April 2008 Archives

Alchemy Software Development, announced the release of the Alchemy CATALYST 7.0 SP3 Enhancement Pack. This enhancement pack, which will be provided free of charge to all Alchemy CATALYST clients worldwide, expands platform support to include the enterprise level workflow solution of Translations.com's GlobalLink Project Director, an application that helps clients manage the localization process more efficiently and cost-effectively. By upgrading to this enhancement pack, clients of GlobalLink Project Director can now share translation memories with Alchemy CATALYST 7.0. This increases the re-use of translated materials between products, improving consistency and reducing translations costs.

For more information on Alchemy Software Development, please refer to http://www.alchemysoftware.ie.

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

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

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

Cabinet NG announced the general availability of its CNG-Books 6.0. This latest release of Cabinet NG's software incorporates the .NET platform and Microsoft SQL database features recently introduced in CNG-SAFE 6.0 (the company's CNG-SAFE(R) {Shared Access Filing Environment} document management and workflow software platform). CNG-Books 6.0 gives small to medium enterprises the ability to replace piles of paper with automated electronic workflows that streamline QuickBooks-centric accounting tasks. A key aspect of CNG-Books 6.0 is that it's built on the .NET platform that enables Windows-based applications to be easily integrated with other networked systems and perform at far greater transaction speeds. CNG-Books is designed specifically for Intuit's QuickBooks, streamlining data entry and document filing into one consistent and efficient electronic process, and works hand-in-glove with CNG-SAFE to unite QuickBooks transactions with business documents making filing, locating and sharing documents simple, seamless and secure. CNG-Books is a member of Intuit's Gold Developer program and the software is available through resellers across the US, or directly from the company.

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/

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.

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.

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

Axceler announced the availability of ControlPoint, a comprehensive administration tool to manage Microsoft SharePoint environments. Administrators can visualize all the components of their SharePoint environment so they can navigate easily, and ControlPoint can establish control through permissions management, making sure that only the right eyes see the right content. ControlPoint also gives administrators the ability to analyze and enforce governance policies they've put in place, enabling administrators to identify non-compliant sites within their SharePoint environment and correct them. ControlPoint also provides the ability to search across the entire environment to identify potential problems with particular sites, like those close to quota or those with unique permissions. Finally, ControlPoint's security trimmed architecture allows administrators to manage, navigate, and search while only seeing what SharePoint permissions allow. ControlPoint honors SharePoint permissions, so all analysis, navigation, search and reports are security trimmed. ControlPoint provides parametric site search for SharePoint. ControlPoint leverages native SharePoint administration functions whenever possible and appropriate. http://www.axceler.com/

GX WebManager is now available as Community Edition free of charge. GX WebManager is an Enterprise Web Content Management system. Based on a J2EE architecture and using open technologies like Spring, JCR (JSR-170) and OSGi. With the launch of GX WebManager Community Edition, developers get access to the complete Web Content Management platform with a software development kit free of charge. The community edition of GX WebManager is supported by a global community of developers at GX DeveloperWeb offering documentation, software downloads, forums, issue tracking, a wiki, weblogs and other useful information. New add-on components can be deployed in runtime and shared with the community at an online exchange. http://www.gxwebmanager.com

XyEnterprise has released an update to their Contenta S1000D content management software that provides expanded support for the S1000D specification. It is used by authors, editors and publishers for the creation, management and delivery of technical documentation. Contenta S1000D provides an integrated workflow that can clearly distinguish between work-in-process and approved or published content. It can control access to data modules based on user roles and project status, provide locking mechanisms to prevent inadvertent parallel editing, and provide reports on due dates and status throughout the entire editorial and publishing process. This update to Contenta S1000D includes enhancements that automate many of the tasks required in an S1000D environment. Tools for creating and managing Standard Numbering Systems, Data Module Requirements Lists, Data Dispatch Notes and S1000D project management have been improved to provide an out-of-the-box S1000D environment that will work well for organizations at any stage in the adoption of S1000D. The Contenta S1000D software leverages Contenta's object-oriented architecture, history, version control and automated workflow. It can also manage and store legacy SGML and XML content written to other standards, as well as graphics and unstructured content such as FrameMaker and Word. Contenta S1000D provides the infrastructure, application integration and comprehensive tool set required to work with the S1000D standard across the information lifecycle. http://www.xyenterprise.com/

