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SirsiDynix announced the availability of SirsiDynix Web Reporter release 1.5 for users of SirsiDynix Horizon 7.4.1. A reporting solution designed to work with Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL, and DB2 SQL databases, SirsiDynix Web Reporter is a Web-based tool for library staff to run predefined reports, as well as create and customize reports. Effective immediately, Horizon 7.4.1 users can access detailed release notes on Web Reporter 1.5 via the SirsiDynix Client Care Portal, plus upgrade to the new release by contacting SirsiDynix Client Care. SirsiDynix Web Reporter users will enjoy new dashboard reports, more than 180 modifications to metadata and the upgrade to MicroStrategy 8.1 functionality including interactive dashboard capability. With Web Reporter 1.5, users will be able to report immediately on data collected with new Horizon 7.4.1 functionality for transit materials and top circulation. The upgrade to Web reporter 1.5 includes the option to have objects moved from the existing 1.4 project into the 1.5 release. This includes locally created reports, custom groups, filters and metrics. http://www.sirsidynix.com

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Avantstar, Inc. a provider of digital content viewing, content conversion and web content management software, announced the release of Transit Solutions 8, the latest version of the company's source file conversion and web publishing software that automatically converts virtually any type of source content files to HTML and then publishes it to the web. Transit Solutions automatically converts and publishes hundreds of file types as HTML, and also recognizes and automatically links within documents (not just among them). Transit also publishes entire information folders on a preset schedule. New features in Transit 8 include: Support for Microsoft Windows Vista; New conversion filters for file formats such as Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, Corel WordPerfect X3, Corel QuattroPro X3, Corel Presentations X3, OpenOffice Writer 2, StarOffice Writer 8, OpenOffice Impress 2 and StarOffice Impress 8; A multimedia plug-in that allows users to place rich media directly into their Microsoft Word 2007 or 2003 source documents - Transit Solutions will then automatically convert and publish the documents; and an Edit Source option that allows users to directly access source documents while previewing staged content published from Transit Solutions 8. Transit Solutions 8 is available immediately directly from Avantstar or through their sales partner network. Pricing begins at $4,995. A free fully-functional 30-day evaluation version of the software is available. http://www.avantstar.com

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Systems Alliance Inc. announced the release of Enhancement Pack 1, a software update for SiteExecutive 4.1. The Enhancement Pack extends the functionality of the SiteExecutive Profile Directory and Related Content modules, and also provides a new mechanism for adding page optimization tags and other custom content into the HTML Head element of SiteExecutive pages. Featured Profile Mode displays a single profile "snapshot," consisting of a thumbnail photograph or image, name and email address. The layout of content included in the snapshot can be customized using XSL, making it possible to add any other content captured in a person's profile record to the snapshot. Related Profiles Mode identifies and displays a list of profiles matching specific, pre-determined criteria. Module provides control over number of profiles displayed; profile layout can be customized using XSL. Profile content formatting now includes a custom field with a light-weight WYSIWYG editor. This provides a mechanism for adding formatting, such as italicizing the titles of publications, as well as hyperlinks, and bulleted lists to a person's profile. To help site visitors find relevant content fast, Systems Alliance added a Classification module to SiteExecutive 4.1. This module provides a mechanism for structuring content using a three-tier "faceted classification" hierarchy consisting of topics, with related facets and terms. Once classified, content can be automatically displayed on pages tagged with related facets or terms using the SiteExecutive Related Content module. Enhancement Pack 1 lets clients add custom code into the Head element on pages and templates, such as page-specific analytics tags (e.g., for running A-B testing), calls to browser-centric style sheets for devices not supported by media-specific CSS (e.g., Apple iPhone, IE 6 or below), and previously unsupported Meta Tags. http://www.siteexecutive.com

