June 2009 Archives

Lucid Imagination and ISYS Search Software announced a strategic partnership. The agreement enables Lucid Imagination to provide solutions that combine its core Lucene and Solr expertise with the ISYS File Readers document filtering technology. The flexibility of the architecture allows enterprises to develop sophisticated purpose-built search solutions. By offering ISYS File Readers as part of its Lucene/Solr solutions, Lucid Imagination gives users and developers out-of-the-box capability to find and extract virtually all of the content and formats that exist in their enterprise environment. Lucid Imagination Web site serves as a knowledge portal for the Lucene community, with wide range of information, resources and  information retrieval application, LucidFind to help developers and search professionals get access to the information they need to design, build and deploy Lucene and Solr based solutions. http://www.lucidimagination.com

Really Strategies, Inc. announced the acquisition of DocZone.com, a SaaS XML content management provider. DocZone.com is known for its DITA-based technical publications solution. The acquisition will complement Really Strategies’ RSuite product line, offering publishers, media companies, and technical publishers an array of pricing and implementation models that fit their business needs. With the addition of DocZone.com, Really Strategies has an established customer base in several new markets, including Fortune 500 technology and manufacturing companies. The acquisition was led by Brook Venture Partners. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. With over 100 clients in the publishing, media, and technical publications markets, the combined company will be headquartered in Audubon, PA, with a strong European presence to serve a global client base. http://www.reallysi.com

Syncro Soft Ltd has announced the availability of version 10.3 of its XML Editor and XML Author. Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML development environment. It has ready to use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more. Version 10.3 of Oxygen XML Editor improves both the XML Authoring and the XML Development capabilities. As a result of user feedback the Oxygen XML Author API was reorganized and extended with additional functionality. There are various improvements to the existing frameworks (DITA, DocBook, TEI, etc.) like automatic ID generation or DITA aware search and replace. A new XML development feature is the Component Dependencies View that presents a tree of component dependencies starting with a specified component for XSLT, XML Schema, Relax NG and NVDL. The new version also integrates the Saxon SA XQuery Update functionality and updates a number of components to their latest versions. http://www.oxygenxml.com/

SDL announced the acquisition of XyEnterprise, aprovider of XML Component Content Management (CCM) and Dynamic Publishing solutions. The acquisition of XyEnterprise builds on SDL’s earlier acquisition of Trisoft in 2008. Since that acquisition, SDL has seen a growing demand for technologies that manage, reuse and deliver product information across a company’s base of global customers, including everything from service manuals to user documentation. Moving into XML standards such as DITA and S1000D, companies are seeking ways to create, translate and publish structured content once and share that information across their global organizations and customer base. With the acquisition of XyEnterprise, SDL significantly expands its CCM and publishing product offerings and technical capabilities. XyEnterprise brings to the SDL portfolio both XML publishing products (XPP - XML Professional Publisher and LiveContent, an intelligent interactive delivery solution), as well as a new XML standard (S1000D) with XyEnterprise’s Contenta content management software. In addition, XyEnterprise brings mature R&D, professional services and support teams into the larger SDL Group. With the XyEnterprise acquisition, SDL PLC, a UK-based company, is creating a merged business unit of XyEnterprise and SDL Trisoft that will be branded SDL XySoft. XyEnterprise Inc., the legal entity, will continue to do business as a US-based, Delaware company. SDL XySoft will have a combined management team from the SDL Trisoft and XyEnterprise organizations, with Kevin Duffy, President and CEO of XyEnterprise, as CEO of the newly combined business unit, reporting to Mark Lancaster, Chairman and CEO of SDL. SDL will continue to support both XyEnterprise and SDL Trisoft customers and products as the R&D organization moves to a shared component development model. http://www.sdl.com, http://www.xyenterprise.com, http://www.sdltrisoft.com

Percussion Software announced the release of CM System 6.7. This release provides partners, enterprises, institutions and organizations the ability to package and deploy the CM System capabilities they create. Percussion’s packaging tool also offers an upgrade capability. Percussion CM System 6.7 helps organizations keep pace with changes by making it possible to encapsulate custom CMS application functionality into modular, upgradeable packages, which can be configured and reused standalone or in concert with other packages, allowing a building-block approach to the web content management system. When unanticipated needs arise, packages can be updated and re-deployed to extend the life of the development investment by allowing multiple, iterative changes to existing components. Percussion plans to sponsor an open exchange whereby customers and partners can swap, sell or buy application packages. The exchange leverages the open source model by bringing together the unbridled thinking of the Percussion community and the of the Percussion CM System. CM System 6.7 is available for immediate delivery. http://www.percussion.com

RollStream, provider of enterprise community management solutions, announced the launch of its Web 2.0 Onboarding and Information Management solution, enabling customers to automate the registration of new suppliers and approval of changes to business terms, contracts and key credentials for existing suppliers or vendors. RollStream’s Onboarding solution enables suppliers, vendors or distributors to be added to a partner community via intelligent online forms. The role-based approval workflow spans the entire process from supplier registration to internal employee handoffs. RollStream’s collaborative supplier information management capability enables suppliers to manage their own profiles and initiate changes to their information themselves, but ensures that such changes are tied to a customer-defined approval process, allowing visibility and management of supplier master data. Since RollStream Onboarding is directly tied to a comprehensive collaboration platform, users are able to find existing suppliers using search capabilities before submitting duplicate registration requests. Once the profile is complete, customers can communicate and interact with suppliers based upon type, category or classification. With RollStream’s open API Interface for ERP and Content Management, all supplier information, data and credentials can be synchronized with master systems of record. http://www.rollstream.com

Hippo has released Hippo CMS version 7.1 and the new Hippo Site Toolkit (HST). HST introduces a quick and low cost way to deliver Hippo CMS 7.1 to the web, offering a fast integration track with a variety of web front-ends and existing applications. With the new HST, Hippo aims to pair rapid and flexible web development with control and oversight, manageability and security. Under the hood, both products stay close to their roots of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects they are built on. By developing the HST as a standalone product, the content and business logic are separated from a presentation layer. Each layer is based on standards, such as the Java Content Repository specification (JSR-170). To speed up the implementation process, HST and Hippo CMS are designed to work together out-of-the-box with Apache Jetspeed Portal 2.2, within the same security model. New features in HST/CMS 7.1 include: Portal integration JSR 168/286, optimized for recently released Apache Jetspeed 2.2. HST website components run transparently in the Portal as native portlets; Faceted browsing of the content structures in the CMS give users their own views for navigation and use; and Web framework independence, with support for JSP, Wicket and advanced support for Spring MVC and others. http://www.onehippo.com

