March 2010 Archives

BlogWire has launched their new media PR suite of services, aimed at connecting marketing and PR professionals with the blogging community. BlogWire’s flagship wire, SheBlogs has established a community of more than 2000 bloggers, who reach more than 20 million monthly visitors. BlogWire uses a four-touch approach to outreach for the blogging community– utilizing a community Web site, weekly newsletter, Twitter and Facebook outreach for non-invasive press outreach. Key Features Include: Targeted press releases to bloggers; Being listed on the "Blog-Friendly Company Directory;" Announce contests and giveaways targeted at the blogging community; Participate in themed guides that range from holiday gift guides to spring cleaning and car buying guides. http://theblogwire.com/

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and Book Industry Communication (BIC) have co-published for public comment a discussion paper on the International Standard Text Code (ISTC) intended to foster understanding of the book identifier and provide clarification as to its potential benefits. The paper, entitled The International Standard Text Code: A Work in Progress, is the first in a new series of BISG discussion papers that will be published online for real-time reader review and comment.  The ISO standard, published in 2009, identifies an underlying textual “work” independently of a specific manifestation. It provides a mechanism for identifying an original text that may be available in many seemingly different published versions with different ISBNs. By doing so, it has the potential to provide better, more targeted online search and discoverability. However, like ISBN, ISTC’s path to adoption has not been a straight one. The new BISG/BIC discussion paper is designed to look beyond the official documentation of the International ISTC Agency at the opportunities available to publishers, retailers, rights and collection agencies, bibliographic aggregators and systems providers to derive benefit from early implementation of the standard. The International Standard Text Code: A Work in Progress was written by Michael Holdsworth, an industry expert and former Managing Director of Cambridge University Press. http://www.bisg.org http://www.bic.org.uk/

Adobe introduced Acrobat.com Workspaces, a new collaboration space that lets teams inside and outside of organizations work together on projects. With Workspaces, team members can store and organize project content online, and share and manage team access to files helping to eliminate the need to continually e-mail updates. Acrobat.com is a set of hosted services that facilitate internal and external collaboration between individuals and teams. In a few clicks, people can create Workspaces, store and share documents, and convert files to PDF. Teams can also meet in real-time and share their screens using Adobe ConnectNow, or create documents and tables with online office applications, such as Buzzword and Acrobat.com Tables. As with all of the Acrobat.com services, Workspaces are built on the Adobe Flash Platform and operate inside a web browser. Apart from the Adobe Flash Player, no additional software installation is required. Teams can create Shared Workspaces to store and share a set of files related to a project, letting distributed team members work together across times zones and firewalls, with no special file sharing software or IT involvement necessary. Users simply access an online Workspace to review and collaborate on documents. Workspace administration privileges can be assigned to specific team members, to help maintain control over who has what level of access to each project’s documents. Each individual also has their own Personal Workspace on Acrobat.com to store and work on documents before they are ready to be shared with a broader team. Acrobat.com users can create one free Shared Workspace, while Premium Basic subscribers can create 20 Workspaces and Premium Plus subscribers can create an unlimited number of Workspaces. http://blogs.adobe.com/acom

Access Innovations is making its Data Harmony suite of software products and services available to clients through software as a service (SaaS) and Cloud technology. Customers can begin using products such as Data Harmony and its suite of taxonomy management tools including Thesaurus Master, MAIstro and XIS immediately. The Access Innovations Data Harmony software includes automatic and machine-assisted indexing, thesaurus management, and an XML Intranet production system developed to meet production environment needs. Access Innovations offers 90-day free trials of their Data Harmony software through remote access models, allowing qualified organizations and clients to try the software before deciding to purchase it. http://www.accessinn.com

iCongo Inc., a provider of e-commerce, multi-channel, order management and marketing systems, announced the release of M-Commerce as part of its E-Commerce Platform. iCongo customers can take advantage of their existing platform to explore the mobile channel. Retailers looking to launch mobile storefronts can protect their existing investment, using  existing CMS (Content Management System) and marketing tools to push content to a mobile-optimized storefront. In addition iCongo’s multi-channel E-Commerce Platform is PCI compliant. http://www.icongo.com/

FileTek, Inc., a developer of large-scale data management and information governance solutions, announced Trusted Edge for Intelligent Content Migration, a solution that locates, classifies, and moves documents stored on network file shares into secure locations within enterprise content and records management systems. Trusted Edge uniformly classifies, tags, and moves both new and existing content during the legacy file migration. The solution provides certified adapters for leading repositories, including Microsoft SharePoint, Open Text Livelink, Laserfiche, Symantec Enterprise Vault, IBM Content/Records Manager, FileTek StorHouse, and all repositories that are compliant with the WebDAV interface standard. Traditional file archive applications normally bulk move data "as is" from cluttered file shares to other locations without collecting metadata or applying consistent rules that evaluate individual file content and business value. In contrast to traditional approaches, Trusted Edge for Intelligent Content Migration addresses the shared drive cleanup with automatic content tagging and reorganization in real-time as the migration process occurs. The software "intelligently" classifies, captures, and relocates content based on a set of preconfigured enterprise policies that can be triggered based on file path, file name, file metadata, file type, or even file content. During migration, Trusted Edge tags content with classification metadata for improved indexing and creates a forensic audit trail that details how each item was processed. http://www.filetek.com

Kentico Software, the Web content management system (WCM) vendor, has released two Kentico Certified Training Programs delivered by a growing network of Kentico Certified Training partners. Kentico Certified Training Partners are recruited from the Kentico Gold Partners to ensure the quality of training. The trainers are certified to provide our clients with Kentico Certified Content Administrator Training and Kentico Certified Developer Training. The European training partners will be announced later in H1/2010. http://www.kentico.com

