October 2009 Archives

Author-it Software Corporation (ASC) has announced that they have appointed Triview UK Ltd an authorized reseller of Author-it software in the UK. Triview has already started exhibiting at industry conferences in the UK. They demonstrated Structured Authoring and Author-it Assist, a new revolutionary real-time user assistance learning module, as well as Triview's own line of Author-it extensions. http://www.author-it.com/

SDL Tridion announced SiteEdit 2009, supporting organisations to make the transition from centralised web publishing models to empowering business owners, SiteEdit 2009 is an in-context web site editor. Editing of complex web estates that encompass multi-brand, multi-channel and multilingual web sites poses big challenges for organisations. With SiteEdit, corporate standards are enforced and authoring is secured - editors can only edit content elements on web pages that they are authorised to change. Comprehensive security, versioning, workflow support and audit trails help ensure that the publishing process is transparent for complete website governance. Advanced editors are also catered for - a single click gives them access to full version information and hidden information such as metadata, SEO and layout templates. Role based customisation also allows for maintenance of application elements such as toolbars, menus and IT components, so that everyone involved with the site is able to concentrate on their own speciality. http://www.sdltridion.com/

MultiCorpora announced they recently increased the language support capabilities of their product, MultiTrans, by integrating with a strategic software solution that can assimilate over 7,000 languages. The MultiTrans Advanced Leveraging Translation Memory now supports "virtually every known human language", following ISO standards. The new Advanced Linguistics module seamlessly extends the same functionality users enjoy with MultiTrans, to users that have character based languages as their translation source. http://www.multicorpora.com

Sajan has announced that it has a new relationship with RightNow, a cloud-based customer experience solutions provider. This relationship provides RightNow clients agent desktop access to the Sajan translation management system, GCMS. The new integration of Sajan GCMS with RightNow CX is aimed at providing a seamless and powerful approach for content globalization needs. http://www.sajan.com/ http://www.rightnow.com/

MetaCommunications has announced the November 2, 2009 launch and availability of Spark!, a browser-based tool designed to facilitate collaboration between content creators and their clients. Spark! will help enable creative concept review workspaces where document content, including PDFs and graphic files, can be collaboratively discussed, revised, and routed for final approvals. Spark! is specifically designed for advertising, marketing, creative design, packaging, prepress, and web design. Spark! addresses issues surrounding collaboration between content creators who need to iteratively work through a design and then route that design through final approvals. The new Spark! requires no installation, special knowledge, or training to use. Spark! renders PDF and many image-based file formats on the fly. Whether it's a Balsamiq mockup, a magazine spread, logo designs, or packaging ideas, Spark! aims to circulate and discuss creative and concept files. By using commenting and annotation tools, all users reviewing a Spark! document should be able to annotate and discuss with each other in real-time, entirely within their web browsers. The Spark! Workflow Spark! plugs in to Approval Manager workflows to provide creative teams with feedback on concept and creative files. Reviewers responsible for giving feedback work from notifications delivered to their email inboxes or from review dashboards in their web browsers. Whether following links from email or using the dashboards, all reviewers open the same document in Spark! and share each other's comments, annotations, and approval statuses. http://www.meta-comm.com/

Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC) announced a new release of its enterprise portal solution, Vignette Portal version 8.0. Vignette Portal 8.0 simplifies the administration and creation of dynamic, content-rich Web sites with the ability to rapidly syndicate portal applications across Web properties powered by multiple systems. Portal 8.0  enables additional social media capabilities that align with Open Text's development of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. Open Text recently announced that it plans to enhance its ECM Suite with Web solutions powered by technology from its existing Web Solutions and Vignette. Vignette Portal 8.0, together with the user experience foundation of Vignette Community Applications, provides organizations with more than 100 social portlets that add capabilities such as wikis, blogs, idea sharing and event calendars to any portal site. Additionally, Vignette Portal 8.0 provides user presentation services to the upcoming Vignette Content Management version 8.0 release, slated for Q4 2009. Vignette Portal 8.0 is available immediately. http://www.vignette.com, http://www.opentext.com/

Jive announced the general availability of Jive Social Business Software (SBS) 4.0. With SBS 4.0, Jive extends SBS further out into the marketplace, deep into the enterprise, wide across the firewall, and out on the road. The Jive Microsoft Office Connector enables Jive SBS 4.0 users to work on any Microsoft Office document, spreadsheet or presentation in Jive or on their desktop. When users create and save Office content on their desktop it is automatically published to Jive where the content is rendered for viewing and commenting directly from the browser. Additionally, users can view and reply to comments made in the browser directly from the plug-in in Microsoft Office. The Jive Microsoft Office Connector enables document co-authoring, allowing multiple contributors to make comments and changes to an Office file simultaneously with automatic synchronization of each other's changes. The Jive Mobile for the iPhone and Blackberry module allows users to create content and participate in active discussions from the iPhone and/or Blackberry, or any mobile or desktop device with access to email. Jive has added enhancements to its Bridging module to let employees capture relevant conversations taking place in their public communities, share them internally, collect and consolidate responses, and go back out across the firewall to post a response. Moving beyond the monitoring or collaboration status quo, Jive Bridging in Jive SBS 4.0 lets users sustain a continuous, bidirectional dialogue with the people around whom their business is centered. The Jive Analytics Module provides tools for community managers to quantify and characterize the growth and success of their communities. A comprehensive set of key community activity reports is presented via the analytics console, including reports on adoption, participation, and top content, spaces, groups and users. Jive SBS 4.0 is available immediately. http://www.jivesoftware.com

