October 2008 Archives

Inmedius announced its support for S1000D Issue 4.0 authoring and management functionality. The company expects to deliver new functionality and support in its Inmedius S1000D Publishing Suite by the end of this year. The Inmedius S1000D Publishing Suite is a fully integrated, seven module solution set, supporting the entire S1000D documentation lifecycle. The software addresses every facet of an S1000D project to capture, create, manage and deploy technical information. A new Inmedius Webinar entitled, S1000D Issue 4.0: What It Means to You, provides an overview of what's new and different in the Specification, along with how the S1000D Publishing Suite addresses the creation and management of technical data in the new format. Inmedius' ASD S1000D Issue 4.0 Pocket Guide was published last week. The 58-page Pocket Guide provides a reference to S1000D. http://www.inmedius.com

Open Text announced a new release of its Web Solutions. The new release delivers a set of Web 2.0 tools integrated to give customers security and control over social media. Open Text Web Solutions lets customers manage globally accessible public Web sites in concert with internal Web initiatives from a single solution. It allows for an engaging user experience by integrating, managing and optimizing content. Content can be managed, translated and distributed across dozens of countries and sites globally. Core capabilities include: Experience Services - From custom portals to role-based applications, deliver content to any target, channel, device or audience with context and personalization at its heart; Interactive Services - Open Text Web Solutions leverage tools to create, manage, localize and design a Web experience with ease of use and to deploy Web 2.0 applications for social interaction with security rights and compliance; Optimization Services - Customers can gain insights from analytics dashboards and search engine optimization to offer streamlined processes to publish content from anywhere to anywhere; Library Services - Basic content services for document collaboration let enterprises leverage existing libraries and repositories, including Microsoft SharePoint and SAP. http://www.opentext.com

MadCap Software announced its roadmap for supporting the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standard. With MadCap, authors will have a complete authoring and publishing suite of tools for creating, managing, translating and publishing DITA content. The products will use MadCap's XML editor, which provides an graphical user interface for creating featured documentation that hides the XML being generated below. In the first phase of its DITA initiative, MadCap Software will add DITA support to four products: MadCap Flare, MadCap Blaze, MadCap Analyzer for reporting, MadCap Lingo. With MadCap Flare and Blaze, authors will be able to import DITA projects and topics as raw XML content, and using the XML editor, change the style sheets to get the desired look and structure. Authors will then have the option to publish the output as DITA content; print formats, such as Microsoft Word, DOCX and XPS or Adobe FrameMaker, PDF and AIR; and a range of HTML and XHTML online formats MadCap Analyzer will work directly with DITA topics and projects to allow authors to analyze and report on the content. Similarly, MadCap Lingo will import data directly from DITA topics and projects, so that it can be translated. The translated material can be published as DITA content or exported to a Flare or Blaze project. In the second phase, MadCap will enable authors to natively create and edit DITA topics in Flare and Blaze, as well as MadCap X-Edit, MadCap's software family for creating short documents, contributing content to other documents, and reviewing content. Like Flare and Blaze, X-Edit will also support the ability to import and publish DITA information. In the third phase, MadCap will add DITA support to its forthcoming MadCap Team Server. This will make it possible to manage and share DITA content across teams and projects, as well as schedule DITA publishing. http://www.madcapsoftware.com

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced the release of Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0. The latest certified build adds Alfresco Share, a new collaborative content solution, a draft implementation of CMIS specification, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol support to Alfresco's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform. Alfresco's Web 2.0 functionality enables organizations to rollout collaborative content solutions; Organizations can support virtual team collaboration for home and distributed working, as well as support initiatives for employee knowledge retention and access best practice information. Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0 includes Alfresco Share, which is built on Alfresco's ECM repository and delivers collaborative content management. Alfresco Share helps to simplify capturing, sharing and retrieval of information across virtual teams. http://www.alfresco.com/

Sitemasher says their new online website platform puts the focus on the website and not the programming and IT development needed to create it. Sitemasher launched a partner program aimed at firms focusing on website design, development, and brand marketing and consulting. Traditionally a site requires several people, including a designer, developer, back-end IT administrator and a project owner, to implement a full project. But the Sitemasher website platform helps designers to create full-featured custom sites that can be implemented "without programming and IT integration". Sitemasher's partnership program has three tiers depending on the number of websites published by the website design firm. Benefits of the program vary by tier and include listing as a partner on the Sitemasher partnership page, customer leads, a free subscription for the design firm's website, varying levels of support, and volume discounts or commissions. http://www.sitemasher.com

An appliance built to eliminate five common knowledge-sharing obstacles was announced this week by Yakabod, Inc. Version 3.0 of the Yakabox Knowledge Network, a workgroup collaboration system, has an interface so "intuitive that users are productive the first time they log on". The Yakabox Knowledge Network meets National Security Agency Protection Level (PL) 3 security requirements. The Yakabox3.0 interface makes navigation straightforward. The system "learns" which topics, events and categories each team member deems relevant, then delivers that information directly to the desktop Activity Viewer. Unlike data-centric architectures, the Yakabox captures "soft" knowledge: the invaluable experiences and insights teams generate every day, then lose in shared drives and in-boxes. http://www.yakabod.com