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EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) announced the expansion of its OEM Content Management, Capture and XML Data Management software product portfolio. These offerings allow developers to include sophisticated capture, rich content management capabilities and information rights management in their software products. EMC positions itself as a complete source of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions designed specifically for independent software providers wanting to embed functionality in their applications. EMC's range of content management products available to developers now include: document management, business process management, records management, information rights management, XML data management, and a host of document capture solutions. The most recent addition to the EMC OEM family is the EMC Documentum XML Store OEM Edition for XML data management - designed to manage technical information, publish complex documentation, and share data anywhere. XML Store OEM Edition is suited for data intensive industries such as aerospace, manufacturing, publishing, and the public sector. EMC's Information Rights Management software development kit (SDK) is targeted towards software developers, Web 2.0 applications, software as a service (SaaS) environments and product equipment companies offering developers a means to include information control and security to ensure that sensitive information remains secure as it is shared both internally and externally. Another core member of the OEM family is EMC Documentum ApplicationXtender document management software, which electronically stores, organizes, and manages virtually any kind of business content. Based on a Microsoft Windows/.NET-optimized system, ApplicationXtender integrates document imaging, viewing and annotation, report management, workflow, and document management services. http://www.emc.com/

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LTU Technologies announced the release of LTU-Finder v. 3.0, a tool for image and video recognition in the field of computer forensics. Offered as a trusted plug-in to Guidance Software's EnCase, a computer forensic tool used in law enforcement, government and legal professionals, LTU-Finder reduces the time required to identify and review relevant image and video files collected during a digital investigation. Likewise, to help users obtain relevant reference data LTU is authorized to share the child porn "DNA" reference set of a major Federal law enforcement agency. LTU-Finder combines LTU's image and video content recognition technology with Guidance Software's computer and enterprise investigation capabilities to increase the speed and scope of forensic and legal investigations as well as e-discovery. Today's unveiling of LTU-Finder includes enhanced image and video recognition capabilities and introduces text data identification tools that further automate large-scale file searches in the legal, e-discovery and law enforcement fields. LTU-Finder also includes automatic document identification tools that separate relevant scanned documents, like e-faxes, from other content such as personal photos or web graphics. LTU-Finder leverages the same core Image DNA technology offered in its multimedia content control solutions. All relevant information about images and videos is indexed within a digital signature, or "image DNA", that examines each pixel of an image in order to identify the key visual features. Additionally, LTU-Finder, like all of LTU's offerings, has the ability to identify duplicated and modified images and flag and match images against those in centralized databases or from case data files.

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and tagged: e-discovery, LTU Technologies, rich media, search
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Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN) announced significant enhancements to its Web Experience Platform foundation. Vignette's integrated Web Experience Platform foundation is meant to help organizations quickly manage and deliver targeted content and facilitate user interaction and collaboration with the high performance and scalability required to support large-scale deployments. Vignette Content Management lets users to streamline the creation and management of Web content and reduce bottlenecks associated with the delivery and publishing of that information. Enhanced features include friendly URLs to increase search engine site rankings, skip level upgrades to reduce the steps necessary to upgrade from older environments and integration with Vignette High Performance Delivery (HPD). Vignette Portal allows business users to elevate their brand identity and engage in more personalized Web interactions with key audiences. New capabilities include integration with HPD and Vignette's recently announced Community product line. Vignette Collaboration helps organizations drive productivity, improve knowledge management and more efficiently direct business processes that require interaction across disparate geographic and organizational boundaries. The latest release features new social computing capabilities including ratings, reviews, tagging and usage analysis. Additional enhancements include improved usability and performance and enhanced support for blogs, wikis and discussion forums. Collaboration also supports auditing and retention policies which enable organizations to more actively manage knowledge relative to compliance.

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Percussion Software introduced its Personalization Solution, the latest in its Percussion
2.0 Solution Series. Personalization is one of Percussion's pre-packaged solutions to help organizations to create a more effective multi-channel web presence. With the Personalization Solution, organizations can create a "personal" messaging experience for their online audiences by tracking visitor behaviors and optimizing site presentation. The new Personalization Solution is meant to help enable organizations to deliver more effective online messaging and a more dynamic Web presence, with the stronger, richer personalization that encourages site visitors to be more engaged online, and more likely to become repeat visitors. Percussion's approach to Personalization gives business users the ability to rapidly change both content and personalization without IT intervention. http://www.percussion.com

