November 2008 Archives

Cynapse announced the release of cyn.in - v 2.1. Every space in cyn.in now come pre-fit with application perspectives. Manually creating applications as containers to content is no longer required. Simply create or upload any kind of content (such as a wiki page or an excel sheet) within a space and the content appears in the correct perspectives. Spaces have been the pivotal aspect of cyn.in. Spaces help a group of users to create a secure work area within their cyn.in site and allocate explicit permissions to select users within it. Spaces are vital to most large companies with diverse teams. However, a substantial number of our customers and users felt the need for a simplified central collaboration area, that is accessible to every user of the cyn.in. This gave birth to the concept of the Main space. This is where All users of a cyn.in site can create or edit any content, without worrying about permissions or sharing rights. Commenting, the most used feature in cyn.in just got better. cyn.in v2.1 enables AJAX based discussions providing a live chat kind of user experience. These discussions are contained in all content types in the cyn.in. A comment posted to any content 'bubbles' the content to the top of the activity stream, pushing the content to the relevant audience. Deleting content from an enterprise system is always a concern. Especially for businesses that need to follow compliance regulations. The new cyn.in recycle bin grabs deleted content from across the site, and allows the administrator to process the deleted content as per the compliance requirements. cyn.in is available in a free open source community edition, a supported enterprise edition, as well as cost effective on-demand packages. http://www.cynapse.com/

MindTouch, creators of Deki, an open source enterprise collaboration platform, announced numerous new application and Web service extensions, tools, and features, largely contributed by the MindTouch open source developer community. These new extensions and tools make it easier for users to extend MindTouch Deki by enabling users to create and build mashups. MindTouch also introduces DekiMobile, a new iPhone interface that allows iPhone users to remotely access MindTouch Deki for access and sharing of data. MindTouch Deki allows users to connect teams, business applications, enterprise systems, Web services and Web 2.0 applications. Users can create mashups and integrate popular applications by connecting internal and external applications using existing extensions and DekiScript apps created by MindTouch and its developer community. Writing new applications in MindTouch is done using DekiScript, a light weight programming language. Examples of recently introduced DekiScript apps: Collaborative Calendaring, Threaded Forums, Blogs, and Social Usage Statistics. http://mindtouch.com/

Across Systems, a provider of corporate translation management systems and an independent linguistic supply chain technology, is exhibiting at the 5th annual Gilbane Boston Conference. Across will demonstrate its recently released Language Portal Solution, as well as an integrated solution for website localization. The enterprise-level Language Portal enables implementation of corporate intranet Web portals for all language-related issues for large-scale organizations and multinational corporations in a single environment. In addition, Across has cooperated on an integration of the Across Language Server with the Straker ShadoCMS v8.5 Web content management system, which will also be demonstrated. The CMS integration provides an automated process for Website localization that includes content creation, translation management, publishing and handling of dynamic multilingual Web content. Across offers an independent technology without translation and localization services. Enterprise customers and language service providers interested in meeting with Across to discuss translation management needs are invited to make an appointment through the form on the company's website at http://www.across.net/en/form_appointmentrequest.aspx?id=32

XBRL US, the nonprofit consortium for XML business reporting standards, announced that they had completed a new draft of the XBRL US GAAP Taxonomies, and have made it available for public review. This second release of the US GAAP data tags builds on the first release completed and published on April 28, 2008 under contract with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). An SEC rule proposal, published on May 30, 2008 would require the use of XBRL for the largest public companies (with worldwide public float of $5 billion or higher), reporting as early as Q1 2009. The XBRL US GAAP Taxonomies would be the required data tags for those companies filing in XBRL format. The XBRL US support and maintenance program for continual review and revision to the taxonomies is designed to ensure that the dictionary of terms is always consistent with new accounting standards and that it reflects changes in common reporting practices in the marketplace. Hundreds of comments received since April 28, 2008 have been vetted and incorporated into this latest release along with new FASB pronouncements including FAS141R, FAS160, FAS161 and FAS163, among others. The public comment period provides an opportunity for stakeholders such as public company preparers, investors, financial analysts, auditors and software providers to review and comment on the taxonomy. The public comment period ends on January 15, 2009. Comments received will be reviewed and potentially incorporated, and the final dictionary of US GAAP terms will be available for use in February. To participate in the review and to learn more about XBRL, visit http://xbrl.us/usgaappublicreview

Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTC:CLXS) (BULLETIN BOARD: CLXS), a developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software, announced the formal launch of the Reviewer Finder product, an application which identifies the best reviewers based on their research profile. By using the Collexis Fingerprint technology, a submitted grant proposal or submitted scientific manuscript is analyzed and the resulting document Fingerprint is compared against more than 1.8 million expert Fingerprints - simultaneously checking for conflicts of interest based on co-authorship and organizational affiliation. The Reviewer Finder tool is an enhancement to the suite of Collexis grant management applications. These services provide funding organizations with portfolio analysis tools to assist in identifying gaps and trends and track the success of their funding by an institution, department or researcher. http://www.collexis.com/

Zinio announced the release of Zinio INSIDE, a program that allows web users free access to search and discover magazine content in its traditional format while online. Zinio INSIDE enables the original content from millions of magazine pages for over 1,000 different magazine titles in Zinio's library to be searched through engines like Google, explored within the Zinio reader, and shared through many communities and viral-based applications. Zinio INSIDE facilitates the convergence of the traditional and digital world by enabling readers to send digital replicas of magazine pages to friends and family via email, post favorite articles to sites such as Facebook, Digg, or MySpace, even embed content on a blog or website. Zinio INSIDE allows publishers to reach new audiences through its sharing abilities. In addition to unlocking content, Zinio INSIDE also offers additional functions to help consumers find what they are seeking. Some of these include: Zinio SAYS, which uses Autonomy's Meaning-Based technology to suggest additional editorial content a reader might enjoy based on a conceptual understanding of his or her interests, and the "Read it All" feature, which allows one-click purchasing of either a single issue or a 12-month subscription. http://www.zinio.com/

Rebus Launched Recollect Desktop, a search product to understand and retrieve content inside scanned documents, PDFs, and emails. Recollect Desktop combines desktop search, e-discovery, document storage and content management in one product. Recollect Desktop enables users to search the contents of a hard drive not just by document title, but will also search the words inside, even if they are misspelled or run-together. Users can find and retrieve all kinds of documents including those that are optically scanned as well as PDFs, TIFF, JPEG and other unstructured files. Recollect Desktop is not only designed for any business with filing cabinets and reams of stored paper documents, but also for businesses which have a lot of unstructured electronic documents, including PDFs, TIFFs and emails, that users need to access often or quickly. Recollect Desktop is available for download starting this week. http://www.rebustechnology.net/

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced new IBM Forms software that speeds up business processes by removing bottlenecks caused by paper and by allowing employees without technical skills in any department to create electronic forms or surveys. The new version of IBM Lotus Forms, 3.5, makes it simpler for nontechnical employees to quickly create, store and route e-forms inside and outside of an organization via e-mail and the Web. New features allow employees to automate and compose their own forms, without needing software to be installed on individual PCs or requiring help from IT departments. IBM Lotus Forms 3.5 software, capable of handling challenging projects such as insurance and tax forms, comes with new "Turbo" software. Turbo, also available as a stand-alone product, handles simple tasks such as employee on-boarding, leave and vacation requests, customer satisfaction surveys, job applications, product orders, and opinion surveys. Turbo works with IBM WebSphere Portal software. IBM Forms support e-forms built on XForms, for compatibility with existing customer systems, providing an advantage over competitive offerings. New IBM Lotus Forms has improved digital signature capabilities and supports Safari browser 3.1 on the Macintosh platform. http://www.ibm.com

Exalead has joined the HP Business Information and Intelligence Program, which is a specialized extension of the HP Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP). This partner program is designed for Business Information and Intelligence ISVs who, like Exalead, are developing solutions on HP Integrity, HP Neoview or HP BladeSystems. Exalead CloudView is a family of solutions that automatically collect, structure and contextualize high volumes of unstructured and structured content from a number of data sources scattered across the enterprise. Exalead customers around the globe improve information search, discovery, management, security, and storage through unified information access and search; a deeply structured view of structured and unstructured content; and a rich, contextualized presentation of information. http://www.Exalead.com

