December 2008 Archives

Day Software (SWX:DAYN)(OTCQX:DYIHY) announced the completion of the sale of MarketingNet Ltd, a UK company active in the agency services business, to WAA Ltd, also a UK company. This sale marks the completion of Day's efforts to refocus its UK operations on its core business and drive UK expansion through a channel-driven model. Day Software acquired MarketingNet Ltd in October 2000. All existing customers of MarketingNet Ltd will stay with MarketingNet Ltd, which will be owned by WAA Ltd. As a result of the sale completion, Day are anticipating non-cash charges in its 31st December 2008 results relating to Goodwill as well as cash charges relating to discontinuing operations such as leases, staff costs, and legal costs. Day Software's core operations in the UK carried out by Day Software Ltd are not affected by this announcement. http://www.day.com

JustSystems announced XMetaL Author Enterprise for Documentum Webtop now supports Documentum ECM 6.5 and Windows Vista, and has new usability features and quality enhancements. XMetaL Author Enterprise for Documentum Webtop is designed for full-time content creators who require a desktop authoring application supported by the Documentum content repository features including seamless search, link management and navigation capabilities. The latest enhancements include: Documentum ECM 6.5 support - Now supports Documentum ECM 6.5 SP1 and continues to support Documentum ECM 6 SP1; Windows Vista compatibility - Now compatible with Windows Vista in addition to continued compatibility with Windows XP.; New operations - From the docbase tree-view in XMetaL Author Enterprise for Documentum Webtop, users can now create new folders or documents-from-a-template, or initiate import operations by simply right-clicking on the item in the docbase tree-view; Quality enhancements - Now offers improved DITA authoring, with quality enhancements to file check-in operations, reusable component creation, and DITA operations. The latest version of XMetaL Author Enterprise for Documentum Webtop is available today. http://www.justsystems.com

Kaltura, Inc. announced that it has released version 1.0 of its "All in One" video module for Drupal. The Kaltura module handles every aspect of rich-media, allowing Drupal site-builders to customize, configure, and manage rich media functionalities that include uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, and sharing of video, audio, and photo files. Kaltura's "All in One" video module was developed using the open source Kaltura code. It is specifically tailored for Drupal, and integrates with Drupal's features and modules, such as CCK, Views, cron, metadata, permissions and taxonomy. The module is currently compatible with Drupal 6 (a Drupal 5 compatible version will be available soon). http://www.kaltura.com

PDFlib GmbH announced the availabilty of the two new versions PLOP 4 and PLOP DS 4. In PLOP DS 4 additional support for cryptographic tokens for digitally signing PDF documents was added. On Windows, Linux, and Solaris PLOP DS can attach cryptographic tokens via the standard PKCS interface. Using this interface digital IDs on smartcards, USB sticks, and other secure devices can be used for generating the signatures. This includes devices with integrated keyboard for secure PIN input. PLOP 4. The new version of PLOP is now able to insert XMP metadata into PDF documents or extract XMP from PDF. Inserted XMP will be validated to make sure that valid output can be created. If the input document conforms to the PDF/A-1 standard, the user-supplied XMP must conform to the XMP rules set forth in PDF/A. These rules (including XMP extension schema validation) will be checked by PLOP to make sure that PDF/A input plus user-supplied XMP will result in standard-conforming PDF/A output. http://www.pdflib.com

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Forms Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of "XForms for HTML." XForms for HTML provides a set of attributes and script methods that can be used by the tags or elements of an HTML or XHTML web page to simplify the integration of data-intensive interactive processing capabilities from XForms. The semantics of the attributes are mapped to the rich XForms model-view-controller-connector architecture, thereby allowing web application authors a smoother, selective migration path to the higher-order behaviors available from the full element markup available in modules of XForms. Learn more about the XForms Activity. http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/

4D, Inc. announced the public release of Knowledgebase 2.0. Knowledgebase 2.0 is 4D's support resource for developers building business applications on the 4D Platform. Built on the backbone of the 4D v11 SQL platform, Knowledgebase 2.0 adds text-indexing capabilities to improve speed and flexibility, giving accurate results quickly. In addition to building on the 4D v11 SQL platform, Knowledgebase 2.0 incorporates web tools such as 4D Web 2.0 Pack and 4D Ajax Framework. This gives users a search and sort for information in tech notes, tech tips, cases and videos. Here are some of the features available in Knowledgebase: Fast searching to helo get the correct information quickly; A new flexible UI with docking ability through a multi-window web environment ; and Customization options where partners can create their own list of display items. http://kb.4d.com

