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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

e-Spirit AG has added the open source Liferay Portal to their range of possibilities for integration of the FirstSpirit content management system into enterprise portals. The module was developed in cooperation with e-Spirit’s technology partner USU. Integrating FirstSpirit in Liferay will allow organizations to create employee portals that combine Enterprise 2.0 functionality, IT applications, content and collaboration. Organizations will also be able to provide their employees with access to Web 2.0 functions such as forums, blogs and wikis and offering them a platform to efficiently organize collaboration and share information beyond individual departments. The new module will be available in May. http://www.e-spirit.com http://www.liferay.com/

OpenText has released portal software designed to let customers to create flexible and personalized social, content, and customer-centric sites. The portals, available as part of the developer's OpenText Portal 8.1.1 software, let users mashup content from Microsoft SharePoint, OpenText Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Suite, and other sources, into one personalized interface for intranets, extranets, and customer-facing Web sites. OpenText Portal, formerly Vignette Portal, lets business users travel across different applications, creating and managing folders and documents within their workspace. The developer incorporated secure social media capabilities including wikis, forums, and discussions, and users can engage in microblogging, follow coworkers, share content, and locate subject-matter experts. OpenText Pulse gives employees a view into colleagues' activities, making them more productive and simplifying collaboration via Facebook-like status updates. The developer took the wraps off three new portlets: An activity feed, navigation, and federated search portlet. OpenText's activity feed portlet gives users access to OpenText Pulse's social collaboration tools, designed to help colleagues stay current on associates' activities, availability, and expertise. Employees easily can communicate changes to projects, timelines, and bottlenecks, according to OpenText. With the navigation portlet for Content server, workers receive a snapshot picture of the content they are working on, one that spans multiple repositories. Lastly, employees can use the federated search portlet to submit either basic or advanced searches across multiple content server file systems, databases, or applications to locate search results in one view. http://www.opentext.com/

Open Text Corporation, the provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, today announced that it has expanded its solutions in the global legal market including introducing key integrations between Open Text Document Management, eDOCS Edition (eDOCS DM) and Open Text Social Workplace available this fall. First released in the summer of 2009, Open Text Social Workplace supports a team's ability to form, organize and collaborate on projects. Built to be flexibly deployed either standalone or as part of another solution, Open Text Social Workplace will integrate with Open Text eDOCS allowing users from within law firms to collaborate on documents and matters stored and governed within eDOCS. This includes new microblogging and instant messaging features and respects current permissions and governance rules. Open Text Document Management, eDOCS Edition helps eliminate inefficiencies caused by an inability to manage documents as well as the “islands of information” prevalent in many organizations. It helps control document-based knowledge assets by enabling users to capture, organize, locate and share business content in an integrated environment. With the release of eDOCS DM 5.3, full Windows 7 and Microsoft® Office® 2010 support and updated integrations are available. Also added in this release is new platform support for 32 and 64 Bit versions of Windows Server 2008,SQL Server 2008, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) support, while deployment costs are lowered through native Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) support. eDOCS DM customers can now use the Open Text flagship records management offering with native integration, search and access from within the native eDOCS DM user interface. Records management of physical items, electronic records and email, as well as structured data from systems such as Microsoft SharePoint® 2010 and SAP are all available in this release. Support for Apple iPad is now available for WirelessDMS for eDOCS allowing users to access content from within eDOCS DM using the iPad device. http://www.opentext.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/

Edentity Web Systems Inc. announced the release of the April Iteration of the Agility Content Management System. Each month, a new release of Agility is made available to all users of their software-as-a-service CMS. This release's updates started with the creation of an item count and listing tabs to give more information about forum activity. This way users can see the number of times items have been published or rejected, as well as take care of items that are awaiting review. In addition to this, the ability to send comments with a publish or decline has also been added. These comments can be sent with custom templates to the user who created the record, keeping every user up to date on the status of the posting or update. Moderation improvements include the creation of the roles of Moderator and Senior Moderator, as well as an escalation state and action on UGC records. To keep out those unfriendly swear words from the pages, an Illegal Words list and setting will allow you to block words from some or all user profiles in the system. For those users that consistently cause issues, there is now a flagging option to report abuse and be pulled from the site. You can now designate a UGC field as a ‘Tweet field” and when it is published, the field will be posted to your designated Twitter account. Lastly, developers and users alike will enjoy an improved history tab on every UGC record for change tracking. An additional 93 bug fixes were made according to the Agility CMS blog. http://www.agilitycms.com/

CSOFT International Ltd., a provider of multilingual localization, testing, and software development services, announced the public launch of TermWiki Community Edition. TermWiki is the localization industry's first collaborative and wiki-based terminology management system. Anyone can immediately access TermWiki’s database to search, create, review, and rate multilingual terminology. In addition to TermWiki’s set of terminology management features, users now have the ability to organize multilingual terminology by product category, company name or business sector. The community edition of TermWiki comes with a host of features, including terminological data attributes, as well as the ability to rank the pertinence and accuracy of individual terms and translations. This new generation of terminology management software also includes properties that support a range of data types, such as web pages, images, audio pronunciations, Tweets, YouTube videos, and an endless number of interactive features, all aimed at providing linguistic context to clarify the use of terminology at the source level. Bolstered with a community voice feature, TermWiki Community Edition now enables companies to collect the input of internal staff and customers alike regarding the quality of terms and their associated translations. http://www.termwiki.com

Inmagic has launched the latest release of Inmagic Presto, an application for creating and managing Social Knowledge Networks (SKN). Presto 3.3 incorporates enhancements to productivity, usability, and security, and deepens integration with Microsoft SharePoint, giving users bidirectional query and access capabilities. Key Presto 3.3 enhancements include: Improved SharePoint compatibility; New methodology for deployment and performance; RSS feed enhancements; Federated search management; Security; Enhanced community and profiles: “People” as a searchable content type; Management and administration features. http://www.inmagic.com/

Tiki has released updates for both current release branches: 3.5 and 4.2. The updates include bug fixes, feature enhancements, and security updates. All Tiki sites are strongly encouraged to update to the latest version to take advantage of security fixes and updates. The next major release, Tiki 5, is planned for April 2010 and will include new features including shopping cart and payment support, improved translation/multilingual support, a rating and scoring system, workspaces, and performance improvements. Early adopters can obtain pre-release versions of Tiki 5 directly from the SVN repository. http://tikiwiki.org

Socialtext has released Socialtext 4.0, which features new capabilities that span across all of the social software modules. It includes microblogging channels and filtered activity streams to help digest shared information, as well as new tools for group productivity. Socialtext 4.0 is available on all of Socialtext's deployment options, including an on-site managed appliance. Microblogging channels and filtering are also available on the Socialtext Microblogging Appliance. Collaborative Groups are the featured update designed to help circulate knowledge, ideas, and updates among team members. People can create a group for any purpose, such as to work on a task or project, or to share around a common interest. Anyone can create a Collaborative Group, complete with a group home page, activity stream of group member updates, a dedicated microblogging channel, and one or more workspaces. Collaborative Groups can be synchronized with existing groups in your company's LDAP or corporate directory, and can be configured for privacy to meet the business needs of the group. Other updated features include: Microblogging Channels, Microblogging Search, Activity Stream Filtering, Presence Indication. www.socialtext.com