content. Documents are then categorized based on the tags they receive. Finally, related terms are cross-referenced and linked by the TK240 system. These behind-the-scenes processes simplify enterprise search for end users, giving them a directory from which to choose the appropriate topic, in addition to the standard search bar. http://www.teragram.com/

Global Moxie announced the release of Big Medium 2, a web content management system aimed at web designers. Big Medium 2 has version control, workflow, search engine, content syndication, granular editing privileges, Unicode support, but also lots of grace notes for content sites: Pullquotes, image galleries, podcasts, scheduled publication, visitor comments, a WYSIWYG CSS style editor and "other goodies". Big Medium 2 is geared for designers who want a CMS that enables flexible designs but remains easy to set up without programming skills, just basic to intermediate HTML/CSS know-how. Once the designer configures the templates, he or she can hand the site over to content editors; no technical know-how is required to add or edit pages. Enter your text, images, podcasts and document downloads into Big Medium's editor, and the software automagically adds the necessary links and pages to your site. Big Medium's server requirements allow you to install it in nearly any hosting environment. Big Medium is a Perl application and runs on Unix-based or Windows servers with Perl 5.6.1 or higher. Big Medium is $185 per server installation (each install can manage an unlimited number of sites and user accounts, no extra fees). It's free to try for 30 days, and it's also a free upgrade for all current Big Medium customers. http://www.bigmedium.com/, http://globalmoxie.com/about

Syncro Soft announced a new release of Oxygen XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger for working with XML frameworks (DocBook, DITA, TEI, XHTML, etc). The CSS-based visual XML editor introduced by version 9 allows WYSIWYG like editing of XML documents. Version 9.1 adds a number of fetaures related to the WYSIWYG like XML editor and with the WebDAV support. The new version allow in place editing for XML attributes. The "in-place editing popup" can be triggered with a configurable shortcut (by default that is Alt+Enter). Both XML attribute names and possible values can be selected by typing their prefixes. The visual Author mode from Oxygen XML editor was also enhanced with support for bookmarks. DITA map documents can be converted to HTML or PDF. A new pre-configured scenario was added for the default DITA configuration for transforming a DITA Map document to HTML. The already existing DITA to PDF scenario can now also handle DITA map files so you can use it to convert a DITA map to PDF. The WebDAV support has been improved by adding WebDAV locking support. Oxygen XML editor now supports SOAP 1.2. The SOAP version is detected from the WSDL definition file and the appropriate headers are set in the SOAP request. The TEI framework was updated to the latest P5 1.0 schemas, DITA Open Toolkit to the latest 1.4.1 and Saxon B XSLT processor from Saxonica to the latest 9.0.0.2 version. Oxygen XML editor also supports the Saxon SA 9.0.0.2. Oxygen XML Editor and XSLT Debugger are available immediately in three editions: Multi-platform Academic/Non-profit license costs USD 48.00 Multi-platform Professional license costs USD 225.00 Multi-platform Enterprise license costs USD 275.00 http://www.syncrosvnclient.com, http://www.oxygenxml.com/

Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH) announced that its web-based report mining and analysis solution, Monarch|RMS (Report Mining Server), is now integrated with IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD). Monarch|RMS bridges the gap between business intelligence and content management, giving users the ability to analyze and work with the data in reports and other documents. Companies that utilize and store large amounts of text-based reports can mine and transform their report data online for analysis, either through a web browser or their favorite productivity tool. Users can sort and filter relevant report data, summarize hundreds of megabytes of data with sub- and grand-totals and perform multidimensional cube or OLAP-style analysis. Monarch|RMS also enables users to export data to applications, including existing templates and spreadsheets, and transform all report data into XML for browser-based forms presentation. http://www.datawatch.com

SDL announced the launch of SDL Passolo 2007, the latest version of their visual software localization tool. The new version offers a full visual editing environment of the latest Microsoft localization technology Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and localization support for all Windows development platforms such as .NET 3.0, Windows 64 bit and Delphi 2007. SDL Passolo 2007 integrates with SDL Trados 2007 to maximize the reuse of translation memories and terminology by leveraging existing Translation Memories and corporate Terminology Data Bases. SDL Localization Office suite, a combined offering of SDL Trados 2007 and SDL Passolo 2007, provide an integrated solution supporting localization projects. Direct display of source files adds context information when working on XML, Java and text files without visual support. http://www.sdl.com/

