Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the availability of the Adobe Creative Suite 5 product family, design and development software for various creative workflows. With more than 250 new product features, the Creative Suite 5 product line brings upgrades of creative tools and workflow enhancements. The Adobe CS5 product family is powering the creation of content and applications for the upcoming releases of Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2, which are designed for high performance on mobile screens and designed to take advantage of native device capabilities. Featuring integration with online content and digital marketing measurement and optimization capabilities for the first time, Creative Suite 5 products include access to signature Omniture technologies, to capture, store and analyze information generated by websites and other sources. Adobe Creative Suite 5 products also integrate with Adobe CS Live*, a set of five online services for creative workflow. The Creative Suite 5 line-up includes five new versions: Creative Suite 5 Master Collection, Creative Suite 5 Design Premium, Creative Suite 5 Web Premium, Creative Suite 5 Production Premium, Creative Suite 5 Design Standard, as well as 15 point products and associated technologies. Creative Suite now includes Adobe Flash Catalyst, a professional interaction design tool that allows designers to create expressive Web application interfaces and design interaction without writing code. Also available as part of the Creative Suite 5 product family, sold separately or in one of the five Creative Suite editions, are new versions of the Adobe Creative Suite tools, including Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5, Flash Catalyst CS5, Flash CS5 Professional, Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, After Effects CS5 and more. InDesign CS5 powers the transition to digital publishing with new interactive documents and enhanced electronic reader device support. Image creation and editing get a boost with Truer Edge technology in Photoshop CS5, which offers better edge detecting technology and masking results in less time. Photoshop CS5 also includes the ability to remove an image element and immediately replace the missing pixels with Content-Aware Fill. New stroke options allow Adobe Illustrator CS5 users to create strokes of variable widths and precisely adjust the width at any point along the stroke. New Text Layout Framework in Flash Professional CS5 provides professional-level typography capabilities with functions like kerning, ligatures, tracking, leading, threaded text block and multiple columns. In addition, Dreamweaver CS5 now supports popular content management systems Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress, allowing designers to get accurate views of dynamic Web content from within the product. Performance improvements in Creative Suite 5 include native 64-bit support on both Mac and Windows in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, for high-resolution projects. The NVIDIA GPU-accelerated Adobe Mercury Playback Engine allows Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 users to open projects faster, refine effects-rich HD sequences in real time and play back complex projects without rendering. The Roto Brush tool in After Effects helps users isolate moving foreground elements in a fraction of the normal time. Adobe Creative Suite 5 products integrate with Adobe CS Live*, a set of five online services for key aspects of creative workflow. CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time and currently include: Adobe BrowserLab, Adobe CS Review, Acrobat.com, Adobe Story and SiteCatalyst NetAverages from Omniture. Adobe CS Review enables online design reviews from directly in Creative Suite 5 applications, while Adobe BrowserLab is an indispensable tool for testing website content across different browsers and operating systems. NetAverages provides Web usage data that helps reduce the guesswork early in the creative process when designing for Web and mobile. Adobe Story is a collaborative scriptwriting tool that improves production and post-production workflows in CS5 Production Premium. Access to Acrobat.com services, such as Adobe ConnectNow Web conferencing, is also included to enhance discussion and information exchange with colleagues and clients around the globe. Using Flash Professional CS5, designers and developers can create, test and deliver Web content across a range of mobile platforms and devices such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks and other consumer electronics. Users can look forward to deploying content in the browser with Flash Player 10.1 and as a standalone application with AIR 2. Adobe CS5 products integrate with Adobe CS Live online services which are complimentary for a limited time. www.adobe.com/go/creativesuite
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Attensity Group, an enterprise social software developer, announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire Biz360 Inc., a provider of social media monitoring and market intelligence solutions. The enhanced Attensity platform is designed to enable customers to listen to, analyze, and take action with their customers through an integrated application. The platform is also ment to serve social knowledge into corporate knowledge-bases. Attensity offers applications geared for email, CRM notes, survey responses, documents, news, web forums, communities, blogs, micro-blogging, and social sites. By joining the capabilities of Biz360 with those of Attensity, the company hopes to better enable enterprise users to participate, respond and engage in these customer conversations. The acquisition also brings a SaaS-based application for organizations to monitor, track and analyze these conversations – now called Attensity360. http://www.attensity360.com/
Edentity Web Systems Inc. announced the release of the April Iteration of the Agility Content Management System. Each month, a new release of Agility is made available to all users of their software-as-a-service CMS. This release's updates started with the creation of an item count and listing tabs to give more information about forum activity. This way users can see the number of times items have been published or rejected, as well as take care of items that are awaiting review. In addition to this, the ability to send comments with a publish or decline has also been added. These comments can be sent with custom templates to the user who created the record, keeping every user up to date on the status of the posting or update. Moderation improvements include the creation of the roles of Moderator and Senior Moderator, as well as an escalation state and action on UGC records. To keep out those unfriendly swear words from the pages, an Illegal Words list and setting will allow you to block words from some or all user profiles in the system. For those users that consistently cause issues, there is now a flagging option to report abuse and be pulled from the site. You can now designate a UGC field as a ‘Tweet field” and when it is published, the field will be posted to your designated Twitter account. Lastly, developers and users alike will enjoy an improved history tab on every UGC record for change tracking. An additional 93 bug fixes were made according to the Agility CMS blog. http://www.agilitycms.com/