ZyLAB announced the release of ZyIMAGE 5.0 Service Pack 7, which adds new features and enhancements to ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform (IAP). ZyIMAGE IAP is a complete XML-based system that provides a foundation for the archiving and long-term management of organizations' critical information assets, including digitized paper documents, electronic files, e-mail and attachments, and multimedia. The IAP's core technology enables users to find, access, and organize specific data through a standard browser. Users can add additional modules to create the exact solutions they require for specific types of projects or business processes including records management, e- discovery, e-mail archiving, knowledge management and workflow. The ZyIMAGE Internet search engine integration module enables users to post and share information available in ZyLAB Archives to Internet Search Engines such as Google and Yahoo. Sitemaps are used to alert Internet search engines about the existence of ZyLAB documents. The ZyIMAGE TIFF production module converts electronic documents into a scanned format (TIFF and XML) for archiving purposes. With Search folders, users can now create a table of contents based on predefined queries, eliminating the need to manually maintain a table of contents. With the new ZyIMAGE Service Monitor, it is possible to monitor multiple index and OCR servers and automatically recover and restart them in a network environment. There is also deeper language support for East European and Catalan added as interface languages. http://www.zylab.com

IBM announced new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that are designed to help organizations achieve greater business agility and workplace effectiveness. Using a services-oriented environment, clients can now deploy solution applications within days instead of months. IBM Agile ECM Software Portfolio, Key enhancements include: IBM FileNet P8 4.5 is a unified ECM platform that combines content with Business Process Management (BPM) and compliance capabilities. Highlights include: IBM FileNet Business Process Manager 4.5 is an offering for managing content-centric business processes. It supports business process modeling and simulation, promotes business user and IT collaboration, and provides tools for agile ECM application development, utilizing Smart SOA and Web 2.0 technologies such as mashups. IBM FileNet Content Manager 4.5 is designed to provide clients with a scalable, single content catalog that embeds IBM's content- centric BPM and compliance capabilities into an ECM platform operating on content in multiple repositories. The FileNet Content Manager enables integration with Lotus Quickr, Microsoft Office 2007, and Microsoft SharePoint. It also manages all types of digitized content across multiple platforms, databases and applications. The new offering provides active content capabilities which allow content in CM8 to participate in IBM FileNet BPM 4.5 processes. IBM Content Manager on Demand (CMOD) 8.4.1 provides enterprise report management. The latest CMOD offering includes integration to IBM FileNet P8 for federated Records Management and BPM applications. In addition, the new IBM ECM products use the same technology as IBM's recently released compliance and discovery offerings. IBM's records management offerings are a prescriptive set of deployment and management practices, tools and best practices to eliminate deployment complexity, mitigate risks associated with lack of best practices and industry skill and knowledge shortages. IBM's eDiscovery products help clients take the cost out of electronic discovery management. IBM FileNet P8 integration with IBM Content Analyzer enables organizations to increase the return on their enterprise content investment by analyzing unstructured content together with structured data to gain valuable information. http://www.ibm.com

Liquid Machines, Inc. announced the release of its Liquid Machines Gateway for the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution from Research In Motion (RIM). The Liquid Machines Gateway for BlackBerry enterprise customers adds features that allow them to control access to, and usage of, mobile communications that have been protected using Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS). BlackBerry smartphone users can now send and receive RMS protected messages and attachments using the same RMS policies available in Microsoft Outlook. The Liquid Machines Gateway extends Microsoft RMS information protection to a BlackBerry smartphone in conjunction with BlackBerry Enterprise Server, enabling customers to persistently protect emails and attachments with encryption and usage controls that travel with the data. This persistent protection ensures that mobile communications can only be viewed by authorized users. Liquid Machines persistently protects emails and attachments at the user-level by restricting unauthorized actions such as view, forward, reply, select/ paste, and can automatically expire content based on corporate usage and retention policies. Major new and enhanced features in the Liquid Machines Gateway for RMS 7.0 include: Persistently Protects Messages on the BlackBerry Smartphone; Enhances Security for PIN-to-PIN Messaging; Blocks Copy/Paste Operations; Enforces Expiration of Emails; Supports latest BlackBerry Platform; Works with International Character Sets. www.liquidmachines.com

Cabinet NG announced CNG-Web. Available November 1st, 2008, CNG-Web gives Cabinet NG customers the ability to access essential business documents anywhere, anytime using a Web browser. CNG-Web extends the security of CNG-SAFE, Cabinet NG's Shared Access Filing Environment, to give users the ability to safely access and search cabinets and folders and view and print documents from virtually any location. Furthermore, CNG-Web is .net, SQL and IIS compatible, so it works with most networks. Existing Cabinet NG customers with Concurrent, Named and View-only licenses can purchase CNG-Web and work on line without buying additional licenses. Web-View license bundles support logging in through a browser and viewing authorized documents are available in 5 and 10 user packs. CNG-SAFE's automated document management platform gives SMBs what they need for electronic document management in a single package: advanced data protection, user interface and the ability to integrate with most third party applications. http://www.cabinetng.com

Canto announced new versions of Quark integration products: QXP Companion, QXP Server Companion and QPS Companion. The products offer integrations with QuarkXPress, QuarkXPress Server and the Quark Publishing System, respectively. New in the product line is support for QuarkXPress 8, QuarkXPress Server 8 and Quark Publishing System versions 7.4 and 8. Integration via Canto's QPS Repository Adapter offers users of the Quark Publishing System complete access to the DAM functionality of Cumulus. Experience with Quark products has enabled Canto's Professional Services division, working with Canto Partner RHpro, to build a large Cumulus/Quark integration for an education publisher in Portugal based on the new product releases. http://www.rhpro.pt

