June 2008 Archives

Coveo Solutions Inc. announced the limited availability of Coveo G2B for CRM. Coveo G2B for CRM provides designated users with a single view of all relevant customer data instantly from a wide variety of CRM applications and other data sources including salesforce.com, Siebel, corporate intranet, tech support emails, customer support databases, and ERP systems. Coveo G2B for CRM also provides users with advanced content analytics, allowing management and workers to quickly develop a visual analysis of customer data and present it graphically, such as in a spreadsheet or pie chart. In doing so, G2B for CRM allows businesses to make better decisions for planning, forecasting and resource management. Coveo G2B for CRM is part of the Coveo G2B Information Access Suite, which provides knowledge workers with an unrivaled ability to obtain a total view of the information they need to drive business. Built on the Coveo Enterprise Search-platform technology, Coveo's search-powered business applications deliver competence and consumer-style ease of use, an implementation that takes "less than 24-hours, and black-belt" level customer support. http://www.coveo.com

dutchsoftware.com released their all new platform for media content management, 'elvis'. elvis is a new solution for centralizing, finding and utilizing media content. A Media Content Repository which is designed to centralize video, xml, images, docs into an enterprise-wide server platform with a Flex / AIR client. The media processing engine creates light weight previews and thumbnails of all media formats. Existing file structures can be copied and indexed into elvis, maintaining the file structure. Storage and access rights management provides control. Integration with print production systems and web CMS elvis provides web services technology for integration with print production systems or web CMS environments. All produced content is archived automatically into elvis, in the meantime elvis serves as the central repository for content to be used in print or web publishing. Users can drag and drop content into collection baskets to create and share collections. They can export these collections to print or web production, or email them to internal or external users, or drag and drop digital content into desktop applications like Adobe InDesign, and from the desktop into elvis to upload. http://www.dutchsoftware.com

DocPoint Solutions, a new subsidiary of Quality Associates, Inc. announced it has been awarded Alliance Partner status by KnowledgeLake, provider of document imaging and capture software for Microsoft SharePoint-based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions. The partnership authorizes DocPoint Solutions to distribute, customize and implement KnowledgeLake's document capture software suite, which includes Capture Server. Capture Server provides an end-to-end solution that allows organizations to convert paper documents from any location into electronic data using any device including scanners, multi-function devices, or fax servers. Once converted, these digital documents can then be imported into Microsoft SharePoint, a software platform that facilitates collaboration and supplies access to information across the enterprise. DocPoint Solutions provides a full range of consultative services, support and software for enterprise content management, with a specific focus on providing Microsoft SharePoint to organizations that are looking to expand employee collaboration efforts and increase information exchange across the enterprise. The company primarily provides its services to government agencies, nonprofits and corporations. http://www.knowledgelake.com http://www.docpointsolutions.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the immediate availability of Adobe Acrobat 9 software. Acrobat 9 delivers major innovations that can enable organizations and individuals to communicate in an engaging, professional manner. Now included are native support for Adobe Flash technology, the ability to unify a wide range of content in rich PDF Portfolios, and access to real-time capabilities for co-navigating a PDF document with colleagues. Acrobat 9 provides deep support for Adobe Flash technology, enabling users to include Adobe Flash Player compatible video and application files in PDF documents. The PDF file can be shared for review and comment with others who are using free Adobe Reader 9 software, which is expected to launch up to twice as fast as earlier versions. Acrobat 9 also includes the ability to unify a wide range of content into a single document with the new concept of PDF Portfolios. PDF Portfolios enable users to assemble multiple media types into one, compressed PDF file that can be customized with several professional layouts and specific branding. In addition, Acrobat 9 provides access to capabilities for collaborating live within a PDF document, enabled by working with Acrobat.com, a suite of hosted services available as public beta at www.acrobat.com. This new capability can enable users to drive a group's navigation through a PDF document in real-time, helping ensure everyone is literally, and figuratively, on the same page. The Acrobat 9 family consists of Acrobat 9 Standard, Acrobat 9 Pro, and the new Acrobat 9 Pro Extended software. The most comprehensive member of the family, Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, includes Adobe Presenter software for easily turning Microsoft PowerPoint presentations into multimedia experiences that can be published as PDF files. http://www.adobe.com/acrobat

Spigit announced the release of a full set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that can plug into existing enterprise collaboration tools and social networks. Spigit's API enables existing enterprise collaboration tools and online networks to effectively filter the noise, and identify quality contributions, good ideas, and key contributors. Spigit's APIs are the technology behind Spigit's IdeaSpigit platform, and feature RepURank (for Reputation Management), IdeaRank (for evaluating ideas and content) technologies as well as Spigit's Currency Management System. Spigit's APIs are modularized and designed to integrate with any internal or external communication systems, including: Enterprise Collaboration Tools and Social Networks; Web 2.0 Technologies; Review and Voting Systems; Message Boards; Content Management Systems; Survey and Polling Systems; CRM Applications; Tagging Systems; Idea Management Systems. Companies can leverage Spigit's APIs for existing features, while at the same time providing new interactive features such as voting, review mechanisms, reputation assignment, currency distribution and rankings. Most importantly, Spigit produces hundreds of metrics and a statistical breakdown that can be provided on a single or series of management dashboards. http://www.spigit.com

Clearview Software, provider of contemporary Microsoft SharePoint based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions designed exclusively for Microsoft technology environments, announced the release of Clearview 4.1, an update to their Clearview ECM software suite. Clearview 4.1 incorporates enhancements such as expanded support for complex SharePoint implementation configurations, a new AJAX/ASP.NET based web browser client, and a new Microsoft Office Suite plug-in, all delivering deeper integration of Clearview Content Services with Office 2003 and Office 2007 user experiences. Clearview leverages the native ECM capabilities of SharePoint as core components of the Clearview suite architecture. By extending SharePoint with transactional document imaging, report management (COLD), and business process management, Clearview delivers enterprise-class ECM functionality that targets established ECM products. http://www.clearviewecm.com

TEMIS announced the worldwide availability of Luxid 5.0, its solution for intelligent information processing that allows each user to understand, analyze, enrich, and share information to turn it into actionable knowledge. Luxid 5.0 is a solution for strategic corporate applications, such as Competitive Intelligence, Research and Innovation, Voice of the Consumer and Reputation Analysis. Luxid 5.0 also helps governments powering state-critical applications such as Financial Fraud Detection, Surveillance and Homeland Security, as well as Risk Prevention. Luxid Dynamic Mapping lets corporate users enhance the solution and adapt it to their specific needs, but also to iteratively improve pertinence for all other users. In order to capitalize on these enhancements, Luxid Knowledge Manager allows the domain experts to consolidate the user-generated feedback through enriching and adapting the Skill Cartridges. For Marketing, Corporate Communications and Customer Relation Departments, TEMIS unveiled an annotator with Luxid for Sentiment Analysis that identifies tonality, satisfaction and expectations around products, services, or businesses. Finally, Luxid 5.0 introduces 4 languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic, widening its coverage to 20 languages. Luxid 5.0 is available today through TEMIS and its network of partners and system integrators. http://www.temis.com