NewsGator Technologies, Inc. announced that it has integrated AideRSS's PostRank filtering capabilities into its NewsGator Online RSS reader to offer more relevant news and social search features to users. The partnership will enhance NewsGator's ability to provide users with an easy way to sort posts based on the attention those stories are getting across the Internet. AideRSS's PostRank is a scoring system developed to rank each article based on how people interact with stories through social tagging, rating and commenting. http://www.newsgator.com, http://www.aiderss.com

Socialtext announced that it has built upon its wiki foundation to launch a broad set of Business Social Software solutions. Two of them, Socialtext Dashboard and Socialtext People, extend the wiki platform for people to gain additional insight by managing their information, conversations and connections. Socialtext also launched four core Solution Areas. Socialtext version 3.0 includes Socialtext Dashboard, personalized and customizable dashboards of internal and external social software activity. Socialtext Dashboard supports third party widgets, and the OpenSocial gadget standard. Socialtext 3.0 also provides significant enhancements to its open APIs for enterprise integration. In addition, Socialtext 3.0 includes Socialtext People, social networking adapted for the enterprise. Throughout the Socialtext wiki, Profiles are made visible so at any time you can pivot to the people behind the content. Profiles and a user directory make it easy for colleagues to introduce themselves and discover implicit and explicit expertise. People can subscribe to the activity of colleagues. Groupings enable users to declare interest and expertise on their profile and other users profiles, making group forming as simple as adding a tag. The four core Solution Areas are: Collaborative Intelligence for sales and marketing, Participatory Knowledgebase for service and support, Flexible Client Collaboration for professional services, and Business Social Networks for partners and customers. The two new enhancements to Socialtext are currently in Beta and will be commercially available within a quarter. http://www.socialtext.com

Stateless Systems announced the launch of CushyCMS, a free Content Management System (CMS) created to address the specific needs of Web designers. Cushy is meant to make Web designers' work more efficient and productive by enabling them to delegate basic content editing to non-technical users, without giving up control over a Website's information architecture. Web designers can implement Cushy in minutes, without any hosting requirements or software installation. A designer simply enters FTP information, enabling Cushy to retrieve a list of pages from the server, and then authorizes the pages to be edited by applying CSS classes. Web designers authorize multiple content editors to make changes and define, at a granular level, exactly which pages or parts of a page - single lines of whole sections of text, images - can be edited. Non-technical content editors are presented with an interface that enables them to produce standards-compliant, search engine-friendly content all in the browser, without any training or programming skills. Cushy is launching with unlimited free access. In the future, Stateless Systems will introduce subscription plans that enable Web designers to customize and brand the user interface and domain. CushyCMS is free and available to the public on April 15, 2008 at http://www.cushycms.com

Awareness, Inc. announced that the company is providing its customers with Facebook integration that allows members of Awareness-powered Web 2.0 communities to interact with their communities via white-label applications in their Facebook profiles. Awareness uses the Awareness Facebook Application Framework to create branded Facebook applications customized for its customers, giving them a new way to engage with their online community members by extending the reach of their communities directly into Facebook and leveraging Facebook's viral promotion features. The Awareness Facebook Application Framework is included as part of the Awareness Enterprise Social Media platform and leverages all of the enterprise social media benefits in an existing Awareness-powered community. The application also respects any security or permissioning restrictions built into the community, so it can be used for private and closed communities as well as public and open ones. The application, which will appear in the Facebook directory when registered with Facebook, is installable by any Facebook user and can be shared using standard Facebook application sharing functionality. http://www.awarenessnetworks.com/

Oracle announced it has expanded its Enterprise Content Management Portfolio with the launch of Oracle Universal Online Archive and Oracle E-mail Archive Service. Both are
components of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle Universal Online Archive provides an archiving system that combines the proven infrastructure of the Oracle Database and the hot-pluggability of Oracle Fusion Middleware with a high-volume data ingestion engine to simplify archiving, management and rapid retrieval of multiple content types. Oracle E-mail Archive Service, in conjunction with Oracle Universal Online Archive, provides an optimized e-mail archiving interface for Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes, and SMTP-based mail systems. Oracle Universal Online Archive is expected to be available in 2008. The expected price is $20 per named user plus or $75,000 per CPU. Oracle E-mail Archive Service is expected to be available in 2008. The expected price is $50 per named user plus or $40,000 per CPU. http://www.oracle.com/goto/contentmanagement