MultiCorpora announced its newest version of MultiTrans. The newest version 4.4 of MultiTrans delivers WordAlign technology which allows users to instantly retrieve translated terminology from previously translated documents. This advancement in language technology was made possible through collaborative development efforts with the Canadian National Research Center. The newest version enables components of machine translation to be integrated into its software suite. This offers additional translation options for organizations who consider machine translation as part of their business model. MultiCorpora has also leveraged Oracle's technology to recycle translations from over 250 file formats and shorten file conversion speeds. These new MultiTrans features dovetail with the turn-key, fully integrated workflow processes previously released in version 4.3 of MultiTrans (2007). http://www.multicorpora.com

ADXSTUDIO announced the availability of ADXSTUDIO CMS v6.2, the latest version of their web content management system. ADXSTUDIO CMS v6.2 features a document provider model, new functionality for content managers and developers, and a full Wiki template. ADXSTUDIO CMS v6.2 offers website developers capabilities that can simplify the development process and presents content managers with new interfaces that help increase their level of control over website content and configuration management. The new SQL Document Provider no longer requires Active Directory ACLs and removes the need to extend an organization's Active Directory schema. This new model also reduces installation complexity and improves the site migration process by eliminating the need to synchronize AD and SQL backups. info@adxstudio.com

Syncro Soft Ltd, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor, has announced the immediate availability of version 10 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger. One of the most important additions in Oxygen XML Editor and Author version 10 is the bundling of the schema-aware XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor from Saxonica. Saxon-SA is now available in all Oxygen editions at no additional cost. Version 10 comes with a large number of improvements including a new XML instance generator, better content completion offering proposals from included or imported XML Schema or XSLT modules, a better integration of the Intel XML Software Suite and updates the document frameworks and XML, XML Schema, XSLT, XPath and FOP processors. The SVN support was also updated to include Subversion 1.5 features. The support for commercial databases was updated to support the latest versions of the databases: MarkLogic 4.0, Oracle 11g R1, SQL Server 2008, DB2 9.5, XHive 8. Oxygen XML Editor and XSLT Debugger is available immediately in three editions: Multi-platform Academic/Non-profit license costs USD 48.00, Multi-platform Professional license costs USD 299.00, and Multi-platform Enterprise license costs USD 366.00. Oxygen 10 can be freely evaluated for 30 days. http://www.oxygenxml.com/

SpringCM announced the immediate availability of Version 4.5 of its Software-as-a-Service content management system. The new release includes 54 features and enhancements designed to improve document-centric processing and the SpringCM user experience. The newly added Managers Workflow Console allows managers and supervisors to view summary data for all work assigned to their department, including completed tasks and work- in-progress. Enhanced point-and-click Custom Reporting provides data for driving process improvements. Reports can be generated on sub- processes or end-to-end processes and can include totals, averages and standard deviation. New filters available in Document History enable the user to focus on specific historical events. Moving documents in SpringCM is easier with the addition of drag and drop functionality that allows users to move documents, folders and eForms with one mouse click. A new Account Security section has been added to give the administrator more granular control over SpringCM account security policies. Other improvements added include the ability to separate PDF documents such as faxes into multiple documents, creation of saved searches to speed up common search tasks, expanded options for bulk upload and migration, and enhancements to the Advanced Workflow activity functions. http:// www.springcm.com/

Open Text Corporation introduced an expansion of its content lifecycle management (CLM) services for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, extending the solution to its eDOCS customers. CLM Services for SharePoint, eDOCS Edition by SeeUnity will provide eDOCS customers integrated records management and archiving capabilities to improve compliance initiatives. Open Text provides CLM services for customers to manage the lifecycle of all their business content, from creation to disposition, with the ability to apply records retention rules. Customers can manage information from different systems centrally, with a single set of records management rules to help meet regulatory and business requirements. The services can be applied to information in a variety of systems, not only Open Text repositories, but also SAP, email, shared drives and content created and managed in SharePoint Server 2007. Open Text extends the built-in SharePoint Server 2007 enterprise content management capabilities by providing content lifecycle management services across content in all SharePoint sites and other enterprise repositories. Organizations gain the collaborative and enterprise content management capabilities of SharePoint Server 2007. This latest edition extends the services for SharePoint Server 2007 to eDOCS customers, allowing them to manage content created in SharePoint Server 2007 more effectively. Organizations can develop compliance solutions governing electronic content, including email, file systems, and other record-generating environments. http://www.opentext.com

LTU technologies announced a new version of its LTU engine, that packages LTU's suite of image and video content control and search tools into one platform, using a single application programming interface (API). Designed for government agencies and commercial enterprises, LTU engine powers the technology to control, organize, search, or identify images and video within large databases. The platform now also features new local matching and color search capabilities. Local matching enables the user to detect small, common parts between two images, or logos, within an image or video clip. Color search enables the user to sort and identify images according to various shades of color, compute color palettes for collections of objects or images or suggest color arrangements based on the colors used within a collection. With the integration of LTU's multimedia content control and search tools, law enforcement agencies worldwide identify inappropriate and illegal content on seized computers, most often related to child pornography. Commercial enterprises have also deployed LTU's solutions to monitor the image and video content on their own corporate networks, as well as protect intellectual property in the form of brand logos, proprietary documents and other visual assets vulnerable to copyright infringement. http://www.ltutech.com