Drawloop Technologies announced the launch of LOOP Exchange - a new web portal offering a simple way for people to web-enable Microsoft Office documents for file sharing. LOOP Exchange allows for the dynamic capture of data and delivery of customized documents without exposing the original files. On LOOP Exchange, you can securely upload any Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint document or group of documents to build Dynamic Document Packages (DDPs) and share them as web-based solutions. These files are organized and securely uploaded to LOOP Exchange, where they are converted into web forms that anyone can complete to create their own customized documents, without exposing any of the formulas or other confidential information from the original Microsoft Office files. Since LOOP Exchange is part of Drawloop, it leverages LOOP's core document-building capability, so users can easily add any PDF, JPG, HTML, XML, Text, BMP, GIF, PNG, Publisher and Visio files to their Dynamic Document Package and deliver the solution as a single PDF. LOOP Exchange is available for free to anyone with a web browser. Enhanced paid services and delivery options are also available for Dynamic Document Packages on LOOP Exchange. LOOP Exchange is available at http://www.loopexchange.com, http://www.Drawloop.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) announced plans to release source code for its remoting and messaging technologies under a new open source product named BlazeDS, to help developers connect to back-end distributed data, as well as push data in real-time to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR applications, for more responsive rich Internet application (RIA) experiences. Previously available only as part of Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES, the technologies included in BlazeDS, along with the Action Message Format (AMF) protocol specification, are being contributed to open source under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL v3). Also, developers can productively connect rich clients to existing server applications, including Java and Adobe ColdFusion components. The commercial version of the product, LiveCycle Data Services ES, includes enterprise class capabilities for building advanced customer engagement applications that require massive messaging scalability, advanced client-server data synchronization, conflict detection/resolution, offline data management services for Adobe AIR applications, and RIA-to-PDF generation. BlazeDS and the AMF binary data protocol specification are supported by Adobe Flash Player. Adobe will offer annual subscriptions for Adobe LiveCycle Data Services, Community Edition, which includes access to trusted, certified builds, patches, enterprise support and additional benefits such as product warranty and infringement indemnity. Subscription pricing will be announced at the time of general release of BlazeDS under the LGPL v3, currently scheduled for early 2008. Additionally, new beta versions of Adobe AIR, Adobe Flex Builder 3 and Adobe Flex 3 are now available. The public beta versions are available immediately as free downloads from http://labs.adobe.com

Silicon Space, LLC announced its SocialSpace Business-to-Business (B-to-B) social networking solution. Optimized for enterprise environments, the SocialSpace solution provides the services and expertise required to bring a social network community to market. SocialSpace combines content management and infrastructure services with Silicon Space's technical platform and expertise in software development. With the SocialSpace platform, Silicon Space partners with enterprises to develop a tailored B-to-B social networking solution based on a detailed analysis of their business model. Based on this analysis, SocialSpace deploys its technical platform, along with the launch marketing, moderation services, and long-term management of the community to ensure member engagement. SocialSpace is a complete solution that offers enterprises a way to deploy a social network for their end-users. The Silicon Space SocialSpace solution will be available Q1 2008, with pricing based on a usage model. http://www.socialspaceinc.com

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced new capabilities in its content classification software used to automatically categorize large volumes of enterprise information, making it easier to find, access and use in the context of enterprise content management systems. With its service-oriented architecture-based capabilities, the IBM Classification Module provides connection to the IBM FileNet P8 content management platform to tackle the categorization of unstructured content, especially content stored or arriving in FileNet repositories. It automates the process of determining whether content is important, and how it should be handled. It can also automatically classify previously unmanaged content or reclassify content already under management so it can be leveraged for business purposes such as records management. The IBM Classification Module helps users to determine the right level of automation for their business scenario, providing a balance between automation and oversight through its configurable confidence levels and workflows designed within the classification review interface. This review capability uses the IBM Classification Module's real-time learning to provide the system with feedback in order to improve accuracy and automatically adapt to changes. IBM Classification Module is currently available from IBM and IBM Business Partners. http://www.ibm.com/software/ecm/classification

