July 2008 Archives

Quark announced that QuarkXPress 8, the next release of the page-layout and design software, is now available to purchase directly from Quark and through Quark Authorized Resellers worldwide. QuarkXPress 8 delivers design through an intuitive interface developed purposefully for the creation of high-end page layout and includes new features such as built-in print, Web and Flash authoring tools, advanced typography control, and global publishing capabilities.New Features Include: Flash and Web Authoring Tools: Designers and creative professionals can share print content on the Web and in Flash format without purchasing multiple applications or learning code; Picture Content Tool: 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: Allows for less switching between tools, even for rotation and managing multiple items. New Bézier Pen Tools: 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, contextual menus, and customizable active pasteboards; Measurements Palette: Make functions easily accessible, including new clickable controls for on-the-fly drop-shadow modification; Drag-and-Drop: 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

Tzunami Inc. announced the release of the latest version of its Tzunami Deployer for SharePoint 2003 Migration. Version 2.3 provides features for migrating content from SharePoint 2003 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) at a low fixed-price. Added benefits include full support for Site Templates and lists, maintaining list views, a Rule Engine to automate the migration process and overall user interaction. Tzunami Deployer for SharePoint 2003 Migration is an application enabling content migration to advanced SharePoint 2007 structures. Key features include property and value mapping which allows users to manage the migration of metadata while retaining vital enterprise information. Furthermore, the solution supports and preserves security settings and handles all types of items, documents and site collections. Whether it is required to maintain the current structure during migration or completely remodel, the solution enables users to model, customize or redefine the structure of the migrated content. Tzunami Deployer for SharePoint 2003 is part of the Tzunami Deployer Family of Products. A simple, multi-source tool, Tzunami Deployer transfers data from all major Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems as well as customized solutions. Features such as a graphic user interface with easy-to-use drag and drop features, streamline business-critical processes. Furthermore, Tzunami Deployer automates the entire process of migrating unstructured content and provides remote access to sites, including those behind firewalls. http://www.tzunami.com

Attivio announced that the latest version of its unified information access and analysis platform, Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) Version 1.2, is now available. Attivio AIE Version 1.2 is an information access product that combines business intelligence and enterprise search capabilities to integrate structured data and unstructured content into a single index. Features and benefits of Attivio AIE v1.2 include: Query-Side JOIN-AIE indexes content from databases, Web pages, office documents, email, media files and most other enterprise repositories and applications. Relationships in data are maintained or discovered, and can be fully exploited; AIE was designed to offer linear, modular scale on commodity. AIE can be installed and configured on one or more servers; more can be added as data and query volume increase or performance requirements change over time; Attivio AIE is easy to install and configure so customers can be up and running in just a few hours; AIE supports real-time, incremental indexing so fresh data is continuously streamed into the system and made immediately available for querying. AIE's "active" capability allows users to drive data to end-users or to other systems as new content matches against saved queries; AIE helps users to find the information they need, faster. It automatically selects, calculates and displays the most relevant facets and concepts for any given query based on extraction of entities and concepts from the content; AIE provides the breadth and depth of connectors and document transformers and supports Web, database and document content with hundreds of file formats from many operating systems, platforms and content management systems. AIE supports over 50 languages including most Western, European, Asian and Middle-Eastern languages. http://www.attivio.com/

LiveWorld, Inc. announced that it has launched its next suite of APIs for its social network platform. LiveAPI 2.0 enables digital agencies and corporate inhouse web development groups to build, manage and flexibly change web sites on top of LiveWorld's Community Center platform for social networks. LiveAPI 2.0 combines a large set of APIs with a social network platform, and provides digital development groups with: Ability to build, customize and change a site on top of LiveWorld's social network platform; integration of community content into any web page; standards based with Secure Transaction Model: XML or JSON Format, SOAP Protocol; API based pricing: LiveAPI 2.0 comes with a pricing model based on API calls instead of full page view rates. The underlying platform is the same one deployed for LiveWorld's Community Center. LiveAPI 2.0 comes with documentation, sample code, access to a sandbox development environment and membership in LiveWorld's API developer community. http://www.liveworld.com

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced new standards that will make it easier for people to browse the Web on mobile devices. Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0, published as a W3C Recommendation, condenses the experience of many mobile Web stakeholders into practical advice on creating mobile-friendly content. People who want to use the Web while "on the go" face several challenges, including hardware and software diversity, device constraints, and bandwidth limitations. Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 helps content authors face those challenges and develop content that works on a wide array of mobile devices. Authors and other content producers will find practical advice for managing user experience challenges such as data input and page scrolling. Content developers have faced an additional challenge: a variety of mobile markup languages to choose from. With the publication of the XHTML Basic 1.1 Recommendation today, the preferred format specification of the Best Practices, there is now a full convergence in mobile markup languages, including those developed by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). The W3C mobileOK checker (beta), when used with the familiar W3C validator, helps developers test mobile-friendly Web content. W3C is also developing resources to help authors understand how to create content that is both mobile-friendly and accessible to people with disabilities. http://www.w3.org

