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WorkLight Announces WorkBook, a Secured Facebook for the Enterprise

WorkLight Inc. announced its new WorkBook secure Facebook solution for enterprises. WorkBook, an addition to the WorkLight 2.0 software platform currently in use by Global 500 companies, allows employees to interact with their colleagues using the Facebook service, while eliminating the security issues that have concerned organizations looking to leverage social networking. The WorkBook application combines all the capabilities of Facebook with all the controls of a corporate environment, including integration with existing enterprise security services and information sources, allowing companies to harness the capabilities provided by the social networking service and provide their employees with a safe and secure solution for increased productivity and communication. With WorkBook, employees can use Facebook to find and stay in touch with corporate colleagues, provide status updates, publish and receive company-related news and create bookmarks to enterprise application data and securely share these bookmarks with authorized colleagues. Secure provisioning ensures the application can be used only by authorized employees Information security. Enterprise security integration authenticates WorkBook users via corporate authentication facilities and supports Single Sign-On Integration with the company's directory or applications to provide information to Facebook profiles. WorkBook is currently in limited release and is licensed to enterprises as part of the WorkLight server by yearly subscription. Pricing starts at $10 per user per month, with volume discount pricing available. http://www.myworklight.com/

Open Text Announces Content Services

Open Text Content Services allow information workers to manage and exploit all content types in a unified way at three levels: At the desktop, facilitating access and interaction to all content through customizable business views from within desktop applications, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Explorer and Microsoft Outlook; in business processes to facilitate content flows which leads to improved productivity and process efficiency; and for archiving and records management to consistently manage retention and compliance rules across all business content, providing a single trusted repository. The new content services form the basis for Open Text's content management framework that takes a repository-agnostic approach to ECM. The new capabilities are exposed as Web Services, so that customers and partners can integrate and extend their use of the ECM technology within their organizations. The new services include: Open Text Enterprise Connect - a new user interface that serves dynamic, personalized content in context from within a user's choice of desktop application, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Explorer and Microsoft Outlook; Open Text Enterprise Process Services - provides BPM enterprise process services which allow information workers to automate and manage the flow of business content both within and across departments; and Open Text Enterprise Library Services - provide the foundation for a single, trusted repository that delivers integrated records management, metadata management, archive and search capabilities for all business content in an organization including content stored in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server sites, SAP applications, file systems, email and Open Text content repositories. With Enterprise Library Services, content can be managed, archived and stored consistently across the entire organization. http://www.opentext.com

Vivisimo and Datawatch Enhance E-Discovery and Compliance with Integrated E-Mail Archiving Search

Vivisimo and Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH) announced the integration of Vivisimo Velocity enterprise search capabilities with Datawatch|MailManager for E-Discovery solutions. Datawatch incorporated Vivisimo's search client to enhance the compliance and information retrieval capabilities for Datawatch|MailManager customers. Vivisimo's search capabilities integrated in Datawatch|MailManager include: Compliance Management – upon completion of a successful search, authorized users assign messages (and their associated attachments) to a legal case from the Datawatch|MailManager search client. E-mails assigned to a specific case can not be deleted, even if the retention period for those messages has expired, such messages will only be deleted after the case is closed; Enhanced Productivity through Knowledge Sharing – clustering search engine provides rapid full text searching of message subject, body and/or attachments to unlock the organizational knowledge in e-mail. http://vivisimo.com, http://www.datawatch.com

Recommind Unveils Axcelerate eDiscovery

Recommind introduced Axcelerate eDiscovery. This product assesses responsiveness, privilege and issue relation before the review process begins, helping to reduce the amount of time required to organize and conduct document review and analysis and to increase review accuracy and consistency. Recommind's Axcelerate eDiscovery offers automatic First-Pass Review of an entire document collection and One-Click Coding of documents. Axcelerate eDiscovery's One-Click Coding feature makes a computer-generated judgment, with confidence score, about each document's relevance, responsiveness, and privileged nature. Axcelerate eDiscovery offers law firms and enterprises document culling and filtering of virtually all document types, including both structured and unstructured data. The solution automatically filters duplicates and near-duplicates between and across custodians and parties, and offers contextual email thread analysis. The product's early case assessment tools then automatically extract key documents, people, phrases and concepts of interest, helping attorneys and paralegals understand the contents of a document collection, regardless of its size, before the review process has even begun. Other features include its automated "find all like this" functionality, which uses the system's conceptual search engine to quickly locate similar documents to a sample document of interest, whether a particular keyword was used frequently, occasionally or not at all, and the system’s ability to "learn" across all users by incorporating myriad reviewer responses directly into the automatic coding and review mechanism. Axcelerate eDiscovery is available immediately from Recommind and through Recommind's network of litigation support provider partners. http://www.recommind.com