See Exalead at Gilbane Boston
Westin Copley Hotel, December 3-4 2008
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Open Text Corporation announced that SAP will resell Open Text Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) under the name the SAP Invoice Management application by Open Text. As part of this agreement, SAP will also resell Open Text's document capture solution Invoice Capture Center, from Open Text's recent acquisition of Captaris, under the name optical character recognition (OCR) option for SAP Invoice Management. SAP Invoice Management completes the portfolio of finance solutions for SAP's enterprise resource planning (ERP) application. The OCR option for SAP Invoice Management is scheduled to be available in early 2009. The document-capture capabilities allow organizations to convert paper invoices into electronic form so they can be processed electronically. Open Text's products offer a range of capabilities for managing and archiving business documents that originate from customers' SAP applications. http://www.sap.com/solutions/solutionextensions

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) announced its latest Brava software suite for multi-format viewing, annotation and secure content delivery. Brava provides a simple, unified viewing and annotation interface for all formats, making review processes and workflows easier. New capabilities include the ability to intelligently redact privacy information, to verify or review redactions before finalizing them for final distribution and to perform 'peek through' redaction, where a large area (e.g., a page) is redacted with only a small area remaining un-redacted. Redacted files can be output to TIFF, PDF or Informative Graphics' secure Content Sealed Format (CSF) with Visual Rights. Visual Rights allow users to add additional file security like password protection and expiration date as well as restrictions for print, copy, markup and other features. Brava Enterprise, the web-based, enterprise class product, integrates into enterprise content management (ECM) solutions from EMC Documentum, IBM, Interwoven and Open Text. http://www.infograph.com

The W3C (Worls Wide Web Consortium) announced it has published a Working Draft of "Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0," which defines the Mathematical Markup Language, or MathML. MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-MathML3-20081117/

Day Software (SWX:DAYN) (OTCQX:DYIHY) announced general availability of CQ5.1, unveiling major transformations to the company's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform and Web Content Management (WCM) application. CQ5.1 provides an ECM platform that enables CMOs and CIOs to leverage the Web for global marketing and corporate growth initiatives. For Marketing, the product provides point-and-click for designing and publishing dynamic, interactive, Web 2.0 websites. For IT, it provides point-and-click ease for configuring and managing a content computing cloud, scalable for hosting any number of Web sites or content applications. Day's CQ5.1 combines a suite of business applications for WCM, Digital Asset Management (DAM), and Social Collaboration built atop Day CRX, a modular content repository based on a commercial implementation of the Apache Jackrabbit and Sling open source projects. CQ5.1 adds new capabilities for content analytics, content targeting, social tagging and social search. Coupled with a new business process management (BPM) engine and upgraded virtual repository for publishing content from legacy silos like Microsoft Sharepoint, CQ5.1 is a complete platform for interactive marketing. Day CQ5.1 is available immediately. http://www.day.com

See Day at Gilbane Boston
Westin Copley Hotel, December 3-4 2008
http://gilbaneboston.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html

Teragram, a division of SAS and a provider of multilingual natural language processing technologies, announced the launch of Semantic Term Manager v. 3.0 (STM v. 3.0), software that helps knowledge workers to better classify, organize and manage mission-critical information and maintain ontologies in large enterprise content repositories and databases. Featuring tighter integration with Teragram's taxonomy management product, TK240, STM v. 3.0 enables knowledge workers to automatically tag documents according to defined taxonomies, manage vast amounts of metadata across repositories and databases, and create and manage enterprise authority lists and build relationships between them. This, in turn, simplifies the enterprise search and retrieval process. This enhanced version of STM can now handle more than one hierarchy by integrating across several large data sets. For example, a corporate librarian can generate lists such as company names, product offerings and subsidiary relationships with TK240 to manage them as standalone data files or combine this information while researching other scenarios or performing targeted searches. STM v. 3.0 offers versioning capability that allows users to save different versions of the data they administer, and allows them to also go back and work on it after it has been saved. STM v. 3.0 also provides tailored ontology support, which means that data files can now be incrementally exported to XML and imported internally across the enterprise. http://www.teragram.com/