Jive announced Jive Mobile, a new module for Jive Social Business Software (SBS) that enables mobile workers to connect with people and resources while they are out of the office. Jive Mobile provides a native application for Apple's iPhone and an enhanced experience for the BlackBerry and any other email enabled mobile devices. The Jive Mobile iPhone App provides Apple iPhone or Apple iPod Touch users full access to Jive SBS for online networking and collaboration. Jive Mobile also lets users leverage the unique properties of the iPhone, including integration with mobile contacts, geolocation updates, and the built-in camera. Jive Mobile extends the basic core email functionality of Jive SBS - reply via mail to discussion threads - to allow users of any mobile device with e-mail access to create and post Jive community content via email. Jive Mobile is available as an add-on module to Jive SBS 4.0. iPhone or iPod Touch users can download Jive SBS Mobile directly from the iTunes App Store to connect with their enterprise's license of Jive Mobile. http://www.jivesoftware.com/

OmniUpdate, Inc., a web content management system (CMS) provider for higher education, has announced the availability of Multi-Output Preview and Multi-Language Editing and Preview in OU Campus, the company's web CMS product. These enhanced capabilities make it easier for authorized users to preview and edit various file types, including those with multi-language content, before publishing. The new capabilities should allow contributors to preview pages rendered with different file type formats, including HTML, PDF, RTF, CSV, XML, and mobile, as well as any UTF-8 compatible foreign language formats (including two-byte languages such as Chinese and Japanese). If an XSL template is designed to output multiple files, Multi-Output Preview should provide the ability to view the outputs together before publishing. Preview tabs for the various file types are accessible at the top of the Page Preview window. If there are multiple foreign language versions of a page, each language can be previewed and edited individually or side by side. http://omniupdate.com/

Endeca Technologies, Inc. announced it has expanded its relationship with SAP AG. Endeca will integrate Xcelsius software and SAP BusinessObjects Intelligent Search software into the Endeca Information Access Platform for deployment of search applications and query federation inside the enterprise. Based on the APIs of the McKinley release of the Endeca Information Access Platform, Endeca will integrate Xcelsius dashboards and visualization software and SAP BusinessObjects Intelligent Search with the Endeca platform to provide a way for business analysts to create data visualizations within search applications. By integrating Xcelsius with Endeca’s platform, Endeca combines data visualizations with the Guided Navigation experience for analytics-intensive search applications. By integrating SAP BusinessObjects Intelligent Search with the Endeca platform, Endeca provides customers with a single point of access to multiple sources, including secured sources which cannot be indexed, open sources on the public Web, and multiple Endeca search applications. Endeca  also announced a partnership with Informatica to OEM PowerCenter and PowerExchange to provide a solution for unifying data from databases, warehouses, and enterprise business systems with content from product lifecycle management (PLM) and enterprise content management (ECM) systems. http://www.endeca.com/ http://www.sap.com  http://www.informatica.com

Sitecore announced the availability of a new version of its Web Content Management (CMS) software. Sitecore CMS 6.2 offers features including native RSS feeds, Microsoft Outlook based workflow management, drag and drop media and document management, authoring enhancements and  marketing Web forms. The forms tool aims to help non-technical users build rich interactive forms, configure campaigns and conversion goals and provides a suite of reports to better understand user behavior for usability analysis and optimization. The tool also allows marketers to capture incremental data from abandoned forms and track form dropout statistics. Outlook integration should allow users to receive workflow notifications from within Outlook in real-time, and take action on those workflow requests without ever having to log into the CMS. All workflow actions, status and version comparison information is provided to the user, and dynamically adjusts should a workflow state change. Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Media and Document Management: Drag and drop image uploads are now available. Files can be uploaded directly in the page editor and can be stored within Sitecore CMS. Files can also be edited with Microsoft Word, Photoshop and PowerPoint and version controlled automatically. Natively edit content inline using full Microsoft Word functionality with full support of rich content pages. http://www.sitecore.net/

Bluestream Database Software Corp., a provider XML storage and XML content management technologies, announced the release of their XDocs 2.1 XML content management system, that aims to enable technical writing departments of all sizes to create, store, manage and publish end-user documentation. The DITA capability allows companies of all sizes and technical abilities, to install and deploy XDocs. Some of the new features supported in the XDocs 2.1 release are: a configurable and integrated workflow system which allows for easy configuration/adjustment of workflow(s) according to organizational processes; a supported labelling and "AsOf' publish capability; all publishing can be scheduled, content published according to state of repository on a particular "AsOf" date; a full publication, as specified by a DITA map, can be published as a set of compressed HTML files including all topics and images; integration with Adobe's Structured FrameMaker (7.2, 8, and 9). Log on and access the CMS repository via FrameMaker drop-down menu supported by Leximation's DITA FMx. http://www.bluestream.com/

Nstein Technologies announced that it has joined the Endeca Extend partner program to help customers integrate its text mining capabilities into the Endeca Information Access Platform. Using Endeca's Content Acquisition System (CAS), Nstein can build integrations to an application-programming interface (API) supported by Endeca. The goal of this is to be able to offer audiences a richer search experience, automate workflows and personalization, enhance discovery and improve SEO. Through the Endeca Extend program, Endeca and Nstein Technologies hope to allow customers to use extracted meta-data to provide new facets for Guided Navigation, cluster related topics, offer landing pages, and improve search relevancy. Endeca customers can run their data through an Endeca Extend partner solution, extract additional meta-data elements from the text, and append that meta-data to the original content. The pre-built integrations allow joint customers the ability to implement these technologies through a simplified integration. http://www.nstein.com, http://www.endeca.com/