Square 9 Softworks announced the release of Version 3.0 of its SmartSearch Content Management System (CMS). The cornerstone of SmartSearch 3.0 is Work XChange, a new document workflow component that enables users to automate their business processes. This optional module incorporates the same graphical drag-and-drop design interface as SmartSearch's standard Capture Workflow feature. With Work XChange, SmartSearch 3.0 features conditional Document Routing, Notifications & Escalations and Metadata Updates on documents within the database. Work XChange features both user-initiated and automated workflows to enable process automation. The core product includes enhancements such as Field Ordering, Column Sizing, Document Merging and the ability to email PDF files with an index field as a filename. Additional highlights include a range of tools for enhancing the search capabilities within SmartSearch, support for Windows 7 and support for 64-bit architecture on both client and server operating systems. SmartSearch is now available in two editions. The Professional Edition, with its modular design, has flexibility in pricing and configuration for organizations of various sizes. Users select the tools they need for specific business applications. The Corporate Edition is a solution that offers the full spectrum of the SmartSearch suite. http://www.square-9.com/

Magnolia CMS has released version 4.3 of its Open Source content management system (CMS). This latest release focuses on a new framework to simplify the administration of multi-site, multi-lingual website infrastructures. In addition, Magnolia 4.3 also includes full support for the Groovy scripting language and the launch of Magnolia Store. Magnolia’s latest release has been designed to offer flexibility for users looking to support and administer complex multi-site/multi-domain environments. Within larger enterprise installations, Magnolia 4.3 offers administrators options for producing new sites, from reskinning/rebranding existing sites and content, to creating entirely new websites with the ability to use existing syndicated content. Other WCM features include: creating new websites for mobile devices from existing content; creating new microsites, without the need to shoehorn the site structure into an existing corporate website tree; White-labelling content and/or complete websites for partners and resellers. To ensure continuity across large multilingual sites, administrators are now able to mandate one single site structure across multiple languages. A fallback mechanism allows local administrators to define a default language that will be displayed where translated content is unavailable. The creation of multilingual input masks has also been simplified with support for i18n. Magnolia 4.3 includes an early version of the Magnolia Store. This introduces some basic functions to allow administrators and developers to view installed modules, download their latest versions and browse for new modules from within the administration interface. The future vision for the store is to go beyond managing modules and to make it the main tool for Magnolia users to tap into all the software and services available within the Magnolia ecosystem. In response to popular demand, Magnolia 4.3 now offers full support for Groovy. This is a dynamic language for the Java platform with features similar to those of Python, Ruby, Perl, and Smalltalk. Groovy allows for an agile approach to implementing new functionality for your web site, while retaining the full power, scalability and security of the Java stack. Magnolia 4.3 features a refinement of the tags architecture with a focus on a cleaner and simpler set of components, as well as a separation of the tag library implementation from the UI component rendering. In addition to making tags easier for users, the enhancements should make the transition to Magnolia 5.0 smoother as well. Both the Community Edition and paid-for Enterprise Edition of Magnolia 4.3 are available immediately. The Community Edition is available as a free Open Source download. The Enterprise Edition of Magnolia offers additional functionality and interfaces that simplify implementation in larger organizations. It also incorporates professional service and support from the software’s developers. Prices for the Magnolia CMS Enterprise Edition start at 12,000 USD. http://www.magnolia-cms.com/

Digitiliti, Inc.,which specializes Operational Business Intelligence for small-to-midsized enterprises, announced DigiLIBE, an information management solution designed to solve problems associated with managing, controlling and quickly accessing unstructured data. DigiLIBE is an, integrated Virtual Corporate Library (VCL) system with policy-based applications to protect, control and secure data from its point of origin to final disposition. DigiLIBE addresses information growth across all points of the organization including office files, email, images, primary, secondary, offsite, and active archives. DigiLIBE features a single architecture comprising three components: information director, archive information store, and client agents. Features of DigiLIBE include: Metadata Management; Global De-duplication and Data Compression; Content Indexing; Key Word Trapping; Content Search; Data Security & Encryption; Tiered Storage; Data Governance-Compliance; Virtual File & Email Explorer; Life Cycle Policies Complete policy management from creation to deletion of files and emails; Workflow Management; Usage Reports; and "Self-Serve" File Recovery. DigiLIBE is available now through Digitiliti's worldwide network of channel partners specializing in solutions and services. http://digitiliti.com

Tedopres International, technical documentation specialists, and SCHEMA GmbH, maker of XML-based editing and content management systems, announced their partnership. In this partnership, Tedopres will support (potential) SCHEMA customers with strong SaaS experience. SCHEMA GmbH also aims to deploy the SCHEMA ST4 technology to a larger customer base and better understand the needs of the international market through this partnership. Tedopres offers full implementation of the SCHEMA ST4 software or on a complete SaaS model. http://www.tedopres.com/ http://www.schema.de

Open Text Corporation announced it’s extending the reach of its ECM solutions to mobile devices. As part of its strategy, the company is unveiling a new application called Open Text Everywhere that will make the entire Open Text ECM Suite available via mobile devices, initially on BlackBerry smartphones. Open Text Everywhere will deliver a view of business processes, content and workplace social collaboration tools via native applications unique to each mobile platform. Open Text Everywhere uses the BlackBerry platform’s secure connection transportation layer for fully encrypted wireless communication, and uses the same permission model to allow mobile users to access content in the Open Text ECM Suite. The company’s first Open Text Everywhere applications will be released to customers in early May. Key Features of the applications include the ability to manage contenT, Engage process workflows, and use social software features on your mobile· Open Text’s plans to release mobile applications for Vendor Invoice Management, eDOCS, as well as Vignette Community. http://www.opentext.com/

EPiServer introduced its latest content management system (CMS). EPiServer CMS delivers a suite of solutions via an open platform, including a new OnlineCenter for developing, managing and measuring aspects of online presence. EPiServer CMS includes social media and community applications, as well as SEO, personalization and rich internet applications. OnlineCenter was designed to allow web developers, editors and content owners to monitor, manage and measure numerous sites and online communications channels via a customizable dashboard. Built on the .NET framework, using open standards, EPiServer CMS integrates with other business applications such as ERP and CRM systems, Microsoft SharePoint, and search solutions, as well as tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio. EPiServer is supported by an open-source-like developer community that helps expand the platform and the ways in which it can be used. Key features include: OnlineCenter dashboard, Global Navigation, Improved Editing Environment, Globalization and Multi-site Management, Global Search, "Friendly" URLs, Detailed Reporting, and Microsoft Office and Sharepoint integration. http://www.episerver.com/