Cabinet NG announced the availability of its CNG-API, a Windows-based development framework for integrating the company's CNG-SAFE document management system with industry specific business applications. Built on the Microsoft .NET platform, CNG-API allows resellers, OEMs, and software programmers to utilize open connectivity to create firm-wide interoperable paperless workflows. CNG-SAFE is an automated document management solution for small and mid-sized businesses in a wide range of industries, including accounting, government, finance, banking, health care and manufacturing. The CNG-API builds on CNG's integration technologies, Retriever and Synchronizer that give the SMBs access to documents directly from the native application and ensure all changes in data are correctly and automatically updated in CNG-SAFE filing cabinets. http://www.cabinetng.com

Infonic plc, announced it has signed an agreement to combine its text analytics division with Lexalytics, Inc., a U.S. company based in Amherst, Massachusetts. The text analytics divisions of both companies will be combined in a UK company which will be called Lexalytics Limited. Infonic and Lexalytics are providers of proprietary text analytics technologies, both companies' solutions automatically analyzing and summarizing the underlining sentiment of large amounts of unstructured data. Their technologies have a variety of applications, such as in the financial services sector analyzing at high speed the sentiment behind multiple news stories on company stocks. Lexalytics' software is used to provide text mining and text analytics functionality to clients in the public relations, marketing, eDiscovery, business intelligence and financial services sectors, its software being used with the solutions of a number of other providers, such as ScoutLabs, Cisco, Smartbrief and Burrelles Information Services LLC. The rationale behind combining the businesses is to pool the expertise and complementary products of the parties in this specialist area and to drive joint growth in sales, utilizing Infonic's global sales capabilities. The deal values the merged entity at $40M. Lexalytics Limited will issue a further announcement on completion of the transaction. http://www.lexalytics.com

Interwoven announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Discovery Mining, Inc., an eDiscovery provider to professional services firms and corporations. Discovery Mining is a software-as-a-service solution for processing, reviewing and producing massive volumes of electronic data. Under the terms of the agreement between Discovery Mining and Interwoven, Interwoven will pay approximately $36 million in cash for all outstanding shares of Discovery Mining and vested stock options, and assume certain existing employee stock options. The acquisition of Discovery Mining extends Interwoven's offering by adding a service for managing eDiscovery. Discovery Mining's eDiscovery service is optimized for the processing and review of electronic data. The service features capabilities for accelerated review, including concept searching, clustering, analytics and email filtering. While the acquisition is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2008, the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. http://www.interwoven.com/

4D, Inc. announced the release of 4D Web 2.0 Pack v11 Release 2. The new version, a combination of two products - 4D Ajax Framework and 4D for Flex - brings a set of tools, plug-ins, and components that allow 4D developers to harness Web 2.0 technologies, and deliver live web and rich internet applications to browsers, desktops, and portable devices such as the iPhone. 4D for Flex offers an integrated Flex-to-SQL database direct connection. 4D for Flex provides a simple, integrated architecture, but also connectivity to 4D Server v11 SQL and other SQL databases. 4D Ajax Framework is an integrated Ajax framework and application server that combines Ajax and 4D databases, bringing 4D application data to your browser, RIA, iPhone, and more. Using HTML 5 and Google Gears, users can now access their web applications even when they are offline. Fully data-interactive iPhone 2.0 applications can be built with zero coding, or completely enhanced for customized data applications. http://www.4D.com

Google announced that Knol is now open to everyone. They announced Knol back in December. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. From their blog post: "The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It's their knol, their voice, their opinion. We expect that there will be multiple knols on the same subject, and we think that is good. With Knol, we are introducing a new method for authors to work together that we call "moderated collaboration." With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public. This allows authors to accept suggestions from everyone in the world while remaining in control of their content. After all, their name is associated with it! Knols include strong community tools which allow for many modes of interaction between readers and authors. People can submit comments, rate, or write a review of a knol. At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads from our AdSense program. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with a revenue share from the proceeds of those ad placements. We are happy to announce an agreement with the New Yorker magazine which allows any author to add one cartoon per knol from the New Yorker's extensive cartoon repository. Cartoons are an effective (and fun) way to make your point, even on the most serious topics." http://knol.google.com

Jaspersoft announced the open beta of its new JasperForge, a community platform that will support the open source BI community with tools for community stakeholders - from developers to business users. JasperForge uses EssentiaESP, a community engagement platform developed by Essentia. The new JasperForge uses a social networking approach to provide an intuitive experience that makes it easier for users to join or start a project, interact with the community around it, and move that project forward. By working with Essentia, Jaspersoft is able to take advantage of collaborative development, communications and social networking tools that enable discussions, tagging, surveys, wikis, news, blogs, mailing lists and more. Advanced banners, e- commerce and cataloging are also built into the new forge. New features include: Personalized experience with MyPages. Wikis, karma points, monitoring, and customizable home pages; Ecosystem Enablement. To enhance the network effect of the new Jaspersoft community, including customers and partners, members can use built-in tools and project space, or link projects, tools, or artifacts directly from the new JasperForge via a new Ecosystem Enablement feature. With Ecosystem Enablement, users can loosely couple internal projects with outside partners, the open source community of contributors and reviewers, business partners, and suppliers; Rich Content Management is now extended to every user, every tool and every page in the new JasperForge. http://www.jaspersoft.com/