Jive announced an OEM agreement with SAP AG, through which it will deliver community analytics that combine Social Business Software together with SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand offerings. This agreement will leverage SAP's leadership in software-as-a-service (SaaS) business intelligence, resulting in a complete cloud-based analytics and reporting solution for Jive SBS customers. Jive customers will benefit from a quick-to-deploy, secure, stable and flexible analytics offering that also removes the challenges and costs associated with procuring infrastructure and ongoing data management. With SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand delivered as part of the Jive SBS platform, Jive customers will be able to share, discuss and collaborate around business data more effectively, enabling smarter decision-making by a larger number of business users. Rather than relying on a handful of analysts to produce static charts that end up buried in presentations, Jive customers will gain broad access to  customizable and interactive reports, along with the ability to share, discuss and collaborate around this information. http://www.jivesoftware.com/

Bluenog announced the availability of Bluenog ICE 4.5, an Enterprise 2.0 application development platform built on pre-integrated open source collaboration, content management, presentation and reporting projects. ICE 4.5's Integrated Collaborative Environment of content management, portal, and business intelligence software now includes an Enterprise Wiki, secure group calendaring features and enhanced centralized administration. ICE 4.5 aggregates functionality from over a dozen open source projects into a single commercial product, with additional integration and features, all supported by Bluenog. This pre-integration helps eliminate the need for developers to manually code features such as security permissions and access to legacy systems across all their applications. Based on the JSPWiki open source project, ICE 4.5 allows users to create and share content through a portal interface. Stored in a secure, enterprise-wide repository, all Wiki pages can be searched, with access permissions defined at the Wiki and page level. ICE 4.5 also introduces an enterprise group calendaring application based on the open source project, Bedework. Bluenog has extended Bedework with secure, restricted access to calendars based on user, group and role. Another feature introduced in ICE 4.5 is ICE Central. This Central Administrative Console includes an improved interface for handling user groups and permissions across ICE's CMS and Portal components. Additionally, its propagation tool enables bulk import/export of ICE CMS Content Types and Content Data assets. The new release extends ICE's CMS functionality with an enhanced rich text editor and configurable HTML cleaner. These new features allow for a more customizable, browser friendly Ajax-compatible style. Bluenog ICE 4.5 will be generally available June 30, 2009. Bluenog ICE 4.5 is available via annual subscription and includes 9x5 support. Priced per-server rather than per-CPU or per-user. http://www.bluenog.com/

Zoho announced Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint which lets users work with Zoho online collaborative productivity applications to create, view, and edit files stored in Microsoft SharePoint. Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint is delivered as an add-on that installs on top of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and 2003. Once installed, Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint lets users working in Microsoft SharePoint view, edit, and create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in Microsoft Office formats, but using Zoho online applications. When a user clicks on a file in Microsoft SharePoint, the options will include “Edit in Zoho Editor” and “View in Zoho Editor.” The Edit option opens the file for editing in a Zoho editor within Microsoft SharePoint - either Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, or Zoho Show, depending upon the file selected. The view option opens the file for viewing in appropriate Zoho applications within Microsoft SharePoint. The user must be connected to the Internet to access Zoho applications. Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint enables multiple users to work collaboratively on the same document at the same time, seeing each other's changes instantly. That same functionality is available in online Zoho applications. Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint is available today as a 30-day free trial version. After the trial period, users may buy an annual subscription for $24/user. A monthly subscription is also available for $3/user. http://www.zoho.com

Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX) (NASDAQ:TSX:) (NASDAQ:OTC) announced another part of its Enterprise 2.0 strategy with a new software offering, Open Text Social Media, the latest addition to the Open Text ECM Suite. The solution offers a social media application that gives people ways of working productively together through the Web and mobile devices, while also meeting security and compliance demands by being integrated with a company's wider ECM system. Open Text Social Media gives organizations a way to marry social media technology to an enterprise-ready content management infrastructure. The new solution adds to Open Text's collaboration products offered in the Open Text ECM Suite, providing a combination of document centric collaboration solutions and a new solution that connects people to people to content in social networks designed for the enterprise. Open Text Social Media also helps meet the demands of mobile knowledge workers who demand mobile solutions that enable them to access key corporate systems. Open Text Social Media provides native mobile applications for Apple iPhone and RIM BlackBerry devices initially, with additional device support planned. Open Text Social Media will be generally available in July, 2009. http://www.opentext.com

IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced its newest cloud service, LotusLive Connections, which combines business social networking with collaboration tools. LotusLive Connections helps individuals, departments and small businesses tap into the intellectual resources and capabilities that previously have only been accessible to large enterprises. Using core elements of IBM's on-premise Lotus Connections social software, LotusLive Connections connects colleagues, partners, suppliers and customers from within and beyond firewalls. LotusLive Connections is meant to simplify working together, making it easier to identify and work with experts from any company online with the flexibility, convenience and affordable pricing associated with multi-tenant cloud services. Instant messaging, file sharing and activities are all instantly accessible for use with LotusLive networks. For example, a team planning a project can create a group around the project, including vendors from outside their company. Together they can build a project plan using Activities and post and share associated files. Comments can be made and tasks tracked in the same service. All participants are kept up-to-date without having to hunt through email for the latest documents. Networking, sharing and collaborating are all integrated in LotusLive Connections. LotusLive Connections will be available on June 30, 2009. http://www.lotuslive.com/connections

MuseGlobal announced a partnership with Specialty Systems, Inc., a company focusing on innovative information systems solutions to Federal, State and Local Government customers. Specialty Systems, Inc. is partnering with MuseGlobal to provide the systems integration expertise to engineer law enforcement and homeland security applications built on MuseGlobal’s MuseConnect, which provides federated search and harvesting technologies, with a library of more than 6,000 pre-built source connectors. The applications resulting from this partnership will incorporate unified information access allowing structured data from database sources; semi-structured data from spreadsheets, forms and XML sources; unstructured data from web sites, documents, email; and rich media such as images, video and audio information to be accessed simultaneously from internal databases and external sources.  This information is gathered on the fly, and unified for immediate presentation to the requestor. http://www.specialtysystems.com, http://www.museglobal.com

NewsGator introduced Social Sites 3.0, an upgrade to NewsGator's enterprise social computing platform. Companies can sign up for beta access today to see how Social Sites transforms content, activity and social graphs into "Social Knowledge." NewsGator's Social Sites 3.0 release includes: Socialpedia - This self-assembling Wikipedia-style internal Web site is a one-stop source of knowledge generated in topic-based online communities throughout the global organization. Socialpedia leverages an improved Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 wiki experience within Social Sites communities to create a single knowledge repository with distributed ownership; Knowledge Explorer - Expertise maps, which take advantage of the rich media features in Microsoft Silverlight, provide an interactive graphical snapshot of the professionals in an organization that are most informed on a selected topic. When users click on a topic in a tag cloud, the map appears with experts arranged according to their automatically calculated expertise ratings. http://www.newsgator.com

Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY) and blueKiwi Software, provider of Enterprise Social Software,  announced a strategic alliance. As part of the agreement, blueKiwi Software will benefit from Dassault Systèmes’ technology and wordwide presence. Dassault Systèmes has also taken a minority stake in blueKiwi Software. blueKiwis’ software platform helps manage secure social networks with partners, customers and colleagues. Its software-as-a-service offering brings a flexible solution to customers while integrating  "Web 2.0" services, such as wikis, blogs, forums, RSS and tagging. http://www.bluekiwi-software.com, http://www.3ds.com

