May 2008 Archives

Andovar, the consultative localization company with operations in Boston, Singapore, and Bangkok, is partnering with automated translation technology expert Asia Online to collaborate on new technologies that increase productivity on highly technical translation projects. The partnership combines Asia Online's statistical machine translation (SMT) platform and interactive continuous improvement environment with Andovar's proven globalization project management skills and services. The Asia Online directly addresses this issue by combining a statistical machine translation platform with an environment for collaborative and continuous improvement. Andovar's human subject-matter experts review the platform's early translations and make corrections as needed. A comprehensive analysis of the corrections is performed in real time, from which the platform learns. The result is that the platform will never make the same mistake twice and subsequent translations are improved. http://www.asiaonline.net http://www.andovar.com/

Quark announced the release of QuarkXPress 8. QuarkXPress 8 delivers design power through a new, intuitive interface developed purposefully for the creation of high-end page layout; print, Web and Flash authoring tools; design-driven typography; and global publishing capabilities. QuarkXPress 8 offers users an enhanced design experience to work faster and smarter by quickly and easily accessing the tools needed. The new, intuitive interface delivers updates that allow for more design with fewer clicks. For example, Picture Content Tool which allows users to grab, rotate, and scale images in real-time without typing in numbers or switching from tool to tool. Item Tool and Text Content Tool, smart behavior within these tools allows for less switching between tools, even for rotation and managing multiple items. New Bézier Pen Tools which draw illustrations directly in QuarkXPress 8 with the redefined Bézier Pen tool. Workspace Enhancements include new buttons for instant access to master pages and exporting to PDF, EPS, SWF, and HTML- plus new split-view buttons, enhanced contextual menus, and customizable active pasteboards. Measurements Palette further enhanced to make even more functions easily accessible, including new clickable controls for on-the-fly drop-shadow modification. Lastly Drag text and pictures from the desktop, Adobe Bridge, iPhoto, or any other application that supports drag and drop. Alternatively, drag content from QuarkXPress to Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Word, and other applications for direct editing. http://www.quark.com

Really Strategies, Inc. and Inera, Inc. announce a technology partnership that benefits publishers working with XML. RSuite, a browser-based content management system (CMS) from Really Strategies and eXtyles, an integrated suite of editorial and XML tools for Microsoft Word, together offer content management along with MS Word-based content editing and XML creation. In addition to managing XML, RSuite also manages non-XML content, including PDF, InDesign, jpg, Word, and audio files. In addition to the core CMS features and functionality (eg, check in/out, version control, web-based accessibility, etc), RSuite also offers drag-and-drop workflow administration tools, automated action handlers, customizable user interface, and metadata management at the element level. http://www.rsuitecms.com/partners.htm

JustSystems announced an expanded focus on recruitment of value-added partners as a cornerstone of its continued growth strategy in North America and Europe. JustSystems will focus primarily on systems integrators and software vendors with expertise in structured authoring, dynamic publishing and other areas of content and document management. Each of these partnerships falls under one of the following categories: Alliance Partners which are typically large, global vendors and services firms, Solution Partners which focus on integrated technical and business solutions, and Service Partners which provide strategy, design, implementation and training support. In support of this strategy, JustSystems has formalized three new participation levels: Associate for organizations that wish to engage with a limited initial commitment and require basic support for ad hoc joint selling activity, Authorized for organizations that wish to grow and profit from a more formalized and predictable business based on the sale or implementation of JustSystems products, and Premier for organizations that wish to build a technology and/or solutions practice focusing on JustSystems products. These new options provide Solution and Service Partners increased flexibility and graduated sales, marketing and technical benefits. In exchange for increased commitments to JustSystems, partners receive product discounting, marketing and demand creation opportunities, as well as sales and technical support. http://na.justsystems.com/content.php?page=partners

Sitecore announced the unveiling of its Web CMS 6.0. The aesthetic highlight is the inline editing and page management features, which make it easy to alter website content and layout. Marketers and business users can move and present features such as "Polls", "Tag Clouds", and "Personalization Offers" without the need to wait and rely upon a specialized design team. Sitecore Web CMS 6.0 also offers new enterprise features for increased scalability and security applications for multiple large inter-related websites. Sitecore is architected to leverage the largest computing environments supported by Microsoft, including support of 64 bit processors. The security model has also been enhanced to fully leverage the benefits of Microsoft .NET 3.5 while also adding additional flexibility, providing organizations full compatibility assurance with advantage benefits. Another feature is the patent-pending usability validation abilities addressing accessibility, content compliance and quality enforcement concerns. These built-in capabilities meet many mandated goals and standards, such as ADA 508 and WCAG, which provide guidelines for the creation of websites that are accessible to people with disabilities. They also enable brand and content consistency enforcement for organizations that have large numbers of website contributors. The early testers have reported the new release is significantly faster than prior releases. These testers will be publishing their experiences and findings starting in early June. Customer shipments will begin June 30, 2008 and users under maintenance contracts will receive this upgrade at no additional charge. To see a demonstration of Sitecore's new Web CMS 6.0, please visit: http://www.sitecore.net/Demo.aspx

WebCollage announced the WebCollage Management Center, a self-service platform that brings on-demand content integration capabilities to customers. The WebCollage Management Center empowers manufacturers to deploy and instantaneously syndicate their product marketing information across all of their business partner websites. Through the WebCollage Management Center, manufacturers can make changes to short-cycle content across all business partner websites and add the latest product information. WebCollage customers will have the flexibility to choose the best content update option to suit their individual business needs including scheduled, automated and instant update options. Manufacturers using the WebCollage Management Center can also preview, approve and send content automatically to their network of retailers. Customers can effectively manage the way their marketing content is maintained on their business partners' websites, and how often automatic updates are made to their content located within product mini-sites and brand showcases on the WebCollage network. Manufacturers' marketing content can come in any format including HTML, PDFs, flash and video. http://www.webcollage.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated gave a sneak peek at three applications from the next release of Adobe Creative Suite. The company released public beta of new versions of Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Soundbooth as free downloads on Adobe labs. Once downloaded and launched, the betas will be active for 48 hours after which time only Creative Suite 3 customers will have an extended ability to use the betas until the next release of Creative Suite becomes available. The Dreamweaver beta for Web design and development, the Fireworks beta for prototyping, and the Soundbooth beta for audio creating and editing, demonstrate the direction that Adobe Creative Suite is taking with features and technologies that will simplify and streamline design and development workflows across all media. The betas also offer users the opportunity to give Adobe feedback for further product development. http://www.labs.adobe.com

Concentric announced its continued commitment to small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) with the availability of its professional Web site services packages. These new services from Concentric save SMBs time and money by eliminating the need to find multiple resources for Web site hosting, design, maintenance, and marketing. Expanding on a wide range of technical services available through a custom quotation process, Concentric has developed three Web site service packages. The company's Web Site Design Package provides customers with Web site design or redesign and includes 17 hours of design and production time and eight hours of maintenance for the Web site over a 12-month term. The package includes a Concentric hosting account, a "Contact Us" form, configuration of users and email accounts, search engine optimization, and Google Analytics set-up. Thirty minutes of training on Google Analytics is included. The Web Site Migration Package is for organizations that already have a Web site but want to move it to Concentric's hosting platform and need help with routine maintenance and enhancements. Included in this package is a Concentric hosting account, configuration of users and email accounts, and eight hours of maintenance over the 12-month term. This package also includes optimization for search engines and Google Analytics with thirty minutes of training. The Concentric Web Site Maintenance Package is ideal for customers who have a Web site and need resources to perform ongoing maintenance or make enhancements. The Basic Package includes HTML, content updates, and hosting administrative help. The Advance Package covers more advanced tasks such as ecommerce set-up, PHP coding, databases, and Content Management Systems. These packages are sold at a discounted rate with a minimum contract time of eight hours and a 12-month agreement. http://www.concentric.com

