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Armedia announced a formal, full- service SharePoint Services Practice. Armedia offers expertise with both SharePoint and Documentum, as well as the experience in developing and implementing unified, enterprise-level content management strategies based on "best practices" and experience. Armedia has also recently upgraded its Caliente! product so that it is compatible with SharePoint. Caliente! is a high-volume, scalable solution providing configurable unattended batch imports. Caliente! can process millions of documents with metadata daily. Caliente! "hot" folders watch for changes and move data from workstations to repositories automatically. http://www.aremdia.com

DocuLex announced the release of Archive Studio WebSearch 4.1. New features to the content management software include SharePortal, which allows the knowledge user to securely share content and collaborate with third party individuals or organizations without user logins. SharePortal can be utilized for sharing large or zipped files with outside vendors, customers and business associates. Automated Expirations were added to provide a self management effort of eliminating temporary access to invitations, files and folders made available by SharePortal permission and granted by WebSearch users. Workflow enabling Auto Notification is now available for assignment to files and folders. Users or communities may be automatically notified if files or folders are added, deleted, checked-out, edited, etc. Workflow Inbox and folder routing is also enabled, allowing users to customize folder content to meet their business process requirements for routing documents and notifying users to perform their assigned activity. The Records Retention addition to WebSearch provides an automated process of classifying a record to a particular records series. The automated Records Retention processes include management reports, shredding, off-line archiving and legal hold capabilities. WebSearch Browser-Based file indexing accommodates the business process of adding documents via MFP, FAX or electronically generated files. The process of generating index values for records can be performed as a post process from anywhere with via a browser and secure access to documents. http://www.doculex.com

IBM announced new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software designed to help clients meet challenging legal discovery requirements. The new IBM eDiscovery solutions extend IBM's ECM software platform to enable organizations to take control of electronically stored information across the enterprise. IBM's eDiscovery software helps companies manage the eDiscovery process by enabling them to automate the collecting, searching and classifying information across multiple content sources, while maintaining security and the ability to track changes. The new eDiscovery software integrates with IBM's auto-classification and records management technology to help IT departments manage information for compliance and electronic discovery requests. IBM eDiscovery software also integrates with IBM's content-centric business process management (BPM) capabilities to help organizations standardize, control and automate legal discovery workflows and enable third-party components as needed. The main component of IBM's solution is the new IBM eDiscovery Manager, which enables organizations to control the eDiscovery process by bringing key eDiscovery tasks in house. This helps clients more easily manage electronically stored information; provide earlier insights into collected evidence; and prioritize downstream evidence review, analysis and production. eDiscovery Manager helps authorized IT and legal users search, cull, hold and export case-relevant email evidence. Utilizing IBM's ECM technology as a base, eDiscovery Manager helps customers address the crushing volumes of uncontrolled, electronically stored information and enable a more productive, agile response to litigation. IBM eDiscovery Manager utilizes IBM's email archiving solutions, leverages IBM's ECM repositories, and supports an easy-to-use interface. http://www.ibm.com

StoredIQ, Inc. announced enhanced support for the EMC Documentum platform. StoredIQ's appliance now offers the ability to locate and insert unstructured information as records into the most current version of EMC Documentum and place those records under litigation hold leveraging Documentum's Retention Policy Services. With this, StoredIQ provides a solution for eDiscovery, information governance and risk management. The StoredIQ Intelligent Information Management appliance is designed to manage the functional intersection of records management, eDiscovery and storage management. As part of an overall information lifecycle management strategy, StoredIQ provides a holistic classification, business policy and action framework to execute litigation hold, storage optimization and document retention and destruction policies. StoredIQ provides support for EMC's Centera and Celerra storage platforms in addition to Documentum. With StoredIQ, companies can index, search, tag, move or copy content to and from Documentum servers. From a records management perspective, StoredIQ can discover electronically stored information (ESI) located on file shares, Microsoft SharePoint, and desktops/laptops, classify and deduplicate unmanaged ESI, and automatically insert those items as new records into Documentum. StoredIQ can automatically place those records under litigation hold using Documentum's advanced hold functionality. When collecting and inserting ESI with Documentum, StoredIQ can preserve a variety of Documentum attributes including object name, object ID, version, title, author, keywords, dates, size and more. http://www.storediq.com/

