August 2008 Archives

TWIKI.NET, a provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, announced a new release of open source TWiki. TWiki version 4.2 software includes a new WYSIWYG editor that is easy to use and can reduce the learning curve for first time users. It also offers support for an SQL-like query language to aide the end-user in building wiki applications. This software release coincides with the open source project migration to a new Sun Fire T5220 server, a Sun Fire X4450 server and a Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Gateway System. http://www.twiki.org/

Clearwell Systems, Inc. announced "Transparent Search," a set of capabilities in the processing, analysis, and review of electronically stored information (ESI). Available with version 4.0 of the Clearwell E- Discovery Platform, Transparent Search enables corporations and law firms to defensibly employ best practices during the e-discovery search process. Clearwell's Transparent Search delivers a new set of capabilities that enables a more defensible e-discovery search process, and reduces the over- and under-inclusiveness of keyword search. The major components of Transparent Search are as follows: Search Preview: Provides visibility into matching keyword variations for wildcard and stemming searches prior to running a search. Users can selectively include relevant variations or exclude false positive variations in their search query, removing irrelevant documents from search results; Search Filters: In real-time, users can filter results by individual queries or variations, and sample the filtered documents to evaluate the effectiveness of their search; Search Report: Creates a comprehensive report that documents all search criteria and provides detailed analytics of the results for both the overall search and the individual queries within the search; Multiple Query Search: Delivers the ability to run large numbers of queries simultaneously and provides reporting for both the overall search and the individual queries within the search. http://www.clearwellsystems.com

Ingeniux Corporation announced three new software-as-a-service packages for Ingeniux OnDemand. Ingeniux has also opened a second hosting facility. Ingeniux has provided hosted web content management since 2003. However, the Ingeniux OnDemand software-as-a-service solution has grown over the last 12-months. It now accounts for over 50% of web content management software sales for the company. Ingeniux has launched three new packages designed to meet the needs of small departmental to large enterprise deployments. This "Web content management-by-the-Slice" approach allows customers to purchase as much Ingeniux CMS software as needed and ensures dedicated hardware, bandwidth, and processing in the hosting environment. Ingeniux OnDemand Virtual Server packages include: Ingeniux On-Demand VM Essential - supports up to 15 users and 1 website; Ingeniux On-Demand VM Pro - supports up to 50 users and 3 websites; Ingeniux On-Demand VM Enterprise - supports up to 200 users and 20 websites. Ingeniux customers have control over their application environment. They can schedule software upgrades when they want, load custom applications, and integrate with back office applications. Dedicated hardware gives customers the flexibility to switch to an on-premise deployment. http://www.ingeniux.com

Recommind announced the availability of version 3.0 of its Axcelerate eDiscovery software. Axcelerate eDiscovery version 3.0 adds automatic language detection, integrated workflow management and an administration console. Axcelerate eDiscovery offers First-Pass Review and One-Click Coding functionality, which work with any language and any type of structured or unstructured data. This enables Axcelerate eDiscovery to automatically organize even multi-terabyte document sets prior to review for deep early case assessment while also automatically "pre-coding" an entire collection based on each document's subject matter and priority. With Axcelerate eDiscovery 3.0, Recommind has added automated language detection and filtering, including double-byte languages, allowing the system to index, cull, filter, search, review and code documents in myriad languages. In addition, Axcelerate eDiscovery 3.0 provides built-in workflow management and review administration. An integrated workflow console automates multi-tiered reviews and rules- based review batching, enabling more efficient resource management and multi-layered coding verification, while an administration console offers built-in quality control management, detailed reporting and system and performance monitoring and alerting. http://www.recommind.com