Evernote, a Web service with desktop and mobile clients designed to allow users to easily capture and find information, memories and content in any environment, announced its public availability and a new subscription model. Access to Evernote is now available to everyone, without the need for a prior invitation, on the Web, Mac, Windows, iPhone, Windows Mobile and other mobile devices. Evernote allows users to capture information in any environment using virtually any device or platform, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere. The product's recognition and synchronization technology allows users to capture their memories as text, snapshots, digital ink or audio and then easily find and share them. Printed and handwritten text within images is made fully searchable and all notes are automatically synchronized between the network and local devices. In addition to opening up the service, Evernote also announced details of its new subscription pricing. Premium users will benefit from an expanded 500MB monthly upload allowance, priority access to image recognition servers, stronger security options and premium support. Evernote will charge $5 per month, or $45 for a full year, for premium service. Free users will get a 40MB monthly upload allowance and have access to all clients and tools. These limits apply only to information added in a given month, not to the total amount of data that a user can store. http://www.evernote.com

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), announced a suite of content delivery and digital media solutions to help companies package, deliver and distribute video and rich multimedia Web content across their networks to the three screens that are core to AT&T's multimedia strategy - the computer, the television and mobile computing devices such as the iPhone and the BlackBerry. AT&T's Digital Media Solutions portfolio includes content distribution and management, broadcast video and digital signage services and solutions that are targeted to companies ranging from businesses with multiple small office locations to the most sophisticated multinational companies in industries that include media, financial, education, medical, manufacturing and retail. AT&T has struck strategic agreements with ExtendMedia, Qumu and Stratacache, which are software companies that specialize in formatting and packaging content that is suitable for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications, such as streaming video, live and on-demand webcasting, e-learning and virtual trade shows, as well as the delivery of advertising over emerging media networks. AT&T plans to complete deployment of nearly $70 million in network infrastructure and development investment by year-end to support its digital media capabilities across the United States, European Union countries and Japan, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. Over the next several months, the company will integrate the software expertise of ExtendMedia, Qumu, and Stratacache with its own capabilities to provide companies with one-stop shopping and simplified network-based solutions to encode, deliver, manage and support video and multimedia files. Businesses will also be able to combine these services with AT&T's security capabilities, hosting, applications and professional services. http://www.att.com/

Adlib Software and LORENZ Life Sciences announced that they have signed an OEM agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, LORENZ will license and embed Adlib's ExpressConversion technology into future versions of LORENZ's docuRender for MS-Word product. Adlib and LORENZ aim to eliminate submission quality concerns and automate and streamline regulatory publishing with submission-ready PDFs delivered through LORENZ's docuBridge submission management solution. Many life sciences organizations attempt to build document conversion solutions in-house or use systems that are not suited to the rigors of the FDA eCTD (electronic Common Technical Documents) standard. Adlib and LORENZ can accommodate the large number (into the tens of thousands) and types of documents generated in today's research environments, integrate the solution into an organization's document workflow and provide the quality and compliance to meet any standard or regulation. http://www.lorenz.cc/, http://www.adlibsoftware.com

Rocket Software announced that it has purchased the AeroText suite of text-mining and content analysis applications from Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT). The acquisition was supported by Fluid Innovation an Austin-based company that focuses on bringing to market software technologies that were originally developed by large companies for their internal use. Under terms of the purchase, support and maintenance contracts will be automatically assigned to Rocket and will run to term. Subsequent renewals will be managed by Rocket, which will also provide all technical support, training, consulting and forward product development. The AeroText product suite provides an information extraction system for developing knowledge-based content analysis applications. The technology is aimed at developing a core understanding of content contained within unstructured text, such as emails and documents, as well as an ability to automatically reconcile information cited across multiple documents. AeroText was originally developed by Lockheed Martin and is often integrated into other solutions. AeroText solutions provide both information extraction and link analysis capabilities by converting unstructured information into structured information. http://www.rs.com, http://www.fluidinnovation.com

eZ Systems announced that the upcoming eZ Publish 4.1 will support Sun Solaris 10 and Oracle Database. In addition, new features that enhance the user experience were also presented, including a new version of the Online Editor and multi-upload functionality. eZ's focus with the eZ Publish Content Management System is to combine an enterprise platform with a rich user interface. http://ez.no

FatWire Software announced the availability of its FatWire Content Integration Platform and the beta release of the EMC Documentum connector to enable customers to more effectively manage content across highly complex environments. The FatWire Content Integration Platform enables organizations to access content stored across the enterprise, and publish it to their public websites, intranets and extranets managed by FatWire Content Server. The FatWire Content Integration Platform offers a web-services-based peer-to-peer content integration model for accessing and sharing content from EMC Documentum, plus Windows and Unix file systems, and supports a long list of content types such as documents, audio, video, images, and more. FatWire customers can now use Content Server interfaces to access content from across their various business silos for use online. The solution employs strict enterprise standards for maintaining version control, access policies, and workflow applied to documents and content shared. The Documentum integration is part of a planned series of integrations enabled by the FatWire Content Integration Platform and more will be announced later this year. http://www.fatwire.com

CrownPeak announced a new release in CrownPeak CMS. CrownPeak makes this announcement in conjunction with sponsorship and attendance at the 4th Annual Gilbane San Francisco Conference. With this release, a developer can choose his/her development tool of choice, whether it be Visual Studio, Eclipse, Dreamweaver or even text editors like TextPad and automatically connect to their CrownPeak CMS account over the internet. Once connected, Developers can work with their CrownPeak CMS templates in their familiar environment and automatically save the templates back to their CMS instance through a web services connection. CrownPeak has also added a new interface for easy upload of entire folders of files, or large files such as video or audio. A user can simply highlight an entire folder of images, documents or other files and upload them directly into their instance of the CMS, without having to open up a web browser. CrownPeak Web Site Analytics is built into the CrownPeak CMS as a fully integrated digital dashboard. With a clean and simple interface, the tool is built into every CrownPeak deployment. CrownPeak Web Site Analytics can be integrated into the management of content as well. Data coming from Web Site Analytics can automatically affect content being published by the CMS. With the combination of CrownPeak CMS and Analytics, customers can see where site visitors clicked and what they searched and then use the CrownPeak CMS to modify their pages accordingly. Or, customers can utilize CrownPeak's flexible workflow options and have the CMS automatically update the web site based on a metric they determine. For example, customers could automatically promote a landing page once it receives 1,000 page views. Or, they can automatically show a list of the most "viewed" pages. http://www.crownpeak.com