SimpleFeed, Inc. announced customers can now publish any content in SimpleFeed into their Twitter accounts. Customers and prospects increasingly want to subscribe to news, offers and other information via Twitter. SimpleFeed creates, manages and measures syndicated content for large corporations. To create feeds for its customers, SimpleFeed integrates with many sources of content - republishing of existing RSS Feeds, content management system integrations, web services integrations, data feed integrations, HTML scraping and manual content entry. SimpleFeed Enterprise Twitter publishing enables marketers to publish any of this content into their Twitter streams. Features of SimpleFeed Enterprise publishing include:Publish any content in SimpleFeed to multiple Twitter accounts; Publish to specific Twitter accounts based on content tagging;  Control of the publishing process via the SimpleFeed User Management System; Publish once to everywhere - Feeds, Twitter, Web Sites; Custom publish content (not just title and link); Support for tinyurl and bit.ly; and Enterprise level support. http://www.simplefeed.com/twitter.htm

Bowne & Co., Inc. (NYSE: BNE) announced the release of the Bowne XChanger Taxonomy Migration Assistant. Bowne XChanger allows Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registrants to update XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) documents created using a prior version of the US GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) taxonomies with the recently released 2009 version. Bowne XChanger makes the technical updates to the files while providing detailed results as to what previously used GAAP and extension taxonomy elements (or "tags") are found in the new taxonomy. Since the 2009 US GAAP taxonomies will not be supported by the SEC EDGAR System until July 22, 2009, companies should upload their Bowne XChanger-updated XBRL documents to the Bowne Interactive XBRL Viewer for additional review and technical validation. The Bowne XBRL Interactive Viewer is a web-based XBRL application. XChanger is a desktop application and is available for download at Bowne's main XBRL web site, http://www.bowne.com/xbrl

ScrollMotion, creators of the Iceberg Reader, announced agreements with major book, magazine and newspaper publishers to create new digital content for the iPhone. Central to the announcement is an agreement with LibreDigital. ScrollMotion will make LibreDigital’s entire library of books, newspapers and magazines from dozens of the world’s top publishers and distributors, including HarperCollins, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Baker & Taylor and Wiley available on the iPhone. The company also announced individual agreements to create iPhone-friendly content for dozens of the world’s largest publishers, including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Simon & Schuster, Random House, Tribune Company and Wiley. ScrollMotion provides "tactile reading" experience, which allows users to move through “pages” with only a swipe of a finger, and animated graphics, which bring moving images to books, magazines and newspapers. Other ScrollMotion developments include the ability to copy, paste, notate and e-mail passages of text and a consistent pagination feature that enables easy reference in educational settings. ScrollMotion applications give content publishers multiple ways to monetize their digital content: through original download, embedded high resolution advertising (critical for magazines and newspapers) and embedded Web analytics and keyword technology. http://www.libredigital.com, http://www.scrollmotion.com

FatWire Software launched the new FatWire Global Partner Program. This enhanced program provides partners with new resources to help FatWire customers, and provides a foundation for continuously expanding FatWire’s reach and capabilities. The new Global Partner Program will enable a larger number of FatWire partners to be certified to deliver the technical, business and marketing consulting services needed to meet customers’ requirements. Companies including Acquity Group, Business & Decision, EMC Conchango, Everis, LBi, Next Digital, Sapient, and Satyam are partnering with FatWire to drive increases in their WEM business and to deliver results for customers. The Global Partner Program covers FatWire’s full portfolio of solutions, including web content management, targeted marketing and analytics, collaboration and community, content integration, and mobile delivery. The Program consists of the following levels: FatWire Registered Partner: These partners have worked with FatWire over multiple implementations and offer the services and skills to help customers succeed with FatWire projects; FatWire Certified Partner: With tested and certified FatWire expertise, these partners are experts in FatWire best-practices and have the support of enhanced access to FatWire technical resources; FatWire Premium Partner: These partners have the most extensive commitment to FatWire and provide the very highest levels of service to FatWire customers around the globe. They offer the deepest knowledge of FatWire best practices and have the highest levels of access to FatWire expertise and technical resources. http://www.fatwire.com

nGenera announced four new end-to-end Collaborative Enterprise Management Solutions. The company also announced the release of nGenera Collaboration Platform 3.0, a cloud-based platform that is compatible with Microsoft's SharePoint and Google's OpenSocial, and hosts a suite of collaborative applications that power nGenera's CEM Solutions. The new solutions are: nGen Enterprise Collaboration - Build a collaboration roadmap by identifying high-value management initiatives within their enterprise and deploying them on a collaboration platform; nGen Collaborative Selling - Build a collaborative selling channel across internal sales pursuit teams and external sales channels, leveraging Sales 2.0 processes and technologies; nGen Customer Experience - Deploy collaborative processes to define, create, measure and continuously improve the customer experience, and; nGen Talent Management - Implement transformational approaches for managing the talent base of their organizations. In addition to the announcement of CEM Solutions, nGenera also released version 3.0 of nGenera Collaboration Platform, a cloud-based platform that: offers widgets that provide the full range of core collaboration-enabling components; provides global services for user, security, search and storage management; is compliant with OpenSocial standard to enable easy integration of third-party applications, including Google Wave, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and others; and integrates with Microsoft Sharepoint versions 2003 and 2007. nGen Collaboration and nGenera's CEM Solutions are available today. http://www.ngenera.com

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) announced Autonomy Interwoven Multichannel Optimization, a solution that combines web content management, contact center and advanced analytics capabilities into a single solution for understanding and optimizing customer interactions. The newest module in Autonomy’s Meaning Based Marketing suite, the solution enables organizations to automatically listen, analyze, optimize, and act on all forms of customer interactions across multiple channels including social media, the web, contact center, email, and in-store. The Multichannel Optimization solution combines Autonomy’s etalk solutions for the contact center with its TeamSite web content management and Optimost advanced analytics marketing solution on Autonomy’s IDOL platform.  IDOL allows all of these solutions to now understand what customers are communicating regardless of the channel being used. The Autonomy Interwoven Multichannel Optimization solution is available now. http://www.autonomy.com/interwoven

