Information Technology News

Cynapse Updates cyn.in

2008-11-25T19:17:17Z

Cynapse announced the release of cyn.in - v 2.1. Every space in cyn.in now come pre-fit with application perspectives. Manually creating applications as containers to content is no longer required. Simply create or upload any kind of content (such as a wiki page or an excel sheet) within a space and the content appears in the correct perspectives. Spaces have been the pivotal aspect of cyn.in. Spaces help a group of users to create a secure work area within their cyn.in site and allocate explicit permissions to select users within it. Spaces are vital to most large companies with diverse teams. However, a substantial number of our customers and users felt the need for a simplified central collaboration area, that is accessible to every user of the cyn.in. This gave birth to the concept of the Main space. This is where All users of a cyn.in site can create or edit any content, without worrying about permissions or sharing rights. Commenting, the most used feature in cyn.in just got better. cyn.in v2.1 enables AJAX based discussions providing a live chat kind of user experience. These discussions are contained in all content types in the cyn.in. A comment posted to any content 'bubbles' the content to the top of the activity stream, pushing the content to the relevant audience. Deleting content from an enterprise system is always a concern. Especially for businesses that need to follow compliance regulations. The new cyn.in recycle bin grabs deleted content from across the site, and allows the administrator to process the deleted content as per the compliance requirements. cyn.in is available in a free open source community edition, a supported enterprise edition, as well as cost effective on-demand packages. http://www.cynapse.com/

MindTouch Adds iPhone Interface and Grows Mashup Ecosystem

2008-11-25T15:45:33Z

MindTouch, creators of Deki, an open source enterprise collaboration platform, announced numerous new application and Web service extensions, tools, and features, largely contributed by the MindTouch open source developer community. These new extensions and tools make it easier for users to extend MindTouch Deki by enabling users to create and build mashups. MindTouch also introduces DekiMobile, a new iPhone interface that allows iPhone users to remotely access MindTouch Deki for access and sharing of data. MindTouch Deki allows users to connect teams, business applications, enterprise systems, Web services and Web 2.0 applications. Users can create mashups and integrate popular applications by connecting internal and external applications using existing extensions and DekiScript apps created by MindTouch and its developer community. Writing new applications in MindTouch is done using DekiScript, a light weight programming language. Examples of recently introduced DekiScript apps: Collaborative Calendaring, Threaded Forums, Blogs, and Social Usage Statistics. http://mindtouch.com/

XBRL US Invites Participation in Public Review of US GAAP Data Tags Release 2009

2008-11-25T12:47:03Z

XBRL US, the nonprofit consortium for XML business reporting standards, announced that they had completed a new draft of the XBRL US GAAP Taxonomies, and have made it available for public review. This second release of the US GAAP data tags builds on the first release completed and published on April 28, 2008 under contract with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). An SEC rule proposal, published on May 30, 2008 would require the use of XBRL for the largest public companies (with worldwide public float of $5 billion or higher), reporting as early as Q1 2009. The XBRL US GAAP Taxonomies would be the required data tags for those companies filing in XBRL format. The XBRL US support and maintenance program for continual review and revision to the taxonomies is designed to ensure that the dictionary of terms is always consistent with new accounting standards and that it reflects changes in common reporting practices in the marketplace. Hundreds of comments received since April 28, 2008 have been vetted and incorporated into this latest release along with new FASB pronouncements including FAS141R, FAS160, FAS161 and FAS163, among others. The public comment period provides an opportunity for stakeholders such as public company preparers, investors, financial analysts, auditors and software providers to review and comment on the taxonomy. The public comment period ends on January 15, 2009. Comments received will be reviewed and potentially incorporated, and the final dictionary of US GAAP terms will be available for use in February. To participate in the review and to learn more about XBRL, visit http://xbrl.us/usgaappublicreview

Collexis Launches Reviewer Finder for Health Research Grant Industry

2008-11-24T13:58:27Z

Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTC:CLXS) (BULLETIN BOARD: CLXS), a developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software, announced the formal launch of the Reviewer Finder product, an application which identifies the best reviewers based on their research profile. By using the Collexis Fingerprint technology, a submitted grant proposal or submitted scientific manuscript is analyzed and the resulting document Fingerprint is compared against more than 1.8 million expert Fingerprints - simultaneously checking for conflicts of interest based on co-authorship and organizational affiliation. The Reviewer Finder tool is an enhancement to the suite of Collexis grant management applications. These services provide funding organizations with portfolio analysis tools to assist in identifying gaps and trends and track the success of their funding by an institution, department or researcher. http://www.collexis.com/

