September 2009 Archives

Bridgeline Software, Inc. has announced the release of iAPPS v2.8, which includes a series of improvements principally focused on enhancing the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and social networking capabilities of iAPPS Content Manager. The iAPPS Product Suite is a SaaS solution that unifies Content Management, Analytics, eCommerce, and eMarketing capabilities. Auto- generated 301 redirects helps eliminate negative ramifications, such as diminished search engine rankings, that can result when page names within a website are changed and improperly managed. With iAPPS v2.8, all page and navigation changes or additions to a website are updated in the XML sitemap, alerting search engines to index those changes and ensuring the maximum possible search ranking. iAPPS v2.8 also includes a series of Web 2.0 enhancements such as blog creation and management, page commenting and rating, and rich media management. The blog capabilities of v2.8 now make the addition of a blog to any iAPPS-managed website a straightforward process through a creation tool within Content Manager. Additional features enable the maintenance of iAPPS blogs such as post and comment management tools, CAPTCHA functionality to ensure comments are not computer generated, a fully functional text editor, and user registration. Supplemental features aim to improve site SEO and allow for faceted search of posts by topic or keyword, enhancing the user experience by enabling quick and easy location of relevant blog topics. http://www.bridgelinesw.com/

Clarabridge launched Clarabridge Social Media Analysis (SMA), text analytics software that allows companies to integrate social media content into their existing internal enterprise feedback for customer analysis. Clarabridge SMA accesses social media content from Alterian’s Techrigy warehouse of social media content, which currently houses nearly 3 billion pieces of data from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace and other social media sites. SMA then removes unwanted content, sorts actionable from non-actionable topics, and applies enhanced meaning and context to conversations using included Natural Language Processing, classification, and sentiment scoring engines. Clarabridge SMA users can create custom web-scraping routines to access product review sites, discussion forums, and subscription sites, as well as integrate with internal data sources, such as emails, call center notes, and surveys. Clarabridge SMA can be deployed as a stand-alone solution, accessing only social media content, or as an add-on to existing Clarabridge text mining software implementations. It includes a suite of reporting, visualization, predictive analytics, and early warning alerts that provide product, service, marketing, operations and other teams with an enhanced understanding of content. It also incorporates a new user interface from Techrigy to help marketing and PR teams immediately monitor and participate in social media conversations. Users can listen, analyze, act upon, and measure customer experiences across every internal and external feedback channel. http://www.clarabridge.com/

Vamosa announced the general availability of Vamosa Check and Fix (C&F), with extended functionality for Web records management. C&F should offer multi-domain, multi-author, website monitoring, reporting and web records management, as well as the ability to initiate fix processing when standards are found to be compromised. Using a solution that can give Web content traceability prepares enterprises for the rigors of governance. C&F aims to help enterprises get their Web content under control and keep it there by automating policy and implementing workflow to fix content. C&F performs this processing against a set of standard and custom measurement points covering HTML standards, compliance, branding and governance. Through its dashboard, web stakeholders can monitor, review and even automatically fix issues found across their full web estate by the scalable SaaS application. The new Web records management functionality defines the control and accountability enterprises have over their Web content to support governance by providing full audit trails. Enterprises can then use C&F to take a snapshot of important Web pages that require legal control, such as Terms and Conditions. This snapshot will occur every time Web content changes, to enable the review of out-dated material, and provides a full audit trail for all changes. www.vamosa.com

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XSL-FO subgroup of the XSL Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of "Design Notes for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0," which contains initial and early work on XSL-FO 2.0. XSL-FO defines an XML vocabulary for formatting and layout of XML documents; use XSLT to transform documents into XSL-FO for on-screen or paper formatting, for example into PDF. Public comments are requested, both from users and implementors of XSL 1.x and from people who have been waiting for new features before using XSL-FO. http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/, http://www.w3.org/TR/xslfo20/

eZ Systems has announced the release of eZ Publish 4.2, the latest version of its Open Source Content Management System. The new release brings improvements to the eZ Publish engine, as well as advances and new features for eZ Flow and eZ Find. A new extension, eZSI, makes its debut in the 4.2 package providing full support for the Edge Side Include standard to eZ Publish. The 4.2 release was developed by eZ Systems with contributions from eZ Publish partners and trusted community members, and is immediately available. eZ Publish 4.2 includes a new release of eZ Flow, an eZ Publish extension enabling the building and management of rich and vibrant Media portal pages through implementation of a constant content flow to visitors. The new release offers a choice of pre- made blocs for eZ Flow. The options, which include Media Carrousel, Google Map geolocation, Online users, Last Commented content or Search blocs,  provide eZ Flow users with a wide range of templates and functionalities for their sites. eZ Publish 4.2 also offers editors an integration between eZ Flow and the standard eZ Publish administration interface. Editors should now be able to control content flow in eZ Flow portal pages from the administration content management interface. The built-in content rating feature enhances Usability by enabling visitors to actively contribute and rate. Improvements to the eZ Toolbar front-end editing should ease the management of Web sites. Apart from various general enhancements and optimizations in the eZ Publish kernel and cache systems, eZ Publish 4.2 brings two new features in this area, the new DFS Cluster system and Edge Side Include (ESI) support. The new NFS Cluster system provides a native deployment of eZ Publish on several servers using a shared file system. The eZSI extension integrates ESI calls in eZ Publish pages. ESI is a simple markup language used for dynamic Web page assembly and delivery, making it possible to assemble pages from blocs requiring different refresh rates and update frequencies. eZ Find is an enterprise-grade search solution developed by eZ Systems, and based on the Apache SolR project. Full text search, external data source search, faceted search, automatic content relations, and other features have been at the heart of eZ Find.  The 4.2 release offers a number of possibilities for integrating eZ Find with eZ Publish. Predefined templates for eZ Publish and eZ Flow are now available, implementing faceted search. With the new elevate support feature, editors should be able to push "sponsored results" to the top of results provided by eZ Find. Finally, eZ Find includes a new level of granularity in the indexing and search processes, providing enhanced search relevancy, and enabling search of localised and translated content. The eZ Core library, which provides for efficient organization and layering of Ajax developments onto eZ Publish, is featured in the 4.2 release. eZ Publish is also unveiling a beta version of their CMIS library, thanks to a contribution from the NXC eZ Partner. http://ez.no/

Xyleme Inc. and Flatirons Solutions have announced their alliance to offer EMC Documentum services to training organizations in order to meet comprehensive, global learning requirements. With this collaboration, Flatirons Solutions provides a set of integration services for leveraging Xyleme's native XML authoring and publishing tools within an organization's current EMC Documentum infrastructure. The combination creates an integrated enterprise learning suite capable of delivering multi-modal training output and enhancing company-wide collaboration. The overall goal of the alliance is twofold: Create a single source of content at the enterprise level that enables a rapid time-to-market for new and customized learning products; Utilize open standards and native XML to provide the flexibility to handle new emerging channels and technology. http://www.xyleme.com http://www.flatironssolutions.com/

Managing Editor Inc. (MEI) announced the release of InPorter, a new add-on utility developed by MEI for the vjoon K4 Publishing System. InPorter ingests and integrates several different types of external content and their metadata into the K4 workflow. InPorter is a server-side tool for the process of moving content into K4, an editorial solution integrating Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy, for use in production. It handles any object that can be managed in the K4 system, including InCopy documents, InDesign layouts, pictures, ads, multimedia and more. Using InPorter’s Web interface, an administrator can configure workflows for different types of content to be dropped in InPorter’s watched folders. When content arrives — from a digital asset management system, wire service, database, syndication partner, Web site or another K4 publication — InPorter checks it into K4, applying the defined metadata for that type of content. The files then immediately show up on the to-do list of the users to whom they've been assigned and can be incorporated into a publication workflow. InPorter also has specific XML-processing capabilities for ingesting XML content, automatically turning it into a new InCopy article and checking it into the K4 workflow with its metadata. Additionally, InPorter is designed to tap into the scripting and automation features built into InCopy and Adobe InDesign Server to perform various functions to articles and layouts being imported into a K4 publication. Designed to help publishers unify cross-media environments such as print-plus-online, InPorter automates tasks that previously required time-consuming manual intervention. InPorter 1.1 is available now. It is compatible with K4 version 5.9 and Adobe Creative Suite 3 or 4. http://www.maned.com/