Wipro and Tablus Partner to Provide Enterprise Content Security

Wipro Technologies (NYSE:WIT) and Tablus, Inc., announced a strategic alliance to resell, deploy and support the Tablus Content Loss Prevention Suite including Content Sentinel, Content Alarm NW and Content Alarm DT. Under the terms of the agreement, Wipro will integrate the complete Tablus suite into their Enterprise Security Solutions practice offerings, helping to protect the sensitive data and content of customers from potential loss or misuse. Wipro's Enterprise Security Solutions offer security solutions that streamline security technologies and management processes to mitigate the risks associated with flow of information throughout an enterprise. Tablus Content Loss Prevention solutions are designed to help organizations of all sizes to protect themselves from accidental loss or misuse of sensitive content, and to ensure compliance with privacy regulations and data security policies. Tablus' content discovery, monitoring and protection capabilities make it possible to identify sensitive content, stored or in transit, anywhere on the network or in use on the desktop. That content can then be managed in precise accordance with any number of policies. http://www.tablus.com/, http://www.wipro.com/, http://www.wiprocorporate.com/

CommVault Simpana 7.0 Software Suite Introduces Secure Search and Discovery Capabilities

CommVault (NASDAQ:CVLT) announced its next software release, now called the CommVault Simpana 7.0 software suite. CommVault Simpana 7.0 software helps companies store, manage and discover enterprise information across all tiers of storage. CommVault Simpana 7.0 suite provides major enhancements to data protection, archiving and replication solutions, additional platform coverage, and also delivers new product features, including: Enterprise-wide Search and Discovery; Single Instance Store (SIS); High Performance Content Indexing; Data Classification; Expanded Security and Encryption Capabilities; and Post-processing for Encryption, Content Indexing and SIS. The CommVault Simpana 7.0 suite creates a virtual information pool of searchable content from files, emails and attachments stored across separate backup, archive and online data sets. Corporate users can access in real-time current and historical information through a web-based interface. The entire CommVault Simpana 7.0 suite including all the features, products and enhancements detailed in this press release, is currently available. Pricing for specific configurations is available upon request. http://www.commvault.com

Abtech and Xythos Announce UK Partnership

Xythos Software announced a partnership with Abtech Computer Services UK, an IT integrator specializing in enterprise infrastructure solutions. Xythos has selected Abtech to develop a reseller channel in the UK. Abtech delivers Linux, Unix and enterprise storage solutions to commercial and government customers throughout the UK. UK information security requirements closely mirror those in the US. Xythos' recent completion of US Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 records management certification positions it to address a variety of European Union and UK security requirements, such as European Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Documents (MoReq). http://www.xythosondemand.com, http://www.abtech-uk.com

FAST Announces InStream 5.1

Fast Search & Transfer (OSEAX: FAST.OL) (FAST) announced the release of FAST InStream 5.1, the latest version of its embedded enterprise search platform designed for OEM partners and technology providers. FAST ESP 5.1. allows organizations to integrate into a variety of vertical applications including legal discovery, compliance and eCommerce, as well as storage and archiving solutions as part of the overall hosted eDiscovery marketplace. FAST InStream 5.1 offers new features to enhance data discovery and usability, including: Contextual Insight – provides users both precise contextual results and the contextual, dynamic navigation for further investigation of related information; Silo Indexing – allows OEMs to optimize the management of substantially more documents per node; and FAST Classifier – a new GUI tool that streamlines the hierarchal navigation of content. New relevancy management and linguistic features include: 80 languages, Advanced linguistics offered for 27 languages, Query-side lemmatization by expansion improves recall without index overhead, Linguistics Studio for GUI-based dictionary management, Improved Asian language support, and Synonym dictionary selection on a per query basis. Also there are improved business level search, system management additions, Software Development Kit (SDK), and new SOA integration Features. FAST InStream 5.1 will be generally available on June 29, 2007. http://www.fastsearch.com