Adobe announced enhancements to Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES). Among the new components are: Rapid development of content-rich applications with Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES, a fully integrated set of content services based on the Alfresco content services technology; Automated conversion of 2D and 3D CAD design data to PDF with Adobe LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES; and Extended policy protection for Microsoft Office 2007 and PTC Pro/ENGINEER files formats with LiveCycle Rights Management ES. Adobe has also announced new Adobe Solution Accelerators, deployable solution frameworks combined with best practice methodologies. The first Adobe Solution Accelerators to be announced focus on the areas of account enrollment and correspondence management, and are aimed at helping organizations, specifically in financial services and government, to more rapidly develop applications that better engage with end-users. http://www.adobe.com

Alfresco Software announced a new technology partnership with Adobe Systems Incorporated to provide additional content services capabilities to Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES). Under the terms of the agreement, Adobe will embed the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software into Adobe LiveCycle ES. Adobe LiveCycle ES is an integrated family of software for automating processes that help businesses and governments engage with customers, citizens, partners, and suppliers. Alfresco uses open source to provide an enterprise-class content management system. Through the addition of Alfresco's content management technologies to Adobe LiveCycle ES, customers can develop and deploy content-rich engagement applications that blend data capture, information assurance, document output, process management and content services. http://www.alfresco.com

XyEnterprise announced it has acquired XSystems of Herndon, Va. in a private transaction. XSystems' services will comprise a new business unit for XyEnterprise, bringing an added dimension in the area of editorial tools development, standards expertise and consulting services. In addition, all XSystems' employees have joined XyEnterprise in various capacities. The acquisition follows a 15-year partnership between the two companies. XSystems' software maintenance and service operations, as well as the company's other assets, will be transferred to XyEnterprise and current clients with active maintenance agreements will continue to be supported without change or interruption. Former XSystems' employees will focus on consulting services at XyEnterprise while they continue to work with their exiting customers, primarily in the area of editorial tools development and consulting. They will also work to leverage their industry experience with standards, including DITA and S1000D, as well as data modeling. In addition to XSystems staff, XyEnterprise plans to integrate XSystems' tools and technology into the Contenta product suite. The XSystems' technology extends Contenta's focus on authoring and editorial productivity in increasing complex multichannel content delivery environments, particularly for emerging XML standards such as DITA and S1000D. http://www.xyenterprise.com

Equilibrium announces the latest expansion of it's massively scalable MediaRich Media Server for images and video with the release of version 3.8.6. Added features include expanded support with the optional Audio/Video module of HD and Broadcast formats, including MXF, MPEG2, MPEG2 Transport Stream, and many more. In addition, scalable hot-folder support is included utilizing the power of MediaScript, MediaRich's flexible media manipulation scripting language based on ECMA JavaScript. A new, comprehensive Sonic Flash Zoom with Multi-Page/Frame zoom support (for PDF, EPS, PS, AI file types) is also included. This enables the on-demand viewing in any web browser from an Flash interface of any multi-page file without having to download the entire file. MediaRich 3.8.6 includes a new Administrator Tool with batch job monitoring, error log, and individual control of MediaRich threads, remote administration. http://www.equilibrium.com

Clickability, Inc. announced it is one of the members of Google's Website Optimizer Technology Partner (WOTEP) program. The program is focused on leveraging the flexibility and innovation capabilities of leading content management platforms. Google Website Optimizer, Google's free Web site-testing tool, enables companies to more effectively convert Web site visitors to customers. Graphical reports show which content and layouts are most effective with audiences, resulting in higher conversions and increased revenue. Google Website Optimizer is integrated into Google AdWords and tests all traffic to a company's site -- including traffic from Google AdWords ads, Google.com search results, and any other source. The Clickability on demand WCM platform empowers businesses to quickly revise their Web site content based on results generated from Google Website Optimizer, continually improving their Web site performance. Clickability enables its customers to use Google Website Optimizer in multiple ways by: developing pre-built templates that make Google Website Optimizer simple for end users; creating step-by-step documentation with detailed yet simple-to-understand instructions; holding regular informational Webinars; and providing access to Clickability experts trained on Google Website Optimizer and focused on customer success, brand building, and revenue generation. http://www.google.com http://www.clickability.com

Kapow Technologies announced the Kapow Mashup Server version 6.4. The new software release features many improvements to further speed up automated access to Web data sources using mashup creation tools or Microsoft Excel. One of the new features for all editions of Kapow Mashup Server version 6.4 is extended JavaScript handling, which is in response to the exploding number of AJAX-based sites on the Web today. Many improvements have been made to Kapow Technologies' proprietary browser engine so that developers can harvest data from practically any JavaScript- and AJAX-based web site. The Web 2.0 Edition of the Kapow Mashup Server now includes support for Web Application Description Language (WADL). WADL makes it much easier for applications and mashup building tools to automatically discover and consume REST services. WADL support also helps developers leverage the Kapow Excel Connector, an Excel plug-in provided by StrikeIron, which enables on- demand access to web intelligence, via Web services, directly from an Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet. The Portal Content Edition of the Kapow Mashup Server, which enables companies to efficiently refurbish existing portal assets, has several new enhancements to the web clipping technology for robust, rapid development and deployment of JSR-168 standards-based portlets. The Kapow solution now provides the ability to make on-the-fly changes to clipping portlets that enhance portal functionality, while adding an improved and simplified portlet deployment mechanism on major portal platforms. In addition, there is a new version of the Clipping API which enables developers to interact with custom clipping applications, working from within the development IDE of their choice. http://www.kapowtech.com

Vignette announced new video products that help organizations deliver an immersive, video- centric Web experience. Vignette Video Services and the latest release of Vignette's Rich Media Services allow organizations to streamline video management and make it a central part of their overall Web strategy. The new services are designed to increase viewer time spent on site, improve customer engagement and drive revenues using video as a significant source of site content. Vignette Rich Media Services now includes a video module that integrates with Vignette Content Management, enabling organizations to manage the workflow and publishing of video and all other Web content from one interface. Vignette Video Services is a hosted video management solution that provides capabilities to upload, transcode and manage and deliver video. Both products leverage the same core video processing platform and include a media player that offers the ability to tag and share any segment of a video. The Flash-based player can be embedded on any site. Vignette is also working on future capabilities to provide Web publishers with a "heat map" that identifies the most watched parts of a video. Video is now integrated into Vignette Content Management, allowing video assets to use the same authorization and security model, share advanced metadata and participate in the same workflow and publishing model as other Web content. Additionally the videos can be delivered to any Web site via Vignette's embedded Flash player, through a content delivery network or directly from Vignette Video servers. http://www.vignette.com