FatWire Software announced a new Technology Partner Program and general availability of its WEM Framework. The new resources for partners in the program, combined with the WEM Framework technology components, enable FatWire partners to build on top of the WEM suite with integrations. The FatWire Technology Partner Program provides an expanded set of resources and tools to integrate existing applications into the FatWire suite as well as to build new custom applications on top of FatWire. Partners in the program are provided with access to the WEM Framework components, plus a set of technical resources, training, marketing, sales, and alliance support, to help them integrate. Partners have already joined the program, including Mahindra Satyam, Brightcove, Congruent, Frevvo, HCL, Element 115, netomat, BestTV, and others. FatWire’s WEM Framework is now generally available for all FatWire partners and customers. Components of the framework include a common user interface framework, single sign-on, centralised user and role management, a REST API for repository integration, and centralised administration for sites, roles, and applications across FatWire and partner integrated technologies. http://www.fatwire.com

Bridgeline Software, a developer of unified web application management software and interactive technology solutions, announced that it has changed its name to Bridgeline Digital. The new name change is effective immediately and draws upon the company’s strategic commitment to digital and interactive technologies. http://www.bridgelinedigital.com

Alterian announced the immediate availability of the latest release of its Alterian Content Manager – Enterprise Edition product. Released as version 5.9.5, it offers new features and technical enhancements based on input from clients, partners and market research. Among the key features that have been added are: A standards-compliant (WCAG) accessibility checker; Improved features for sorting and ordering items both inside the editorial interface as well as on published websites; Features typically performed by power users have been added to the editorial interface to allow these tasks to be done without switching to the administrative interface; The web based editorial interface has a new graphical workflow representation, more advanced searching and assigning specific access rights on websites’ branches. Enhancements were also made to Page Studio, which allows users to design web pages based on pre-built blocks of functionality (“components”), without the need of HTML knowledge. Components include items such a Google Maps, a Login Form, Polls etc. Additions to Page Studio include the ability to automate configuration forms for components that need specific parameters, Undo & Redo functionality and Smart Cell Placement which anticipates where users want to drop certain components on the page. The next major release, Alterian Content Manager v7, is due in the autumn of 2010. http://www.alterian.com/

Amazon.com, Inc. announced "Kindle for Mac," a free application that lets readers around the world read Kindle books on their Mac computers. The U.S. Kindle Store currently offers over 450,000 books, including New Releases and 102 of the New York Times Bestsellers. Kindle books can now be read on the Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC and Mac, and soon the iPad. Kindle for Mac features Amazon's Whispersync technology which saves and synchronizes bookmarks and last page read across devices. With Kindle for Mac, readers can take advantage of the following features: Purchase, download, and read the many Kindle format books available; Access their library of previously purchased Kindle books stored on Amazon's servers for free; Choose from 10 different font sizes and adjust words per line; Add and automatically synchronize bookmarks and last page read; View notes and highlights marked on Kindle, Kindle DX, and Kindle for iPhone; & Read books in full color including children's books, cookbooks, travel books and textbooks. Several features will be added to the Kindle for Mac app in the near future, including full text search and the ability to create and edit notes and highlights. Kindle for Mac is available to customers around the world as a free download. http://www.amazon.com/kindleformac

Canto released Cumulus Sites, a new product that bridges website ease of use with Canto Cumulus digital asset management (DAM). Cumulus Sites offers a live asset delivery platform which can be stylized, and customized to suit file sharing and distribution requirements. Cumulus Sites features a “login-free” mode that offers instant “guest” level access. Common permissions for guests include browsing of approved files, and downloads of watermarked-on-the-fly variants, though any access level can be defined. Cumulus account holders can gain higher access levels through an “anytime” login option. User actions can be tracked for usage statistics reporting from within Cumulus. Sites users can share one or more files using a collection link feature. Links can include passwords and expiration dates, and they may be emailed or added to PDFs, YouTube/ Facebook/Twitter pages, etc. for “viral” distribution benefits. Cumulus accounts are not required to access files shared via collection links. The appearance of Cumulus Sites can be modified using layout options inside Cumulus. Additional basic configurations are defined via XML, while advanced configuration changes can be performed via CSS and JSP. Cumulus Sites also supports Canto’s “Cumulus-Direct URL” technology, which enables organizations to provide downloads and previews of Cumulus assets from URLs embedded in websites. Cumulus-Direct URLs eliminate the need to upload updated files to website directories, as Cumulus will serve the most recent version. Downloads and previews are tracked for usage statistics reporting from within Cumulus. Cumulus Sites is a standard component of new Cumulus Workgroup, Enterprise and Complete systems. Cumulus Sites requires Cumulus 8.1.1, which was released concurrently. Sites is available as an add-on to Cumulus Entry and previous Cumulus systems updated to 8.1.1. http://www.canto.com

Gotuit, a video metadata technology company, announced that it has partnered with Brightcove, an online video platform, to enable joint Brightcove and Gotuit customers to leverage Gotuit’s scene-level video metadata and better ultilize their online video content. Gotuit also has joined the Brightcove Alliance, the company’s global partner program. The Gotuit Video Metadata Management System can be used to author structured, temporal metadata and define the individual scenes within their source video, without any video editing. The scene boundaries function as the advertising inventory and scenes can be packaged and published into compelling playlists to drive user engagement. Each scene is characterized with a Title, Description, Thumbnail, Start Time, End Time, and any defined Tags/Attributes such as Location, Talent, Character, Team, etc. so they can function as virtual clips with direct links for viral sharing and with embeddable player code for social media sites. The scene definitions should also produce improved video search, better related video results and more useful feeds for syndication. http://www.gotuit.com/ http://www.brightcove.com

eZ Systems announced the availability of the release candidate version of eZ Publish 4.3. Following the beta 2, made available a week ago, this release candidate should be the last pre-version before the final edition is shipped. This version will include a redesign of its administration interface to provide a better experience to editors, some improvements to RSS publishing, better User Generated Content (UGC), improvements to the Enterprise Search Plug-in eZ Find to offer more capacity to handle multilingual content repositories, the full certification and support for eZ Teamroom. http://ez.no

