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Canto announced that Cumulus 7.6.1 is available for immediate download with many improvements, while other updates were included to ease the transition to the architectural updates coming in the company's next product release, Cumulus 8. One of the product's new capabilities is the ability for Cumulus to send automated email notifications when category assignments are made or changed. This enables organizations who use Cumulus categories for project management (in addition to digital asset management) to keep selected employees up to date as assets move through their development pipelines. Enhanced metadata support is now available for Microsoft Visio. When Visio files are cataloged, their entire text contents can be extracted and saved as searchable metadata by Cumulus. InDesign CS4 is now supported by Cumulus InDesign plug-in, which ships with all Cumulus servers. Also newly supported is the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), a specification of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. http://www.canto.com

Kyte announced a content management and analytics solution for the Kyte Platform. Kyte Dashboard provides partners with video uploading and management capabilities, multi-level content moderation, and in-depth analytics reporting and visualization. The addition of Kyte Dashboard provides media companies utilizing the Kyte Platform with an interface to manage all of their Kyte media and view insightful analytics. Kyte Dashboard is a hosted application that can be accessed from the web, or run on the desktop as an Adobe AIR application. Kyte Dashboard's content management module allows partners to upload and broadcast professionally produced content, change the order of shows that appear in a channel through simple drag and drop functionality, edit show meta data such as show title and description, and copy, delete and download media to their computer. Kyte Dashboard's multi-level content moderation capabilities enable companies to safely engage in viewer-generated content campaigns. Moderators can approve or reject viewer-contributed content, as well as ban or restore content flagged as inappropriate by other viewers. The analytics module provides insight into engagement, distribution, production, advertising and user metrics. Partners can view analytics as tabular data or visualized charts at the account or channel level and over a specific range of time. Kyte provides an end-to-end, online and mobile platform for the production, distribution and monetization of digital content. http://www.kyte.com/

The FeedRoom, provider of online video solutions for media companies, corporations and government agencies, announced that it has completed the acquisition of ClearStory Systems, a digital asset management (DAM) software provider. ClearStory's solutions provide advanced capabilities for managing a full range of digital marketing assets including graphics, documents, and multimedia. The combination of ClearStory Systems' DAM platform, ActiveMedia 7.5, with The FeedRoom's 4.0 Enterprise Video Platform (EVP) will help marketing and media organizations to integrate, manage and deliver their digital media assets in a single system. http://www. Feedroom.com

Endeca Technologies, Inc. unveiled its new Digital Asset Navigator solution, a search and information access solution designed for media companies, content publishers, advertising agencies and marketing departments, and the latest addition to Endeca's media and publishing-specific information access solutions. Designed to complement and extract latent value from Digital Asset Management (DAM) initiatives, it provides information access capabilities to explore, find and evaluate images, graphics, audio/video files, and other high-value digital assets. Endeca's Digital Asset Navigator integrates related data from DAM and content management systems, as well as databases, file servers, enterprise applications and other source systems. And it takes advantage of Endeca's security capabilities, designed in collaboration with the intelligence community, to ensure that users only have access to data they are approved to see and use, decreasing legal and compliance costs. http://www.endeca.com

Canto announced new versions of Quark integration products: QXP Companion, QXP Server Companion and QPS Companion. The products offer integrations with QuarkXPress, QuarkXPress Server and the Quark Publishing System, respectively. New in the product line is support for QuarkXPress 8, QuarkXPress Server 8 and Quark Publishing System versions 7.4 and 8. Integration via Canto's QPS Repository Adapter offers users of the Quark Publishing System complete access to the DAM functionality of Cumulus. Experience with Quark products has enabled Canto's Professional Services division, working with Canto Partner RHpro, to build a large Cumulus/Quark integration for an education publisher in Portugal based on the new product releases. http://www.rhpro.pt

