Collaboration: November 2009 Archives

nGenera Corporation announced nGen Collaboration Server, cloud-based software that integrates with external collaborative media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and internal applications like Microsoft SharePoint and corporate email systems, to capture and log relevant communications with the goal of letting companies take control of collaboration. nGen Collaboration Server provides “listener” technology that tunes into external or internal conversations by topic, keyphrase, product, individual, company, and many other criteria. Users can create as many listeners as they need and aggregate them into “meta listeners” to monitor specific categories. Listeners can also monitor trends in velocity and sentiment. Email notifications can be triggered when conditions or thresholds are detected enabling appropriate personnel to intervene. Social Metadata Services are designed to manage rich profiles, relationships and activities. Aggregated data from disparate sources are combined to identify expertise, create contextually relevant connections between people, recommend content and track activities across a variety of platforms and applications. nGen Collaboration Server is designed to identify the drivers of activity to encourage the kind of behavior that promotes broad adoption and frequent contributions to the collaboration knowledge base. nGen Collaboration Server monitors external and internal services, including outbound email, to detect non-compliant behavior and flags it for immediate attention. This functionality extends to external services like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and others. The nGen Collaboration Server is currently available. www.ngenera.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced the availability of Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 (ES2), a major software release enabling businesses and governments to build applications to improve interactions with customers and constituents across devices and channels. LiveCycle ES2 provides a rich Internet application (RIA) framework for building customizable RIA workspaces, mobile and desktop access to critical applications, and deployment in the cloud. Adobe LiveCycle Workspace ES2 Mobile offers access to LiveCycle ES2 from iPhone, Blackberry and Windows mobile devices. Adobe LiveCycle Launchpad ES2, an Adobe AIR application, provides easy access on the desktop to kick-start LiveCycle ES services such as Adobe LiveCycle PDF Generator ES2. Adobe LiveCycle Mosaic ES2 is a composite RIA framework for rapidly assembling and engaging activity-centric enterprise applications. LiveCycle Mosaic ES2 provides knowledge workers with real-time, contextual information from multiple sources in a single, personalized view. Developers can extend existing applications by exposing their business logic and user interfaces into application "tiles” that can be assembled to create unified views. Adobe enterprise customers will have the option to deploy LiveCycle ES2 in the cloud, hosted in the Amazon Web Services cloud computing environment. LiveCycle ES2 Solution Accelerators now include: human capital management, eSubmissions, correspondence management, new account enrollment and services and benefits delivery. LiveCycle Forms ES2 streamlines format-driven business processes and improves data accuracy and LiveCycle Reader Extensions ES2 activates functionality within Adobe Reader, extending document and form-based operations outside an organization. New features allow users to generate RIA interfaces that leverage shared data models. Document and Information Security: LiveCycle can now apply rights management on the server to Microsoft Office documents for automated secure document workflows. Adobe LiveCycle Process Management ES2 enables business users to manage ad-hoc content reviews without involving IT. Users can publish content, create a list of reviewers and define approval stages, deadlines and escalation guidelines. The content can then be automatically converted into PDF, enabled for inline commenting, rights protection and distribution. Users can monitor and modify the process at any time. Adobe LiveCycle ES2 is currently available worldwide. The Adobe LiveCycle ES2 cloud deployment option is expected to become available in early 2010. http://www.adobe.com/livecycle

Ektron Inc.  announced the release of Ektron CMS400.NET version 8.0. Version 8.0 builds on Ektron's combination of social software and enterprise Web content management to allow for the creation of engaging sites. Version 8.0 includes the new eMarketing Suite, with analytics, multivariate testing, drag and drop page assembly, ecommerce and enhanced site management tools for marketing teams. The new eMarketing Suite brings an additional set of tools to grow a brand's global message and online presence. In addition to building dynamic, engaging Web sites and communities, marketing teams have the ability to assemble campaigns, comparing multiple variations of content, layout and design with multivariate testing. The new analytics module lets marketers track visitor actions and helps demonstrate returns on online marketing investments. Ektron's approach integrates site analytics packages such as Google Analytics into the authoring process, delivering analytics within the context of the content management system's user interface. The latest version of CMS400.NET adds micro-messaging, activity streaming and a filtering and notification engine to its social media platform, which customers will be able to deploy on collaborative corporate intranets and as part of customer-facing online communities. http://www.ektron.com/

Traction Software announced release of Traction TeamPage 4.2 of Traction’s TeamPage enterprise 2.0 social software platform. The software now includes flexible mobile subscription and notification allowing road warriors to post content and comments with secure two-way e-mail based collaboration. As the first release using an updated Traction platform architecture, Traction TeamPage 4.2 combines wiki, blog, social tagging, discussion and social networking capabilities in a secure collaboration platform. TeamPage 4.2 customers can click a subscribe button next to any article, personal profile or project space header to select email or Jabber notifications on new content, edits or conversations. A simple popup form gives a fine degree of control over the articles, projects, people, tags, files, and folders you want to watch, with a consolidated watch list shown in each person’s profile. Individuals can set a preference to automatically get regular updates to comments on or changes to articles they post, as well as to threads they comment on. Using built-in logic for common email clients including Outlook, BlackBerry and iPhone Mail, TeamPage automatically recognizes and cleans up notification information resulting in simple and readable email notification and reply. TeamPage 4.2 also has extensible transform rules that can be tuned to recognize and clean up specialized boilerplate from internal or external sources. Traction TeamPage Release 4.2 is available today for all new customers and as a free upgrade for TeamPage customers who subscribe to Traction’s software maintenance plan. http://www.tractionsoftware.com