Microsoft Office Labs has announced their latest experiment in Enterprise Social Software, "OfficeTalk." OfficeTalk is designed as an Enterprise microblogging tool (similar in format to Twitter), which will allow employees to share their thoughts, activities, and valuable information. Office Labs noted that while this has become one of their most (internally) popular expieriments, activity shows strong productivity and collaboration promise. A key feature of OfficeTalk is that the server is hosted by the customer, giving the organization complete ownership of the data.  OfficeTalk is still being researched as part of a private pilot, but is accepting applications for firms interested in participating. http://www.officelabs.com/officetalk

With "FirstSpirit Version 4.2 Release 2" (4.2R2), e-Spirit announces a new version of its content management system (CMS). It offers new functions and upgrades for editors, template developers, and administrators working in the previously released 4.2 minor version series. One of the highlights is the support for Internet Explorer in the integrated preview of the FirstSpirit JavaClient. The update from 4.2 to 4.2R2 can be carried out without the need of project migrations. Now Internet Explorer can also be run on Windows systems along with Mozilla Firefox for the preview function in the FirstSpirit JavaClient. Editors can switch between the two browsers to see how a web page is displayed in the two systems. Now the FirstSpirit applications JavaClient, WebClient, server and project configuration, and server monitoring are also available in Dutch (along with German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian). The language setting for the context menus, labels, and dialog boxes can be selected from the home page. 4.2R2 offers a full-text search feature, which can also be used to search online documentation and the FirstSpirit Access API. Search results can be filtered by target groups (administrators, users, developers) and hits for developers can be filtered by topic. With 4.2R2, e-Spirit implements important features and optimizations for the planned release of the FirstSpirit application on Mac OS X in future versions. The look & feel of the JavaClient and the application for the server and project configuration have been adapted to blend in with the familiar Mac menus. Instead of the previous Windows shortcut keys, now the "Apple" key can be used for customary shortcuts in the Mac OS. In addition, the integrated preview in Mac OS has been updated for 64-bit compatibility. To simplify work for editors who have to manage large quantities of data records, release 2 introduces a limiting and filtering option for displaying results. Another point of note is that as of this release version, e-Spirit is making a few changes to its release management procedure: Rather than the usual "build versions" that were used up to FirstSpirit version 4.1, which included error corrections along with smaller new functions, e-Spirit will now make a clear distinction between two software version types within a minor version series. Bug fix versions will only contain error corrections, while release versions will additionally include various new functionalities. http://www.e-spirit.com/

Syncro Soft Ltd has announced the immediate availability of version 11.2 of its XML Editor and XML Author containing a set of tools supporting XML related technologies. Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with an XML development environment. It has support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more. Version 11.2 of Oxygen XML Editor improves the XML authoring, the XML development tools, the support for large documents and the SVN Client. The visual XML editing (Author mode) is available now as a separate component that can be integrated in Java applications or, as an Applet, in Web applications. Other XML Author improvements include support for DITA reusable components, support for preserving the formatting for unchanged elements and an updated Author API containing a number of new extensions that allow customizing the Outline, the Breadcrumb and the Status Bar. The XSLT Debugger provides can now step inside XPATH 2.0 expressions. The Saxon 9 EE bundled with Oxygen can be used to run XQuery 1.1 transformations. The XProc support was aligned with the recent update as W3C Proposed Recommendation and includes the latest Calabash XProc processor. Hunspell (the engine used by OpenOffice, Mozilla and others) is now used by Oxygen for spell checking. Oxygen ships dictionaries for English, German, French and Spanish but users can install any from the almost 100 available dictionaries. The support for large documents has been improved, including the support for documents with very long lines. http://www.oxygenxml.com

Interlock Technology, a Cambridge, MA based startup, is offering a new data migration service that allows companies to move archived data off EMC Corp.'s Centera write-once, read many (WORM) arrays on to any other network-attached disk drive. Interlock said the new offering includes both a data assessment service, which determines how much and what type of data is stored on a Centera device, and then a data migration service to move the data. The services use software with a standards-based API, which the company ensures that data integrity complies with regulatory rules. Interlock's service offers users alternatives to Centera technology and to its proprietary application programming interfaces (APIs). The migration service should allow users to take advantage of archiving software and hardware from a variety of vendors, including NetApp's SnapLock application and IBM's cloud storage service. Interlock has partnership agreements with both IBM and NetApp. EMC's Centera is a content addressed storage (CAS) array, or object-based storage, which stores metadata with data so that it can be retrieved based on its content and not its location. Centera also uses a cryptographic hash to ensure that data is immutable, making it compliant with government regulations requiring that sensitive corporate data not be changed after being created. Interlock uses the Extensible Access Method (XAM) to exchange data between it and network attached storage (NAS) systems or storage area networks (SAN). XAM, a set of standards and a programming interface for storing fixed-content,was developed by vendor members of the Storage Networking Industry Association. The XAM standard allows content to be accessed by a variety of applications while also verifying its integrity. Interlock's software runs on standard servers, and uses XAM to message data from Cetera's object-based file system to any other file system. The software also leverages Centera's parallel I/O channels to migrate up to 6TB of data per day. http://www.interlock-tech.com/