Zoho announced Zoho Share, a central repository that aggregates and lists all business and personal user content published in Zoho Show presentations, Zoho Sheet spreadsheets, and Zoho Writer documents and PDFs. Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, and Zoho Show give users several options to share and publish their content, including sharing it with select users, embedding it in a blog or making it public and accessible to anyone online. Published content, however, remains in the individual Zoho applications, with no single point of access to all published content, regardless of type or author. Zoho Share gathers all the Zoho users' content published in the individual Zoho applications and makes it available from a central interface. When Zoho Business moves out of private beta, Zoho Share will serve as the dashboard for all published content within an organization. When users first arrive at Zoho Share they will find the following tabs across the top of the homepage: Content - displays all presentations, documents, spreadsheets, and PDF files published by Zoho users. Each content type can be sorted by criteria that include featured, recent, popular, top rated, and license based; People - shows all Zoho users who have published content. These content authors can be sorted by top contributors, recent users, and all users. Clicking on an author's name reveals all content published by that author; My Area - displays all of the individual user's files, both private and public. Users can also edit their files and publish content that was previously private; Upload - lets users publish desktop files directly to Zoho Share. Users can define the license type for their uploaded content. From the Upload page, users can select from "all rights reserved," "public domain," and six variations of "attribution." Users do not need a Zoho account to view published content on Zoho Share. Publishing content, however, requires a Zoho account as does posting messages and adding comments. http://www.zoho.com, http://www.adventnet.com

XyEnterprise announced the release of ContentaView 3.6, an update to their software solution suite for the intelligent delivery of interactive, textual and multimedia content via CD-ROM or the Web. This new version now features a web-based update server, providing a universal means for updating all digital publications with a simple internet connection. The update server in ContentaView 3.6 makes it easier to push content updates from the server to the desktop and ensures that users are working with the correct version of their publication. It also allows for unattended updates to be performed at pre-determined intervals. Because these new features in ContentaView 3.6 are web-based, they do not require any additional hardware or software. Also included in ContentaView 3.6 is a tracking mechanism that compiles an audit trail of every user who connects to the server and every update that is downloaded. This tracking mechanism provides up-to-date information about all end users along with the publications, versions, and historical information in each client record. Additional capabilities of ContentaView 3.6 include a new generic export tool that allows a user to export the XML into any desired file format, such as RTF, Excel, Word, CSV and plain text, to update files and accommodating users not familiar with XML. The new release of ContentaView features an improved search capability that permits end-users to search for full text or categorical content using phrase searching, search stemming, search excerpts or saved searches. Support for the S1000D process data module in ContentaView 3.6 means users can perform dynamic troubleshooting using the product's built-in logic engine and can create their own data set based on a sample data set, provided by XyEnterprise, which shows the major components of the process data module in action. http://www.xyenterprise.com

Xerox Announced DocuShare Express - Xerox's content management software, is an electronic filing system that provides storage, retrieval and sharing of information. Its Web-based folders can accommodate paper and digital content ranging from scanned documents, spreadsheets and Word documents to e-mails, blogs and wikis. DocuShare Express also includes a quick install process that uploads the program and requires little technical knowledge to install. DocuShare Express also includes an imaging and scanning feature, which enables documents to be uploaded to specific DocuShare folders using special scan cover sheets. Easy upgrades to DocuShare or DocuShare CPX allow SMBs to add more advanced content management capabilities as necessary. Xerox has also added scanning features to its entire DocuShare content management platform through an Extensible Interface Platform (EIP) connector. By touching the screen of an EIP-enabled Xerox multifunction device, users can scan documents directly into DocuShare folders. The EIP connector, a one-step scan solution, offers efficiencies and environmental gains, since paper files can be viewed, shared and searched online without further duplication or distribution. http://docushare.xerox.com

Kentico Software released a free version of its product, Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. The Free Edition allows customers to build and manage Web sites, online stores, intranets and Web 2.0 community sites. Previously, Kentico has offered only commercial licenses of its software. The new Free Edition supports WYSIWYG editing, search engine optimization, news, blogs, RSS feeds, newsletters, forums, polls, online forms, a product catalog with shopping cart, an image gallery and many other features. It also comes bundled with three Web site templates - a corporate site, online store and personal site. Web developers can create their own web sites with custom design and they can extend the system with custom code. The Free Edition can be used for both commercial and personal sites without any license fees. It is intended primarily for smaller Web sites with up to 1000 pages and a single content editor. The users of the Free Edition are required to put the Kentico logo to the footer of their Web site. http://www.kentico.com/

