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Nstein Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: EIN) announced the creation of a formal partner program specifically designed for the system integrators and developers community, who want to help publishers who need to integrate legacy content sources without sacrificing the ability to take advantage of the powerful XML enrichment and publishing technology that is core to Nstein's application suite. Along with providing sales, technical and training support, Nstein also supplies its partners with the documentation and APIs that are necessary for successful deployments. Nstein's Partner Program is built to help ensure the partners will financially benefit from their partnership while offering their clients content management solutions for media, entertainment and online publishing. http://www.nstein.com/partner

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Swedish software developer Polopoly releases the latest version of its Content Management system. Continuing the effort to launch more ready-to-use functionality, Polopoly version 9.9 marks an important milestone. By introducing a standardized way to build web sites and specifically how to break down pages into standardized and reusable elements, version 9.9 introduces out-of-the-box layout management functionality. Live layout editing is now as easy as dragging and dropping content and application components onto a page - allowing for full user customization on the fly. The Polopoly platform is built entirely in Java and has open and documented APIs. Like previous versions of the Polopoly system, version 9.9 provides enterprise level performance through Polopoly’s architecture and multi-level caching technology. The new release includes the addition of a new fragment cache, which automatically caches reusable page fragments.The new developer framework introduced in version 9.9 prescribes best practices for how to build web sites and web pages with Polopoly. Keeping this “developer contract” gives the editors benefits in the form of preview and editorial control over page layout. An editor may for instance rearrange the components within a page visually, using the modular interface with drag-and-drop capabilities. Page templating can still be used to control corporate graphical guidelines and accessibility demands, for example, while at the same time allowing for just the right level of editorial flexibility and creativity to ensure maximum use of content assets. For developers, the new Velocity integration will allow for dynamic update of website presentation logic, enabling hot deployment of new site functionality. The Polopoly Content Management system provides for multi-channel distribution of large amounts of content at high speed. The modular software includes tools for managing and editing multimedia, including user generated content, within one single system. Polopoly Content Manager Version 9.9 will be available from February 1, 2008. http://www.polopoly.com

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Gilbane Group Inc. announced the launch of a new practice area dedicated to helping organizations of all types utilize XML technologies and best practices. Well-known industry expert and long-time Gilbane associate Bill Trippe will be the practice’s Lead Analyst. Trippe is joined by industry veterans and Gilbane senior analysts Leonor Ciarlone and Mary Laplante. Gilbane’s XML Technologies and Content Strategies Practice is designed for IT and business managers who need to gain control of critical content, increase collaboration across enterprise applications, improve efficiencies through faster and more flexible information distribution between business partners and customers, and implement new business models that can keep pace with today's internet-speed competitive requirements. The amount of XML content being generated today is staggering, as large infrastructure providers like Microsoft, IBM, Google, Oracle, and others offer tools and technologies that generate and manage XML information, While many organizations are taking advantage of XML within departmental applications, most companies are not even close to taking advantage of the XML information being created and utilized by popular applications including office software and database repositories. Significantly, many executives are unaware of the XML content and data that are untapped assets within their organizations. To learn more about Gilbane Group’s XML Consulting and Advisory Practice, visit the group’s new blog at http://gilbane.com/xml/ or send an email to xml@gilbane.com http://gilbane.com

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Systems Alliance, Inc. announced the launch and general availability of SiteExecutive 4, the latest version of its Web content management application. SiteExecutive 4 offers advanced capabilities for classifying and delivering content, stronger compliance with industry standards, and expanded deployment options. SiteExecutive 4 provides enhancements include: Classification Engine and Content Intelligence Module: A taxonomy building system now lets clients classify all content types, including HTML, images, pdfs, and all other binary files included in a site. Once classified, The Content Intelligence Module can be added to any page or template, where it will automatically display relevant content; Improved support for mobile devices: SiteExecutive 4 incorporates a new page attribute which assigns style sheets based on CSS 2 media types. In addition to supporting handheld devices, SiteExecutive supports a range of other media types including screen readers, projectors, Braille, print and even TV; Stronger standards compliance: SiteExecutive 4 is compliant with XHTML and CSS 2. It features a new WYSIWYG editor that provides flexibility for assigning and editing header tags, further enhancing compliance with accessibility standards; More search engine friendly: Content contributors now have built-in capabilities for optimizing content, including control over H1-H6 tags and browser title, as well as a page comparison utility for evaluating content revisions; Binary versioning: SiteExecutive 4 provides automated version control for all binary files, providing a mechanism for rolling-back to prior versions as needed and assisting with document retention policies; Expanded platform support: SiteExecutive 4 now allows content authoring on Windows XP and Vista PCs using IE 6 and 7, as well as Mac OS-X computers running Firefox 2.x browsers. Server deployment options now include Apache on Windows, in addition to IIS, and Apache on Solaris and Red Hat Linux. SiteExecutive 4 is available immediately from Systems Alliance and its authorized resellers. The software is licensed by the server or as a hosted service. GSA pricing is also available for government agencies. More information is available at: http://www.siteexecutive.com/, http://www.systemsalliance.com

