Information Technology News

Integrated Dynamic Schema.org Support in Webnodes CMS v3.7

2011-11-02T16:09:00Z

Webnodes has announced CMS’s to have dynamic support for Schema.org. The new feature has an intuitive vocabulary mapping user interface as well as a code API and Asp.Net controls to streamline the work for site developers. The Webnodes CMS ontology management user interface provides a separation between data, data model and presentation layout. Schema.org which is all about making search engines understand the meaning of your content is a natural extension to thesemantic core engine. http://www.webnodes.com

Informatica Delivers Data Parser for Hadoop

2011-11-02T16:03:08Z

Informatica Corporation, the provider of data integration software, announced the immediate availability of Informatica HParser, a data parsing transformation solution for Hadoop environments. Informatica HParser runs on distributions of Apache Hadoop, exploiting the parallelism of the MapReduce framework to efficiently turn unstructured complex data, such as web logs, social media data, call detail records and other data formats, into a structured or semi-structured format in Hadoop. Once transformed into a more structured format, the data can be used and validated to drive business insights and improve operations. Available in a free community edition and commercial editions, Informatica HParser provides organizations with the solution they require to extract the value of complex, unstructured data. http://www.informatica.com

MarkLogic 5 Announced for Big Data in the Enterprise

2011-11-01T15:04:31Z

MarkLogic Corporation announced the availability of MarkLogic 5, the latest version of its product designed for Big Data applications across the enterprise. MarkLogic 5 defines Big Data by empowering organizations to build Big Data applications that make information actionable. With MarkLogic 5, organizations analyze structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data in the same application. A key feature is the MarkLogic Connector for Hadoop. www.marklogic.com

MarkLogic Announces MarkLogic Express, Updates to Developer Community

2011-11-01T14:26:02Z

MarkLogic Corporation announced the availability of MarkLogic Express, a new MarkLogic 5 license that allows students and developers to download and take MarkLogic into production immediately. Additional updates include improvements to the developer website and more ways for MarkLogic developers to share solutions, participate in discussions, and help build a community around MarkLogic technology. MarkLogic Express includes geospatial capabilities, alerting, and can be used in production environments. That means a developer can take a MarkLogic implementation that leverages a 2 CPU node and up to 40 GB of data live. Full updates include: MarkLogic Express the new license that will allow developers to build and deploy MarkLogic production applications; Connecting Developers with a new Feedback Forum, comments enabled on nearly every page, and better recognition for community members that make contributions; A number of updates have been made to the MarkLogic Developer website, including new tutorials, new documentation, and improvements to the accessibility of content for developers; a new open source RESTful API that allows students and developers to build applications on MarkLogic using their software language of choice. http://www.marklogic.com/

Adobe Acquires Auditude

2011-11-01T14:19:34Z

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that it has acquired privately held Auditude Inc., a provider of video ad management and monetization technologies for premium publishers and media companies. Supporting video ad management and monetization delivered via an open architecture platform, Auditude lets premium publishers and media companies create a high-quality, TV-like, multi-device advertising experience that is an essential component to viewer loyalty and attracting major brand advertisers. features of the Auditude platform include: easy integration into content management and other video operations systems; precise targeting capabilities; flexible ad placement and ad product offerings; intuitive sales rights management; access to and control of incremental advertising demand; and cross-device workflow. http://www.auditude.com/ http://www.adobe.com/

HighWire Press Partners with TEMIS

2011-10-27T20:08:11Z

HighWire Press, the provider of hosting and web publishing platforms to scholarly publishers and TEMIS, provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, announced today they entered into a strategic technology and business partnership. Under the agreement, HighWire will integrate the full suite of Luxid software within its ePublishing Platform to provide automated content annotation, enrichment and linking to its customers. http://highwire.stanford.edu/ http://www.temis.com/

Sencha Secures $15 Million in Funding, Launches Mobile HTML5 Cloud

2011-10-26T14:01:17Z

To accelerate the development of HTML5 tools, Sencha, a provider of HTML5 frameworks and tools for desktop and mobile application developers, has completed a $15 million series B round of funding. Sencha raised $14 million funding in June, 2010. Additionally, the company also announced the public beta launch of Sencha.io, its new HTML5 mobile cloud service. The service will allow Sencha app developers to build “shared experiences” in the browser, without having to write server code or manage hosting. http://www.sencha.com/

