Vignette Corporation (NASDAQ: VIGN) announced an enhancement to its Web Experience Platform - Vignette Community Applications 7.1. This integrated Social Media Solution enables organizations to build communities, encourage online interaction, boost campaigns and provide analytics. Vignette Community Applications 7.1, a key component of Vignette’s Social Media Solution, provides tools to increase online interaction. In addition to enabling the creation and support of Web 2.0 capabilities such as blogs, wikis, forums, ratings and reviews, the solution allows companies to create unique social sites. These flexible sites combine microsite features with social-centric benefits such as idea management, calendars and events and the sharing of multimedia-rich assets including videos and podcasts. The adaptable social site templates allow marketers to quickly launch campaigns, communities and product sites. Vignette’s Social Media Solution provides a search engine, video technology, enterprise-grade scalability and a flexible, standards-based presentation technology that allows companies to combine social media elements with content from multiple sources. Vignette Community Applications 7.1 is available immediately. http://www.vignette.com
March 2009 Archives
Bell Mobility and Coveo announced an exclusive search and access tool called Enterprise Search from Bell. Powered by Coveo's search and index technology, Enterprise Search from Bell provides business users with the ability to securely search and retrieve any information within their Microsoft Exchange server accounts, including emails, attachments content, folders, calendars, tasks and contacts via their BlackBerry devices. With this capability, users can access the precise information they need within seconds without having to know where the document was previously stored. http://mobilebusiness.bell.ca/en/Common/Wireless-solutions/Your-business-needs/Mobile-office/Enterprise-search_Page_498.aspx, http://www.coveo.com
Day Software (SWX:DAYN) (OTCQX:DYIHY) announced the general availability of its new Communiqué (CQ) 5.2 suite. CQ 5.2 adds new Social Collaboration (SoCo) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) applications that are seamlessly coupled with Day’s Web Content Management (WCM) software. The applications leverage Day’s unified Enterprise Content Management (ECM) content infrastructure platform, CRX. Day Software now enables organizations to advance their social media marketing strategies with media-enriched, interactive online communities powered by CQ 5.2. Day Software’s CQ 5.2 delivers interactive new tools for marketers that both enhance online collaboration and promote the brand. CQ 5.2 now includes drag-and-drop components for interactive marketers to enable user-self registration, profile management, commenting, ratings, tagging, discussions, and blogging to any Web page or Web site while maintaining control with advanced CRX-powered moderation, access control, audit trails and more. CQ 5.2 also provides out-of-the-box components for building wiki pages, enabling RSS feeds, sharing content, applications and social profile information with external social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn. Day Software’s CQ 5.2 DAM provides out-of-the-box lifecycle management services for digital assets, including ingestion, metadata extraction and generation, transformation and rendition management, and online or offline publishing. CQ 5.2 is currently available from Day Software. http://www.day.com
Alfresco Software, Inc. announced that it has launched Alfresco Enterprise 3.1, the latest release of its ECM product. Alfresco has also concurrently launched the Alfresco Network, a one-stop resource portal available exclusively to enterprise customers, designed to continually improve the customer experience. Alfresco Enterprise 3.1 delivers greater scalability, high-availability and large-scale management. This release includes features that simplify administration, monitoring, deployment as well as maintenance and will be available exclusively to enterprise subscription customers. New features, in addition to those from the Alfresco Labs 3 final release, include: Easy Clustering and High-Availability – Simple large-scale multi-server management allowing customers to set up clusters and high-availability environments; System Monitoring – JMX-based monitoring that includes simple access to database connection and memory usage information, as well as integration to and open source monitoring tools such as Hyperic; Deployment and Provisioning Automation – Command line-driven configuration providing automated deployment and provisioning; Extensions to Alfresco Share – Extensions to the new collaborative content management application. Improved online viewing of documents, easier online editing, improved Wiki contribution, new themes and skins; Improved SharePoint Protocol Support – Improved implementation of collaboration, site and link features in Microsoft Office; and, Extended CMIS Support – Expanded implementations of the web services implementations of the draft OASIS CMIS 0.51 standard. The Alfresco Network is a new personalized Customer-to-Support collaborative service designed to accelerate the time it takes for a customer to become productive while reducing the time it takes support to resolve issues. In addition, Alfresco is building an automation network to proactively alert the customer and provide Alfresco Support with relevant information to enable a more rapid response. Alfresco Enterprise 3.1 is immediately available for all existing Enterprise Subscription Customers and the Alfresco Network is currently being rolled out to selected customers and will be available to all customers in the next month. A trial of Alfresco Enterprise 3.1 can be downloaded. http://www.alfresco.com
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) announced two new enterprise content management (ECM) solutions: A new EMC Documentum Case Management Solution Framework, which accelerates the development of case management applications, and EMC Documentum ApplicationXtender 6 with new modules for workflow and retention management. Case management is a pattern of work commonly used in almost all industries, such as financial services, public sector and healthcare, that requires a group of people to systematically process and collaborate on a case folder that consists of both content and data. The Case Management Solution Framework enables system integrators and application partners as well as internal IT developers to build case management solutions faster. The Case Management Solution Framework includes: pre-integrated technologies utilizing the core capabilities of the EMC Documentum platform, a tutorial that illustrates the creation of a case management solution, a case management sample application and other best practices covering, application development and deployment, and an Express Install tool which provides single-click installation of all the components needed for case management on a single server. ApplicationXtender is a departmental document management solution for organizations with limited IT budgets and supporting resources. The solution provides out-of-the box capabilities that allow departments to manage content such as images, documents and reports. Built on a central repository, ApplicationXtender provides capabilities for high-speed image capture and storage and is designed for quick deployment. New features in ApplicationXtender 6 include: A Workflow Manager module for creating departmental workflow solutions designed to improve efficiency in business processes, built on Microsoft .NET, and: A Retention Manager module for applying automatic retention capabilities such as holds, reporting, disposals and audits trails to documents to ensure regulatory compliance. The Case Management Solution Framework and ApplicationXtender 6 are available now. http://www.emc.com/
Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) announced two new DocuShare enterprise content management (ECM) offerings. Xerox’s DocuShare Virtual Filing System reduces the need for physical filing cabinets and gives workers immediate access to information. The system includes a document storage assessment, scanning technology, software, set up and user training. Once paper archives are uploaded into the virtual filing system’s drawers, documents can be searched by name, category and type. Xerox also unveiled DocuShare 6.5, an upgrade to its existing version. DocuShare 6.5 can store more than 50 million documents, perform search queries within seconds and supports intake of up to one million imaged documents per day. DocuShare 6.5 is also the software in the Virtual Filing System package. DocuShare Virtual Filing System will be sold in North America through Xerox direct sales starting in June. Select, certified partners will begin to sell the package in July. DocuShare 6.5 is currently available on Windows platforms through Xerox direct sales and resellers in North America. It will be available worldwide and on other platforms starting in June. Customers on a maintenance contract will receive an upgrade to DocuShare 6.5 free of charge. http://docushare.xerox.com
