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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/

Google announced that you can now translate your documents in the new editor into one of the 53 Google Docs languages by selecting Tools -> Translate document. From there, you can create a translated copy of the document by choosing a title for the translated document and selecting the language you want to translate into. Another new feature is that when you type a quote character (') in Google Docs they automatically make it a smartquote (‘) which indicates its direction. If you don’t want a smart quote, you can press Ctrl Z (Cmd Z on a Mac) after you type it and the smartquote will become a regular quote. They will be adding a preference soon that lets you permanently disable smartquotes. http://googledocs.blogspot.com/

Simply DITA is a specialized implementation of Content Mapper, Simply XML’s Microsoft Word to XML authoring platform. With Simply DITA, both casual authors and technical writers can use Microsoft Word to adopt the DITA standard. The user interface is straight forward with a series of ribbon-based menus that are integrated with the Microsoft Word 2007 interface. Users can create DITA Topics, DITA Tasks, DITA Concepts, DITA References, and DITA Maps – key components of the DITA standard. The Simply DITA document structure uses a streamlined set of the DITA elements that remove complexities not needed by about 95% of potential DITA authors. Simply DITA complements more technical XML authoring tools like XMetal, Structured FrameMaker, and Arbortext Editor that may be required by authors writing very technical content. Documents created with Simply DITA can be opened and edited using these XML tools and passed seamlessly back to authors working in Microsoft Word. Saving content as valid DITA in XML permits the enterprise to take advantage of XML, but the Microsoft Word-based author never has to see or understand the XML. Simply DITA enables multi-channel publishing through full integration with the DITA Open Tool Kit. The tool includes a personal content repository and supports integration with SharePoint or other Content Management Systems (CMS) for advanced content storage and workflow management. Authors can easily add metadata to their content from within Microsoft Word and search for content through locally controlled metadata, or metadata standards adopted by the enterprise. Simply DITA also supports efficient direct or batch import of structured legacy documents. Simply DITA is supported by an optional instructor-led, Web-based learning program to teach authors how to construct high-performance content under the DITA standard. Unlike other DITA training programs, the Simply DITA training programdoesn’t need to teach authors the technical complexities of understanding and using XML markup code. Since the Simply DITA software takes care of the XML markup behind the scenes, the training can focus on bigger-picture concepts and how to write reusable content that enhances reader productivity and meets the DITA requirements. http://www.simplyxml.com/

Brainshark, Inc., a provider of on-demand multimedia for business, announced Brainshark Mobile, enabling smartphone and iPad users to view Brainshark-delivered communications on their mobile devices. Now, Brainshark's enterprise customers, as well as users of the free myBrainshark.com site, can create content that can be viewed anywhere, anytime and on most devices. Brainshark presentations combine voice narration, PowerPoint slides, video and more for a multimedia experience. The presentations play as streamed video files when viewed on mobile devices. Through Brainshark's analytics capabilities, users can see when their presentations were viewed, who viewed them, if content was viewed on a mobile device and what type of device was used. Platforms and devices supported by Brainshark Mobile include the BlackBerry, Palm Pre, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android; all must support streaming video. For Brainshark's enterprise users, Brainshark Mobile is included at no additional cost as part of Brainshark's core platform. Presentations created are automatically mobile-enabled. http://presentation.brainshark.com/

Google has announced a set of new features and editors available to Google Docs users. Google Docs will now have new editors for documents and spreadsheets, designed to be faster and support more features. Documents will now feature character-by-character real-time collaboration, a ruler for custom margins and tab stops, as well as improvements to the import function. The new version of spreadsheets has been enhanced for speed, includes a formula editing bar, cell auto-complete and more. Google Docs accounts through universities, employers or organizations will start seeing the new editors by default in the coming weeks. You can now set a document, spreadsheet, presentation or drawing to be “Private,” available to “Anyone with the link,” or “Public on the web,” and then customize who has access by inviting specific collaborators. If you’re using Google Docs at work or at school, you’ll also see options to share your files just with other people within your organization. New features for the drawings editor in Google Docs were implented as well. Now you can center objects on the page, resize the entire canvas, view thumbnails of your drawings in your doc list, search across your drawings by text contained within and view a list of editing keyboard shortcuts. We also added the ability for you to share drawings in the Google Docs template gallery, so other people around the world can use your creations. http://www.google.com/