OutStart Inc. and Eedo Knowledgeware Corp. have combined their operations, making the new company a provider of software for creating and sharing organizational knowledge through learning and social collaboration. The company will work to serve the LCMS and learning market, while supporting the emerging need for a business social software platform to enable effective informal knowledge sharing. The combined company has more than 300 customers, including commercial, government and defense organizations; a global base with close to 40 percent of its business coming from international clients; and, solid finances with 50 percent of its revenue coming from recurring business. The company will make its headquarters in Boston and maintain offices in the United States, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands. http://www.outstart.com

LoopFuse and Acquia announced the availability of the LoopFuse OneView integration module for Drupal, enabling marketing organizations to extend their LoopFuse marketing automation processes across their Drupal web sites. Taking advantage of LoopFuse's web analytics and campaign management capabilities, Drupal site owners can track activities and connect directly with customers who participate in their community- based web sites. The integration between Drupal and LoopFuse OneView will allow LoopFuse customers using Drupal for their content management system to have their web sites automatically instrumented with LoopFuse tracking - providing analytics on web site visitors without the need to modify any web site code. It will also allow for the automated capture of web site registrations within LoopFuse. This will enable marketers to assemble their web sites and integrate their marketing automation solution without relying on their IT department to develop custom applications and integrations from scratch. Acquia is a new software company offering commercial support for the open source Drupal social publishing system. Acquia is preparing for the initial launch of its distribution of Drupal, code-named "Carbon," in the second half of this year. Additionally, Acquia plans to provide a range of maintenance and support subscriptions designed to meet the requirements of organizations utilizing the Carbon distribution. http://drupal.org/project/loopfuse

EMC announced the EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Suite version 6.5. Documentum ECM 6.5 introduces several features that deliver a rich Web 2.0 user experience and enhanced XML capabilities, while delivering enterprise performance and scalability, federated records management as well as accelerated transactional business processes. Key products in Documentum ECM 6.5 include: Documentum CenterStage Essentials; Documentum Media WorkSpace, My Documentum, Documentum Web Publisher Page Builder, and Documentum TaskSpace. The XML capabilities in Documentum ECM 6.5 are delivered through Documentum XML Store, a new native XML database available within the Documentum platform and related content delivery applications. Documentum's XML capabilities consist of management of XML documents and components, search and query of XML content, delivery and content transformation applications for content repurposing and personalized publishing as well as solutions for Technical Publications (DITA) and Aerospace and Defense (S1000D). EMC's Documentum High-Volume Server delivers a set of services for mass-volume applications such as archiving and transactional content applications. To work with rich media files as they increase in size, EMC AVALONidm is now integrated with the Documentum digital asset management products. This enables management of business policies and movement of large video content across tiered storage. EMC Documentum Federated Records Services (FRS) extends records management capabilities to provide a single system of record for business content that needs to be preserved for governance and compliance purposes, regardless of location or system. Documentum ECM 6.5 also includes enhancements to EMC's Documentum Process Suite designed to aid in constructing and delivering process-centric applications in a Web 2.0 world. http://www.EMC.com

NewsGator Technologies and Gigya announced a partnership to bring new capabilities to media companies looking to grow both the audience and revenue for their content. The combined offer will provide media clients with a streamlined process for content syndication, the ability to distribute content to audiences on more than 50 platforms, and tracking that details where content is being consumed. With NewsGator's syndication network, media companies have access to a database of public RSS content. NewsGator's network helps simplify content syndication by enabling media companies to integrate publicly available content for an enhanced user experience. NewsGator's hosted content management application provides widget creators with tools for managing streaming content in widgets, and now with Wildfire, sharing and tracking tools that enhance viral adoption of widget content. http://www.newsgator.com

Really Strategies, Inc., maker of RSuite, a browser-based content management system (CMS), and TEMIS, maker of Luxid, a content enrichment and discovery solution, announce a technology partnership agreement that offers content management along with automated semantic annotation and categorization services. In addition to managing XML, RSuite also manages non-XML content, including PDF, InDesign/InCopy, jpg, Word, and audio files. Along with core CMS features and functionalities (eg, check in/out, version control, web-based accessibility, etc), RSuite also offers features including drag and drop workflow administration tools, automated action handlers, customizable user interface, and metadata management at the element level. Luxid identifies, annotates and extracts semantic entities and relationships to help Publishing and Media companies turn both legacy and new digital assets into new information products. http://www.rsuitecms.com/partners.htm