GigaTrust announced it has entered into a partnership agreement with Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services. GigaTrust joins the Siemens Solution Partner Program as a Software and Technology Partner to provide manufacturing clients within the Siemens PLM Software user community with Enterprise Rights Management Services. GigaTrust will extend Microsoft's RMS to certain Siemens PLM Software applications, enabling organizations to implement increased content security beyond the enterprise, after the content has been delivered and while it's being used. This partnership, in which GigaTrust Enterprise Rights Management technologies will be made to interface directly with specific Siemens PLM Software applications, will result in a line of security solutions available to customers starting in the second quarter of 2009. http://www.gigatrust.com/
The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) OWL Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of "OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview." This document, part 1 of 13 in the OWL 2 document set, serves as an introduction to OWL 2 and the various other OWL 2 documents. It describes the various syntaxes for OWL 2, the different kinds of semantics, the defined profiles (sub-languages), and the differences between OWL 1 and OWL 2. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity at http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-overview-20090327/, http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTC:CLXS) (BULLETIN BOARD: CLXS) announced the launch of the Collexis Expert Platform for Translational Research drawing on the research profiles of 38 institutions and their more than 60,000 life science researchers. The platform is available to Collexis clients who are grantees of the Clinical Translational Science Awards (CTSA's) from the National Institutes of Health. Institutions that are subscribers to the service will be able to search, rank, and visualize experts from over 38 institutions. The new offering allows a researcher to identify potential partners from their organization and from published researchers at institutions with CTSA grants on any combination of biomedical research topic(s), and it automatically recommends collaborators. Finally, the system will track and identify collaboration patterns among organizations allowing Collexis to give clients more information about how researchers work together and signaling ways the cooperation between basic and clinical researchers and institutions can be improved. http://www.collexis.com/
Quark announced Quark XML Author 3.0 for Microsoft Word, the next version of Quark’s XML authoring tool that allows users to create XML content easily within Microsoft Word. Quark XML Author 3.0 supports Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Vista from a single XML Author code base. The new version of Quark XML Author also offers native user interface support for French, German, and Japanese languages, which increases user productivity and collaboration among global teams. In addition, Quark XML Author 3.0 offers new style and formatting functionality that gives users more control over their content, including: new integration with Design Science’s MathType Editor for equations, improved tool bar for use with the Microsoft Office 2007 native ribbon interface, improved feature that allows for bulk changes throughout a document, and advanced indenting and style capabilities for list items and paragraphs. Users of Quark XML Author for Microsoft Word are able to upgrade to version 3.0 automatically. The new version is backward compatible with Microsoft Office 2000-2007 and is bi-directionally compatible with Quark XML Author 2.x files. It will be available on April 30, 2009. http://www.quark.com
Trilogy Solutions, Inc, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and provider of SharePoint architecture and consulting services, and AvePoint, a provider in the field of SharePoint management and protection software, announced their strategic North American Partnership. AvePoint’s DocAve Software Platform is a solution for SharePoint infrastructure management and protection. With a unified, browser-based user interface and a distributed architecture, DocAve offers a broad spectrum of independently deployable modules for backup & recovery, administration, replication, content management, compliance, archiving, and migration. In addition to providing SharePoint consulting services, Trilogy Solutions provides several tools and utilities for collaboration environments, and recently released DriveSight - a free tool to assist the SharePoint community in analyzing drives, folders and files which may be uploaded into, or indexed by, SharePoint. http://www.TrilogySolutions.com
ISYS Search Software announced the release of ISYS File Readers, an embeddable set of document filters for extracting text and metadata from more than 200 ISYS-supported document, container and email formats. ISYS File Readers offer OEMs, ISVs and information management specialists capabilities "comparable to the functionality found in Oracle’s Outside In and Autonomy’s KeyView products". With support for more than 60 languages, ISYS File Readers ship with full samples and are callable from a variety of programming languages, including C++, C#, Java and VB.NET. The ISYS File Readers application is available for immediate evaluation and purchase. http://www.isys-search.com/
Essentia announced the availability of the new version 2.5 of EssentiaESP, a community building platform designed specifically for commercial open source. The new version of Essentia’s solution features a range of enhancements including support for Mercurial distributed version control and Mantis BT collaborative tracker with Twitter Support; enterprise search for large distributed repositories as well as integration with Google Search; single sign-on; community metrics and user activity via Google Gadgets, RSS, and personal pages; as well as numerous user experience and functional enhancements. Plug-in management is provided in EssentiaESP to manage the development, distribution, and integration of value-added plug-ins around the core software projects through a central plug-in repository and release environment. Community EssentiaESP 2.5 introduces Site and Project RSS feeds for community metrics like Most Active Users, Active Projects, Top Downloads, Hot Topics, Latest News, Latest Wiki Pages, Latest Forum Topics, Latest Replies to Forum Posts, Issues, Bug Reports, and Latest Commits to the code repository. Google Gadgets provide information portability so these activities and can be viewed on the site or used externally on an iGoogle page. The new version of EssentiaESP also introduces Twitter support, starting with the tracker. Enterprise Enterprise support for search and single sign-on provides closer integration between the communities and corporate .com sites, internal knowledge repositories, and enterprise business systems to ensure seamless access to desired information across community and enterprise boundaries. Essentia's security and access control framework handles user, data, project and site-level security and administration around search. http://www.essentia-corp.com
dtSearch Corp. announced extensions to its 64-bit developer product line. The new release covers both dtSearch's enterprise and developer products, including native 64-bit versions. For the developer products, the new release provides expanded sample code for use with Microsoft's most recent Visual Studio version. For the enterprise products, the new release updates the user interface, providing a greater selection of "look and feel" options for users. dtSearch products can index over a terabyte of text in a single index. They can also create and simultaneously search an unlimited number of indexes. dtSearch products display existing web-ready content (HTML, PDF, XSL/XML, etc.) with highlighted hits, and with all images, links and formatting intact. For other file types (MS Office, OpenOffice, ZIP, etc.), built-in proprietary converters render these document types as HTML, with highlighted hits, for display in a web browser. The dtSearch Engine includes a data source API for indexing SQL-type databases and other non-file data (including BLOB data). The dtSearch Spider adds local or remote website content to a searchable data collection. The Spider supports public sites, intranets, HTTPS, password-accessible sites, and forms-based authentication sites. The Spider supports both static and dynamic (ASP.NET, PHP, MS CMS, SharePoint, etc.) web-based content. Built-in Unicode support covers international languages (including right-to-left languages and Chinese/Japanese/Korean character processing options). The dtSearch Engine lets developers add dtSearch functionality to 32-bit and 64-bit applications. The dtSearch Engine for Win & .NET supports C++, Java and .NET, including a .NET Spider API. The new release provides expanded sample code for use with Microsoft's most recent Visual Studio version The dtSearch Engine for Linux supports C++ and Java. http://www.dtsearch.com