OnPoint Digital, Inc., an online learning and mobile solutions provider, announced the release of several new and updated CellCast Mobile Widget applications facilitating anytime/anywhere learning to mobile enterprise workers. The new Widgets allow mobile learners with devices based on Google's Android environment, and smartphones based on Nokia's Symbian, to receive and launch tracked assignments and tests on their mobile devices. OnPoint has also added on-device training support for Microsoft Windows and Android-based netbook-style ultra portable computers. Previously released were CellCast widgets for content delivery/tracking to BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds, Apple iPhones & iPod touch media players, and Windows Mobile devices. OnPoint helps managers and developers alike to prepare, package, deliver and track a wide variety of content, including voice, SMS messages, HTML/PDF files, audio/video clips and animated slideshows, to a user's cellphone or smartphone. New content is first loaded into OnPoint's Web 2.0-based content management interface, then automatically transcoded into device-specific, smartphone-ready deliverables. Next, mobile content is assigned to users or defined groups with drag & drop screen interactions. OnPoint's CellCast Solution also includes tools to analyze content access and test or survey results using drill-down reporting, interactive dashboards and collaborative features. http://www.onpointdigital.com

Liferay, Inc., recently announced the availability of the next major release of Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition (EE), the commercial subscription to its open source portal software. In addition to new product features such as Microsoft Office integration, centralized multi-site administration and web content management enhancements, Liferay Portal EE 5.2 provides access to business services that include: four years of maintenance updates and a formal five-year End of Service Life Policy, customer Portal with access to software, updates, and whitepapers, enterprise scalability, performance improvements, and optional software and legal indemnification. http://www.liferay.com/

Handshake Software PageGuru delivers a SharePoint personalization environment that enables a user with no SharePoint training to select and organize information on any page, exactly how they want to see it. PageGuru includes pre-configured Web Part “Gadgets” for any Microsoft SharePoint List including SharePoint Document Libraries, Tasks, Announcement and Calendars. Also included are standard portal gadgets for Weather, News, Videos, Stocks and other information. PageGuru Web Parts for legal market and other applications such as Financial, Practice and Document Management applications are available. Handshake Software enables 3rd Party web parts and applications for use with PageGuru. PageGuru is expected to be released as part of Handshake Software 3.0 in early July, 2009. http://www.handshakesoftware.com

ParaScale, Inc., a startup company developing cloud storage solutions, and Alfresco Software, Inc., announced a cloud-based integrated ECM solution co-locating Alfresco Content Management and ParaScale Cloud Storage software on the same hardware. The ParaScale cloud also supports policy based replication to help ensure availability for content access. Users can set policies to configure the number of copies of a document that are replicated within the cloud. When a new document is created, the ParaScale software propagates the new version within the cloud to another storage node based on the policy. This helps make the Alfresco ECM solution reliable by ensuring users can still access documents from an available copy if parts of the cloud are unavailable. The integrated ParaScale/Alfresco cloud-based ECM solution is available immediately. Customers can download a free 4 TB cloud from the ParaScale website and integrate the free 30 day Alfresco Enterprise trial software with the cloud. http://www.parascale.com, http://wiki.alfresco.com/

DotNetNuke Corp. announced the DotNetNuke Professional Edition 5.1, the latest release of its web content management and application development framework for business-critical websites and web applications built on Microsoft .NET. The DotNetNuke Professional Edition is built on the same open source core as the free DotNetNuke Community Edition but includes several exclusive features, as well as a fully supported, documented and secure software package. DotNetNuke Professional Edition is designed for organizations with high website traffic, multiple website content contributors and approvers, extensive application security monitoring requirements, or the need for advanced marketing analytics tools. The DotNetNuke Professional Edition includes features that are not available in the Community Edition including: Support for advanced Google Analytics functionality, such as visitor type, landing page, role, or referrer segmentation; Advanced content approval that allows administrators to create custom workflows with an unlimited number of states and reviewers; Page, module and folder level extended permissions that provide more granular security rights; A distributed caching provider for more efficient resource usage in web farms; File integrity checking that reviews files in the installation and reports any inconsistencies that may impact website reliability; Network-based health monitoring that pings the website periodically to identify failures and notify the site owner and that ensures the site stays in web server memory for faster user accessibility; A vulnerability database that cross references each customer's product version to identify potential issues, and more. An annual DotNetNuke Professional Edition subscription costs $1,999 per instance. Users can extend the DotNetNuke solution by purchasing add-on extensions from the DotNetNuke Marketplace, which features thousands of third-party software modules and skins from hundreds of independent vendors. http://www.dotnetnuke.com

Expert System, a provider of semantic software that searches, discovers, classifies and interprets unstructured text information, announced support for Google's Rich Snippet Semantic Web Specifications with automated RDFa. Using Expert System's COGITO engine, tagging is able to process all forms of unstructured electronic content including Web pages, documents, PDFs, social media and more. http://www.expertsystem.net

Socialcast announced that its basic service, including corporate administration features, is available to companies at no charge for an unlimited number of employees and guest users. Free networks will be email domain-based, allowing all employees within a company to sign up and interact with colleagues instantly. Socialcast’s free offering includes all of the features in its current proven platform such as real-time microblogging, social networking, and administration tools. New free features include: Company-wide domain-based networks; Company administration (such as user management and basic site customization) and data "claiming" rights on all networks; A real-time track feature that allows users to customize activity streams based on subjects, people, groups, and topics, and: Accessibility tools such as a desktop application and enhanced email integration. Companies and employees can sign up for Socialcast online. IT professionals and other official company administrators can claim administration rights to their company’s networks via the website as well, giving instant user management to the company for free. http://www.socialcast.com

Norwegian mobile operator Telenor announced Mobil Kontroll, a new administration service that helps make a mobile phone a more secure and even better tool for Norwegian companies by allowing them to easily delete data if the telephone is lost or stolen. With Mobil Kontroll companies can improve mobile security without investing in either equipment or skills as Telenor is responsible for operating the solution. A "killpill", for deleting information from misplaced mobiles, is one of several services included in Mobil Kontroll. An employee who has lost a mobile phone can have content deleted by ringing Telenor's customer service centre at any time of the day or night. The administration tool also makes it easier to roll out new applications to employees' mobile phones, and if an employee loses a mobile phone it makes it easier to install any company-specific configuration on replacement phones. The following tasks can be carried out centrally: Deleting content on lost or stolen mobile phones (including memory cards); Sending or changing configurations and applications on the company's mobile phones, for example, e-mail, CRM systems, MMS or bookmarks for often used sites; Locking a mobile telephone using a PIN code if it is misplaced; Listing software and configurations on mobile phones; Customising content and software for different users and user and groups; and reporting. http://www.telenor.com/

SDL Tridion announced that it has partnered with Q-go to provide an integrated Natural Language Search engine within SDL Tridion’s web content management platform. The solution provides the online search environment within websites only targeted and relevant search results. Q-go’s Natural Language Search is now accessible from within the SDL Tridion web content management environment. Content editors are able to create model questions in the Q-go component of the SDL Tridion platform. This means that the most common questions pertaining to products and the website itself can be targeted and answered by web content editors, creating streamlined content and vastly increased relevance of searches. The integration also means that only one interface is needed to update the entire website, which can be done anywhere, anytime. You can find more information on the integration at the eXtensions Community of  http://www.sdltridionworld.com