Interwoven, Inc. announced the availability of Interwoven Optimost Adaptive Targeting, designed to enhance the ability of businesses to identify the best combination of content for each Web visitor based on a wide-range of audience characteristics and behaviors. Adaptive Targeting joins Interwoven's current solutions to create a set of targeting offerings, providing a ability to identify new audience segments, continually refine existing segments, and deliver optimized content to every visitor. Interwoven Optimost Adaptive Targeting enables marketers to: Discover new segments of site visitors; Learn more about current visitor segments; Respond quickly with relevant experiences and content. Adaptive Targeting aides marketers with control and insight into the segmentation process, and it mines all major categories of visitor attributes: Context - How the visitor arrives at the Website (e.g., search keyword); Geography - Information about the visitor's physical location; Time - When the visitor accesses the site (e.g., during business or free time); Demographic - Known or assumed attributes of the visitor, such as age, income, or gender; Behavioral - Current and previously collected Web browsing activity; Visitor Entry - Voluntary information entered by online visitors (e.g., travel booking dates); Profile - Pre-existing customer information derived from online and offline activities (e.g., account information, address, products owned, or most recent purchase). http://www.interwoven.com/

Saba Software announced an enterprise social networking platform - Saba Social. Saba Social combines a personal profile and competency framework with real-time collaboration and social networking tools to capture knowledge and connect people with expertise. Saba Social is designed to enable organizations to engage employees, partners and customers more effectively, build connected corporate communities, and accelerate knowledge exchange and information flow. By integrating Saba Social with Saba Centra, real-time collaboration and Web conferencing will be linked to social networks, providing users with "always on" collaboration and presence. Saba Social will enable users to view profiles of session attendees, create connections and build knowledge networks to create, discover, rate and share a wide variety of content. Saba Social will also offer search capabilities to locate expertise as well as formal and informal learning assets located within the Saba Knowledge Base. Saba Social is designed to combine the following features to capture knowledge and connect people to expertise: Social networking tools - blogs, communities of practice, wikis, discussion boards and social connection capabilities will enable people to conduct informal knowledge exchange, build connected communities and extend blended learning; Community and enterprise governance - ratings, rankings, flagging and tagging will provide community governance of formal and informal information; Real-time collaboration with Saba Centra - integration to Web conferencing and collaboration solution will make it easier to drive increased community participation and lower the barriers to contribution; Rich people profile reflecting formally assessed employee experience and capability - information captured through the person profile in the Saba Foundation, including competencies or certifications held, job roles, or career interests, will provide expertise validation to aid in identifying appropriate mentors or trusted advisors; Integrated to formal HR processes - will enable informal contributions to be considered as part of formal people processes, including performance reviews, learning, and workforce planning or compensation decisions. http://www.saba.com/sabasocial

XBRL US announced that they had completed the set of data elements which will be used to put key mutual fund information contained in the risk/return summary section of the prospectus, as well as investment company portfolio holdings information, in structured data format. XML-based data tags will make mutual fund and investment company data more useable, searchable and extractable, so that investors are better able to make informed and responsible decisions with confidence. The risk/return summary contains key information about a fund's investment objectives and strategies, costs, risks, and past performance. Mutual funds and other investment companies are required to disclose their portfolio holdings in their schedule of investments as part of their financial statements. XBRL formatting of this content may make mutual fund disclosure more accurate and improve accessibility for investors and others. All users and creators of investment company information are encouraged to download the full taxonomy or review it in an XBRL Review Tool that allows visitors to provide comments on the individual elements. Comments received will be reviewed and potentially incorporated into the final taxonomy that is likely to be used in mutual fund filing starting in 2009. The comment period will close on November 24, 2008. http://www.xbrl.us.

Autonomy announced Autonomy ControlPoint, an information governance solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). Autonomy ControlPoint facilitates governance tasks, including classification, preservation or disposition of information assets based on its ability to understand the meaning of information being collaborated across different SharePoint servers and other content repositories. With the ability to understand more than 1,000 file- types, the new Autonomy solution centrally manages any information asset and applies legal hold and disposition from across different SharePoint servers and other repositories located on a company's WAN. The solution delivers a broad set of functionalities specifically designed to address the information governance challenges with MOSS, including: Integration into SharePoint environment - More than 400 IDOL connectors are available to ensure that users are able to seamlessly retrieve over 1000+ file content types in MOSS securely and efficiently; Dashboard views enabling automated information management - Customized dashboards provide alerting and transparency to information management processes within MOSS; increases visibility and streamlines governance actions like legal hold and disposition; Management of all SharePoint content in place to eliminate the need to replicate content from other servers and re-architect SharePoint environments to support governance needs. It also helps ensure that information related to a legal hold or regulatory matter is not accidentally deleted while in use; Delivers enhanced analytics, security and reporting mechanisms , ans support for clustering, faceted navigation and visualizations. http://www.autonomy.com/controlpoint

Recommind announced the immediate availability of its Insite Legal Hold solution. Insite Legal Hold helps enterprises explore, preserve and collect electronically stored information (ESI) to prepare for and comply with litigation, regulatory oversight and investigations. Insite Legal Hold allows enterprises to explore information where it resides, before it is collected and placed on hold in response to an investigation or lawsuit. This helps Insite Legal Hold improve the speed and accuracy of the legal hold process. Platform-agnostic and customizable, Insite Legal Hold features pre-integration with numerous enterprise data sources, including content management systems, email and archiving systems and intranets and portals, allowing for installation with existing network infrastructures. Additional features include: Deep analytical tools, including Early Risk Assessment technology; Search technology, including integrated conceptual, full Boolean and keyword search; The ability to manage myriad data sources, custodians and matters simultaneously; Auditability and reporting, including full exception handling and chain-of-custody reports; Built-in processing of data (i.e. de-duplication, near-duping, email threading, etc.) By using Insite Legal Hold in conjunction with Recommind's Axcelerate eDiscovery software, enterprises can protect and prepare themselves for any type of internal or external investigation or legal action. http://www.recommind.com