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Forms Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of XForms 1.1. Forms are an important part of the Web, and they continue to be the primary means for enabling interactive Web applications. Web applications and electronic commerce solutions have sparked the demand for better Web forms with richer interactions. XForms is the response to this demand, and provides a new platform-independent markup language for online interaction between a person (through an XForms Processor) and another, usually remote, agent. http://www.w3.org/

Sajan has announced the launch of Sajan Software, a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to advancing cloud-based translation technologies. Based in Dublin, Ireland, Sajan Software, Ltd. will drive and support the continued evolution of Sajan's translation management system, and its suite of localization solutions. Vern Hanzlik, former CEO of Stellent (acquired by Oracle in 2006) has been named president of the new company. Sajan Software is offering translation management technologies, such as GCMS the translation management system (TMS). The company offers its TMS through an incremental, volume-based approach. Sajan Software offers a system to manage content and the way in which it flows to and from vendors, such as language service providers (LSPs). Strategically, Sajan Software will focus exclusively on translation management technology, which Sajan has already spent more than six years developing. Sajan recently released the latest version of GCMS 5.0, providing architectural and functional enhancements. In December 2008, the company opened an office dedicated to software research, development, quality assurance and operations in New Delhi. In concert with the launch of Sajan Software, Sajan has decided to also distinguish its translation services unit as Sajan Global Language Services. Current offerings include document translation, website localization, multilingual DTP, globalization consulting, and software localization. http://sajan.com

The annual analyst keynote panel at the sixth annual Gilbane Boston Conference, produced by The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, to take place December 1- 3, 2009, in Boston, MA, hosts leading industry analysts who will debate What’s Real, What’s Hype, and What’s Coming in content management and collaboration. Industry analysts from different firms speak at all Gilbane events to make sure conference attendees hear differing opinions from a wide variety of expert sources. A second, third, fourth or fifth opinion will ensure IT and business managers don't make ill-informed decisions about critical content and information technologies or strategies. Some of the topics to be debated are: How the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 with affect the web and enterprise content management, search, and collaboration markets; What organizations are finding when they deploy enterprise social software; What companies should be doing about managing user-generated content; Whether it is time to seriously invest in mobile content applications, and; How companies are engaging customers with multi-lingual web sites. "Industry Analyst Debate: What's Real, What's Hype, and What's Coming" will be a lively, interactive debate guaranteed to be both informative and fun. Participants include moderator, Frank Gilbane, CEO Gilbane Group, and panelists: Melissa Webster, Vice President, Content & Digital Media Technologies, IDC; Stephen Powers, Senior Analyst, Forrester; Dale Waldt, Senior Analyst, Gilbane Group; Kathleen Reidy, Senior Analyst, 451 Group; and Guy Creese, VP & Research Director, Collaboration and Content Strategies, Burton Group. Conference attendees are encouraged to come with questions, and can also suggest questions in advance via our social media channels or email. See http://gilbaneboston.com/conference_program.html#K2, http://twitter.com/gilbaneboston

CrownPeak announced it has integrated its CMS solution with the new Google Website Optimizer Experiment Management API, enabling marketers to manage all Web content through the CrownPeak CMS and publish marketing content into Google Website Optimizer (GWO) for testing. This new solution frees users from the tedious and time-consuming task of cutting and pasting JavaScript snippets into testing pages, and lets them set up new A/B and Multivariate testing through GWO. Google Analytics reporting can be garnered directly through the CrownPeak CMS. Once the data is captured in CrownPeak, customers can automatically promote a static version of the "champion" page to drive optimal SEO benefit. Through the CrownPeak CMS, all content versions are stored in marketers’ account history, enabling users to revert back to previous versions or re-run tests. If a historical campaign has been more successful, users can revert back and promote these previous versions. http://www.crownpeak.com/

Zoho has announced that Zoho Projects, the company’s online project management and team collaboration application is now integrated with Google Apps. The move brings Zoho Projects to Google Apps users, complete with unified login and embeddable gadget options. Zoho Projects for Google Apps will soon be available in the Google Solutions Marketplace. A highlight of the Google Apps and Zoho Projects integration is the unified login system. Once logged into Zoho Projects, users should be able to upload their files from Google Apps and attach them to their projects. From Zoho Projects, users can then open, view and edit those files in the corresponding Zoho applications, e.g., Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, etc. Additional highlights include: Calendar integration - Meetings, Tasks, and Project milestones from the Zoho Projects calendar can be added automatically to a Google calendar; Zoho Projects will be available as a Zoho Gadget that can be embedded in iGoogle, Gmail, Google Sites and other online applications that support OpenSocial; Zoho Projects is free for one project, so Google Apps users can try out the software. For additional projects, prices start at $12 per month. http://projects.zoho.com/google-apps

Design Science and Syncro Soft have announced that the newly released Oxygen XML Editor and Oxygen XML Author 11 have been designed to support MathML editing with Design Science's three MathFlow equation editors: Structure, Style and Simple. This combines Oxygen's XML editing and development platform with MathFlow's MathML editing technology. MathML is for representing mathematical notation and is a crucial component of technical publishing workflows, content managed websites, accessibility and education applications. Licensing and pricing plans have been set for enterprise, education and commercial OEM use. www.dessci.com http://www.oxygenxml.com