Nero has unveiled Nero MobileSync for smartphones, the first iteration of its universal platform of PC applications for mobile handset, Netbook, gaming console and Ultra-Mobile PC manufacturers. Nero MobileSync for smartphones is designed to allow the management, sharing and creation of content between the desktop, the mobile handset, and the Web regardless of mobile device. Nero MobileSync for smartphones should help both mobile handset manufacturers and network carriers differentiate their user experience, may increase their revenues via sales and advertising channels to the desktop, and could maximize the PC as the hub of the connected digital home. By allowing users to move PIM, music, videos and photos of their choice between the mobile handset, the desktop and the cloud, Nero is providing an opportunity for network carrier and handheld device to partner with. Nero MobileSync allows partners to select from a wide range of components, including customizable User Interface and workflow that can be integrated into existing applications. Nero MobileSync is available to mobile OEMs now. www.nero.com

McAfee, Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. have announced a global alliance partnership to jointly deliver new solutions that should offer more comprehensive security to both companies’ customers. Together, McAfee and Adobe will deliver an integrated Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Enterprise Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution to expand the reach of data protection beyond the enterprise boundaries. The combination of McAfee’s experience in policy-based data classification with Adobe’s experience in policy-based document protection should allow organizations to secure critical business information such as intellectual property or regulatory compliance data. With this new solution, organizations worldwide can automatically apply access control to sensitive information based on classification of the data, then enforce corporate governance policies to reduce  information loss. Further, as part of the partnership, McAfee has made a free diagnostic tool, McAfee Security Scan, available as an optional download to customers when installing Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player software from Adobe.com. The McAfee tool enables consumers to check for anti-virus software and firewall protection on their computers. When the scan is complete, users see a report detailing the presence and status of security protection, and are presented with special offers for McAfee security software. http://www.mcafee.com/ http://www.adobe.com/

Atex unveiled three new products designed to reinforce its position as a supplier with a common editorial, advertising, subscription and Web content management architecture supporting both print and online business models. DNA One is a Web-based system that unites advertising and news content within the Atex Polopoly Web CMS platform. DNA One provides a suite of tools to generate new digital revenues, all integrated into a single package that can be deployed as either an in-house or hosted system. DNA One automates the process of serving targeted ads and related content using metadata-driven publishing queues. With DNA One, user-generated content can be turned into a new revenue source, and contextually relevant ads can be served up based on metadata that is automatically mined and extracted from blog postings. DNA One enables third-party widgets and digital components to be plugged into the Atex Polopoly Web CMS platform. Marketplace is the new Atex online classified advertising portal designed to provide an engaging and interactive experience for buyers, sellers and shoppers. The Atex Marketplace platform uses relationship-oriented search technology powered by Transparensee’s Discovery Search Engine to give visitors faster, more accurate responses to their queries. This technology helps ensure that if an exact match doesn’t exist, then a suitable option will be provided. This, in turn, helps to keep visitors on site longer by guaranteeing they will receive results for their searches. By always returning results, Marketplace encourages visitors to continue searching, thereby increasing their page views per visit and creating more opportunities to serve banner ads on the Web site. The Atex Marketplace runs in a cloud computing environment. Atex will also introduce its latest OneView system. OneView sits above and expands the capabilities of Atex and non-Atex systems to deliver an integrated environment offering a ‘single 360 degree view of the customer’ that reaches across advertising, circulation and subscription information, marketing campaigns, customer relationship management, personalization, and consolidated business analytics. OneView is built in a Web Services framework and can be hosted or deployed in-house using a modular architecture to help reduce installation and training costs. The OneView Circulation Module provides Web tools to create, track and manage digital products. OneView Circulation’s integration with the Atex Polopoly Web content management system allows a media company to offer digital subscriptions for individual sections, personalized editions, or for combined print and online products, supporting both traditional and micro-payment schemes. http://www.atex.com

Xerox Corporation (NYSE:XRX) and Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS) announced
a definitive agreement for Xerox to acquire ACS in a cash and stock transaction valued at $63.11 per share or $6.4 billion as of the closing price of Xerox stock on Sept. 25. This acquisition is intended to transform Xerox into the leading global enterprise for document and business process management. The world's largest diversified business process outsourcing (BPO) firm, ACS is a $6.5 billion company with revenue growth of 6 percent and new business signings of $1 billion in annual recurring revenue during its fiscal 2009. Under the terms of the agreement, ACS shareholders will receive a total of $18.60 per share in cash plus 4.935 Xerox shares for each ACS share they own. In addition, Xerox will assume ACS's debt of $2 billion and issue $300 million of convertible preferred stock to ACS's Class B shareholder. On an adjusted earnings basis, the transaction is expected to be accretive in the first year. ACS's expertise is in managing paper-based work processes and providing specialized BPO and information technology services for industries that range from telecommunications, retail and financial services to healthcare, education and transportation. Through its multi-year contracts with more than 1,700 federal, state, county and local governments, ACS is the largest provider of managed services to government entities in the United States. The transaction, which has been approved by the Xerox and ACS boards of directors and ACS special committee, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2010. ACS will operate as an independent organization and initially will be branded ACS, a Xerox Company. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of domestic and foreign regulatory approvals and the approval of ACS and Xerox stockholders. http://www.acs-inc.com, http://www.xerox.com

IREX Technologies has unveiled the IREX DR800SG – an 8.1-inch, touch-screen eReader that offers multi-mode 3G wireless capabilities. Complementing the modern design of the device, users should be able to purchase books, newspapers or magazines from a wide variety of sources. In addition, IREX supports multiple formats including industry standard ePub format and multiple DRM solutions, rather than a single, “closed” proprietary format that locks content to a specific device. The IREX device is supported by Barnes & Noble, Inc., Best Buy, Qualcomm and Verizon Wireless, which together provide access to the content, retail presence and a widespread wireless network. The IREX device includes the Barnes & Noble eBookstore giving users access to more than 750,000 titles, including new releases and bestsellers. 3G wireless connectivity for the IREX device is powered by Verizon Wireless’ network, which should enable customers to purchase and download an eBook in most places without being tethered to a PC. The IREX device also leverages the Gobi multi-mode 3G embedded module which contains Qualcomm’s mobile broadband technology for connectivity to 3G networks globally. The IREX DR800SG will launch in the US this fall, and in Europe during the first half of 2010. However, users will not have the ability to download content to the device while traveling abroad until next year. http://www.irexreader.com

Aptara and ScrollMotion have teamed up to deliver a eBook publishing solution that streamlines the process of transforming books into interactive content for the iPhone. The partnership should allow book publishers to develop and convert content into iPhone-ready digital files that can be read using ScrollMotion’s Iceberg Reader application. Aptara and ScrollMotion are working to deliver titles to the eBook market for publishers, including Random House, McGraw Hill, Simon and Schuster, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Penguin Group USA. Publishers could benefit from the combination of Aptara’s eBook production capabilities, which simplify the process of converting titles for distribution through the iPhone App Store, and ScrollMotion’s Iceberg Reader. With design features such as the tactile reading experience, which allows users to move through pages with the swipe of a finger, and animated graphics, which bring moving images to books, magazines and newspapers, ScrollMotion is revolutionizing the way people enjoy the book reading experience. www.scrollmotion.com http://www.aptaracorp.com/