JABA Translations has entered into a strategic partnership with Across Systems. JABA already uses the Across Language Server as base technology for its translation services. Now the translation service provider also offers its customers the implementation of their own Language Servers as starting and end points for a seamless linguistic supply chain. JABA and Across plan additional cooperation in connection with their activities in America. In view of the significance of the Portuguese language within the scope of its recently launched campaign "Your Bridge to Europe," JABA will localize a Portuguese Across version. In the beginning of this year, Across established its subsidiary Across Systems Inc. in Glendale, California. http://www.across.net

Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vidavee, a video Web services company that enables Web publishers to upload, share, analyze and monetize Internet video content. The strategic acquisition and integration of Vidavee's video publishing technology will provide video management and publishing capabilities. Under the terms of the agreement between Vignette and Vidavee, Vignette will pay approximately $6.6 million in cash for all outstanding shares of Vidavee. Vidavee leverages heat maps to help organizations analyze viewer interaction and enable these companies to improve impressions and drive additional revenues by taking the most popular sections of a video stream and dynamically inserting advertising and other rich content. Additional video tagging capabilities allow users to identify sections of interest from a video and share the content to increase views and attract additional users. Upon completion of the acquisition, Vignette will offer Vidavee's video publishing technologies through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The integration with Vignette's Digital Services Hub will provide organizations with a single unified framework for content monetization and delivery needs. By extending the integration to its Community product line, Vignette can offer customers additional features and support for creating and managing user-generated content. http://www.vignette.com

Canto announced the immediate availability of Cumulus 7.5.3, a minor update that improves the performance and reliability of the entire Cumulus product line. The company says that Cumulus 7.5.3 is running on the recently released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista, and OS X Leopard performance and reliability continues to be stable since the release of version 7.5.2, though a handful of improvements have been made to support Apple's latest OS even better. Canto recommends all customers upgrade to Cumulus 7.5.3, regardless of operating system, to benefit from global fixes and improvements. Customers on active service agreements can download the update free of charge from Canto's Customer Portal. The Cumulus product line was last updated in December, 2007, with the release of Cumulus 7.5.2. http:/www.canto.com/

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that its new portal software with Web 2.0 support will ship this quarter. IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 is designed to securely combine information from both the enterprise and the Web. The expanded Web 2.0 features of IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 software is intended to help people be more productive and find information faster. Its new live text tagging feature allows a user to click on text, in context of the business process being used, and see supporting information right there related to the job at hand. IBM's new software also has the ability to instantly update any aspect of a web page without the need to do an entire page refresh, for example, when a person makes an update while placing an on-line order. IBM also announced that three of its accelerators and the beta version of a new entry-level forms product will ship this quarter. The first two accelerators are designed to help users respond more quickly to new business opportunities. IBM Dashboard Accelerator 6.1 for WebSphere Portal will integrate business intelligence software from IBM-Cognos and several other companies. IBM Dashboard Accelerator is used for rapidly building a dashboard. The second, IBM Content Accelerator 6.1 for WebSphere Portal, includes simplified authoring templates used for creating quick content like blogs. It also will have richer in-line editing to enable users to easily create folders, sites or site areas. The third, IBM Business Process Accelerator, which has just started shipping, is designed to simplify and improve the adoption of business processes by using the role-based, personalized user interface of WebSphere Portal to improve both implementation and user response time for a range of processes. Lastly, IBM announced today that the company's current forms product, IBM Lotus Forms 3.0.1, now includes out-of-the-box integration with IBM Filenet F8 software. http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that MediaSpan Group, Inc., provider of content management and workflow solutions for the Web publishing, magazine, and newspaper markets, will support IBM's Informix Dynamic Server (IDS 11) software to help manage news content delivery to print, online, and wireless news services. IDS 11 will be used with MediaSpan's Jazbox editorial software, a content management solution with an emphasis on connecting news organizations and publishing news to print, web and wireless simultaneously. With a database-centered structure, Jazbox conforms to an individual newspaper's workflow needs, streamlining them, yet allowing for edits to the news copy in the midst of the production cycle. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids/