SpringCM announced that it has released the newest version of its Cloud Connector for SharePoint. The SpringCM Cloud Connector for SharePoint aims to enable organizations to extend and enhance Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the upcoming release of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 portals and collaboration spaces with content management functionality for applications both inside and outside their firewall. The SpringCM Cloud Connector for SharePoint provides integration with SharePoint products and technologies, whether hosted or installed on-premise, and over 20 ECM capabilities spanning imaging, OCR, enterprise-class document management, workflow, view and markup, fax and email management, e-signature, records management and more, all available in a SaaS model. SpringCM has enhanced its Cloud Connector for SharePoint with: single sign-on and integrated security model to simplify administration and ensure that content is managed with consistent security across processes; ability to browse and search SpringCM accounts and folder structures from within SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2007; ability to view documents and edit SpringCM metadata from SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2007; capability to edit documents stored in SpringCM using the Client integration capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2007, enabling document revision control with full audit trails; ability for SpringCM based workflows to pull from or insert documents into SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2007 libraries, enabling automated movement of documents between the two systems for records management, publishing and other processes; ability to set SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2007 tasks based on SpringCM workflows, enabling one consolidated employee task list in SharePoint products that spans both collaborative and structured document processes. www.springcm.com/

Microsoft announced at it's SharePoint conference that the public beta of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 will become available in November, and revealed some of the new SharePoint Server 2010 capabilities for the first time. During his keynote address, Steve Ballmer talked broadly about SharePoint Server as a business collaboration platform and highlighted three key areas. One was how organizations can respond quickly to business needs with an improved developer platform that makes it easier to build rich content and collaboration applications. Another topic was the enhanced Internet site capabilities that help businesses drive revenue and retain customers on a single platform. The third was the choice and flexibility between on-premises and cloud solutions. Ballmer  highlighted features and capabilities such as: A new ribbon user interface to make end users more productive and customization of SharePoint sites easier; Deep Office integration through social tagging, backstage integration and document life-cycle management; Built-in support for rich media such as video, audio and Silverlight for building dynamic Web sites; New Web content management features with built-in accessibility through Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, multilingual support and one-click page layout; New SharePoint tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010; Business Connectivity Services, which allow developers to connect capabilities to line-of-business data or Web services in SharePoint Server and the Office client; Rich APIs and support for Silverlight, representational state transfer (REST) and Language-Integrated Query (LINQ), to help developers rapidly build applications on the SharePoint platform; Enterprise features in SharePoint Online such as Excel Services and InfoPath Forms Services to use, share, secure and manage interactive forms across an organization, and; The addition of two new SharePoint SKUs for Internet-facing sites, including an on-premises and hosted offer. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is part of the next wave of Microsoft Office-related products, which includes Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft Visio 2010. The public betas of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Office 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010 will become available in November 2009. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 will be available in the first half of 2010. http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint

Coveo announced the launch of a new customer service and call center solution, the Coveo Customer Service Knowledge Console. Coveo’s new solution places enterprise knowledge access in the hands of call center agents, managers, and B2B customers. The Coveo Customer Service Knowledge Console provides, though role-specific, customizable interfaces, access to all customer, product- and service-specific enterprise knowledge, regardless of where it is stored. The Coveo Customer Service Knowledge Console is custom configured to meet the needs of complex customer service environments, and includes: Coveo Enterprise Search 6.0 Platform, including always-on indexing of relevant enterprise systems, including desktop, email, CRM, databases and other help-desk content; Connectors into all customer, product and service-related information, including customer communities; Distinct and individually customizable interfaces for call center agents, call center managers and executives, and B2B customers; Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboards that measure and report on call center performance and customer relationship health; Social media customer sentiment analysis; and Blackberry and other smartphone access for field customer service staff. http://www.coveo.com

nGenera Customer Interaction Management (CIM), a division of nGenera Corporation focused on customer experience software, has announced nGen Knowledgebase (KB) in a Box, a limited- time promotion. The nGen Knowledgebase aims to streamline content management and distribution process for companies to share information with employees, customers, and partners. For this promotion, nGenera CIM has developed a package that is configurable to meet an organization`s unique business process and content needs. The services included in this special promotion are the Product Immersion Workshop, Solution Business Assessment, Configuration Workshop, and the Post-Production Workshop. The nGen KB in a Box promotion comes with one year of maintenance, which includes technical support as well as access to new releases and updates. The OnPremise enterprise-level nGen Knowledgebase offered in this promotion includes Enterprise Knowledge Management with unlimited users and authors, unlimited portal visits, unlimited search queries, a single content repository, and one non-production server license. The nGen KB in a Box promotion is available until December 31, 2009. http://www.ngenera.com/

Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. and Author-it Software Corporation (ASC) have announced a strategic alliance to create a unified global content lifecycle solution. With the agreement, the two companies will integrate the Author-it enterprise authoring platform with Lionbridge's language technology platform. This integrated solution should allow organizations to create, structure, reuse, localize and publish content into multiple languages and multiple formats from virtually any enterprise source within a single application. This live-asset language platform should automate tasks within the translation process by enabling the simultaneous use of multiple translation memories on a single project and facilitating real-time collaboration among project participants. By integrating the Author-it environment with Lionbridge's language platform, organizations can hope to reduce costs, eliminate unnecessary file transactions and maximize reuse across the entire content creation ecosystem. www.lionbridge.com/ www.author-it.com/