Rivet Logic Corporation has officially launched Crafter rivet, an open source Web content delivery framework. Crafter rivet offers Web application developers an open source framework for building content- rich applications, including enterprise Web sites, portals, and social networking platforms. Crafter rivet aims to provide the foundation for building Web content delivery systems. Built as an enterprise-grade JEE platform, Crafter rivet provides an infrastructure that not only integrates with enterprise systems and deployment infrastructure, but also supports a range of presentation-tier technologies including lightweight scripting through its REST-based APIs. The initial release provides native support for a variety of Web application frameworks including JBoss Seam, Grails, Alfresco Surf, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, and the Liferay Portal. Web development language support includes Java, Groovy, PHP, Javascript, among others. Currently, there are over 30 Web sites running Crafter rivet in production and others are under development. Crafter rivet is free and open source software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.0. http://crafterrivet.org

SirsiDynix has announced the general availability of SirsiDynix Enterprise 3.0.  Enterprise 3.0 offers users a single search well to discover all resources the library makes available. Those resources might include one or more library catalogs, digital collections, selected web sites, and federated resources. Because Enterprise is a hosted solution, it should scale to accommodate various amounts of searchable content. At the same time, the administrative user interface should adapt the product to the needs of both independent small libraries and consortia. Enterprise claims to be able to have a footprint as small as a search box widget or serve as a full library web presence and content management system. The Enterprise administrative user interface should give libraries the ability to define profiles for specific local patron groups. Library administrators have the ability to configure all of the following according to local needs: Search scope, users searching through a locally defined profile may search everything the library offers or a subset of particular interest; Look and feel, libraries can upload their own headers, footers, navigation panels, as well as cascading style sheets to control fonts, colors, backgrounds, and layout; Authentication, libraries can decide whether or not authentication is required for a given profile and whether to use LDAP or the ILS user repository; Available content in consortia, not all members have the same content subscriptions; Reporting, with built-in Google Analytics, libraries will have unprecedented visibility into the usage trends of their Enterprise 3.0 discovery tool; Search displays, libraries can select which fields appear in search results and detail displays as well as the arrangement and behavior of those fields; Content management., libraries that use the content management features have the ability to select which content is available to specific profiles and can use both a WYSIWYG interface for editing and creating content or a built-in HTML editor. Because all of this is configurable through an administrative user interface, there is no need to edit files on the server or to worry about whether customizations will be preserved through upgrades. http://www.sirsidynix.com/

Zoho announced Zoho Discussions to allow businesses and organizations to create internal and external communities. With Zoho Discussions, organizations aim to improve their support experience through customer support forums, conduct customer research and get insights on preferences with product idea boards, and create intranet discussion forums for internal conversations. While it is just being introduced to the marketplace, Zoho Discussions has quietly been in service for some time, as Zoho has been using it as the technology behind the company’s own Zoho Forums. Highlights of Zoho Discussions include: Community Engagement - social networking features such as profiles, integrated chat, private messages among users, and user labels; Content Discoverability - content stored in communities created with Zoho Discussions can be found through the integrated search, custom organization, as well as RSS/Secure RSS subscription options and SEO; Branding - control branding and the user experience through custom URLs, customizable look and feel, including full rebranding (white labeling) options; Topic Administration - allows community moderators to manage the lifecycle of posts and discussions; Rich User Experience - provides users with features such as a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, threaded conversations, drafts, previews and more; Administration features such as fine grained access controls, auto spam, community-marked content, user management and more. http://www.zoho.com/

Partnerpedia announced that its Private Networks online partner community and channel enablement solution will be integrated with Twitter for content syndication and B2B social networking. Companies should be able to stream corporate Twitter feeds directly to their profiles in Private Networks, providing updates to the community. The added feature also incorporates syndicating content published in Partnerpedia for sharing through Twitter. Expanding on Partnerpedia Private Networks’ customized branding options, companies link their corporate profiles on social networking sites to their corresponding profile in the Private Networks community. This should enable companies to extend communications beyond the Partnerpedia community and increase exposure to new potential partners. An extension of Partnerpedia’s free Open Community, Private Networks helps companies to create a privately branded online community for their network of partners. Leveraging social media, collaboration and sales enablement tools, Private Networks is designed to accelerate company business through partners. Twitter integration for Private Networks should be available at the end of October 2009 at no additional cost. https://www.partnerpedia.com/

Bridgeline Software, Inc. announced the release of iAPPS Rapid Site to their suite of web solutions. iAPPS Rapid Site hopes to enable organizations to deploy public websites, intranets, portals, or other web applications from start to launch in 5 weeks. Bridgeline's design and interactive technology strategy teams, along with its Certified Microsoft Gold Developers, work with each customer to shape business requirements and apply branding and messaging to their web solution. An iAPPS Rapid Site web solution from Bridgeline Software offers customers: Web solution strategy development with Bridgeline's team of interactive technology experts; A choice of 8 page templates from the iAPPS' library; A custom design process with Bridgeline's design teams to professionally represent branding and identity; Pre-launch population and branding of up to 25 pages of website content; iAPPS training to get content contributors and site managers up and running; A 24/7 SaaS-hosting environment. iAPPS Content Manager brings to each Rapid Site solution WYSIWIG (What You See Is What You Get) editing, publishing workflow, versioning, and image and file libraries. Additionally, Rapid Site benefits from iAPPS Content Manager's Search Engine Optimization (SEO) features like auto 301 redirects, auto-generated XML sitemaps, metadata management and SEO friendly URL strings. http://www.bridgelinesw.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced the availability of Adobe Flash Platform Services for Distribution, a new service that enables advertisers and content publishers to promote, measure and monetize applications across social networks, desktops and mobile devices. Adobe Flash Platform Services are online, hosted services that allow developers to add capabilities to Web applications with a predictable deployment model. Developers, advertisers and publishers are now using Adobe Flash Platform Services to make Web applications sharable, social, and collaborative. Adobe is partnering with Gigya Inc., a social media authentication and distribution platform, to provide a comprehensive distribution solution. The solution includes a unified management tool to promote, measure and monetize Web applications and games. Flash and other Web applications can be distributed to most Web, desktop and mobile platforms. The sharing feature enables users to share applications with a single click on social networking sites, on the desktop and mobile platforms. Web applications built with Flash Platform tools as well as applications created with other technologies can be distributed to multiple mobile platforms. Users wishing to install a sharable application on a mobile device will receive a SMS message on that device with a link to the application. Users then click the link and the Distribution service detects the device and delivers the version of the application that is developed and optimized for that specific device. Application distribution can be accelerated through paid promotion. Tens of thousands of Web application installs are possible through a paid cross-promotion model. Adobe is partnering with Gigya to provide the free and paid methods of Web application distribution. Comprehensive traditional and social media analytics are available through the Distribution Manager. This application, built using Adobe AIR software, is to promote applications, and measure distribution and customer usage. Publishers and developers can generate revenue through cross-promotion of other Web applications. When users click to download an application, this feature enables publishers and developers to offer another Web application to the user. http://www.adobe.com

Endeca Technologies, Inc. and hybris have announced a strategic product and go-to-market partnership. The goal of this partnership is to improve eCommerce architecture. The first manifestation is a joint solution which brings together the Endeca Commerce Suite and its “dynamic storefront” experience, with the hybris Suite, which combines product information management (PIM) and eCommerce capabilities. Both companies will invest in a joint roadmap that delivers an eCommerce suite, to better serve customers with an end-to-end solution that supports the needs of rapidly growing retail and B2B eCommerce organizations. Endeca is well versed in user interfaces for eCommerce companies of all sizes while hybris brings experience from the master data management (MDM) and multi-channel commerce marketplace. As part of the partnership, Endeca will provide sales and support for the hybris Suite in North America. The integration of the joint solution aims to give users aspects of both platforms in a simplified manner that should increase both online sales and marketing effectiveness. The joint solution already has a strong partner base ready. The solution aims to be able to support and scale for multi-site, multi-language, and multi-channel activity at a competitive cost. http://www.endeca.com/ http://www.hybris.com/