Six Apart announced the availability of Movable Type 4.2 and with it the debut of Movable Type Pro (MT Pro), a product that combines Movable Type's advanced blogging tools and content management system with social networking features so any website or blog owner can create a social network by letting their readers and visitors become members of their sites, with profiles and the ability to rate content and follow each other. Movable Type Pro makes building a community possible for anyone, including publishers, individual bloggers, educational institutions, small and medium-sized businesses or large enterprises. Site owners can build community blogs, in which members create their own posts, or forums, in which members participate using the same profile and avatars used throughout the site. The release of Movable Type 4.2 introduces major improvements to the Movable Type platform, including: enhanced performance: common tasks are "up to 100 times faster" than on previous versions; simplified default templates that make it easy to get up and running quickly; and a built-in free open source antispam product, TypePad Antispam. In addition, improved search and threaded commenting are included in the release. Movable Type 4.2 is available under a free, open source license or as part of Movable Type Pro. Six Apart also offers Movable Type Enterprise, which adds support for Oracle and SQL Server databases and LDAP on top of Movable Type Pro features. Movable Type is available in English, Japanese, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish. It is free to bloggers and to K-12 schools, with an option to purchase support for $99. It is available to businesses in 5-author and 20-author licenses, for $395.95 and $1499.95, respectively. Discounts for non-profit institutions are available. The free, open source version of Movable Type can be downloaded from the Movable Type community site at http://www.movabletype.org. http://www.movabletype.com, http://www.sixapart.com/

X1 Technologies announced its strategy for customers who require a unified enterprise search solution that encompasses Microsoft SharePoint 2007. The strategy consists of two new X1 Content Connectors for Microsoft SharePoint 2007, one server based and one that connects directly to the X1 Professional Client. The first to be generally available is the new X1 Content Connector for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 that works in conjunction with the X1 Enterprise Server to provide a centralized search solution for the enterprise. This new Content Connector indexes all data stored within SharePoint while providing a unified (a.k.a Federated) method for searching data both within SharePoint and throughout the enterprise. Enterprises can search for any type of content that may reside in SharePoint, email, personal computers, file servers or enterprise applications. Congruent to the server based Content Connector for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 is the new client-side Content Connector, now available for beta, that allows users of the X1 Professional Client to directly query the Microsoft SharePoint 2007 search engine without the need for a server component. The difference with this direct query to SharePoint 2007 versus the server based connector is in the indexing and controls over the viewable data. The Content Connector for the X1 Professional Client will be limited to the access provided by Microsoft SharePoint query protocols and does not provide the full X1 query language capabilities. In contrast, the new server based Content Connector provides indexing and full X1 search capabilities to all data within Microsoft SharePoint 2007. http://www.x1.com

Armedia announced a formal, full- service SharePoint Services Practice. Armedia offers expertise with both SharePoint and Documentum, as well as the experience in developing and implementing unified, enterprise-level content management strategies based on "best practices" and experience. Armedia has also recently upgraded its Caliente! product so that it is compatible with SharePoint. Caliente! is a high-volume, scalable solution providing configurable unattended batch imports. Caliente! can process millions of documents with metadata daily. Caliente! "hot" folders watch for changes and move data from workstations to repositories automatically. http://www.aremdia.com

MAVRIC Media introduced the MAVRIC Media MatchBox, a content management and distribution appliance incorporating MAVRIC Media's media management, production and file transport tools. The MatchBox features a distributed database and file transport architecture designed to increase the efficiency of the digital media workflow by taking advantage of local and networked computing bandwidth and resources. The distributed database architecture identifies the number of MatchBoxes in each secure, peer to peer network, the more MatchBoxes in an organization's network, the faster content is delivered and synchronized. The MatchBox features built-in Gigabit Ethernet and Wifi or can connect through Firewire or any of the four high speed USB ports. Content is automatically tagged using source embedded EXIF and ID3 metadata and deposited into a customizable database with auto generated thumbnails. For video files, two proxy files are auto-created for desktop viewing (flash) and display on mobile devices such as the iPhone (MP4). The MatchBox stores up to 320 GB of securely encrypted data internally with unlimited online storage on an auto-mirrored hosted database. The MatchBox API supports connectivity with 3rd party applications for software add-ons. http://www.mavricmedia.com

