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LTU Technologies announced the release of LTU-Finder v. 3.0, a tool for image and video recognition in the field of computer forensics. Offered as a trusted plug-in to Guidance Software's EnCase, a computer forensic tool used in law enforcement, government and legal professionals, LTU-Finder reduces the time required to identify and review relevant image and video files collected during a digital investigation. Likewise, to help users obtain relevant reference data LTU is authorized to share the child porn "DNA" reference set of a major Federal law enforcement agency. LTU-Finder combines LTU's image and video content recognition technology with Guidance Software's computer and enterprise investigation capabilities to increase the speed and scope of forensic and legal investigations as well as e-discovery. Today's unveiling of LTU-Finder includes enhanced image and video recognition capabilities and introduces text data identification tools that further automate large-scale file searches in the legal, e-discovery and law enforcement fields. LTU-Finder also includes automatic document identification tools that separate relevant scanned documents, like e-faxes, from other content such as personal photos or web graphics. LTU-Finder leverages the same core Image DNA technology offered in its multimedia content control solutions. All relevant information about images and videos is indexed within a digital signature, or "image DNA", that examines each pixel of an image in order to identify the key visual features. Additionally, LTU-Finder, like all of LTU's offerings, has the ability to identify duplicated and modified images and flag and match images against those in centralized databases or from case data files.

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Oracle announced it has expanded its Enterprise Content Management Portfolio with the launch of Oracle Universal Online Archive and Oracle E-mail Archive Service. Both are
components of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle Universal Online Archive provides an archiving system that combines the proven infrastructure of the Oracle Database and the hot-pluggability of Oracle Fusion Middleware with a high-volume data ingestion engine to simplify archiving, management and rapid retrieval of multiple content types. Oracle E-mail Archive Service, in conjunction with Oracle Universal Online Archive, provides an optimized e-mail archiving interface for Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes, and SMTP-based mail systems. Oracle Universal Online Archive is expected to be available in 2008. The expected price is $20 per named user plus or $75,000 per CPU. Oracle E-mail Archive Service is expected to be available in 2008. The expected price is $50 per named user plus or $40,000 per CPU. http://www.oracle.com/goto/contentmanagement

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IXIASOFT announced the availability of the DITA CMS Framework 2.1. Not only is the latest version compatible with DITA 1.1. With its new capabilities, the DITA CMS Framework provides technical communicators with advanced project management features and support WYSIWYG for DITA bookmaps. The project management functionality offers an overview of multi-deliverable projects that may include documents as diverse as installation instructions, training packages and reference documentation. Project managers will use this feature to select the staff who will be responsible for documentation and review, for setting up review dates for the maps that make up a project and for specifying the languages in which each map should be translated to. In its latest version, the DITA CMS Framework supports DITA bookmaps directly within its DITA Map editor. Therefore, technical communicators now have a user friendly interface not only to create DITA bookmaps but also to help them qualify specific sections of a book. All of the already available DITA Map editor features - including map comparison, drag and drop of topics between maps and nesting and cloning of maps - will also be accessible to manage DITA bookmaps. http://www.ixiasoft.com

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C2C announced the availability of its Archive Search Services which allows customers a range of open access points to massive amounts of archived email data to improve productivity. Archive Search Services features include: A Federated Search Provider, which allows enterprise search solutions, including Microsoft Search Server 2008, Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and Internet Explorer's 'custom search providers,' to pass search queries directly to Archive One and accept and display results returned from there; A Search Connector, which allows search servers such as Microsoft Search Server and Windows Search access to the archive index in order for them to build index data within their own servers; A Google Search plug-in for search access to the email archive from Google Desktop and Enterprise; and Support for the OpenSearch v1.1 standard which allows any application supporting this standard to gain access to the archive data. http://www.c2c.com

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and tagged: C2C, document management, OpenSearch, records management, search
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HP (NYSE:HPQ) and Tower Software announced that they have signed a pre-bid agreement for HP to acquire Tower, a document and records management software company based in Canberra, Australia. The acquisition of Tower will add electronic records management to HP Software's existing e-discovery and compliance capabilities in information collection and retention. This includes both records management and identification. Under an existing alliance between the companies, Tower TRIM Context has been integrated with the HP Integrated Archive Platform to provide customers with a combined records management and compliance archiving solution. Combining HP's and Tower's overall software capabilities will enable customers to identify electronic business records from general business communication, collect those business records in a scalable and high-performance archive platform and preserve them for long-term future use in legal discovery or compliance activities. The addition of Tower also is expected to enable HP Software to address the Microsoft SharePoint compliance and e-discovery opportunities. The board of directors of Tower has unanimously approved the transaction and recommends that Tower shareholders accept HP's offer in the absence of a higher third-party offer. The acquisition will be conducted by means of an off-market takeover bid for all of the outstanding shares of Tower. The takeover is expected to close in the second quarter of calendar year 2008. More information is available at http://www.hp.com/go/tower

