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Year: 2004 (Page 25 of 75)

Workshare Introduces Protect 3.0 to Eliminate Microsoft Office Metadata Risks

Workshare announced companies can eliminate the risk of exposing potentially damaging or sensitive metadata with its Workshare Protect 3.0. With Protect 3.0 companies gain greater control of content in their Microsoft Office documents, whether used on the desktop or shared via email, through features such as automatic metadata cleaning options, internal and external metadata policy settings and one-step PDF conversion capabilities. Protect 3.0 now cleans metadata in any Microsoft Office application including Excel and PowerPoint. Protect 3.0 Metadata Risk Reports indicate if there is no potentially damaging information in a Word document. Companies can use Metadata Policy Settings to set standard metadata policies, on a departmental or organizational level, on how and what metadata should be cleaned automatically when sending emails to internal or external recipients. Protect now integrates with Lotus Notes and Novell GroupWise as well as Microsoft Outlook. Workshare Protect 3.0 is available now with per user pricing based on volume. www.workshare.com

Gilbane Content Technology Works Publishes Two New Case Studies

For Immediate Release

8/23/04

Avnet Inc., and IDX Systems Corporation share the results of their successful implementations of content management technology

Contacts:
Mary Laplante
mary@gilbane.com
+617.497.9443 ext 212

Cambridge , MA , August 23, 2004. Bluebill Advisors, Inc, the content technology industry authorities, announced the availability of two new case studies illustrating what can be accomplished today with content management technology. The case studies were written by Gilbane Report consultants based on detailed interviews with the implementation teams at Avnet, Inc., and IDX Systems Corporation.

Learn how Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a leading supplier of electronic components, embedded systems and enterprise computing products, reduced costs, improved productivity, increased top line revenue and grew market share through development and adoption of a web content management and portal application. The case study is available to all at https://gilbane.com/case_studies_pdf/CTW_Avnet_8.04.pdf.

Hear how IDX Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:IDXC), a leading healthcare information technology supplier, leveraged a single-source ECM initiative to provide top tier documentation, training and customer support resulting in improved product quality and customer satisfaction. The case study is available to all at https://gilbane.com/case_studies_pdf/CTW_IDX_8.04.pdf.

There is also a webinar with the Gilbane Report’s Mary Laplante and IDX’s Sue Wear and Susan Boor on Tuesday, August 24, 11:00 am EDT.

“The implementations at both Avnet and IDX illustrate the power and payback of content management technology when implemented by teams that pay careful attention to business requirements and user needs in addition to the capabilities of the technologies chosen,” said Mary Laplante, VP of Consulting Services, and Senior Editor of the Gilbane Report. “The teams at both these companies are to be congratulated for advancing the effective use of content technology within their organizations.”

“The best way for companies to understand what can be realistically accomplished with content technology is to look at successful examples that have been validated by a knowledgeable neutral third party”, said Frank Gilbane, CEO, Bluebill Advisors, “The CTW initiative is designed to provide these examples as a service to the entire content technology community.”

For more information on how to gain access to the Content Technology Works program, visit https://gilbane.com/content-technology-works-program/

About Bluebill Advisors, The Gilbane Report 
Bluebill Advisors, Inc. (www.bluebilladvisors.com) serves the content management community with publications, conferences and consulting services. The Gilbane Report (www.gilbane.com) administers the Content Technology Works™ program disseminating best practices with partners Software AG (TECdax:SOW), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Artesia Technologies, Atomz, Context Media, Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), INSCI (OTCBB:INSS), Trados, Vasont Systems, Venetica, and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN).

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Vignette Launches Records & Document Management Suite

Vignette Corp. released Vignette Records & Documents, providing customers with a platform that delivers compliance, risk management and business automation within a single framework. The release of Vignette Records & Documents is a result of integrating applications secured in Vignette’s recent acquisition of TOWER Technology. Vignette Records & Documents helps customers meet compliance obligations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Vignette is also committed to support the U.K. National Archives (PRO) 2002 Functional Requirements for Electronic Records Management Systems (ERMS) and will seek the National Archives’ approval of Vignette Records & Documents against the PRO 2002 ERMS requirements. Vignette also announced enhanced storage and retrieval support for Vignette IDM, providing customers with an information management system to help the transitioning from paper to high-volume digital processes. Vignette IDM is a Web-enabled imaging, COLD and case management system designed to capture and manage virtually all forms of unstructured business information, including images, forms, computer-generated reports, statements and invoices, office documents, and e-mail. Enhancements to Vignette IDM include retrieval from EMC Centera storage devices and support for NetApp SnapLock for enterprise storage management for high-volume image ingestion. www.vignette.com