ADAM Software launched ADAM DocMaker V.2.0, the ADAM web-to-print application that helps companies to reduce document costs and to manage their document localization workflows. With a controlled workflow and with easy to use browser interfaces on top of InDesign documents, ADAM DocMaker allows you to localize version without any specific knowledge of the graphical process, nor any expertise on InDesign. Using DocMaker Studio, running on ADAM Engine and combined with Workflow Studio allows you to reduce costs and unnecessary validation cycles in the approval processes. With ADAM DocMaker V2.0, the Master Documents and Master Templates are centrally controlled by marketing and communication management. Localized interactions with the master document are managed through the ADAM security system, embedded in ADAM Engine 4.3. Management can follow up on all the parameters of executions by simple online dashboard control, using ADAM Workflow milestone blocks. http://www.adamsoftware.net

Antenna House announced the formal release of the BETA verstion of Formatter V5.0, now with support for page layouts specified using either CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects) for formatting documents for PDF and print. Now users can select the stylesheet language and content strategy that best suits their business needs. To help people understand the power of CSS and Formatter for formatting documents for PDF and print Antenna House has developed a tutorial that can be downloaded from their website. To learn more about V5.0 and to download the evaluation copy, visit the V5.0 Information Page. http://www.antenna.co.jp/AHF/en

The Security ans Exchange Commission has officially mandated XBRL filings. In the final ruling, announced December 17, 2008, the SEC will require the largest public companies, those with a worldwide public float greater than $5 billion, to begin reporting financial statements in XBRL format starting with their first fiscal period on or after June 15, 2009. All other large accelerated filers will be required to file in XBRL format 12 months later; and all other public companies will need to comply starting 12 months after that. XBRL US has established specific programs and created tools designed to support financial reporting preparers as they begin the process: Preparer Training Sessions "XBRL Filer Training Workshop", a program that will give you the basics on how to map and tag your own financial statements, how to block tag footnotes, issues to consider and how to get started; Free educational webinar, "XBRL for Filers", covering the planning process, how to map, tag and create extensions and how to guard against risks; Tools and Services Matrix, an online comparative table that outlines XBRL US member offerings that will help public companies create XBRL-formatted financials; XBRL US GAAP data tags, the full set of elements that public companies will need to use to begin submitting in XBRL format. XBRL US developed these tags under contract with the SEC; XBRL US GAAP Taxonomies Preparers Guide, a comprehensive document on how to tag financials, create extensions and work with the taxonomies. http://www.xbrl.us

NewsGator unveiled a new version of Social Sites, its enterprise social computing solution. Social Sites lets companies activate a "Facebook for the Enterprise". Social Sites 2.5 gives organizations new insights into their enterprise social networks in order to fine-tune them. Through a dashboard, administrators can oversee user, group, tag, community and feed activity with the option of drilling all the way down to the article level. A corporate communications manager, for example, can determine exactly how audiences interact with their messages. Each report can be exported as XML to Microsoft Office Excel or any reporting engine. A new On-Boarding Wizard enables users to quickly associate tags (keywords) with themselves based on their roles and professional focus. These tags enable new users to quickly and automatically forge valuable relationships with the right mix of individuals and communities throughout the enterprise. Social Sites 2.5 includes SharePoint webparts that enable organizations to leverage the SharePoint Search Center to discover communities, people, content and tags established within Social Sites. NewsGator Social Sites also interoperates with any search solution based on the Open Search standard. Social Sites 2.5 enhances organizational awareness by giving users a single, unified view for staying updated on colleagues, communities and SharePoint activity. Social Sites 2.5 captures colleagues' activity in real time as they tag themselves or an article, rate content, report their status, or perform over 20 other types of actions. Users can also subscribe to colleagues' external feeds - from a blog, Twitter, Facebook or any designated source - if the originator wishes to offer the feeds to others. Administrators can determine which activities are trackable. NewsGator Social Sites 2.5, which operates on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, enables users to create a community discussion around any article, document, or blog post created in SharePoint. Content can be rated on a five-point scale within Social Sites to enhance discovery by other users. In addition, users can privately tag content to prevent conveying sensitive information. http://www.newsgator.com/