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DocsCorp announced it has significantly expanded its integration capability to include NetDocuments, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider. NetDocuments, a vendor of SaaS document, email and collaborative document services, provides legal, real estate, financial and health service professionals with instant access to their "work" (documents, emails, projects etc) no matter where they are. Documents are stored in a repository that users access through their browser. Integration with pdfDocs Desktop means that NetDocuments users will be able to "pull down" documents to their local system, convert them to PDF and "push" them back as new or related documents. Alternatively, users can save documents into NetDocuments as PDFs direct from MS Word. DocsCorp plans to extend its integration within the next couple of months to help NetDocuments provide a feature-rich, efficient and secure document service to its clients. Some of the features earmarked to be included in the next release will be the ability to save a document back into NetDocuments as the current or new version of an existing document. http://www.netdocuments.com, http://www.docscorp.com/

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Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS) announced that it has expanded its alliance with EMC (NYSE:EMC) to jointly market EMC Documentum. The global cross-industry agreement enables Unisys to expand its team of Documentum-certified consultants who implement and deploy EMC enterprise content management solutions. Unisys has developed an interface between its 3D Blueprinting modelling methodology and EMC's Documentum. This interface enables Unisys to deploy Documentum solutions designed with 3D Blueprinting modelling tools more rapidly and securely. Unisys 3D Blueprinting allows clients to model and better understand the interconnections of their various enterprise content management activities (e.g., data administration; records, contract and case management; regulatory compliance; and other information-intensive tasks). http://www.unisys.com/

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Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (NASDAQ:TSX:) (NASDAQ:OTC) announced that RedDot, the Open Text Web Solutions Group, has released its Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Document Management Integration. RedDot's integration solution features include: Cache a document from SharePoint Server 2007 - When sharing a document online is important but permissions limit user access, RedDot can publish and retain a resident copy of the document presented to any online target, while maintaining the security and integrity of the SharePoint Server 2007 Library; Link a document from SharePoint Server 2007 - Web content editors can address latency and stale Web content by dynamically accessing a document resident in SharePoint Server 2007; Users can link documents via the publishing system to any online target with secure and controlled access from any location; Access different document versions - Administrators can select a specific version of a document to publish with granularity to access previous or minor versions as well; amd, Publish document attributes and metadata from SharePoint Server 2007 - Web content editors can publish document metadata to any online target for classification or search. http://www.reddot.com/, http://www.opentext.com/

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and tagged: content management, document management, ECM, Open Text, RedDot, SharePoint, WCM
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Day Software (SWX: DAYN) (OTC:DYIHY) announced it has entered into an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Exstream Software, a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard. Under the terms of the agreement, Exstream will bundle Day's technology - CRX Repository, Communiqué (CQ) Workflow, and CQ User Interface - with its Dialogue and Dialogue Live products, helping customers to build content-centric interactive applications regardless of location, format, or language. Day has also launched a corporate blog and portal designed to encourage communication among those who share ideas and interests around content-related topics. Geared toward software developers, the new resource features news and commentary surrounding JSR 170, the Java Content Repository (JCR) application programming interface (API) for stored content; representational state transfer (REST), open source and other related topics and technologies. http://www.exstream.com, http://www.day.com