Translations.com announced it has completed a merger with Quagnito Solutions of Pune, India. Quagnito specializes in localization-related testing, DTP, and software development. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Quagnito owners Anita Ganapathi and Neeraj Bezalwar, as well as all of Quagnito's employees, will remain with the company. Ganapathi will retain her position as Chief Operating Office and Bezalwar will retain his position as Chief Technology Officer. Both will continue to run the company's day-to-day operations and both will join Translations.com's senior management team. http://www.translations.com

JustSystems and EDGAR Online, Inc. announced a strategic alliance to deliver XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) to the desktop so that stakeholders can easily view, analyze and work with XBRL data. EDGAR Online helps make complex information easy to access using XBRL. EDGAR Online makes SEC filings available in real-time on the Internet and is currently delivering XBRL data, products and solutions to the marketplace. Through the new partnership, JustSystems will deliver certain of EDGAR Online's XBRL tagged data to their subscribers through the xfy XBRL viewer platform. The xfy XBRL viewer platform is intended to provide a rendering and visualization solution for filers, preparers, auditors, regulators, and institutional and individual investors to comply with and take advantage of the XBRL standard without adding new costs, risk and complexity. http://www.edgar- online.com/ http://www.justsystems.com/

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the availability of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product family. Customers can choose from six new versions: Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, Web Standard, Production Premium and Master Collection. Designers using the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product family will gain creative control using the new expressive features and visual performance improvements in Adobe Flash Player 10 to deliver Web experiences across multiple browsers and operating systems. As part of the CS4 product launch, also available are new versions of Photoshop CS4, Photoshop CS4 Extended, InDesign CS4, Illustrator CS4, Flash CS4 Professional, Dreamweaver CS4, Fireworks CS4, Contribute CS4, After Effects CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Encore CS4, Soundbooth CS4 and Adobe OnLocation CS4. InDesign CS4 includes a new Live Preflight tool that allows designers to catch production errors and a newly customizable Links panel to manage placed files more efficiently. Adobe Creative Suite 4 provides the ability to paint, composite, and animate 3D models using familiar tools in Photoshop CS4 Extended. Adobe Creative Suite 4 now also offers a host of services for online collaboration. Adobe ConnectNow, a service of Acrobat.com, allows real-time collaboration with two colleagues or clients. Designers can also share color harmonies with Adobe Kuler. Other online resources include: Adobe Community Help for technical questions; Resource Central for accessing video and audio product-related news and tutorials, as well as Soundbooth scores and sound effects. http://www.adobe.com

X1 Technologies, Inc., announced its follow-up enterprise search solution for Microsoft SharePoint 2007. In August of 2008, X1 Technologies announced a strategy to deliver enterprise search solutions to Microsoft SharePoint 2007 customers. The first product was the X1 Content Connector for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 that works with the X1 Enterprise Server to provide for indexing SharePoint data beyond that of Microsoft Search Server. The follow-up product is a "light" Content Connector that allows X1 Professional Client customers to connect directly to Microsoft SharePoint 2007 as a target for search. Customers can search for documents, lists and sites using both X1 search terminology along with SharePoint's Keyword Query syntax. These searches can be federated (presented in a single results view) with local and remote searches to provide a unified query interface. The X1 Content Connector for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 client is now available and can be downloaded for trial. For customers who require a rich, full feature enterprise search solution for Microsoft SharePoint 2007, X1 recommends the server based connector that goes beyond the limitations of the native SharePoint Query. Whether customers choose the Client or Server based Content Connector for Microsoft SharePoint 2007, both allow them to search for any type of content that may reside in SharePoint, email, personal computers, file servers or enterprise applications. http://www.x1.com

SDL announced the release of SDL Automated Translation Solutions to help companies meet the multilingual communication requirements of global businesses. SDL Automated Translation Solutions enable instant translation of content in corporate websites, documents, instant chat and e-mail. Through tight integration with existing translation processes and the translation supply chain, they provide solutions for both 'gisted' and high-quality translations. SDL Automated Translation Solutions provide flexibility to meet the different translation needs of global businesses: Instant translation of internal and external communications using plug-ins for Microsoft Office applications and chat; Instant translation of web pages; Integration of automated translation with translation memory in the SDL Trados translation productivity suite; Integration of automated translation with TM in the translation management application, SDL Translation Management System (SDL TMS); Flexibility to use automated translation integrated with human post-editing skills to provide translation service, SDL Knowledge-based Translation System (SDL KbTS); Integration of automated translation with business applications through APIs. http://www.sdl.com

Quaero announced it has partnered with Clarabridge to enhance its Customer Experience Management practice and provide clients with a solution for turning previously unusable customer feedback into actionable business intelligence. Quaero's Customer Experience Management (CEM) practice helps organizations manage and optimize customer interactions across channels. Through the use of Clarabridge's solution, Quaero CEM experts can collect and analyze intelligence from all of the varied sources of feedback available inside and beyond an organization's four walls and integrate it with quantitative information to make recommendations for enhancing the customer experience and increasing satisfaction and retention. Clarabridge helps enterprises better understand their customers by providing a software platform to listen, interpret, and respond to their customers' true emotions, desires and behavior. Customer feedback is captured and analyzed from a variety of feedback channels as well as the growing number of indirect sources that provide consumer opinions, such as call center notes, qualitative survey feedback, Web 2.0 content, online consumer forums, email, social networking sites and even customer warranty forms. Clarabridge's solution then categorizes all of this text-based customer feedback, determines associated sentiments tied to the categories and presents this information in various reporting formats used by company executives to identify areas of the business where improvements can be made. http://www.quaero.com http://www.clarabridge.com