Mark Logic Corporation released the MarkLogic Toolkit for Excel. This new offering provides users a free way to integrate Microsoft Office Excel 2007 with MarkLogic Server. Earlier this year, Mark Logic  delivered a Toolkit for Word and a Connector for SharePoint. Together, these offerings allow users to extend the functionality of Microsoft Office products and build applications leveraging the native document format, Office Open XML (OOXML). Distributed under an open source model, MarkLogic Toolkit for Excel comes with an Excel add-in that allows users to deploy information applications into Excel, comprehensive libraries for managing and manipulating Excel data, and a sample application that leverages best practices. The MarkLogic Toolkit for Excel offers greater search functionality, allowing organizations to search across their Excel files for worksheets, cells, and formulas. Search results can be imported directly into the workbooks that users are actively authoring. Workbooks, worksheets, formulas, and cells can be exported directly from active Excel documents to MarkLogic Server for immediate use by queries and applications. The Toolkit for Excel allows customers to easily create new Excel workbooks from existing XML documents. Users can now manipulate and re-use workbooks stored in the repository with a built-in XQuery library. For instance, a financial services firm can replace the manual process of cutting-and-pasting information from XBRL documents to create reports in Excel with an automated system. Utilizing Toolkit for Excel, this streamlined process extracts relevant sections of XBRL reports, combines them, and saves them as an Excel file. The Toolkit also allows users to add and edit multiple custom metadata documents across workbooks. This improves the ability for users to discover and reuse information contained in Excel spreadsheets. To download MarkLogic Toolkit for Excel, visit the Mark Logic Developer Workshop located at http://developer.marklogic.com/code/, http://www.marklogic.com

Magnolia International Ltd., the Open Source content management vendor, announced the immediate availability of Magnolia 4.1. Just three months after the initial release of the fourth generation of the Java-based content management system, this update allows to create, integrate and publish web content with the significantly enhanced Standard Templating Kit (STK). Web developers can now build enterprise-grade websites faster and easier with Magnolia 4.1, based on a comprehensive and sophisticated set of ready-made website building blocks and pre-configured templates. Magnolia 4.1 is available under a Free Software license, labeled the Community Edition, as well as the commercial Enterprise Edition. Magnolia 4.1 Enterprise Edition provides added functionality on top of what the Community Edition offers, including enterprise-ready features such as: The "Image Engine", which ensures that the size of images that have been uploaded to Magnolia CMS will be adjusted automatically; Image, audio and video files can now be included on any web page created with Magnolia directly from its Digital Asset Management (DAM) environment; New categorization features enable editors to categorize articles and to display them in grouped lists for hierarchical navigation or access through a category cloud; Magnolia Enterprise Edition can be operated as a server cluster with load balancing and failover. Version 4.1 ensures that User Generated Content (UGC) such as comments and forum posts will be delivered simultaneously in a high traffic environment. Magnolia CMS 4.1 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/

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) announced two new modules designed to help businesses deliver the right content to the right customer. The Autonomy Interwoven Merchandising and Recommendation module distills meaning from product catalogues to match the best product to site visitors. The Autonomy Interwoven Directed Navigation module leverages implicit profiling to help customers find what they are looking for more quickly. Based on Autonomy Interwoven's Meaning Based Marketing approach, these solutions help marketers reduce the need to manually tag every piece of content by providing a conceptual and human understanding of product data and customers and how they intersect. The Autonomy Interwoven Directed Navigation module automatically builds an implicit customer profile to deliver a more relevant and engaging customer experience, based on historical and real-time customer behavior. The Autonomy Interwoven Merchandising and Recommendation and Autonomy Interwoven Directed Navigation modules are available now. http://www.autonomy.com/

Inmagic introduced Inmagic Presto 3.1, the latest version of the company’s Social Knowledge Management platform with new Microsoft SharePoint interoperability capabilities. The compatibility helps users to augment and leverage existing infrastructure and technology investments, extracting additional value from systems already in place, without compromising access to content or straining time, budget, or human resources. Presto 3.1 uses Web Parts technology that allows the search parts on the Presto homepage to be embedded and used in a SharePoint deployment. A new Web Services API lets SharePoint communicate with Presto to create, replace, update, and delete records. Presto also complements SharePoint’s social functionality with “content centric” social capabilities that are searchable and indexable, with built-in controls that can both enable and disable social features for specific user groups. Other benefits of Presto 3.1 include: enhanced interoperability with existing IT investments, improved collaboration through enhanced social capabilities, faster information discovery for improved individual and organizational productivity, and improved content quality and access. Inmagic Presto 3.1 will be generally available in Q3 of 2009. http://www.Inmagic.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced Acrobat.com has moved out of public beta and will offer two new paid subscription services that add capacity and capabilities for intensive business use. Adobe also provided a look into the future of Acrobat.com. Planned features include shared team workspaces and smartphone access, as well as a spreadsheet-like application, Acrobat.com Tables, which joins the recently announced Presentations application on Acrobat.com Labs. Both Premium offerings include Adobe phone and Web support programs. The Premium Basic service includes Adobe ConnectNow Web meeting capacity for up to five participants and online conversion of 10 uploaded documents to PDF per month. The Premium Plus service includes ConnectNow Web meeting capacity for up to 20 participants and unlimited online creation of PDF files. The free service will continue to offer Adobe Buzzword online word processing, ConnectNow Web meeting capacity for up to three participants, and online creation of up to five PDF files. Adobe also announced the preview release of Acrobat.com Tables, a spreadsheet-like application that is available immediately for free sign-up as a public beta, joining the Acrobat.com Presentations application on Acrobat.com Labs. Acrobat.com Tables provides people with a new way to work with others on data-intensive documents, such as task lists, schedules, contacts, budgets and sales numbers, that are typically created and shared in spreadsheets or simple databases. People can work with others on the same table at the same time, without the worry of version control or e-mailing spreadsheets back and forth. The Premium Basic subscription is available for US $14.99/month, or US $149/year. The Premium Plus subscription is available for US $39/month, or US $390/year. Until July 16, 2009, Adobe is offering US $15 off the Premium Basic annual plan, and US $50 off the Premium Plus annual plan. Initially, both subscriptions are available from the Adobe.com online store in North America only. The preview release versions of Acrobat.com Tables and Presentations are available for free sign-up on Acrobat.com Labs at http://labs.acrobat.com. http://www.adobe.com

e-Spirit UK Ltd. has been accepted as a member in IBM’s PartnerWorld: The manufacturer of the High-End Content Management System FirstSpirit is now officially listed as an Advanced Partner. Having been awarded the IBM WebSphere Software seal of approval for FirstSpirit just recently. One of the central paradigms of FirstSpirit is the seamless portal integration, not only in terms of functionality but also regarding the visual appearance. For example the native mechanisms specific to the portal server are used to publish content and navigation elements automatically in the current look & feel of the portal. e-Spirit offers an integration module to integrate FirstSpirit into IBM WebSphere Commerce and the WebSphere Portal. In comparison to the Content Management System of the Portal which only provides basic functionalities, FirstSpirit is a "complete high-end solution" that meets the advanced requirements of major international enterprises. One of the key benefits of integrating FirstSpirit into IBM WebSphere is that the editor can concentrate on generating and managing content without the need to have specific portal expertise. http://www.firstspirit.de/internet/en/unternehmen/Unternehmen.html

