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Informatica Corporation, the provider of data integration software, announced the immediate availability of Informatica HParser, a data parsing transformation solution for Hadoop environments. Informatica HParser runs on distributions of Apache Hadoop, exploiting the parallelism of the MapReduce framework to efficiently turn unstructured complex data, such as web logs, social media data, call detail records and other data formats, into a structured or semi-structured format in Hadoop. Once transformed into a more structured format, the data can be used and validated to drive business insights and improve operations. Available in a free community edition and commercial editions, Informatica HParser provides organizations with the solution they require to extract the value of complex, unstructured data. http://www.informatica.com

MarkLogic Corporation announced the availability of MarkLogic 5, the latest version of its product designed for Big Data applications across the enterprise. MarkLogic 5 defines Big Data by empowering organizations to build Big Data applications that make information actionable. With MarkLogic 5, organizations analyze structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data in the same application. A key feature is the MarkLogic Connector for Hadoop. www.marklogic.com

MarkLogic Corporation announced the availability of MarkLogic Express, a new MarkLogic 5 license that allows students and developers to download and take MarkLogic into production immediately. Additional updates include improvements to the developer website and more ways for MarkLogic developers to share solutions, participate in discussions, and help build a community around MarkLogic technology. MarkLogic Express includes geospatial capabilities, alerting, and can be used in production environments. That means a developer can take a MarkLogic implementation that leverages a 2 CPU node and up to 40 GB of data live. Full updates include: MarkLogic Express the new license that will allow developers to build and deploy MarkLogic production applications; Connecting Developers with a new Feedback Forum, comments enabled on nearly every page, and better recognition for community members that make contributions; A number of updates have been made to the MarkLogic Developer website, including new tutorials, new documentation, and improvements to the accessibility of content for developers; a new open source RESTful API that allows students and developers to build applications on MarkLogic using their software language of choice. http://www.marklogic.com/

IBM unveiled new software for managing and analyzing big data to the workplace. The new offerings span a wide variety of big data and business analytics technologies across multiple platforms from mobile devices to the data center to IBM's SmartCloud. Now employees from any department inside an organization can explore unstructured data such as Twitter feeds, Facebook posts, weather data, log files, genomic data and video, and make sense of it as part of their everyday work experience. IBM is also placing the power of mobile analytics into the hands of iPad users with a free download in Apple's iTunes Store. The new software is designed to help employees in industries such as financial services, healthcare, government, communications, retail, and travel and transportation use and benefit from business analytics on the go. IBM is delivering new analytics and information management offerings: New Hadoop-based analytics software on the cloud, which helps employees tap into massive amounts of unstructured data from a variety of sources including social networks, mobile devices and sensors; New mobile analytics software for iPad users; and new predictive analytics software with a mapping feature that can be used across industries for marketing campaigns, retail store allocation, crime prevention, and academic assessment. http://www.ibm.com/

OpenText announced a new release of OpenText Social Communities (version 8.1), designed to help companies promote and drive the shift to a social business model. It combines a comprehensive social framework with a set of applications for building and engaging communities. This new release builds on the security and governance of the OpenText ECM Suite to apply appropriate controls to social objects. This is designed to create a safe environment of dialogue to foster informal collaboration and networking to help improve internal collaboration. Social Communities now integrates with OpenText Wave, OpenText's Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP), which allows organizations to create, develop, and deliver mobile applications for employees, partners, and customers. Integration with OpenText Web and Social Analytics offers the ability to monitor and measure social activity. To help promote and manage sharing between public social networking sites into a community site, Social Communities now gives users the ability to post content from a community site to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ and other social networks. Social Communities 8.1 provides a set of social applications for social intranet, social marketing and social workplace workloads. These are complemented by reusable and adaptable site templates with the flexibility to combine features as needed to meet specific goals, such as launching a brand, product or campaign. http://www.opentext.com

TEMIS, the provider of Text Analytics Solutions for the Enterprise, today announced the launch of the next generation of Luxid, its flagship semantic content enrichment solution. Luxid 6 is a semantic tagging platform which automatically extracts relevant information (entities, topics, events, sentiments), identifies relationships residing in unstructured data and facilitates links between similar and related documents. Luxid 6 optimizes the management of Enterprise content through the capture and structuring of targeted information. The software also enhances the utilization of content within an Enterprise's workflows such as competitive intelligence, research and innovation, voice of the consumer and reputation management. http://www.temis.com/

Box.net announced it closed $81 million in funding from a mix of investors including NEA, Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures and existing investors. As revealed on their company blog, Box has aspirations to compete with Microsoft's Sharepoint. Box is currently available on most mobile platforms, while SharePoint is currently tied to Windows Phones. Yet Box also lacks the full array of content management features that an enterprise user may currently need/use from Sharepoint. http://box.net/

eFileCabinet, Inc., a global provider of enterprise content management solutions (ECM), announced the release of eFileCabinet Online, a Cloud-based version of its document management solution. Document management seekers can now select how they would like the product delivered: client/server based or the new Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Like eFileCabinet Desktop, the document management solution parallels the physical file cabinet in digital format and provides users with a central repository to capture, manage, protect and share their business files. Since eFileCabinet Online is a SaaS model, users are not tethered to their local network and can access all of their files anywhere they have an Internet connection. http://www.efilecabinet.com

SpringCM announced the latest release of its cloud enterprise content management platform. Highlights of the release: New collaboration features help teams managing tasks and content to stay on the same page, including project activity streams; notifications when projects are started and tasks are assigned; New SharePoint Web Parts make it easier to provide relevant content from SpringCM right within department or project SharePoint sites; Support for Microsoft's cloud service, SharePoint Online for Office 365; and customers can view the contracts through the SpringCM interface while executives can access the contracts through SpringCM Mobile for iPad. http://www.springcm.com/

ADAM Software released ADAM PageBuilder 4, a major new release of its media-intelligent studio for the automated creation of catalogs and documents. PageBuilder 4 now provides creative control in the production of automated publications while building on a core that ensures quality output for jobs. Highlights include: Page designs built on tagged Adobe InDesign templates for maximum creative flexibility; Last minute editing that doesn’t require rerunning entire jobs, shortening layout and prepress cycle times; Integration with ADAM PIM Studio and ADAM Asset Studio (or other data sources through the API); Product/Record-level item grouping that provides flexible presentation options for items and/or groups of items; Dynamic page building on a document/catalog level with intelligent item distribution and scripting options for versatility; Copy-fitting and rubber banding functionality that eases text flow issues, and break/split options that give control of layouts even as PageBuilder 4 does the heavy lifting. http://www.adamsoftware.net/