Alfresco Software Inc. has launched its Cloud Content Application Developer Program. Alfresco will provide an open source Amazon EC2-ready stack and developer kit for customers and partners to develop, deploy and monetize cloud service architecture (CSA) content applications on the EC2 platform.  Alfresco is designed to take advantage of a cloud service architecture and deliver cost- effective high availability and scalability. Alfresco is portable across internal and external clouds through the use of the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification. Those organizations wishing to use secure, but shared data models also have the option of deploying multi-tenant solutions, offering compliant access between multiple legal entities.The Alfresco Cloud Developer Program offers partners “early adopter”  advantages to deliver cloud-ready content applications for collaboration, document and records management. Alfresco will also offer a subscription for those requiring Enterprise 24/7 support. http://www.alfresco.com/

Publishers Press has signed an OEM agreement for the Atex Polopoly Web content management system and Atex Text Mining engine. Publishers Press will deliver the Atex system to its customers and titles under a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The choice of the Atex Web content management system and text mining engine comes as Publishers Press looks to create a fully integrated content distribution services platform. Content management is the third component of the Publishers Press e-PubXpress digital suite, which also includes digital magazine and e-mail marketing solutions. The digital suite allows customers of Publishers Press to expand their digital publishing business while maintaining relatively low amounts of IT responsibility. To provide this, e-PubXpress uses a SaaS model, with Publishers Press taking on much of the operational cost and support services. For small- to mid-size magazine publishers without a lot of capital to spend on state-of-the-art software, the SaaS model provides the basic features and capabilities of the complete digital suite at a fraction of the cost associated with capital expenditure models. http://www.atex.com http://www.pubpress.com

NetEdge Computing Solutions Pvt. Ltd. launched it’s Content Management System, netCMS, with the goal of providing users of various skill levels to create and manage the content of their own professional / business website. netCMS, provides users with tools for designing a website, updating product information, adding photo galleries, contact forms, and online query forms. Using these tools, web pages can be designed to suit the company’s brand and image. netCMS's aim is for non-technical users to create an initial website based on a paid plan / template. The user can then add more pages, choose from the pre-built templates, make use of the product catalogue to display products and create forms like Contact Us, Guest Book, etc. Depending on the website requirement, different design plans are offered. Static websites and E-Commerce / Dynamic websites each have plans that range in support and features. Subscribers who select the Portal Plan are provided with a Back Office, separate Dynamic Catalogue Page, Shopping Cart as well as an interface with Payment Gateway. NetEdge has plans to offer Content Management System to clients across different geographies. http://www.netedgecomputing.com/

eTouch SamePage has announced it has released SamePage version 4.2 with a customizable dashboard, stronger e-mail integration and advanced plug-in features in order to meet the needs of a remote and social-media friendly workforce. SamePage version 4.2 includes a number of new features important to remote and knowledge management workers including: advanced email integration that enables remote workers to more easily 'wikify' content from any smartphone; dynamic portal-like dashboard with drag and drop widgets that can be personalized at company and individual levels, eliminating the need for a separate intranet portal product; a wide selection of new plug-ins that can be customized for each enterprise, including tag cloud and project member plug-ins, among others; more detailed analytics, usage and content reports for administrators; ratings on Blog posts and more blog analytics; Support for Microsoft Office 2007; WYSIWYG enhancements to further simplify the user interface; and increased privileges for the system user or administrator to manage pages and projects. http://www.etouch.net/

OpenLogic, Inc. and Nuxeo have announced they are partnering to provide top to bottom support on an ECM stack, which includes Nuxeo's Enterprise Platform, the JBoss application server and the PostgreSQL database. By supporting a specific stack of technologies, Nuxeo and OpenLogic are offering support to businesses of all sizes for a large open source ECM alternative that rivals the depth of functionality provided by proprietary vendors. OpenLogic is adding Nuxeo to the OpenLogic Certified Library, which contains a wide range of open source applications and infrastructure. Both OpenLogic and Nuxeo will sell and provide front line support for the fully integrated Nuxeo ECM Stack, which includes JBoss and PostgreSQL. Support is available at a variety of service levels. http://www.openlogic.com / http://www.nuxeo.com

Jive has announced Jive Market Engagement, a new solution that combines the power of social media monitoring with Social Business Software. Jive's Market Engagement Solution aims to help organizations implement a unified social media strategy to interact with customers. The solution helps to socialize observations from Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and other online sources to move faster in the moment of pain or the moment of opportunity. While a small percentage of organizations use monitoring tools, most companies rely on a patchwork of alerts, people, and email to stay on top of conversations.  While these approaches may help organizations listen in on the river of conversations occurring across the social web, they certainly don't allow companies to measure, share and engage with insights in a productive and timely way. Organizations should be able to listen, measure, engage and share insights using Jive Market Engagement to identify real-time issues, collaborate with a set of colleagues internally and ultimately more and engage in active dialogues with customers and influencers. The Jive Market Engagement Solution is designed to help organizations proactively monitor brand or product issues and competitive threats; enable quick collaboration on appropriate responses or interventions; and elevate and broaden the social conversations with a company. The "war room" environment allows for rapid decision- making from the right people within the organization. These observations are then consolidated into market summary reports, what Jive calls "Viewpoints."  Viewpoints can be shared within an organization to foster collaboration and to develop and implement appropriate responses.  Jive Market Engagement also provides the ability to analyze the effectiveness of those responses. www.jivesoftware.com/

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Omniture, Inc. (Nasdaq:OMTR) announced the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for Adobe to acquire Omniture in a transaction valued at approximately $1.8 billion on a fully diluted equity-value basis. Under the terms of the agreement, Adobe will commence a tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Omniture for $21.50 per share in cash. By combining Adobe’s content creation tools and clients with Omniture’s Web analytics, measurement and optimization technologies Adobe will deliver solutions intended to enhance engaging experiences and e-commerce across all digital content, platforms and devices. For designers, developers and online marketers, an integrated workflow, with optimization capabilities embedded in the creation tools, will streamline the creation and delivery of relevant content and applications. This optimization will help advertisers and advertising agencies, publishers, and e-tailers to realize greater ROI from their digital media investments and improve their end users’ experiences. http://www.adobe.com, http://www.omniture.com

XBRL US, a non-profit consortium standardizing business reporting in XML, announced the launch of XBRL US Labs today, a move that will expand a program of taxonomy research, development, and maintenance that has accelerated adoption of the XBRL business reporting standard in the U. S. XBRL US Labs will perform commissioned research in partnership with private and public sector partners to advance open XML standards and, in particular, harmonize XBRL financial and business reporting taxonomies with other XML messaging standards such as ISO 20022 in the financial services sector, and NIEM in the US Federal Government sector. The initiative will leverage methodologies and platforms developed by XBRL US, which provides free access to a unified dictionary based on a core 17,000-element XBRL US GAAP Taxonomy, delivered to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Sept 24, 2007, and released to the public on April 24, 2008. XBRL US approved a 2009 version update, which was released to the public in April. SEC regulations require the use of XBRL US-approved taxonomies by public companies and mutual funds that report to the regulator. XBRL US has engaged with other government agencies, and Congress, to improve the quality, cost effectiveness, and interoperability of business reporting with the adoption of XML data standards like XBRL. XBRL US research partners will commission work with funding and loaned experts working at XBRL US Labs as research fellows and interns. XBRL US consortium members have real-time access to research and development products, which will go into the public domain through a variety of education and market outreach channels, including an increasing number of virtual events and seminars that regularly attract 100 or more participants. http://xbrl.us/labs