Bamboo Solutions announced the release of Bamboo MashPoint, a free platform that enables integration of external data sources in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Bamboo MashPoint will provide a unifying framework, enabling Bamboo Web Parts to communicate and interact. MashPoint is the first of many products that will be previewed via Bamboo Labs, an online destination and showcase for early stage products and technologies from Bamboo that enhance Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Bamboo MashPoint provides the ability to integrate Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments with existing enterprise applications using APIs that are 100% consistent with the Microsoft BDC (Business Data Catalog). By using Bamboo MashPoint, businesses can protect their investment in enterprise applications when migrating from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Bamboo MashPoint provides relationship mapping between various data sources to enable a single distribution point of information. With MashPoint, organizations with SharePoint Products and Technologies deployments will be able to integrate Bamboo's family of commercial web parts to any Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment, web service or external data source. Bamboo MashPoint enables the creation of mash-ups from internal databases along with Web 2.0 services and the ability to aggregate and view information from non-SharePoint Products and Technologies applications. MashPoint also enables social network capabilities by discovering user profiles and connection points. http://www.bamboosolutions.com

IGLOO Software announced a partnership with TriCipher Inc. to provide IGLOO community users with a secure and convenient way to access online applications using myOneLogin, the Web-based service to combine strong authentication and single sign-on (SSO). TriCipher myOneLogin streamlines password policies and compliance reporting, mitigates the risk of phishing, and eliminates the need for expensive authentication hardware and software. Other applications that can be securely and conveniently accessed through a single myOneLogin account include salesforce.com, Google Apps and Microsoft Outlook Web Access. IGLOO's software reduces the cost and long implementation cycles associated with enterprise software by delivering its integrated suite as a fully-hosted, secure online service. myOneLogin is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering to reduce risk from employee access to Internet-based applications. myOneLogin provides enterprises with an SSO solution that: Ensures password compliance for all applications, users and locations; Eliminates password resets and lock outs, and their associated costs and lost productivity; Eliminates costly one-time password (OTP) tokens and their annual $100/user costs; Protects against stolen or phished credentials that enable unauthorized access to critical data; Instantly and automatically de-provisions users when they leave organizations.
http://www.igloosoftware.com

IBM announced enhancements to their social networking tools for business. Lotus Connections 2.0 and IBM Atlas for Lotus Connections feature a mix of new capabilities that blend IBM's expertise in business software with the Web 2.0 capabilities popular in consumer social networking Web sites. The new home page streams feeds from various components of Lotus Connections and shows people what is happening within their network. Widgets let people customize the main page and add links to external communities such as Facebook or custom business applications used within the organization. IBM is expanding the tagging abilities of Lotus Connections to include people tagging. With the latest version, people can tag themselves or others based on a key topic or area of expertise. This allows individuals to instantly identify and retrieve live intellect on any given topic and tap into the collective wisdom of a larger group or pinpoint rare, niche expertise from the general population. Tag clouds are displayed on a person's profile and throughout communities, making it easy to associate people with areas of expertise. Additional new features in Lotus Connections include the ability to send or receive notifications to others about interesting social bookmarks, discussion forums and integration with wiki providers Atlassian and Social Text. http://www.ibm.com/lotus/connections

MultiCorpora, will unveil innovation in language technology. The new technology is the result of six months of intense development which integrates some key components of machine translation technology to the MultiTrans software suite. The integration will provide instant access to the translated occurrences of terminology embedded in MultiTrans' TextBase Translation Memory. This new offering leverages the value of language technology applications to address growing terminology needs. The unique TEXTBASE TM concept behind MultiTrans has been identified by the Translation Association User Society (TAUS) as one of the new Advanced Leveraging TM technologies. By including this new functionality at no additional cost with the recently launched LSP Packs, MultiCorpora has brought much added value to LSPs participating in its successful LSP CommonIT rewards program. http://www.multicorpora.com

WorkLight Inc. launched a new product that allows employees to securely access and update Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 information using popular Internet consumer tools. Titled "WorkLight for SharePoint," the new offering combines the consumer Web experience and Office SharePoint Server 2007 to deliver secure, enterprise-class collaboration tools with an easy-to-use interface of familiar tools like Windows Live, iGoogle, Facebook and others. WorkLight for SharePoint addresses both enterprise and employee needs by combining the collaborative capabilities of Office SharePoint Server 2007 with popular consumer social networks such as Facebook, personalized homepage gadgets, desktop widgets, RSS, mobile devices and more. Companies can now take advantage of SharePoint Server 2007's collaboration, portal, enterprise search, enterprise content management, business intelligence and business process capabilities using popular consumer Web-based gadgets - the same type of gadgets they use in their personal lives. With WorkLight for SharePoint, companies and employees are able to: Access SharePoint Server 2007 information such as document updates and contact information via consumer Web-based and desktop gadgets, running on a wide variety of platforms; Receive notifications originating from SharePoint Server 2007 on mobile devices such as iPhone and BlackBerry; View and revise enterprise application data from secure gadgets running as SharePoint Server 2007 Web Parts, enabling employees to perform daily tasks like time reporting, task acknowledgement and purchase approvals right from their SharePoint Server 2007 dashboard; Search for colleagues and expertise in the organization across both SharePoint Server 2007 and Facebook, using WorkLight's secure Facebook application, WorkBook. http://www.myworklight.com/sharepoint.

X1 Technologies, Inc., released a new enterprise search suite for Symantec Enterprise Vault. X1 Search Suite for Symantec Enterprise Vault provides an intuitive graphical interface to find, preview and act upon documents, email and attachments regardless of location. The X1 Search Suite for Symantec Enterprise Vault enhances customer productivity by providing the ability to search both the contents of the Vault and data residing in email applications and files. The X1 Search Suite for Symantec Enterprise Vault consists of three components. The first two consist of the scalable X1 Enterprise Server combined with the X1 Content Connector for Symantec Enterprise Vault that provide true search federation and do not duplicate data. By using native API connectivity, the security of the user's company security model is preserved and does not facilitate retention policy violations. Lastly, the X1 Suite includes the X1 Enterprise Search Client which provides a single search interface where users can search multiple vaults along with data in 3rd party email packages and in over 400 file formats. Users can then use the X1 client to preview and act upon the search results; including native Symantec Enterprise Vault actions. http://www.x1.com