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Adlib Software announced the release of AdlibExpress Server 4.0, setting the stage for the concurrent release of four (4) new packages, replacing the existing menu of add-on modules. Until now, Adlib Software was offered as a fully configurable menu of options consisting of a core transformation engine, known as Express Server, a web services component called Exponent and a series of add-on modules designed to provide extended functionality. Collectively, these elements gave Adlib Software customers a array of options to build and customize their own solution. With the introduction of Express Sever 4.0, Adlib Software is introducing Adlib Express Conversion Server; an application suite that handles document conversion from over 300 different file types to file standards like PDF, PDF/A, XPS, HTML, Word, and many more. Adlib ExpressRecognition Server is an OCR engine that turns large volumes of images including scanned images, faxes and image only PDFs into searchable PDF documents. Adlib ExpressPublishing Server adds publishing functionality to document workflows that aims to eliminate costly manual processes. It adds stamps such as HTML overlays, headers, footers, page numbers and watermarks. It builds intelligent Tables of Contents with hyperlink and bookmark management and performs document assembly. Adlib will be grandfathering all Pre-Express 4.0 customers with valid maintenance contracts to the newest version without any increase in price. http://www.adlibsoftware.com/

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NetDocuments announced that it has released its new searching engine, NDSearch, based on FAST's search engine. NDSearch is an enterprise index and retrieval platform, providing searching technology for a single repository of documents, images, emails, attachments, and digital records. NDSearch will be deployed in a SaaS model, where all maintenance, updates and optimization will be handled by NetDocuments and deployed in a redundant infrastructure across two datacenters. FAST preserves NetDocuments' secure searching technology which enforces access control, ethical walls, while offering such enhanced functionality as relevancy ranking, proximity and phrase searching, linguistics and lemmatization, data classification, topic and entity extraction. Users will not only be able to retrieve documents, but will also be able to analyze the people, companies, locations, dates, and concepts associated with matters and projects offering a truly discovery-class search technology. http://www.netdocuments.com

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EMC Corporation announced new software capabilities that double the amount of digital objects its EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) system can archive. CentraStar 4.0 - doubles the amount of objects that each individual disk drive in a system can hold, with each 500 gigabyte or 750 gigabyte drive now able to hold up to 25 million objects. In addition, the new version of the software, which is available as a free upgrade, improves the self-management and healing capabilities of Centera systems up to 25 percent faster than previous versions. The new version of the CentraStar operating software improves system flexibility and security. This includes a new capability that enables administrators to segregate, configure and separately manage application, management and replication traffic to optimize the mix of performance and protection. It also gives administrators additional system logging and auditing capabilities; including the ability to custom configure password complexity rules for enhanced security. CentraStar version 4.0 is currently shipping with all new Centera systems and is available to existing customers under software maintenance free of charge. Systems running CentraStar 2.4 and above can be upgraded to CentraStar 4.0. http://www.emc.com/

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Intalio, Inc. announced a partnership with Alfresco Software, Inc. The integrated offering of Intalio|BPMS and Alfresco ECM allows users to manage advanced document-centric workflow processes and support the collaborative development of complex business processes. Document-centric workflow processes provide a way to automate business communications, allowing documents to be transmitted to the right people based on complex rules. The integrated solution also allows Business and IT to collaboratively document complex business processes, making it easier to understand business requirements and the rational behind new procedures. The Alfresco integration project was funded under the Demand Driven Development (D3) model introduced by Intalio in 2006. The idea behind D3 is to allow customers to steer Intalio's product development roadmap in specific directions, then participate in the overall development process through syndicated funding. Development is billed at cost, and sponsors receive credits toward the licensing of Intalio|BPMS Enterprise Edition equivalent to 50% of their participation in the D3 project. The Alfresco integration D3 project is currently being funded by three sponsors worldwide. http://www.intalio.com/, http://www.alfresco.com

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SpringCM announced SpringCM Version 4.2, the newest version of the company's document management and workflow Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. Version 4.2 offers several major new features and enhancements designed to improve business productivity and to automate document-centric processes including eForms, Automated Document Customization and Custom Reporting. SpringCM has also made enhancements to its Advanced Workflow, Request for Electronic Signature, standard routing and approval workflows and salesforce.com integration features. SpringCM Version 4.2 will be made generally available March 15, 2008. http://www.springcm.com

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Daybreak Intellectual Capital Solutions, Inc. announced eCapture for Microsoft SharePoint, a new addition to Daybreak's eCapture Suite of distributed document capture and delivery solutions. eCapture for SharePoint is tightly integrated out of the box with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), enabling users to capture and deliver documents directly into selected SharePoint repositories. eCapture for SharePoint is built on a modular platform that consists of the core capture engine and SharePoint plug-in, making it easy to capture, process, and deliver documents into the target repository. In cases where SharePoint is being utilized in addition to other enterprise content management systems, eCapture Suite provides the ability to deploy multiple plug-ins for other ECM systems in conjunction with the SharePoint plug-in, giving users the ability to capture and deliver documents into multiple repositories from a single interface, without having to toggle back and forth between applications. Configurable document profiles enable users to define document metadata capture and destination repositories. Metadata capture is automated via zonal or full text OCR, and supported file formats include TIFF, PDF, and searchable PDF. Index field mapping with the target repository is completely automated as well with no requirement for custom release scripts or export modules. eCapture for SharePoint pricing is based on a concurrent licensing model with no page count limitations. Product availability is scheduled for Q208. http://www.daybreakICS.com