XyEnterprise has unveiled the latest release of Contenta DITA content management software solution. Contenta DITA v1.5 now features BranchMerge, a powerful extension to Contenta's proven version management capabilities. BranchMerge allows content developers to create branched versions of content for editing and publishing while maintaining links to the content's origin. Once reserved for source code control systems, this new feature is now available in a content management system, enabling users to manage documentation in step with product releases or deliverables, and to more effectively work with multiple versions of content. With the addition of BranchMerge, users can manage related versions or branches of content as they are changed during the content authoring, editing and translation process. BranchMerge provides powerful control over concurrent content development cycles supporting more informed decisions for managing digital assets, such as text, images, video, and sound files. Also new in Contenta DITA v1.5 is an updated DITA Upload tool that integrates with desktop applications and file structures, providing intuitive drag and drop functionality. The upload tool works with DITA maps, topics and any specialized objects. It also flags missing files and provides the capability to resolve incomplete references so that documentation is always delivered completely and accurately for every release. Other enhancements in Contenta DITA v1.5 include a Validate References tool which verifies the status of any object reference. The tool can chase references recursively, eliminating the need for a manual reference check. There is also greater control over the level of validation so a user sees only those topics that need to be checked, and can check where a particular piece of content is being used from the same interface. This new feature provides a window into the overall content, so the impact of any change can be determined before the change is actually made. Contenta DITA v1.5 conforms to the current OASIS DITA v1.1 standard for creating standard information types and domain-specific markup vocabularies. http://www.xyenterprise.com

Brainshark, Inc. announced the latest release of its Brainshark Presentations application, which includes a new option for delivering Brainshark on-demand presentations within a Private Content Portal. The Private Content Portal allows customers to share best practices, communications, training, and enterprise knowledge with their key audiences in a collaborative, hosted environment. By providing a central repository for subject matter experts (SMEs) to easily publish on-demand presentations for employees, customers, or partners, organizations can efficiently distribute business information and learning, and develop communities around valued content. Other new features of Brainshark Presentation include the ability to add background audio to presentations, support for additional languages within viewer toolbars and buttons, simple ways to embed Brainshark presentations into other sites such as blogs, wikis, and landing pages, and enhanced administrative features. The Private Content Portal is available with a Standard or Corporate Edition of the Brainshark Platform. http://www.brainshark.com

OmniUpdate, Inc., provider of web content management software (CMS) for higher education institutions, announced OmniUpdate version 8.0. Key areas of the system are over 500% faster, and some functions are now almost instantaneous, depending on the browser being used. Automatic versioning has been added, including the ability to compare current and old versions, and then roll-back quickly to any previously published page. Link checking has been added, plus a new feature called Multi-Browser Preview. This new capability allows you to see a page before publishing in other browsers such as IE-7, Safari, and Firefox, on either Windows or Macintosh. Some of the most important new features are user interface improvements. The login screen can now be customized by the client. The Page Editor and File Manager tabs have been combined into a single Content tab, and Ajax has been added everywhere to improve and speed-up the user experience. An intelligent split screen automatically hides itself when it's not needed. And a new tab, called Add-ons, opens the product up to an expanded world of web applications by allowing clients to incorporate external programs: database administration apps, control modules for course management systems, polls, surveys, wikis, and social networking apps. Finally, improvements have been made in the Help System, including the addition of online training videos. http://www.omniupdate.com

X1 Technologies, Inc. announced it has earned certified status in Microsoft's Partner Program. As a Certified Partner, X1 Technologies has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet customer needs. As an ISV/Software Solutions Competency Microsoft Certified Partner, the X1 Enterprise Search Suite enhances the productivity of Microsoft customers by providing the ability to search both the contents of Microsoft Windows desktops and servers, along with data residing in Microsoft solutions such as Microsoft Exchange Server and SharePoint. The X1 Enterprise Search Suite delivers search federation and does not duplicate data. By using native API connectivity, the security of the user's company security model is preserved to help avoid retention policy violations. Lastly, the X1 Enterprise Search Client provides a single search interface that allows users to search, preview and act upon data in 400 file formats. In addition to earning certified status, X1 Technologies has declared a Microsoft Competency in ISV/Software Solutions. Microsoft Competencies are designed to help differentiate a partner's capabilities with specific Microsoft technologies to customers looking for a particular type of solution. Each competency has a unique set of requirements and benefits, formulated to accurately represent the specific skills and services that partners bring to the technology industry. http://www.x1.com

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the Candidate Recommendation of "CSS Namespaces Module." This CSS Namespaces module defines the syntax for using namespaces in CSS. It defines the @namespace rule for declaring the default namespace and binding namespaces to namespace prefixes, and it also defines a syntax that other specifications can adopt for using those prefixes in namespace-qualified names. Learn more about the Style Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/

Citrix Systems, Inc. and Akamai Technologies, Inc. announced an agreement that will make it easier for customers and integration partners to combine each company's web application delivery offerings into integrated solutions that enhance the performance, scalability and security of enterprise web applications. The companies will leverage Citrix's premise-based NetScaler product line and Akamai's cloud-based Web Application Accelerator(SM) service to bring true end-to-end web application delivery to both Internet and enterprise customers worldwide. Citrix and Akamai are working with system integrators to bring customers the following benefits: Faster Web Application Performance, Greater Infrastructure Scalability, Higher Application Availability, and Deeper Application Security. As part of the collaboration between Citrix and Akamai, the companies intend to establish the following: Citrix-Akamai Partner Assistance Program, designed to help integrators establish practices to implement the two solutions together at customer sites, and the Citrix-Akamai Online Community designed to help enterprise customers share best practices, experiences and support questions when using Citrix and Akamai web application delivery solutions together. The two companies will also publish a series of best practices deployment guides showing recommended configuration guidelines to achieve the best possible application performance for various scenarios. http://www.akamai.com/

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) announced a pan-enterprise search platform for legal eDiscovery and information access, to meet organization's litigation and knowledge management requirements. Autonomy's algorithms search across all sources of electronically stored information (ESI) including text, data, voice and video, finding relevant information for litigation with auditable and repeatable results, and applying a litigation hold function to preserve data from normally scheduled or ad hoc deletion. The Autonomy pan-enterprise search platform automates the retrieval, processing, and management of all information throughout a global organization irrespective of languages, operating systems, and file types, avoiding non-FRCP compliant search techniques. The Autonomy platform supports FRCP compliance with its ability to: Search all categories of information repositories in an organization by supporting more than a 1,000 different data formats, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, located across 400 different content repositories; Provide a vendor neutral approach by searching across distributed systems, running on multiple operating systems such as Unix, Linux and Windows NT; Produce auditable results; Pass results to a hold function to ensure relevant ESI is preserved and not altered in any way or deleted; Avoid "jump out" techniques or indexing that compromises important metadata; Provide a meaning-based conceptual search method as an preferred approach over federated search; Deliver a fault-tolerant architecture using load balancing and mirroring, with scalability and security; Seamlessly support an end-to-end eDiscovery suite including investigation and early case assessment, legal hold, real-time policy management, data archiving, EDD, on-line review, and production management. http://www.autonomy.com