Plasma Computing Group has introduced a new browser-based content management system (CMS), which they are implementing themselves. Plasma has developed it’s CMS interface to resemble that of common office applications, allowing users to store, control, organize, revise, version and publish content over the web. Plasma has integrated the control for social networking, blogs, forums, ecommerce, and e-store fronts. Extra effort was taken in developing the security of content so that no unauthorized users get behind the security wall. www.plasmacomp.com/

Kentico Software announces the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award, which is a one year industry recognition given to individuals based on their community participation and evangelistic activities in the CMS and .NET communities. The very first person to be honored with the Kentico Most Valuable (MVP) Award is Richard Pendergast for his contributions to the Kentico community, represented especially by the Kentico Developer magazine he founded and manages. Kentico MVPs are selected from hundreds of Kentico CMS experts located within any of the 83 countries where Kentico CMS is being used. To receive the Kentico MVP Award status, individuals can submit their application at Kentico web site. These submissions will then be reviewed by a board of Kentico executives. The MVP program offers its members a number of benefits, such as a free license, participation at selected industry events at Kentico`s expense, exclusive access to beta versions of Kentico CMS, etc. Kentico MVP status is valid for one year, after which the status is reviewed. http://www.kentico.com/

The WebCGM Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of "WebCGM 2.1." Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO standard, defined by ISO/IEC 8632:1999, for the interchange of 2D vector and mixed vector/raster graphics. WebCGM is a profile of CGM, which adds Web linking and is optimized for Web applications in technical illustration, electronic documentation, geophysical data visualization, and similar fields. WebCGM aims to balance graphical expressive power  with simplicity and implementability. A small set of standardized metadata elements supports the functionalities of hyperlinking and document navigation, picture structuring and layering, and enabling search and query of WebCGM picture content. WebCGM 2.1 refines and completes the features found in WebCGM 2.0. http://www.w3.org/

Syncro Soft Ltd has announced the immediate availability of version 5.1 of its Subversion (SVN) client. Version 5.1 of Syncro SVN Client enhances working copy load time, automatically refreshes the working copy on external file changes, enhances the esponsiveness of repository browsing, adds support for repository imports at file level, adds support for replacing resources, improves handling of obstructed resources, improves history support, allows creating branches/tags directly from the repository and offers options to print or save a revision graph. A working copy is cached, so when it is loaded next time in the Working Copy view, the operation will be faster than in the previous versions of Syncro SVN Client. The working copy is automatically refreshed if changes are detected in the file system. This is done in order to update the state of the resources modified by external applications. You can configure the repository connections timeout and stop non-responsive repository browsing operations. Added support for importing files into a repository. Working copy resources can be replaced with their HEAD or BASE revision. Operations correctly take into account obstructed resources. The history for a resource which was deleted from the repository but is still present in the working copy is now displayed by properly detecting the revision when the resource was deleted. The Branch/Tag action can be performed directly on the repository, without having a working copy previously checked out. Generated revision graphs can be printed or saved as images. http://www.syncrosvnclient.com

In a move to strengthen reach in the Asian market, Adeptol announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with VersaPAC, a solution provider of information management systems and reseller of HP TRIM records management software.  With the partnership VersaPAC is moving from a legacy viewing system to Adeptol’s document viewing technology embedded in its Saffron web front-end application for HP TRIM. Saffron is available through VersaPAC resellers in Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, North America, and the United Kingdom. The integration allows Saffron to support viewing of over 300 file formats including documents from Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, various image files, and Adobe PDF.  Users will have access to the latest features such as document search, annotations, and document conversion to PDF - all from the viewer. Adeptol Document Viewer is a web-based viewer using Ajax technology, and is a built-in Information Rights Management (IRM) module that allows users to protect content by assigning policies to control the viewing, printing, navigating and saving of documents. http://www.ajaxdocumentviewer.com/ http://www.versapac.com.my/

Enfocus announced the availability of five new configurators for Switch 09. The Switch family of products are designed to automate repetitive tasks, as well as standardizing their work. Configurators allow the integration of applications and can automate third-party software application tasks without the need to manually launch those applications. Microsoft Word now includes a configurator, which allows all Word documents to be automatically opened and saved in PDF, XPS or PDF/A formats on Windows (using an add-on) and some other popular formats. Elvis from DutchSoftware.com is a Media Asset Management system for the media, creative and corporate communities. Using the Switch configurator, processes like image enhancement and color correction for Elvis assets can be automated and integrated into workflows. WoodWing's Enterprise is a publishing system that provides content management for the production of print and online publications for newspaper, magazine, book and corporate publishers. Linking this platform to Enfocus' solutions automates the delivery of multimedia content to a variety of output channels. The GMG configurator offers a workflow integration that automates color management with the GMG color management solutions ColorServer and InkOptimizer 4.6. It sends PDF, TIFF and JPEG files from within Switch to ColorServer/Optimizer, allows the set-up of parameters and receives status information (success, warning, error) to track all jobs in the entire workflow. The Switch Configurator is based on the GMG FlowConnect technology and enables job ticket-controlled, automatic and flexible handling of jobs. The new Switch 09 configurators are supported in FullSwitch and PowerSwitch 09. If you are not a Switch 09 user, an evaluation version is available as well. http://www.enfocus.com

Hitachi, Ltd. and NextDocs Corporation announced their partnership in document management solutions for pharmaceutical manufacturers. Specifically, NextDocs and Hitachi will provide NextDocs Document Management System to life sciences companies in Japan. NextDocs will provide software licenses and solutions and Hitachi will provide supporting services such as consulting, system integration, training, operation, and validation support for drug regulations. NextDocs will provide necessary support to Hitachi sales, marketing and technical personnel. Global pharmaceutical companies practicing research and development must submit applications and receive approval of new drug candidates in the Japan-Europe-U.S. trilateral framework. NextDocs Document Management System is a solution which makes it easier to manage trilateral common application documents. It is compliant with FDA 21 CFR PART 11, which deals with the Food and Drug Administration guidelines on electronic records and electronic signatures in the United States. NextDocs Document Management System runs on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. http://nextdocs.com/ http://www.hitachi.com

