Information Technology News

Alterian Acquires Intrepid

2010-09-01T16:52:47Z

Alterian, the customer engagement solutions company, has acquired Intrepid, an international social media analytics and market research firm. The acquired company is a consulting business that helps its clients to derive actionable business intelligence from social media data. Intrepid has 40 employees, with offices in Seattle and London as well as a growing social media analytics team in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The Intreprid acquisition should bolster Alterian's array of Social Media marketing solutions. It also provides, through the Ho Chi Minh team, a rich pool of language skills to help enhance Alterian’s offerings in the Asia Pacific region. http://www.alterian.com/

Open Text Launches Full Service Offering For Enterprise-wide Deployment of SharePoint 2010; Acquires Burntsand

2010-08-30T15:12:40Z

Open Text Corporation, the provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, announced the availability of a complete set of products and services intended to help enterprise information technology (IT) groups centrally manage large numbers of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 sites from creation through archiving. The consulting services will be led by Burntsand which joins Open Text after a recent acquisition. Using the SharePoint 2010 version of Open Text Content Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Open Text Case Management Framework for SharePoint 2010, Open Text services can help IT departments deploy the infrastructure needed to take control over unmanaged SharePoint 2010 deployments. Moreover, it can give users simple tools to create and deploy SharePoint 2010 sites and applications in accordance with corporate governance policies and manage the lifecycle of SharePoint 2010 sites. Open Text enhances SharePoint 2010 by adding a case-centric business application and process layer. Open Text business applications typically comprise a business database and records and archive repository, as well as a number of integrated SharePoint 2010 features, workflows, forms, reports and an administration user interface. Open Text’s solutions for Microsoft are offered as part of the Open Text ECM Suite.http://www.opentext.com/

Open Text Expands Solutions for the Global Legal Market

2010-08-24T19:29:07Z

Open Text Corporation, the provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, today announced that it has expanded its solutions in the global legal market including introducing key integrations between Open Text Document Management, eDOCS Edition (eDOCS DM) and Open Text Social Workplace available this fall. First released in the summer of 2009, Open Text Social Workplace supports a team's ability to form, organize and collaborate on projects. Built to be flexibly deployed either standalone or as part of another solution, Open Text Social Workplace will integrate with Open Text eDOCS allowing users from within law firms to collaborate on documents and matters stored and governed within eDOCS. This includes new microblogging and instant messaging features and respects current permissions and governance rules. Open Text Document Management, eDOCS Edition helps eliminate inefficiencies caused by an inability to manage documents as well as the “islands of information” prevalent in many organizations. It helps control document-based knowledge assets by enabling users to capture, organize, locate and share business content in an integrated environment. With the release of eDOCS DM 5.3, full Windows 7 and Microsoft® Office® 2010 support and updated integrations are available. Also added in this release is new platform support for 32 and 64 Bit versions of Windows Server 2008,SQL Server 2008, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) support, while deployment costs are lowered through native Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) support. eDOCS DM customers can now use the Open Text flagship records management offering with native integration, search and access from within the native eDOCS DM user interface. Records management of physical items, electronic records and email, as well as structured data from systems such as Microsoft SharePoint® 2010 and SAP are all available in this release. Support for Apple iPad is now available for WirelessDMS for eDOCS allowing users to access content from within eDOCS DM using the iPad device. http://www.opentext.com/

SDL and Leximation Team Up For DITA Solution with Adobe FrameMaker

2010-08-24T14:48:32Z

SDL, the provider of Global Information Management solutions, announced the availability of an integration between SDL Trisoft and Leximation DITA-FMx, the DITA plugin for Adobe FrameMaker. By providing a bridge between SDL Trisoft and Leximation DITA-FMx, SDL gives the ability to use SDL’s advaComponent Content Management capabilities with Adobe FrameMaker. The new integration combines technologies for authoring and managing structured content. Together SDL and Leximation share several major clients that want a joint solution. www.sdl.com www.leximation.com

Federated Media Acquires Major Technology Suite from TextDigger

2010-08-23T18:42:56Z

Federated Media Publishing, a "next-generation" media company, announced the acquisition of a platform for semantic and linguistic profiling of web-based content from TextDigger, a San Jose-based semantic search startup. FM provides a full suite of media and marketing services for brand advertisers that depends heavily on a proprietary media and marketing technology platform. TextDigger’s technology complements FM’s platform with a set of semantic solutions for content tagging, filtering and clustering, as well as related tools that enhance the user experience, ad targeting, and semantic search engine optimization for a site. TextDigger will continue its search business, all of TextDigger’s customers will continue to be supported by either FM or TextDigger, depending on the type of project or service. www.federatedmedia.net www.textdigger.com