Lombardi announced that the Lombardi Blueprint Spring '08 release is live. Blueprint is an 'on-demand' process documentation tool that is used to collaboratively map an organization's business processes, identify problems, and prioritize improvement opportunities. Delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS), the Enterprise 2.0 application allows customers to immediately start discovering and documenting their processes without training and without having to download or install any software. Lombardi Blueprint provides multiple views for representing processes. The process mapping view is targeted towards business users who need to describe activities and responsibilities and want to identify potential problems. Blueprint also supports detailed workflow modeling using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) for more sophisticated business analysts and process modelers throughout the organization. The documentation view provides wiki-like capabilities for documenting processes. Additionally, Blueprint serves as a central repository for all process information, automatically managing revision history, as well as rollback and audit trail information for every process. This latest release introduces a set of new diagramming innovations that decrease the time and complexity of building detailed process diagrams. Additionally, Lombardi's Spring '08 release of Blueprint has a new Microsoft Visio importer. Any Visio process drawing can now be imported into a Blueprint Professional Edition account. There are two different types of Blueprint Accounts available: a Free Edition and a Professional Edition.

BEA Systems announced the release of its BEA AquaLogic User Interaction suite of products, including new versions of BEA AquaLogic Interaction, BEA AquaLogic Interaction Collaboration and BEA AquaLogic Analytics. These new releases are designed to help companies deliver new workplace strategies via BEA's cross-platform web suite. With the new BEA AquaLogic User Interaction release, customers can create richer, more interactive profile pages, deliver customizable user experiences and multi-channel interfaces, leverage full RSS capabilities, and enable human networks to create social applications that enhance worker productivity, group collaboration and community innovation. The new release of BEA AquaLogic Interaction 6.5 delivers a social computing platform with a variety of new features that can help users harness the implicit interactions of day-to-day business - project updates, new documents, process steps, key relationships, expertise, data changes in underlying systems - that are often shared inefficiently through email. The release also introduces improved usability designed to help knowledge workers more easily share community information, find specific expertise and communicate more flexibly, by providing tools that are user-driven and community-centric, and by immersing users in a flexible collaborative experience bolstered by desktop, RSS and Web-based tools. BEA AquaLogic Interaction Collaboration 4.5 extends existing capabilities with enhanced notification options, deeper Microsoft Office integration, enhanced metadata support and general infrastructure enhancements. http://www.bea.com/

Kentico Software and Applied Innovations a Microsoft Gold Certified provider of Windows-based Hosting solutions, announced the two companies have partnered to offer a free Web site solution for .NET User Groups. The solution, available through Kentico's partnership with Applied Innovations, allows local .NET developer communities to collaborate between community members. Users will receive a free license of Kentico CMS Enterprise Edition (valued at $1,499) and a ready-to-use Web site template that helps .NET User Groups to share information with group members; inform members about group meetings; publish articles and presentations from the meetings; communicate in discussion forums; distribute e-mail newsletters; create blogs; share files and photos; and create member-only areas. The custom Web site template was created to meet the specific needs of .NET user groups. The template allows groups to focus on their community activities, rather than exhaust resources building a Web site. Applied Innovations will provide a free hosting account for .NET user groups to host their Kentico CMS installation. .NET User Groups can sign up for a free license and hosting at http://www.kentico.com/, http://www.appliedi.net

IXIASOFT announced the availability of the DITA CMS Framework 2.1. Not only is the latest version compatible with DITA 1.1. With its new capabilities, the DITA CMS Framework provides technical communicators with advanced project management features and support WYSIWYG for DITA bookmaps. The project management functionality offers an overview of multi-deliverable projects that may include documents as diverse as installation instructions, training packages and reference documentation. Project managers will use this feature to select the staff who will be responsible for documentation and review, for setting up review dates for the maps that make up a project and for specifying the languages in which each map should be translated to. In its latest version, the DITA CMS Framework supports DITA bookmaps directly within its DITA Map editor. Therefore, technical communicators now have a user friendly interface not only to create DITA bookmaps but also to help them qualify specific sections of a book. All of the already available DITA Map editor features - including map comparison, drag and drop of topics between maps and nesting and cloning of maps - will also be accessible to manage DITA bookmaps. http://www.ixiasoft.com