NetSuite Inc. announced new capabilities for its CRM product, NetSuite CRM+, featuring AJAX-powered workflows that enhance ease-of-use of marketing automation and knowledge management functionality used in customer support and customer service. These new workflows center around step-wise, user interaction and are now also supported in the new Firefox 3 web browser, along with other capabilities of NetSuite such as eXtreme list editing, rich-text editing, drag-and- drop and quick-add portlets. New features include: Step-wise Assistants for Marketing Automation - a new two-step assisted workflow for group creation allows marketers to segment and slice their target audience for focused campaign execution; Streamlined Knowledge Management for Customer Service - a new keyword search workflow is built directly into the user interface for case management to increase the speed with which customer service and customer support reps can search for and find relevant content from the knowledge store to respond to a customer service inquiry. In addition, customer service reps can now add content for inclusion in the central knowledge store with one click from information already entered on the case for the response to the customer. In addition to the workflow capabilities for NetSuite CRM+, NetSuite also announced support for Firefox 3, the latest web browser version from the Mozilla Foundation. NetSuite supports all three web browsers- Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari - allowing customers choice when it comes to access to key business data. Support for Firefox 3 also enables more users to run their business on NetSuite since Firefox supports multiple operating systems, including Windows, Apple's OS-X and Linux. http://www.netsuite.com/

Quark Inc. announced that it has acquired the assets of In.vision Research Corporation, a Florida-based software company that develops add-in to Microsoft Word for XML authoring. In addition, this acquisition will enable Quark to support Microsoft Word users within all types of workflows, both desktop and enterprise. In.vision initially partnered with Quark to supply Xpress Author for Microsoft Word, which helps authors already familiar with Microsoft Word to easily create reusable XML content for Quark's Publishing Solution. As part of this acquisition, Quark also gains products that support industry standards such as DITA (widely used for documentation) and SPL (Structured Product Labeling, an initiative of the U.S. FDA), which helps Quark access other markets and applications. http://www.quark.com/invision

Cynapse announed the release of Cyn.in v2, open source collaborative knowledge management software. cyn.in manages, secures, tracks and organically structures a content base of files, documents, digital media and any free form content. Cyn.in's content workflows, rules and role based granular security works in compliance with existing business processes and collaboration methodologies. cyn.in enables enterprises to setup collaboration work spaces for employees, business partners, and customers. These workspaces encompass various collaborative applications like wikis, blogs, file sharing repositories, shared event calendars, image galleries and more. cyn.in allows users to create digital content and share it with peers. cyn.in's live search, categorization and interlinking features help users to find relevant content quickly. Key Features of cyn.in include: Collaborative applications like Wikis, Blogs, File Repositories, Galleries, Event Calendars, Link Directories & Discussions; Enterprise class Content Management capabilities including customizable workflows, rules engine with definable actions on triggers, version control & bulk management; Live Search displays results as you type, filtering out results on-the-fly to display accurate knowledge results; Smart views allow users to create perspective oriented views of any content based on multiple filtering criteria; XML-based APIs allow extensibility and integration into existing systems. http://cyn.in

WebTrends Inc. and SDL Tridion have introduced WebTrends Enabler, tagging code that streamlines the integration of their marketing technologies. The WebTrends Enabler lets marketers drag and drop the tracking code onto their web sites using modular templates, a streamlined approach to template design and management. The code enables the WebTrends Marketing Lab suite to monitor the sites and feed customer results and other insights into SDL Tridion solutions. The suite provides measurement, multidimensional analytics, online search optimization and other online marketing resources. The new collaborative offering grew out of SDL Tridion's participation in WebTrends Open Exchange, the marketing solutions network that unites WebTrends Marketing Lab with solutions for ad serving, content management, customer relationship management, e-mail marketing, enterprise campaign management, site search, targeting and optimization, user experience, web site monitoring and other marketing applications. http://www.webtrends.com
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KeyMark Inc. announced its partnership with KnowledgeLake, Inc. to bring full Microsoft SharePoint integration capabilities to their customers. KeyMark's solution with KnowledgeLake provides KeyMark customers the ability to implement a document management system on top of the SharePoint platform. KeyMark has a history selling Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems, and now will be able to offer a SharePoint-based system. SharePoint integration will be beneficial to the following industries; Healthcare, Finance, Government, Insurance and Higher Education. http://www.keymarkinc.com http://www.knowledgelake.com

XyEnterprise announced version 4.0 of Contenta, its content management software. Contenta 4.0 provides support for Microsoft SQL Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Contenta 4.0 includes support upgrades to Oracle 10.2, several web-based technologies and Autonomy's IDOL K2 Enterprise Search software. XyEnterprise has supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the company's publishing software, XML Professional Publisher (XPP). In addition to these enhancements to Contenta, XyEnterprise now offers support for organizations that use virtual software to manage their Contenta environments. Enhancements to the checkout/checkin options for graphics and other binary file types will help users update and manage those object types more efficiently. Users will be able to work with multiple graphics at once, simplifying previously tedious tasks. In addition, Contenta 4.0 gives greater visibility into the object status by indicating states like read-only, locked and available. In Contenta 4.0, XyEnterprise also added a graphical and editable workflow to Contenta Web, a web-based user interface. This client is an alternative to the desktop client and is unique to Contenta. The ability to create and manage workflows, is the final feature that rounds out the Contenta Web offering. http://www.xyenterprise.com/

Daybreak Intellectual Capital Solutions, Inc., a provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software and consulting services announced the launch of its new partner alliance and channel program called the Daybreak ESP program. The Daybreak ESP program is designed to engage all types of partners, delivering resources and benefits that align with each partner's business model and relationship with Daybreak. The Daybreak ESP program includes partner enablement and support, market/opportunity development, deal registration, and discounts on eCapture Suite software. The program objective is to help partners develop new and complementary revenue streams that capture a piece of the growing distributed capture market. To help kick off partner recruitment efforts for the ESP program, Daybreak is promoting its eCapture LaunchPad incentive, which provides accelerated discount levels for any partners who sign up by 8/31/2008. http://www.daybreakICS.com