Reprints Desk, Inc. announced the launch of Mighty Linkout Machine, an article retrieval solution that simplifies access to scientific, technical and medical (STM) research for end users, and saves research-intensive organizations document delivery costs. Mighty Linkout Machine enables research scientists and other knowledge professionals to access scientific literature in one of three ways, all through a single user-defined interface: Via an article-level link to electronic holdings, a bounceback link to an item that can be sourced from a local library collection, or a document delivery link to download a single pay-per-view PDF journal article. Mighty Linkout Machine simplifies content retrieval by supporting both online and offline ordering methods, including email, and fax, and standardizing ordering and retrieval processes into a single step for each. Regardless of the citation quality or source, Reprints Desk will apply a hybrid process of automated sourcing and speed-enhanced offline micro-tasks to quickly locate and send documents and 100% article-level links back to the user. http://www.mightylinkoutmachine.com

MadCap Software announced the availability of MadCap Flare 5.0 and MadCap Blaze 2.0, featuring DITA support. Flare is a native XML multi-channel publishing software for print and online content, and MadCap Blaze is a native XML alternative for long print documents. The newest versions of Flare and Blaze support transformation and publishing from the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standard-without requiring Java development or third-party toolkits. MadCap Flare 5.0 and Blaze 2.0 join MadCap Lingo 2.0 in providing DITA support, which will be extended across MadCap's family of content authoring and publishing software in 2009. Flare 5.0 and Blaze 2.0 can import DITA maps and associated DITA topic files at the same time and transform and publish the content in other traditional outputs, such as Microsoft XPS and Word, Adobe PDF and FrameMaker, and plain XHTML. At the same time, both products can also import content in traditional formats and publish or export it as DITA content. Flare and Blaze allow users to mix and match DITA content with other existing content into a single project. Both products can, for example, import a DITA map, three Word documents and a FrameMaker file, and then publish the content without changing any of the formatting. Also new to Flare 5.0 is the ability to generate automated thumbnails. Authors simply drop in an image, apply a single image style, and Flare automatically makes a thumbnail. Additionally, the newest version of Flare features a topic toolbar function that lets authors insert a customized "WebHelp" toolbar anywhere inside any topic in any Web-based output. New to both Flare 5.0 and Blaze 2.0 is enhanced JPEG compression and PDF support for higher quality print documents. MadCap Flare 5.0 and MadCap Blaze 2.0 are available today. Pricing per license is $899 for Flare and $699 for Blaze. Flare is also available as part of the MadPak, a single-source suite for multi-channel publishing. Other solutions in the MadPak, which sells for $1,299 per license, include MadCap Analyzer, MadCap Capture, MadCap Mimic, and MadCap Echo for Web 2.0 audio functions. Maintenance (support and subscription) fees start at $199 per year for the Bronze Level, $299 for the Gold Level, and $499 for the Platinum Level. http://www.madcapsoftware.com/

Clay Tablet Technologies, a provider of integration software that connects any content management system with any translation system, has announced the immediate availability of Version 2.5 of its core application. Clay Tablet 2.5 includes two important features in this upgrade. InSync Master Asset Management Technology allows translation assets like Translation Memories or Terminology Glossaries to be synchronized across multiple systems, teams or vendors. InSync allows a single system or vendor to be designated the "master" of a particular asset, centralizing control and reducing redundant pre-processing, alignment or updating efforts. With InSync, a single system or vendor becomes the centralized control point, and all other instances get the latest information from that instance. Any changes or updates are sent back to the master instance ensuring the master is always up to date, no matter where it's located. In multi-translation vendor scenarios, clients can designate a "master asset management vendor" which is responsible for managing the master translation assets - such as TM's or Terminology files. The CT2.5 routing rules continue to manage which vendors receive the actual translation work, the "master vendor" only ensures the translation asset files are properly prepared and kept up to date. Clay Tablet V2.5 also includes MultiPoint, Flexible Routing Technology. This allows multiple, sequential step routing of content between systems, allowing powerful content flows like post-editing, between any number or type of systems and vendors. The new features, InSync Master Asset Management Technology and MultiPoint Flexible Routing Technology, are both available in the SaaS and On Site license versions. Pricing for all versions remains unchanged. http://www.Clay-Tablet.com

Content Circles, a provider of distributed content management and collaboration solutions, and Alfresco Software announced a partnership to bring to market a new content management and collaboration solution to serve distributed teams. The new solution, a Connector to integrate Alfresco Enterprise Content Management system and Content Circles distributed team collaboration SaaS, enables distributed teams to securely share, collaborate, track and manage content within and across companies, working online or offline. Content Circles uses a unique hybrid web/peer-to-peer (p2p) approach to make distributed team collaboration across companies seamless, secure and auditable. By automatically encrypting, replicating and synchronizing content across only team members’ computers, Content Circles keeps everyone on the same page while providing confidentiality and security. As a “secure bridge” between Alfresco Enterprise Content Management system and external team members, Content Circles also keeps track of all activity on content originating from Alfresco and provides complete auditability for compliance and regulatory purposes. To securely collaborate on documents in Alfresco with external team members, a user of Alfresco first downloads and subscribes to Content Circles, a simple one-time process that takes a few minutes to complete. The user then creates a ‘Circle’ (workspace) for collaboration and invites others to collaborate in the Circle. The user then simply drags in relevant documents from the Alfresco repository into the Circle to make them instantly accessible to all invitees to the Circle. The content management capabilities of Content Circles then allow the user to track the movement of these documents as well as any edits or changes to these documents. Content Circles also remembers that the documents originated in the Alfresco repository and allows the user to synchronize the changes back to Alfresco with a single click in Content Circles. The Content Circles Connector for Alfresco is expected to ship in June 2009. http://www.contentcircles.com

Yooba Ltd announced the full commercial availability of its online Flash creation and management system, Yooba. Yooba is a content management system (CMS) specially designed for Flash website content creation. As with CMSs for static content, Yooba puts full creative power over Flash, right down to the object level, but without the need for programming skills, into the hands of editors and others responsible for site content origination and maintenance. As a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application, there are no licensing issues with Yooba and users are always working with the latest version. The SaaS structure also gives full scalability on pricing, to suit anyone from individual professionals to enterprise companies. Once content is created, Yooba simplifies the scheduling and publication of created and edited material. This is carried out through Yooba’s graphical admin dashboard, which gives users total control of Flash objects within a website at a glance, making it easy to update and change them as frequently as information and sales campaigns require. http://www.yooba.com/