PolySpot and eZ Systems have announced their collaboration. eZ Publish is an Open Source Content Management System used by various enterprises and organizations worldwide. It helps companies build corporate websites, intranets, Webshops and media portals. eZ Publish is 100% Open Source, available either as a free download or as an enterprise solution “eZ Publish Premium” which includes support, guarantees and maintenance. PolySpot Enterprise Search technology allows authorised users a 360º view of information, searching numerous types of even secured resources stored within or
externally to the enterprise. http://ez.no/ http://www.polyspot.com/

Exorbyte has released a new white paper presenting the sum of its current knowledge and the innovations in the area of incremental search (sometimes called "auto-suggest," "typeahead," or "autocomplete"). The white paper is titled: AJAX Incremental Search Revisited - How Structured Data Matching Engines Enable a Revolutionary Incremental Search Interface. Read the white paper to find out how fast, usable, and sophisticated such AJAX search interfaces can really get. Incremental search is often opposed to "delimited search" in which a user is required to fully formulate a search query before the system starts processing that query. Incremental search, on the other hand, starts right when the user types his first few query characters. Search query suggestions or search results are instantly presented to the user based on his partially typed query milliseconds after each character stroke. On web sites these results usually appear in a drop- down list which loads and updates itself asynchronously as the user keeps on typing. Large bodies of Internet-accessible content are mostly composed of data of which users do not suspect the existence. Today's incremental search interfaces rarely give users a real sense of what, in the searchable content, resembles what they are looking for. Only a fast approximate search engine can display these suggested queries and matches with the speed and relevance required by the human mind. Such AJAX incremental search interfaces can give users a clear view into large and complex data sets. Exorbyte has made improvements on the traditional technology that underlies AJAX frameworks and AJAX applications when it realized that its advanced structured data search engine (MatchMaker) was capable of better supporting such dynamic web applications. SearchNavigator, Exorbyte's AJAX framework for incremental search, has become a leading ecommerce search solution in Germany over the past few years. It powers some of the country's largest ecommerce sites and has proven its worth with the business managers and interface designers of ecommerce companies and leading web agencies. SearchNavigator is capable of suggesting better search queries as well as near-matches using its approximate matching technology for tens of millions of records under 10 milliseconds. Its speed also allows displaying of real search results from the content, not just search query suggestions. The results can be faceted, categorized, and described just as precisely as they would be on a modern enterprise search results page. The incremental search interface then becomes more than a way to suggest queries to the user, it also enables "direct navigation" to relevant target content. http://www.exorbyte.com/

Ecordia has announced the availability of its new predictive content analysis application, the Ecordia Content Optimizer. Designed for copywriters, journalists, and SEO practitioners, this content analysis application provides automated intelligence and recommendations for improving the structure of content prior to publishing. Available for free, this turn-key web application provides a number of features to aid writers in the creation and validation of content including: advanced keyword research during authoring; detailed scoring of your content based on 15 proven SEO techniques; automated recommendations on how you can improve your content for search engines; intelligent keyword extraction that compares your content to popular search terms; sophisticated Keyword Analysis that scores your keyword usage based on 5 statistical formulas. The Ecordia Content Optimizer has been in beta development for over a year and is currently in use by a number of SEO practitioners. The Ecordia Content Optimizer provides content analysis capabilities ideally suited for web publishers who wish to: improve their quality score for landing pages used in PPC campaigns; SEO professionals that want to validate and review content prior to publishing; blog sites that wish to improve the quality of their ads from contextual ad networks; and PR Practitioners that want to optimize their press release prior to publishing. The Ecordia Content Optimizer is licensed on a per user monthly subscription. http://www.ecordia.com/

Canto has announced the release of Canto Cumulus 8.0.2, the second scheduled update to the Cumulus 8 product line, released last May. Among almost 100 fixes and improvements offered by the update are compatibility with Microsoft Windows 7, releasing in October, and Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6), out now. Canto recommends the Cumulus 8.0.2 update to all customers. Updates are available free of charge to all customers on active service agreements. http://www.canto.com

Avantstar, Inc.has announced the release of Transit Solutions 9, file conversion and web publishing software that takes content originally designed for print or offline use, such as policies and procedures information, and publishes it as fully formatted web content. Transit Solutions is designed to help IT departments and web content managers keep up with the high volume of website changes generated everyday by not only automatically converting and publishing hundreds of file types as HTML, but also recognizing and automatically linking within documents (not just among them). Transit also publishes entire information folders on a preset schedule. New features in Transit Solutions 9 include: a redesigned Edit Template window that combines preview, publication hierarchy and properties into one window, making it easier to access commonly used features to edit web page templates; enhanced support for embedded content in Microsoft Word 2007, Excel 2007 and PowerPoint 2007; support for merged cells in Excel and tables within tables; as well as enhanced conversion support for Star Office and Open Office suites. http://www.avantstar.com

AccessData Corporation has entered into a joint partnership with LTU technologies aimed at enhancing AccessData’s image search and identification capabilities. Integrating AccessData’s Forensic Toolkit (FTK) with image recognition from LTU technologies will be of particular value to law enforcement agencies inundated with image- related investigations such as child pornography cases. AccessData will, through this long- term alliance, continuously add LTU technologies’ unique image recognition and artificial vision algorithms to their existing product portfolio. These algorithms should improve investigators’  response time and effectiveness, while advancing automated analysis tools to handle the blind spots that visual content still represents for most computer forensics tools. www.accessdata.com/ http://www.ltutech.com/

Mediaspectrum, Inc. has announced its platform for media applications is now available as a hosted service in the Cloud. Mediaspectrum integrates both advertising and editorial content management,  and is the first pure Java-based architecture. Mediaspectrum shouls enable publishers to consolidate legacy solutions into a single Web-based platform which will facilitate new advertising and commerce opportunities. By eliminating the  time and expense with onsite implementations, the Mediaspectrum Cloud Computing Platform enables media companies to ultilize it's service with little or no IT and software expense. The new hosted service incorporates the following key solutions, which together make up the Mediaspectrum Cloud Computing Platform: Advertising Cloud: The Ad Sales and AdWatch provide web-based solutions for multi-channel advertising sales and production management. The Ad Sales portal for ad booking, building and management offers advertisers an interface where users can login and create multi-channel advertising campaigns for print, Web and rich media; AdWatch, a solution for multi-channel ad production, streamlines internal processes by allowing personnel to track many types of ad and ad elements; The Content Management Cloud: ContentWatch is a complete Web- based editorial content management and production solution for multi- channel publishers. A truly transformational platform, ContentWatch consolidation of systems and a single centralized deployment. http://www.mediaspectrum.net/

Cloakware has announced a new Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)-compliant Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution for the secure delivery of digital content across the Android open source platform. This solution, the OMA DRM 1.0 Client for Google’s Android Operating System, is a natural expansion of the company’s Windows Mobile offering and was developed in response to the groundswell of Android- supported mobile devices. A recent report from Strategy Analytics forecasts that Android will be the operating system of choice for 12 percent of smartphones by 2012, so device manufacturers, application developers, and wireless carriers must implement a robust security approach now to mitigate the unique risks and vulnerabilities associated with open source technology. To accomplish this, Cloakware’s OMA DRM 1.0 Client for Android features the OMA Content Ingestion Agent, which processes all secure content and licenses similar to Android’s normal file download process. Additionally, the client features the OMA DRM Engine, which responds to requests by device applications for access to OMA secure content for rendering, file management, or peer-to-peer sharing. The OMA DRM Engine checks for licenses, evaluates the rights language of the license and decrypts the content for the application, working in conjunction with Android software. All mandatory and optional OMA DRM features and several features designed for Android mobile devices are incorporated, including: support for all three OMA DRM delivery methods: forward lock, combined delivery, and separate delivery; peer-to-peer sharing and licensing of shared content; support for Android DRM application programming interfaces; encryption features to prevent unauthorized content redistribution; maintenance of rights objects received by the rights issuer; streamlined device integration; DRM User Interface that supports 27 languages and localized customizations. www.cloakware.com/