Oracle unveiled Oracle Imaging and Process Management 11g and Oracle Forms Recognition, both of which are components of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle Imaging and Process Management 11g is an integrated imaging product for the management of document images within enterprise business processes, consolidating information through a single repository in Oracle Universal Content Management. Oracle Forms Recognition is the latest addition to Oracle Content Management and is an "intelligent" data capture solution that can analyze, recognize, and categorize structured or semi-structured document types including invoices, purchase orders, bills of lading, and claims forms. Oracle Imaging and Process Management 11g and Oracle Forms Recognition are available now. www.oracle.com

Metalogix Software, a provider of solutions for Microsoft SharePoint & Exchange migration, management, and archiving, announced the acquisition of StoragePoint software. Winner of Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 Innovative ISV award, StoragePoint helps organizations to shrink their SharePoint 2007/2010 content databases up to 95% by keeping content BLOBs (Binary Large Objects) out of SharePoint’s SQL database and storing them on an on-premise or Cloud storage platform. With StoragePoint, SharePoint content size can scale to over 2 terabytes while the content database remains within Microsoft's guidelines. StoragePoint will now be available on a free trial basis by download. http://www.metalogix.net http://www.storagepoint.com/

DocStoc has released a customized document viewer, allowing users to create embeddable, branded document viewers. This feature is open to all DocStoc users and customizable features include the logo, buttons, links, and color of the viewer. The viewer itself resembles DocStoc’s normal document viewer, and users can directly download documents from DocStoc which will also convert any historical uploads automaticly. Also included in the viewer is the ability to implement streams of ads, which is operated by DocStoc, who will share in advertising revenue with the publisher. DocStoc recently had launched a new marketplace for professional documents and has 3 million registered users. http://www.docstoc.com/

Hyland Software has announced the release of OnBase 9.2.  Key enhancements of this update include: Offline client, Mobile Workflow for BlackBerry, Document Transfer, Microsoft Outlook Workflow integration, Medical Records Manager Workflow integration, OnBase for MEDITECH solution. The new release also adds functionality to help organizations become more compliant to the latest security standards for customer/patient information. http://www.hyland.com

Inmagic has launched the latest release of Inmagic Presto, an application for creating and managing Social Knowledge Networks (SKN). Presto 3.3 incorporates enhancements to productivity, usability, and security, and deepens integration with Microsoft SharePoint, giving users bidirectional query and access capabilities. Key Presto 3.3 enhancements include: Improved SharePoint compatibility; New methodology for deployment and performance; RSS feed enhancements; Federated search management; Security; Enhanced community and profiles: “People” as a searchable content type; Management and administration features. http://www.inmagic.com/

pTools, a Content Management Software (CMS) provider, announced the addition of a range of embedded social media and networking features to its software. From within the pTools CMS, social media content can be re-distributed in many formats to other social networks and sites. A key feature is ‘TwitterDocs’, which allows users to post to Twitter as they publish content through the CMS. There is no need to separately login to Twitter, and the content-related Tweet is controlled and managed within the CMS and its workflows. In addition to Twitter, content can be presented on Facebook, LinkedIn, and indexed in live search engine results with no tweaking required. http://www.ptools.com/

Tiki has released updates for both current release branches: 3.5 and 4.2. The updates include bug fixes, feature enhancements, and security updates. All Tiki sites are strongly encouraged to update to the latest version to take advantage of security fixes and updates. The next major release, Tiki 5, is planned for April 2010 and will include new features including shopping cart and payment support, improved translation/multilingual support, a rating and scoring system, workspaces, and performance improvements. Early adopters can obtain pre-release versions of Tiki 5 directly from the SVN repository. http://tikiwiki.org

Box.net announced it is available as an integrated Google Apps service on the Google Apps Marketplace, Google's recently launched online storefront for Google Apps products and services. Google Apps customers can now access and share their Box.net content when logged into Google Apps, and Box.net customers can use Google Apps products within Box.net. Businesses can manage their project files, including product collateral, overview videos, various artwork and Google Docs, in a shared Box folder. From there, users can manage workflow with versioning, tasks, and commenting as well as using Google Docs to collaborate on their files. Finished work can then be published on a company-wide Google Site. Box.net also provides administration and reporting tools, including password management down to the file level, six levels of access permissions, and reports on user and file activity. Initially, Google Apps customers will be able to access, work with, and share their Box.net content with others inside of Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Sites, as well as enter the Box.net Cloud Content Management platform through Google's universal navigation links. Additionally, when in Box.net, users can create a new Google Document or Spreadsheet, as well as select a file or a folder of files to send with Gmail, schedule a meeting and link to a specific file or folder with Google Calendar, or publish to Google Sites. http://www.box.net/

VYRE Ltd, developer of the VYRE Unify content management system, announced a strategic partnership with publishing software specialist Wave2 Media Solutions Ltd. The two companies have signed an original equipment manufacturer agreement for VYRE to license the Wave2 Publishing Platform for integration within VYRE Unify. The Wave2 Publishing Platform is a rules engine that allows content providers to create their own advertising and marketing material. VYRE is integrating The Wave2 Publishing Platform into its next release of VYRE Unify version 4.5.1. VYRE Unify 4.5.1 will be available in spring 2010. http://www.vyre.com/ http://www.wav2.com/

For the first time, spending on digital/online advertising and marketing will overtake print in 2010, according to new projections from Outsell, Inc. In an industry crossover event, companies will spend $119.6 billion on online and digital strategies, from search engine keywords to webinars, while committing $111.5 billion to print methods such as newspaper and magazine ads. Overall, U.S. spending on advertising and marketing will increase in 2010, but by just 1.2 percent to $368 billion. Outsell’s “Marketing and Ad Spending Study 2010: Total US and B2B Advertising,” forecasts spending, share, and growth for five media types - online, events, print, TV/radio, and PR/other - and methods used within each, from social networking to mobile/wireless marketing. Among findings: Print magazine advertising will be up 1.9 percent to $9.4 billion despite the popularity of online channels; Methods generating the highest B2B ROI are topped by advertisers’ own websites, followed by conferences, exhibitions and trade shows; direct mail; search engine keywords; and e-marketing/e-newsletters; B2B advertisers see cross-media marketing as most effective; 78% combine three or more major marketing methods; 51 percent of B2B marketers rate Facebook as extremely or somewhat effective, followed by LinkedIn (45 percent), Twitter (35 percent) and MySpace (25 percent). Outsell surveyed more than 1,000 US advertisers in December 2009. http://www.outsellinc.com/