eZ Systems announced the immediate availability of eZ Publish 4.0, the latest version of its ECM product. eZ Publish 4.0 features PHP 5-compatibility. eZ Publish is freely downloadable and provides an out-of-the-box Open Source Enterprise Content Management System. The product offers development framework with advanced functionality for web publishing, media portals, intranets, e-commerce and extranets. Specifically, eZ Publish 4.0 will offer the following enhancements to the 3.x series: Complete PHP 5-compatibility, Full support for using eZ's PHP enterprise components library, Performance improvements, Improved internal XML handling for increased performance and reduced memory usage, Updated Web site interface with new graphical design and enhancements, Improved clustering performance, Multilingual URL support, and Enhanced ISBN and multi-option datatypes. eZ Find, a new extension for eZ Publish 3.x and 4.x, enhances the search functionality on eZ Publish sites and includes features such as relevance ranking, native support for eZ Publish access rights, keyword highlighting and the ability to search sites containing millions of objects. eZ Systems also announced eZ Flow. eZ Flow helps news and media organizations to create dynamic portal pages by scheduling content publication, streaming rich content and managing revenue streams, including pay-per-view and paid content placement. Standard eZ Publish functionality within eZ Flow includes features designed to engage users, including surveys, ratings, tagging, comments, forums, polls and blogs. Multi-user, multi-role access permissions provide complete control over which users - including anonymous site visitors - can create and edit different types of content. With multi-channel exporting, site content can also be published to RSS, OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Word, and QuarkXPress. http://ez.no/

Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP announced the integration of BuyDRM's KeyOS Pay Media Platform into Internap's content delivery network (CDN) services. Enhancing the features of Internap's rich media delivery solutions, BuyDRM's technology will provide customers of Microsoft Windows Media with greater Web content marketing and monetization tools while powering live and on-demand rich media streaming and downloads. Internap's CDN features MediaConsole, a workflow management toolset that supports streaming formats such as Flash and Windows Media and includes a media manager, pre-built video skins and a real-time reporting dashboard. Through the BuyDRM integration, MediaConsole will feature support for pay-per-view, subscription-based, token, ad-supported, marketing and silent monitoring business models and will be compatible with most payment gateways and shopping carts. In addition, the MediaConsole will have a push-button user-interface for content management and transactional analysis and includes sophisticated data encryption applications. Through Internap and BuyDRM's support of Silverlight, the MediaConsole features compatibility with the Silverlight PlayReady DRM component and the player's cross-platform functionality. http://www.internap.com

Immediacy, part of the Mediasurface group (UK, AIM: MSR) announced the launch of Immediacy Web Content Management Suite 6.0 (WCMs 6.0). New features are:
Extended Web 2.0 functionality allows easy creation of 'My Pages', profiles and blogs that help to deliver the content, context and connections for social interaction. Immediacy WCMs 6.0 creates a platform for community-driven tags (folksonomies) and business taxonomies to co-exist. The new Immediacy SharePoint Connector is designed to allow non-technical users to publish accessibility compliant content directly from SharePoint. Improved Search Engine Optimisation generates the XHTML-validated code that search engines such as Google prefer. Taxonomy and Categorisation Manager employs sophisticated algorithms to extract keywords, key phrases and a summarised description from any web page or document, then automatically categorise it against a taxonomy or folksonomy. It also includes as standard new enhancements for social networking including RSS, OpenSearch, Robot.txt, PDF output and blog capabilities. http://www.mediasurface.com

Exalead announced the availability of exalead one:enterprise 4.6, a newly updated version of its enterprise search software product. The release of exalead one:enterprise 4.6 offers several new enhancements that are designed to help organizations easily configure and customize business applications, including hybrid vertical search applications. In addition, exalead one:enterprise 4.6 offers new connectors for enterprise databases and a developer toolkit designed to structure unstructured data. All features and enhancements are built into exalead one:enterprise at its three core levels, user, infrastructure and data source, to allow for organic growth in support of organizations' search and retrieval needs. Also included is an HTML extraction toolkit, which is designed to take advantage of the structural indicators in HTML pages. The new toolkit is for building vertical search applications, including business intelligence, competitive intelligence, directory, product search and human resources applications, among others. Exalead has added several new application programming interfaces (APIs) including: a new Push API, a new XML Front Search API, and a new API Specification for Alerts. Exalead also released new and updated connectors including a new enterprise connector for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, a new EMC Documentum E-Room connector and an enhanced connector for EMC Documentum Content Server. http://corporate.exalead.com/

Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX) (NASDAQ:TSX: OTC) announced the release of Genio 7, Open Text's content and data integration solution used to transform, cleanse and direct unstructured and structured information across the spectrum of decision support systems and corporate applications, spanning projects that include data warehouses, data marts, mainframe systems, ERP systems, CRM systems, and content management deployments. New capabilities in Genio 7 include out-of-the-box support for Web Services. By offering Unicode Support, Genio 7 removes the complexity of integrating data encoded in different character sets. This new functionality allows Genio customers to treat data equally regardless of its origin. Now available as a native 64-bit application, Genio 7 extends scalability and performance of the Genio line. http://www.opentext.com/

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced the availability of an integrated Red Hat-Alfresco Team Collaboration Solution for small and medium businesses (SMBs) requiring collaboration, simplified information sharing and content management. The joint solution, which is available exclusively from Red Hat Exchange (RHX), delivers Alfresco Enterprise Social Computing Platform capabilities via Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform. Pre-integrated and certified on a complete Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/JBoss Enterprise Middleware stack, this offering combines Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform with Alfresco's Enterprise Social Computing Platform in a single package, delivered via an annual Red Hat subscription. Companies can use the Red Hat-Alfresco solution to build portals for employees, or extranets for customers and partners. They can further extend their portals with out-of-the-box JSR-168 compliant portlets for provisioning content collaboration, document management and Web content management services directly within the portal environment. A lightweight, JavaScript-based extension framework (Web Scripts) allows users to readily download any of Alfresco's managed content or content services directly into a portal page. Subscription support for the Red Hat/Alfresco Team Collaboration Solution is available immediately from Red Hat Exchange. http://rhx.redhat.com/, http://www.alfresco.com/

Lyris, Inc. (OTCBB:LYRI) announced the availability of Hot Banana Version 5.7, the latest update to its Web content management solution and core application within the company’s Lyris HQ integrated marketing platform. Version 5.7 of the Hot Banana application provides integration with other Lyris HQ applications, including the EmailLabs email marketing and ClickTracks Web analytics products. These integrations enable marketers to create HTML emails and landing pages within Hot Banana; automatically tag Web pages for Web tracking in ClickTracks; and distribute email campaigns through the EmailLabs application – all within a single login environment. When users log in to Lyris HQ, they gain access to a suite of solutions including Hot Banana, ClickTracks, EmailLabs, EmailAdvisor, a deliverability management tool, and BidHero, a PPC campaign management application. Pricing is based on a per seat license starting at $199 and includes free usage of each application up to certain volume/usage levels. Hot Banana 5.7 includes a refreshed user interface that allows for 100 percent width; in-context previewing of content; a new WYSIWYG Rich Text Editor based on the FCK editor, which produces XHTML compliant code; and search engine-friendly URLs for structured data; and a selection of matching templates for landing pages and HTML emails. http://www.lyrisinc.com, http://www.hotbanana.com

Huddle.net announced the availability of French and German language versions of their online workspaces. Huddle.net combines a social networking platform with online project, document and team management tools into a single interface. With Huddle.net groups work in teams to achieve results for business or play. Huddle.net enables users to interface in their own language whilst working with global teams. http://www.huddle.net

Mondeca S.A. announced the forthcoming release of ITM T3, a collaborative server based environment for the creation, maintenance and sharing of multi-lingual taxonomies, terminologies and thesauri. ITM T3 is based on Mondeca's Intelligent Topic Manager semantic software platform. ITM T3 will allow enterprises and organizations to manage reference vocabularies and make them interoperable with other information system applications such as search engine, text mining, translation and classification tools. Reference taxonomies and vocabularies may also be published in standard formats including XML, RDF, SKOS and Topic Maps. ITM T3 will be available in January 2008. Pricing is per-server, and includes an unlimited number of instances and user connections. http://www.mondeca.com

dominKnow Inc. announced that the dominKnow LCMS 5.1 Web-based Learning Content Management System now offers a Language Module that allows customers to provide e-learning in almost any language. At launch, the Language Module gives dominKnow LCMS customers the ability to present courses and courseware interfaces in French Canadian, French European, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean. Additional languages will be added to the module in the coming months. The new Language Module also gives customers a Translation Tool to extract the text assets of a course on their own and have them translated into any language they choose. Additionally, customers can substitute same-language interface words to match organizational terminology - for example, "Student" could be changed to "Learner" throughout the system if "Learner" is more appropriate. dominKnow LCMS 5.1 customers can export training content compatible with both SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004. dominKnow LCMS also supports the AICC standard. http://www.dominknow.com