Asbru Software has released version 7.1 of the Asbru Web Content Management system designed to provide control and simplicity for non-technical users while maintaining flexibility and power for developers. This latest major upgrade to the Asbru Web Content Management system enables organizations to easily deliver content tailored for different devices such as mobile phones. This release also includes new features for online stores and many significant improvements for system integrators and developers. The new version 7.1 enables organizations to easily deliver content tailored for different devices such as mobile phones and PCs. The content management system's template system already lets organizations build several versions of their websites. The new functionality now enables organizations to configure which version of a website to display for specific devices. So an organization can for example build and display a simplified mobile friendly version of their website to mobile phone users and another version of their website with a layout to fit larger screen sizes to other users. The new functionality enables organizations to configure special website versions for as many different devices as required. The Asbru Web Content Management system already offers extensive e-commerce functionality including product catalogues and shopping cart functionality.  Version 7.1 of the system adds several new features for online stores. The most prominant is functionality, which enables organizations to promote their products through discounts. The discount functionality includes a choice of several different discount schemes including fixed amount discounts, volume discounts and BOGOF discounts. Discounts can also be offered during a specific period or to specific users or user groups or only if a user presents a discount code during checkout. The discount schemes can be setup by non-technical website administrators. Finally, the latest version of the Asbru Web Content Management system includes many improvements for system integrators and developers. A number of APIs have been added including APIs for archiving, backup and publishing of content items to external servers. The new version also provides an API for integration of Asbru Web Content Management's E-Commerce features with external stock inventory systems and other external databases, services and systems. There is also new functionality, which allows organizations to enable website visitors to upload images and files. This functionality can for example be used to enable uploads of images or files to message boards or it can be used to enable job seekers to attach their CV to a job application. The functionality supports automatic anti-virus checking and other processing of files uploaded by visitors. http://www.asbrusoft.com/

Coveo has announced the launch of the Coveo Enterprise Email Search package which aims to provide organizations with unified access to all email and attachments across the enterprise, whether offline in all employees’ desktop PST files, or online, on live email servers and in email archiving platforms. Traditional email search enables only the employee to access his or her desktop email, reducing knowledge sharing and creating roadblocks to information access. Coveo’s industry-first Enterprise Email Search package provides organizations with the cross-organizational ability to: Index, tag, categorize and access all enterprise email content to reduce risk and conduct investigations; Provide unified access to email and attachments regardless of where they are stored; Access all unified email sources via user desktop and web interfaces, or mobile devices such as the BlackBerry, including navigation within the content using intuitive facets; Retain and access institutional knowledge and goodwill when employees leave, enhancing customer relationships and increasing productivity; and Implement permission-based access to specific email accounts, workgroup or enterprise emails tagged as public, reducing rework, increasing productivity and, particularly for consulting and other knowledge-based organizations, leveraging institutional knowledge to support customer engagements. Coveo Enterprise Email Search provides both cross- enterprise email search and discovery, and permission- or rules-based access for employees to search the combined email of their workgroups, former colleagues and other specific groups of email within the organization. Coveo’s permissioning and rules are self-service for system administrators through the Coveo Enterprise Search Admin Dashboard. The access permissions and rules reside within the content, making security seamless, instant, and constant. The Coveo Enterprise Email Search package may be used with Coveo Mobile Access, providing faceted access for employees in the field, via their smartphones. Coveo Enterprise Email Search is powered by the Coveo Enterprise Search 6.0 platform, which has been tested for scalability on billions of documents. http://www.coveo.com

MadCap SoftwareExternal link has announced that MadCap Lingo 3.0 is now available. MadCap LingoExternal link, the XML-based, fully integrated translation memory system (TMS) and authoring tool solution, eliminates the need for file transfers in order to complete translation-preserving valuable content and formatting to deliver a consistent experience across multiple languages. With version 3.0, MadCap Lingo adds a new Project Packager function that bridges the gap between authors and translators who use other TMS software. Using the Project Packager in MadCap Lingo, authors should be able to work with translators to streamline the translation process, track the status of completion, and obtain more accurate project cost estimates. MadCap Lingo 3.0 also features a new TermBase Editor for creating databases of reusable translated terms, and enhanced translation memory. Through integration between MadCap Lingo and MadCap's authoring and multimedia applications, MadCap hopes to offer a powerful integrated authoring and localization workflow. Project Packager in MadCap Lingo 3.0 is designed to make it easier for authors who need their documentation translated into another language but work with a translator who relies on a TMS tool other than MadCap Lingo. Using Project Packager, the author can create a MadCap Lingo project with all the files that require translation, and bundle it in a ZIP file and send it to the translator. MadCap Lingo displays a list of all files that need to be translated, going beyond text to include skins, glossaries, search filter sets, and much more. As a result, the author can ensure that the translator receives all of the files requiring translation. This should streamline the process while enabling more accurate translation project estimates, helping translators to avoid accidentally underestimating project costs based on an incomplete file count-and protecting authors from unexpected cost overruns. Once the translation is complete, the translator sends a ZIP file with the content. The author then simply merges the translated file in MadCap Lingo, which is used to confirm the completeness of the translation. The author can then run statistical reports showing information for each project and file to determine what has/ has not been translated, how many words/segments have been translated and/or still need to be translated, and much more. The author can then export the MadCap Lingo project to a range of outputs, such as a Flare project file for online and print publishing, Word document, or even a Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) file, among others. The key new features of MadCap Lingo 3.0 are: the new TermBase Editor which enables translators to create and manage concept-oriented, multilingual terminology databases, "termbases," making it significantly easier to reuse translated terms; the ability to import and export Term Base eXchange (TBX) files, an open, XML-based standard used for exchanging structured terminological data; translation memory - Apply Suggestions to Project function, which makes it possible to view and automatically apply translation memory suggestions to an entire project, rather than just one segment, saving hours of effort; dynamic help window pane lock lets the translator keep the current help topic frozen in place while moving around in the MadCap Lingo interface, making it easier to follow steps or other information placed in the Help topic; minimize to system tray option; multiple file support allows multiple files to be selected when creating a new MadCap Lingo project, for example HTM, HTML, XML, DITA or DOC files. http://www.madcapsoftware.com/

Visible Technologies, a provider of social media monitoring and engagement solutions, has announced it has extended the truCAST engine across its platform and renamed products within the truCAST Suite to address the keys to adopting and integrating insights from the social and search channels across the enterprise. In addition, the company has broadened its on-demand social media monitoring functionality throughout the truCAST Suite with the introduction of truPULSE. The truCAST platform includes: truVOICE, previously called TruCast, the flagship product is an enterprise-class solution with advanced data collection, cross departmental engagement workflow, approvals and tracking of social media conversations; truPULSE, an on-demand listening tool for rapid social media monitoring and analysis of online dialogue to provide organizations a quick and robust way to identify the topics they want to explore deeper; truSEARCH, a rich repository of social media data to intuitively investigate what is important, with key-phrase drilldown, topic discovery and conceptual search functionality; truINSIGHT, a comprehensive set of professional services and reports that help companies holistically track and measure social conversations to make more timely and informed business decisions; truREPUTATION, a full suite of online reputation management services that provide individuals and corporations with an effective way to comprehensively manage their reputation in search engine results through assessment and measurement, protection and repair. http://www.visibletechnologies.com/