The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, announced that it is now accepting speaker proposals for the Gilbane Boston Conference set to take place December 2-4, 2008. The deadline to submit proposals is June 15th. Gilbane conference content is carefully designed to ensure the focus is on what businesses need to know to successfully plan and implement content technology solutions. Topics to be covered at this event include: Web Content Management (WCM); Enterprise Search, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies; Collaboration, Enterprise Wikis & Blogs; Enterprise 2.0 Technologies & Social Computing; Content Globalization & Localization; Enterprise Content Management (ECM); Enterprise Rights Management (ERM); and XML & Publishing Technology. To submit a proposal email a proposal that is relevant to the topics described above to speaking@gilbane.com. Additional information regarding speaking guidelines and policies can be found at:
http://gilbane.com/speaker_guidelines.html

Teragram, a SAS company, announced that it has integrated its linguistic suite into the Apache Lucene open source search platform. Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library which powers sites such as Wikipedia, CNET Reviews and Eventful.com. The integration enables Lucene users to add taxonomies and faceted search to their web sites, as well as to correct the spelling of queries and search in multiple languages. Using Teragram's solutions, enterprises deploying Lucene can provide site searchers with a functionality that parallels popular enterprise search platforms on the market today. Teragram's full suite of products, including TK240 taxonomy management, automatic categorization and automatic metadata generation enhance Lucene's basic search function. As a result, adopters of the open source search engine (for embedded search on both internal and external-facing sites) can provide consumers with a more comprehensive experience that includes a searchable index. The faceted index is built using Teragram's taxonomy tools that classify words into relevant topics and sub-topics. Teragram's powerful multilingual natural language processing tools provide linguistic modules such as morphological stemming, spelling correction, parts-of-speech tagging, related queries and more. Teragram also offers dictionaries in a variety of Eastern and Western European, Asian and Middle Eastern languages. For more information, please contact 1-617-576-6800 or visit http://www.teragram.com/info

Vivisimo launched the Velocity Discovery Module, an addition to the Vivisimo Velocity Search Platform that expands the ability of organizations to quickly and automatically classify all data by topics and themes. The new module also adds improved collaboration tools that speed the process of accessing, reviewing and sharing search results. The launch of Vivisimo Velocity 6.0 in 2007 delivered a key innovation of adding essential social software tools to enterprise search. The powerful concept of social search includes such tools as document and keyword tagging, rating and annotation of documents and search terms, use of shared virtual folders and content mash-ups - all aimed at improving collaboration, innovation and productivity in the enterprise. Adding the Discovery Module to the Velocity platform strengthens search as the essential tool to drive innovation throughout the enterprise. Specific functionality allows for the rapid classification of all available data for quick insight into information themes and topics without ever entering a search query. The discovery module's auto-classification feature uncovers data that managers may have lost or never known of to begin with - information that may be critical to their business. Vivisimo uses clustering capabilities to produce a full auto-classification system on top of a search platform. The new Discovery Module's enhanced collaboration features of express tagging and native document export empowers search users to add their own knowledge faster than ever and to disseminate value-added content in its native format to colleagues and partners alike. The ability to easily tag, collect, save, share and archive documents by the thousands or millions through search queries enables powerful knowledge sharing throughout a company. The new Velocity Discovery Module joins existing platform expansion modules Velocity for Mobile and Velocity for Desktop available separately from Vivisimo. For more information visit http://www.vivisimo.com

Brightidea.com announced the availability of WebStorm 5.0, which enables businesses to create turn-key social networks to collaborate with customers, employees or partners. Developed to address the innovation challenges that managers face every day, WebStorm is easy to implement, highly-scalable and designed to help organizations tap the innovation potential of any online community, either internal or external. To compete in today's competitive marketplace, businesses need to be able to quickly generate new ideas, qualify concepts with the most potential, and efficiently allocate the resources necessary to turn those ideas into reality. Brightidea.com offers the end-to-end Innovation Management software businesses need to manage the entire innovation process from concept to launch. WebStorm 5.0 is a corporate social network that enables businesses to quickly and easily create custom innovation portals to establish communication channel with customers, employees or partners. Brightidea.com's open innovation platform provides a powerful tool set to access the creativity and experiences of customers and employees. WebStorm 5.0 can be connected directly to a company's existing website or used as a stand-alone for private communities. Pricing and availability: WebStorm 5.0 is now available for as little as $1 per user. For more information go to: http://www.brightidea.com/webstorm/

Convera Corporation and YellowBrix announced a joint vertical news and search solution for finance, medicine, media and publishing, energy and environment industries. The joint vertical content solution enables enterprises and publishers to leverage Convera's monetization platform for targeted search and contextual advertising. Clients will also have immediate access to a single-source solution of news sources, industry-specific trades and critical business and financial information customized, in real-time, for their end users including integrated, robust vertical web search solutions. http://www.convera.com/ http://www.yellowbrix.com/

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) announced the release of its Redact-It Enterprise Server software for EMC Documentum. Redact-It intelligently removes privacy information like Social Security numbers, names and phone numbers before making documents available to a wider audience. The integration solution is being debuted at EMC World 2008 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada. Redact-It Enterprise offers integrators the ability to perform batch redaction of document, imaging and PDF files. It automatically removes all instances of specified privacy information from files or directories, including Social Security numbers, a person's name, birth dates, email addresses and monetary amounts. For example, Redact-It can be used to cleanse privacy information from personal records, including healthcare and immunization records, loan applications and public records.End users can also use Redact-It's simple interface directly from the EMC Documentum to select from a list of pre-defined privacy information macros, search for a particular word or phrase (or a list of words/phrases), or apply a redaction template for standard forms. Redact-It can intelligently detect and remove privacy information. It completely removes the information and creates a new PDF or TIFF rendition, so the redacted content is completely irretrievable and the source file is left untouched in the repository. No metadata or hidden content is transferred to the rendition..For more information, visit http://www.brava4emc.com.