Workshare Launches Workshare Professional 5

Workshare announced that Workshare Professional 5, a document control product integrated with 2007 Microsoft Office and Vista as well as previous Microsoft Office and Windows systems, is shipping. Designed for information workers who depend on sharing and reviewing Microsoft Office documents to get their job done, and to provide safe, compliant and usable document lifecycle management across organizations. Workshare Professional 5 securely manages how business people exchange content directly inside their standard creation and sharing tools. Its content management within the Office and Windows systems gives users standards-based access rights, collaboration abilities, heightened security parameters, adaptable workflow, and version tracking. Document authors simply use Workshare Professional inside Microsoft Office. Document reviewers only require Microsoft Office and edit directly in the document. When authors receive those documents back via email or via a portal, Workshare maintains the master document integrity, and preserves all changes between versions. Workshare Professional 5 is available immediately from Workshare resellers. 1 year term license pricing is US $175/user/year and perpetual license pricing is US $349/user plus annual maintenance. For optional document repository connectors, 1 year term license pricing is US $25/user/year and perpetual license pricing is US $50/user plus annual maintenance. http://www.workshare.com

Recommind Unveils Decisiv Email

Recommind unveiled Decisiv Email, a new product that addresses the compliance, eDiscovery and records management needs of large enterprises' and professional service firms' email. Decisiv Email uses categorization and conceptual search technology to automatically tag, organize and file email messages and associated attachments. Decisiv Email increases collaboration within an organization by correlating email-based information with related information in email archives, content management systems, document management systems, records management systems and other information repositories. And by automatically organizing and filing information as it enters and leaves the email system, the solution reduces time spent sorting through email correspondence in search of specific data. Decisiv Email is the latest extension of Recommind's information management platform that uses their MindServer conceptual search and categorization technology. http://www.recommind.com

Adobe Introduces LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES)

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) introduced Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES). LiveCycle ES integrates the capabilities of Adobe Flex and PDF technologies, while leveraging the reach of Flash Player and Adobe Reader to enable “customer engagement” applications that connect people inside and outside organizations to internal information and processes. LiveCycle ES includes solution components to build, manage and optimize business critical customer-facing processes. Organizations can use wizard-like Form Guides and Flash-based graphics to change the way users interact with the process of providing, or receiving information online. Once data is captured, LiveCycle ES automates the processing of that data, including integration with rules engines, data stores, and Web services. LiveCycle ES also provides customers with enhanced data output capabilities such as interactive dashboards and dynamic, high-volume print solutions. Additionally, LiveCycle ES offers rights management, document certification, and digital signatures capabilities to help organizations protect sensitive information. Adobe will make LiveCycle ES available in two editions, LiveCycle ES Business Transformation Edition and LiveCycle ES Data Capture Edition, giving customers the option of purchasing a base system to which they can add solution components, or purchasing several of the solution components in one package with a single price. The LiveCycle Business Transformation Edition includes the following solution components: Data Capture Edition, Process Management, Digital Signatures, Rights management, and Output. The LiveCycle Data Capture Edition (base) includes Forms, Data Services, Barcoded Forms, and Reader Extensions solution components. Both editions are expected to be available in July. http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Receives U.S. Department of Defense 5015.2 Certification

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced that Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has received U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 certification. Endorsed by the National Archives and Records Administration, the 5015.2 standard on which the DoD certification is based serves as the benchmark for government and corporate organizations that manage records and documents. Microsoft utilized the SharePoint platform in meeting the DoD 5015.2 criteria, integrating Exchange Server 2007 and extending SharePoint Server 2007's records management capabilities with an add-on pack that will be available free to customers later this year. More information on records management in Office SharePoint Server 2007 can be found at http://office.microsoft.com/sharepoint