Socialcast announced an upgrade to its corporate social networking software. Socialcast 2.0 now features the ability for users to integrate with third party services, such as Twitter and YouTube, an updated user-interface and more intuitive resources. Socialcast 2.0 bridges the gap between younger generations of workers and retiring professionals while simultaneously flattening organizational hierarchy. Built on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, the company powers corporate knowledge management that melds the traditional intranet with the social network. Socialcast deploys customized social networking sites for companies including Hot Topic, a national retailer of alternative music related apparel and accessories. Additionally, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently launched a Socialcast pilot program as a social networking solution officially funded and piloted by NASA's Chief Information Officer. Implementations are completed in as little as two weeks and Socialcast provides complete training for customers' staff members. Socialcast 2.0 features collaboration tools, an idea exchange, questions & answers, and search functions as well as the ability for users to import their activity from third-party services including Del.icio.us, Digg, Google Reader, Google Talk, Last.fm, LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube and Blog Integration. http://www.socialcast.com

Tomoye announced the launch of Tomoye Ecco 2.0 which is designed to provide enterprises with proven technology and process to roll out communities, social networking and collaboration functionality. Tomoye Ecco is a way for workers to get answers, network and collaborate both inside and outside of the enterprise. This new offering is SharePoint ready, enabling organizations to build on existing investments and fully integrate the system with widely used document management and collaboration tools. Tomoye technology is deployed worldwide, enabling enterprises to deliver workers with advanced communities for collaboration and social networking using a proven process and technology. Product features include: Powerful questions and answers: Email participation, ask anywhere, best answers (quality), recognition, thematic based with multiple level drill down, top ranked, smart notifications; Find experts and network: Personal profiles, people search, most helpful people, most relevant people, peer networking, internal and external participants; Sharepoint ready: Tight integration with SharePoint using .NET and using Windows authentication users can go back and forth seamlessly between the two products; Share and collaborate around community content: Videos, documents, SharePoint documents, social tags, personal file sharing, social bookmarking, simple wikis, blogs, social search; Leader and technical administration: Deep metrics, community content management, simple security, multilingual, customizable, open API, scalable. http:// www.tomoye.com

Awareness, Inc. unveiled platform integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. This integration, developed by working with Microsoft, brings the value of social media to Microsoft Office SharePoint Products and Technologies and enables users to directly engage with Awareness-powered, external-facing Web 2.0 communities. The scalable and searchable backend of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, combined with Awareness' expertise in powering social media communities, gives companies an effective way to tie their internal collaboration closely to their external Web communities. This strategic relationship between Awareness and Microsoft is valuable for users that "live" in Microsoft Office SharePoint Products and Technologies and need to engage with groups outside the enterprise, such as customers, partners, prospects, etc. By integrating internal-facing environments with social networking participation points from external-facing Web 2.0 communities, it becomes much easier to pull valuable information into the enterprise where people can use it. The integration makes possible the following features within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0:Dashboard of Awareness community activity; Integration with Microsoft identity management (Single Sign-On) allows for a seamless user experience; Integrated search of SharePoint Products and Technologies and Awareness content; Access to Awareness community social networking functionalities, including people lists, updateable and customizable status and profile; and Enhanced user-generated content functionality, including voting and commenting on content.
http://www.awarenessnetworks.com

Syncro Soft has announce that starting with oXygen XML Editor version 9.2, the Intel XML Software Suite features for XML, XML Schema and XSLT can be used to develop XML application from within the oXygen XML development environment. The Intel XML Software Suite delivers XML processing performance, scalability across multi-processing environments and integration into the existing XML applications. The Intel XML Software Suite is optimized to take advantage of Intel platform technologies. The Intel XML Software Suite provides comprehensive XML processing capabilities including XSLT, Parsing (SAX and DOM), XPath and Schema Validation. oXygen XML Editor is a complete cross platform XML editor providing the tools for visual XML authoring, XML conversion, XML Schema, DTD, Relax NG and Schematron development, XPath, XSLT, XQuery debugging, SOAP and WSDL testing, access and query of XML databases. oXygen is available both as a standalone application and as an Eclipse plugin. The support for the Intel XML Software Suite is available in both editions thus not only the users of the oXygen as a standalone product can benefit of this but also the large number of Eclipse developers, they can use the Intel XML Software Suite engines to develop their applications within Eclipse.
http://www.oxygenxml.com/demo/intel/intel.html

AskMe Corporation announced it has been acquired by REALCOM Inc. The combination of REALCOM and AskMe creates a company to deliver enterprise knowledge management and enterprise web 2.0 technologies to the market. The acquisition brings together technologies for creating, managing and sharing human capital. Together, the two companies now offer a comprehensive suite of products for the enterprise that allows organizations to innovate in the areas of expertise location, communities of practice, content management and best practice replication. Both companies have begun executing integrating operations, technologies and development teams to ensure a smooth transition and immediate value for customers, partners and investors. http://www.askmecorp.com

Swedish Polopoly and Spanish Protec, announced a technology agreement aimed at closely integrating the Polopoly Web Content Management technology with Protec's editorial cross media platform. For Protec customers it will be easy to integrate the Milenium technology to Polopoly. Editors and journalists will be able to publish content in Milenium and from there distribute the same information through different digital channels. A journalist updating a text in Milenium will automatically have his or her text updated also in Polopoly and vice versa. Polopoly enables personalized services, such as local weather and search services, quick polls and user ratings of articles. Polopoly also offers an advanced community module, where user-generated content can be managed in co-ordination with other content. Polopoly's features for Live Layout Management offers possibilities to create and edit web pages on the fly. Polopoly is entirely based on open standards to ensure platform independence and to simplify legacy systems integration. Protec offers with Milenium Cross Media an object oriented editorial production system built on media neutral software architecture and a multimedia CMS. Multiple use of content is enabled through connectivity features to centralized or within distributed newsroom configurations. Polopoly and Protec will be integrated using Polopoly's integration framework. http://www.polopoly.com http://www.protecmedia.com

Plunet, developer of the Plunet BusinessManager, a workflow-oriented standard business management software solution for the translation industry, has signed a technology and sales partnership agreement with Clay Tablet Technologies. With the aid of specially developed software, Clay Tablet allows Plunet BusinessManager to be directly connected to any known content management system (CMS). http://www.Clay-Tablet.com

ESRI announces support for Adobe Acrobat 9 software and new geospatial standards available in PDF with the release of ArcGIS 9.3. ESRI has collaborated with Adobe Systems Incorporated over the past year to ensure a seamless workflow for geographic information system (GIS) professionals using ArcGIS who wish to widely distribute maps in PDF. Recipients of PDF map documents can find and display a location in the file using x,y coordinates as well as measure features directly on the map. This enabling capability enhances both existing customer workflows and creates new ones because recipients without ArcGIS can directly interact in new ways with maps using Acrobat 9.
ArcGIS 9.3 users can author a map document and export it in PDF for wide distribution while passing along the ability for increased end-user interaction with the document beyond simple viewing. http://www.esri.com