StoredIQ Inc. announced that its StoredIQ appliance is now available through EMC Select. Customers can purchase the StoredIQ appliance directly from EMC as part of the EMC eDiscovery Solution for Collection. EMC will offer StoredIQ's information governance suite, which is used by enterprises in highly regulated or litigation-prone arenas to automate eDiscovery, cut legal and IT costs, and proactively manage unstructured information. StoredIQ efficiently captures and manages data from various platforms in the enterprise, including file servers, live email servers, notebooks and desktops, content management platforms and collaboration software. The combined StoredIQ-EMC solution is a component of EMC's broad strategy for compliance and information management. It enables an in-house capability for efficient collection, "quick peek" review and analysis, legal hold in an immutable repository, culling, de-duplication and production of unstructured content for legal and compliance purposes. StoredIQ also adds valuable post-processing by exporting this data in review-ready load files (for applications such as Concordance from LexisNexis). In addition, it supports proactive risk management strategies, including the collection and remediation of legacy content from unmanaged environments into EMC content repositories, as well as classification for the proper management and disposition of business information. This solution enables customers to begin to put processes in place for proactive information management, ensuring that eDiscovery can be treated cost-effectively as a repeatable business process. For more information visit http://www.storediq.com

Meadows Publishing Solutions announced a new version of DesignMerge Pro for Adobe InDesign CS3. The new version now includes built-in support for PostScript, PPML, and Creo VPS output formats, making the product compatible with all major variable data printing systems. The latest version of DesignMerge Pro is 3.04, and is free to all current users of DesignMerge Pro for InDesign CS3. Coinciding with the software release, Meadows announced the launch of DesignMerge.com. The new website hosts a series of software demonstration videos, data sheets, and other downloads to supplement the DesignMerge Pro software package. Users can also view related QuickTime or WMV versions of the videos online. http://www.meadowsps.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced new eLearning tools to make it easier for educators to create and deliver online learning to students. New hosted and license options, or Quick Start Bundles, for Acrobat Connect Pro, and new curriculum resources help equip faculty with the tools they need to engage students in online learning. The Quick Start Bundles provide special pricing on hosted or on premise licenses of Acrobat Connect Pro to help educators get started with eLearning. The bundles provide a variety of licensing options for rapid development of presentations and quizzes, as well as hosting virtual classrooms with up to 100 attendees. Additionally, free curriculum resources show educators how to create reusable course content, and host and teach in a virtual classroom environment. Acrobat Connect Pro is adopted by educational institutions worldwide. In this new release, customized features for education include break-out rooms that let students and faculty in virtual classes initiate separate conversations online, and tools for organizing and tracking classes. Additionally, educators can: record and edit classes; archive online or offline; use new presence capabilities that can allow federation with popular instant messaging (IM) clients; and easily tailor their online classrooms or lectures to help capture students' attention and increase knowledge retention. For campuses that use learning management systems (LMS) from Blackboard or SumTotal, any student, faculty or administrator can now join an Acrobat Connect Pro classroom or course instantly via a link in their LMS account. http://www.adobe.com/education/products/acrobatconnect.html

Adlib Software, an EMC Velocity Technology and ISV partner, has announced the release of Adlib ExpressRecognition Server 4.0, a serverbased OCR text recognition application that seamlessly integrates with two EMC Documentum products, Document Transformation Services and Advanced Document Transformation Services, both part of the EMC Documentum Content Transformation Services framework. Adlib Software recently released Adlib ExpressRecognition Server 4.0 as part of its full complement of Document Transformation server applications. With the release of Express 4.0, Adlib Software now delivers a powerful OCR application that accurately renders image documents to searchable PDF, Text, Word or HTML output. For Documentum customers, integrating the Adlib ExpressRecognition Server into their document workflows will be virtually effortless. Adlib Software delivers enterprise class document transformation applications for companies needing high volume document conversion, OCR text recognition and publishing. http://www.adlibsoftware.com

Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI; TSX: TRI; LSE: TRIL: NASDAQ: TRIN), announced they upgraded their Calais Web Service and debuted a range of new Calais capabilities. Calais gives publishers and developers free, open access to automatic metatagging capabilities that increase the relevance and search accessibility of their content on the Web. Calais version 2.0 features a dozen new semantic entity types, improving its utility for pop-culture publishers and bloggers covering media, music, entertainment and sports, as well as those covering pharmaceuticals, medicine and healthcare. It also adds code samples and libraries for accessing Calais, as well as two new output types - the Simple Tags format and Microformats - alongside the standard Resource Description Framework (RDF) option. In addition, Calais 2.0 marks the debut of Thomson Reuters' Calais Marmoset toolkit. Calais Marmoset is a tool that makes it easy for publishers to generate and embed metadata in their content in preparation for Yahoo! Search's new open developer platform, SearchMonkey, as well as other metacrawlers and semantic applications. The company also debuted the Calais Tagaroo plugin for the WordPress Publishing platform. The Calais Tagaroo plugin makes it easy for WordPress bloggers to tag the people, places, facts and events in their blog posts to increase their blogs' visual appeal and accessibility on the Web. Tagaroo works in the background while bloggers write, automatically generating tags and finding related photos for selection, sizing and insertion via an easy-to-use interface. Thomson Reuters teamed with Phase2Technology to create three Calais modules for integration with Drupal, an open source content management platform. The Calais modules for Drupal help Drupal users automatically tag their content. http://www.OpenCalais.com, http://www.thomsonreuters.com

Glemser Technologies, a Pennsylvania-based pharmaceutical software and services company, announced the imminent release of version 5.0 of its suite of regulated content management applications. Version 5.0 of the suite includes a major update to xmLabeling, Glemser's global product labeling solution for management and submissions of labeling content to American and European health authorities, and the addition of xmContent, its Documentum-based platform for consolidating and rapidly deploying robust regulated content management applications to reduce total cost of ownership. The 5.0 version of xmLabeling adds support for evolving health authority standards for SPL and PIM, a Microsoft Word-based editor and additional features for managing labeling content globally. xmLabeling 5.0 is built on xmContent, Glemser's Documentum-based complete application platform. xmContent is a platform for document management consolidation initiatives as companies seek to reduce the costs associated with maintaining large numbers of similar applications. xmContent can be configured to manage manufacturing, clinical, marketing, labeling and other types of regulated content. Both xmLabeling 5.0 and xmContent 5.0 are built on Documentum 5.3 using the Webtop interface and supports a variety of XML editors, including Xpress Author from In.vision and Arbortext Editor (formerly Epic Editor) from PTC. For more information about Glemser Technologies please visit http://www.glemser.com

Microsoft announced that customers of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with a qualified Volume Licensing Software Assurance enrollment can benefit from SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS), a new, partner-delivered offering designed to help customers successfully plan their deployment of SharePoint. Microsoft Corp. SDPS introduces new knowledge offerings to the SharePoint partner community for customers' benefit. These tools include SharePoint Deployment Plan Templates, Architecture Design Guidance Documents, and SharePoint server farm deployment guidance. Microsoft partners that currently have Microsoft Competencies in Information Worker Portals and Collaboration, Enterprise Content Management, or Search specializations can now advance their skills and become certified to participate in the SDPS offering. In return, these partners will be reimbursed by Microsoft to deliver SharePoint deployment planning consultation to customers. In addition, SDPS-certified partners will be able to participate in a new online community that Microsoft has established to enable collaboration and information sharing among partners on SharePoint deployment best practices. SDPS is available now. Partners can get more details and register to be an SDPS provider at http://www.microsoftsdps.com/

Armedia LLC announced the development of Armedia Case Management (ACM), a new case-enabling framework for the EMC Documentum D6 platform. ACM will "case enable" new or existing EMC Documentum repositories to better manage case-oriented information. Case leads, supervisors, and record managers will be able to create and manage cases, manage documents and content files of any type, and create tasks. Users also will be able to track leads, people, incidents, and expenses against cases. Users of ACM can manage cases through either the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 07) interface or the ACM Collaboration Portal, a portal platform tailored for case management and powered by EMC Documentum and LifeRay Portal. ACM uses the EMC Documentum D6 platform as the repository and the heart of the business rules implementation. ACM also uses the Documentum Foundation Services (DFS) for web services implementation and Armedia's Ligero Content Delivery Server for integration with Microsoft Sharepoint 2007. The ACM Core services framework is currently available. Armedia is also working on a specific Investigative Case Management application built on this platform, expected to be released in Q4 2008. http://www.armedia.com