IBM has launched new software and services to help clients build collaborative and connected business environments to harness the rapid marketplace shifts that are transforming how they work. The new IBM offerings are designed to help clients across industries embrace rather than resist the unprecedented changes in today's marketplace and use them to their advantage. They address three challenges faced by business leaders: making business processes more responsive and easier to change; improving collaboration within and beyond their organizations; and using technology to meet business needs quickly. IBM is announcing new offerings designed to help businesses make their processes more agile, responsive and easier to change while supporting increased collaboration between workers and those processes. New industry frameworks initially targeted at four industries- banking, chemical/ petroleum, energy and government . The frameworks, designed to be turnkey software modules that match specific industry needs, enable faster business solution deployment with lower project cost risk, expanded choice through a validated ecosystem of partners, and accelerated adoption of business IT standards. Another leading component of this initiative is a set of IBM collaboration offerings that derive collective intelligence through crowd-sourcing and social dynamics. These include new social networking tools for the enterprise and secure, cloud-based collaboration that joins together networks of companies. IBM is also helping business people solve their own daily challenges through new mashup software and delivering solutions for unified communications, mobile collaboration and portal communities. IBM is announcing a new set of professional services focused on collaboration and mobility. They include IBM Smart Business Desktop on the IBM Cloud, IBM Mobile Enterprise Services for Managed Blackberry, and IBM Converged Communications Services.http://www.ibm.com

Demand Media has announced availability of the company’s Pluck social media platform. Utilizing an extended architecture with full backwards compatibility, Demand Media brings to market the industry’s first application server specifically built for integrated social media. Pluck 4 now includes features such as: access to a templating engine, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, strings, images, allowing visual and feature customization while enabling search engine optimized deployments; programmable APIs provide an Extensible RESTful Interface, allowing browser, server and mobile device requests via a single framework; a new Content Access API for lower level development work against its Scripting Engine; the social data model leverages an accessible, 12 category and 150+ element schema tuned for rich social media experiences; management tools such as the Community Manager (for user, content and abuse management), the Analytics Manager (for activity reporting and ROI assessment) and the Application Manager (for visual development, controls, configs and more); the application container offers a system to create, deploy, host and deliver custom applications. http://www.pluck.com/

SharedBook, Inc. has launched a new service for policy and law-making institutions that will allow constituents and other interested parties to electronically annotate and comment on government documents, from legislation to policies and procedures. The subsequent document can be then published, complete with the original text and all the comments and annotations included. Technology has offered the promise of more open and collaborative legislative and policy development processes, but to date no scalable solution has been available that truly allows innumerable comments and annotations and then converts them to a format in which the comments can be preserved. SharedBook’s annotation product offers governments and public policy groups the ability to encourage open review and debate on documents, as well as the ability to retain a subsequent Permanent Record of these discussions in a book, digital file or other printable document. SharedBook is providing its technology platform to OurEnergyPolicy.org, a new online initiative for the nation's energy policy leaders designed to enhance the development of U.S. energy policy through contextual, online discussion. SharedBook's platform allows approved experts from industry, academia, non-profit organizations and government to contextually add comments and responses to documents through online footnoting, while not allowing the original content to be changed, creating a digital platform for a discussion of energy policy. Policy makers, nonprofits, educators, and special-interest communities can use SharedBook's platform to allow their members or constituents to engage in an online dialogue on bills, rules, research and other important documents. Starting with highlighted excerpts from the original content, a series of comments and replies can be posted and shared with any and all interested users to facilitate a pointed and detailed discussion that can then become a permanent record of the conversation to be preserved. www.sharedbook.com/

Open Text Corporation has announced plans to expand its suite of Web solutions with products and technologies from recently acquired Vignette playing a central role. Offered as part of the Open Text ECM Suite, the solutions should help organizations establish deeper connections to customers and use the Web as a channel for new revenues. As part of this strategy, Open Text will leverage technologies from both Vignette and its existing solutions to deliver new next- generation Web offerings. Vignette Content Management will form the foundation of Open Text's Web business solutions, providing personalized and multi-channel capabilities integrated with the Open Text ECM Suite.  Open Text has said it will continue to develop both Vignette Content Management and Open Text Web Solutions as complementary offerings to meet the full range of WCM needs. Open Text will release Vignette Content Management version 8.0 and Vignette Portal version 8.0 in the second half of 2009. The recently released Web Solutions 10.0 will be followed by the release of Web Solutions 10.1 in the first half of 2010. Within 24 months, Open Text will launch an offering that combines key strengths of Web Solutions with the Vignette Content Management platform. Vignette Social Media Solutions (Community Applications and Community Services) will be the basis of a new Social Marketplace offering, which will be added to Open Text's Social Media solutions, targeting Internet-style social media interactions and enabling existing Web sites with social content. Current Open Text WCM customers will be able to take advantage of this new Social Marketplace package. In addition, Vignette Collaboration will continue to be enhanced as part of the underlying Vignette Social Media technology stack. http://www.opentext.com/

RightNow has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HiveLive, Inc., an enterprise-class social platform provider. The acquisition will combine RightNow’s customer relationship management (CRM) solution with HiveLive’s platform for customer support, engagement and loyalty, and ideation communities to help organizations maximize every opportunity to deliver great customer experiences. The HiveLive platform is available immediately following the acquisition and will be tightly integrated into RightNow November ’09. Increasingly more customer conversations are happening directly between consumers; online communities and social networking sites are becoming a critical source of information when consumers make purchase decisions or seek service and support. Many organizations struggle not only to participate in social conversations, but to integrate those conversations into internal business processes, tap them for design ideas, and leverage them to create brand advocates. By fully integrating the HiveLive platform, RightNow will be able to connect customer communities with existing CRM business processes, helping companies to deliver exceptional customer experiences. With the HiveLive platform, companies will be able to easily: implement prebuilt communities for customer support, engagement and loyalty, and ideation; configure these communities for unique business needs; incorporate forums, blogs, ideation, question and answer dialogues, media sharing and more; iIntegrate customer generated content into the RightNow knowledge base. The HiveLive platform complements RightNow Cloud Monitor™ by empowering organizations to monitor the social web while facilitatating their own communities. HiveLive will also add the social channel to RightNow’s multi-channel contact center offering, which includes phone, email, mobile, web, feedback and chat. http://www.rightnow.com/

expressor software has introduced the expressor eval edition, a hosted version of the expressor semantic data integration system that lets developers create, test, modify and run expressor drawings. expressor eval edition users also receive free technical support and can access all product documentation. The expressor eval edition gives ETL developers 30 days of experience designing and testing data integration applications using expressor illustrator, the company’s visual integration flow design tool. Sample projects include: reading, denormalizing and collating transactional data from multiple relational database tables into aggregate fields, joining data from multiple records into a hierarchical data structure, and writing the summary data as an XML document; combining within a single operation data read from a variety of sources; using expressor’s scripting language to simplify the manipulation and transformation of data within a data integration application; running expressor drawings in single-channel and parallel processing modes. The hosted eval edition provides for access through Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services, with no setup and/or software download requirements. Evaluators can also access documentation, tutorials and videos that showcase additional capabilities of the expressor semantic data integration system, including semantic rationalization, business rule creation, reporting and image and network creation. http://www.expressor-software.com/

eXo Platform, Inc. has committed its entire open source eXo stack to be certified on Red Hat’s newly introduced GateIn portal project and, by extension, Red Hat’s forthcoming JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform. With the eXo stack integrated with GateIn, enterprise customers will be able to extend Red Hat’s portal offering with applications from eXo for document management, enterprise content management, or collaboration. eXo built its applications to plug into its portal technology, which now comprises a significant portion of the GateIn code base. Earlier this year, eXo and Red Hat merged their open source portal development efforts, with GateIn the first major deliverable to be unveiled. The eXo stack is an integrated suite of enterprise content management, document management, and collaboration applications. Built in partnership with eXo customers and partners, the eXo stack is both modular, so customers can use as little or as much of the stack as they need, and integrated, so whatever combination customers choose should work "out of the box". http://www.exoplatform.com/