Day Software announced the general availability of Day Content Repository Extreme (CRX) v1.4. The latest version of Day's product enables the storage, management and exchange of content across large-scale enterprises. Day CRX v1.4 was designed for large-scale enterprise production environments. The product is a packaged, commercial version of Apache Jackrabbit. Day CRX 1.4 manages both structured and unstructured content, enabling content-centric business applications to take advantage of the repository's content services, and flexible and extensible content storage. Day's technologies allow companies to access information about their specific businesses, processes, products, customers and documents, which were previously 'locked' in proprietary repositories. http://www.day.com

JustSystems announced that it has successfully completed testing of xfy (pronounced 'x-fye'), its document-based composite application for the IBM Retail Integration Framework. xfy serves as a management interface, providing retailers optimal management and decision support through real-time views of data in underlying applications and repositories. xfy Helps IBM Deliver Real-Time Visualization of SOA IBM Retail Integration Framework utilizes open standards, including Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS), Open Application Group Integration (OAGIS) and Global Standards (GS1), to unlock communications between services, information sources, and business processes, making the store and the retail enterprise one seamless landscape rather than disconnected islands. xfy, among the first solutions to take advantage of IBM's DB2 pureXML, unifies and processes data from multiple sources within a simple and intuitive document interface. The Retail Integration Framework initiative brings together platform- independent software vendors that deliver proven solutions designed and built for the retail industry. Through this initiative, IBM works with select IBM Business Partners to validate solutions that meet a rigorous assessment of next-generation, open-standards-based store environments. xfy provides an end-user interface that unifies and processes data from multiple sources into a clear, contextually-rich document interface. xfy connects directly to the native information sources that drive the retail environment, allowing the data processing to be done within the document itself and providing a real- time view of information. http://www.justsystems.com/

Near-Time, announced availability of its community widget, Connection, for Webex Connect. The Near-Time Connection widget provides enterprise 2.0 capabilities to the WebEx Connect collaboration environment. WebEx is working with Near-Time to bring together real-time and near-time collaboration as well as text based and rich-media interaction. Near-Time integrates Web forums, weblogs, wikis and file sharing in acustomizable on-demand platform. The Near-Time Connection widget enables users to access new information in their communities, create wiki and weblog posts, make comments to forums, as well as receive and play podcasts. In addition to running in WebEx Connect, the Near-Time Connection widget runs on mobile devices running Safari or Opera browsers and iGoogle Web pages. Near-Time's support for rich media in its wikis and blogs allows for customers to save and publish their WebEx Connect sessions and conferences privately or to the Web. The combination of WebEx Connect and Near-Time means users can span client, on-demand and mobile Web collaboration. Near-Time Connection is one of the many applications users will be able to access through the WebEx Connect unified communications client. WebEx Connect will enable users to integrate data from multiple applications into collaborative workspaces, custom designed for their particular workflows and business processes. http://www.near-time.com/

Open Text Corporation announced the acquisition of eMotion LLC from Corbis Corporation. The eMotion division will become part of Open Text's Artesia Digital Media Group. The acquisition gives Artesia a broader portfolio of offerings for marketing departments and advertising agencies, adding capabilities that complement its enterprise marketing asset management solution, Artesia DAM. The move will extend Open Text's digital media capabilities as part of its Enterprise 2.0 strategy. eMotion is headquartered in Seattle and has a team based in Virginia. Open Text purchased the division for approximately $5 million, net of cash and assets, effective July 2, 2008. It is currently anticipated that the financial terms and future impact of the acquisition will not have a material effect on future financial results of Open Text. http://www.opentext.com

The Imaging Source, the manufacturer of TX Text Control, has announced version 14.0. The latest version of TX Text Control now offers ISO ratified format as one of its many supported file formats. In addition to the new XML based MS Word format, legacy Word formats, such as Word 97 and 2003, Rich Text Format (RTF) and HTML are also supported. Furthermore, Adobe PDF documents can be created and saved. TX Text Control 14 has been optimized for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, supports the newest .NET framework 2.0 and 3.5 and ships in 64 bit and 32 bit versions for all current Windows editions. After a long development cycle, the word processing components now has a number of new features: Document sections with various page formats and different headers and footers are supported. MS Word formatted documents and templates, which contain mail-merge fields can be created. All the typical fields of Microsoft's Office packet are now supported by TX Text Control as default. The server functionality has also been extended to include the new MailMerge component, with which MS Word templates can be populated with data from a database. This allows print-ready documents to be created on the server. The server version of TX Text Control ships with a freely distributable template designer. http://www.textcontrol.com/news/versions/1400/