iWay Software, an Information Builders division, and Vignette Corporation (NASDAQ: VIGN), announced an agreement that will allow Vignette to more efficiently integrate ERP/CRM application data into its Web Experience Platform. Under the agreement, Vignette customers can license tested iWay ERP/CRM adapters to ensure that enterprise information systems for finance, HR, and other functions continue to integrate smoothly with Vignette solutions. The partnership with iWay will complement and enhance Vignette's current portfolio of integration adapters for integrating back-end business applications, processes, and information. With the new and existing adapters, Vignette customers can integrate applications and content repositories, both inside and outside the enterprise, with any part of Vignette's Web Experience Platform. By integrating iWay technology, Vignette also gains exposure to back-office applications such as SAP and PeopleSoft. http://www.vignette.com, http://www.iwaysoftware.com, http://www.informationbuilders.com
GenieKnows launched GenieKnows Health Search 2.0 as the latest expansion of its suite of vertical search engines. GenieKnows Health is a niche search engine designed to help patients, doctors, nurses, other health professionals find health and physical education research articles, and other health related information more efficiently online through the use of a more focused health search engine. The new features of GenieKnows Health include an improved search interface, expanded left navigation, and extended database of health specific topics. To ensure searchers can quickly drill down results and get the most out of GenieKnows Health, the algorithmic search results are classified into popular search categories, and results may be segmented into Web results, blog and news pages, articles (provided by Mochila.com), images and video search results (provided by Pixsy.com). http://www.genieknows.com
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) announced that Autonomy's pan-enterprise search software, the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), now powers iManage Universal Search (IUS). Autonomy iManage provides a common platform for law firms and their corporate legal departments. iManage Universal Search 7.0, now based on IDOL, is a pan-enterprise search solution tailored for law firms, delivering an "order of magnitude" increase in performance over the previous version. This version is pin-for-pin compatible, and delivers a transparent user experience. The product is available now at no additional cost to current maintenance customers. Customers who wish to take advantage of IDOL's connectivity to repositories and applications, as well as functions from the IDOL platform, can do so for an additional cost. The new add-on capabilities include access to more than 400 connectors and over 1,000 file types, including text, audio and video, as well as hundreds of new functions, including expertise location and automatic taxonomy support. A series of new Autonomy iManage's modules leveraging the additional capabilities of IDOL will be released over the coming months. http://www.autonomy.com/
IGLOO Software announced their new framework for building community solutions. This modular framework provides developers with a flexible set of tools for customizing and extending IGLOO online communities. IGLOO's new framework consists of four components for solution development: A Theme Manager to create and manage the layout, design and branding of the community; A Global Configuration Panel to toggle application settings "on" or "off"; A drag and drop Widget Manager to create and configure custom application widgets; A core set of API's for integrating with enterprise applications like ERP and CRM systems, as well as cloud-based applications and like Google widgets and Salesforce.com. The platform's widget-based architecture will allow developers to create custom content widgets sourced from almost any third party application. Eventually, organizations will be able to create a library of content widgets that can be dropped into any page within the online community. Initial support to view and interact with external content from within the community includes Salesforce widgets to allow a real time view into the sales pipeline and easy access to other sales and customer data, and a Facebook widget to securely connect with discussions happening outside of a community. http://www.igloosoftware.com/
Nordic River announced they have released a new version of TextFlow, their AIR-based document collaboration software. TextFlow can now store all documents and versions in a “Document home” on the TextFlow server. The new version also allows you to invite co-writers directly to TextFlow. New writers receive a secure link in an e-mail whenever you want to share a version. The secure link starts TextFlow directly in the browser without the need for them to install TextFlow or even create a TextFlow account. http://www.textflow.com
Nuxeo announced a major release of its ECM open source platform: Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (EP) 5.2. Nuxeo EP is a platform designed to build large ECM applications. Nuxeo DM (Document Management) is the document management application that is included within the platform. There are over 30 new features in this release, both for the development and functional sides: Content annotations - in-browser HTML-based content annotation system for pictures and office files. Plus it leverages the W3C Annotea draft; MS WSS - implement file-related services so that Nuxeo is seen as a Sharepoint server from MS Explorer and MS Office; WebWorkspace - publish a workspace on the web to create a "mini-site" from it. It allows to nicely expose a workspace to the web (including wikis and blogs); Visible Content Store - native and natural SQL-based storage engine for the repository. Content is stored in a "human readable" data model in the database, allowing nice integration as the SQL level for tools like Business Intelligence (for reporting on content) or ETL. Nuxeo DM is an open application, compliant with interoperability standards and designed to integrate seamlessly within existing information systems. Nuxeo EP 5.2 can be downloaded from http://www.nuxeo.com/
EPiServer announced a strategic partnership with Web site builder and developer Lightmaker Amsterdam. Lightmaker will use EPiServer’s CMS as the core for all its future interactive media projects. EPiServer’s Benelux office in Haarlem opened in September of 2008. The EPiServer platform is only available through partners. This announcement is an expansion of EPiServer's partner channel in the region. Lightmaker is a global professional services agency that creates interactive experiences. EPiServer delivers its Web Content Management platform through a network of over 300 partner companies in 25 countries. http://www.episerver.com, http://www.lightmaker.nl
Endeca Technologies, Inc. announced the availability of the McKinley release of the Endeca Information Access Platform, based on a fundamentally new architecture for building standards-based search applications. The new platform is built for rapid development and maintenance of search applications that offer the interactive Guided Navigation user experience across the full range of structured and unstructured enterprise data. Leveraging this new platform release, Endeca also separately announced today the release of two search-based solutions, the Endeca Commerce Suite and the Endeca Publishing Suite. The new platform adds more than one hundred new features, including a redesigned engine. Endeca redesigned the core data storage architecture of the engine, to exploit 64-bit memory. The redesigned engine is optimized for multi-core CPU platforms. The MDEX Engine technology is now extensible through an XQuery-based web services stack, and ships with a WS-I compliant SOAP service for easy enterprise interoperability. The new Continuous Query feature processes queries and data updates concurrently, and Rapid Updates simplify and accelerate updates by allowing near real-time updating of the underlying engine. The new MDEX Engine technology can now handle more data on the same hardware. The McKinley release of the Information Access Platform is available immediately. http://www.endeca.com/
