Quadralay Corporation announced the launch of WebWorks ePublisher Pro. The new desktop ePublishing software leverages XML and allows users to create customized content for the Web, intranets, professional online Help systems, portable devices, enterprise-ready XML, or PDFs. WebWorks ePublisher Pro provides greater flexibility and ease of use for Help authors, technical writers, documentation professionals, and other content providers wanting to produce content for common online formats directly from Microsoft Word or Adobe FrameMaker files. In addition, the new software features simple WYSIWYG controls and push-button processing that give authors control of the look and feel of Help content and other online information. Authors can use Microsoft Word to write, maintain, and update content, then use ePublisher Pro to manage and deliver multiple online formats such as HTML, XHTML, DHTML, or the cross-browser, cross-platform information system WebWorks Help. WebWorks ePublisher Pro includes support for more than 45 languages, including out-of-the-box support for double-byte languages. WebWorks ePublisher Pro for Word ships in June 2005, and is available for purchase by authors for US$1,000, and internationally for US$1,100. WebWorks ePublisher Pro for FrameMaker ships in July 2005, and is available for purchase by authors for US$1,395, and internationally for US$1,515.
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ClearStory Systems, Inc. announced the release of ActiveMedia 6.0, a J2EE digital asset management (DAM) software application. ActiveMedia 6.0 is built on ClearStory’s Radiant Enterprise Media Server (EMS). ActiveMedia 6.0 offers handling of compound documents such as QuarkXpress and Adobe InDesign, as well as video, flash, presentations, and graphics. ActiveMedia 6.0 offers an n-tier, J2EE design that supports the scalability requirements of modern DAM implementations. Its Web-based user interface offers rich functionality to support global marketing implementations. Enhanced features include a metadata engine, a robust asset-level security model, and functionality for managing complex video, multi-media graphics, compound documents and other rich media.
Every now and then I look at IBM’s alphaWorks, their web site for emerging technologies. A recent addition is a Compound XML Document Editor. The Editor is an Eclipse plug-in, and supports multiple namespaces, XForms, SVG, MathML, and a number of other document types.
Some of the presentations from the 11th XBRL International Conference, which
took place in Boston during the week of April 25, are now available at .
Presentations that I found useful included the Tuesday General Track
presentations by Otmar Winzig of Software AG and Elmer Huh of Morgan Stanley, as
well as the Wednesday Plenary Session presentation by José María Roldán of the Committee of
European Banking Supervisors (CEBS).
The XBRL International website also contains a new, updated version of the
XBRL 2.1 specification, along with a newly released conformance suite. There
are also two new documents
that provide guidance for the construction of XBRL taxonomies. The first is
a recommendation for the Financial Reporting Taxonomies Architecture (FRTA), and
the second is an FRTA conformance suite.
We have published the results of our informal survey on enterprise use of blog, wiki and RSS technologies. We’ll keep the survey going for awhile and will update the results every so often. To date there are 58 respondents.
A few interesting tidbits:
- Although most respondents are using one of the technologies, only half of them have official IT support.
- knowledge management, internal information dissemination (portals!?), and project collaboration are all closely grouped as the leading applications.
- Shockingly, only a third use RSS!
- Almost a third are using one or more of these for content management. We’ll be sure to explore what this means in our upcoming Amsterdam keynote debate.
Refresh Software Corp. announced the June 17, 2005 release of SiteRefresh 6 including a Web Services interface and new features. SiteRefresh’s Content Repository now offers Web Services features for inclusion in the latest Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). SiteRefresh also supports the Firefox browser, extending access to Macintosh and non-IE users. New enterprise features include an expanded search interface with the capability of managing large deployments and thousands of assets. SiteRefresh delivers a content management architectural approach with the latest J2EE Core architecture including Web Services priced at $24,995.
SDL Desktop Products, a division of SDL International announced the immediate release of SDLX 2005, the latest version of its Translation Memory tool. SDLX 2005 goes further to address the quality assurance of new and existing translations. SDLX 2005 expands on the Terminology QA Check and now automatically checks source and translations for: inconsistent, incomplete, partial or empty translations, corrupt characters, and consistent regular expressions, and punctuation and formatting. The QA Check generates an interactive XML report that links the user directly to the appropriate segment in the editing environment to correct the error. A brand new switchboard interface now incorporates all new and existing SDLX modules for simplified navigation and usability. Other features include: the ability to automatically split large, unmanageable documents for translation and then merge them back together for greater process flexibility; greater database performance provides enterprises with more scalability and the ability to store TMs in Oracle as well as SQL Server; and additional language support for Maltese, Armenian and Georgian. http://www.sdl.com
Endeca announced the availability of new Manufacturing & Distribution Search Solutions, a combination of information retrieval applications, services and expertise. The new Endeca solutions help people can find parts and products knowing only limited information, such as attributes, dimensions or fragmentary knowledge of what they need. Whether an engineer searching for the best part to include in a new design or a customer looking for product information on a manufacturer’s website, Endeca’s search and Guided Navigation helps employees and customers find what they are looking for. The Endeca Product Data Navigator combines search and browse into a single integrated function, giving users the ability to find products, parts, components and related information through a web-based interface. With the Endeca Product Data Navigator, pre-built content adapters can combine data from multiple systems, like PLM, ERP and any other information repository to create an integrated view of data from multiple silos. http://www.endeca.com