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Oracle announced updates the Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, to strengthen content security, and enhance their Enterprise Content Management platform. The enhancements improve organizations' ability to secure content by automating encryption of documents stored in Oracle Universal Content Management through a new integration with Oracle Information Rights Management. The integration: Protects documents and emails that users check in to Oracle Universal Content Management by sealing them with Advanced Encryption Standard and RSA cryptography; Helps prevent unauthorized access to electronic documents and emails - even if it they have been downloaded, emailed, copied or transferred outside the corporate network; Allows administrators to control access to electronic documents and emails by local and remote users at the individual and group level at any time; and Does not require user intervention or restrict legitimate access to and search of the encrypted information. Oracle also delivered several new features to Oracle Universal Content Management including: Folios, which enable grouping of multiple content items for distribution, retention control, workflow and automatic rendering into a single document or other formats; Support for BPEL-based (Business Process Execution Language) processes; Improved AJAX-based user interface; A new forms editor that enables business users to create and edit online forms; Integration with Oracle's AutoVue Enterprise Visualization, Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher, and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search. http://www.oracle.com/

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KnowledgeLake Inc. announced the release of the KnowledgeLake Transactional Content Management Solutions (TCMS) for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Office 2007, and KnowledgeLake Content Migration Suite (CMS) for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. KnowledgeLake TCMS is a suite of horizontal and vertical paper-to-digital solutions targeting transactional business processes that need to move from paper to ECM repositories. The first three solutions, Accounts Payable, New Accounts and Contract Management, address horizontal problems seen in public and private sectors of business. KnowledgeLake CMS is a suite of applications designed to provide a structured and auditable migration process for loading high volumes of electronic content from ECM systems directly into SharePoint Server 2007. KnowledgeLake is initially launching the Content Migration Suite (CMS) specifically targeting IBM FileNet repositories. In the coming months additional offerings for many other repositories that have already been developed and tested will be released. KnowledgeLake CMS for IBM FileNet is available now, with additional repository support coming early summer 2008. KnowledgeLake's TCMS for Accounts Payable, TCMS for Contract Management and TCMS for New Accounts is available now, with additional solutions releasing to the market over the balance of 2008 and into 2009. http://www.knowledgelake.com

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Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX) (NASDAQ:TSX:) (NASDAQ:OTC) introduced a new solution for law firms that provides Open Text's matter lifecycle management and law practice support solutions for law firms on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The solution, called Open Text Legal Information Management, SharePoint Edition, combines Open Text's specialized legal industry expertise in matter lifecycle management and proactive compliance, with the collaboration and document management capabilities of Office SharePoint Server 2007. With Open Text's new solution, attorneys and staff can work in the SharePoint Server 2007 environment, while managing their matters according to strict business processes. The Open Text solution for SharePoint Server 2007 provides firms with matter and practice-centric views of content, virtual file cabinets and seamless integration with a firm's core business processes. Attorneys can access documents and email in different repositories; perform federated searches across matters; and automatically assign metadata to allow correct classification of documents. Firms can also use Open Text's Enterprise Library Services with SharePoint Server 2007 to provide records management and long-term archiving that helps meet compliance requirements. http://www.opentext.com

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Intrasphere Technologies announced the launch of PharmaCM, a comprehensive content management solution, powered by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). The solution enables users to overcome ineffective content authoring, management and distribution processes. PharmaCM helps organizations manage drug product information that is critical to patient safety more effectively, including the content for drug labels, clinical trial protocols, and drug safety reporting helping business users to create, manage, submit to regulators and intelligently reuse their information. PharmaCM provides an interface for generating a series of regulated documents including protocol disclosure forms required for registration on www.clinicaltrials.gov as well as structured product labels (SPL) as required by the DailyMed on the National Library of Medicine. http://www.intrasphere.com/

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