Vivisimo announced an OEM version of its Velocity Search Platform. Velocity for OEMs provides partners with the option to select only the functionality they need to enhance and augment their own product line. Such flexibility reduces partners' overall costs. Velocity is easily embedded in partner applications, maintaining a small footprint due to its modular framework and configurable underlying technology. Velocity's architecture supports granular searches, allows small index size and scales to search terabytes of data. Key features of Velocity OEM are: Modular design - partners need add only the specific function they need, be it clustering, auto-classification, search, federation, and more; Architecture - Velocity OEM occupies a small footprint in partner applications; efficiently connects various data silos; delivers search security; Flexibility - APIs, XML framework, multiple distribution models, and; Dedicated partner account management and technical support. Velocity OEM is applicable for a wide range of vertical markets that require search technology and solutions, including the content and document management market; email archiving; eDiscovery; and subscription data services markets. http://www.vivisimo.com/

MuseGlobal announced MuseConnect for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, a new enterprise search connector. MuseGlobal's MuseConnect will integrate the MuseGlobal Source Factory, a library of more than 5,500 pre-built source connectors, with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search to extend Oracle Secure Enterprise Search users' searches to industry- specific and subscription-based sources of content. MuseGlobal's MuseConnect for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search will provide Oracle Secure Enterprise Search users who already have the ability to search internal sources of content, including databases, document management systems and file servers, an additional range of industry-specific content, including wikis, blogs, Web-mining applications, subscription services and data feeds, all on the same platform. Through the integration, Oracle Secure Enterprise Search can be further customized to address each organization's specific information management needs. MuseGlobal's MuseConnect for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search will incorporate MuseGlobal's Secure Access Management tool, and allow security administrators to manage security for separate search sources via a common login. http://www.museglobal.com/museconnect

Microsoft Corp. debuted Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 (R2). Customers will be able to purchase the release, currently in private beta testing, beginning in February 2009. Office Communications Server 2007 R2 delivers new functionality that extends software-powered voice, particularly for remote and mobile workers; provides on-premise audioconferencing to help reduce operational costs; and introduces new developer advances, including the ability to build communications-enabled business processes. Through integration with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server and Office SharePoint Server, Office Communications Server delivers organizations a single infrastructure for enterprise communications and one cohesive user experience. Office Communications Server 2007 R2 enables businesses to eliminate audioconferencing services with an on-premise audioconferencing bridge that is managed by IT as part of the overall communications infrastructure. Desktop sharing enables users to share their desktop, initiate audio communications and collaborate with others outside the organization on PC, Macintosh or Linux platforms through a Web-based interface. Persistent group chat enables geographically dispersed teams to collaborate with each other by participating in topic-based discussions that persist over time. This application provides users with a list of all available chat rooms and topics, periodically archives discussions in an XML file, provides tools to search the entire history of discussion on a given topic, and offers filters and alerts to notify someone of new posts or topics on a particular topic. http://www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver

Nstein Technologies Inc. announced the release of Nstein Technologies' WCM 4.0. The new release is designed to increase editorial productivity by providing tools for the creation and management of complex sites and microsites. The new rollout offers a new, role-based interface for editorial teams featuring: Multi-site/multi-channel content management; Out-of-the-box conversion and importation of content from XML; Role-based configurable editorial dashboards that mirror physical workflows; Automatic search/association of assets; On-the-fly content association, Real-time semantically generated tags & metadata; Faceted Search: Advanced XML site search, topic clustering, most-rated, most viewed stories; and Search Engine Optimization Toolkit: Keyword density, friendly URLs, optimized HTML structure. WCM's user interface allows content experts to manage content from creation to distribution. It has built-in tagging and metadata management allowing association and bundling of content. WCM's open design allows integration with virtually any new type of content modules (Facebook, Twitter, forums, blogs, wikis) and other content management systems (Editorial systems, ECM, repositories). WCM 4.0 integrates seamlessly with both TME and Nstein's DAM (Digital Asset Management System) to allow on-the-fly semantic tagging and semantic association of stories. Additionally, the open architecture allows integration with third party tools, other content management systems and repositories. http://www.nstein.com

RSuite CMS now offers a CS3 Connector for InCopy users. The integration with Adobe's CS3 enables InCopy users the ability to browse and open XML or InCopy documents in RSuite directly from the Adobe application. The RSuite CS3 Connector allows users to manage their content as XML within RSuite and to create a transformation to and from their own XML content model to the native XML file format of InCopy. This will help publishers who want to manage their content as XML throughout its life-cycle but also want to use the Adobe tools in their editorial and production process. Users can also store and develop workflows around InCopy and InDesign documents in RSuite. http://www.rsuitecms.com