DocZone.com announced the release of DocZone DITA, a new Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for creating, managing and publishing DITA content. The new DocZone DITA product is integrated with JustSystems' DITA authoring tool, XMetaL Author Enterprise, component content management (built as a layered application onto the Alfresco open source CMS), workflow, and single-source publishing to the DITA Open Toolkit. DocZone DITA is bundled with full support for DITA features such as conref and DITA maps, so that it is ready to use "out of the box". DocZone.com and JustSystems announced a new partnership where the companies will work together to enable businesses to leverage the value of DITA. Under the terms of the partnership agreement, DocZone.com is an authorized worldwide reseller of JustSystems' DITA authoring tool, XMetaL Author Enterprise. http://www.doczone.com/

Traction Software announced Live Blog Technology for Traction TeamPage 4.0 is now available Now. Live Blog is a new plug-in for TeamPage 4.0 that's now a standard feature for all TeamPage configurations. The new Live Blog interface works like Twitter or IM. It creates an automatically updating browser window you can park on your desktop (or iPhone). You type a brief note and everyone with access to that Live Blog sees their window update in seconds. But unlike Twitter or IM, Live Blog is backed by Traction's TeamPage platform that provides scalable storage, security, integrated search and all of the other capabilities that make TeamPage the leading best platform for Enterprise 2.0. http://traction.tractionsoftware.com/traction

OASIS, has formed a new group to standardize a Web services interface specification that will enable greater interoperability of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. The new OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Technical Committee will advance a standard that uses Web services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable information to be shared across Internet protocols in vendor-neutral formats, among document systems, publishers and repositories, within and between companies. With CMIS, users do not need unique applications to access each ECM repository. The specification provides mapping to existing ECM systems. Web technologies, including Web 2.0, Internet scale, service-orientation and resource-orientation, are all exploited in CMIS. The CMIS draft specification was created by IBM, Microsoft, and EMC. After successfully shepherding the specification through its incubation phase with Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle, SAP and others, the vendors selected OASIS as and effective venue for advancing CMIS through the open standardization process. http://www.oasis-open.org

See OASIS at Gilbane Boston
Westin Copley Hotel, December 3-4 2008
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Clickability announced the immediate availability of the Clickability Media Solution. The Media Solution provides a centrally managed SaaS content repository that enables large media companies to share digital content across their entire organization and publish it to multiple devices and web channels. Companies of all sizes can leverage the multi-tenant content repository as a hub for innovative content sharing, syndication and distribution strategies. Additional benefits to companies large and small include reduced operational costs through greater efficiencies and the ability to build active social media communities. The solution is designed to maximize the value of every piece of content in a customer's repository. Content can be tagged and annotated for search and reuse. Assets can be linked and shared across channels and publications. The repository allows companies to create targeted microsites or regional portals that rely on metadata to automatically populate with appropriate content and contextual links. Clickability also offers interactive features, which includes social networking, blogging, video serving, ticketing, personalized calendars, site customization and an on-demand ad server that ties ads to specific sections and pages of a site. http://www.clickability.com

See Clickbility at Gilbane Boston
Westin Copley Hotel, December 3-4 2008
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Vasont Systems announced the availability of its new integration between the Vasont Content Management System (CMS) and Freeway, the Web-based translation management platform from Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:LIOX). This direct integration between the Vasont CMS and Freeway is to provide clients with a more efficient method of translating content and monitoring the status of translation projects. Using the Vasont Translation Package with the Freeway integration, clients can now initiate translation quotes or translation projects to Freeway directly from the Vasont interface. Content and status information are automatically sent back and forth between the Vasont CMS and Freeway during the translation process. Clients can monitor the status and history of high-level projects, or of detailed subprojects for each language, using Vasont's new translation window. http://www.lionbridge.com/, http://www.vasont.com/

Vital Path Inc. announced the release of PathBuilder Studio, designed to put the control of unregulated content in the hands of the business user, moving migration projects from the back office to the desktop. PathBuilder Studio allows corporations to migrate content from one or multiple sources into Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories. This vendor-neutral approach is designed to answer both one-to-one and many-to-one repository migrations. PathBuilder Studio allows business users to move content, calendars and tasks at the file, folder or repository level, retaining all associated metadata while using a graphical user interface. http://www.vital-path.com/