OASIS announced that its members have approved the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) version 1.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. UIMA standardizes semantic search and content analytics, providing a common method for meaningfully accessing data contained in text such as e-mails, blog entries, news feeds, and notes, as well as in audio recordings, images, and video. In accordance with eligibility requirements for all OASIS Standards, successful use of UIMA was verified by IBM, Amsoft, Carnegie Mellon University, Thomson Reuters, and the University of Tokyo. UIMA was developed under the Royalty Free on Limited Terms mode of the OASIS Intellectual Property Rights Policy. Participation in the OASIS UIMA Technical Committee remains open to all companies, non-profit groups, governments, academic institutions, and individuals. As with all OASIS projects, archives of the Committee's work are accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS hosts an open mail list for public comment. http://www.oasis-open.org
Vignette Corporation (NASDAQ: VIGN) announced two additions to its Web content management solution, a core component of the Vignette Web Experience Platform. Vignette Content Management 7.6 gives companies the ability to manage and deliver dynamic content enterprise-wide while offering simplified deployment, configuration and administration. Vignette Content Management 7.6 includes: enhanced business agility with additional flexibility to help companies quickly adjust content templates without relying on IT, and an environment that is easier and less costly to maintain due to reduced administration complexity for static content and simplifications to the publishing process. The Vignette Transfer Tool focuses on ease of administration for technical teams. Vignette will release additional components of its Web Content Management solutions in the coming months, including greater SharePoint interaction, the ability to publish content on third party portals and enhancements to the company’s Social Media Solutions. http://www.vignette.com
Syntext, Inc. announced the release of a Free Edition of Serna WYSIWYG XML editor. Serna Free provides a lightweight solution for students, open source developers, and other users to work with DITA, DocBook, and other popular XML formats. Together with the release of Serna Enterprise 4, Syntext has provided the XML community with Serna Free Edition that has all the essential features necessary for individual authors. At any time, authors can upgrade their Serna Free to the Enterprise Edition, which enables enterprise-oriented features such as integration with content management systems, collaborative authoring, and powerful customization APIs and tools. Serna's WYSIWYG XML editor incorporates on-the-fly XSL-driven technology for flexible presentation, profiling, and rendering of composite XML documents. Syntext Serna Free is a cross-platform application that works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Sun Solaris/SPARC. The key features of Syntext Serna include: out-of-the-box support for DITA, DocBook, and other leading XML standards; use of XSLT/XSL-FO for document visualization; on-the-fly XML Schema validation; drag-and-drop with on-the-fly validation; support for XML catalogs; customizable GUI localized into several languages; entity and XInclude in-place editing; multilingual spell checking; UNICODE support. http://www.syntext.com/
eZ Systems has announced the release of eZ Publish 4.1, which is designed to power web properties working with rich and various content assets. Historically known as a flexible content management framework, eZ Publish enables web centric organizations to scale and to grow their online businesses while getting full support, maintenance and guarantees through eZ Publish Premium. This eZ Publish 4.1 release focuses on User Experience, Scalability and Performances. eZ Publish 4.1 comes with a new Online Editor (5.0) allowing users to write web content as if they were working with their favorite word processor in their favorite language. This is a new full XML WYSIWYG editor. eZ Publish 4.1 provides also a multi-upload function enabling users to mass publish any content type from any computer through their web browser: documents, pictures, videos and more. You can download the latest version at http://ez.no/.
zAgile, Inc. announced the general availability of Wikidsmart, the first application to leverage zAgile's semantic web infrastructure. Wikidsmart's semantic wiki features for Atlassian's Confluence enterprise wiki, enable users to: enter content in a consistent and contextually organized fashion; generate pages of inferred wiki content; automate wiki page and link maintenance; and find information with context-sensitive navigation and search. The zAgile infrastructure provides a foundation for information integration with other applications in the enterprise. Content may be entered in a consistent fashion via semantically annotated forms. Annotation captures properties, behaviors, and relationships of content. Information may be retrieved by contextually navigating through topics or simple context-sensitive searches. Inferred content may be generated automatically with simple embedded queries. zAgile's infrastructure, driven by ontologies that describe the artifacts, relationships, and behaviors for a domain, enables rich integration with other systems based on semantic web standards. Extensible ontologies for the software engineering domain are included, and zAgile provides professional services for ontology development for other domains including CRM and ERP. Other ontologies from third party providers may be used as well. Connectors are currently available for Jira, Subversion, and Perforce, and others will be added by zAgile and its open source community. Wikidsmart is available for download and licensed under the open source AGPL v3. A hosted "sandbox" allows users to test-drive a sample Wikidsmart for Confluence via the web without installing products (and integration with Jira and Subversion will be hosted soon too). Annual technical support subscriptions for the open source product start at $US 1,200 for 25 users, and commercial license subscriptions with additional premium features are available. http://www.zagile.com/
PBwiki Inc. announced the release of PBwiki Mobile Edition, a hosted collaboration suite designed for smartphones like the Apple iPhone and RIM BlackBerry. PBwiki Mobile Edition provides mobile information workers such as attorneys and consultants with comprehensive access as an integral part of a collaboration solution. PBwiki Mobile Edition provides ubiquitous access to critical information stored on a customer's PBwiki. No special URL or configuration is needed; users simply enter their PBwiki's URL into their smartphone (such as an iPhone or BlackBerry). PBwiki Mobile Edition will automatically recognize this fact and display a mobile-optimized interface. PBwiki Mobile Edition lets users: view existing content, search through all pages and files, comment on existing pages, create new pages and enter text content, and download files for local use. PBwiki Mobile Edition is available now at no additional charge for Professional and Professional Plus Edition customers. http://www.pbwiki.com/
BA-Insight announced that it has opened two offices in Europe to address the global demand for its Microsoft based enterprise search products. New offices have opened in London and Copenhagen. BA-Insight's Longitude, helps people quickly find and analyze relevant information across the entire enterprise independently of format or location. http://www.ba-insight.net/
Queplix Inc. unveiled QueSearch, a universal search platform that securely integrates structured data from enterprise, SaaS and cloud applications into a single search tool. QueSearch software automatically extracts data and permissions from a wide variety of application and database formats, while enforcing security policies and access controls on a per-user basis to ensure that sensitive data is protected. Queplix has leveraged its QueCrawler technology, developed over several years as part of the Queplix QueWeb information access solution, to deliver automation and integration with enterprise applications including SAP, Siebel, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Salesforce.com and Microsoft Exchange. The QueWeb and QueSearch solutions, built on QueCrawler technology, are for improving information access and productivity in many parts of the enterprise, including customer care, partner and channel management, e-discovery, business intelligence, and Web self-service. In addition, both QueSearch and QueWeb facilitate migration of enterprise applications to cloud computing platforms. The QueSearch solution is available immediately, with software and appliance deployment options. Pricing starts at $19,500. http://www.queplix.com/