Origin Digital announced it has expanded its Web-based Odaptor software platform with a new module that extends its capabilities to digital publishing environments. Designed for publishers, advertisers and media agencies, Odaptor's new module enables more effective handling of digital content rights and addresses multi-platform workflow and monetization requirements. Managing asset requirements from media ingest through to video ad insertion and verification, Odaptor's added module integrates scheduling, ad management, playout, measurement, and reporting capabilities. The Odaptor platform provides a foundation to enhance and extend content management systems, channel creation, and rights management to maximize digital publisher content production and monetization. Utilizing Odaptor's scheduler feature, users (publishers, ad agencies, etc.) can access asset data from the Odaptor content management system to create a channel schedule, ad insertion schedule, or playlist. Odaptor collects all content request data, applies any targeting rules that might apply and delivers to the user's player of choice, a specific playlist pointing to content available on the appropriate delivery network. Additional capabilities of Odaptor's new module include: Centralized control for multi-platform, widely distributed content, ability to create and manage channels for multiple properties, across distribution mediums, schedule rules and content assignments within those channels, including ad impression frequency, frequency capping, verification, and royalty payment logs, creation of advertiser accounts with direct log-in access for campaign and insertion placements, video upload and insertion frequency and CPM management, geographical targeting, and analysis of unique number of plays at the publisher or property level. http://www.origindigital.com

DataDirect Technologies announced release 3.2 of its DataDirect XML Converters product which features expanded EDI support to include the Edig@s standard communication protocol developed by European gas distributors. As a result, participating suppliers, shippers and gas transporters have a simpler and more productive tool to exchange vast amounts of dispatch and operational information without making drastic changes to their IT systems. Edig@s is a 15-member organisation comprised of gas supply companies throughout Europe who sought to establish a standard way for sending and receiving operational data and messages between dispatching centres. In order to rationalise the number of message variants and create a more efficient and flexible way of exchanging business-critical information, the members developed a set of message protocols based on the EDIFACT international standard for administration, commerce and transport. The DataDirect XML Converters product delivers bi-directional, highly-scalable software that efficiently streams EDI, flat files or other legacy data formats as XML, making data accessible to virtually any application. The Java and .NET components can convert legacy data formats into XML and back without a major re-architecting of the Edig@s members' applications. DataDirect Technologies sees many examples of organisations wishing to communicate information to newer distributed systems using message formats such as XML, only to find that EDI persists as a common standard for exchanging data among trading partners. The DataDirect XML Converters product provides a 'best of both worlds' solution which shields an organisation from making a choice between XML and EDI. http://www.datadirect.com

JustSystems announced an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with IBM to bring XML and component-based authoring to the enterprise. Under the terms of the agreement, JustSystems will embed and resell IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Content Edition (IICE) with its new XMetaL for ECM offering. By combining XMetaL with IICE, XMetaL becomes the only structured authoring application that seamlessly connects to more than 20 commercial repositories and file systems. The integration of XMetaL with WebSphere IICE will allow organizations to broaden XMetaL deployments and to leverage the repositories they're currently using to store and manage content. XMetaL is JustSystems' authoring application. XMetaL lets organizations improve the quality and consistency of product and technical documentation, policies, procedures and other published content, while improving reuse and reducing the time and cost of creation, localization and maintenance. Combining IBM WebSphere IICE, XMetaL for ECM will enable organizations to pursue a content reuse and single-source publishing strategy using the repositories they already have, without the cost and complexity of creating and maintaining custom integrations. http://www.justsystems.com/

JustSystems announced XMetaL for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), an authoring solution that integrates with 20+ commercial repositories and file systems. With this offering, XMetaL is the first and only structured authoring application with integration to leading content management systems, including repositories from IBM FileNet, EMC Documentum, OpenText, Interwoven, and Microsoft. XMetaL is an authoring application that allows organizations to improve the quality and consistency of product and technical documentation, policies, procedures and other published content, while improving reuse and reducing the time and cost of creation, localization and maintenance. XMetaL for ECM allows organizations to pursue a content reuse and single-source publishing strategy using the repositories they already have, and without the cost and complexity of creating and maintaining custom integrations. XMetaL for ECM provides multiple benefits for organizations, including the ability to: Get started with XMetaL using whichever repositories are already in place, deploy XMetaL across departments without disrupting how content is currently managed, integrate and automate the content creation and publishing lifecycle across repositories, create a path for migration to native XML repositories over time, as requirements mature. XMetaL for ECM leverages IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Content Edition, a middleware technology that provides bi-directional access to multiple, disparate content repositories. http://www.justsystems.com/

Brainware, Inc., announced the availability of IDC-distiller v4.1, the latest version of its intelligent data capture solution that helps Global 2000 organizations rapidly process millions of unstructured documents. The new version includes such features as Automatic Document Separation and Advanced Field Extraction that further reduce manual data entry and make the solution even easier to implement. IDC-distiller 4.1 features include: Automatic Document Separation: eliminates the need to manually group pages of each invoice into a separate document prior to scanning. Automatic Document Separation intelligently assembles scanned pages into their appropriate documents without the use of barcodes, labels, separator sheets or other dividing markers; Advanced Field Extraction Engine: building on IDC-distiller's powerful learning algorithms, this new extraction engine automatically studies field formats, surrounding context, and positional information. This capability is based on Brainware's powerful associative search technology, allowing users to process new documents without additional setup or configuration; Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(R) Support: All IDC-distiller modules are certified to run on Windows Vista; Windows-based User Authentication: Local workstations and Microsoft Windows network users can now be imported into the IDC-distiller authentication sub-system allowing automatic project authentication based on the current Windows user account settings. http://www.brainware.com

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced Google Site Search, a service that provides quality search to any website with the flexibility of cloud computing. The new service, hosted by Google, allows site owners to quickly implement search functionality that is familiar and useful to their visitors. At the same time, site owners can customize Google Site Search to account for the unique nature of their site and their content. Google Site Search now offers: Enhanced index coverage: comprehensive search results on any website by crawling and indexing more content, even pages deep within a site; Synonyms: website owners can add their own custom synonym dictionary (a search for [cd] would include [certificate of deposit] in search results); Date biasing: site owners can influence search results based on the age of documents (e.g., a recent product datasheet is weighted more heavily than older product documents); Top results biasing: specific sections of the site (such as the product catalog) appear at the top of search results; and Full customization of the look & feel: site owners can fully customize the search results interface to integrate with the unique look and feel of their sites. http://www.google.com/sitesearch