Intalio, Inc. announced the release of Intalio|BPMS 5.2 with new features aimed at enterprise customers. The new services available in Intalio|BPMS 5.2 address enterprise requirements for monitoring and managing business activities, support for the latest industry standards, and increased stability and performance integrated on a wide array of platforms. Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) provides corporations with a unified view of their business through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), dashboards, and reports. Including BAM within Intalio|BPMS 5.2 allows companies to define their KPIs in Intalio|BPMS 5.2 for real-time analyses of the data necessary to run core business functions. Dashboard components can be configured to track that information in easily understood data visualization tools such as charts and graphs. The reports can also be exported and shared via PDF documents and spreadsheets. Intalio|BPMS 5.2 is now certified on over 300 combinations of hardware, operating systems, application servers, and databases. Integration with other applications via web services has been simplified through automatic importing of the code that defines the service, the Web Services Definition Language (WSDL). http://www.intalio.com

DocuLex announced the release of Archive Studio WebSearch 4.1. New features to the content management software include SharePortal, which allows the knowledge user to securely share content and collaborate with third party individuals or organizations without user logins. SharePortal can be utilized for sharing large or zipped files with outside vendors, customers and business associates. Automated Expirations were added to provide a self management effort of eliminating temporary access to invitations, files and folders made available by SharePortal permission and granted by WebSearch users. Workflow enabling Auto Notification is now available for assignment to files and folders. Users or communities may be automatically notified if files or folders are added, deleted, checked-out, edited, etc. Workflow Inbox and folder routing is also enabled, allowing users to customize folder content to meet their business process requirements for routing documents and notifying users to perform their assigned activity. The Records Retention addition to WebSearch provides an automated process of classifying a record to a particular records series. The automated Records Retention processes include management reports, shredding, off-line archiving and legal hold capabilities. WebSearch Browser-Based file indexing accommodates the business process of adding documents via MFP, FAX or electronically generated files. The process of generating index values for records can be performed as a post process from anywhere with via a browser and secure access to documents. http://www.doculex.com

Google announced a new version of the Google Search Appliance integrated hardware and software solution. In addition to capacity and performance improvements, the new Google Search Appliance offers improved search quality, enhanced personalization, security and language support. Features include: Indexes 10 million documents in a single appliance; Search across all enterprise content - Universal search capabilities for secure access to web servers, portals, file shares, databases, real-time business data, and enterprise content systems including EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, OpenText Livelink, and Microsoft SharePoint; Personalization - New scoring policies allow administrators to adjust search results for different user groups, based on department or function; Advanced Biasing - Administrators can now bias results based on metadata; Alerts - Employees can subscribe to email alerts for topics and documents of interest; Advanced reporting - The search appliance now offers advanced search analytics for every query; Enterprise Labs Search Innovation - The Google Enterprise Labs site gives businesses early access to the latest search experiments in order to evaluate and provide feedback; Native Support for Kerberos - Google Search Appliance supports Kerberos to provide single authentication for Sharepoint, file shares and non-Windows-based content systems, in addition to Windows-based systems; International Expansion - International support expanding to include: administrative functions in four new languages (English-UK, Portuguese-Portugal, Turkish, Vietnamese); contextual spell checking for all end users in Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch; and contextual query expansion for all end users in Dutch. http://www.google.com

Curl Inc. announced that it has completed the final phase of its Eclipse development strategy with the general availability release of Curl Development tools for Eclipse (CDE). The CDE is a set of Eclipse plug-ins that provides an environment for developing programs in the Curl language and on the current release of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform, Version 6.0. With the full release of the CDE, programmers can see features of the Curl platform within the Eclipse development environment. The CDE includes a language sensitive editor and search, integration into the Eclipse debugger as well as the Eclipse workspace for Curl projects and preferences, and documentation. Additionally, it also allows Curl program deployment and includes tools such as a VLE extension editor, profiler, code coverage, class browser, inspector and Hypertext Transfer Protocol Overview (HTTP) monitor. The CDE is available for Windows, Linux and Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4 SDKs or any Eclipse-based IDE based on Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4. http://www.curl.com/products_cde.php