Facebook Intros HTML5 Resource Center

2011-10-25T14:10:09Z

Facebook launched its HTML5 Resource Center to help developers build, test, and deploy new applications using the Web development language. The new resource center made its first appearance just two weeks after Facebook launched its HTML5-based Facebook Platform, which allows developers to use the social network as a platform to deploy mobile applications. The move also enables Facebook to build a marketplace for its own applications without needing an operating system of its own. To encourage developers to get started, Facebook has released three new HTML5 resources. The first is the aforementioned HTML5 Resource Center, which provides developers with tools and advice to build, test, and deploy Web apps. The resource center offers some tricks of the trade and includes some examples of how to use other Web standards such as CSS3 and Javascript to deliver rich experiences to websites. In addition, Facebook has launched an HTML5 Blog, which covers a wide array of HTML5 topics written by Facebook staff members and other industry experts. The final piece to the HTML5 puzzle is a new Developer Group, which Facebook will use as a venue for developers to raise questions and share insights with their colleagues. http://www.facebook.com

IBM Unveils Big Data Software

2011-10-24T17:13:23Z

IBM unveiled new software for managing and analyzing big data to the workplace. The new offerings span a wide variety of big data and business analytics technologies across multiple platforms from mobile devices to the data center to IBM's SmartCloud. Now employees from any department inside an organization can explore unstructured data such as Twitter feeds, Facebook posts, weather data, log files, genomic data and video, and make sense of it as part of their everyday work experience. IBM is also placing the power of mobile analytics into the hands of iPad users with a free download in Apple's iTunes Store. The new software is designed to help employees in industries such as financial services, healthcare, government, communications, retail, and travel and transportation use and benefit from business analytics on the go. IBM is delivering new analytics and information management offerings: New Hadoop-based analytics software on the cloud, which helps employees tap into massive amounts of unstructured data from a variety of sources including social networks, mobile devices and sensors; New mobile analytics software for iPad users; and new predictive analytics software with a mapping feature that can be used across industries for marketing campaigns, retail store allocation, crime prevention, and academic assessment. http://www.ibm.com/

Adobe Announces Availability of AudienceResearch

2011-10-20T16:08:18Z

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the immediate availability of Adobe AudienceResearch, a new audience measurement tool that provides publishers and digital marketers with certified metrics on the size and engagement of digital audiences for websites, mobile applications and digital magazine editions. These key metrics are captured by Adobe SiteCatalyst, an online analytics application, and provide publishers with the information critical to attract advertising dollars. AudienceResearch is available at no additional cost to SiteCatalyst customers. In conjunction with AudienceResearch, the company also announced the general availability of the Adobe Audience Certification Program. Under this program, publishers become Adobe Certified Publishers, meaning Adobe has certified that their digital audience data meets certain criteria regarding the accuracy of data collection and reporting. Adobe Certified Publishers can contribute their data to the AudienceResearch tool. AudienceResearch provides census-based measurement of metrics, meaning that the metrics are generated by counting all relevant traffic, a method considered more accurate and representative of actual traffic and behavior than panel-based methods. Panel-based methods monitor the behavior of a small group of volunteer consumers (i.e. the panel) and then use statistics to generate estimate metrics. The statistically generated results from panel-based estimates often differ significantly from census-based results and have been a point of controversy in the advertising industry. Additionally, publishers using the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to create digital magazine editions for tablet devices may elect to have their metrics automatically certified as analytics is natively built into the Digital Publishing Suite. This native integration ensures the integrity of data collection. http://www.adobe.com/