Percussion Software announced the unveiling of its first three Marketing Services - the ORBIT Report, Web 2.0 Competitive Audit and the Web 2.0 Executive Briefing. The services provide the marketer with an understanding of their industry's Web 2.0 landscape, help identify those conversations that have the greatest impact on a brand, and generate metrics that track the progress of their Web 2.0 program. With potentially thousands of conversations occurring around a specific subject, product or service, it can be difficult for marketers to zero in on those Web 2.0 activities that are influencing their brand. Percussion Marketing Services provides structure and focus for Web 2.0 programs, assuring a higher probability that their social media program will generate revenue, memberships or leads. The three Marketing Service products include: ORBIT Report - Identifies the major social media influencers of a brand and/or issue, and creates a map that quantifies the spheres of influence; Web 2.0 Competitive Audit - An in-depth look at competitive and complementary websites and social networking outreach; and Web 2.0 Executive Briefing - An on-site session that covers a client's competitive landscape, how 2.0 is currently impacting a category and brand, and provides five strategies to implement. The ORBIT Report is the result of a partnership between Percussion and SocialSphere Strategies. http://www.percussion.com

Atigeo and Nakea have formed a strategic partnership to bring personalization services to businesses. Under the terms of the partnership, Nakea will integrate website content management services of its Nakea Site Manager solution with Atigeo xPatterns, an expert-systems-based technology platform exposed as a web service, to enable website owners to deliver highly personalized content to their customers and audiences. The Nakea Site Manager (NSM) solution helps business customers and non-technical users to create, publish, manage, and optimize web content. Atigeo xPatterns' relevance algorithms enhance Nakea Site Manager's suite of web content management services with personalization tools that help website publishers personalize website content, such as news and merchandise, and create customized email and mobile communications based on customers' individual preferences. http://www.nakea.net, http://www.atigeo.com

Clarabridge announced a partnership with Teradata Corporation (NYSE:TDC). This partnership brings together technologies in unstructured text mining/analytics and enterprise data warehousing. The complementary capabilities of Clarabridge and Teradata help business users to integrate structured and unstructured information in a single data warehouse for a global view of their quantitative and qualitative customer analysis and improved customer experiences. Clarabridge's enterprise-deployed Content Mining Platform monitors and captures content from various company "listening posts" across and beyond the enterprise, including call center notes, surveys and web 2.0 sites, forums and newsgroups. Qualitative insights about customer sentiment are automatically transformed into quantitative intelligence. Marrying Clarabridge's text mining and Teradata's data warehousing capabilities helps companies to continually monitor and improve the customer experience. Teradata offers a suite of software, hardware and professional consulting services. http://www.clarabridge.com, http://www.teradata.com

SlideShare announced the availability of a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 add-in that creates a SlideShare Ribbon tab within the Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 User Interface. Once installed, the Microsoft Office ribbon user interface within PowerPoint lets users access many of SlideShare's presentation sharing services. Once installed, SlideShare users can access their SlideShare presentations, discover community presentations and view community usage metrics for their presentations, all from within Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. The add-in can be downloaded for free from http://www.slideshare.net/

Alfresco Software and Joomlatools announced an integration based on Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS). The Alfresco:Joomla! integration module was built using the draft CMIS REST API to allow organizations running Joomla-based web sites to access Alfresco's open source content management repository. The integration will enable millions of Joomla web sites to access the back-end content repository services of Alfresco, providing security, compliance, and auditability. Users will be able to manage, preview and track increasing volumes of content and digital assets on collaborative Joomla web sites using Alfresco's content library. Similarly Alfresco users will be able to search, publish, share, download, and edit content directly on Joomla sites. http://www.joomlatools.org, http://www.alfresco.com

Recommind and Open Text announced a strategic alliance that combines Recommind's Insite Legal Hold application with Open Text's ECM Suite. The integration adds early case assessment capabilities to the ECM Suite and allows enterprises to automatically identify, explore, collect and preserve data directly from within the ECM Suite. The combined Open Text/Recommind platform is designed to give enterprises the accuracy, speed and effectiveness necessary to comply with government regulations, prepare and protect themselves from impending litigation and efficiently store and preserve data. Open Text announced in a separate release that it will offer the solution as Open Text eDiscovery Early Case Assessment powered by Recommind. Using Recommind's conceptual search and auto-categorization technology, Insite Legal Hold also automatically identifies and collects any newly created information which may be relevant to a given legal hold, while automatically organizing all information by more than 20 parameters like concept group, file type, language and key phrase, supporting instant analysis of data prior to a hold being executed. http://www.opentext.com, http://www.recommind.com