SpringCM announced SpringCM Version 4.3, the newest version of the company's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) document management and workflow platform. Version 4.3 offers several major new features and significant enhancements designed to improve business performance and to automate document-centric processes such as contract and proposal management, accounts payable and professional services engagement management. SpringCM's version 4.3 comes just 12 weeks after the last major release, further demonstrating that SaaS applications deliver rapid innovation and new functionality. Highlights of SpringCM 4.3 include: Automate Simple Processes with Document Rules, Streamline Editing and Approval with Integrated E-mail Collaboration, and Simplify the User Experience with Role-Based User Settings. In addition to these new capabilities, SpringCM 4.3 includes over 15 other feature enhancements including improvements to Advanced Workflow, text search capabilities, Custom Reporting and new-user on-boarding. http://www.springcm.com/

ABBYY USA, announced that KnowledgeLake, a provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies, has selected ABBYY's FineReader Engine and FormReader Developer Edition to extend the capabilities and enhance the quality of its data capture solutions. KnowledgeLake's Capture Server Suite delivers end-to-end capabilities that allow organizations to convert paper documents into electronic data using any device, including scanners, multi-function devices and fax servers, from any location. KnowledgeLake considered several options in its search to extend the future capabilities of its products, and ultimately selected the ABBYY FineReader Engine and FormReader Developer Edition with FlexiCapture Studio add-on. ABBYY's technology supports several important capabilities for optical character recognition (OCR) within the KnowledgeLake solutions. As a result of the integration with ABBYY, KnowledgeLake now enables users to recognize digital text-based data and to create searchable PDF files. Users can pull text from images and prepare it for input -- from any device and any location. In addition, its image cleanup capabilities, including rotating, straightening and elimination of "noise," allow for further improvement of recognition results. ABBYY FineReader Engine and FormReader Developer Edition with FlexiCapture Studio add-on offer image pre- and post-processing, document layout analysis, advanced PDF conversion and forms processing. FormReader Developer Edition with FlexiCapture Studio helps users extract data from semi-structured forms and documents from a wide range of document types, including invoices, claim forms, resumes, contracts and loan documents. KnowledgeLake is currently utilizing the ABBYY FineReader Engine within its Capture 2008 product to deliver complete full-page and field-level recognition capabilities to support keyword classification and keyword indexing. http://www.abbyy.com/

IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled an integrated approach to managing enterprise content with software that helps customers control and derive value from all types of content created and shared by workgroups across an organization. As part of the company's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software portfolio, this approach combines IBM's ECM capabilities with a variety of collaboration and social software options. Organizations can select a complete solution from IBM featuring the social software and collaboration capabilities of Lotus Quickr and also use IBM's ECM offerings to manage business content created in a variety of applications, such as IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, in a secure, scalable ECM platform. IBM ECM Services for Lotus Quickr will enable customers to collaborate on business content, leveraging IBM ECM for business process optimization, auto-classification and regulatory compliance. The new services allow IBM customers to mix the Web-based collaboration and desktop integration of Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Office, and Windows Explorer with IBM ECM capabilities. Also introduced today are IBM FileNet Connectors for Microsoft SharePoint version 2.2, which allow a seamless flow of content between IBM ECM repositories and Microsoft SharePoint servers. Content can be automatically moved or copied from Microsoft SharePoint to IBM ECM repositories and business processes can be accessed from SharePoint using IBM Web Parts. The IBM FileNet Connectors for Microsoft SharePoint version 2.2 will become generally available June 6. http://www.ibm.com/software/data/

Traction Software announced TeamPage 4.0, the latest version of Traction's enterprise blog and wiki software. Traction TeamPage 4.0 delivers a combination of wiki, blog, tagging and social networking capabilities that extend Traction's hypertext platform to handle Enterprise 2.0 collaboration on: developing products, communicating with customers and sales partners, collaborating with key suppliers, tracking business issues, and competitive intelligence. New TeamPage 4.0 benefits include personal profile pages that provide enterprise social networking and gather content by author, page templates and forms to help new users get up and running very quickly, moderation to help to meet enterprise needs for content approval, wiki-style collaborative, work-in-progress editing that can maintain pages in draft state until they are ready to be shared with customers, partners or internal audiences, Page Name Management and name history that makes name linking across draft and published content simple for everyone, and "fearless refactoring" possible for wiki experts, lastly annual subscription pricing for TeamPage Server and TeamPage Workgroup configurations. http://traction.tractionsoftware.com

Content management vendor Polopoly and Arena Interactive, have entered into a partnership to integrate Arena Imperative's mobile platform AIMO with Polopoly's content management system. The collaboration initially aims to simplify entering of user generated content from mobile phones via SMS and MMS. By integrating Polopoly and AIMO, customers who use both systems will benefit from automatically receive MMS and SMS reader tips as Polopoly articles. The customer who uses both systems will also be able to benefit from a broad range of mobile services available or in development. Possible examples are SMS-push of news, mobile Voting & Rating, SMS-dating, SMS-payment etc. Polopoly enables high-performance personalized services, such as local weather and search services, quick polls and user ratings of articles. Polopoly also offers an advanced community module, where user-generated content can be managed in co-ordination with other content. Polopoly is entirely based on open standards to ensure platform independence and to simplify legacy systems integration. http://www.polopoly.com

Attensity, announced Attensity 'Market Voice,' a new solution enabling users to track, analyze and act on customer conversations in blogs, Web forums, product review comments, and other forms of online customer exchanges. As a part of Attensity's 'Voice of the Customer' (VoC) application, Market Voice automatically "harvests" online customer feedback - feeding data directly into Attensity's patented Exhaustive Extraction(tm) engines for analysis of sentiment, identification of the root cause of issues and for early warning on emerging issues and opportunities. The solution also includes pre-built output including analysis reports and dashboards. Companies that deploy the Attensity Market Voice solution have the ability to aggregate and analyze customer sentiment on the Web, as well as identify and curb potential issues with new product introductions or marketing messages. With the Attensity solution users can combine real-time online feedback with feedback residing in company service and call center notes, emails, and survey responses for a comprehensive solution. By analyzing both customer conversations online and direct feedback from customers, users can validate issues discussed on the Web with direct customer complaints, informing companies if select few customers are disgruntled and blogging accordingly, or if there is an overarching trend. Companies can also identify emerging issues being discussed online to anticipate potential increases in inbound complaints and service resource utilization. http://www.attensity.com