Zinio Launches 'INSIDE' - Magazine Content Unlocked for Search

2008-11-20T14:55:19Z

Zinio announced the release of Zinio INSIDE, a program that allows web users free access to search and discover magazine content in its traditional format while online. Zinio INSIDE enables the original content from millions of magazine pages for over 1,000 different magazine titles in Zinio's library to be searched through engines like Google, explored within the Zinio reader, and shared through many communities and viral-based applications. Zinio INSIDE facilitates the convergence of the traditional and digital world by enabling readers to send digital replicas of magazine pages to friends and family via email, post favorite articles to sites such as Facebook, Digg, or MySpace, even embed content on a blog or website. Zinio INSIDE allows publishers to reach new audiences through its sharing abilities. In addition to unlocking content, Zinio INSIDE also offers additional functions to help consumers find what they are seeking. Some of these include: Zinio SAYS, which uses Autonomy's Meaning-Based technology to suggest additional editorial content a reader might enjoy based on a conceptual understanding of his or her interests, and the "Read it All" feature, which allows one-click purchasing of either a single issue or a 12-month subscription. http://www.zinio.com/

Rebus Launches Recollect Desktop

2008-11-20T12:33:23Z

Rebus Launched Recollect Desktop, a search product to understand and retrieve content inside scanned documents, PDFs, and emails. Recollect Desktop combines desktop search, e-discovery, document storage and content management in one product. Recollect Desktop enables users to search the contents of a hard drive not just by document title, but will also search the words inside, even if they are misspelled or run-together. Users can find and retrieve all kinds of documents including those that are optically scanned as well as PDFs, TIFF, JPEG and other unstructured files. Recollect Desktop is not only designed for any business with filing cabinets and reams of stored paper documents, but also for businesses which have a lot of unstructured electronic documents, including PDFs, TIFFs and emails, that users need to access often or quickly. Recollect Desktop is available for download starting this week. http://www.rebustechnology.net/

IBM Announces Lotus Forms 3.5

2008-11-18T22:29:50Z

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced new IBM Forms software that speeds up business processes by removing bottlenecks caused by paper and by allowing employees without technical skills in any department to create electronic forms or surveys. The new version of IBM Lotus Forms, 3.5, makes it simpler for nontechnical employees to quickly create, store and route e-forms inside and outside of an organization via e-mail and the Web. New features allow employees to automate and compose their own forms, without needing software to be installed on individual PCs or requiring help from IT departments. IBM Lotus Forms 3.5 software, capable of handling challenging projects such as insurance and tax forms, comes with new "Turbo" software. Turbo, also available as a stand-alone product, handles simple tasks such as employee on-boarding, leave and vacation requests, customer satisfaction surveys, job applications, product orders, and opinion surveys. Turbo works with IBM WebSphere Portal software. IBM Forms support e-forms built on XForms, for compatibility with existing customer systems, providing an advantage over competitive offerings. New IBM Lotus Forms has improved digital signature capabilities and supports Safari browser 3.1 on the Macintosh platform. http://www.ibm.com

Exalead Joins HP Business Information and Intelligence Program

2008-11-18T22:00:23Z

Exalead has joined the HP Business Information and Intelligence Program, which is a specialized extension of the HP Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP). This partner program is designed for Business Information and Intelligence ISVs who, like Exalead, are developing solutions on HP Integrity, HP Neoview or HP BladeSystems. Exalead CloudView is a family of solutions that automatically collect, structure and contextualize high volumes of unstructured and structured content from a number of data sources scattered across the enterprise. Exalead customers around the globe improve information search, discovery, management, security, and storage through unified information access and search; a deeply structured view of structured and unstructured content; and a rich, contextualized presentation of information. http://www.Exalead.com

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Westin Copley Hotel, December 3-4 2008
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Open Text and SAP Announce Expanded Reseller Agreement

2008-11-18T20:19:25Z

Open Text Corporation announced that SAP will resell Open Text Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) under the name the SAP Invoice Management application by Open Text. As part of this agreement, SAP will also resell Open Text's document capture solution Invoice Capture Center, from Open Text's recent acquisition of Captaris, under the name optical character recognition (OCR) option for SAP Invoice Management. SAP Invoice Management completes the portfolio of finance solutions for SAP's enterprise resource planning (ERP) application. The OCR option for SAP Invoice Management is scheduled to be available in early 2009. The document-capture capabilities allow organizations to convert paper invoices into electronic form so they can be processed electronically. Open Text's products offer a range of capabilities for managing and archiving business documents that originate from customers' SAP applications. http://www.sap.com/solutions/solutionextensions