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted unanimously to propose mandating the use of XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) for public company filings to the SEC's EDGAR database. Under the terms of the current proposal, companies using US GAAP with a worldwide public float over $5 billion will be required to submit their primary financial statements, footnotes and financial statement schedules in XBRL format for fiscal periods ending in late 2008. Accelerated filers will be required to comply with the new rules starting the following year and the remaining public companies would comply the year after that. Working with expert representatives from among its membership, XBRL US has developed an impact statement, available at http://xbrl.us/documents/rulingimpact.pdf that outlines the effect that broader use of XBRL for public company reporting will have on key corporate reporting supply chain representatives: public companies, investors and software companies. Wider use of XBRL is also expected to open up demand for ancillary products for business intelligence and more sophisticated analytics. XBRL US has been in contract with the SEC for the past year to build out the collection of financial and business reporting terms representing US GAAP required disclosures and common reporting practices (taxonomies) that public companies will use to create their own XBRL-formatted financial statements. Public company financial executives can find out more about how to get started creating XBRL-formatted financials, register for free educational webcast programs and get information on the breadth of tools and services available at http://www.xbrl.us

The boards of Alterian and Mediasurface announced that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended offer by Alterian to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Mediasurface. The Offer will be on the basis of 9 pence in cash and 0.0375 of a Consideration Share for each Mediasurface Share. The Offer values the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Mediasurface at approximately £18.1 million and each Mediasurface Share at 15 pence, representing a premium of 150.0 per cent to the Closing Price of 6 pence per Mediasurface Share on 23 April 2008. Alterian is a international provider of enterprise management software with its headquarters in Bristol, UK but with a significant proportion of its operations in North America. The Company employs over 130 staff in the United Kingdom and North America. Since being admitted to the Official List in 2000, Alterian has grown both organically and through the completion of several acquisitions. The Alterian Directors have identified Mediasurface as a strategic acquisition to enhance the Company's online marketing software offering as well as providing a number of additional benefits. The combination of the two businesses would create an Enlarged Group with, on the basis of the last audited accounts of Alterian and Mediasurface, annualised revenues of over £30.0 million and which generates approximately 50 per cent. of its revenue from the sale of online marketing software. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close late June 2008 and the Directors expect that regardless of the outcome of these discussions, the services that Mediasurface provides to existing and future customers will be unaffected. http://www.alterian.com, http://www.mediasurface.com

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM) (TSX: RIM) are delivering to mainstream business professionals the full line of Web 2.0-powered IBM Lotus collaboration software and information on demand on the BlackBerry platform. The joint initiative enables customers to securely manage their communications, contacts and schedules and collaborate and network through social software, all from within the interface of their BlackBerry smartphones. This includes the general availability of the new BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections, IBM's social software for business. IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM dashboard software lets businesses build Web sites and single screen dashboard views that deliver information, applications and processes personalized to the individual BlackBerry smartphone user. The BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections helps people tap into the collective knowledge of others and find the people and information they need for the task at hand while on the go. BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino enables access to key email and calendaring functions as well as custom applications built with Lotus Domino. The BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Sametime lets people access their full buddy list, send and receive instant messages, view presence information and convert an IM session to a phone call. IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile business intelligence software is a business intelligence solution designed specifically for the BlackBerry platform. It provides personalized secure business information in the right context to allow people to view and interact with dashboard-style reports. The BlackBerry mobile solution for the Lotus collaboration software suite is available today and the BlackBerry client software for Lotus Sametime and Lotus Connections are both now available as a free download for Lotus customers at http://www.blackberry.com/go/ibmresources, http://www.ibm.com

Alpha Software is now shipping Alpha Five Platinum Edition, the ninth major release of the company's Web database development platform. It's a development tool that can visually build AJAX-powered applications, integrate SQL databases with drag+drop, and deliver enterprise-scale availability, without having to write pages of computer code. And while coding is optional, Alpha Five's integrated development environment (IDE) still gives developers full access to forms, interactive reports, browsers, Web components, APIs, XML, and more. It includes 200 reusable ActionScripts, "Supercontrols," HTML and CSS builders, the full Xbasic/Xdialog language, Portable SQL, and "Genies" that generate editable code for any custom requirement. There's also a custom report generator (with drill-down support), a role-based Web security framework, and native SQL support for every major database, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, IBM DB2, and EnterpriseDB/Postgres Plus. In all, Alpha Five Platinum has 85 new or enhanced features. Alpha Five Platinum Edition is available now. Pricing starts at $299.00 for an upgrade. http://www.alphasoftware.com

CYA Technologies announced CYA SmartRecovery 5.0 and CYA Recycle Bin version 2.0 supporting the EMC Documentum 6 enterprise content management platform. CYA SmartRecovery protects EMC Documentum repositories against "more than 80 percent" of all information loss incidents, which result from common occurrences such as programmatic, human, operational and logical errors, malfeasance, and metadata corruption. Using CYA SmartRecovery, a single administrator can recover one, several, or thousands of documents and their associated metadata (e.g. audit trails, workflows and digital signatures) back to their original state without taking EMC Documentum offline. CYA SmartRecovery enables ECM objects to be recovered back to any point in time, allowing recovery of objects that have been created or modified as little as 15 minutes ago. CYA Recycle Bin is an "un-delete" tool enabling EMC Documentum end-users to instantly restore files that they have accidentally deleted from the content repository back to their original location. CYA SmartRecovery and CYA Recycle Bin, previously accredited as "Designed for EMC Documentum," have both been validated on the EMC Documentum 6 platform and have been designated "Documentum 6 Ready" by EMC. Both products are also available for EMC Documentum version 5.3. http://www.cya.com

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) unveiled two new EMC Documentum products designed to bring XML technology to a broader range of enterprise information. Leading the announcement is EMC Documentum XML Store, a native XML repository that integrates into the Documentum platform to provide XML processing. The Documentum repository gives organizations a full range of ECM management for their XML content, along with new capabilities for granular content reuse, standards-based search/retrieval, dynamic publishing, and archiving. Documentum XML Store is the foundation for the second product announced, EMC Documentum Dynamic Delivery Services. This server-based content delivery technology improves the way XML can be delivered dynamically to various applications. With Documentum Dynamic Delivery Services, organizations can transform traditional content publishing from a static activity to an on-demand process where personalized, relevant content is delivered to users based on their specific requests, preferences and profiles. With the addition of Documentum XML Store to the Documentum enterprise content management platform, XML can be now be a driver for any type of content-rich application using office documents, blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, mash-ups, business processes, or messages. Documentum Dynamic Delivery Services embeds XML Store to aggregate and cache content from any number of source systems. Documentum XML Store's full text engine and an XQuery engine combine to support search and retrieval of any type of content. Output documents are dynamically constructed from content fragments, and Documentum Dynamic Delivery Services' architecture allows it to serve high volumes of personalized requests. EMC's Documentum XML Store and Documentum Dynamic Delivery Services are available now. http://www.emc.com/