Autonomy Corporation announced updates across the company's "Meaning Based Marketing platform". Autonomy's marketing platform is designed to engage customers, and recognize emerging opportunities. Autonomy's Meaning Based Marketing platform was built on the purpose to understand, act on, and optimize information - linking together internal systems with external data in order to deliver   targeted data to customers across every channel. Autonomy has delivered new self-service modules across every part of the company's integrated platform. The Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) computes to see patterns in information the way people do. Another key update is Explore, which provides marketers with a visualization interface to IDOL's analytics capabilities for social networks, contact centers, and the web. It discovers patterns, trends, and sentiment across channels inside and outside an enterprise and includes widgets for categorizing and understanding market trends and clusters of customers. Autonomy has also added enhancements to the company's web content management, rich media management, and contact center solutions. Interwoven TeamSite has new dependency management and language detection capabilities, as well as several surf and edit enhancements. The product also includes desktop tools to allow integration with Microsoft Office. Interwoven LiveSite now has "agnostic" content delivery capabilities to display content to display environments such as portal, Flash, AJAX, and .NET. Virage Media Bin has new capabilities that tag and classify images and videos, regardless of format or language. eTalk Qfiniti is designed for active "listening" across customer interactions including contact center, website, email, in-store, and social media. Qfiniti can also provide speech analytics of enterprise voice and chat interactions. http://www.autonomy.com

Alfresco Software announced a Beta program for Alfresco SMB Edition, a cloud-based appliance designed for Amazon EC2. This new version of Alfresco Software’s ECM and social collaboration product is designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). The Alfresco SMB Edition will offer a pre-configured Alfresco Cloud appliance that combines the Alfresco server, Explorer and Share modules into an on-demand offering aimed at SMBs with up to 100 users and 200GB of document storage. These appliances are hosted on Amazon EC2 and made available as paid Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Alfresco has partnered with JumpBox, who specialize in building software appliances, to develop Alfresco SMB. Initially the beta will be restricted to US based subscribers with EU access to follow within two weeks. The program includes access to the Alfresco SMB paid AMI, although testers are expected to pay all relevant Amazon EC2 hosting fees. The Beta program will run from March 15 through May 20, 2010. http://www.alfresco.com

Coveo announced the availability of its Enterprise Search Platform Version 6.1. This latest release features new interfaces, expanded Enterprise 2.0 capabilities, additional connectivity, search analytics, and  desktop and email indexing. The Coveo Enterprise Search Platform 6.1 combines structured and unstructured data from any enterprise system onto Coveo's unified index – all without moving data. This lets organizations search for information across multiple databases, including Enterprise 2.0 systems, and see the information in a single view, helping to improve decision making and operational efficiency. Key components of the Coveo Enterprise Search Platform 6.1 include: New Search Interfaces (Outlook Sidebar and Floating Desktop Searchbar), Enterprise 2.0 and Social Search elements. Coveo's connectors can now index social networking platforms including Jive and Confluence. It is also possible to create of information mash-ups and dashboards. Coveo Enterprise Search Platform 6.1 is available immediately. www.coveo.com

Kaango, a web classified advertisement software platform, has joined the Atex global family of companies. As part of a deal that keeps Hearst Corporation and MediaNews Group as shareholders. Atex plans to expand Kaango worldwide. Kaango, which launched in 2006, provides a Web-based software platform to syndicate and publish print and online classified ads. A key feature of Kaango websites is they do not send users clicking away to unknown sites to view and interact with ads. This allows Kaango’s media partners to provide large ad volumes and a consistent user experience within each marketplace. Kaango also supports social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook as well as cross-posting to multiple Twitter accounts to support individual publishers. Atex will offer the Kaango service and brand to non-Atex sites as well as Atex’s current client base, as well as integrating Kaango technology within Atex’s advertising and Web content management systems. http://www.atex.com/ http://www.kaango.com/

MadCap Software, Inc. announced new releases for MadPak and MadPak ML (Multilingual). The featured update is MadCap Flare 6.0, XML-based multi-channel publishing software for desktop, print and online content. Flare 6.0 adds functionality for authoring technical documentation with output for mobile devices; expands multimedia support; enhances collaboration, workflow and publishing features; and tightens integration with Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS). Other new product versions within the MadPak suites are X-Edit 2.0 for collaborative authoring; Analyzer 3.0 for reporting on and recommending improvements to documentation projects; and Echo 2.0 for dynamic audio integration. Additionally, MadCap is launching MadCap Blaze 3.0, the XML-based alternative to Adobe FrameMaker for long print documents. http://www.madcapsoftware.com/

Omniture, an Adobe company, announced an expanded version of its Online Marketing Suite. The Omniture Online Marketing Suite is an integrated suite of applications and services that designed to track customer data to optimize ad spend and conversion. A key new feature utilizes Omniture SearchCenter and Omniture SiteCatalyst to buy media on Facebook and measure its influence across digital marketing channels. Using Omniture SiteCatalyst customer segment data, advertisers can purchase placements that are optimized to these segments' displays. With Omniture Test&Target, advertisers can further optimize these ads in real time with A/B and multivariate testing to dynamically show only the ads that drive key metrics. App Measurement for iPad is now available to all SiteCatalyst customers to measure the application usage of mobile applications being run on the iPad. Additionally, the devices database within SiteCatalyst has been updated to recognize iPad devices, so marketers can now include reporting by this mobile device within their SiteCatalyst environment. Omniture has expanded its partnership with Experian and Experian’s anonymous demographic data will be available within SiteCatalyst to identify high-value customer segments. Experian will also resell the Online Marketing Suite and be fully trained to deliver consulting services for Omniture Test&Target. http://www.omniture.com

