Collaboration: September 2009 Archives

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

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

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

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

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

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

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