Alfresco Software, today announced the immediate availability of Alfresco Community Edition 3.3 for download. This release includes a range of content services for developers, including integrations with IBM Lotus Social software and a preview of an upcoming Google Docs integration. With LGPL licensing and enhancements to document and web content management (WCM) functionality, Community 3.3 is also the first ECM tool to enable developers to deliver content-rich business applications leveraging CMIS 1.0 open source standards. Significant enhancements to Alfresco Community Edition 3.3 include: Providing core content management capabilities, in a free-to-distribute CMIS runtime; CMIS 1.0 Compliance; Online Content Editing Services. Alfresco Community 3.3 also provides a Web Editor Framework (WEF) - a JavaScript client side framework rendering a toolbar and associated controls designed to allow developers to extend any in-context functionality that may be required. The WEF also enables developers to easily create and package plug-ins and extensions for simple management and interoperability. Content Repurposing – Automated content formatting functionality allows developers to build solutions to repurpose content for the web. Developers can use automated rules and existing FreeMarker and XSLT templates to format content for multiple delivery channels. Repository Replication & Web Deployment – Alfresco 3.3 builds on current rich deployment facilities with the introduction of the Transfer Service. Integrations – Designed to meet the needs of developers looking for industry standard platforms that provide content services, Community 3.3 extends Alfresco support to IBM Lotus and Google Docs. New enhancements to Alfresco’s collaborative content management platform, Alfresco Share, include: Repository-wide content access, Automated Content Rules, Collaboration Lists, "Google Like" Search, Open Source License (LGPL). http://www.alfresco.com
CSOFT International Ltd., a provider of multilingual localization, testing, and software development services, announced the public launch of TermWiki Community Edition. TermWiki is the localization industry's first collaborative and wiki-based terminology management system. Anyone can immediately access TermWiki’s database to search, create, review, and rate multilingual terminology. In addition to TermWiki’s set of terminology management features, users now have the ability to organize multilingual terminology by product category, company name or business sector. The community edition of TermWiki comes with a host of features, including terminological data attributes, as well as the ability to rank the pertinence and accuracy of individual terms and translations. This new generation of terminology management software also includes properties that support a range of data types, such as web pages, images, audio pronunciations, Tweets, YouTube videos, and an endless number of interactive features, all aimed at providing linguistic context to clarify the use of terminology at the source level. Bolstered with a community voice feature, TermWiki Community Edition now enables companies to collect the input of internal staff and customers alike regarding the quality of terms and their associated translations. http://www.termwiki.com
Box.net announced its Box App for iPad is available on the App Store. The app is a cloud content management solution that has been designed to take full advantage of iPad's Multi-Touch interface and stunning screen. Box App for iPad enables users to access, share and interact with business content stored on Box.net. Box.net's cloud content management solution combines the content-centric focus of traditional content management solutions with the collaborative nature of social business software and currently helps more than 3.5 million users and more than 50,000 businesses easily share content, move company file systems online and create team workspaces.The Box App for iPad has all the core features people love about Box.net, delivered in a totally new way. Features of this App are: Browse through personal and shared files and folders; Share files and folders; Exchange feedback with colleagues and business partners around any file; Monitor updates to shared content, including edits, new versions and comments. The Box App for iPad is available for free from the App Store or on iTunes. http://www.box.net
DocuLex, creators of content management software (CMS), announced data mining capability through their WebSearch program. Users can keyword search their documents in various file formats to assist in decision making for their organizations. Available as a local installation or as a cloud/software service, WebSearch is a component of DocuLex’s Archive Studio, providing network-enabled document capture and image processing software, along with browser-based document and content management. Searches may be performed using document specific meta data descriptions, full text content, as well as date ranges, search history, search lists and saved searches. Driven by a dashboard display featuring the program's functions menu, WebSearch is now a workflow enabler, providing users the ability to share and amend native format documents, while organizing and tracking each amended version. The program's WorkSpace lets users to group sets of documents together to be shared with colleagues, and a discussion feature has been added for users to comment on document's content. The SharePortal function of WorkSpace allows the secure sharing if documents with 3rd party guests. The server-based software automates complex documentation organizational functions including browser-based file room views and group collaboration folders. Documents of various file types may be uploaded directly to WebSearch, indexed (with additional document identifying metadata added remotely if necessary) for native format storage and ease of access. DocuLex WebSearch also has the capability of pulling inbound and outbound email from the Microsoft Exchange Journal mailbox. This automated process negates user involvement, ensuring thorough capture and retention of all email and attached content. The program manages multiple levels of security, including Organization, Community, Group, Users, as well as individual files. Document and user activity tracking logs are always available, assisting in compliance of privacy laws including SEC, FINRA (NASD / NYSE), GLBA, HIPAA, FRCP, FERC and Sarbanes Oxley. Email is secured by WebSearch, maintaining private access rights by sender or recipient. However, email deletion is unavailable by users, access logs are maintained and retention is managed by the records management module. Incoming, outgoing and internal emails are captured instantly and actively by the archive server using a journaling function inherent to the clients' mail server (for Exchange and POP3 servers). Any email and attachments sent or delivered will be archived and processed. WebSearch can also serve as an off site document archival/disaster recovery facilitator, with public-key infrastructure (PKI) providing encryption and digital signature security for outsourcing daily-use information access to the electronic file storage. www.doculex.com
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