LSI Corporation announced the expansion of its offering to include content processing solutions for the Microsoft Silverlight platform. Initially based on video acceleration technology, the offering will now include the LSI Tarari family of content processor solutions. This family is a comprehensive set of solutions providing security, quality of service, content-based billing and bandwidth management functions. The addition of these hardware acceleration technologies enhances Silverlight to provide networking, storage, audio and video capabilities in various Microsoft operating systems as well as for Linux and the Mac OS. LSI solutions will provide additional security to enterprise and content creators while enhancing system performance with the Silverlight platform. Previously, LSI adapted its deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to create a deep frame inspection (DFI) capability. Now, Microsoft customers can take full advantage of the content processing capability as well. While DPI looks for viruses and intrusive code in packets, DFI examines each frame of video to calculate what has changed from the previous frame. The combined result is a compressed video stream. Web developers now can design new applications that efficiently include secured video content that can be merged with live data to create a layered application of multiple data types. The implementation of LSI technology in Silverlight enables acceleration of the underlying Microsoft Windows Media codec while maintaining secure video quality for standard or high definition output on a compliant, production ready, Windows Media VC-1-based codec software development kit (SDK) platform. http://www.lsi.com/

Infotrieve, Inc. announced new products for compliant, efficient, and cost- effective document delivery and reprints procurement along with information center management. Infotrieve offers solutions for librarians and information center professionals, information center management, and marketing and product managers: Virtual Library 2.0 - is the second generation document sourcing and delivery platform which automates and manages the document delivery process and integrates with virtually all search and discovery platforms and allows for end-user self service; Content SCM - includes all the features of Virtual Library 2.0 plus a full array of rights management capabilities, copyright and compliance auditing, and provides a complete view of content usage throughout the organization; BRAVO - the technology solution for reprints aggregation allows companies to aggregate orders for reprints and ePrints of the same article across the enterprise in order to drive down acquisition costs; STM Librar - is a solution for complete print journal collection management. Infotrieve provides the real estate, technology, and personnel to manage the physical collection and provide document delivery. http://www.infotrieve.com/

Copernic Inc. announced version 3.0 of its business-oriented desktop search product. The upgraded Copernic Desktop Search ("CDS") Corporate Edition has added Intranet integration features and expanding its MS Outlook search capabilities. CDS Corporate Edition now bundles a "Customization Kit" that allows companies to add custom Intranet/Extranet search shortcuts in the application's interface and its Windows toolbar. By so doing, employees can use CDS as a point of access for all their search needs including desktop, Intranet and Web search. This new functionality is compatible with most enterprise search engines such as Autonomy, Verity, MS SharePoint and MS Search Server. Another improvement relates to MS Outlook indexing features which now enable users to search within their calendar entries, tasks and notes. The Company also announced new volume discounts for purchases of 100 licences or more. The price now varies from $24.95 to $59.95 US depending on the number of licenses purchased. http://www.copernic-inc.com

Pentaho announced the availability of a new Pentaho iPhone application which provides native iPhone web navigation of Pentaho BI content. The iPhone provides a portable platform for personal and business use, and now, through Pentaho, provides a way for business users to access and navigate business intelligence information, using the new iPhone BI extension from Pentaho. iPhone 2.0 is also expected to build on active consumer adoption with additional features for corporate and enterprise users like support for Microsoft Exchange and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). Pentaho first delivered an interactive, Web 2.0-based BI user interface in 2006. This new capability builds on Pentaho's web-enabled architecture and also uses Web 2.0 technologies to create a scalable, interactive experience for BI consumers on the iPhone. Pentaho's iPhone application allows iPhone users to navigate through interactive reports and dashboards, as well as to integrate BI functionality with other iPhone features like voice-calling, e-mail, and text messaging. The BI extension for iPhone is the newest addition to Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.7, delivered earlier this year. Pentaho has also delivered the new iPhone capabilities in an open source model.

Advanced Publishing announced the launch of its Digital Anywhere version as a complement to its existing RIDE (Rich Interactive Digital Edition) offering. This non-plug in based version will ensure that every digital reader will be able to access a full featured digital edition of their favorite magazine or newspaper. Advanced Publishing plans to roll this dual version out to all existing customers over the upcoming weeks. All customers will automatically be provided with this added feature with no price change anticipated. http://vertical.advancedpublishing.com

Vetafab Software announces the U.S. release of lexiCan 2.0 a Wikipedia-like knowledge management system for organizing content including text, Outlook mails, images, tables, web links, PDFs, PowerPoint content and more. lexiCan organizes content in an A-Z index that doesn't nest and hide file names. Using a simple drag and drop, or copy and paste format, lexiCan users can outline and structure all kinds of information into Wiki-like articles. Hyper-linking is enabled between articles so information is never lost or difficult to find. Articles are saved in an intuitive A- Z index by title, with cross-referencing, or under multiple naming classifications for fast searching. All or part of lexiCan articles can be exported as HTML for the Web, or viewing in Microsoft Word. Features include: Convenient two-pane document window with file and directory; full-text search capability, including attachments; two-clicks to HTML for fast Web publishing, including embedded files; glossary and A-Z index, a Wiki-like encyclopedia on your desktop. http://www.lexican.net