DotNetNuke Introduces Enterprise Edition

2010-08-23T18:10:08Z

DotNetNuke Corp.,the Web Content Management Platform company, announced the release of the DotNetNuke Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition includes the new DotNetNuke Content Staging feature that allows users to edit and approve content on a staging server prior to pushing the site to production. In addition, the DotNetNuke Web CMS includes a Content Localization feature that enables management of multi-language web sites. The Content Localization feature is included in all Editions of the platform including the Enterprise, Professional and Community Editions. Exclusive to the Enterprise Edition, Content Staging allows users to create a separate staging server where all intended production web site changes can be implemented and tested before being published publicly. It has features for organizations with many content contributors and tight restrictions on web site content publishing and review. The system will compare the staging server configuration to the production server and identify missing components and provides a detailed view of all planned changes. Other features include: An audit tool that creates a record of all publishing events; A “white list” in which users can define which modules should push both their settings and content during publishing and which should push only the module settings; A secure publishing function which allows users to easily push their site from staging to production. All Editions of DotNetNuke including the Enterprise, Professional and Community Editions, now feature a new Content Localization capability that helps users manage translated versions of their web pages. This feature includes management and configuration-mapping tools to keep translated pages synchronized across a web site. With the introduction of the Enterprise Edition, DotNetNuke will no longer offer the Elite Edition, which will now comprise the Professional Edition plus Elite Support. The new Elite Support option – available for the Professional and Enterprise Editions – features extended support hours, faster guaranteed support, priority management of support tickets, installation upgrade assistance, and source code access to the proprietary Professional or Enterprise Edition modules. http://www.dotnetnuke.com

Diversified Global Graphics Group (DG3) Announces Launch of First of its Kind Proprietary XBRL Viewer that Integrates into FundInSite

2010-08-16T18:14:21Z

Diversified Global Graphics Group (DG3) announced the availability of its proprietary XBRL viewer integrated into FundInSite summary prospectus and shareholder report document solution. The XBRL viewer was developed internally and is integrated into the summary prospectus viewing experience. In addition the viewer can be installed on client servers for use by fund companies that host their own documents. The viewer has the following features: Customizable viewing experience designed by the fund company; Risk and return category hyperlinks for fast navigation at the top of each instance; Printer friendly and "zoomable" for larger type; Exportable to Microsoft Excel; Downloadable XML for use in other XBRL viewers; Display in the same window or a pop-up window; Automatically adopts new schemas from the SEC; Permanent database of XBRL documents; and Instant availability if DG3 provides XBRL tagging service. DG3 provides full service marketing and compliance communications for fund companies, including document preparation, production and distribution services. In addition, DG3 provides advanced compliance management systems as a service. These services combined with the launch of the proprietary XBRL viewing technology gives fund companies an option for fulfilling their disclosure requirements. The XBRL viewer is integrated into FundInSite, which provides the following features: Marketing appeal and user friendly for fund shareholders; a single source, proprietary and wholly owned solution; Immediate availability of documents; No customization fees; Rapid availability of new micro-sites; and an unique usage analytics engine. http://www.dg3.com/

IBM Buys Marketing Automation Firm Unica

2010-08-16T17:51:28Z

IBM has bought marketing management software provider Unica for approximately $480m (£307m). IBM says the purchase of Unica will expand IBM's ability to help organisations analyse and predict customer preferences and develop more targeted marketing campaigns. The purchase is part of IBM's ongoing focus on providing software and business services rather then hardware. In May the company bought Sterling Commerce followed by the purchase of web marketing analytics firm Coremetrics in June. http://www.ibm.com http://www.unica.com/

Hycus-CMS Released

2010-08-10T14:20:07Z

Hycus, an India-based startup, has released an open-source, content management and publishing system. Hycus-cms version 1.0.0 will help users with the publishing and updating of content, blogs and photos in websites. Users can also publish content in eight Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi, Guajarati and Bengali. PHP 5.0 or above, MySQL 5.0.51 or above, and a Javascript enabled browser are the required tools to use Hycus-cms. Hycus-cms has been tested with Firefox 3, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera 10 and Microsoft IE7. Features include: CK editor in admin side; ajax-based admin side; manage site's content, menus, and blocks; creates RSS feed; simple conversion of HTML/CSS templates to Hycus templates; user management for front end; contact page; SEO Friendly URL's; as well as maintain multiple websites with a single set of files. http://www.hycus.com/

IBM Acquires Datacap

2010-08-10T14:04:33Z

IBM announced the acquisition of Datacap Inc., a privately-held company based in Tarrytown, NY. Datacap is a provider of software that enables organizations to transform the way they capture, manage and automate the flow of business information to improve business processes, reduce paper costs or manual errors and meet compliance mandates. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition strengthens IBM's ability to help organizations digitize, manage and automate their information assets, particularly in paper-intensive industries such as healthcare, insurance, government and finance. Additionally, regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley have demanded new standards and now legislation is encouraging the adoption of new records management solutions, including scanning and capture to increase accuracy, lower costs and speed business processes to meet these regulations. http://ibm.com http://www.datacap.com/

