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Webnodes has announced CMS’s to have dynamic support for Schema.org. The new feature has an intuitive vocabulary mapping user interface as well as a code API and Asp.Net controls to streamline the work for site developers. The Webnodes CMS ontology management user interface provides a separation between data, data model and presentation layout. Schema.org which is all about making search engines understand the meaning of your content is a natural extension to thesemantic core engine.  http://www.webnodes.com

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

HighWire Press, the provider of hosting and web publishing platforms to scholarly publishers and TEMIS, provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, announced today they entered into a strategic technology and business partnership. Under the agreement, HighWire will integrate the full suite of Luxid software within its ePublishing Platform to provide automated content annotation, enrichment and linking to its customers. http://highwire.stanford.edu/ http://www.temis.com/

TEMIS, the provider of Text Analytics Solutions for the Enterprise, today announced the launch of the next generation of Luxid, its flagship semantic content enrichment solution. Luxid 6 is a semantic tagging platform which automatically extracts relevant information (entities, topics, events, sentiments), identifies relationships residing in unstructured data and facilitates links between similar and related documents. Luxid 6 optimizes the management of Enterprise content through the capture and structuring of targeted information. The software also enhances the utilization of content within an Enterprise's workflows such as competitive intelligence, research and innovation, voice of the consumer and reputation management. http://www.temis.com/

SaaS content management system (CMS) Granite Horizon In The Cloud now provides enhanced mobile features as well as a new search engine (SEO) optimization tool. In The Cloud (ITC) subscribers now can easily deploy mobile apps to make use of their content in ways optimized for iPhone, iPad, and other mobile devices. Thanks to its new application programming interface (API), the information stored in the CMS can be consumed in attractive apps. A "canonical link" feature was introduced today as well. The CMS allows content to appear in multiple locations (for example, on the mobile version of the site as well as the main version). Other features deployed include an enhancement to the editorial interface and an improvement to the workflow system. http://granitehorizon.com

PostRank has announced on it's blog that it has been aquired by Google. PostRank is a web analytics tool for social engagement data, and used to monitor where and when content generates interactions across the web. PostRank will move to Google's Mountain View headquarters from its current offices in Ontario.http://www.postrank.com/ http://www.google.com/

Springer Science+Business Media, a global scientific publisher of books and journals, and TEMIS, a provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, announced they have agreed on a broad extension of their strategic collaboration on semantic enrichment and linking of content for the SpringerLink platform, a large distribution platform for scientific eBooks and eJournals. Springer and TEMIS have a long and successful track-record of joint work aimed at facilitating information access on the SpringerLink portal by offering navigational tools to customers searching for the scientific content most relevant to their topics of interest. The goal of the recent extension of the Springer-TEMIS partnership is to link not only documents to each other, but also to concepts originating from structured domain-specific vocabularies and to key topics derived from the documents’ content. http://www.temis.com/ http://www.springer.com/

Attensity, the provider of text analytics solutions for Customer Experience Management (CEM), announced the release of Attensity Analyze 6.0, the customer analytics and engagement application. The new Attensity release delivers capabilities designed to help business users analyze large volumes of customer conversations across multiple channels, and quickly extract business-critical insights. Analyze 6.0 includes sophisticated analytics that make it possible for organizations to extract business insights from customer conversations, including customer behavior profiling, detailed sentiment analysis, root cause of issues, hotspotting (emerging issues), Net Promoter analysis, predictive analytics and more. With its reporting wizard and analysis tools, Analyze 6.0 offers a drag-and-drop approach and widgets that allow users to build ad hoc reports around key themes, such as customer sentiment, product and service issues, intent to churn, emerging trends, and more. Analyze 6.0 improves upon previous versions with new capabilities designed to help large enterprise organizations deliver a superior customer experience, including expanded features that allow for wide-scale sharing while protecting the security of sensitive customer data. In addition, the Attensity Data Grid proprietary data store, initially released in version 5.5, is coupled with Analyze 6.0. http://www.attensity.com

Google is reportedly testing the waters of "voice-activated search" with select users, and may even integrate the feature into the Google.com search engine once the experiment is complete. The news follows reports that Google's voice-search product has advanced to the point of recognizing Chinese and will even learn from the user's speech patterns. Moreover, Voice search detects your computer's microphone settings and can open up a "Speak Now" widget to detect your words and transcribe them into a search query. Android phone owners are already familiar with Google Voice Search; it is available in the Google Search widget. http://www.google.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/