Socialtext has released Socialtext 4.0, which features new capabilities that span across all of the social software modules. It includes microblogging channels and filtered activity streams to help digest shared information, as well as new tools for group productivity. Socialtext 4.0 is available on all of Socialtext's deployment options, including an on-site managed appliance. Microblogging channels and filtering are also available on the Socialtext Microblogging Appliance. Collaborative Groups are the featured update designed to help circulate knowledge, ideas, and updates among team members. People can create a group for any purpose, such as to work on a task or project, or to share around a common interest. Anyone can create a Collaborative Group, complete with a group home page, activity stream of group member updates, a dedicated microblogging channel, and one or more workspaces. Collaborative Groups can be synchronized with existing groups in your company's LDAP or corporate directory, and can be configured for privacy to meet the business needs of the group. Other updated features include: Microblogging Channels, Microblogging Search, Activity Stream Filtering, Presence Indication. www.socialtext.com

Socialcast announced the availability of Socialcast Ease (enterprise activity stream engine), with an expanded technology platform designed to support enterprise collaboration through activity streams. Socialcast Ease can be deployed behind a firewall or in the cloud (with SaaS option) and can be integrated with Microsoft Outlook, so that it fits into existing workflows. Other features of Socialcast Ease Activity Stream Engine include a real-time interface aggregates information from existing business systems with employee-generated messages, including microblogging updates, into a live, searchable activity stream that provides employees with a unified view of data and activities flowing across the enterprise. An analytics suite quantifies visibility into employee trends, topics and conversations across microblogging and other social activities within an enterprise activity stream, offering live feedback and actionable insights that can generate real-time operational efficiencies. Socialcast Ease's integration with Microsoft Outlook 2007 and 2003 is the first of multiple planned integrations with business applications that the company plans to announce in 2010. http://www.socialcast.com/

Alfresco Software and VDEL GmbH, an IT services distribution company, announced a partnership under which VDEL has become a Master Distributor of Alfresco solutions in the territories of Eastern Europe, Russia, and CIS. Under the terms of the agreement, VDEL will offer Alfresco products, associated support, and training to its customers. The open source model allows Alfresco to use open source technologies and contributions from the open source community. In 2009, Alfresco obtained U.S. Department of Defence 5015.02 records management certification. VDEL is known in Eastern Europe, Russia, and CIS for  marketing, distributing and supporting network and security solutions. Because of their network of local partners VDEL is able to provide native language translation, localization and education. http://www.alfresco.com/  http://www.vdel.com/

Firespring, a marketing agency focusing on small and mid-sized organizations, introduced a new website solution for nonprofits. The new Firespring nonprofit website solution offers designs and online tools that are built with nonprofit organizations in mind, as well as segment-specific designs and content packages created for arts, advocacy and human service organizations. Website tools available include online donations, calendars, event registration, e-mail marketing, shopping carts, private member-only areas and automatic weekly updates on supporting nonprofits are built into the Firespring nonprofit website solution to help organizations engage their volunteers and their community. The websites all come with a content management system (CMS) allowing the nonprofit to update their own content, events and photos without a programmer. This solution will allow the nonprofit to add, remove or rename pages giving them the ability to customize their website without a technical specialist. http://www.firespring.com/

Bitrix, Inc. announced the release of Bitrix Site Manager ASP.NET 4.6 – a website management solution for the .NET platform with a new security framework, social networking features and enhancements to provide online marketing tools. The new security framework provides proactive protection against many known web attacks and security flaws like XSS and SQL injections and phishing. The framework recognizes threats among incoming requests, blocks website intrusions and maintains a log about suspicious and dangerous activity being registered, providing an opportunity to respond accordingly. The security framework is certified by Positive Technologies, a web security specialist, to comply with the strict Web Application Firewall Evaluation Criteria established by the Web Application Security Consortium. The next version of the Bitrix Site Manager ASP.NET should include more security features, including one-time passwords, integrity checker, abnormal activity detector, and IP-based authentication. The new social networking features include extended support for public and private blogs and forums with the capability to manage media content like images, voice and video. Users can publish posts directly from MS Word or Windows Live Writer with various RSS import/export options or use the built-in WYSIWYG editor. The data published in blogs and forums is immediately indexed and becomes available for search. Bitrix Site Manager ASP.NET holds a "Windows Server 2008 R2 compatible" certificate confirming the product meets Microsoft's strict performance and stability criteria. www.bitrixsoft.com

Clarabridge, Inc. announced the beta launch of Clarabridge Self Service, a new product version designed to enable smaller organizations, departments, and/or market research firms to upload and analyze their text-based emails, survey open-end verbatims, transcripts, social media content, and any other textual data sources via a  fully self-service online portal. For a limited time, beta users can analyze up to 10,000 text verbatims free of charge. Clarabridge Self Service delivers similar functionality found in the Enterprise product, and provides organizations with a way to upload and analyze their text-based data. With the introduction of Self Service, any organization can use the same sophisticated natural language processing (NLP) technology on its customer feedback and other textual data. Clarabridge Self Service automatically organizes text into categories, determines multiple levels of positive and negative sentiment, identifies emerging trends, and includes on-line interactive exploration, reporting, exporting, and root cause analysis features. The Clarabridge Self Service offering enables: Automatic linguistic “reading” of text and enables ad-hoc searching and filtration; Categorization of the text at detailed sub-document, sentence, and clause levels; Identification of varying levels of positive and negative sentiments and what they relate to; Analysis of root cause, emerging issues, and trends, and; Capability to drill down to the original text to understand any areas of interest. General availability of Clarabridge Self Service and pricing models will be announced later this year. http://www.clarabridge.com