Vital Path has announced Migration Center as the newest addition to their lineup of content migration and integration solutions. Migration Center is a desktop solution designed to solve the majority of content migration needs. For more complicated and larger migration projects companies can upgrade to the PathBuilder based products and solutions. Migration Center enables end users to migrate their content without the need to hire consultants or have programming experience. Migration Center's interface provides attribute mapping and dashboard reporting for the user. Migration Center is designed to provide a complete migration solution, without the need for expensive professional services when working with eRoom, SharePoint, Livelink, and File Shares. Migration Center allows users to map custom attributes and types, migrate users, groups, and permissions, apply data transformations to metadata values, and more, all from the comfort of your desk. Migration Center maps all of your content and metadata, and provides migration solutions for the following systems: EMC-Documentum eRoom; File Shares  (Windows and Unix); Open Text - Livelink; and Microsoft SharePoint 2007. http://www.vital-path.com/

codeMantra has announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Mark Logic Corporation to integrate its XML server, MarkLogic Server. Under the terms of the OEM agreement, codeMantra will develop a Software-as- a-Service (SaaS) hosted offering of its collectionPoint 2.0 digital asset management and internet file server platform on Mark Logic’s infrastructure software for information applications. These combined technologies should give collectionPoint users advanced capabilities for the tandem management of their publishing content, in both structured and unstructured file systems. The collectionPoint 2.0 platform aims to manage a publisher’s digital assets utilizing a customizable file structure. Through a browser-based interface, publishers gain on-demand access to their assets stored on codeMantra’s servers. All manner of standard book production files (Quark, InDesign, tiff, EPS, jpeg, MSWord, MSExcel, XML, SGML, print-ready PDF, POD, Postscript, etc.) are stored in the collectionPoint repository, using the ISBN as the information’s overall parent. collectionPoint customers routinely associate their digital offerings (ePub, uPDF, PDF, MobiPocket, Flash, etc.) with the parent ISBN. With the added capabilities of MarkLogic Server, publishers should now be able to normalize a second instance of their content using the platform’s powerful XML conversion processes. Through collectionPoint’s browser interface, users should be able to access a supplementary XML repository where they can manage, enrich, search, navigate, and instantly assemble new publishing products. With MarkLogic’s alerting capabilities, publishers should be able to notify users when relevant content has been created or updated. This would ensure that the right content is pushed to users even before they ask for it. As a result, publishers are able to foster online communities, in which dedicated users have real time access to relevant content. MarkLogic will only be available to codeMantra’s collectionPoint 2.0 (or newer) customers. SaaS terms will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. http://www.codemantra.com/ http://www.marklogic.com/

Brainware, a provider of intelligent data capture and enterprise search solutions, has announced that it has entered into an OEM agreement with Oracle whereby Oracle plans to embed the Brainware Distiller intelligent data capture software into Oracle Imaging and Process Management. www.brainware.com/ http://www.oracle.com/

SAP AG and Open Text have announced another expansion of their relationship. SAP has selected Open Text Extended ECM for SAP for resale under the name the SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management application by Open Text. Today's announcement represents the second expansion of the original reseller agreement between the two companies. SAP is already reselling Open Text's Document Access and Archiving and Invoice Management solutions. SAP customers should now be able to leverage all forms of unstructured content from within their optimized business processes driven by SAP applications. SAP Extended ECM  aims to enhance the transactional process management capabilities of SAP applications with comprehensive ECM capabilities. This should reduce the risks and costs of records mismanagement, increasing information worker productivity and enhancing the ability to comply with regulations. http://www.sap.com/ http://www.opentext.com/

Liferay, provider of open source enterprise portal and collaboration software, and IT Mill, provider of the Vaadin user interface library, announced a new technology partnership. The collaboration aims to simplify and reduce the cost of developing rich user interfaces for Liferay-based enterprise applications. With Liferay and Vaadin, enterprises should be able to develop secure, maintainable solutions that work like desktop applications to increase productivity and user adoption. As a result of the partnership, the Vaadin library will be bundled with future Liferay software releases and for the use of creating rich interfaces for existing Liferay functionality such as webmail, content management, collaboration, and social networking. Developers should be able to take advantage of integrated tooling for Eclipse and use Vaadin components when creating new Liferay applications. With Vaadin, developers should be able to utilize AJAX without knowing HTML or JavaScript or requiring users to install any browser plug-ins. www.liferay.com and www.vaadin.com.

JustSystems has announced the JustSystems Partner Program which will enable VAR, solution provider and systems integrator partners to grow their businesses with JustSystems XMetaL, the company’s product that lets organizations streamline structured authoring processes. To help the channel achieve specific goals, the program consists of three main partner categories — Alliance, Service and Solution — with three levels of participation — Associate, Authorized and Premier — that offer increasing rewards for increasing commitment. Based on a partner’s level of participation, the channel can benefit from the following: XMetaL product discounts; Access to sales enablement tools like collateral and customer leads; Technical training and support; Access to marketing materials like joint webinars and joint branding tools;  and a dedicated JustSystems account manager who can tend to partner needs first-hand. For more on the JustSystems Partner Program, please visit http://na.justsystems.com/content-partners.

Sajan has announced the limited release of their translation management system, GCMS 5.0. The new release provides existing Sajan customers architectural and functional enhancements, all aimed at improving the quality and speed of translation projects. Of note in GCMS 5.0 are the following improvements: Term management, which allows the enterprise to identify and manage key words and phrases that need attention in the translation process; GCMS Workbench is desktop software for translators, reviewers and approvers, capable of running on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems; Business intelligence is a set of web-based reporting tools for analyzing  translation project performance and identifying areas for improvement; Enterprise web services provide enterprise-class messaging and security, while enabling an open architecture for future application development. Currently being used by a select number of Sajan customers, GCMS 5.0 will become fully available later in 2009. http://sajan.com