Gilbane Content Technology Works Publishes Two New Case Studies

Bluebill Advisors, Inc. announced the availability of two new case studies illustrating what can be accomplished today with content management technology. The case studies were written by Gilbane Report consultants based on detailed interviews with the implementation teams at Avnet, Inc., and IDX Systems Corporation. Learn how Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a leading supplier of electronic components, embedded systems and enterprise computing products, reduced costs, improved productivity, increased top line revenue and grew market share through development and adoption of a web content management and portal application. Hear how IDX Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:IDXC), a leading healthcare information technology supplier, leveraged a single-source ECM initiative to provide top tier documentation, training and customer support resulting in improved product quality and customer satisfaction. The case studies are available at no charge at www.gilbane.com/case_studies/avnet_case_study.html, and www.gilbane.com/case_studies/idx_case_study.html. For more information on how to gain access to the Content Technology Works program, visit https://gilbane.com/technology_works.html.

Hummingbird to Offer Attunity Products for Data Integration

Attunity, Ltd. announced a technology partnership with Hummingbird Ltd. Hummingbird will offer the Attunity product family as an add-on component of Hummingbird Genio, the data integration component of Hummingbird Integration Suite. Hummingbird Genio is a data integration solution that spans the functional areas of data extract, transformation, and load (ETL) and EAI, for projects that might include data warehouses or data marts. Once in a consolidated data warehouse users can perform various forms of analysis upon it. Attunity Connect is a family of pre-built, standards-based adapters to mainframe and other legacy data sources, providing high-performance and native access. Attunity Stream is a change data capture product that moves data changes across the enterprise. Attunity software products run natively on Microsoft Windows, SUN Solaris, Red Hat Linux, AIX, Open VMS, OS/390 and OS/400. www.hummingbird.com, www.attunity.com

EMC Documentum Releases Enterprise Content Integration Services

EMC Corporation announced the immediate availability of EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) Services, a software product that enables users to discover, access and assimilate structured and unstructured information from multiple internal and external sources, in multiple languages, with one query. Through a single sign on, Documentum ECI Services enables integration of heterogeneous content — from enterprise applications, databases, content management systems and groupware to Internet sources, such as web search engines, industry-specific databases, local archives, government portals and syndicated content providers. Analytics capabilities enable end-users to access and analyze the results of their queries across multilingual content sources. Documentum ECI Services is part of the EMC’s virtual repository strategy that enables customers to discover and manage unstructured content wherever it resides. In developing Documentum ECI Services, EMC incorporated technology acquired from the askOnce business unit of Xerox Corporation. Documentum ECI Services can be used in conjunction with the Documentum Enterprise Content Management platform, with other content management products or as a standalone tool. Documentum ECI Services is immediately available. www.documentum.com

FileNet Releases FileNet Records Manager

FileNet Corporation announced availability of the company’s newest ECM product suite, FileNet Records Manager. Built on the company’s FileNet P8 ECM platform, FileNet’s Records Manager suite offers customers a comprehensive records management solution that is designed to help enforce compliance by automating and streamlining an organization’s records-based procedures and reducing unnecessary end user participation in the processing of records. FileNet Records Manager, powered by FileNet’s ZeroClick technology, is designed to solve regulatory compliance challenges and manage risk by helping organizations: organize, securely store and quickly retrieve essential company records, automatically enforce records management policies, comply with records retention policies, ensure expired records are destroyed in a legally acceptable manner, and reduce discovery and storage costs. FileNet believes its Records Manager solution offers companies an evolutionary approach to records management. The key differentiator in FileNet Records Manager is its FileNet ZeroClick solution, which is designed to enforce records management policies at the technology layer. The underlying functionality of FileNet ZeroClick is “Active Content,” whereby content and business processes work together to facilitate and accelerate information exchange, and respond to business or transaction events. FileNet Records Manager is now shipping. www.filenet.com

INSCI Releases WebWare ActiveMedia 5.5

INSCI Corp. announced the release of WebWare ActiveMedia 5.5, the latest version of its Web services- based digital asset management (DAM) software. New feature, ActiveSecurity, provides a metadata-driven security model. By simply updating a metadata field, administrators can change which individuals can gain access to an asset. Security management and rapid workflow capabilities are further enhanced through single sign-on capability (SSO). Also new in ActiveMedia 5.5, Task Filters are an administrative capability that enable dynamic distribution of assets to predefined user workspaces. This facilitates collaboration and automated workflow by presenting users with only those assets required for their project role or stage in the review and approval process. INSCI is introducing new Desktop Connections for QuarkXpress and Adobe InDesign and a Video Ingestion & Delivery Tool. Other key features of the new release include expanded SOAP APIs; dynamic watermarking capabilities; multiple-asset renditions; and end-user access for batch metadata editing for multiple assets. ActiveMedia 5.5 is available. www.insci.com

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