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Antenna House announced the immediate availability of Antenna House XSL Formatter V4.3 offering support for CGM rendering, INX Output (as options), Windows x64 bit platform and numerous other enhancements. Windows x64 version runs on the Windows XP/Vista x64 Edition and Windows 2003 Server x64 Edition. The Windows 64 bit versions enables you to take advantage of the larger memory space supported by the x64 architecture when formatting large FO files. Using the new CGM parser and rendering engine of the option, you can embed CGM images into PDF documents as vector graphics without the degradation of rasterizing. The CGM Option is available for all XSL Formatter supported platforms. INX is the XML file that is used to interchange between InDesign and its older version, or other products such as InCopy and Golive. The INX format keeps all of the InDesign objects and properties as XML elements or attributes. With the new INX Option XSL Formatter generates an INX file from the Area Tree, which is the intermediate Formatter format that contains all the formatting information. By thus outputting INX files from Formatter you can then edit and manipulate the formatting results from XSL-FO with InDesign. The axf:overflow-condense-limit-font-stretch extension property has been added with V4.3. http://www.antennahouse.com

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Marketbright, an on-demand emarketing solution with an integrated web content management platform, launched Brightsite, a new product that uses aspects of social networking to create a stronger bond between sales, marketing and the customer. Brightsite creates the equivalent of a B2B shopping cart for enterprise web sites. Brightsite provides a plug-and-play membership management tool for any enterprise website. Brightsite also provides the customer with a member account page with links to all events and offers they have accessed in the past, their account team, and other account-specific information, creating an easy-to-access history for new team members. Customer members also can invite their colleagues into a private, shared collaborative space. The new, interactive and personalized widgets can be easily introduced into existing web sites. Brightsite also allows greater cooperation between sales and marketing teams, allowing a customer's microsite to become a branding tool with enhanced collaboration opportunities and fresh content. With Brightsite, the marketing team will be able to blast new content, but it will look customized for the sales person's named accounts. Sales personnel will be able to review beforehand to ensure appropriateness of offers/content, to block the content, or to put a personalized note and pick and choose which items get forwarded on to their customers. http://www.marketbright.com

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Microsoft Corp. announced that it has completed settlement of its tender offer for Fast Search & Transfer. Microsoft's plans to acquire FAST were originally announced on January 8th. FAST will operate as a Microsoft subsidiary, with a dedicated enterprise search research and development center in Oslo, Norway, and offices throughout the world. John Markus Lervik will transition from his role as FAST CEO to become Microsoft's Corporate Vice President of Enterprise Search, reporting to Jeff Teper. Under Lervik's leadership, the group's charter will include the development of a comprehensive portfolio of enterprise search offerings - including Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, search for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and FAST ESP - and future delivery of a single enterprise search platform. Existing FAST customers will continue to be served by their FAST sales, services and support teams, while the combined product lineup extends customer choice. http://www.microsoft.com/

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Bungee Labs announced federated hosting to expand adoption of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) among enterprises and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers. Organizations developing interactive applications on the Bungee Connect PaaS can now elect to host those applications on self-managed infrastructure running the new Bungee Application Server, or on the multi-tenant Bungee Grid at datacenters in the United States, Europe, and on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Beginning in June, organizations will be able to self-designate the hosting location for their Bungee-powered applications from within their online Bungee Connect development and management account. Development, testing and deployment of non-production versions of Bungee-powered applications are free. Fees begin only after a deployed Bungee-powered application is used by end users. Bungee-powered applications deployed on the Bungee Connect multi-tenant grid in the United States, European Union and at Amazon EC2 are billed at an aggregate rate of US$0.06 (six U.S. cents) per user-session-hour rounded down to the nearest second per user-session. During the Bungee Connect public beta, there are no fees for these options. Federation pricing for the self-hosted Bungee Application Server starts at a flat monthly subscription license fee of $500 per month, per server. Bungee Labs also announced plans to make community source code available for the Bungee Application Server under several software source code licenses. http://www.bungeelabs.com

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CSOFT International Ltd., a Beijing based provider of multilingual localization, testing and outsourced software development for the global market, announced a dedicated division focused on content management system (CMS) translation and localization solutions. "While CMS provides robust solutions for source content development, it also brings new challenges to documentation localization by introducing changes to existing workflow. Unlike traditional documentation localization using FrameMaker, Word or HTML-based content, the highly technical nature of structured XML presents a number of issues in the localization process. Even experienced translators may have difficulty deciphering complex XML tags resulting in mistranslations or even severe damage to source files." CSOFT employs an array of turnkey solutions that support a client's choice in content development. Powered by experienced technical translators and advanced localization engineers, CSOFT is able to streamline CMS localization. CSOFT provides XML training to our in-country technical translators to better understand structured language as well as XML tagging. By also helping our clients control terminology, language, and proper XML handling during the initial writing stages in a CMS environment, CSOFT simplifies the translation process for XML based content. http://www.csoftintl.com