Baynote, Inc. announced the availability of the Baynote Merchandizing and Editorial Console. The new management tool allows users to combine expert control with the inherent community wisdom distilled from web visitors' behaviors to optimize the delivery of product recommendations, content recommendations, and on-site search results. Baynote Recommendations and Social Search is built on a social science concept: that the collective behaviors of like-minded site visitors is the most effective way to display products and content based on a visitor's true intent. Leveraging crowd wisdom is especially important in content and product-rich "long tail" sites where manual merchandizing and editorializing is not cost or time effective. However, there are common scenarios where a merchandizing or editorial team requires the ability to exercise precise control over product and content recommendations to take into account product margin, inventory levels, promotions, breaking news, cross-channel content linking, and myriad other cases. While the new console benefits Baynote users in all vertical markets, it is particularly useful to online publishers and eCommerce businesses. http://www.baynote.com

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Alfresco Software, Inc. announced the release of Alfresco Enterprise 2.2, which in particular is designed to power Web 2.0 properties and online communities. New feature enhancements support the creation, deployment and update of scalable Web 2.0 sites that can be developed using any web application language. These enhancements are a result of the company's work with interactive sites in the entertainment, online gaming, sports, telecommunications and publishing industries. With this new release, companies can move beyond the traditional marketing oriented Web site to provide users with a rich and interactive site that fosters community and customer relationships around a product or service. Other enhancements in Alfresco Enterprise 2.2 include: Web Farm Deployment Configuration - supports advanced deployment rules for web 2.0 scalable, 3-tier web application architectures; Web Application Preview and Test - provides the ability to preview in-context changes to any web application, including PHP, Ruby, Groovy, STRUTS, JSF, TILES and .NET; Site Templating and Branching - enables creation of new sites from existing templates and ability to baseline major site updates by branching existing site, and; Asset Reuse - allows content to be updated and shared across web projects. Alfresco Enterprise is the certified build of Alfresco, designed for production environments in corporations and government organizations that are looking for a stable, supported application. It is certified against commercial as well as open source stacks and offers commercial Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Alfresco Community is designed to be the research "Community Lab" for new features enabling developers to access a nightly build with the latest bleeding-edge functionality. It is unsupported by Alfresco and does not include the certification, QA (quality assurance) and services for production deployment. Alfresco Enterprise 2.2 is immediately available for enterprise customers. http://www.alfresco.com/

Sajan announced the extension of the latest release of GCMS, their on-demand translation management solution. GCMS is a Translation Management System (TMS) that incorporates all of the necessary functions of the entire global content lifecycle and puts them together in one on-demand model. Process automation is then wrapped around a multilingual data repository which centrally stores content at the segment level. The new 4.0 extension has portal usability enhancements and analytics to create greater efficiencies and transparency, giving the process more visibility. Additionally, GCMS allows for all translation project participants to work in the same collaborative environment. TMate Search Technology, the search and match algorithm released earlier this year, is core to the 4.0 extension, allowing for enterprise scalability and increasing fuzzy match rates by up to 60%. http://www.sajan.com

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Language Weaver and empolis have entered into a strategic technology agreement that will support multilingual translation of enterprise applications. empolis will integrate Language Weaver's automated translation software into its e:SLS (empolis:Service Lifecycle Suite) application for customer service and into its e:IAS (empolis:Information Access Suite) information management application for cross-lingual enterprise search. Language Weaver's automated translation software offers translations based on the statistical likelihood of the correct meanings in context. empolis has integrated the capability into its existing applications, allowing its customers to access the automated translation functionality directly. The e:SLS application supports service organizations with creation, management and retrieval of service know-how. e:SLS enables organizations to provide the correct answers to customer queries with competent and consistent results via any channel, including telephone, e-mail, fax, letter, Internet, voice self-service and technical field service. e:SLS uses a central knowledge model as the foundation for intelligent search methods. It also builds a framework for multidimensional search and navigation structures to ensure efficient and precise information access. The e:IAS information management application supports intelligent and personalized information access, as well as efficiency and effectiveness when searching and navigating, analyzing, sorting and linking information and when creating new content. With access to multilingual information via the addition of Language Weaver's automated translation software, the searches become more comprehensive and effective in decision making. http://www.empolis.com, http://www.languageweaver.com

ClearStory Systems, Inc. announced new ActiveMedia Software as a Service (SaaS) packages that offer hosted DAM services that cater to a marketing organization's size. ClearStory will offer three ActiveMedia-based service plans for marketing workgroups, departments, and larger enterprise organizations, starting at $100 per user per month. ActiveMedia Essentials offers basic marketing services for workgroups in small organizations of 5 to 10 users. ActiveMedia Professional supports larger marketing departments of 10 to 20 users and includes full access to ActiveMedia's standard work flow automation features. ActiveMedia Essentials and ActiveMedia Professional also provide fixed-fee deployment services and application training that ensure successful and rapid deployments. ActiveMedia Enterprise expands upon ActiveMedia Professional by increasing the number of users and storage, typically required by larger enterprise and global marketing organizations, and including options for full text search of document assets and enterprise-class video processing. http://www.clearstorysystems.com

Powerset released a service for searching Wikipedia that illustrates the capapbilities of the semantic search engine they are developing. From their site "Powerset's goal is to change the way people interact with technology by enabling computers to understand our language. ... Powerset is first applying its natural language processing to search, aiming to improve the way we find information by unlocking the meaning encoded in ordinary human language. ... Powerset's technology improves the entire search process. In the search box, you can express yourself in keywords, phrases, or simple questions. On the search results page, Powerset gives more accurate results, often answering questions directly, and aggregates information from across multiple articles. Finally, Powerset's technology follows you into enhanced Wikipedia articles, giving you a better way to quickly digest and navigate content." http://www.powerset.com/

Version 9.2 introduces a new XML Author edition specially tuned for content authors providing a well designed interface for XML editing by keeping only the relevant authoring features. The major additions in Oxygen XML Editor 9.2 are related to the WYSIWYG-like editing support and in particular to the DITA support. The general visual editing improvements include displaying the resolved content in the editor and navigation through links. With the new DITA features that include a new DITA map editor, actions for inserting conref links, a tight integration of the latest version of the DITA Open Toolkit, Oxygen XML Editor becomes an easy to use DITA editor. Other improvements are browsing of XML databases using WebDAV connections, better handling of Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) text, support for the Intel XML Software Suite and multiple component updates. The new Oxygen XML Author is available both as a separate product (standalone and Eclipse plugin) and also as a part of Oxygen XML Editor. The new DITA maps manager allows viewing and editing DITA map files and also acts as a project manager allowing to open different topics for editing. The tool chain for generating DITA output in a multitude of formats (XHTML, PDF, HTML, JavaHelp, Eclipse Help, DocBook, etc.) is ready to use out of the box. Oxygen XML Editor and XSLT Debugger is available immediately in 3 editions: Multi-platform XML Editor Academic/Non-profit license costs USD 48, Multi-platform XML Editor Professional license costs USD 299, and Multi-platform XML Editor Enterprise license costs USD 366. Oxygen XML Author is available immediately in 2 editions: Multi-platform XML Author Professional license costs USD 179, and Multi-platform XML Author Enterprise license costs USD 220. http://www.oxygenxml.com/