Syncro Soft released <oXygen/> XML Editor and Author version 11. Version 11 of <oXygen/> XML Editor comes with new features covering both XML development and XML authoring like: XProc support, integrated documentation for XSLT stylesheets, a new XQuery debugger (for the Oracle Berkeley DB XML database), MathML rendering and editing support, a smarter Author mode for an improved visual editing experience and DITA 1.2 features. The support for very large documents was improved to handle documents in the 200MB range in the editor and 10GB in the large files viewer, the SVN support was upgraded with new features and a number of processors and frameworks were updated to their latest versions. <oXygen/> 11 contains also an experimental integration with EMC Documentum Content Management System. <oXygen/> XML Editor can be purchased for a price of USD 449 for the Enterprise license, USD 349 for the Professional license, and USD 64 for Academic/Non-Commercial use (for the latter, the support and maintenance pack is included).
<oXygen/> XML Author can be purchased for a price of USD 269 for the Enterprise license and USD 199 for the Professional license. <oXygen/> XML Editor and Author version 11 can be freely evaluated for 30 days. You can request a trial license key from http://www.oxygenxml.com/register.html

Microsoft and Quark are working on a new solution for publishers that combines editorial collaboration and dynamic publishing to streamline editorial workflows and enable single-source multi-channel publishing. Built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, the Microsoft Unified Communications platform, Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution (Quark DPS) and Quark XML Author, the solution consolidates communication processes, facilitates collaboration, and streamlines workflows to improve the efficiency of the creative and editorial process to help publishers be first out with stories either in print or digitally. With the new integrated solution, Microsoft and Quark combine XML authoring, professional design, and dynamic publishing from Quark with the collaboration and unified communications platform of the Microsoft Office System. Journalists, editors, resource managers, graphic designers, and layout designers will be able to: - View incoming RSS feeds - Share story ideas - Track events and plan coverage - Request, find, and allocate suitable resources - Search related content and subject matter experts - Author content in XML that is suitable for multi-channel publishing - Track review and approval workflows - Communicate using presence status indication, instant messaging, voice of IP, e-mail, audio and video conferencing - and, Incorporate professionally designed output for a variety of channels http://www.quark.com/, http://www.microsoft.com/

Tomoye announced a new community and social networking platform for Microsoft SharePoint. The platform combines capabilities to fuel communities and social networking combined with an open source approach intended to deliver customers and partners with flexibility and extendibility. The product is available for both Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) enabling organizations to leverage their SharePoint infrastructure and data. This platform is installed as a SharePoint _layout application, deployed via SharePoint central administration, and utilizes SharePoint search and authentication provider. This means no additional costs to organizations as is deployed on existing SharePoint servers. Integrated search and authentication gives unprecedented access to security trimmed SharePoint data. As users explore and mark-up content, the software tracks implicit behaviour and aggregates explicit user actions to present data to community members by what their peers are using and liking. Delivering a dynamic roster of expertise in the organization's communities and across the enterprise, Tomoye tracks and reveals experts by their online activities and by the votes of others. Changing on a daily basis, expertise rosters becomes real-time. Tomoye aggregates content across communities and SharePoint data so users can now identify the best information assets from across the enterprise, in a single place. This is done by tracking user behaviour and explicit user endorsements. Along with open source licensing, Tomoye is offering partners a series of incentives including free deployments of 50 seats or less. Tomoye Community Software v 3.0 is available immediately through the company and its partners. Pricing starts at $35 per seat, with discounts for volume and externally facing deployments. http://www.tomoye.com

Reva Solutions, provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Business Intelligence technology, announced the acquisition of the Microsoft Business Unit of Saltmine LLC of Seattle. With the addition of the Microsoft Business Unit, Reva's is able to deliver rich media and collaboration SharePoint applications to their customers and plans to develop a group of specialized information management experts. This acquisition also makes Reva Solutions a Microsoft preferred vendor in Digital Media as part of the Microsoft Vendor Program (MSVP). http://technology.saltmine.com/, http://www.revasolutions.com/

Jive Software announced a new strategy to extend a social layer across an organization's content silos. As part of the strategy, Jive will deliver Jive Connects, a series of modules that will enable organizations to surface content and activities from almost any content management system (CMS) inside Jive Social Business Software (SBS). The first module under the new strategy is the Jive SharePoint Connector, a deep integration between Jive SBS and Microsoft SharePoint. The SharePoint Connector enables users of either solution to unite content and activities originating inside either Jive or SharePoint into a single stream via unified access, unified search results, unified activity streams, and unified document storage. Jive customers can do the bulk of their work in the Jive environment while maintaining easy access to SharePoint's content repositories and workflow. With the SharePoint Connector, Jive customers can search, browse, and link to SharePoint repositories and content from wherever they happen to be working in Jive, including groups, discussion threads, documents, and blogs. The SharePoint Connector enables Jive customers to: give authorized users transparent, click-through access to both applications while exposing Jive SBS social features in the heart of SharePoint; keep track of modifications to SharePoint content and activities as well as SharePoint content that has been socialized in Jive; conduct unified searches that reflect both application environments, and link to and embed content in both directions; publish content from SharePoint to Jive SBS allowing for content to be reviewed, edited and processed prior to sharing with the entire community; publish content from Jive SBS to SharePoint to leverage SharePoint's storage and content capabilities to comply with company data and security policies; and manage corporate governance policies through a granular, semantically rich business rule language to help IT and SharePoint administrators strictly define what, how, and when content gets socialized out of SharePoint hierarchies. Jive Connects SharePoint Module will be available later this quarter. http://www.jivesoftware.com/