Elmo Solutions specialists in extraction and processing of CAD and engineering metadata, announced the official launch of Agni Enterprise Search Portal 2009 for Microsoft SharePoint. This Knowledge Management solution for Microsoft SharePoint is an enterprise search solution designed to meet the distinct needs of CAD and Engineering users and senior managers. It is designed to enhance efficiency and productivity by reducing the time spent by knowledge workers looking for CAD and imaging documents through accurate search results. It currently offers support for a wide range of document formats, including: AutoCAD (including vertical "flavors" of AutoCAD), Dassault Systemes SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, and WMF. The solution is available as a free, fully functional, 30-day trial license for download directly from the Elmo Website at http://www.elmosolutions.com

EMC and Microsoft Corp. announced they have expanded their technology partnership to help companies better protect sensitive information and share it in a more secure manner. The companies will be working together with a built-in "systems" approach that helps protect information throughout the infrastructure based on content, context and identity. The partnership will take advantage of resources and technology from Microsoft and RSA, The Security Division of EMC. Microsoft will build the RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) classification technology into the Microsoft platform and future information protection products. The resulting collaboration is designed to enable organizations to centrally define information security policy, automatically identify and classify sensitive data virtually anywhere in the infrastructure, and use a range of controls to protect data at the endpoints, network, and data center. Additionally, in the near term RSA's DLP Suite 6.5 will be engineered to integrate tightly with Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (RMS) within Windows Server 2008. By building DLP classification technology into Microsoft products, the infrastructure becomes content-aware. The solution is designed to allow customers to centrally manage and apply their information security policies, based on user identity, to wherever information lives or is used. http://www.emc.com/

Ektron Inc. announced a complete services solution in support of their Web content management technology, Ektron CMS400.NET, at the fifth annual Gilbane Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Built on Ektron's comprehensive Web Project Methodology and RAMP strategy (Risk mitigation, Adoptability, Maintainability, Performance), the new portfolio of service offerings is designed to support Ektron customers and ensure success throughout the entire lifecycle of their Web project. Ektron's services solution includes customizable programs available at every phase, from the early planning and discovery stages through the deployment and implementation of a Web site. Ektron's Complete Services Solution includes: Consulting and Implementation, Best Practices Services, Hosting, and Training Programs. http://www.ektron.com

nSight Inc., a technical and educational content development and publishing services firm, today announced that it is offering a complimentary review of technical documentation to demonstrate the advantages of using a structured writing approach to producing product information. nSight made the announcement at the Gilbane Boston 2008 conference, where they are exhibiting in Booth PP. Structured writing is an effective and efficient method for developing structured, reusable, consistent, and coherent technical documentation. To introduce clients to this approach, nSight is offering to rework a sample of their own product information - a few pages from a user manual or installation guide, for example. One of nSight's senior technical writers will edit the text using structured writing principles, and then present a side-by-side comparison in a half-hour phone consultation. The documentation review and consultation are offered free of charge and with no obligation. http://www.nsightworks.com

FatWire Software announced the launch of FatWire Content Server 7.5, a new release of FatWire's web content management (WCM) solution. FatWire Content Server 7.5 automates the entire WCM process, including content authoring, site design, content publishing, targeted content delivery, web content analytics, and user participation. Site Preview lets business users set up time-based versions of their website and preview what their site will look like on different future dates, including side by side preview of date-based versions. With this new tool, business users and marketers can create seasonal and time-based online campaigns with ease. The Customizable and Extensible User Interface provides the ability to configure the content management user interface by role to support customers' business processes. RealTime Publishing provides a transparent look into the publishing process via a dashboard view. New capabilities give full control over content publishing at a granular level, as well as error prevention and process recovery. FatWire Content Server 7.5 also includes enhanced search for both the content management environment and the live website, enhanced Microsoft Office application integration for content authoring. http://www.fatwire.com

Design Science today announced the release of MathType 6.5 for Windows, a new version designed to work with a wide variety of education and scientific applications and websites. The company introduced its Equations Everywhere and Anywhere! initiative, hosting the MathType Interoperability Registry on its website, a listing of several hundred popular educational and scientific applications and websites that MathType now works with. This new version also includes translators for Mathematica and Maple, MathML import, and enables users to type TeX/LaTeX equations directly into Microsoft Word. In addition to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, MathType now works with Wikipedia, Moodle, Adobe InDesign, Blackboard, QuarkXPress, Autograph, SigmaPlot, SMART Notebook, and SmartDraw to name a few. MathType is US $57 for academic users, $97 for non-academic users; upgrades are US $37 for academic users, $49 for non-academic users. Anyone can download MathType from the Design Science website and try it free for 30 days. http://www.dessci.com