Equilibrium announced a partnership with pTools. pTools has enhanced its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software for Microsoft SharePoint by integrating it with MediaRich DAM for SharePoint, Equilibrium's Digital Asset Management software. pTools product architecture with MediaRich and SharePoint provides end-to-end ECM software to customers that covers web content management, digital asset management, plus document collaboration and records management on a single platform. This allows interoperability of workflows and user interface with pTools, MediaRich, SharePoint and other Microsoft applications. pTools architecture allows re-use of content across multiple applications from a single repository, while maintaining all the necessary workflow and compliance rules demanded of enterprise level initiatives. Content compliance within pTools uses sophisticated audit trail functionality that allows pTools customers to validate all events in the life of the content developed. pTools application programming interface (API) enables content management professionals to use pTools development tools to deliver solutions for Intranets, Extranets and Internet applications. Key features include: pTools advanced workflow and content compliance; Web2.0 functionality; pTools Forms; MediaRich digital asset management; Microsoft SharePoint integration; clean code accessibility output; pTools "content element model"; content security marking; SEO optimisation; and multi-site content syndication. http://www.equilibrium.com

Open Text Corporation announced the acquisition of eMotion LLC from Corbis Corporation. The eMotion division will become part of Open Text's Artesia Digital Media Group. The acquisition gives Artesia a broader portfolio of offerings for marketing departments and advertising agencies, adding capabilities that complement its enterprise marketing asset management solution, Artesia DAM. The move will extend Open Text's digital media capabilities as part of its Enterprise 2.0 strategy. eMotion is headquartered in Seattle and has a team based in Virginia. Open Text purchased the division for approximately $5 million, net of cash and assets, effective July 2, 2008. It is currently anticipated that the financial terms and future impact of the acquisition will not have a material effect on future financial results of Open Text. http://www.opentext.com

Canto announced a set of updates for its Cumulus product line. First up and available for download now, Cumulus 7.5.4 offers a few minor updates and marks the end of the Cumulus 7.5 update schedule. Following shortly thereafter, Cumulus 7.6 will arrive, offering a wealth of new features and enhancements. Cumulus 7.5.4 is a free update available to all customers now using Cumulus 7.5. Most importantly, the update addresses an issue that affected a small number of customers who take advantage of the Cumulus Backup Manager. In addition, Cumulus 7.5.4 increases the performance of Cumulus Servers running in 64-bit Linux environments, and offers reliability enhancements for customers using central asset locations, or providing previews of Microsoft Office documents. Cumulus 7.6, an update available only to customers on active service contracts, will include all enhancements available in Cumulus 7.5.4, plus offer many new features and benefits requested by customers. Among those new features will be the ability to embed watermarks into images, and generate PDF previews and thumbnails without Adobe Acrobat installed, even via the Canto Web Clients. Additional features and benefits will be announced when the update ships. All customers who use the Cumulus Backup Manager should update to Cumulus 7.5.4 immediately. Customers on active service agreements who do not use the Cumulus Backup Manager can safely wait for Cumulus 7.6, if they prefer. Customers whose service agreements will soon expire (or have already expired) are encouraged to contact Canto or their Canto reseller to renew their policies in time to take advantage of the many new benefits of Cumulus 7.6. http://www.canto.com/portal

Equilibrium announced a strategic technology partnership with Extensis, a software developer that allows creative workgroups and professionals to streamline their workflow and securely manage their digital assets and fonts. In this technology partnership, Extensis will OEM Equilibrium's MediaRich Graphics engine for integration into a future release of Extensis Portfolio Server. The MediaRich engine will offer a more stable, scalable and faster solution while providing overall improved imaging capabilities from Portfolio and also add accelerated support of new file types and self service media processing capabilities in the future. Equilibrium's MediaRich media asset engine offers Portfolio users the ability to automate image, animation, sound and digital video production. http://www.extensis.com http://www.equilibrium.com

Equilibrium announces the latest expansion of it's massively scalable MediaRich Media Server for images and video with the release of version 3.8.6. Added features include expanded support with the optional Audio/Video module of HD and Broadcast formats, including MXF, MPEG2, MPEG2 Transport Stream, and many more. In addition, scalable hot-folder support is included utilizing the power of MediaScript, MediaRich's flexible media manipulation scripting language based on ECMA JavaScript. A new, comprehensive Sonic Flash Zoom with Multi-Page/Frame zoom support (for PDF, EPS, PS, AI file types) is also included. This enables the on-demand viewing in any web browser from an Flash interface of any multi-page file without having to download the entire file. MediaRich 3.8.6 includes a new Administrator Tool with batch job monitoring, error log, and individual control of MediaRich threads, remote administration. http://www.equilibrium.com