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and tagged: authoring, cms, content management, CSOFT, Globalization, translation, XML
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Liferay, Inc. and Intalio, Inc. recently announced a new integration partnership. Together, the products allow employees to have a common interface to manage their daily workload. The portal enables a single integrated view of the user's calendar, email, task list and whatever other functions the employee or IT department includes. Intalio|BPMS offers a one-click, zero code means of designing and implementing business processes suitable for even the least technical of users. Under the new partnership, Intalio's Enterprise Edition offers an optional module, called Intalio|Portal, which gives users access to Intalio's Task Manager as an integrated portlet within a Liferay-powered portal framework. From there, users can make decisions to approve insurance policies, review expense reports, or input data on a loan request. http://www.liferay.com, http://www.intalio.com

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SnapLogic, Inc. and WaveMaker, a provider of open source tools for rapid Web application development, announced a strategic partnership to deliver a complete open source solution for creating enterprise mashups. Enterprise mashups aggregate data from sources within and outside the enterprise, including databases, SaaS applications, SOA Web services, enterprise applications, XML documents, files and Web pages, and present it to business users via a rich, customized, interactive interface. The SnapLogic data integration framework will provide data services to WaveMaker's Visual Ajax Studio, enabling enterprise application developers to build enterprise mashups. Under the partnership, the companies will collaborate on product development roadmaps and also conduct joint sales and marketing activities. The SnapLogic data integration framework enables "Really Simple Integration," that leverages RESTful Web technology to provide agile data integration solutions for business IT groups. SnapLogic makes data from a variety of data sources available to application development tools, such as WaveMaker's Visual Ajax Studio. WaveMaker's drag-and-drop interface enables users to create database-driven Ajax Web applications without having to write complex code. The latest WaveMaker platform features reduced development time while enabling increased participation, feedback, and collaboration. Applications developed in WaveMaker can then be deployed to a Java Application Server. The SnapLogic data integration framework and WaveMaker's Visual Ajax Studio are available as free downloads. http://www.snaplogic.com, http://wavemaker.com

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The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars announced that Udi Manber, a Google Vice President of Engineering, will kick-off the annual Gilbane San Francisco conference on June 18th at 8:30am with a discussion on Google's search quality and continued innovation. Now in its fourth year, the conference has rapidly gained a reputation as a forum for bringing together vendor-neutral industry experts that share and debate the latest information technology experiences, research, trends and insights. The conference takes place June 18-20 at the Westin Market Hotel in San Francisco. Gilbane San Francisco helps attendees move beyond the mainstream content technologies they are familiar with, to enhanced "2.0" versions, which can open up new business opportunities, keep customers engaged, and improve internal communication and collaboration. The 2008 event will have its usual collection of information and content technology experts, including practitioners, technologists, business strategists, consultants, and the leading analysts from a variety of market and technology research firms. Topics to be covered in-depth at Gilbane San Francisco include: Web Content Management (WCM); Enterprise Search, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies; Collaboration, Enterprise Wikis & Blogs; "Enterprise 2.0" Technologies & Social Media; Content Globalization & Localization; XML Content Strategies; Enterprise Content Management (ECM); Enterprise Rights Management (ERM); and Publishing Technology & Best Practices. Details on the Google keynote session as well as other keynotes and conference breakout sessions can be found at http://gilbanesf.com/conference-grid.html