Hyland Software, the developer of the OnBase enterprise content management (ECM) software suite, announced that the company has acquired Liberty Information Management Systems (Liberty IMS). The transaction was private and terms of the agreement were not disclosed. By acquiring Liberty IMS Hyland is able to: Add more than 1,000 Liberty IMS client organizations to Hyland's base of 7,200 customers; extend its reseller channel base with an established network of Liberty IMS channel partners who possess domain expertise in selling and supporting document imaging, COLD/ERM and workflow solutions to organizations in Hyland's target vertical markets; lastly, broaden its presence in the western United States and central Canada by maintaining Liberty IMS's offices and an existing team of experienced ECM professionals in Costa Mesa, California and Ottawa, Ontario. In acquiring Liberty IMS Hyland adds a team of knowledgeable professionals with technical and sales expertise to help organizations optimize their document-centric business processes. Moreover, as a heavily channel-focused organization, Liberty IMS brings to Hyland an established network of channel partners that can help expand Hyland's own network of Authorized OnBase Solutions Providers in key U.S. and Canadian regional markets.

Microsoft announced new pricing, packaging and partner compensation details for Microsoft Online Services. Microsoft is introducing two new suites of subscription services as part of the Microsoft Online Services family. The new offerings are tailored to meet the needs of the entire work force - from employees who use a PC infrequently to information workers who require advanced capabilities. Microsoft Online Services delivers enterprise-class Microsoft software as subscription services to businesses of all sizes hosted by Microsoft and sold with partners, and include Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft Office SharePoint Online, Microsoft Office Communications Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. Microsoft is introducing Exchange Online Deskless Worker and SharePoint Online Deskless Worker. These new offerings are designed to meet the needs of deskless workers, those people who typically spend a small portion of their workday using a computer but still need to communicate and collaborate with colleagues and partners. For information workers, businesses can provide an online business productivity suite of Microsoft's enterprise-class communication and collaboration software as a subscription service. The suite includes the following: exchange Online for desktop and mobile e-mail and calendars with Outlook Web Access and full Office Outlook integration; Office SharePoint Online for portals, collaboration, search and customized team sites; Office Communications Online for instant messaging and presence; and Office Live Meeting for Web conferencing and videoconferencing. http://www.microsoft.com

MeetingSense Software Corporation announced their online meeting productivity solution to enhance the way teams manage meeting information and action item accountability. MeetingSense 3.0 is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that allows users to capture, instantly distribute, and then collaboratively track and manage meeting information, action items, and files online in real-time. Key new features include: collaborative team meeting information and action item management; tight integration with Microsoft Outlook to provide standardized best practices; absolute data security with redundancy, back up, and privacy - all without IT impact; free action item management for non-MeetingSense users; full text search for complete meeting information and action item transparency; wiki-like pre and post-meeting collaboration with audit trails and file management; and professional templates for proper meeting minutes capture. MeetingSense 3.0 will help: eliminate information loss; ensure regulatory compliance - CMMI, SOX, HIPPA, Six Sigma, etc; reduce network traffic and storage burden; provide enterprise meeting information transparency and accountability; and help to establish standardized meeting best practices. http://www.meetingsense.com/

DiscountASP.NET and Kentico, a content management system application software company, partner to provide a ASP.NET CMS application for the Windows 2008 hosting platform. Under the terms of the agreement, DiscountASP.NET customers can receive a 15% discount for the Kentico CMS for ASP.NET application. Customers can redeem this offer by using a promotion code available in the DiscountASP.NET Control Panel Marketplace. http://www.DiscountASP.NET http://www.kentico.com

Krugle, Inc. announced the immediate availability of the newest version of its search appliance for enterprise software teams. Krugle Enterprise 2.3 targets costly code maintenance issues by optimizing defect management across released projects and effectively coordinating organization-wide component development. The Krugle Enterprise code search platform enables software development organizations to uncover and profit from the insight and intellectual property contained in source code and related information. Krugle Enterprise 2.3 represents the first in a series of updates to the search appliance that will directly target deployment solutions and expand the utility of code search in software development. The applications of Krugle Enterprise address a broad range of development issues, but for many organizations the most compelling are a set of search-driven solutions that purport to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of code maintenance, including bug tracking and upkeep across disparate versions of the same original source code. New features in Krugle Enterprise 2.3 help developers efficiently identify and track similar code across projects and versions. Changes in this update include: Search for multiple lines of code. This "snippet" search results in ranked lists of exact and approximate matches, permitting detection of similar code across multiple branches or releases, and "cut and paste" duplication even when the source snippet has been altered; Associate custom data fields with each code file indexed by Krugle. This allows users to extend code file search queries with custom qualifiers, like file identifiers and links to other resources; and Support high capacity 4 drive configurations. This version of Krugle Enterprise appliance is capable of handling over 10 billion lines of source code per appliance, with new caching and processing methods for duplicate code modules. http://www.krugle.com/