Liferay, Inc. announced that Sun Microsystems will formally be joining the Liferay open source community and will continue to contribute to the development of Liferay Portal. Sun's participation in Liferay's community will result in enhanced development of enterprise Web 2.0 features and optimized performance for Liferay Portal in combination with Sun's family of products. Sun and Liferay plan to separately market and sell products and services based on their collaboration. Sun plans to use core elements of Liferay Portal 5.0 as the foundation for Sun's web development and collaboration platform. In addition, Liferay will continue to offer the full suite of professional services and support for all platforms it already offers its customers. http://www.liferay.com

Inmedius, Inc. announced the release of S1000Dmanager V3.0, the next evolution in their S1000D management. The system's new platform facilitates the professional management of content, delivering the tools and information needed to efficiently manage the S1000D publication process. Manager's technical publication lifecycle architecture adds a library and centralized control center to the system's S1000D project setup and management support capabilities. The combination of a flexible library system, Dashboard approach, and integrated business intelligence provides complete command over information assets. New functionality in the S1000Dmanager V3.0 release includes a library system where users access and view information organized by Standard Numbering System (SNS). S1000D projects are managed from within the document library where multiple users, with security access, can edit project information. Another new feature is managing Data Module Requirements Lists (DMRL) as separate XML documents that may be checked out, issued, approved, and that have their own workflow. With quantitative metrics, the new, centralized Dashboard provides transparency and a visual representation of the S1000D technical documentation process. Publication managers are able to monitor organizational efficiency, identify problem or choke points in the process, and adjust resources as necessary to ensure project deliveries are on time and within budget. In conjunction with the upcoming release of S1000DauthorPro, Manager V3.0 will include editing and management capabilities in support of S1000D Specification Issue 3.0 requirements. Manager and AuthorPro are two of seven modules in the Inmedius S1000D Publishing Suite. http://www.inmedius.com

MindTouch announced the release of MindTouch Deki Wiki "Jay Cooke" v8.05, the latest version of its open source enterprise collaboration and integration platform. MindTouch Deki Wiki v8.05 includes finctions for internationalization/localization, search, user management, integrated scripting, automation, mash-ups, user experience and more. Specifically, this new release enhances multilingual content management. Deki Wiki v8.05 introduces a new polyglot feature that allows customers to host all languages as a single site. Now language can be specified by sections and pages automatically adapting the user interface of Deki Wiki to the appropriate language. Also, users may search across all languages and search results are prioritized by the user's default language. Lastly, Deki Wiki v8.05 supports OpenSearch. http://mindtouch.com

blinkx announced the availability of the blinkx Advanced Media Platform, a video content management solution that leverages blinkx's Conceptual Recognition Engine (CoRE) technology to enable media companies to unlock the potential of video assets and maximize their monetization. From the digital domain of the Internet and content management systems, to the offline world, the blinkx Advanced Media Platform is meant to solve the problems inherent in video processing and delivery. blinkx can identify and extract video assets from any storage system or packaging, online or offline. blinkx CoRE then makes it possible for media owners to search, discover and organize these assets based on their meaning, and for viewers to access these videos across different platforms, languages and formats. The Advanced Media Platform's SEO component captures new audiences while the advanced search and discovery functionality engages and retains them. With explicit and implicit user profiling, a content recommendation engine and automatic text-to-video linking, search results and display methods are tailored to relevant users. blinkx understands not only how a video is titled and tagged, but the content itself. Leveraging blinkx AdHoc, blinkx is able to place relevant ads against video content. http://www.blinkx.com/

The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the 2008 CM Pros U.S. Spring Summit will take place on June 17 to coincide with the fourth Annual Gilbane San Francisco Conference which is June 18-20 at the Westin Market Hotel in San Francisco. The CM Pros Summit offers attendees an in-depth forum for discussing the business drivers and technical issues of managing and delivering dynamic content. Content Management Systems are viewed by many as being comprised of three predominant components: acquisition, management, and delivery. This summit will empower attendees with tangible and tactical real world solutions for the delivery component of content management. The CM Pros Summit includes users, practitioners and vendors of every aspect of content and digital asset management including: information architecture, usability, implementation, metadata and taxonomy, search, change management, software and tools. At the CM Pros Summit, speakers and attendees will: Leverage best practices for dynamic delivery; Hear the latest research, case studies, and best practices; Share experiences with others and learn from peers; Network at the event; Identify next steps in content management implementations; Collaborate for solutions. Meet with partners, suppliers, and potential customers; and, hear about new aspects of content management; drive new technology development. Current members who renew before June 17 will also receive the discount with a year added at the date of renewal. Also, CM Pros members receive a $200 discount off the cost of the Gilbane conference. Attend the Summit and join CM Pros for $75, a 25 percent discount off the regular fee. To take advantage of this offer, enter discount code: GILBSPR2008 at http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/, http://gilbanesf.com

XyEnterprise announced the release of ContentaView 3.5. ContentaView 3.5 adds support for advanced applicability filtering for the S1000D V3.0 applicability model and process data modules. It also provides enhanced content reuse, searching, reporting and audit trail capabilities. All of this is readily configurable to support specific customer requirements. Users can ensure they are working with the current approved version of content via the new One Click update feature, which provides an immediate method to install incremental updates from within ContentaView. ContentaView 3.5 can be configured to track not only the manual updates for each work station where it is installed, but also each section viewed, and every keystroke entered by a maintenance technician. A log of each session is captured in XML format, and can be routed as appropriate to confirm regulatory compliance or improve the maintenance function. The enhanced applicability feature allows consumers to filter the content they see based on applicability criteria relevant to their organization and document types. For example, an end user may select the "expert" version of content for one product while another may choose to view the "novice" content for a second product. ContentaView V3.5 now includes a new generic forms utility which provides the ability to create online forms that can capture any type of information to help improve the product, process or user experience. From within ContentaView, a user can then access, complete and print these forms. http://www.xyenterprise.com/

MuseGlobal announced a partnership with Adhere Solutions, a consulting company focused on designing, implementing and optimizing applications built on the Google Platform, to deliver a federated search solution for the Google Search Appliance. Called the All Access Connector, the joint solution will extend the Google Search Appliance, enabling organizations to search hundreds of millions of pages of content from over 5,400 sources, including internal and external databases, repositories, subscription content sources, data feeds and web-mining applications, all delivered through the Google interface. The Google Search Appliance relies on partners to federate third-party content sources and integrate the results into a standard interface. With the All Access Connector, MuseGlobal and Adhere Solutions have created Universal Search for the Google Search Appliance, closing the federation gap between the Google Search Appliance and traditional enterprise search solutions. Once integrated into the Google Search Appliance, the All Access Connector enables enterprises to leverage MuseGlobal's constantly expanding Source Factory of content sources to increase the depth and breadth of search results and facilitate real-time results analysis. http://www.adheresolutions.com, http://www.MuseGlobal.com