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Trampoline Systems, social intelligence for business, announced SONAR Dashboard, an "intelligent social network" for enterprises. SONAR Dashboard is Trampoline's response to market demand for a "Facebook for the enterprise". It empowers employees of large enterprises to connect and collaborate and strengthens informal employee networks across departments and geographies. SONAR Dashboard is an intelligent social network designed to increase cohesion, collaboration and innovation in large organisations. Interactive network visualisations and expertise search enable users to find and connect with the people they need at work and see the social networks and information flows operating across the enterprise ecosystem. It provides employees with individual profiles, a news feed of network activity and a contacts list. SONAR Dashboard is automatically updated through integration with employees' everyday work such as email, via Trampoline's SONAR Server. SONAR Server analyses the social networks, information flows and expertise hidden within corporate information. SONAR Dashboard is an addition to SONAR Suite, Trampoline's 360° enterprise social computing platform. SONAR Flightdeck provides organisational diagnostics for managers. SONAR Flightdeck and Dashboard are powered by SONAR Server, which analyses the relationships and expertise hidden in corporate data using proprietary social network analysis and natural language processing technology. SONAR Suite provides enterprise-class security, privacy and integration. http://www.trampolinesystems.com

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Kapow Technologies introduced Kapow OnDemand, giving companies the ability to create enterprise mashup applications that provide structured "web intelligence" in a matter of minutes. The company's new hosted service is designed to be the fastest way to deliver real-time data from the web into Excel spreadsheets. Kapow OnDemand is based on the Kapow Mashup Server. Kapow OnDemand provides access to the underlying data sources and services to be mashed up. In addition to Excel spreadsheets, companies can also import web data into existing applications and IT infrastructure via XML. In conjunction with the Kapow OnDemand announcement, the company unveiled Kapow Connector for Excel. When used in combination with Kapow OnDemand or the Kapow Mashup Server Web 2.0 Edition, Excel users can find and execute web services that deliver data directly to their spreadsheet. The Kapow Connector for Excel automates and extends the value of spreadsheet-based applications, and makes it feasible to collect and analyze web intelligence in real-time at the user's desktop. Analysts can automate the combination of massive amounts of market data related to competitive pricing, product mix analysis or financial metrics. Kapow OnDemand includes a Robot Designer to construct custom web harvesting feeds and services in a flexible role-based execution runtime. Additionally, a full set of tools is provided that allows monitoring and managing a portfolio of services and feeds to provide Kapow OnDemand site administrators with control and insight into their OnDemand environment. Kapow OnDemand is available now. Product pricing is based on a flexible subscription offering starting as low as $3,400 per month. http://www.kapowtech.com/

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Semantra announced general availability of Semantra 2.0 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The application is a business intelligence tool that enables common language commands to retrieve specific information from back-end databases. Semantra 2.0 was specifically created to extend the value of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, enabling users to make ad hoc inquiries to retrieve precise results from any Microsoft Dynamics CRM database. Microsoft Dynamics CRM users can turn critical questions into precise and actionable information by entering familiar business terms into a search box. Semantra 2.0 will be distributed and supported by a national network of VARs and system integrators through the Semantra Reseller Program, which includes many of Microsoft's "Gold Certified" partners. Members of the program network are pre-qualified to install the product, conduct user training and provide a broad range of customization for users with specialized requirements. Semantra has initiated integration work with a variety of ERP and CRM applications, including Oracle Siebel and other Microsoft Dynamics solutions. http://www.semantra.com

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Curl, Inc. announced the beta release of Curl Nitro, the code name for an extension of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform which offers enhanced desktop capabilities. The Nitro extension simplifies the process of installing and managing Curl applications accessed via a browser as well as directly from the desktop. Curl Nitro is a platform for both traditional RIA and Desktop RIA that provides enterprise-level security, and support for large data sets. Nitro offers the essential capabilities of the Fit Client such as support for rich user interfaces, complex application logic, and agile development. Curl applets can be installed on the desktop for online and offline operation in a secure sandbox. The installer creates shortcuts on the desktop and start menu with customizable icons and a skinnable user interface. Nitro enables developers to build applications with local databases using SQLite combined with Curl techniques for data presentation and manipulation. Curl's initial Nitro Beta demos include a Salesforce.com Dashboard and a Social Network Visualization application. Desktop applications use the same security model as Curl applets. They run in a secure sandbox with local data access but limited system privileges. Curl applications can also be fully privileged applications, which require a standard digital signature provided by an established certification authority. Nitro supports Windows platforms as well as Linux and Mac. The public beta of Curl Nitro is currently available for download with the full release scheduled to be available later in the year. http://www.curl.com

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