Acquia, the enterprise guide to social publishing , today announced the availability of Acquia Hosting for Drupal installations. Acquia Hosting offers a fully redundant, high availability cloud-based hosting platform tuned for Drupal performance. When combined with an Acquia Network support subscription, organizations can now rely on a single vendor for a complete suite of expert Drupal hosting, operations and support services. Pricing for Acquia Hosting is usage-based, offering businesses a cost-effective mechanism to scale their sites as traffic demands increase. Benefits of Acquia Hosting include: Single vendor for complete Drupal infrastructure support and accountability; one-stop shop for a business’ entire Drupal infrastructure, with experienced Drupal operations and support resources to ensure site performance meets business objectives; highly available, high performance architecture; targeted at enterprise sites, Acquia Hosting is built on cloud based clustered web servers with built-in load balancing and database redundancy to ensure a business’ Drupal site will scale to millions of visitors and page views; integrated with Drupal development workflow Acquia Hosting includes hosted SVN repositories to streamline developer workflow including code management, on-demand staging environments for functional testing and automated deployment to production instances. http://acquia.com/

Red Hat HAS announced that its previously announced portal project, GateIn has been launched in the JBoss Community and is now available for download and developer contribution. The GateIn project is the next generation of both the JBoss Portal and the eXo Portal projects. This is the first major deliverable based upon the JBoss and eXo collaboration that began earlier in the year. Additionally, the JBoss portal community has been extended beyond the GateIn Project to include a number of strategic partnerships with Alfresco, Jaspersoft and Rivet Logic. Ultimately, the GateIn project is intended to form the foundation for Red Hat's future portal infrastructure products and aims to enable organizations to create portal-based application experiences for users. The project's goal is to provide an open source portal platform combining a robust and enterprise grade Java infrastructure from JBoss with the interface capabilities of eXo Platform. Key features that are currently being considered for inclusion in GateIn include: granular management of virtual portals; drag and drop layouts; contextual menuing and navigational controls; new security and identity administration panels; and full support for open social applications. Ultimately, GateIn is intended to carry a balance between feature-rich capabilities and lightweight flexibility that are associated with prior portal projects from JBoss and eXo. The GateIn project is expected to extend the core community of support and partnerships. In addition to contributions from eXo Platform, Alfresco, Jaspersoft and Rivet Logic have committed to certifying technologies such as portlets and extensions to the technology that emerges from the GateIn project. These relationships should present customers with an opportunity to create portal solutions based upon GateIn and the JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform. http://www.redhat.com/

iStudio Publisher 1.1, the latest upgrade of the design and Desktop Publishing software has been released. iStudio Publisher is a Mac based design and layout application which can be used to create documents to a professional standard. User training is provided through introductory videos as well as help facilities. iStudio Publisher 1.1 features a new image manipulation tool and improved image inspector palette that gives users further control over images within their documents. Scale them, stretch them, crop them, tile them: Users can now size, position and rotate images with complete freedom within the containing shapes, so they can just focus on the part of the image that matters. Users can add text inside and around the same shape, with an image in it, at the same time, along with gradient fills and drop shadows. iStudio Publisher has streamlined the menus and keyboard shortcuts in order to improve. http://www.istudiopublisher.com

Lyquidity Solutions innovators in enterprise spreadsheet management and developers of ComplyXL, announce the availability of the Find Combinations add-in.  This add-in will work standalone or in conjunction with ComplyXL and should help to extend the enterprise spreadsheet controls provided by ComplyXL. ComplyXL provides the key framework used by organizations for version and audit controls as well as continuous monitoring of critical spreadsheets with instant notification of changes. The Find Combinations utility gives the ability to analyze the information within the spreadsheets and is available for free general download. Key benefits of Find Combinations include: the ability to: enter or select a target value; Combinations of cell values will be computed and tested against this number for a match; specify or select a maximum group size of combinations to try; see the addresses of the cells which total to the target value; select a range of values, with the ability to select multiple areas; find the combination of values in a specified cell range that total to a given value. The group size value allows you to control the maximum size of groups that will be tested. For example, although you are looking for combinations of numbers in a list of 100 values, you may know that the number of values to be added together never exceeds, say, 5. You can then specify 5 as the maximum group size and then no groups of 6 or higher will be tested. This is important, especially in large lists, because the number of potential combinations can be vast. There are 627 combinations of 2, 3, 4 and 5 numbers in a list 10. There are 2,369,885 combinations of the same groups in a list of 50 numbers and 7,937,339 combinations in a list of 100. On a 1.8Mz laptop working through these 7+ million numbers takes about 5 minutes  - or about 20,000 tests per second. http://www.lyquidity.com/

Author-it Software Corporation and Syrinx Consulting have announced a partnership designed to bring complementary Microsoft Office SharePoint Server solutions to client organizations. Syrinx  been asked to deliver an enterprise search solution that would enable employees to pull the right content from more than 1000 sources, from Jobsite control documents to Human Resources and Financial forms. The solution warranted authoring, importing and delivering a century of critical company operations manuals via SharePoint 2007. Designed specifically for Author-it, the Syrinx SharePoint Connector extends Author-it's standard publishing capabilities by allowing users to deploy content automatically and directly into SharePoint. Content, graphics, links, navigation, and metadata within Author-it can now be published to a SharePoint list. Sharepoint indexes the information making it natively searchable and browsable as standard items in a page library and in a web-based format native to a specific SharePoint environment. Author-it's multi-channel publishing engine connects to the Syrinx SharePoint Connector allowing the publishing of content from Author-it directly into SharePoint. This partnership hopes to provide a complete content management solution, with Author-it used for the authoring, management and publishing of content, while the Syrinx SharePoint Connector deploys the published output directly to SharePoint sites. http://www.author-it.com/

IBM has announced new enterprise content management (ECM) software designed for clients to manage their increasing volumes of information with the goal of reducing their business processing time, thus increasing efficiency. The new ECM software includes a  business process management offering with analytic capabilities, new features in IBM's content management product line and ECM starter packs that are specifically designed for clients looking for smaller deployments, that meet their enterprise content management needs. By automating manually intensive business processes that are also prone to errors, companies should now realize decreased processing times. In addition to improving efficiency, client satisfaction should also increase die to meeting client needs promptly. New ECM capabilities make it easier for organizations to support a broader set of users, while reducing the total cost of ownership of their ECM infrastructures. Consolidating five products into one offering, IBM's new content-centric business process management (BPM) bundle provides clients with functionality and a simplified user interface. IBM FileNet Business Process Manager utilizes Web 2.0 technologies such as enterprise mashups from IBM, along with a set of standards-based widgets. These ECM-based widgets are visual services that provide ECM and BPM functions. IBM Content Manager and IBM FileNet Content Manager are secure and open content repositories designed to provide content services such as security, search, integration, and workflow. New improvements in IBM Content Manager include enhanced document handling capabilities; consumability and performance enhancements; process automation, execution, and management via BPM integration; full-text search (z/OS), and high volume batch loading capability (z/OS). Enhancements to IBM FileNet Content Manager include improvements in the installation and upgrade processes. New versions of IBM Content Manager and IBM FileNet Content Manager will also include a technical preview of the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard. CMIS is a proposed standard that allows clients to leverage third-party applications, user interfaces and tools with IBM repositories via a standardized web services or REST/AtomPub interfaces. This makes it easier for users to gain access to the right information from their applications. CMIS was submitted to OASIS, an international open standards consortium, in September 2008 and is currently preparing for public review. http://www.ibm.com