Semantra announced general availability of Semantra 2.5 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The business intelligence and analytics tool allows users to enter simple commands in a familiar search box to quickly retrieve information from enterprise databases. Semantra 2.5 includes several enhancements: Ubiquitous Data Access: Seamlessly searches all CRM sales, services and marketing data in addition to customized tables and fields; Summary Analytics: Aggregates and summarizes data according to specific search parameters; Embedded in Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Launches Semantra within the CRM application via single sign on or launched separately from the desktop browser; Results Link Back to CRM: Gives users instant access to all CRM record detail directly from a result set; Linking to Public Data: Plug-ins facilitate easy linking from result sets to public data including maps, professional networking sites and business reports; Improved Comprehension: Enhanced "Did you mean" capability provides helpful suggestions when inquiry is mistyped or not understood; Customized Result Sets: "Hide/Show Data" function allows users to modify results for better decision making. Semantra 2.5 was specifically created to extend the value of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, enabling users to make ad hoc inquiries to retrieve precise results from any Microsoft Dynamics CRM database. http://www.semantra.com

Simplexo and Ingres announced a partnership aimed to change not only the way, but the speed in which people search and retrieve critical business information. Simplexo provides "single click" information retrieval, enabling companies to simultaneously and securely search both structured and unstructured data sources in real-time. By joining forces with Ingres, the real time enterprise search capability of Simplexo Enterprise will complement the Ingres IceBreaker BI Appliance, which delivers all an organization's business intelligence needs from reporting, analysis, and dashboards to complete data integration with existing systems. The partnership with Simplexo also adds to the current partnerships Ingres has in place with JasperSoft in business intelligence and Alfresco in content management. http://www.simplexo.com, http://www.ingres.com

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) updated its XHTML Modularization standard with support for designing modular languages using "XML Schema." The addition of schemas to "XHTML Modularization 1.1" is an important step towards the XHTML2 Working Group's goal that XHTML support rich Web content and be extensible, while remaining interoperable. A modularization standard allows language designers to reuse elements defined by multiple parties (including other W3C standards such as SVG and MathML) and combine them into new formats to meet specific application needs. The standard allows people to use schema-enabled, off-the-shelf tools to immediately begin authoring and validating documents written in those new languages. The XHTML2 Working Group, which gained experience using Modularization 1.1 to build some modules and languages, now plans to add schema support to other XHTML standards. http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xhtml-modularization-20081008/

Open Text Corporation announced Open Text Storage Services for SharePoint, the latest addition to the company's Open Text Content Services product offerings. This new service lets customers store Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 content in external storage devices, while at the same time reducing wasted space by automatically detecting multiple instances of the same content. The solution helps customers increase the scalability of their SharePoint solutions and reduce storage costs. In SharePoint servers, document content is stored inside dedicated SharePoint SQL databases, including what is known as binary large objects or BLOB content that is not necessary for queries to the database. BLOB content can be stored outside of the SharePoint SQL database to save space. Open Text Storage Services for SharePoint, which uses the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 External BLOB Storage API, provides the capability to store identical copies of documents in SharePoint only once. It accomplishes this single-instance archiving feat by keeping track of whether a document has already been stored. Open Text Storage Services for SharePoint not only lowers overall storage costs and improves performance; it can also help enterprises meet regulatory and business requirements for information retention. http://www.opentext.com

Mark Logic Corporation announced the launch of MarkLogic Sever 4.0, the newest version of its XML server. MarkLogic Server 4.0 adds new geospatial capabilities that enable organizations to build location-based applications that search and analyze content enhanced with geospatial markup. MarkLogic 4.0 includes built-in support for entity identification and inline markup. This new text mining feature works in 11 languages and identifies 18 different types of entities, including person, organization, location, credit card number, email address, latitude/longitude, date, and time. MarkLogic 4.0 enables users to create alerts so that as new content arrives, or existing content is updated, they can be immediately notified by their preferred method. The new alerting features work in conjunction with existing full-text and structured search, as well as the new entity enrichment and geospatial capabilities. In addition, MarkLogic 4.0 includes several new content analytics features, providing users with interfaces for exploring content to assist with the discovery process. MarkLogic Server 4.0 is now in full compliance with the W3C XQuery 1.0 recommendation. To smooth migration to XQuery 1.0, this new release provides compatibility modes to ensure interoperability with applications developed with all previous versions. http://www.marklogic.com

Access Innovations, Inc. and Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, a provider of Semantic Technology Solutions, have announced a joint marketing agreement. Together, the two companies bring together machine automated indexing and a thesaurus tool for an indexing solution to meet increasing global demand across various industries. Today's announcement formalizes and launches joint efforts by Access Innovations and Dow Jones. Under the agreement, Access Innovations and Dow Jones will strengthen the quality of indexing and indexing productivity for a host of clientele, including database producers, online and web-based directory publishers, corporate libraries, web portals, and corporations and associations with large intranets. This strategic move creates value by improving time to revenue realization. Existing and new clients can experience clear and quantifiable increases in knowledge worker production output, as well as lowered staff and operating costs from those productivity gains. A collective MAI indexing and Synaptica thesaurus solution can also help organizations increase their Search engine capabilities and effectiveness. With tens of millions of business users involved worldwide in knowledge production, the market opportunity to help address business challenges, and enhance operational efficiency, profitability and competitiveness is considerable.
http://www.accessinn.com, http://www.dataharmony.com, http://www.newscorp.com

GigaTrust announced its entrance into the European market with the formation of GigaTrust Spain, headquartered in Madrid. GigaTrust's Intelligent Rights Management approach enables secure anyone-to-anyone collaboration inside or outside the enterprise. GigaTrust allows businesses to control and manage how people exchange sensitive information such as contracts, intellectual property, financial data, medical records, customer information and price lists. It also allows businesses to establish and enforce secure corporate policies to protect everyday collaboration on the Internet. GigaTrust solutions are built on Microsoft's Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) and protects content sent to, used on and received from BlackBerry devices. With GigaTrust, critical information is protected, compliant and governed while at rest, in transit, and in use no matter where it travels. GigaTrust Spain's new European headquarters in Madrid will provide a full range of services to vertical markets globally, including sales, support and marketing. GigaTrust Spain's global services will begin in the healthcare, public sector, financial, manufacturing and managed services vertical markets with broader expansion over time. http://www.gigatrust.com/