The forthcoming GlobalSight open source Translation Management System (TMS), sponsored by Welocalize, will provide support for Clay Tablet 2.0 to enable connectivity to a wide variety of content management systems (CMS) or content repositories. This approach provides "out of the box" connectivity to a wide range of CMS' and integration possibilities with most others. GlobalSight will launch on January 5, 2009 as an open source TMS product that provides a scalable translation management platform for companies to manage, translate and deliver global content. Current development efforts have focused on transitioning the product to open source by replacing several third-party software components with open source equivalents. http://www.globalsight.com, http://www.welocalize.com, http://www.Clay-Tablet.com

Lighthouse Seminars announced the opening of the 5th annual Gilbane Boston conference at the Westin Copley hotel. The main conference opens Wednesday, December 3rd with keynotes from Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Yahoo! Research, and Michael Edson, Director, Web and New Media Strategy, Office of the CIO, Smithsonian Institution. Technology demonstrations from over 50 exhibitors take place along side the main conference on Wednesday and Thursday. Pre-conference Workshops take place today starting at 1:00pm. Registration is available on-site at the Westin Copley Hotel.

Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS) announced the Unisys InfoImage Connector for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Unisys InfoImage Connector is a new solution developed by Unisys in collaboration with Microsoft that enables Unisys customers to seamlessly connect Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Unisys InfoImage document imaging and workflow solutions. Unisys InfoImage is used by financial services firms, government agencies, and other organizations to process high volumes of loans, claims and tax forms in digital form. The InfoImage Connector for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 allows enterprise users to repurpose content and manage records across both solution suites, regardless of where the content was created. http://www.unisys.com/services/enterprise__content__management/index.htm

Human communications solution provider Language Weaver announced automated translation software to support five additional languages: Bulgarian to/from English, Hebrew to/from English, Serbian to/from English, Thai to/from English, and Turkish to/from English. Language Weaver uses proprietary statistical algorithms to translate over 60 language pairs. The company focuses on delivering translation solutions that enable high volume, high speed translation for government applications, customer care, digital content and business intelligence. http://www.languageweaver.com

Acumium announced the acquisition of the GravityMarket ecommerce platform from Netconcepts, natural search marketing agency. First developed by Netconcepts in 2001, then re-architected and again released in 2007, the GravityMarket platform includes search engine friendly features like text-based, optimized URLs, unique title tags and keyword-rich content. According to Netconcepts, most clients moved to GravityMarket because their previous websites were virtually invisible to the search engines, making it an expensive proposition to drive online traffic. Netconcepts approached Acumium about GravityMarket after Netconcepts' recent decision to exit the web development and hosting business to focus more completely on its natural search marketing services. http://www.acumium.com

The FeedRoom, provider of online video solutions for media companies, corporations and government agencies, announced that it has completed the acquisition of ClearStory Systems, a digital asset management (DAM) software provider. ClearStory's solutions provide advanced capabilities for managing a full range of digital marketing assets including graphics, documents, and multimedia. The combination of ClearStory Systems' DAM platform, ActiveMedia 7.5, with The FeedRoom's 4.0 Enterprise Video Platform (EVP) will help marketing and media organizations to integrate, manage and deliver their digital media assets in a single system. http://www. Feedroom.com

Acumium announced that they will reveal Acumium's latest content management system, CMS 4.0, at this week's Gilbane Conference in Boston. Acumium provides internet content management systems (CMS) and other online website management tools. CMS 4.0 includes cross-browser and cross-platform content editing, with support for even the latest web browsers entering the market such as Google Chrome, while also adding rich internet application support using technologies such as AJAX. http://www.acumium.com

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced a new standard to make it easier to author interactive multimedia presentations. "Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0)" allows video, audio, images, text, and hypertext links to be combined into interactive presentations, with fine-grain control of layout and timing. "The importance of SMIL 3.0 is that it contains a set of user-requested features that provide exciting new functionality, while retaining all the advantages of a declarative (that is, without scripting) approach to building a multimedia presentation," said Dick Bulterman, chair of the Synchronized Multimedia Working Group, which published the specification. Read the full press release, testimonials, and learn more about the Synchronized Multimedia Activity at http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-SMIL3-20081201/cover.html