Endeca Technologies, Inc. unveiled its new Digital Asset Navigator solution, a search and information access solution designed for media companies, content publishers, advertising agencies and marketing departments, and the latest addition to Endeca's media and publishing-specific information access solutions. Designed to complement and extract latent value from Digital Asset Management (DAM) initiatives, it provides information access capabilities to explore, find and evaluate images, graphics, audio/video files, and other high-value digital assets. Endeca's Digital Asset Navigator integrates related data from DAM and content management systems, as well as databases, file servers, enterprise applications and other source systems. And it takes advantage of Endeca's security capabilities, designed in collaboration with the intelligence community, to ensure that users only have access to data they are approved to see and use, decreasing legal and compliance costs. http://www.endeca.com

Adlib Software announced the availability of Adlib Express Server 4.5, a new version of its server-based suite of applications that integrate with enterprise application software or as part of any document workflow solution. Adlib Express Server 4.5 now allows users to convert XML files to PDF or other formats. With Adlib Server 4.5, users can now arrange and format a variety of XML documents with text, tables, graphics and images while converting to PDF. Other new features of Express Server 4.5 include: Support for rendering Microsoft's Infopath forms to PDF; Additional flexibility through user-definable variable substitution within Adlib XML Job Tickets; Improved performance for document-to-image output; Additional supported image formats; Learning resources for XML Job Ticket functionality; Reduced administration through automated job information collection. Express Server applications are integrated with enterprise applications and incorporated into any document workflow. http://www.adlibsoftware.com

ISYS Search Software announced the arrival of ISYS:web 9. Through its Intelligent Content Analysis, ISYS notes key characteristics about a content collection, such as metadata patterns and entities, and leverages these facets in the interface to provide a fluid search and discovery process. ISYS' Intelligent Content Analysis manifests itself in the form of several parametric search and refinement options. At index time, ISYS notes aspects like entities in the full text; commonly recurring metadata values in semi-structured and database formats; location of files; dates and numbers; and position of words. These characteristics are then exploited either as a front-end interface for parametric search, or as refinement options within search results. Intelligent Query Expansion is designed to give users greater context and avenues to pursue, and offers suggestions based on your query and the document. ContextCogs are snippets of relevant and contextual information pulled from third-party sources and displayed alongside standard ISYS results. Intelligence Clouds enable rapid navigation of key information. ISYS:web now handles most search requests concurrently with a higher throughput. ISYS now offers both automatic and designable search forms. To expand ISYS:web's tuning capabilities, ISYS now provides administrators with the ability to adjust the weighting on entire collections of documents. ISYS automatically identifies identical documents and either removes them from the results or visually marks them. ISYS:web Federator allows customers to federate their searches across both ISYS and non-ISYS content sources; Exchange Indexing. For responding in a timely manner to discovery requests, ISYS:web enables administrators to centrally create and manage individual indexes for each user's email account. http://www.isys-search.com

Crown Partners announced the beta release of RedCarpet, a specialized content migration software utility that manages the move from EMC Documentum eRoom to EMC Documentum CenterStage. As the latest web-based collaborative workspace solution from EMC Corporation, CenterStage is a new client interface and the long-term strategic upgrade path for eRoom customers. Users can now benefit from a collaboration experience that is enhanced with support for Web 2.0 tools such as wikis, blogs and social networking capabilities while their IT colleagues gain the security, compliance and governance controls they require to manage this Web 2.0-generated content. EMC engaged Crown Partners to develop RedCarpet as a content bridge for eRoom customers who migrate to CenterStage. RedCarpet will be available at no extra cost to eRoom customers who are paying for maintenance support. Powered by Crown's Buldoser technology, an extract, transform and load (ETL) product for Documentum, RedCarpet will be synchronized for each CenterStage release until all eRoom features are accommodated. http://www.crownpartners.com/

IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) announced the launch of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Toolkit Union, a new open-source software community project. The ODF Toolkit will use an initial software code contribution from Sun to provide developers with an Application Programming Interface (API) for reading, writing and manipulating ODF documents. One part of the initial code contribution is an ODF Validator, a tool that validates OpenDocument files and checks certain conformance criteria. The Toolkit targets developers who want to create new applications and solutions ranging from content management, business workflows and activities to Web-based document solutions. The ODF Toolkit Union will complement other industry efforts such as the ODF standardization work done at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). The ODF Toolkit open source software project is established at http://odftoolkit.org

Google announced they now support Microsoft Office OOXML (Office Open XML) files in Gmail and web search. This means you can now view documents created using Microsoft Office 2007: .docx documents, .xslx spreadsheets and .pptx presentations as HTML. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/11/view-as-html-office-open-xml-files.html

Enterprise web content management vendor GX has released an out-of-the-box module which embeds Google Analytics information in its product GX WebManager. GX is participating in the Google Analytics API Private Beta program in order to deliver Google analytical data directly to GX end users. It will help them monitor and optimize their web site in order to increase traffic and optimize lead conversion. http://www.gxwebmanager.com

See GX WebManager at Gilbane Boston
Westin Copley Hotel, December 3-4 2008
http://gilbaneboston.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html

Lighthouse Seminars announced a reminder that the special "early-bird" discount for the Gilbane Boston conference to be held at the Westin Copley hotel December 2-4, is available through November 4th 7th. See http://gilbaneboston.com/registration_information.html

MadCap Software announced the launch of its MadCap Search Optimizer and free MadCap Toolbar. The Search Optimizer extends MadCap's WebHelp search to browser-based Help systems. Now authors that continue to build their Web or intranet documentation using Adobe RoboHelp, ComponentOne Doc-to-Help, WebWorks Publisher and Author-It can still provide their users with their WebHelp search. The MadCap Search Optimizer automatically creates a WebHelp search database, which is then downloaded and accessed by users via the free MadCap Toolbar. This enables the return of search results almost instantaneously. With the MadCap Toolbar, users can also conduct wildcard searches in which only part of the search term is known. Other advanced search features include the ability for users of browser-based Help systems to receive search results based on relevance instead of simply by alphabet, expand or collapse the WebHelp table of contents and all dynamic Help effects, and freely remove search highlighting. Both the MadCap Search Optimizer and MadCap Toolbar are immediately available for download. The MadCap Toolbar, which runs on Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher, is free for all users. The MadCap Search Optimizer is available for $449. Flare users do not require the Search Optimizer, since all of the search and toolbar functionality is available when using Flare and the MadCap Toolbar together. http://www.madcapsoftware.com/

Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (NASDAQ:TSX:) (NASDAQ:OTC) announced initial product plans following the acquisition of Captaris, including the role Captaris will play in extending Open Text ECM solutions that manage documents from SAP and Oracle ERP systems. Open Text announced the completion of the acquisition of Captaris on Friday. Captaris's document capture solutions provide an "on ramp" for ECM by converting paper documents arriving by mail or fax to electronic form, so they can be managed online. Captaris offers capture technology that uses imaging, scanning and recognition technologies, plus classification and routing software that complements Open Text's solutions. Captaris's software will be integrated with Open Text's ECM solutions that manage ERP-related content from SAP and Oracle systems. With Captaris, Open Text's ECM solutions for ERP will also gain better and smoother integration with desktop applications from Microsoft. Captaris offers document processing capabilities for Microsoft, including a new product that automatically exposes the contents of scanned documents in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to search engines. Like Open Text, Captaris is a Microsoft Gold-Certified Partner. http://www.opentext.com/

SilkRoad technology has acquired VTN Technologies, Inc., the software-based training firm known for its Olé Online Learning Environment. VTN's Olé is a Web-based learning environment with more than 400,000 subscribed users across organizations including DirecTV and Rockwell Collins. Olé reduces training costs by automating learning development and management processes. The online learning environment product will be integrated into SilkRoad's Life Suite under the new brand name GreenLight. SilkRoad has invested extensively in internal product development, expanded its worldwide direct sales footprint by opening offices in Singapore and Sydney in September, and has now made a strategic acquisition to accelerate the extension of its product line. Following the close of the transaction, VTN's senior management team will take up positions with SilkRoad, and the company will maintain offices in VTN's Edmonton, Alberta, base of operations. http://www.silkroad.com