WoodWing Software released Smart Image for Adobe Creative Suite 4. Smart Image aids designers placing photographs on an InDesign page by automatically creating caption and credit text frames containing the embedded metadata stored within the photograph. Professional photographers and stock agencies generally add XMP or IPTC metadata to their photos such as copyright information, location, subjects and keywords. In page layouts, the credit and description/caption are often placed next to the photograph. Smart Image is able to automatically create the desired text frames in InDesign and place them according to the user’s preferences. Smart Image CS4 allows users to: Selectively import caption/description information, credit information or both; Set object, paragraph, and character styling of imported text; Specify a position, width, and rotation of imported information; Insert custom text such as “Photo by” or “All rights reserved” to imported information. Preferences for Smart Image are stored within the InDesign document itself, so styles based on user, company, or project are easy to manage without copying settings files between computers. Smart Image also allows caption and credit placeholders to be created and styled so that when a photograph is placed in a frame, its metadata can come in styled automatically. http://www.woodwing.com
Zimplit.com has released a fully "rebrandable" content management system for companies and organizations who want to provide easily editable webpages for their customers. Customizable means that the entire software interface will be modified to suit customers own branding. To make starting a website business easier, Zimplit will also provide manuals, demos, templates and even monthly newsletters. All this will carry customers brand. Zimplit provides not only a content management system, but also ready made and custom templates. Zimplit is lightweight, simple and customizable. It's easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface. Zimplit doesn't need a database and it consists of only a one core engine file. http://www.zimplit.com/
OmniUpdate, Inc., announced the availability of a new Live Delivery Platform (LDP) for its core web CMS product, OU Campus. This platform will be available to both new and existing OmniUpdate customers as an optional component beginning May 2009. A benefit of live delivery is the quick availability of dynamic data and the customization of content by website visitors. These capabilities facilitate interactive Web 2.0 applications such as favorites, watchers, polls, event calendars, image galleries, wikis, comments, forms, and surveys. OU Campus is designed as a push or "decoupled" CMS. The Live Delivery Platform extends the capabilities of OU Campus by allowing it to take advantage of the benefits of both push and pull CMS functionality. The platform will initially be available through a PHP-based API installed on the customer's web server, with other languages to follow. http://www.omniupdate.com
Xenos Group Inc. (TSX: XNS) announced the general availability of the latest release of its Xenos d2e Vision for document print stream transformation and repurposing. A stand-alone application since its initial release in 2003, Xenos d2e Vision engine has recently been incorporated as the core technology for the Xenos Enterprise Server (Xenos ES) Transformation Services for Documents. Xenos d2e Vision Version 3.1 builds upon the Java-based Xenos Developer Studio Graphical User Interface (GUI) developed for Xenos ES. It lets users run the GUI on any operating system with a graphical environment. Additionally, the Xenos Field Technology (XFT) capabilities have been enhanced, making it easier to decompose documents and extract visible information for ECM/ERM (Enterprise Content Management/Enterprise Report Management) archive loading, structured data creation and document repurposing. http://www.xenos.com
Markzware, a developer of data extraction and conversion software and inventor of preflighting, released an upgrade to its conversion tool PUB2ID for InDesign CS3 and CS4. PUB2ID v2 (Microsoft Publisher to Adobe InDesign) is a plug-in that enables users to convert native-application Microsoft Publisher files (MS Publisher versions 2002 through 2007) to Adobe InDesign while preserving the content, as well as the styles and formatting. http://www.markzware.com
XBRL US reported today to the Domestic Policy Subcommittee hearing of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The hearing, on the Treasury Department’s oversight of the use of funds by financial institutions under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), addressed data collection procedures to monitor the use of funds and the ability of the Treasury to detect and prevent waste and misuse of funds. Prepared remarks given by Mark Bolgiano, President and CEO, XBRL US, described how the use of a free, open-source technology standard can be used to provide citizens, government and investors consistent, comparable reporting on the existing pool of securitized assets, help regulators track the disbursement and use of TARP funds and enable more effective regulation by government. XBRL is a standard agreed upon by industry and government that makes information computer-readable and therefore more easily searched on, extracted and analyzed. XBRL US also developed a dictionary of terms for the risk return summary portion of mutual fund prospectuses and has other projects under way including corporate actions announcements and proxy statement data for executive compensation reporting. Mr. Bolgiano’s testimony detailed an XBRL standard for residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) used for the full life cycle of securitized assets: valuation on issuance, surveillance and bond remittance. XBRL US worked with multiple industry sources to develop the standard and has demonstrated it to industry and government leaders. XBRL US is the nonprofit consortium for XML data standards and is responsible for bringing together industries to convert US GAAP accounting requirements and common practices into a standard digital dictionary for more transparent reporting by publicly-traded companies. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) mandated the use of XBRL for public company reporting, with compliance starting in June 2009. http://xbrl.us/
Microsoft Corp. and Creative Commons announced the release of the Ontology Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 that will enable authors to easily add scientific hyperlinks as semantic annotations, drawn from ontologies, to their documents and research papers. Ontologies are shared vocabularies created and maintained by different academic domains to model their fields of study. This Add-in will make it easier for scientists to link their documents to the Web in a meaningful way. Deployed on a wide scale, ontology-enabled scientific publishing will provide a Web boost to scientific discovery. Science Commons, a division of Creative Commons, is incubating the adoption of semantic scientific publishing through creation of a database of ontologies (http://neurocommons.org/) and development of supporting technical standards and code. Microsoft Research has built a technology bridge to enable the link between Microsoft Office Word 2007 and these ontologies. Microsoft is making the source code for both the Ontology Add-in for Office Word 2007 and the Creative Commons Add-in for Office Word 2007 tool available under the Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) on CodePlex, Microsoft's Web site for hosting open source projects, at http://ucsdbiolit.codeplex.com/ and http://ccaddin2007.codeplex.com/ respectively. The Ontology Add-in for Word 2007 is enabled by Microsoft Office Word's Open XML Formats underpinnings and its extensibility in the form of smart tags. http://creativecommons.org/, http://www.microsoft.com/
