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/
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IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire i2 to accelerate its business analytics initiatives and help clients in the public and private sectors address crime, fraud and security threats. Financial terms were not disclosed. With more than 4,500 customers in 150 countries, i2 is a provider of intelligence analytics for crime and fraud prevention based in Cambridge, UK with U.S. headquarters in McLean, Va. i2's clients span multiple sectors globally such as banking, defense, health care, insurance, law enforcement, national security and retail. i2 solutions are currently used by 12 of the top 20 retail banks globally and eight of the top 10 largest companies in the world. http://www.i2group.com/ http://www.ibm.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
Open Text Corporation, the provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, announced the availability of a complete set of products and services intended to help enterprise information technology (IT) groups centrally manage large numbers of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 sites from creation through archiving. The consulting services will be led by Burntsand which joins Open Text after a recent acquisition. Using the SharePoint 2010 version of Open Text Content Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Open Text Case Management Framework for SharePoint 2010, Open Text services can help IT departments deploy the infrastructure needed to take control over unmanaged SharePoint 2010 deployments. Moreover, it can give users simple tools to create and deploy SharePoint 2010 sites and applications in accordance with corporate governance policies and manage the lifecycle of SharePoint 2010 sites. Open Text enhances SharePoint 2010 by adding a case-centric business application and process layer. Open Text business applications typically comprise a business database and records and archive repository, as well as a number of integrated SharePoint 2010 features, workflows, forms, reports and an administration user interface. Open Text’s solutions for Microsoft are offered as part of the Open Text ECM Suite.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/
IBM announced the acquisition of Datacap Inc., a privately-held company based in Tarrytown, NY. Datacap is a provider of software that enables organizations to transform the way they capture, manage and automate the flow of business information to improve business processes, reduce paper costs or manual errors and meet compliance mandates. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition strengthens IBM's ability to help organizations digitize, manage and automate their information assets, particularly in paper-intensive industries such as healthcare, insurance, government and finance. Additionally, regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley have demanded new standards and now legislation is encouraging the adoption of new records management solutions, including scanning and capture to increase accuracy, lower costs and speed business processes to meet these regulations. http://ibm.com http://www.datacap.com/
Newgen Software Technologies Ltd., a provider of Business Process Management (BPM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, has released the latest version of its Document Management System (DMS) solution, OmniDocs version 7.0. OmniDocs provides a scalable, unified repository for storing and managing enterprise content. OmniDocs 7.0 is meant as a solution for enterprise archival and retrieval of documents in a performance environment. It provides an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform for creating, capturing, managing, delivering and archiving large volume of enterprise documents. OmniDocs 7.0 integrates with various applications like Microsoft Sharepoint, Oracle and SAP. With comprehensive data security and Information Rights Management, OmniDocs provides an enterprise platform capable of storing and managing billions of documents. It also enables long-term archival by using open standards like PDF/A. Organizations can manage the complete lifecycle of physical and electronic records from capture to archival and destruction, while retaining their integrity, authenticity and accessibility. Organizations can configure Records Management as per their policy guidelines, laws of the land and applicable compliance mandates. http://www.newgensoft.com
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, announced the launch of PlusFeed Access Control System, a permissioning and entitlement system designed to interface with PlusFeed, Interactive Data's consolidated datafeed. The scalable system is designed to enable data managers to monitor and control data access across the organization with granularity and transparency. Entitlement reports can also help comply with a firm's internal and external reporting requirements. If required, clients can delegate the permissioning of data and exchange reporting to Interactive Data, using a controlled data entitlement and reporting solution. The PlusFeedAccess Control System can be integrated with PlusFeed datafeed installations as a standalone entitlement module or optionally deployed as an add-on component as part of the PlusFeed Data Distribution Platform. The system comes with a web-based user interface, an API to help automate the workflow, and a gateway server that connects to a host system managed by Interactive Data. All functionality can be integrated into a firm's own content management system or data architecture, designed to enable the client to automate the workflow and entitlement management processes all the way to the end-user or application. www.interactivedata.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/
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