Flypaper Studio, Inc., creator of a Flash Content Management Platform announced that it will soon bi-directionally support Adobe’s XFL file format. This functionality will enable the “communicator at work” and Flash developers to create and share content seamlessly between Flypaper and Flash. Support for XFL will increase collaboration and efficiency between colleagues, leverage interactive media assets across the organization, and help businesses make better use of their Flash developer resources. Currently, knowledge workers that do not have Flash design or development experience use Flypaper to create, share, reuse and track content that is similar to the interactivity and quality of custom Flash development, but are unable to share these files with Flash professionals. Flash programmers, on the other hand, use the Flypaper SDK to import their custom AS3 code into Flypaper for use as components by non-technical users. Full support for XFL, which is expected in the coming months, will allow these two audiences to collaborate in ways they haven’t been able to before. Users with no prior Flash experience will share Flypaper files directly with Flash developers for finalization and advanced treatments. Flash developers will create components in Flash and bypass any additional code work to make them immediately available for all Flypaper users. Flypaper Version 2.6 includes an advanced Animation Component that provides complex animation paths for Flypaper page elements. Desktop users will be able to choose between two dozen preset paths and Professional users can also import custom motion paths from Flash CS4. http://www.flypaper.com

DocuLex announced the free of charge availability of the company’s WebSearch Connector, a desktop solution for rapid integration between DocuLex Archive Studio’s WebSearch content management software and business applications, including Microsoft Office. The program provides a direct pipeline between desktop applications and WebSearch, allowing the user to execute document search and retrieval operations instantly from virtually all popular desktop applications. The connector consists of reusable user interface components which embed content search and retrieval capabilities directly into the user’s Windows desktop. http://www.doculex.com/

pTools announced that it has further developed its content management software (CMS) as an embedded application for Microsoft SharePoint. Organisations can now use the enhanced web content management (WCM) capability of pTools directly within the SharePoint interface and framework. The development is part of the ongoing extension of pTools suite of CMS products and alignment to Microsoft's .NET applications framework. Enhancements delivered by pTools embedded WCM for SharePoint include: Enterprise level out-of-the box WCM functionality, SharePoint-to-web replication and publishing, Guaranteed accessibility web content, Compliance, Multi-language web content management, Multi-channel web content personalisation, Rich media web content applications, Improved SEO web optimisation, Linked-up social networking and web content syndication. Organisations can extend content management functionality to enhance SharePoint web content management deployment and integrate content management tasks within a single application user interface. pTools content element architecture allows presentation of content across multiple delivery channels from a single repository, while maintaining all the necessary workflow and compliance rules. Content compliance within pTools uses audit trail functionality that allows pTools customers to validate all events in the life of the content developed. http://www.ptools.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) unveiled Adobe Flash Player 10.1 software for smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks, PCs and other Internet-connected devices. A public developer beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and Linux later this year. Public betas for Google Android and Symbian OS are expected to be available in early 2010. In addition, Adobe and RIM announced a joint collaboration to bring Flash Player to Blackberry smartphones, and Google joined close to 50 other industry players in the Open Screen Project initiative. Flash Player 10.1 is the first consistent runtime release of the Open Screen Project that enables uncompromised Web browsing of high definition (HD) videos across devices. Using the Web programming model of the Flash Platform, the browser-based runtime enables designers and developers to reuse code and assets across different operating systems and browsers. Flash Player 10.1 is easily updateable across all supported platforms. The browser-based runtime leverages the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for accelerated video and graphics while conserving battery life and minimizing resource utilization. New mobile-ready features that take advantage of native device capabilities include support for multi-touch, gestures, mobile input models, accelerometer and screen orientation. Flash Player 10.1 will also take advantage of media delivery with HTTP streaming, including integration of content protection powered by Adobe Flash Access 2.0. This effort, code-named Zeri, will be an open format and will provide content publishers, distributors and partners tools to utilize HTTP infrastructures for media delivery in Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 software. The Open Screen Project includes close to 50 industry leaders working together to provide a consistent runtime environment across mobile phones, desktops and other consumer electronic devices. The initiative addresses the challenges of Web browsing and standalone applications on a broad range of devices, and removes the barriers to publishing content and applications seamlessly across screens. Participants of the initiative include Antena 3, Atlantic Records, ARM, BBC, Burda, Cell, Chungwha Telecom, Cisco, Comcast, Conde Nast, Daum, Disney Interactive, Fox Mobile, Google, HTC, Intel, LG Electronics, Lionsgate, Marvell, Motorola, MTV Networks, NBC Universal, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, NVIDIA, OpenTV, Palm, Paramount, QNX Software Systems, Qualcomm, Stern.de, RIM, RTL, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Texas Instruments, The New York Times, Toshiba, Verizon Wireless, Ziilabs and others. http://www.openscreenproject.org, http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform

The Content Management specialist e-Spirit has expanded its product range with the FirstSpirit module "DatabasePool". This product, which was developed for the FirstSpirit Content Management System by the IT experts at ARITHNEA GmbH, is used for distribution and synchronization of database content - such as news and events, for example - among FirstSpirit projects. Therefore a central database is not needed. For editors, the targeted distribution of content is made simpler. With the FirstSpirit DatabasePool module, e-Spirit is expanding its product portfolio by enabling a configurable exchange of data between different FirstSpirit projects at the level of database content. In practice, for example, press releases can be configured to appear on specific websites for different countries and brands. This way editors don't have to switch to another project. The same is true when distributing contact information for contact partners. These are just two of many possible applications with the module. With DatabasePool database content can be maintained in different projects (e.g., Internet, intranet, newsletter) and distributed to other projects. Content from the master project can be distributed to the subprojects. But you can also distribute content from subproject to master projects or between individual subprojects. Write and release privileges for cross-project information exchange can therefore be controlled with fine granularity. http://www.e-spirit.com/