MaxxCat enterprise search solutions has its sights set on Google with a new product line that "is up to 16 times faster than Google's search appliances". MaxxCat search appliance offers scalable, enterprise-level search solutions for organizations of all sizes. The MaxxCat search box can crawl and index data from company databases, file systems, servers, and portals. It can be integrated into corporate intranets or websites. MaxxCat anticipates a wider launch of its search appliances in Spring 2009. http://www.maxxcat.com
Imprezzeo announced a partnership with Nstein Technologies, Inc. Nstein will integrate Imprezzeo's image-based search engine with its Text Mining and search products to allow its customers to conduct faster, more accurate image searches. With this partnership, Imprezzeo offers a software development kit (SDK), access to Imprezzeo developer resources and dedicated technical support. Imprezzeo Image Search uses both content-based image retrieval (CBIR) and facial recognition (FR), allowing customers to use images to search for images, rather than textual search terms. The technology generates image search results that closely match a sample image either chosen by the user from an initial set of search results that can then be refined, or from an image uploaded by the user. http://www.imprezzeo.com/
Magnolia International Ltd. announced the immediate availability of Magnolia 4.0. This forth generation of the Java-based content management system introduces production-ready content delivery templates that provide a large set of out-of-the-box functionality. Content delivery is search-engine optimized, follows accessibility guidelines and introduces support for mobile devices. The new Templating Kit allows designers and programmers to quickly and easily build best-practice Web site designs and to control the complete layouting life-cycle. Ready-made XHTML-conformant templates are available for Magnolia 4.0 to create custom Web designs that dynamically adapt content delivery to various devices, including the iPhone. The standard templates are search engine optimized (SEO) and follow W3C accessibility guidelines. Multiple Web site designs for front- and back-ends can be managed from within Magnolia's browser-based administration interface. Magnolia 4.0 introduces support for a new templating language called Freemarker in addition to templating in JSP (Java Server Pages). Templating with Freemarker allows to view and edit templates directly in the browser window, have templates under version- and access-control and to backup templates together with the content of a website. The Standard Templating Kit is part of Magnolia's new Supersonic Template bundle that includes a new form module with newly-added spam protection and server-side field validation. Magnolia CMS 4.0 is available immediately. Magnolia Community Edition can be downloaded for free under an Open Source license. The Standard Templating Kit (STK) is available for download upon registration. Magnolia Enterprise Edition includes the STK, more enterprise functionality as well as support and guarantees - pricing starts at 12,000 USD. http://www.magnolia-cms.com/4-0
Jive Software announces the launch of their enterprise-class, Social Business Software application suite - Jive SBS 3.0. Jive SBS 3.0 is a suite of social business applications that is purpose-built for Global 2000 enterprises. It allows teams of people from inside and outside of the enterprise to connect, communicate and collaborate. Jive SBS 3.0 introduces four application centers: Employee Engagement, Marketing & Sales, Customer Support and Innovation. Jive SBS 3.0 also bridges internal employee collaboration with external partner and customer communities into a single application suite. The Jive SBS Employee Engagement Center brings employees together to break down silos, resolve conflict, speed productivity, make decisions and capture institutional knowledge. The Jive SBS Marketing & Sales Center engages companies with their customers to build brand awareness, create leads and convert sales, and allows sales and marketing teams to share ideas, content and connections more easily. The Jive SBS Innovation Center drives the creative collaboration with customers and partners. The Jive SBS Support Center builds a system of knowledge capture and peer support in order to quickly solve problem. Jive Social Business Software 3.0 will be available at the end of Q109. http://www.jivesoftware.com/
Infor announced that Infor PM 10 now supports eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). Infor PM 10 provides integrated XBRL capabilities, enabling companies to comply with financial reporting requirements aimed at improving the transparency and accessibility of financial data. Infor PM 10 provides an integrated suite of performance management applications including planning and budgeting, financial consolidation, strategic management, forecasting, and reporting and analysis. After the financial consolidation process, Infor PM 10 enables users to tag financial data through a drag and drop interface, preview and error check the report, and export the finished interactive XBRL report. http://www.infor.com
milengo Inc. announced that it has joined with Clay Tablet Technologies to bring its content routing solution to IT, communications and eLearning clients struggling with large volumes of content. The solution, Clay Tablet 2.0 connects any content management system with any localization tool, so that content may be translated easier and faster. http://www.milengo.com, http://www.Clay-Tablet.com
EPiServer announced the general availability of EPiServer Relate+ - a new package which combines the latest social media and web 2.0 features with EPiServer’s web Content Management System (CMS). Relate+ provides combines community building, email composition and maintenance, and a CMS in one package. EPiServer Relate+ contains a template package in the form of a ready-to-use community, inspired by Facebook, which can be adapted to customer-specific needs. You can now mix controlled content from EPiServer CMS with the dynamic and user-generated content which will appear in EPiServer Community. http://www.episerver.com
Systems Alliance Inc. announced the release of Enhancement Pack 5 (EP 5), a software update for the company’s SiteExecutive Web content management application. In addition to client-requested improvements and support for IE 8, EP 5 simplifies the creation, management and delivery of mobile-friendly Web content. To deliver mobile content, earlier versions of SiteExecutive gave clients the option of adding media-dependent style sheets based on the W3C CSS 2 standard for handheld devices. Lack of support for this standard among popular mobile browsers led to a new approach introduced in EP 5, which combines automatic detection of mobile browsers and template swapping. When SiteExecutive EP 5 detects a site visitor has arrived from a mobile device (iPhone, Blackberry, etc.), it automatically swaps the desktop Web page for a new page created with a “Sibling” template configured specifically for mobile devices. Based on the best practices for developing mobile content, Sibling template creation requires very little effort when compared with creating media-specific CSS. http://www.systemsalliance.com
Now visited by over two-thirds (67 percent) of the global online population, "Member Communities," which includes both social networks and blogs, has become the fourth most popular online category - ahead of personal email. It is growing twice as fast as any of the other four largest sectors (search, portals, PC software and email), according to The Nielsen Company's "Global Faces and Networked Places," a comprehensive report published today revealing the new global footprint of social networking. According to the Nielsen report, Facebook - the world's most popular social network - is visited monthly by three in every 10 people online across the nine markets in which Nielsen tracks social networking use. Orkut in Brazil has the largest domestic online reach (70 percent) of any social network in these markets. The report, available today, provides insights into the changing size and audience composition of the global social networking audience and the increasing share of Internet time for which it accounts. The report also analyzes how the major players are faring and what advertisers and publishers can do to take advantage of the social network phenomenon. Other findings include: One in every 11 minutes online globally is accounted for by social network and blogging sites; The social network and blogging audience is becoming more diverse in terms of age: the biggest increase in visitors during 2008 to "Member Community" Web sites globally came from the 35-49 year old age group (+11.3 million); Mobile is playing an increasingly important role in social networking; Nielsen found UK mobile Web users have the greatest propensity to visit a social network through their handset, with 23 percent (2 million people) doing so, compared to 19 percent in the US (10.6 million people). These numbers are a big increase over last year - up 249 percent in the UK and 156 percent in the US. Download the full paper for free on Nielsen's blog at http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/nielsen-news/social-networking-new-global- footprint/