MadCap Software announced the launch of MadCap Capture 3.0. Capture is MadCap's screen capture and graphics editing software, which is designed specifically to address the needs of documentation professionals. With version 3.0, Capture adds several enhancements to provide image integration, quality, and control, including: Image text single-sourcing - Capture 3.0 expands on the integration with MadCap Flare, MadCap's authoring software, which enables single-sourcing of content across the two applications. Now authors can enter a text description (screen tip or alternative text) for an image in a centralized location, so every time the image appears in a Flare project, the text automatically appears with it; System clipboard integration - Authors can now automatically save and insert screen captures into any application with direct system clipboard integration. Optimized size configuration for print and online publishing - Capture 3.0 allows authors to establish separate height and width settings for print and online publishing; Delayed capture - Capture 3.0 provides a time delay feature that lets you automatically capture an image after a certain number of seconds. This makes it possible to take screenshots showing elements such as drop-down menus and tool tips; Image blurring and magnification - In addition to being able to blur images around shapes, authors can now blur the area within shapes; Enhanced XPS support - Capture 3.0 provides the ability to save and load images in Microsoft XPS, providing a crisp image that does not become pixilated when someone zooms in. http://www.madcapsoftware.com/

Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN) announced the worldwide availability of QuickSite, a new service offering that simplifies the Vignette Content Management implementation process and enables organizations to launch new Web sites faster. QuickSite delivers a consistent infrastructure, helping marketing departments to launch multiple microsites and branded sites without having to recreate Web pages from scratch. The service deployment includes content management processes, templates and business adoption workshops before the customer is asked to determine additional site requirements. QuickSite also includes support for multilingual Web sites, displays of content information through tag libraries and CSS templates to manage the look and feel of a site with limited help from IT. Site Cloning allows organizations to replicate a site within minutes rather than days by reusing the templates. http://www.vignette.com

EPiServer announced the introduction of multiple new features for its content management system, EPiServer CMS 5 R2, including solutions for mobility and the iPhone. EPiServer has worked with two partners, Mobiletech A/S and Mobizoft AB, to provide a mobile experience to the visitors of their site, including mobile rendering, video conversion and payments. iPhone support is available as open source templates enabling the system to be viewed from an iphone. Images can now be prepared directly in EPiServer CMS so that web editors no longer need to work on them in another application before moving onto the web page. New dynamic content features enable external data which appears in many places on the website, such as financial or legal text, to be updated throughout the site. Page Type Converter makes it easier to merge pages of different types, and change other page types. Five standard reports are now available: Non-published pages, published pages, modified pages, expiring/expired pages and an overview of simple addresses. External data such as an archive of articles at a media company can be integrated and displayed in a website using EPiServer CMS. The data will be appear as a native EPiServer CMS page. This enables structured data stored on another document management system to be converted to a webpage in EPiServer and viewed. EPiServer CMS now supports Oracle, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, as well as XP and Vista, Visual Studio 2008 and 2000 Express, and ASP Net 3.5 SP1 or later. http://www.EPiServer.com/

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) SYMM Working Group has published the the Proposed Recommendation of "Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0)," pronounced "smile." SMIL 3.0 allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations. Using SMIL 3.0, an author may describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a screen. SMIL 3.0 is a modular XML application: its components may be used in other XML formats. SMIL also defines mobile profiles that incorporate features useful within the industry. Comments are welcome through 6 November. http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-SMIL3-20081006/

Callas software announced a new way to view, manage and extract all metadata embedded in PDF files. Callas pdfToolbox 4 provides a simple way to deal with relatively complex PDF manipulations. Scheduled for release by mid October, the new version of pdfToolbox 4 includes the new metadata capabilities, offering users practical ways to extend their production automation, and administration capabilities with their PDF workflow. The new callas pdfToolbox 4 feature allows to explore and export the XMP information that is embedded in the PDF file to a configurable report in XML or tab delimited format. The data linked to the document as well as to the individual images inside the PDF can be retrieved. The metadata can be navigated, filtered or grouped. By combining XMP metadata with data about the placement of images, XMP metadata are turned into even more useful information. http://www.callassoftware.com

Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (TSX:OTC) announced the release of Version 2.0 of its Open Text Employee Information Management (EIM) solution. Highlights of the new version include improved user navigation, tighter integration with the SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) solution, as well as a new feature that allows guest users to temporarily access content in personnel folders, subject to security policies. Open Text EIM 2.0 brings new ECM capabilities to automate document-intensive HR processes, so that HR departments can redirect their focus from administrative tasks to strategic tasks. The solution manages the entire lifecycle of employee information and helps meet legal data protection guidelines and provisions concerning document storage and deletion. With Open Text EIM 2.0, users can access SAP ERP HCM data directly from the Open Text solution and execute SAP transactions without having to switch between applications. In reverse, relevant employee folders in EIM can be directly called up from SAP ERP HCM. All documents in a personnel folder are made available via a folder structure with categories and sub-categories. Using thumbnail images of documents, users can quickly find desired documents. Microsoft Office documents or emails can be inserted using drag and drop. EIM 2.0 is available now. http://www.opentext.com/