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 (ES2) to help businesses and governments build applications that improve interactions with customers and constituents across devices and channels. LiveCycle ES2 provides a rich Internet application (RIA) framework for building customizable RIA workspaces, mobile and desktop access to  applications and deployment in the cloud. LiveCycle ES2 now integrates more tightly with the Flash Platform and PDF technologies. New Adobe application modeling technology allows Adobe Flex and LiveCycle developers to reduce the amount of code and simplify data and service integration. Also, a new LiveCycle ES2 plug-in for Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta lets developers more seamlessly embed LiveCycle ES2 technologies into any Flex based application. The new Adobe LiveCycle Collaboration Service (formerly Adobe Flash Collaboration Service), a hosted service, provides developers and enterprises with a  solution to build real-time, multi-user collaboration into existing or new RIAs. The new Adobe LiveCycle Mosaic ES2 is a composite RIA framework for rapidly assembling RIA applications. Developers can extend existing enterprise applications by exposing their business logic and user interfaces into application "tiles."  Tiles are context-aware, user interface application components that can be assembled to create unified views that best suit the user’s work habits and specific needs. Adobe LiveCycle Workspace ES2 Mobile offers access to LiveCycle ES2 from iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices, allowing users to interact with tasks on the go. Adobe LiveCycle Launchpad ES2 provides desktop access to LiveCycle ES services. Adobe is also announcing the ability for enterprise customers to deploy LiveCycle ES2 as fully managed production instances in the cloud, with 24x7 monitoring and support from Adobe. Adobe is expanding its set of Adobe Solution Accelerators to help organizations kick-start project planning and prototyping. In addition to the Account Enrollment Solution Accelerator and Correspondence Management Solution Accelerator for financial services institutions, Adobe now adds Benefits and Services Delivery Solution Accelerator for government entities; Electronic Submissions Solution Accelerator for life sciences organizations; and Human Capital Applications Solution Accelerator for businesses and government entities. Adobe LiveCycle ES2 is expected to become available before the end of 2009. The Adobe LiveCycle ES2 cloud deployment option is expected to become available in early 2010. http://www.adobe.com/livecycle

Six Apart announced that it is opening up the TypePad Platform to developers for the development of social applications that make use of TypePad's smart cloud and API. By using the TypePad Platform, developers can run a social app on a single web server, leaving the storage, infrastructure and organization of social graph data and social objects to the TypePad cloud. Six Apart is also open sourcing TypePad Motion, the first social app built on the platform, to help organizations and individuals start their own microblogging community. Derived from the Pownce code base, which was acquired by Six Apart in 2008, developers can use TypePad Motion as a reference as they build other social apps on the TypePad Platform. The TypePad Platform gives website owners the opportunity to run their own independently branded social applications while being easily available to members of other TypePad-supported sites through easy login to the cloud. Visitors can become members of TypePad Motion sites using their Facebook, Twitter, TypePad, or OpenID logins. The TypePad Developer Program provides developers with the early access beta version, or Developer Preview, of the TypePad API. Documentation and the TypePad Motion open source application, which can easily be adapted for other social apps, is also available. Developers will find a forum, mailing list and group where they can get their questions answered. TypePad Motion is the inaugural open source application built by Six Apart for the TypePad Platform. A microblogging app derived from Pownce for fostering communities, TypePad Motion is written in Python using the Django framework, making it extremely easy to build and customize. For organizations wishing to increase interactivity and page views on their websites, the Six Apart Services team can help incorporate a TypePad Motion community into an existing site, or build a new site. http://www.TypePad.com, http://www.sixapart.com/

Kapow Technologies and StrikeIron announced the immediate availability of Kapow Web Data Services 7.0.0 to address the web data access needs of the SMB market. Organizations that demand enterprise-class web data access and quality, regardless of size and data requirements, can use Kapow Web Data Services on a per use and volume basis. This strategic partnership brings together Kapow's  web data services technology with StrikeIron's data-as-a-service web platform for delivering business data from the web to any Internet-connected system. SMBs can use Kapow Web Data Services 7.0.0 to wrap any website or web application into RSS feeds or REST web services for rapid, automated and structured access to external web data sources eliminating the manual process of cutting/pasting data from a web browser. StrikeIron will offer Kapow Web Data Services 7.0.0 in its Web Services Catalog, an SaaS-based data distribution engine that minimizes the complexity for developers and business users to integrate live data from private and public web applications and websites. Kapow Technologies' "No Coding" technology enables companies to rapidly build, test and deploy standard RSS data feeds and REST web services delivery of real-time web data directly into common business applications such as Microsoft Excel, NetSuite or Salesforce as well as any RSS feed reader. Kapow can also deliver feeds and services directly to any application builder that can access data in standard RSS, JSON and XML format, including IBM Mashup Center, IBM Rational EGL, JackBe and WaveMaker. Kapow Web Data Services 7.0.0 is available immediately via StrikeIron's Web Services Catalog. Pricing is subscription-based, starting at $84 per month. http://www.kapowtech.com/, http://www.strikeiron.com/

Open Text Corporation announced the latest release of Open Text Enterprise Connect, the user experience for the Open Text ECM Suite. The new version enhances Enterprise Connect as a content service to blend content and processes within users' preferred working environments. Enterprise Connect is designed to allow users to access and interact with business content directly from desktop applications, such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook and Windows Explorer. The new release of Enterprise Connect, version 1.5, hopes to simplify the user experience with drag and drop from multiple repositories, single sign-on, metadata classification, and federated search. The new version adds an enhanced software development kit, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)-compliant records management, scalability and performance improvements, and a document viewer supporting over 200 different file formats.  Enterprise Connect 1.5 is available now. http://www.opentext.com/