Ektron Inc. and VML announced that they have established integration between Ektron's CMS400.NET content management solution and Microsoft's Silverlight. Silverlight is Microsoft's new cross-browser plug-in for delivering richer Web experiences to end-users, including video and animation. VML has produced a number of public Silverlight-based applications for Microsoft, including the Silverlight site, HelloSecureWorld. VML turned to partner Ektron to provide a framework for achieving this solution. The integration was written to support both Silverlight 1.0 and the 2.0 beta, thus allowing the solution to be deployed today as well as into the future, when 2.0 is released from beta. In support of the Silverlight technology, VML has a 15-member team of Silverlight developers and designers. Ektron has 35 engineers dedicated to Microsoft Technology and the Silverlight initiative. Both companies are also participating members in the Microsoft Silverlight Partner Initiative program. http://www.ektron.com

KnowledgeLake Inc., provider of document imaging and capture technologies for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc. announced the integration of KnowledgeLake Connect with the Fujitsu ScanSnap S300. The integration provides imaging, capture, storage and indexing for ECM with Microsoft SharePoint. KnowledgeLake Connect, electronic document imaging, capture and management software allows desktops to integrate with Microsoft SharePoint. Integration with Fujitsu ScanSnap S300, delivers the tools for everyday low-volume scanning. The ScanSnap S300 allows remote office users to save and index documents to SharePoint from any desktop application. http://knowledgelake.com

Alterian has announced the completion of its acquisition of Web Content Management software company, Mediasurface plc, including its products Morello and Immediacy. The addition of Mediasurface's web content capabilities will enable Alterian to expand its Marketing Services Platform to offer integrated analytics, content and execution. Whilst the new company will trade as Alterian, it will continue to invest in and support Mediasurface products and being integrated as key components of the Alterian Marketing Services Platform. This follows the strategy adopted by Alterian following its acquisition of email and online marketing software company Dynamics Direct in 2006. Through a combination of organic development and acquisition, Alterian has built an integrated marketing platform that delivers email, database, and operational marketing and reporting. http://www.alterian.com

Canto announced a set of updates for its Cumulus product line. First up and available for download now, Cumulus 7.5.4 offers a few minor updates and marks the end of the Cumulus 7.5 update schedule. Following shortly thereafter, Cumulus 7.6 will arrive, offering a wealth of new features and enhancements. Cumulus 7.5.4 is a free update available to all customers now using Cumulus 7.5. Most importantly, the update addresses an issue that affected a small number of customers who take advantage of the Cumulus Backup Manager. In addition, Cumulus 7.5.4 increases the performance of Cumulus Servers running in 64-bit Linux environments, and offers reliability enhancements for customers using central asset locations, or providing previews of Microsoft Office documents. Cumulus 7.6, an update available only to customers on active service contracts, will include all enhancements available in Cumulus 7.5.4, plus offer many new features and benefits requested by customers. Among those new features will be the ability to embed watermarks into images, and generate PDF previews and thumbnails without Adobe Acrobat installed, even via the Canto Web Clients. Additional features and benefits will be announced when the update ships. All customers who use the Cumulus Backup Manager should update to Cumulus 7.5.4 immediately. Customers on active service agreements who do not use the Cumulus Backup Manager can safely wait for Cumulus 7.6, if they prefer. Customers whose service agreements will soon expire (or have already expired) are encouraged to contact Canto or their Canto reseller to renew their policies in time to take advantage of the many new benefits of Cumulus 7.6. http://www.canto.com/portal

Bridgeline Software, Inc. announced that Indigio Group, Inc. has merged into Bridgeline Software. Founded in 1998, Indigio is a web development company that provides web application development, web design, usability, and search engine optimization services to its customers. Indigio's co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Tim Higgins, has joined Bridgeline Software's executive management team as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Bridgeline Software - Denver. Bridgeline Software acquired Indigio for a total of $6 million, including the purchase of approximately $250 thousand of Indigio's net working capital (cash, accounts receivable, less liabilities). The $6 million acquisition consisted of $600 thousand in cash, the opportunity to receive an additional $2.1 million in cash over a 14 quarter period based on certain minimum operating goals being achieved, and 1,127,810 shares of Bridgeline Software common stock. The Bridgeline Software common stock issued is subject to a 1 year lock-up agreement. Bridgeline Software believes the acquisition of Indigio will be accretive to earnings per share within the next 6 months. http://www.bridgelinesw.com

Equilibrium announced a strategic technology partnership with Extensis, a software developer that allows creative workgroups and professionals to streamline their workflow and securely manage their digital assets and fonts. In this technology partnership, Extensis will OEM Equilibrium's MediaRich Graphics engine for integration into a future release of Extensis Portfolio Server. The MediaRich engine will offer a more stable, scalable and faster solution while providing overall improved imaging capabilities from Portfolio and also add accelerated support of new file types and self service media processing capabilities in the future. Equilibrium's MediaRich media asset engine offers Portfolio users the ability to automate image, animation, sound and digital video production. http://www.extensis.com http://www.equilibrium.com

Microsoft announced they have reached an agreement to acquire Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company. Powerset will join their core Search Relevance team, remaining intact in San Francisco. Powerset brings with it natural language technology that complements other natural language processing technologies in Microsoft Research. Powerset also brings to Live Search a set of engineers and computational linguists with a wide range of experience from other search engines and research organizations like PARC (formerly Xerox PARC). That shared vision is to take Search to the next level by adding understanding of the intent and meaning behind the words in searches and webpages. http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2008/07/01/powerset-joins-live-search.aspx