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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

Endeca Technologies, Inc., an agile information management software company, announced native integration of Endeca Latitude with Apache Hadoop. Endeca Latitude, based on the Endeca MDEX hybrid search-analytical database, is uniquely suited to unlock the power of Apache Hadoop. Apache Hadoop is strong at manipulating semi-structured data, which is a challenge for traditional relational databases. This combination provides flexibility and agility in combining diverse and changing data, and performance in analyzing that data. Enabling Agile BI requires a complete data-driven solution that unites integration, exploration and analysis from source data through end-user access that can adapt to changing data, changing data sources, and changing user needs. Solutions that require extensive pre-knowledge of data models and end-user needs fail to meet the agility requirement. The united Endeca Latitude and Apache Hadoop solution minimizes data modeling, cleansing, and conforming of data prior to unlocking the value of Big Data for end-users. http://www.endeca.com/ http://hadoop.apache.org/

Cotendo, a growing provider of Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Value Added Site Acceleration services, announced the deployment of Page Speed Automatic, a new web site code optimization service that uses the optimization engine of the mod_pagespeed open source project developed at Google. Cotendo worked with Google to enhance the mod_pagespeed code to address massively scaled content delivery environments and deployment to multiple customers and various configurations in a service environment. This new service from Cotendo automatically optimizes code of HTML pages as they enter the CDN to provide maximum acceleration benefits to Web application and page delivery. Page Speed Automatic's code modification methodology is built on a set of best practices that are designed to minimize page load time and enhance web performance. In aggregate, these code modifications, when rendered within Cotendo’s network, could reduce image size by 20% to 30% and page load time by as much as 50%. Cotendo's Page Speed Automatic service automatically optimizes HTML on the fly. As part of Cotendo’s new service all new Google Page Speed best practice standards will automatically be incorporated. The new Page Speed service offered by Cotendo will be part of its proprietary new performance application platform Cloudlet, which is able to execute both open source and any proprietary code. http://www.cotendo.com/

Google has introduced a new version of its enterprise search hardware. Corporate users can now access both data behind the company’s firewall and cloud-based online services such as Google Docs or Sites. This can be achieved by using the new tool included in Google’s Search Appliance v6.8 called Cloud Connect. The update will be available for current Google Search Appliance users, and lets them combine the content on their intranet, Google’s cloud-based services, Google’s Site Search and external services like Twitter. This feature allows users to search people-oriented information online. It supports search result filtering via Dynamic Navigation and, among others, Sharepoint 2010 connection. http://www.google.com

IBM has announced further expansion of its information management portfolio, this time in the compliance and legal hold space with the acquisition of PSS Atlas, an e-Discovery vendor that provides software for document analysis, management and disposal. How much IBM paid for PSS has not been made public, but the acquisition adds a piece to its GRC solutions, to which it recently added Open Pages, a company that provides software for developing risk, compliance and internal audits strategies in the financial space. Designed specifically for enterprise legal departments, PSS’s software gives enterprises an overview of their corporate information, automates governance of that information and ultimately sets out disposal schedules for information that is no longer needed. PSS Systems was one of the founders of the Compliance, Governance and Oversight Council (CGOC), as well as the Information Governance Process Maturity Model, which includes process assessment and business case methodologies as well as models for best practice in the industry. IBM is not the only one starting to play big in the security and compliance market. This summer alone, Intel agreed to pay US$ 7.68 billion for McAfee, HP announced that it was buying security software provider ArcSight for US$ 1.5 billion and only a few weeks prior to that had beat Dell to pay US $2.07 billion for data storage and security company 3Par. http://www.ibm.com http://www.pss-systems.com/

Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search and business intelligence (BI) company, today announced Endeca Latitude, a new BI product that combines search and BI to improve daily decision-making in the enterprise. Based on a hybrid search-analytical database, Endeca Latitude gives IT a centralized platform for deploying BI applications. While traditional BI tools succeed at reporting on and exploring structured data in pre-determined data models, today there is a greater need for in-the-moment information discovery so that people can get answers to unanticipated questions. Endeca Latitude enables the rapid assembly and configuration of BI applications that bring together diverse data sources to provide discovery. A single discovery application built with Endeca Latitude could take the place of hundreds of traditional BI reports. Applications developed with Endeca Latitude follow user experience best practices pioneered in the world of eCommerce, allowing business people to use them productively without training. Endeca Latitude features: MDEX Engine technology, the hybrid search-analytical database designed to bring together all of the information required for making business decisions, regardless of its original format; Bringing together diverse datasets without complex modeling and integration, the engine conducts search, navigation, and analytics; With support for IT-managed data governance and data security as well as industry standards such as XQuery, XML, and SOA, the MDEX Engine is designed to fit easily into existing enterprise architectures; The Discovery Framework, part of Endeca Latitude, provides a library of components that deliver advanced search capabilities; Agile delivery; integration capabilities through the Endeca Content Acquisition System (CAS), an extensible framework for ingest of a broad range of unstructured content. http://www.endeca.com