Microsoft has announced it will be releasing a new version of Office Mobile. Like regular Office 2010, many new features are collaboration oriented. The Office Mobile suite will be available in June through Microsoft's Windows Marketplace for Mobile. It will run on phones based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. Formatting details such as tables and charts will now show up on the mobile documents, so they look similar to the full-sized originals. Microsoft also updated the clipboard in Office Mobile to make copying and pasting text faster. Phones equipped with Office Mobile 2010 will also be able to multi-task as presentation aids. During a PowerPoint presentation, they can be connected to computers via Bluetooth and used to advance slides. A feature called Conversation View has been implemented to manage inboxes by grouping related messages so conversations can be flagged or deleted. Microsoft says it has improved support for touch gestures including drags and flicks. Office Mobile 2010 will work on devices that lack touch screens, but with limited functionality. Non-Windows phones won't have direct access to the new Office Mobile features, but will be able to view Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents through a mobile browser-based viewer. In a few months, Office Mobile 2010 will be updated for compatibility with Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system. http://www.microsoft.com

Microsoft has announced that the 2010 release of Office, SharePoint, Visio and Project are available to business customers worldwide. 2010 Releases are Available to Businesses after Record Beta Adoption: The beta programs for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 were the largest in the products’ history, reaching three times the size of prior Office beta programs. As a result, 8.6 million people are already using Office 2010 and related products. In addition, more than 1,000 partners are already building solutions for the 2010 set of products. Office, Project and Visio will be generally available online and in retail outlets in the U.S. on June 15th. Microsoft’s Office Web applications will be available to all Office volume licensing customers, offering productivity technologies in the cloud. In addition, customers will be able to purchase a subscription to Office Web Apps as part of Microsoft Online Services, Microsoft’s cloud-based applications. Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 are available in 14 languages, and over the next few months, 80 more languages will be added. A live webcast further detailing this release can be viewed at 11 AM EST 5/12/10. www.the2010event.com

In a move to strengthen reach in the Asian market, Adeptol announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with VersaPAC, a solution provider of information management systems and reseller of HP TRIM records management software.  With the partnership VersaPAC is moving from a legacy viewing system to Adeptol’s document viewing technology embedded in its Saffron web front-end application for HP TRIM. Saffron is available through VersaPAC resellers in Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, North America, and the United Kingdom. The integration allows Saffron to support viewing of over 300 file formats including documents from Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, various image files, and Adobe PDF.  Users will have access to the latest features such as document search, annotations, and document conversion to PDF - all from the viewer. Adeptol Document Viewer is a web-based viewer using Ajax technology, and is a built-in Information Rights Management (IRM) module that allows users to protect content by assigning policies to control the viewing, printing, navigating and saving of documents. http://www.ajaxdocumentviewer.com/ http://www.versapac.com.my/

Box.net announced it is available as an integrated Google Apps service on the Google Apps Marketplace, Google's recently launched online storefront for Google Apps products and services. Google Apps customers can now access and share their Box.net content when logged into Google Apps, and Box.net customers can use Google Apps products within Box.net. Businesses can manage their project files, including product collateral, overview videos, various artwork and Google Docs, in a shared Box folder. From there, users can manage workflow with versioning, tasks, and commenting as well as using Google Docs to collaborate on their files. Finished work can then be published on a company-wide Google Site. Box.net also provides administration and reporting tools, including password management down to the file level, six levels of access permissions, and reports on user and file activity. Initially, Google Apps customers will be able to access, work with, and share their Box.net content with others inside of Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Sites, as well as enter the Box.net Cloud Content Management platform through Google's universal navigation links. Additionally, when in Box.net, users can create a new Google Document or Spreadsheet, as well as select a file or a folder of files to send with Gmail, schedule a meeting and link to a specific file or folder with Google Calendar, or publish to Google Sites. http://www.box.net/

Sitecore announced the availability of a new version of its Web Content Management (CMS) software. Sitecore CMS 6.2 offers features including native RSS feeds, Microsoft Outlook based workflow management, drag and drop media and document management, authoring enhancements and  marketing Web forms. The forms tool aims to help non-technical users build rich interactive forms, configure campaigns and conversion goals and provides a suite of reports to better understand user behavior for usability analysis and optimization. The tool also allows marketers to capture incremental data from abandoned forms and track form dropout statistics. Outlook integration should allow users to receive workflow notifications from within Outlook in real-time, and take action on those workflow requests without ever having to log into the CMS. All workflow actions, status and version comparison information is provided to the user, and dynamically adjusts should a workflow state change. Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Media and Document Management: Drag and drop image uploads are now available. Files can be uploaded directly in the page editor and can be stored within Sitecore CMS. Files can also be edited with Microsoft Word, Photoshop and PowerPoint and version controlled automatically. Natively edit content inline using full Microsoft Word functionality with full support of rich content pages. http://www.sitecore.net/