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TEKgroup International, Inc. has developed an integrated social media package for their TEKmedia Online Newsroom software product. The social media upgrade aims to ease the burden of overseeing and following viral messages for communicators and journalists respectively. Visitors can transfer or share content from the online newsroom to their individual social media accounts, increasing propagation. Administrators are able to optimize content by tagging images and text for search engine relevancy, as well as establish a tag cloud that displays the most popular tags and topics found within their online newsroom. News distribution has also been enhanced. Not only can administrators send e-mail alerts as usual, but also automatically generate a 140-character message via an established Twitter account. Additionally, an RSS feed allows for immediate delivery of a message into a company’s Facebook and LinkedIn accounts. http://www.tekgroup.com
WoodWing Software released Smart Styles for Adobe Creative Suite 4. Smart Styles is an automated formatting tool that simplifies repetitive formatting of text, frames, and other objects in InDesign and InCopy. Besides support for CS4, the new Smart Styles release also incorporates Nested Styles enhancements (including GREP) and enhancements for text with a stroke. Users of Smart Styles drag a styled object into a Smart Styles library, after which Smart Styles analyzes its formatting. Page designers can then drag this Smart Style object out of the library and onto another page element to apply the same formatting. Smart Styles can also deal with variations, when the target object is different from the original. This removes the need for designers to manually apply repetitive styling, allowing them to spend more time on the creative side of their work. Since Smart Styles libraries can be opened and shared by multiple users, the designer does not have to spend time importing styles from older documents or worry about synchronizing styles among multiple InDesign templates. Smart Styles also adds basic spreadsheet functionality to InDesign and InCopy by allowing users to insert formulas into tables and sort columns by multiple attributes such as alphabetical or numeric values with ascending or descending options. A free 30-day trial version of Smart Styles CS4 can be downloaded. http://www.woodwing.com/
Zoho announced Zoho Writer 2.0, the next generation of the company’s online word processor. Featuring MenuTabs, a new interface philosophy that uses tabbed menus to streamline the user experience, Zoho Writer 2.0's new user interface will soon be adopted by other Zoho productivity and collaboration applications. Previously, Zoho Writer displayed all commands at once via a three-row toolbar. However, as functionality was quickly added, the UI became crowded. The crown jewel of Zoho Writer 2.0 is the MenuTab design, which streamlines the toolbar with tabbed menus that not only organize commands in context-based groups, but also provide quick access to commands in other tabs. Users now get the best of both worlds - menus and tabs. The Zoho Writer 2.0 toolbar includes Format, Insert, Review, Share, Views, and Page Setup tabs. Users click on a tab to view all related commands, which are displayed in a single row below the tab. Users can also click on a tab’s down arrow to display the commands in a drop-down menu. The latter option lets users work in one tab yet access commands found in other tabs. Other enhancements to the Zoho Writer 2.0 interface include an enhanced sidebar, improved header/footer with auto-fill, and document info and live word count displayed in the status bar. http://www.zoho.com/
Phase2 Technology and the Thomson Reuters Calais Initiative have debuted OpenPublish, a complete Calais-powered publishing suite for the open source platform. Tailored to meet the needs of online publishers and media providers, OpenPublish offers semantic metatagging from OpenCalais and a seamless connection to the Linked Data cloud. It uses Drupal as a social publishing platform and supports "everything from news coverage to Web 2.0 trends, social publishing and the increasingly in-demand topic hubs". OpenPublish allows editors to rethink online news presentation and use readily available tools to reach a larger audience, simultaneously publishing stories to a CMS while integrating news and open data sources. OpenPublish helps publishers leverage suggestive tagging, geo-coding and relevancy ranking. It also enables publishers to tag entire libraries of archived content for better search results. The service is available today. http://drupal.org/project/opencalais, http://www.opencalais.com, http://www.opensourceopenminds.com/OpenPublish, http://www.phase2technology.com
Percussion Software introduced its latest release, Percussion Content Management System 6.6. CM System 6.6 goes beyond the traditional process-driven “author and publish” paradigm and helps users harvest and publish content. CM System, formerly named Rhythmyx helps users evaluate and harvest the most powerful content, make changes and publish as business dictates. Whether the priority is to quickly test a campaign, tap into user-community sentiment, or readily repurpose content, Percussion CM System 6.6 helps manage content for information intense businesses. When viewing a page from a browser or within the WebAnalytics solution, clicking the Linkback button will take the user to the desired page, where edits can be made.The user may then rapidly add and remove page elements in bulk, change page designs (templates), move page elements and visually compare to prior versions of the page, all from a single, purpose-built interface. Once changes have been completed, the user can bypass workflow and staging and instantly publish to the live site. CM System 6.6 includes a new search function using the Lucene open source search engine. CM System 6.6 is available for immediate delivery to new customers, and available as an upgrade for existing customers. http://www.percussion.com
SDL announced that Adobe Systems is providing all its Adobe FrameMaker 9 users with SDL AuthorAssistant, the client component of SDL Global Authoring Management System. Adobe FrameMaker 9 software is an authoring and publishing solution that allows technical communicators to author, structure, review and publish complex and lengthy content. Starting with FrameMaker 9 and Adobe Technical Communications Suite 2, every user of FrameMaker can install SDL AuthorAssistant as part of the Adobe FrameMaker 9 environment, empowering them to create content for global markets and improve the quality of their content. SDL AuthorAssistant ensures adherence to style guide rules and consistent use of terminology. The software is also able to check against previously translated content, so that companies with global audiences can improve content reuse and reduce the downstream costs of localizing content. http://www.adobe.com, http://www.sdl.com
Equilibrium announced the release of MediaRich Visualizer for SharePoint. This enterprise freeware server software provides instant visual enhancements to any SharePoint deployment as well as high-volume media processing and distribution. Visualizer brings higher levels of functionality and visual imaging capabilities to all SharePoint licensees at no charge. The new MediaRich Visualizer for SharePoint offering is a free entry-level offering to the MediaRich family of products. Equilibrium’s more fully featured MediaRich for SharePoint goes beyond Visualizer and extends Microsoft Office’s collaborative experience with a complete digital asset management (DAM) solution that operates within the SharePoint environment. Both products are based on MediaRich CORE, an image and video server that automates the production and deployment of media assets to the Web, wireless, print and Microsoft Office applications. The MediaRich product line enables integration with .NET enterprise applications and technologies. http://www.equilibrium.com/