Alfresco Software announced the availability of Alfresco Labs (Beta) 3. Alfresco Labs 3, formerly called Alfresco Community, offers Microsoft users greater choice by providing them with an open source fully-compatible SharePoint repository. With Alfresco Labs 3, companies can leverage existing investments in Linux and Java as well as Microsoft .NET connection software to reduce their SharePoint total cost of ownership and maximize their hardware and software investments. The Alfresco Labs 3 repository offers: Microsoft Office SharePoint protocol support requiring no additional client installation; Alfresco Surf platform for building REST-oriented web applications and collaborative web sites; RESTful API delivering content and collaboration services for customizing and developing Alfresco applications; Preview of Alfresco Share, a new social computing application; Document library which scales to over 100 million documents. Alfresco's new Surf platform is built on Alfresco Web Scripts technology, which utilizes light-weight scripting and templating. The Surf platform is designed to work in a number of different web environments, as well as a Web Part in Microsoft SharePoint Portal. It includes content oriented components designed around the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library and Adobe Flash for uploads and previewing of content and other information. The new user interface components allow for users to develop new collaborative web applications. http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Labs_3

Interwoven announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Discovery Mining, Inc., an eDiscovery provider to professional services firms and corporations. Discovery Mining is a software-as-a-service solution for processing, reviewing and producing massive volumes of electronic data. Under the terms of the agreement between Discovery Mining and Interwoven, Interwoven will pay approximately $36 million in cash for all outstanding shares of Discovery Mining and vested stock options, and assume certain existing employee stock options. The acquisition of Discovery Mining extends Interwoven's offering by adding a service for managing eDiscovery. Discovery Mining's eDiscovery service is optimized for the processing and review of electronic data. The service features capabilities for accelerated review, including concept searching, clustering, analytics and email filtering. While the acquisition is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2008, the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. http://www.interwoven.com/

EMC announced the EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Suite version 6.5. Documentum ECM 6.5 introduces several features that deliver a rich Web 2.0 user experience and enhanced XML capabilities, while delivering enterprise performance and scalability, federated records management as well as accelerated transactional business processes. Key products in Documentum ECM 6.5 include: Documentum CenterStage Essentials; Documentum Media WorkSpace, My Documentum, Documentum Web Publisher Page Builder, and Documentum TaskSpace. The XML capabilities in Documentum ECM 6.5 are delivered through Documentum XML Store, a new native XML database available within the Documentum platform and related content delivery applications. Documentum's XML capabilities consist of management of XML documents and components, search and query of XML content, delivery and content transformation applications for content repurposing and personalized publishing as well as solutions for Technical Publications (DITA) and Aerospace and Defense (S1000D). EMC's Documentum High-Volume Server delivers a set of services for mass-volume applications such as archiving and transactional content applications. To work with rich media files as they increase in size, EMC AVALONidm is now integrated with the Documentum digital asset management products. This enables management of business policies and movement of large video content across tiered storage. EMC Documentum Federated Records Services (FRS) extends records management capabilities to provide a single system of record for business content that needs to be preserved for governance and compliance purposes, regardless of location or system. Documentum ECM 6.5 also includes enhancements to EMC's Documentum Process Suite designed to aid in constructing and delivering process-centric applications in a Web 2.0 world. http://www.EMC.com

KeyMark Inc. announced its partnership with KnowledgeLake, Inc. to bring full Microsoft SharePoint integration capabilities to their customers. KeyMark's solution with KnowledgeLake provides KeyMark customers the ability to implement a document management system on top of the SharePoint platform. KeyMark has a history selling Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems, and now will be able to offer a SharePoint-based system. SharePoint integration will be beneficial to the following industries; Healthcare, Finance, Government, Insurance and Higher Education. http://www.keymarkinc.com http://www.knowledgelake.com

XyEnterprise announced version 4.0 of Contenta, its content management software. Contenta 4.0 provides support for Microsoft SQL Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Contenta 4.0 includes support upgrades to Oracle 10.2, several web-based technologies and Autonomy's IDOL K2 Enterprise Search software. XyEnterprise has supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the company's publishing software, XML Professional Publisher (XPP). In addition to these enhancements to Contenta, XyEnterprise now offers support for organizations that use virtual software to manage their Contenta environments. Enhancements to the checkout/checkin options for graphics and other binary file types will help users update and manage those object types more efficiently. Users will be able to work with multiple graphics at once, simplifying previously tedious tasks. In addition, Contenta 4.0 gives greater visibility into the object status by indicating states like read-only, locked and available. In Contenta 4.0, XyEnterprise also added a graphical and editable workflow to Contenta Web, a web-based user interface. This client is an alternative to the desktop client and is unique to Contenta. The ability to create and manage workflows, is the final feature that rounds out the Contenta Web offering. http://www.xyenterprise.com/

Day Software announced the general availability of Day Content Repository Extreme (CRX) v1.4. The latest version of Day's product enables the storage, management and exchange of content across large-scale enterprises. Day CRX v1.4 was designed for large-scale enterprise production environments. The product is a packaged, commercial version of Apache Jackrabbit. Day CRX 1.4 manages both structured and unstructured content, enabling content-centric business applications to take advantage of the repository's content services, and flexible and extensible content storage. Day's technologies allow companies to access information about their specific businesses, processes, products, customers and documents, which were previously 'locked' in proprietary repositories. http://www.day.com