eVergance and Baynote announced that the companies have formed a strategic partnership to deliver Baynote's recommendation and social search capabilities to customer service and knowledge management environments. In addition, eVergance will be reselling the Baynote social search and recommendation solution, and will be tailoring its KM optimization and search tuning services to offer consulting capabilities to the Baynote customer base. The firm will also be developing programs to integrate Baynote's social search and recommendations capabilities with knowledge management solutions, such as KANA IQ. Baynote enriches the search and navigation experience by learning from user behavior and the collective experiences of the online community. http://www.eVergance.com, http://www.baynote.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced a new version of Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro, the company's Web conferencing and eLearning solution. Acrobat Connect Pro includes new features for Web conferencing such as options for archiving and editing recorded online meetings; new presence capabilities that can allow federation with instant messaging (IM) clients; and compliance and usage reporting tools. eLearning enhancements include break-out rooms to let students in virtual classes initiate separate conversations online; rapid authoring of video-based content; integration with Learning Management Systems (LMS) from Blackboard and SumTotal; and tools that track and organize online classes. Users also can easily tailor training sessions or meetings that help capture participants' attention and increase knowledge retention, resulting in an online learning experience remarkably similar to an in-person class. Combined with the new version of Adobe Presenter, also introduced, Acrobat Connect Pro can enable users to hold online meetings that incorporate Adobe Flash Player compatible presentations. Adobe Presenter can give you the ability to turn Microsoft PowerPoint presentations into multimedia experiences that include video, narration, animations, interactivity and advanced quizzes. New capabilities in this release include question pooling and randomization, easy-to-work-with video, and the ability to publish presentations to mobile devices or within PDF files. Acrobat Connect Pro is expected to be available by the end of May 2008, on a hosted or on-premise basis. It will be available in English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese. http://www.adobe.com/

JustSystems announced that it is contributing intellectual property rights for its invention of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) rendering technologies to XBRL International, the standards body responsible for the oversight of the XBRL specification. The invention, known as the "formatting linkbase," provides enabling technology for viewing XBRL data in financial and other business applications. JustSystems issued a statement that it will not seek to enforce any of its enforceable U.S. or foreign patents for the formatting linkbase against any implementation of the XBRL specification. This move ensures full, free use of JustSystems' rendering technologies as part of any XBRL applications and initiatives. XBRL is an XML specification that promises to transform financial reporting by making financial information highly accessible, interactive and comparable. XBRL is now mandated for financial filings in multiple jurisdictions worldwide and is expected to soon be mandated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The XBRL formatting linkbase provides a standards-based method for defining how XBRL data - which is complex and largely unreadable by people - is rendered to documents, web pages, wireless devices and other applications. By mapping data elements to specific formatting conventions, the formatting linkbase helps organizations to ensure the consistent display of XBRL data across multiple output formats and delivery channels. For example, a formatting linkbase may specify that the label for the data element "Current Assets" is always displayed in bold. Or it may specify the value for "Net Income" is always displayed with a double underline. These types of formatting and rendering instructions are not specified within XBRL data, which is focused on readability by computers, rather than people. The formatting linkbase approach allows XBRL data to be displayed in a way that is appropriate for human consumption. JustSystems issued a statement of non-assertion to XBRL International on May 5, 2008, at which time the technology became fully accessible by members of the XBRL International Consortium. http://www.justsystems.com/

XBRL US, Inc., the nonprofit consortium for XML business reporting standards, has completed the collections of financial and business terms (taxonomies) for US GAAP requirements and common reporting practices in XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) format and the accompanying Preparers Guide. XBRL US developed the taxonomies and Preparers Guide along with supporting documentation under a contract with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and delivered all materials to the SEC this week. The first draft of the taxonomies was completed on September 24, 2007, followed by a period of internal testing and review. On December 5, 2007, XBRL US made the taxonomies available for public review and comment. Over 900 comments were received during the public review; all comments have been evaluated and incorporated into the taxonomies and Preparers Guide, as appropriate. The SEC announced that they will hold an open meeting on May 14, 2008 to discuss a rule proposal requiring the use of XBRL for public company reporting. Public company preparers would use the XBRL US GAAP Taxonomies and Preparers Guide to create their XBRL-formatted financials. Final deliverables to the SEC include the taxonomies, an in-depth Preparers Guide that provides the basics on how to create XBRL-enabled financial statements, case studies about creating and using XBRL, example financial statements and disclosures in XBRL format, and technical information about the taxonomies. Contributors to the case study include users of XBRL data such as Morgan Stanley and Microsoft as well as members of the SEC Voluntary Filing Program, including 3M Company and Comcast Corporation. The XBRL US GAAP taxonomies, Preparers Guide, case studies and other supporting documentation can be viewed at http://xbrl.us/

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) XML Core Working Group has published the W3C Recommendation of "Canonical XML Version 1.1." Canonical XML Version 1.1 is a revision to Canonical XML Version 1.0 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. Canonical XML Version 1.1 is applicable to XML 1.0 and defined in terms of the XPath 1.0 data model. It is not defined for XML 1.1. As a Recommendation, this is a stable document and may be used as reference material or cited from another document. http://www.w3.org/XML/

Altova announced the availability of Altova StyleVision Version 2008 Release 2 (v2008r2). The latest update to StyleVision provides users with numerous features and enhancements, including capabilities for generating output in Microsoft Word 2007, which uses the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format, support for grouping functionality when designing XSLT 2.0 stylesheets, and more, all at a significantly reduced price point compared to previous versions. Altova StyleVision is a drag-and-drop, visual stylesheet design tool for transforming XML and database content into HTML pages, RTF documents, PDF reports, Word 2007 (OOXML) documents, and electronic forms for use with Altova Authentic StyleVision produces all these output documents, as well as the corresponding XSLT and XSL:FO stylesheets. StyleVision will now generate the corresponding XSLT 2.0 code for output in Word 2007 in addition to the other stylesheet and output formats listed above. Now available in StyleVision v2008r2 is a feature that allows users to exploit XSLT 2.0 grouping functionality. StyleVision v2008r2 allows users to create global templates based on the complex and simple types defined in the XML Schema specification. Support for database views allows users to create and render custom virtual tables based on the result set of a query. Designers can add complexity to their database reporting designs with new support for inline primary key / foreign key creation. In addition, StyleVision now supports any SQL SELECT statement as input for rendering. Altova StyleVision Version 2008 Release 2 is currently available in Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions, each of which provides increasingly advanced functionality. Prices of all three editions have been significantly reduced and start at $139 (USD). http://www.altova.com

DataDirect Technologies, an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), announced the immediate availability of Stylus Studio 2008 XML Enterprise Suite, Release 2. This latest release features new and enhanced XML productivity tools designed to simplify and automate data integration tasks including increased support for several EDI data formats, code generation and enhanced scalability. Stylus Studio now supports the Edig@s EDI dialect. With a new Edig@s to XML Schema wizard, as well as support for the IATA 07.1 revision and numerous other formats including EANCOM, X12, and HL7. Code generation improvements include enhanced support for the Microsoft .NET processor and new support for the Saxonica Saxon .NET Processor when generating C# code for .NET. Stylus Studio can automatically create or update a Microsoft Visual Studio project to include the C# for .NET class for the XQuery, XSLT, or XML Pipeline for which you are generating code. The new release leverages enhanced optimization techniques, including streaming, to improve application performance and scalability when accessing and converting multiple, large data sources including relational databases and flat files. There is new support for XML processing APIs in the generated Java code, and various enhancements to the XML Editor, XQuery Mapper, XML Pipeline Designer, and XML Schema Editor. Stylus Studio 2008 XML Enterprise Suite, Release 2 is now available for free trial download, and for purchase at the Stylus Studio online shop. Stylus Studio 2008 XML Enterprise Suite, Release 2 is offered at $595 (USD) for a single-user license. Stylus Studio XML Professional Suite, Release 2 is now offered at $350 for a single-user license. http://www.datadirect.com