Composite Software, unveiled an appliance named Composite Discovery. Non-technical business users who normally depend on IT teams to access data for analysis and decision-making, can "discover" the business-critical information they need, delivered with the relevant data relationships context, regardless of data source or location. Composite's newest solution, Discovery, leverages key elements of BI and enterprise search to empower users to get to and work with source data and intermediate stores such as warehouses and marts. Among Composite Discovery's key features are: search functionality for easily and quickly finding structured data; data relationship discovery that reveals relationships among the information contained in disparate sources and delivers this context with the data, so users can easily identify what's relevant; drag and drop tools that make it easy to view and work with data in a familiar tabular format; high-performance query optimization and integration with Microsoft Excel to maximize the user experience; "recipes" for repeatable searches, as well as Enterprise 2.0 information support for greater collaboration and higher productivity; and a range of security options including integration with LDAP and Active Directory to ensure compliance with IT data security and governance mandates. Composite Discovery can be used as a stand-alone appliance. Or, when integrated with the Composite Information Server, Composite Discovery leverages developed views and other virtual stores that abstract and federate complex data including data from SAP, Siebel, Oracle, PeopleSoft and salesforce.com using Composite Application Data Services. http://www.compositesw.com

X1 Technologies, Inc., announced the availability of X1 Enterprise Server 3.3. This new release delivers ease-of-use, scalability and performance enhancements to the X1 Enterprise Server which is a component of the X1 Enterprise Search Suite. With this new release, enterprises can setup "partitioned indexes" to enhance performance by removing the need for one monolithic index while providing the flexibility to create index partitions by organization, department, or criteria unique to the business. Enhancements to ease-of-use include new "self optimized configuration" for implementing X1 Enterprise Server's extensive cluster support along with a new animated Quick Start Guide. These new features greatly simplify the administration of X1 Enterprise Server and ensure optimal performance of the solution. In addition, X1 has expanded upon its support for international customers with double byte character support in both the server and web browser. http://www.x1.com

PTC announced Windchill ProductPoint, its new solution for capturing, handling, and sharing product development information. With Windchill ProductPoint, PTC will enable SharePoint to understand CAD (computer- aided-design) data, increasing the reach of the familiar SharePoint user experience, and enhancing its usage across broader product development teams. For OEMs and suppliers, a future release of Windchill ProductPoint is planned to support the sharing of information among other Windchill-based systems. Windchill ProductPoint benefits companies of all sizes, providing smaller companies with a steppingstone into product lifecycle management (PLM) and giving larger companies with a SharePoint strategy the ability to extend their product development system to broader user communities. Highlights of Windchill ProductPoint include: Multi-CAD SharePoint services offer basic functions for managing Pro/ENGINEER data as well as other CAD file formats, their structures, and inter-relationships, ProductView services enable visual product interaction with 3D thumbnails, visualization of lightweight product viewables, and Web- based markup tools for redlining designs, Visual navigation and interrogation of files dependencies, Windchill Portlets present Windchill information (e.g. task lists) to users in a familiar SharePoint portal, and Windchill PLM Connector enables sharing of CAD data across Windchill-based systems in support of customer or supplier collaboration, or internal collaboration among different divisions.

The new 4.0 release containsmany new features such as, Clustering support, OKS can now be deployed in a cluster. Changes to the topic maps are automatically synchronized across the cluster guaranteeing data consistency across the entire cluster. This makes it easier to scale OKS applications. Support for XTM 2.0 import and export. Complete TMDM support: The Topic Maps engine and the tolog query language has been extended to provide full support for "ISO 13250-2: Topic Maps - Data Model". The changes include support for data types, null-value constraints and built-in support for reification. Support for large data content. Together with the support for data types on variants and occurrences this allows the developer to store data of any kind and any size inside the topic map. This includes support for images, audio and video. Ontopoly has been reimplemented on top of the Apache Wicket web framework. This means that it is component based, making it very extensible and easier to integrate into other web applications. The new version is much more interactive as it uses AJAX technology to update parts of the user-interface dynamically instead of rerendering the page on every change. Ontopoly has been extended to include an HTML editor component and support for uploading and displaying images. DB2TM now supports arbitrary data types. The Java APIs have been through an overhaul in context of the support for TMDM and the removal of old deprecated features. Some of these changes are not backwards compatible, and applications using the Java API directly must be recompiled before deploying with OKS 4.0. The modifications needed are relatively small, but they should provide the developer with better runtime safety resulting in fewer bugs. Applications using tolog or the JSP tag libraries should continue to work as before. OKS 4.0 now requires Java 1.4 or newer.

empolis GmbH, announced that it has signed an OEM partnership with Mark Logic Corporation. With this agreement, empolis will license and tightly integrate MarkLogic Server as an embedded component within its products empolis:Content Lifecycle Suite (e:CLS), an advanced workflow and translation management platform for highly-modular XML content and empolis:Service Lifecycle Suite (e:SLS), a knowledge management solution that enables service representatives to locate the correct response to specific customer questions as quickly as possible. empolis' existing and future customers will now leverage the capabilities and performance of MarkLogic Server to assemble and deliver targeted personalized technical documentation, providing information to each user at the time it is needed and in a preferred format. Based on its ability to reliably handle extremely large volumes of both structured and unstructured content, and its highly scalable and expressive query capabilities, MarkLogic Server has enabled empolis to build sophisticated end-to-end content management and delivery applications. http://www.empolis.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) introduced Adobe Acrobat 9 software. Acrobat 9 delivers native support for Adobe Flash technology, the ability to unify a wide range of content in rich PDF Portfolios, and access to real-time capabilities for co-navigating a PDF document with colleagues. For the first time, Acrobat 9 provides deep support for Adobe Flash technology, enabling users to include Adobe Flash Player compatible video and application files in PDF documents. Recipients simply need free Adobe Reader 9 software to consume the content. Acrobat 9 also includes the ability to unify a wide range of content into a single document with the new concept of PDF Portfolios. PDF Portfolios enable business professionals to assemble multiple media types, such as documents, video, audio, and even 3D objects, into one, compressed PDF file. Users can then choose among several professional layouts, or create their own, to integrate content, define navigation, and add branding. In addition, Acrobat 9 provides access to capabilities for collaborating live within a PDF document, enabled by working with Acrobat.com, a new suite of hosted services Adobe introduced as public beta today. Additionally, Acrobat 9 users can access Acrobat.com for storing and sharing files, use it as a central location for collecting data as part of a forms process, and to gather comments in a shared document review. Acrobat.com includes other services, such as Adobe ConnectNow, personal Web conferencing that provides desktop sharing, video and voice conferencing, and integrated chat; and Adobe Buzzword, a Web-based word processor that can be used to easily co-author and share documents for comment and review, creating high-quality print results. The Acrobat 9 family consists of Acrobat 9 Standard, Acrobat 9 Pro, and the new Acrobat 9 Pro Extended software. Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, includes Adobe Presenter software for turning Microsoft PowerPoint presentations into multimedia experiences that can be published as PDF files. Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, Acrobat 9 Pro and Acrobat 9 Standard for Microsoft Windows, and Acrobat 9 Pro for Mac OS X, are expected to be available by July 2008 in English, French, German, and Japanese language versions. The beta Acrobat.com hosted services are available immediately in English for free signup. http://www.adobe.com