Informative Graphics Releases New Brava Suite for Secure Content Delivery

2008-11-18T12:58:58Z

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) announced its latest Brava software suite for multi-format viewing, annotation and secure content delivery. Brava provides a simple, unified viewing and annotation interface for all formats, making review processes and workflows easier. New capabilities include the ability to intelligently redact privacy information, to verify or review redactions before finalizing them for final distribution and to perform 'peek through' redaction, where a large area (e.g., a page) is redacted with only a small area remaining un-redacted. Redacted files can be output to TIFF, PDF or Informative Graphics' secure Content Sealed Format (CSF) with Visual Rights. Visual Rights allow users to add additional file security like password protection and expiration date as well as restrictions for print, copy, markup and other features. Brava Enterprise, the web-based, enterprise class product, integrates into enterprise content management (ECM) solutions from EMC Documentum, IBM, Interwoven and Open Text. http://www.infograph.com

W3C Publishes Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0 Draft

2008-11-18T01:32:36Z

The W3C (Worls Wide Web Consortium) announced it has published a Working Draft of "Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0," which defines the Mathematical Markup Language, or MathML. MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-MathML3-20081117/

Day Software Announces General Availability of CQ5.1

2008-11-17T22:29:01Z

Day Software (SWX:DAYN) (OTCQX:DYIHY) announced general availability of CQ5.1, unveiling major transformations to the company's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform and Web Content Management (WCM) application. CQ5.1 provides an ECM platform that enables CMOs and CIOs to leverage the Web for global marketing and corporate growth initiatives. For Marketing, the product provides point-and-click for designing and publishing dynamic, interactive, Web 2.0 websites. For IT, it provides point-and-click ease for configuring and managing a content computing cloud, scalable for hosting any number of Web sites or content applications. Day's CQ5.1 combines a suite of business applications for WCM, Digital Asset Management (DAM), and Social Collaboration built atop Day CRX, a modular content repository based on a commercial implementation of the Apache Jackrabbit and Sling open source projects. CQ5.1 adds new capabilities for content analytics, content targeting, social tagging and social search. Coupled with a new business process management (BPM) engine and upgraded virtual repository for publishing content from legacy silos like Microsoft Sharepoint, CQ5.1 is a complete platform for interactive marketing. Day CQ5.1 is available immediately. http://www.day.com

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Teragram Announces Semantic Term Manager Version 3.0

2008-11-17T19:39:56Z

Teragram, a division of SAS and a provider of multilingual natural language processing technologies, announced the launch of Semantic Term Manager v. 3.0 (STM v. 3.0), software that helps knowledge workers to better classify, organize and manage mission-critical information and maintain ontologies in large enterprise content repositories and databases. Featuring tighter integration with Teragram's taxonomy management product, TK240, STM v. 3.0 enables knowledge workers to automatically tag documents according to defined taxonomies, manage vast amounts of metadata across repositories and databases, and create and manage enterprise authority lists and build relationships between them. This, in turn, simplifies the enterprise search and retrieval process. This enhanced version of STM can now handle more than one hierarchy by integrating across several large data sets. For example, a corporate librarian can generate lists such as company names, product offerings and subsidiary relationships with TK240 to manage them as standalone data files or combine this information while researching other scenarios or performing targeted searches. STM v. 3.0 offers versioning capability that allows users to save different versions of the data they administer, and allows them to also go back and work on it after it has been saved. STM v. 3.0 also provides tailored ontology support, which means that data files can now be incrementally exported to XML and imported internally across the enterprise. http://www.teragram.com/

DocZone.com Announces DocZone DITA and JustSystems Partnership

2008-11-17T19:10:25Z

DocZone.com announced the release of DocZone DITA, a new Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for creating, managing and publishing DITA content. The new DocZone DITA product is integrated with JustSystems' DITA authoring tool, XMetaL Author Enterprise, component content management (built as a layered application onto the Alfresco open source CMS), workflow, and single-source publishing to the DITA Open Toolkit. DocZone DITA is bundled with full support for DITA features such as conref and DITA maps, so that it is ready to use "out of the box". DocZone.com and JustSystems announced a new partnership where the companies will work together to enable businesses to leverage the value of DITA. Under the terms of the partnership agreement, DocZone.com is an authorized worldwide reseller of JustSystems' DITA authoring tool, XMetaL Author Enterprise. http://www.doczone.com/

Traction Software Releases Live Blog Technology

2008-11-17T14:56:23Z

Traction Software announced Live Blog Technology for Traction TeamPage 4.0 is now available Now. Live Blog is a new plug-in for TeamPage 4.0 that's now a standard feature for all TeamPage configurations. The new Live Blog interface works like Twitter or IM. It creates an automatically updating browser window you can park on your desktop (or iPhone). You type a brief note and everyone with access to that Live Blog sees their window update in seconds. But unlike Twitter or IM, Live Blog is backed by Traction's TeamPage platform that provides scalable storage, security, integrated search and all of the other capabilities that make TeamPage the leading best platform for Enterprise 2.0. http://traction.tractionsoftware.com/traction