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ADAM Software announced full breadth XPS-functionality. XPS stands for XML Paper Specification. ADAM’s provider model allows third party developers to co-engineer on emerging opportunities. As for XPS, ADAM software joined forces with the Belgian company NiXPS to build an XPS-engine for ADAM. The 'NiXPS Library v2.0' widens the scope in which ADAM can handle data. Thumbnails of XPS files are shown in ADAM, the previewing of XPS files starts here. Metadata can be read by ADAM when importing. ADAM handles a conversion of XPS files to Adobe PDF. http://www.adam.be, http://www.nixps.com

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Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST) announced it has selected Informatica's (NASDAQ:INFA) PowerCenter to help enable new data interoperability. Under the terms of the agreement, FAST will embed Informatica's data integration software within the FAST Adaptive Information Warehouse (AIW) to simplify access to structured enterprise information. In addition, FAST has developed a PowerCenter adapter to capture extracted metadata in AIW using linguistic analysis techniques. The ability to deliver trustworthy data collected from disparate systems enhances AIW, making AIW, with its flexible retrieval-centric architecture, a platform for Business Intelligence (BI). FAST's Business Intelligence Built on Search allows business users to simply, explore and analyze enterprise data. The addition of Informatica's complementary data integration software eliminates some of the complexity associated with accessing information from various enterprise systems. http://www.fastsearch.com/, http://www.informatica.com/

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Liferay, Inc. announced plans to standardize its products on jQuery, an open source JavaScript Library used to simplify the writing of JavaScript code. Liferay, Inc. will now also provide business support for jQuery technology. While other libraries may still be used, Liferay, Inc. will be standardized to use jQuery and its plugins. As part of its focus on jQuery technology, Liferay, Inc. is now also offering three levels of support for jQuery and jQuery UI, the highest of which features 24-7, one hour response times. http://www.liferay.com/

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Recommind and iCONECT Development, LLC jointly announced a strategic alliance that will combine Recommind’s Axcelerate eDiscovery application with iCONECT’s nXT and eXT Web-based review platforms to create a new litigation review and analysis solution. With the integration of these two products, customers may benefit from the extensive use of automatically generated insight into a document collection, including each document’s responsiveness, priority, privileged nature and relationship to issues and subject codes. iCONECT will utilize the rich data about people, documents, concepts and phrases that is automatically generated by Axcelerate eDiscovery throughout the nXT EDD platform, greatly extending the utility of this data throughout the review process. Axcelerate eDiscovery provides language-agnostic tools like conceptual search, First Pass Review and One Click Coding functionality to expedite document review. Axcelerate eDiscovery offers law firms and enterprises more accurate and extensive document culling and filtering of virtually all document types, including both structured and unstructured data. For example, the solution automatically filters duplicates and near-duplicates between and across custodians and parties, and offers contextual email thread analysis, reducing the number of documents to be reviewed. http://www.iconect.com, http://www.recommind.com

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and tagged: e-discovery, enterprise, iCONECT, Recommind, search, semantic technologies
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Ektron unveiled the Ektron Intranet which uses the social networking to enable the controlled, collaborative creation and managed distribution of business documents on the corporate intranet. Once distributed the Ektron Intranet enhances workforce productivity by allowing employees to create personalized information architectures that allow them to find the assets they need. Documents can be constantly enhanced through a feedback loop which takes advantage of discussion boards to gather observations from the employees using the documents. On the Ektron Intranet, “social” networks become “business-focused” networks, “friends” become colleagues, and “groups” become collaborative workspaces. http://www.ektron.com

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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML Core Working Group has published the Proposed Recommendation of "Canonical XML 1.1." The specification establishes a method for determining whether two documents are identical, or whether an application has not changed a document, except for transformations permitted by XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML. Canonical XML 1.1 is a revision to "Canonical XML 1.0" designed to address issues related to inheritance of attributes in the XML namespace when canonicalizing document subsets, including the requirement not to inherit xml:id, and to treat xml:base URI path processing properly. Comments are welcome through 07 March. Learn more about W3C's XML Activity. http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/, http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-xml-c14n11-20080129/