Oracle Buys Endeca

2011-10-18T19:50:46Z

Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca Technologies, Inc., a provider of unstructured data management, web commerce and business intelligence solutions. A privately-held company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Endeca provides products that help companies analyze unstructured data, gain better business intelligence, and deliver a better customer experience. Endeca's core technology, the MDEX Engine, is designed to enable enterprises to correlate and analyze unstructured data. Endeca InFront is a leading customer experience management platform that enables businesses to deliver targeted and relevant customer experiences online with merchandising and content targeting tools for web commerce. Endeca Latitude is a technology platform that enables businesses to rapidly develop analytic applications bringing information from many unstructured and structured information sources together. The combination of Oracle and Endeca is expected to create a comprehensive technology platform to process, store, manage, search and analyze structured and unstructured information together. The combination of Oracle ATG Commerce and Endeca InFront is expected to enhance cross-channel commerce, merchandising, and online customer experiences. The combination of Oracle Business Intelligence and Endeca Latitude is expected to provide a comprehensive business intelligence foundation and analytic applications, bringing together information from structured and unstructured data sources. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close before the end of 2011. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently. http://www.oracle.com/ http://www.endeca.com

India's MCA XBRL Filing Platform Launched

2011-10-17T21:01:03Z

India`s Ministry of Corporate Affairs has been working to strengthen the disclosure framework to bring Indian reporting systems on par with best practices from around the world. With the launch of their XBRL filing platform, India joined the ranks of leading countries who have embraced XBRL to improve disclosure standards and improve corporate governance. XBRL or eXtensible Business reporting language is the next generation language for business reporting that is beginning to be used all over the world. In India, XBRL has been embraced earlier by the two leading stock exchanges, namely, the Bombay Stock exchange and the National Stock Exchange, by the capital markets regulator, the Securities Exchange Board of India and by the Reserve Bank of India. According to the MCA circular, all listed companies and their subsidiaries, all firms with a turnover in excess of Rs 100 crore or those with a paid up capital of over Rs 5 crore are required to file in XBRL. It is expected that over 31,000 companies will have to file in XBRL. The ministry has also made it clear that the ruling will be extended to all companies next year, based on the experience of this year. http://www.mca.gov.in/XBRL/

OpenText Delivers New Offering for Social Business

2011-10-17T17:46:40Z

OpenText announced a new release of OpenText Social Communities (version 8.1), designed to help companies promote and drive the shift to a social business model. It combines a comprehensive social framework with a set of applications for building and engaging communities. This new release builds on the security and governance of the OpenText ECM Suite to apply appropriate controls to social objects. This is designed to create a safe environment of dialogue to foster informal collaboration and networking to help improve internal collaboration. Social Communities now integrates with OpenText Wave, OpenText's Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP), which allows organizations to create, develop, and deliver mobile applications for employees, partners, and customers. Integration with OpenText Web and Social Analytics offers the ability to monitor and measure social activity. To help promote and manage sharing between public social networking sites into a community site, Social Communities now gives users the ability to post content from a community site to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ and other social networks. Social Communities 8.1 provides a set of social applications for social intranet, social marketing and social workplace workloads. These are complemented by reusable and adaptable site templates with the flexibility to combine features as needed to meet specific goals, such as launching a brand, product or campaign. http://www.opentext.com

TEMIS Releases Luxid 6

2011-10-13T15:06:18Z

TEMIS, the provider of Text Analytics Solutions for the Enterprise, today announced the launch of the next generation of Luxid, its flagship semantic content enrichment solution. Luxid 6 is a semantic tagging platform which automatically extracts relevant information (entities, topics, events, sentiments), identifies relationships residing in unstructured data and facilitates links between similar and related documents. Luxid 6 optimizes the management of Enterprise content through the capture and structuring of targeted information. The software also enhances the utilization of content within an Enterprise's workflows such as competitive intelligence, research and innovation, voice of the consumer and reputation management. http://www.temis.com/

Box Announces $81M in Funding

2011-10-11T22:07:17Z

Box.net announced it closed $81 million in funding from a mix of investors including NEA, Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures and existing investors. As revealed on their company blog, Box has aspirations to compete with Microsoft's Sharepoint. Box is currently available on most mobile platforms, while SharePoint is currently tied to Windows Phones. Yet Box also lacks the full array of content management features that an enterprise user may currently need/use from Sharepoint. http://box.net/