IBM announced new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software designed to help clients meet challenging legal discovery requirements. The new IBM eDiscovery solutions extend IBM's ECM software platform to enable organizations to take control of electronically stored information across the enterprise. IBM's eDiscovery software helps companies manage the eDiscovery process by enabling them to automate the collecting, searching and classifying information across multiple content sources, while maintaining security and the ability to track changes. The new eDiscovery software integrates with IBM's auto-classification and records management technology to help IT departments manage information for compliance and electronic discovery requests. IBM eDiscovery software also integrates with IBM's content-centric business process management (BPM) capabilities to help organizations standardize, control and automate legal discovery workflows and enable third-party components as needed. The main component of IBM's solution is the new IBM eDiscovery Manager, which enables organizations to control the eDiscovery process by bringing key eDiscovery tasks in house. This helps clients more easily manage electronically stored information; provide earlier insights into collected evidence; and prioritize downstream evidence review, analysis and production. eDiscovery Manager helps authorized IT and legal users search, cull, hold and export case-relevant email evidence. Utilizing IBM's ECM technology as a base, eDiscovery Manager helps customers address the crushing volumes of uncontrolled, electronically stored information and enable a more productive, agile response to litigation. IBM eDiscovery Manager utilizes IBM's email archiving solutions, leverages IBM's ECM repositories, and supports an easy-to-use interface. http://www.ibm.com

SoftCare announced the introduction of its new publishing platform with the codename "Xanthos." SoftCare will first present its new publishing platform at the SoftCare User Conference in Hamburg, to be held on October 10, 2008. The public introduction of "Xanthos" is scheduled for the IFRA Expo in Amsterdam October 27 to 30, 2008. The new workflow model can be customized, takes interdependencies between individual media channels into account, and is able to control content of the corresponding output channel, such as Web, print, mobile media and IPTV. SoftCare is taking new integrative approaches, using open standard interfaces and implementing available technologies. This makes "Xanthos" quick and easy to integrate with complex systems, such as asset-management or advertising- and page-planning software. The system also allows for the use of plug-ins from completely different areas and vendors. With these developments, SoftCare is responding to shorter cycles of software implementation, while placing priority on intuitive interfaces and user-friendliness. http://www.softcare.de

StoredIQ, Inc. announced enhanced support for the EMC Documentum platform. StoredIQ's appliance now offers the ability to locate and insert unstructured information as records into the most current version of EMC Documentum and place those records under litigation hold leveraging Documentum's Retention Policy Services. With this, StoredIQ provides a solution for eDiscovery, information governance and risk management. The StoredIQ Intelligent Information Management appliance is designed to manage the functional intersection of records management, eDiscovery and storage management. As part of an overall information lifecycle management strategy, StoredIQ provides a holistic classification, business policy and action framework to execute litigation hold, storage optimization and document retention and destruction policies. StoredIQ provides support for EMC's Centera and Celerra storage platforms in addition to Documentum. With StoredIQ, companies can index, search, tag, move or copy content to and from Documentum servers. From a records management perspective, StoredIQ can discover electronically stored information (ESI) located on file shares, Microsoft SharePoint, and desktops/laptops, classify and deduplicate unmanaged ESI, and automatically insert those items as new records into Documentum. StoredIQ can automatically place those records under litigation hold using Documentum's advanced hold functionality. When collecting and inserting ESI with Documentum, StoredIQ can preserve a variety of Documentum attributes including object name, object ID, version, title, author, keywords, dates, size and more. http://www.storediq.com/

Alfresco Software announced the availability of Alfresco Labs (Beta) 3. Alfresco Labs 3, formerly called Alfresco Community, offers Microsoft users greater choice by providing them with an open source fully-compatible SharePoint repository. With Alfresco Labs 3, companies can leverage existing investments in Linux and Java as well as Microsoft .NET connection software to reduce their SharePoint total cost of ownership and maximize their hardware and software investments. The Alfresco Labs 3 repository offers: Microsoft Office SharePoint protocol support requiring no additional client installation; Alfresco Surf platform for building REST-oriented web applications and collaborative web sites; RESTful API delivering content and collaboration services for customizing and developing Alfresco applications; Preview of Alfresco Share, a new social computing application; Document library which scales to over 100 million documents. Alfresco's new Surf platform is built on Alfresco Web Scripts technology, which utilizes light-weight scripting and templating. The Surf platform is designed to work in a number of different web environments, as well as a Web Part in Microsoft SharePoint Portal. It includes content oriented components designed around the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library and Adobe Flash for uploads and previewing of content and other information. The new user interface components allow for users to develop new collaborative web applications. http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Labs_3