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Silobreaker announced the official release of its new service. More than a news aggregator, Silobreaker provides relevance by looking at the data it finds like a person does. It recognizes people, companies, topics, places and keywords; understands how they relate to each other in the news flow, and puts them in context for the user. The graphical search results enables users to understand connections, trends and topics or navigate deeper into the most relevant stories for them. Silobreaker pulls content on global issues, science, technology and business from approximately 10,000 news, blog, research and multimedia sources. With the engine’s focus on finding and connecting related data in the information flow, Silobreaker’s user tools and visualizations are meant for bringing meaning to content from either today’s Web or the evolving Semantic Web, or both. http://www.silobreaker.com

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Attivio announced the launch of their new software venture, Attivio, Inc., which will offer an "Active Intelligence Engine (AIE)". AIE is a universal repository for injecting information into business processes, weaving data, content, and applications together for a variety of uses such as ecommerce, eDiscovery, and operational business intelligence. Its intended innovations are integrating structured data and unstructured content into one repository without compromising the richness of either, and using the information to automatically update, manage, and enrich business systems. Attivio's strategy is "mashing up technologies for today's collaborative world where online presence, multi-channel alignment, and end-to-end integration are critical factors. We believe that search results from unstructured content or query results from structured data alone always sub-optimize the business process. By delivering answers based on all corporate information to the right person at the right time, we drive the shift from finding information to using information and help companies conduct better business." http://www.attivio.com/

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Intrasphere Technologies announced the launch of PharmaCM, a comprehensive content management solution, powered by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). The solution enables users to overcome ineffective content authoring, management and distribution processes. PharmaCM helps organizations manage drug product information that is critical to patient safety more effectively, including the content for drug labels, clinical trial protocols, and drug safety reporting helping business users to create, manage, submit to regulators and intelligently reuse their information. PharmaCM provides an interface for generating a series of regulated documents including protocol disclosure forms required for registration on www.clinicaltrials.gov as well as structured product labels (SPL) as required by the DailyMed on the National Library of Medicine. http://www.intrasphere.com/

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EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) announced its newest distributed document capture solution that offers advances in Web-based distributed capture, EMC Captiva eInput 2.0. eInput 2.0 ia designed to make the scanning and indexing of paper documents from remote offices faster and easier, automating the classification of documents, extraction of data, and validation of information directly from a Web browser. Captiva eInput works as an extension to the Captiva InputAccel platform, delivering distributed capture with the EMC Documentum platform to address transactional content management (TCM) applications, such as loan processing, insurance claim processing, invoice processing, new account enrollment, and case management. In addition, working with InputAccel, eInput integrates with a wide array of back-end systems, including enterprise content management (ECM), business process management (BPM), and other enterprise applications. Together, these solutions enable organizations to add distributed capture capabilities to their existing business processes and information infrastructure. http://www.emc.com/

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Docudesk announced the launch of deskUNPDF Professional for Mac. deskUNPDF for Mac will provide users with functionality and conversion formats to address a wide array of PDF document conversion needs on both Intel and PowerPC OS X systems. deskUNPDF for Mac is a solution for converting, transforming, and automating PDF workflow. The application utilizes technology for converting PDF's to multiple output formats for editing, business-grade table-detection that enables extracting table information into Microsoft Excel (.xls), and batch conversion. The output formats support conversion for document, web, image, and data-based needs. Supported document-based formats include the Open Document Format (.ODT) and Excel (.XLS). Supported data-based formats include Comma Seperated Values (.CSV) and Extensibile Markup Language (.XML). Supported web-based formats include Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), Extensible HyperText Markup Language (.xHTML), and Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG). Supported image-based formats include Bitmap (.BMP), Portable Network Graphics (.PNG), Tagged Image File Format (.TIF or .TIFF) and Joint Photographic Experts Group (.JPEG). With enhanced Accu-Text rendering technology, deskUNPDF Pro for Mac provides a faithful reproduction regardless of the chosen output format. deskUNPDF Professional for Apple Macintosh is currently available for $69.95. A free trial is also available. http://www.docudesk.com