Sophia, the provider of contextually aware enterprise search solutions, announced Sophia Search, a new search solution which uses a Semiotic-based linguistic model to identify intrinsic terms, phrases and relationships within unstructured content so that it can be recovered, consolidated and leveraged. Use of Sophia Search is designed to minimize compliance risk and reduce the cost of storing and managing enterprise information. Sophia Search is able to deliver a "three-dimensional" solution to discover, consolidate and optimize enterprise data, regardless of its data type or domain. Sophia Search helps organizations manage and analyze critical information by discovering the themes and intrinsic relationships behind their information, without taxonomies or ontologies, so that more relevant information may be discovered. By identifying both duplicates and near duplicates, Sophia Search allows organizations to effectively consolidate information and minimizing storage and management costs. Sophia Search features a patented Contextual Discovery Engine (CDE) which is based on the linguistic model of Semiotics, the science behind how humans understand the meaning of information in context. Sophia Search is available now to both customers and partners. Pricing starts at $30,000. http://www.sophiasearch.com/

Cisco announced new and enhanced collaboration solutions designed to help workers to connect to the right people and access and share content remotely. Cisco announced that Cisco Quad, an enterprise collaboration platform will be available later this year via native iPad and iPhone applications. Cisco also unveiled a new Cisco Prosumer Video solution which integrates Cisco FocalPoint, an online video workspace with a business-class Cisco Flip MinoPRO camcorder. Finally, Cisco announced that Cisco WebEx Connect IM is now available across browsers. Together, these three collaboration solutions offer a secure, manageable collaborative environment with video, real time instant messaging (IM) and social networking capabilities. Cisco Quad highlights include: the ability to search across content within the organization, as well as locate people and expertise; Mobile Quad applications optimized for the Apple iPad and iPhone; Integratation with content management systems such as Microsoft SharePoint and Documentum, as well as with voice and video business communications solutions; and every Quad user will receive a Cisco Show and Share license granting video authoring, posting, publishing and editing capabilities. Quad will be available on a limited basis, beginning in Cisco's first quarter of fiscal year 2011, in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia/New Zealand. The Cisco Prosumer Video solution highlights include a new online video workspace, FocalPoint, and a new business-class four-hour Flip MinoPRO camcorder. FocalPoint delivers cloud-based management, sharing and editing capabilities and provides an easy way for organizational teams to interact with their video content. Cisco FlipShare software, preloaded on the camcorder, allows users to edit, store and manage video content locally on their workstation before sharing it with the organizational team via FocalPoint. The software client uses an encrypted upload protocol to enable confidential content delivery, while FocalPoint adopts SSL (Secure Socket Layer) for highly secure Web sessions and data protection. The Cisco Prosumer Video solution is part of the Cisco collaboration portfolio and will be available through Cisco channel partners beginning in August. The newest version of Cisco WebEx Connect IM lets users access their contact lists and send instant messages via a browser-based IM client, making the solution accessible from any computer without the need for a client download. The Windows client for Cisco WebEx Connect IM is now localized for French, German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. Server-side IM logging allows organizations to capture logs of all IM traffic for efficient regulatory compliance. Customers who are already archiving email can use their existing infrastructure. Building on Cisco's acquisition of Jabber, customers looking to add presence and chat capabilities to their Web applications can do so with Cisco's AJAX XMPP library, for developing Web applications and portal integrations. These tools were used in building presence and chat capabilities into Cisco Quad. http://www.cisco.com/

Collecta, the streaming real-time search company, announced that it has secured $4.7 million in additional funding by new investor Dace Ventures, joining with existing investors True Ventures and other individuals. Collecta will use the capital to accelerate in delivering the real-time web, with particular focus on building out the team, expanding content distribution partnerships with publishers looking to increase their reach, and enriching the level of engagement and time spent on their sites. Collecta flows customized data to partners through widgets, APIs, and its Site Search Platform. Data flowing through Collecta can stream real-time content and real-time searches. The company is moving its headquarters to Los Angeles in order to better take advantage of the vibrant media presence in the area -- further emphasizing Collecta's focus on strategic and business partnerships with publishers and online content providers. Collecta's real-time platform is based on the open messaging standard XMPP, and is capable of shooting information instantaneously in a continuously updating stream of results. The platform brings real-time content from a network of more than 15 million content sources -- including Twitter, WordPress, MySpace, Examiner.com, Flickr, The Associated Press, CNN, Reuters, MySpace, and more. http://www.collecta.com/

Dassault Systèmes, a developer of 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, and Exalead, a provider of Search Platforms and Search-Based Applications (SBA) for consumer and business users, announced that Dassault Systèmes acquired the French company Exalead for approximately €135 million (~$162 million). http://www.3ds.com/ http://www.exalead.com