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) announced that its document management solution, iManage WorkSite, now supports the Apple iPhone. With this announcement, Autonomy is bringing their legal industry document management solution to users of the iPhone, which is increasing adoption within law firms. The seamless integration with the Apple's mobile device provides users with secure access to information in WorkSite repositories. It is designed as a native iPhone application leveraging technology in the iPhone, including the Multi-Touch interface, the real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional audio over Edge/3G/WiFi. This marks the latest addition to iManage's list of mobile support, including the BlackBerry, Palm, Windows Mobile, and Symbian. The integration allows WorkSite users to effectively access and manage their emails and matter related content from anywhere and enable them to stay productive and responsive to client needs. The iPhone integration for iManage Worksite is available as an optional add-on product now. http://www.autonomy.com/

Nstein Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: EIN) announced the planned release of TME 5, a major upgrade to its Text Mining Engine. New features include "Web 3.0 compliance", a host of linguistic enhancements and a suite of management tools to allow greater flexibility and control of semantic metadata. All of the features are designed to provide the most relevant content to enhance the user experience. Now in its 5th generation, the new release is RESTful, respects W3C standards and includes a number of new linguistic tools aimed at managing the metadata, the lifeline to the Semantic Web. TME 5.0 will provide new taxonomies and ship with tens of thousands of individuals' names, pre-categorized as Politicians, Celebrities and Athletes. TME 5 also supports faceted sentiment analysis, which tells an editor not only if an article is positive or negative, but the tone toward any given subject within the story. Because of the vast amounts of metadata that can now be collected and stored, TME 5 will also offer a suite of five administration modules to manage the different components to generating metadata, namely documents, authority files, taxonomies and ontologies. TME continues to be the core intelligence driver to Nstein's DAM (Digital Asset Management) and WCM (Web Content Management) solutions. TME parses sentences identifying and extracting their grammatical elements, and uses a refined combination of semantic and computational analysis to determine the “aboutness” of any document, calculate a “linguistic DNA” and use that calculation to find other pieces of content that closely match it. The release will be available for customers in the Fall. http://www.nstein.com

Vignette Corporation (NASDAQ: VIGN) announced the release of Vignette Content Management Audit Solutions. The solutions allow organizations to track and archive changes across multiple Web sites and provide a simplified process for meeting operational or regulatory auditing compliance requirements. In addition to enabling compliance, Vignette Content Management Audit Solutions help organizations optimize and improve operational Web site management processes by reporting on content creation, contribution and user trends that can identify system or process bottlenecks. Once an organization knows how and when its content is being managed, it can easily make modifications to drive efficiency and reduce the amount of time it takes to publish fresh content. Vignette Content Management Audit Solutions are available in complimentary and enhanced packages. Vignette Content Management Audit, included within the Vignette Content Management console, includes event history views. The enhanced offering allows organizations to leverage on-demand reporting of events, users and time periods in a dashboard or drill down format in order to identify trends. http://www.vignette.com

SYSTRAN announced the release of SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7, the company’s first hybrid machine translation (MT) server designed for enterprise use. Based on a combination of self-learning and linguistic technologies, SYSTRAN 7 delivers consistent translations that meet corporate customer requirements. Machine translation products have traditionally either been based on rules or statistical models. With the introduction of its hybrid MT product, SYSTRAN has delivered a solution that brings together the strengths of these two approaches. SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7 combines the predictability and language consistency of rule-based machine translation with the fluency of statistical MT. SYSTRAN’s customization methodology includes the creation of dictionaries and the building of translation models from translated content. These tools supplement the out-of-the-box translation capabilities provided by SYSTRAN for 52 language pairs. SYSTRAN Enterprise Server has traditionally been deployed on corporate intranets as a solution for multilingual collaboration to help employees understand foreign language information such as emails, web pages, presentations and corporate documentation. SYSTRAN’s new hybrid MT engine enables enterprise customers to expand MT use for publishing. SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7 offers reuse of validated translations through global content management workflows which allow users to create and manage multilingual content. By combining the latest linguistic and statistical techniques, SYSTRAN “learns” how words and phrases should be translated for specific domains based on existing human translations. As the data is re-used it gets “smarter” and updates itself. http://www.systransoft.com

Sitecore announced the Sitecore Online Marketing Suite for organizations to unify Web content management capabilities, Web analytics and marketing automation for greater customer engagement and personalization. Sitecore’s Online Marketing Suite (OMS) helps marketers track and better understand their online visitors and initiatives. Sitecore’s new marketing suite provides Web analytics out-of-the-box, without coding. Content editors can profile their content upon creation, establishing the relevancy for segmentation analysis and the delivery of targeted content. The software then automatically develops profiles on site visitors based on browsing behavior, geographical IP identification, and data collected through forms and survey submissions. Using content delivery rules and filters, Sitecore delivers targeted, action-orientated content and offers. The Online Marketing Suite’s A/B and multivariate testing lets marketers define and execute tests. With Sitecore’s CMS delivering the website user interaction and experience, the OMS analytics data now tells the story of a site visitor’s experience. The software measures online advertising campaign effectiveness and increases the agility of the campaign with immediate correlation between campaign initiatives and specific website goals. The campaign tracking is integrated with the site visitor session detail, recording further interests and actions automatically and providing full insight into the actual ROI of campaigns. Sitecore’s Online Marketing Suite will be generally available on June 30, 2009. http://www.sitecore.net

Deep Web Technologies introduced Search Builder, an automatic deep web search-engine creation tool. This tool enables Deep Web Technologies' clients to personalize the federated search experience for particular individuals, departments, classrooms or other groups that require different default collections and/or a modified user experience when conducting deep web searches. In short, Search Builder makes it possible to deliver any number of individualized federated search portals within an organization. Search Builder allows administrators or authorized users to create as many federated search portals as needed, which represent privately branded search pages containing different default collections and search fields used for the search, as well as customized user experience. Future plans include integrating Search Builder into Deep Web Technologies' free media sites, Mednar (http://www.mednar.com/), Biznar (http://www.biznar.com/), and ScienceResearch.com (http://www.scienceresearch.com/). http://www.deepwebtech.com/

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) announced free, full-function developer editions of its enterprise content management (ECM) products and launched two new online communities dedicated to EMC Documentum and XML developers. Through the Documentum and XML communities, developers will have open access to resources that includes code samples, tutorials, full product documentation and "getting started" guides. EMC Documentum Content Server Developer Edition provides developers free access and offers a "one-click" deployment that can be run on a laptop so that developers can quickly start creating their Documentum-based solutions. EMC Documentum xDB Developer Edition provides developers a scalable, high performance, native XML database at no cost for development and testing. .NET Productivity Suite makes it easier for developers to conduct integrations with Microsoft applications such as SharePoint by allowing them to work exclusively in a Microsoft environment. EMC Documentum Content Services for Salesforce CRM allows developers to embed Documentum content services within Salesforce CRM. All products are available today. The free developer editions of Content Server and xDB are for development, testing and trial only. Standard licensing fees apply for production and run-time deployments. http://www.emc.com/