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Vivisimo announced a new technology, remix clustering, to help users find new topics and gain insights related to their search queries. Vivisimo’s standard clustering organizes search results into topical folders on the fly, without any pre-processing of source documents. Clustering gives a quick overview of the main topics, enables access to valuable but low-ranked search results, and groups together related documents for joint consideration. Vivisimo’s Remix clustering helps searcher’s productivity. It works like this: The user first sees clustered results in the usual style. Then, a single click on Remix reveals submerged or secondary topics that were not generated in the initial clustering. It works by feedback: cluster the same search results again, but explicitly ignore the topics that the user already saw. Remix clustering functionality is built into Velocity 6.0. It is also now available on Clusty.com, Vivisimo’s online web search site. Test the Remix on a familiar topic and see how unfamiliar or subtler topics emerge by repeated clicking on Remix. http://clusty.com

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Bamboo Solutions Corporation announced the User Management Solution Accelerator for Microsoft SharePoint, a new product that lets SharePoint administrators manage, maintain and organize user information through a unified interface. The User Management Solution Accelerator is designed to simplify the complex provisioning of user information access privileges across multiple sites, lists and subscriptions in a SharePoint environment. Bamboo’s User Management Solution Accelerator lets administrators create, modify or remove both users and groups, reset passwords and clone user accounts. It provides group control, multiple group access and secure data integrity with a single interface. Users across a SharePoint portal can be viewed by site, user name, organizational structure and group. The User Management Solution Accelerator is available at Bamboo’s Online Store. Pricing starts at $1,000 for a 50 user license. http://www.bamboosolutions.com

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that it plans to ship Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0.1 in February with several updates. Included in 8.0.1 is a "Web 2.0" feature, My Widgets, that can be used to execute actions such as retrieving real time flight arrival information simply by clicking on a flight number in an email. This is accomplished through a new technology called Live Text that can identify patterns and phrases and associate them with an appropriate widget. Users can drag and drop, or import, various kinds of widgets such as Google Gadgets, feeds, and Web pages or their own custom programs onto their new widgets panel in the Lotus Notes sidebar. Planned for delivery with Lotus Domino 8.0.1, is IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, which will provide automatic, real time wireless replication of email including attachments, calendar, contacts, personal journal and the "to do" list for Microsoft Windows Mobile devices. New features planned for IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8.5 will allow applications to utilize AJAX, style sheets, and RSS or ATOM feeds. IBM is introducing a new email security appliance called IBM Lotus Protector for Mail Security, an anti-virus and anti-spam solution based on the IBM Proventia Network Mail Security System. Lotus Protector for Mail Security will block spam at the appliance before it reaches the Lotus Notes server or affects Lotus Notes software users. Lotus Symphony Beta 4 software, the next version of the suite of no charge desktop productivity tools, features an open programming model that transforms the basic document into a portal to the Web 2.0 world. Ready for download by the end of January, Lotus Symphony Beta 4 allows independent software vendors (ISVs) to wire capabilities into the documents that access and manage business applications such as issuing a shipping order or an invoice directly from a spreadsheet. Also Available from the Symphony community Web site will be a set of IBM plug-ins including IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte Meeting, Lotus Sametime Unyte Share, and IBM WebSphere Translation Server which will provide on-the-fly translation of Lotus Symphony-generated content, greatly easing the effort to work across multiple languages. IBM will offer an integrated Lotus Open Collaboration Client Solution with support for Ubuntu. In addition, IBM announced a new agreement with Red Hat to combine Red Hat Linux Advanced Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop, IBM Lotus Notes client with Lotus Symphony and the IBM Lotus Domino server. http://www.ibm.com

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Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) and BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire all outstanding shares of BEA for $19.375 per share in cash. The offer is valued at approximately $8.5 billion, or $7.2 billion net of BEA's cash on hand of $1.3 billion. The Board of Directors of BEA Systems has unanimously approved the transaction. It is anticipated to close by mid-2008, subject to BEA stockholder approval, certain regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. www.oracle.com www.bea.com

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CrownPeak announced its web Content Management software as a service (SaaS) now supports many of the new social networking standards, especially Google's Open Social, Google Gadgets and other content published for inclusion on social networking sites such as Salesforce.com, Ning, orkut, Facebook, MySpace, and others. A city magazine publisher, for example, can publish a Google Gadget of the top ten rated restaurants from their magazine, and their subscribers could include this content on their own portals, blogs, communities or social networking profiles. Or, CrownPeak customers wanting to create their own social networking communities can utilize low cost alternatives to communities such as Ning or Orkut and have fully integrated content, completely managed by CrownPeak CMS. Social networking sites that have announced their intention to support Open Social include LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.penSocial. http://www.crownpeak.com

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