Allen Systems Group to Acquire Mobius

Mobius Management Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOBI) and Allen Systems Group, Inc. ("ASG") announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which ASG has agreed to acquire Mobius for $10.05 per share in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the second or third calendar quarter of 2007. The completion of the merger is subject to approval of Mobius stockholders, clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Anti-Trust Improvements Act and other customary closing conditions. Mobius will solicit stockholder approval for the transaction at a special meeting, subject to the mailing of a definitive proxy statement. Upon completion of the transaction, Mobius will continue as a wholly-owned subsidiary of ASG. Mitchell Gross, co-founder, President, Chairman and CEO of Mobius, and Joseph J. Albracht, co-founder and a director of Mobius, have entered into a voting agreement with ASG pursuant to which they have agreed to vote all of their shares (collectively representing approximately 47.8% of Mobius' outstanding shares) in favor of the transaction. The voting agreement expires upon termination of the merger agreement. http://www.mobius.com, http://www.asg.com

Salesforce.com acquires Koral and Announces Salesforce Content Management

Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) introduced Salesforce Content, an expansion of its platform and application strategy for managing and sharing all business information on demand. Apex Content, a major new extension to the Salesforce platform, will enable the creation of content-based applications. Salesforce ContentExchange, a new on-demand application built on the new platform technologies, will enable customers to manage their documents and other unstructured data on demand as they manage their structured data within the existing Salesforce CRM applications. Apex Content and Salesforce ContentExchange will be based on technology acquired from Koral Technologies. Salesforce.com acquired Koral in March 2007. Terms were not disclosed. Apex Content will provide a content platform that will fuel Salesforce applications, including AppSpace, Salesforce PRM, and Salesforce Wealth Management Edition. With Apex Content, developers will be able to create new kinds of content applications. The first application to be built on Apex Content will be Salesforce ContentExchange. Salesforce ContentExchange will help companies store, share, find and manage the business information that currently lives in documents, emails and HTML, while keeping all users and content in sync. Salesforce ContentExchange will take community participation, tagging, recommendations, subscriptions, and an AJAX user interface and apply them to enterprise content management. Pricing and availability of Salesforce ContentExchange and Apex Content is scheduled to be announced later this calendar year. http://www.salesforce.com/

Interwoven Records Manager Receives U.S. Department of Defense 5015.2 Certification

Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ: IWOV) announced that Interwoven Records Manager has received U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 certification. The certification verifies that Interwoven Records Manager, a solution that manages both physical and electronic records in a unified environment, complies with the DoD 5015.2 standard. This standard defines the requirements that must be met by records management application products used by the DoD and other government agencies based on operational, legislative, and legal needs. The Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC), a division of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), awarded the certification of Interwoven Records Manager on March 13, 2007. The 5015.2 standard is endorsed by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and is viewed as the benchmark for government and corporate organizations that manage classified records and documents. http://www.interwoven.com

Vamosa to enter E-Discovery Market with ‘Themis’ Platform

Vamosa announced plans to enter the e-Discovery market with the launch of a new platform called Themis. The platform has been designed to complement existing offerings from e-Discovery and ECM vendors while filling the gaps in this highly componentized market. Through the use of Themis, organizations will be able to operate an end-to-end e-Discovery solution. The platform will leverage Vamosa’s rule based content processing engine and come with several solutions aimed at facilitating and enhancing an organizations e-Discovery practices. Employing the content processing capabilities of the Vamosa engine, Themis is intended to provide organizations with cost and time savings in preparation for a litigation hold, and after the hold procedure has taken place, when all relevant content has to be produced. http://www.vamosa.com

Lyquidity Solutions Releases SDK for ComplyXL

Lyquidity Solutions announced the availability of the software development kit (SDK) for ComplyXL. This release gives organizations the ability to embed ComplyXL functionality into their existing document and content management systems, as well as allowing organizations the flexibility of controlling how information is made available to users. The SDK comes as part of the ComplyXL bundle so is available to client organizations free of charge. To use the SDK, programmers can choose to work with either Microsoft COM or Microsoft .NET programming models. Using the SDK existing systems can be enhanced to add version control and version history information to any spreadsheet document and to provide users with the ability to review and visualize changes. This makes it possible to extend existing content and document management systems into the area of compliance, governance and risk management of spreadsheets, a key requirement for a SOX compliance program. Lyquidity also provides a Java based version of the API as a chargeable extra for those organizations that need to run in a non-Windows environment. ComplyXL supports Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL databases and using the SDK it can be adapted to support the database of other document management systems. http://www.lyquidity.com/