The TAUS Data Association (TDA) language data exchange portal has been released for public use. Buyers and vendors of translation services can store and share their translation memories and terminology in a secure central database. Users around the world have free access to the data to search translations. Members can leverage the scalable shared repository of language data to give a boost to their volumes and productivity of translation activity. The TDA repository already contains more than half a billion words in 70 language pairs. According to tests performed by Leeds University shared language data can increase leveraging rates by 16% or more. This new industry-owned and shared platform opens tremendous opportunities for growth and innovation of the global translation industry. Efficiency and quality will increase considerably as solution and technology providers start to tune in to the new reality of a scalable global shared data base of translated data. http://www.tausdata.org/index.php/news/news

Teragram, a division of SAS Institute Inc. announced the launch of its Sentiment Analysis Manager (SAM), a social media analysis tool that computes the sentiment of digital text and captures relevant information that enables brand managers to see what their end-users are writing about their products. Teragram is launching SAM to bring its self-developed search technologies to marketing professionals to help them better manage their brand’s image in the consumer market. SAM is a hybrid system that combines both a statistical method for computing reviews as well as a rules based approach that lets brand managers evaluate specific terms and syntaxes. SAM automatically computes the review sentiment from mainstream sites such as Amazon and Overstock, as well as social media outlets like blogs and Twitter messages, and captures the overall opinion of the combined assessments. SAM also analyzes the number of stars in a product rating to extract the general consumer reaction to that product, and searches and evaluates both positive and negative phrases in reviews for a more detailed breakdown of these online evaluations. Users can extrapolate this information from SAM to create color-coded graphs to understand exactly what these online posts mean in terms of the overall tone of coverage of their brand. Sentiment Analysis Manager will be available in the third quarter of 2009, and pricing information can be found at http://www.teragram.com/

Alfresco Software, Inc. and EnterpriseDB Corporation announced a partnership under which Alfresco will support Alfresco Enterprise for use with EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus and EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus Advanced Server. Under the terms of the partnership, the companies will provide joint customers with coordinated support and professional services. Postgres Plus Advanced Server is an open source relational database for transactional and mixed-load applications. Under the partnership, joint customers can now run EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus Advanced Server 8.3 with Alfresco Enterprise 3.1. Further, Alfresco and EnterpriseDB will offer support for shared customers who have active support subscriptions for both products. http://www.alfresco.com/, http://www.enterprisedb.com

Attensity Group announced the latest version of its Voice of the Customer (VoC) and Market Voice applications, Attensity 5. A part of Attensity Group’s suite of business applications for unstructured data, Attensity 5 offers integrated Automated Response for Customer Experience Management (CEM), enabling companies to gain insight into communications from their customers and route and answer those communications. Attensity 5 automatically extracts valuable information from freeform text in call center notes, emails, surveys, etc. and transforms it into structured, actionable First Person Intelligence. New Capabilities of Attensity 5 include: Deep exploration for ad hoc analysis of the customer conversation; Out-of-the-box sentiment, issues churn, competitive and industry-specific reports; Built-in integration with the business intelligence software solution, Microstrategy; Automatic tracking of customer conversations online, through the Attensity Market Voice application (e.g. social media such as Twitter, Facebook, community forums and blogs); Multi-channel (email, Short Message Service [SMS], letter, etc.) responses to customers based on their profile and communicated issue or request via the Attensity Automated Response Management application, and: Automatic alerts and system triggers, including Customer Relationship Management (CRM), campaign management and service, to alert individuals across the company about issues and opportunities http://www.attensitygroup.com

Prime View International (“PVI”) (8069.TW), a small and medium display provider and the world’s highest volume supplier of ePaper display modules, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire E Ink Corporation, the developer of electronic paper display materials and intellectual property for approximately $215 million. The deal is part of a transformation at PVI to focus on electronic paper displays. In 2005, PVI acquired the ePaper business of Philips Electronics and partnered with E Ink to provide displays for electronic books including the SONY Reader and the Amazon Kindle 2 and Kindle DX. PVI also invested heavily in dedicated driver chips and touch screens for ePaper, as well as flexible displays, which will be marketed later this year. In 2008, PVI bought a 74% stake of Hydis Technologies of Korea, quadrupling capacity for the transistor backplanes used in ePaper. The new company will expand capacity and develop improvements for ePaper display screens that are easy on the eyes, long-lasting, and highly portable. ePaper is for reading of digital documents which are less wasteful, more convenient and more up-to-date than paper documents. E Ink and PVI currently support nearly 20 eBook manufacturers worldwide. In addition to electronic books, E Ink’s Vizple imaging film is used in cellphones, signage, smartcards, memory devices, and battery indicators. PVI will finance the acquisition with an equity placement and a convertible bond offering led by Taiwanese securities firm KGI. The transaction is subject to shareholder and customary regulatory approval and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2009. http://www.eink.com, http://www.pvi.com.tw

FatWire Software announced the launch of FatWire TeamUp 3.1 and the FatWire Content Integration Platform 1.5.  These new releases are intended to streamline the collaboration and content creation process for the web, and save time and cost in sharing and reusing content. FatWire TeamUp 3.1 is a collaboration platform that enables disparate teams to work together and share content with social computing features such as wikis, blogs, comments, and social tagging. This new release gives marketers a tool set for creating web content, encouraging creativity across multiple projects, driving efficiencies in personal productivity, and facilitating team communication. FatWire Content Integration Platform 1.5 puts enterprise content stored in disparate repositories at the fingertips of web managers, so that they can easily access the content they need to make websites rich and compelling. The FatWire Content Integration Platform delivers flexibility for custom integrations plus greater enterprise controls for content sharing. http://www.fatwire.com

Hippo, developer of web-based, open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Portal software, has launched a full product and support offering around the latest version of Apache Jetspeed, version 2.2 released on May 28th, supporting the Portal 2.0 specification. Hippo's developers, with ten officially recognized committers already noted for their commitment to a range of The Apache Software Foundation's projects, have contributed to the community effort to develop Jetspeed 2.2. Hippo's close involvement in the Jetspeed community enables it to bring training, consulting and 24x7 support for the new version straight to the market, and to offer Jetspeed 1.x and 2.1 users an upgrade package and full support. Jetspeed is an open source Enterprise Information Portal using Java and XML to collect and present information from multiple sources via an intuitive and user-friendly interface. As a product of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), one of the open source organizations dedicated to collaborative software development, Jetspeed is available for free under the business-friendly Apache License. Hippo's own product range features full integration with Jetspeed 2.2, including Hippo CMS 7, the Hippo Site Toolkit and the integrated ECM suite. Its products provide organizations with solutions for content management and online collaboration. The new release, combined with Jetspeed's track record of performance, stability and its unmatched support for open standards, is an ideal fit for the highly scalable collaborative intranet and web architectures built on Hippo's products. http://www.onehippo.com