Interwoven, Inc, (NASDAQ: IWOV) announced that it is now offering the recently acquired Optimost real-time multivariable testing and Website optimization capabilities to the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The Interwoven Optimost Website optimization solution allows online marketers to get more from their existing customer acquisition and Website investments by maximizing online conversion rates. The solution identifies the most compelling combination of Web content and design by exposing different combinations of online content elements to different visitors and then measuring visitors' actions. As part of this announcement, Interwoven also will be growing its network of Interwoven Optimost service specialists, and will be expanding its Interwoven Optimost certification process to APAC interactive marketing firms. http://www.interwoven.com/

Curl, Inc. announced it has joined the Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation that helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services. In conjunction with joining the Foundation as an Add-In Member, Curl released details of its plans to base the next phase of its enterprise Rich Internet Application (RIA) development tools on the Eclipse framework. As part of its Eclipse strategy, Curl will replace the current Curl IDE development environment, with a new one based on the Eclipse framework. This will include a set of plugins called the Curl Development Tools for Eclipse (CDE). The current IDE, renamed as the Curl Classic IDE, will coexist with the CDE through at least the first release of the new tool. The first CDE release will include all the functionality of the Curl Classic IDE, including the Curl language sensitive editor, debugger, search, deployment capabilities, Visual Layout Editor and more. Future releases of the CDE will integrate the Curl Visual Layout Editor into the Eclipse framework as a Design Perspective, and improve other programming productivity features such as error highlighting in the source-code editor, language sensitive navigation, refactoring and code assistance. The CDE is currently in alpha form, with the public beta expected to be available in mid-2008. http://www.curl.com

Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN) announced the immediate availability of Vignette Community Services and the upcoming availability of Vignette Community Applications. The new community products enable organizations to add social computing capabilities to their Web sites. Additionally, the suite of products integrates with Vignette's Web experience foundation, making it easier for customers to quickly add engaging social elements and Web 2.0 capabilities to their sites. Vignette Community Applications enables organizations to add features like blogs, wikis and forums to any Web property to better engage their target audiences. Additionally, these organizations can leverage user-generated content and peer influence to create valuable online communities. For example, a software company may leverage forums or blogs to solicit feedback from customers throughout each phase of a product lifecycle. http://www.vignette.com/

Zimbra, a Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) company, announced the availability of its ZimbraME (Java Mobile Edition) client and source code for businesses. Users of any Java-enabled mobile phone will have access to a complete collaboration solution. The ZimbraME client provides Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Open Source and Network Edition users worldwide with free access to the Zimbra experience with e-mail and calendar on mass-market Java-enabled mobile phones. This extends Zimbra's reach of services to a broade range of devices available. ZimbraME is an over the air downloadable Java-based application for mobile devices that allows ZCS users to access their mail, contacts and calendars. It retains the search capability found in the Zimbra AJAX client. ZimbraME source code is available to the Zimbra community for feedback and enhancement, as well as to implement ZimbraME on the devices of their choice. Mobile devices supporting ZimbraME include the BlackBerry 8800 and 8820 series; the Motorola RAZR2; Nokia E61 and N73 handsets; the Sony-Ericsson W950i handset; and the Samsung SGH-E900 handset, adding to Zimbra's support for wireless platforms that includes Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm and iPhone. Additionally, Zimbra supports native sync to BlackBerry handsets via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The ZCS 5.0 Open Source Edition is free. The commercially supported ZCS 5.0 Network Edition is available for a 60-day free trial on the Zimbra website. http://www.zimbra.com/

Intalio, Inc. announced Intalio|On Demand, an open source Business Process Management System delivered as a service. The subscription for the service starts at $1,500 for each dedicated server, and includes bandwidth, licenses, maintenance, and support. Users can receive a free 5-day evaluation. Intalio|On Demand essentially replicates the Intalio|BPMS On Premise version and includes the connectors for Salesforce.com as well as enterprise applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite and SAP. Running dedicated servers on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps ensures that Intalio|On Demand retains the highest level of security, reliability and availability possible. Using rPath as the software appliance on top of AWS increases application scalability to ensure that there is always capacity for whatever user demand is generated. Intalio|BPMS, in both On Demand and On Premise versions, supports over 100,000 different process models deployed on a single server, with over 100 million process instances running concurrently. A single server can also accommodate thousands of concurrent users. Intalio|On Demand is available by signing up at http://www.intalio.com/on-demand