HiSoftware Unveils Compliance Sheriff for Managing Web Content and Regulatory Governance

HiSoftware, a provider of software, services and managed operation solutions that monitor and optimize Web content governance, quality and regulatory compliance, today announced the release of Compliance Sheriff, a hosted management solution that provides testing and reporting for standards-based policies including accessibility and privacy. HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff allows organizations to integrate an automated solution for managing Web Governance standards as part of a corporate Risk Management strategy. HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff’s modules allow users to test for standards-based and custom factors including: Accessibility Compliance module can report on Section 508, WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0, CLF, XAG and any standard derived from WCAG or Section 508; Privacy Policy Compliance module can report on a number of multi-national regulatory and compliancy standards including: Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), Children’s Online Privacy Act (COPPA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), US Privacy Act and other key US and international standards; Custom Guideline and Policy Compliance for all content including but not limited to: HTML, XHTML, SVG, XML and any other text or element based content. HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff provides an integrated digital Dashboard Reporting System that provides access to executive level summary reports. HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff is available immediately through HiSoftware and its authorized resellers as a hosted server solution. Solutions start at $4,995 for SMB offerings to $25,000 per module. http://www.hisoftware.com

Surety and SRC Solutions to Deliver Data Integrity Services for Xerox DocuShare

Surety, LLC, a provider of data integrity solutions, announced an exclusive technology partnership with SRC Solutions, a Xerox business partner. The alliance focuses on the integration of Surety’s AbsoluteProof digital time-stamp solution with the Xerox DocuShare enterprise content management (ECM) solution to enable SRC's customers to protect their intellectual property, defend their electronic evidence in litigation and comply with regulatory mandates by proving that their electronic records have never been tampered. The integration of Surety's AbsoluteProof service into the Xerox DocuShare platform provides an electronic document solution that offers an independent, third-party means of validating the date and time of generation as well as the integrity of any electronic record within the system. Surety's AbsoluteProof is a time-stamping method that offers long-lasting protection, provides objective proof of record integrity independent of a company's people, processes and systems, and complies with domestic and international standards. The AbsoluteProof timestamp service is compatible with any file format. Development of the integration module is now complete, and the joint solution is available to the general market immediately.
http://www.surety.com, http://www.src-solutions.com

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December 19, 2007

WorkLight Announces WorkBook, a Secured Facebook for the Enterprise

October 22, 2007

Open Text Announces Content Services

August 22, 2007

Vivisimo and Datawatch Enhance E-Discovery and Compliance with Integrated E-Mail Archiving Search

August 16, 2007

Recommind Unveils Axcelerate eDiscovery

July 30, 2007

Wipro and Tablus Partner to Provide Enterprise Content Security

July 9, 2007

CommVault Simpana 7.0 Software Suite Introduces Secure Search and Discovery Capabilities

June 25, 2007

Abtech and Xythos Announce UK Partnership

June 12, 2007

FAST Announces InStream 5.1

June 11, 2007

Workshare Launches Workshare Professional 5

June 5, 2007

Recommind Unveils Decisiv Email

June 4, 2007

Adobe Introduces LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES)

May 29, 2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Receives U.S. Department of Defense 5015.2 Certification

April 12, 2007

Allen Systems Group to Acquire Mobius

April 10, 2007

Salesforce.com acquires Koral and Announces Salesforce Content Management

March 28, 2007

Interwoven Records Manager Receives U.S. Department of Defense 5015.2 Certification

March 19, 2007

Vamosa to enter E-Discovery Market with ‘Themis’ Platform

March 12, 2007

Lyquidity Solutions Releases SDK for ComplyXL

February 28, 2007

HiSoftware Unveils Compliance Sheriff for Managing Web Content and Regulatory Governance

February 27, 2007

Surety and SRC Solutions to Deliver Data Integrity Services for Xerox DocuShare

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