Tiki Wiki 5.1 Now Available

2010-08-09T14:43:03Z

The Tiki Community Software Association is proud to announce the 5.1 release of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. This latest release includes many fixes, tweaks, and updates, including several new and improved features: Improved compatibility for Microsoft Windows and IIS, Fixed the "Since Last Visit" module, Better support for UTF-8. More than a dozen members of the Tiki Community have contributed over 140 updates to this release. All Tiki admins are encouraged to upgrade their sites to this latest release. http://tikiwiki.org/

LinkedIn Acquires Mspoke

2010-08-05T15:17:52Z

Social networking site LinkedIn announced its first acquisition, a start-up called Mspoke that has software and engineering talent in semantic technology. LinkedIn officials said the technology would be used to recommend content, such as news, messages and what executives in similar jobs are reading and doing, to LinkedIn customers. Terms of the Mspoke deal were not disclosed. LinkedIn was launched in 2003, not long after social networking sites like Friendster and MySpace, and before the now-dominant Facebook. While smaller than any of those sites, LinkedIn has been operating cash flow positive over two years, thanks to features like premium subscriptions and enterprise licensing, as well as ad sales. The company is said to be readying an initial public offering. The Mspoke purchase is part of a strategy to get consumers to spend more inside LinkedIn, making it more about career development and work-related information, as opposed to just using it as a job search tool. http://www.linkedin.com http://www.mspoke.com/

Harvard University Unveils Latest Release of OpenScholar

2010-08-04T17:38:51Z

Harvard University has rolled out the latest release of OpenScholar, an open-source web content management (WCM) program geared for the academic community. OpenScholar's aim is to make building and customizing Web sites simple and straightforward for academics who aren't necessarily tech-savvy. There are currently two versions of the software: one for scholars to create a personal Web site and one for researchers to build a project Web site. Though faculty members often have Web sites created for them by their department's staff, OpenScholar was created to help academics make (and manage) their own Web sites by automating processes. Once installed researchers can register online to create their own Web site, selecting the features they want from OpenScholar's menu of options, which is tailored for professors. For faculty who are building personal Web sites, the available plug-ins include pages that display their curriculum vitae, a list of courses they teach, and a list of publications that can be downloaded. The software's project version offers similar options, such as pages for publications, presentations, and a list of people who are part of the research team. OpenScholar began as a Harvard-only project in May 2009, but because the feedback was so positive, the software was made open-source and available universally through Drupal. Since OpenScholar's first release last fall, OpenScholar has received tweaks based on comments from the Drupal community and the ~200 members at Harvard who tried/use it. The project team is also planning to release a version of the software for departments in the fall. http://openscholar.harvard.edu

KickApps Unveils Version 5.0

2010-08-03T19:48:59Z

KickApps Corporation announced a major upgrade to its social software development suite that provides Web publishers the ability to manage their website content and social experiences under a single, unified content management system. KickApps 5.0 is claiming the title of being a Social CMS (sCMS) platform, designed to create and manage entire websites with integrated social functionality. With the ability to manage all their assets under a single system, publishers avoid the interoperability and resource issues associated with managing multiple point solutions for CMS, social and video capabilities. KickApps’ Social CMS capabilities help publishers to extend their content beyond their websites to branded experiences on web-based platforms like Facebook and mobile devices like the iPhone, iPad and Android. KickApps 5.0 is designed to help web publishers manage their entire world of online content, wherever it exists. A key new feature of KickApps 5.0 is the ability to deploy an unlimited number of custom web pages that are optimized for social interaction (e.g. comments, tags, ratings, sharing). These new page experiences can incorporate user-generated or editorial content in many different formats, from external or internal sources, and can be launched in seconds. KickApps 5.0 also adds an array of fully integrated applications including Pro Video which features optimized uploads, content curation, advanced set creation, new delivery options, unique monetization capabilities and iDevice support. KickApps 5.0 continues to integrate with other CMS products when required. http://www.kickapps.com/

Microsoft Introduces Visual Studio LightSwitch

2010-08-03T19:33:01Z

Microsoft has announced a new product in the Visual Studio family - Visual Studio LightSwitch. LightSwitch is designed as a simple way to build business applications for the cloud and the desktop. LightSwitch provides a variety of pre-built templates and tools to build business applications that target Windows Client or Windows Azure using as much code as wanted. With LightSwitch, the goal is to easily build quality applications without focusing on writing code. Business applications can be built using Visual Basic or C#. You can build forms from existing templates and populate them with data from data sources including SQL Server, SQL Azure, SharePoint, and others. There is integrated support for working with Microsoft Office for tasks such as exporting data to Excel without having to write code. While developing your application, you can modify the application as it runs. LightSwitch creates Silverlight applications that can run in the browser, out-of-the-browser, or in the cloud. When your application grows, you can use Visual Studio 2010 Professional, Premium or Ultimate to extend and customize it further. The first beta of LightSwitch will be available broadly on August 23rd, 2010. http://www.microsoft.com