Flypaper Studio, Inc. announced its partnership with Cozimo Technologies, Inc., creator of a Web application for online review and collaboration of rich digital media. Both companies provide solutions for Flash developers and creative agencies that need to review and collaborate online on projects with colleagues and clients, often located in many different locations. This partnership gives Flypaper users access to Cozimo’s advanced collaboration tools as part of their Flypaper license. The Cozimo application enables creative agencies and developers to review and markup digital content such as Flash, images, video, PDF files and documents from any Web browser either independently or with their clients in live, synchronized online sessions. Flypaper users can also use Cozimo to export any element of a project then collectively mark up, edit, make notes, chat online, and view all collaborators per project. The Flypaper Content Management Platform is focused on creative content development agencies and enterprise users who are creating large Flash projects such as marketing, sales and training content. Flypaper 2.0, the company’s most recent version, makes it easier to create large-scale Flash content. In addition to the Cozimo collaboration feature, Flypaper also includes a “cloud” repository for companies to store projects and digital assets, and a software development kit (SDK). The Flypaper Flash Content Management Platform is sold as an annual license at $795 for single users, or as an enterprise package that includes five seats for $9,995 per year. Later this spring, Flypaper Studio will release a Sales and Training Extension Suite that brings the power of Flash to salespeople and training mentors. The company will also release an Approval Management System that streamlines the facilitation of the project approval process across the enterprise. http://www.flypaper.com, http://www.cozimo.com
PBwiki Inc. announced the launch of PBwiki Campus Edition, a new academic product that makes PBwiki's hosted collaboration suite affordable for schools with up to 1,000 students, faculty, and staff. With PBwiki Campus Edition, a school can roll out an unlimited number of PBwikis for its classes, clubs, and other student activities. Previously, schools had to purchase wikis individually. http://www.pbwiki.com/
X1 Technologies, Inc., along with Shepard Pte Ltd, a technology solutions firm, announced that Shepard will represent X1’s Enterprise Search solutions in Singapore and the South Asian Region. Headquartered in Singapore, Shepard’s key mission is to simplify information management for their clients. Their methodology addresses critical needs for the treatment of business information assets. http://www.shepard.com.sg, http://www.x1.com
IntraLinks announced that it has chosen Attivio’s Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) to fuel its advanced search capabilities. Attivio’s search platform will integrate with IntraLinks’ permissioning model, enabling IntraLinks’ users to examine data and documents at a more granular level while maintaining previously defined access rights. Attivio also provides IntraLinks with the ability to execute real-time tagging and commenting. Attivio’s real-time fields can be updated instantly without retrieving and reprocessing the rest of the document. This results in increased performance with “live checks” to accommodate changes in permissions. http://www.attivio.com
JustSystems announced XMetaL Reviewer 5.5, the latest version of the company’s collaborative XML document reviewing software. Reinforcing the central role of document review and collaboration in the overall authoring process, XMetaL Reviewer lets subject matter experts and others contribute content directly to the documents under review. The latest version of XMetaL Reviewer also gains usability, connectivity, integration, and administration enhancements. XMetaL Reviewer moves the document review process beyond a read-only exercise that prevents reviewers from suggesting detailed edits to the documents being reviewed. Now, reviewers can actively contribute new content and rewrite entire sections of a document. Using the addendum editor, XMetaL Reviewer users with no knowledge of XML can contribute structured content, insert images, and create lists, tables, and whole sections for consideration as document modifications. In addition to harnessing the expertise of document reviewers, XMetaL Reviewer offers users a consolidated view of all their suggested changes which are displayed to all reviewers in real time, as the changes are being made. An audit trail tracks all document changes, and an inline chat feature lets reviewers discuss content changes in real time. XMetaL Reviewer 5.5 is available today with prices starting at $15,000 for the server and five concurrent user licenses. Additional concurrent licenses are $2,500 for five users. http://www.justsystems.com
Systems Alliance Inc. announced it has earned Certified status in Microsoft’s Partner Program. In addition to becoming a Certified Partner, Systems Alliance earned a Microsoft Competency in Information Worker Solutions, with a specialization in Microsoft Portals and Enterprise Content Management for its work delivering solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint products and technologies. Systems Alliance can help clients optimize their use of Office SharePoint products and technologies through Microsoft’s SharePoint Deployment Planning Service (SDPS) program. The program is offered to clients as a Microsoft Software Assurance benefit. Depending on a client’s Software Assurance benefit level, Microsoft will cover the cost of a pre-defined one, three, five, 10 or 15 day deployment planning session provided by Systems Alliance consultants. Much of the demand for Systems Alliance’s SharePoint services has come from line-of-business decision makers who are looking for ways to improve information access, collaborative business processes and content management. http://www.systemsalliance.com
DPCI announced it has joined the Acquia Partner program at the Platinum level. Through the program, DPCI will expand its open source content management offerings by developing and delivering custom publishing solutions utilizing Acquia's value-added products and services for the Drupal social publishing system. Additionally the program allows DPCI to leverage the Acquia Network for support, site management, and remote network services. http://drupal.org, http://acquia.com, http://www.databasepublish.com
VYRE Ltd, developer of Content Management solution VYRE Unify announced the release of version 4.4. This latest release introduces the new Enterprise Search Module: Unify: EnterpriseSearch. VYRE Unify: EnterpriseSearch is fully integrated with VYRE Unify. VYRE Unify is a Content Management platform designed to automate the digital marketing supply chain. Its single platform approach provides a range of solution options and unifies the worlds of content management, digital asset management and marketing resource management. VYRE Unify 4.4 delivers over 300 new features and improvements, as well as bug fixes over the previous release. Most notably, version 4.4 introduces new capabilities for performing facetted and federated searching across the enterprise. Facetted search provides immediate feedback on the breakdown of search results and allows users to drill down within search results. Federated search helps users to eradicate content silos by allowing users to search multiple content repositories. A new taxonomy editing portlet is available in version 4.4 that allows for taxonomy to be managed and edited in the CMS front end. Users can now manage taxonomies without having to access the administration layer or seek help from super users. Another new feature of VYRE Unify 4.4 is the one-click deployment of all publishing entities for newly added delivery servers. In this latest version VYRE optimised VYRE Unify's multi-channel publishing feature by improving support for mobile devices. http://www.vyre.com
Inmedius, Inc. announced the acquisition of Generation21 Learning Systems, an E-Learning provider since its founding in 1996. Known as the first developer of reusable learning objects, performance support technology and true tailored learning. Inmedius and Generation21 customers will benefit from an integration of their project technical documentation with training course creation, management and deployment. Inmedius plans to broaden their portfolio of offerings, empowering clients with an integral link between technical documentation and learning that supports their products and customers, including tight integration between Inmedius’ existing S1000D, DITA and Content Management technical information systems with Generation21’s E-Learning platform. Generation21's solution offers Learning Management, Content Management, and Content Assembly tools. Generation21 offerings will be available for purchase worldwide through Inmedius’ international network of offices. http://www.generation21.com, http://www.inmedius.com
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