Mediasurface announced a partnership agreement with Victio Inc. a provider of Enterprise Content Management solutions. This partnership will strengthen the commercial and delivery arms of Mediasurface and provide associated services to ensure that Mediasurface users can decrease their operational expense, improve their content processes, and greatly increase the intrinsic value of their web presence. ,
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Inxight Software is now offering its government customers a unified Extraction Bundle, comprised of the software that agencies need to get started with entity extraction. The package includes: Inxight SmartDiscovery ThingFinder with ThingFinder Advanced, English and English MTF processing modules, Counterterrorism Entity Pack for English, Inxight SmartDiscovery Toolkit, and Oracle and SQL Server adapters. Inxight Software’s government solutions help analysts and field personnel automatically identify, extract and classify mission-critical entities (person names, places, addresses, dates, organizations, weapons, vehicles, etc.) in unstructured text in multiple languages, such as Arabic, Farsi, Chinese and Korean, providing faster, more accurate access to actionable intelligence. Entity extraction is an essential tool for operations that require link analysis, event tracking and order of battle analysis. Inxight ThingFinder is a text-analysis application that automatically identifies and tags more than 25 entity types in a document. ThingFinder can also be trained to recognize list-based entities such as people of interest. Inxight ThingFinder Advanced extends these capabilities by allowing users to define custom entities and simple link types based on patterns in text, leveraging Inxight’s language analysis as the starting point for pattern-building. New entity types for the counterterrorism effort are now available, including weapons, facilities, vehicles, geocoordinates and MGRS numbers.
Astoria Software announced new functionality that enables users of MS Word 2003 to seamlessly integrate with Astoria XML Content Management Platform Version 4.4. Designed to simplify and speed the publishing of large, complex technical documents that change often, Astoria Version 4.4 now provides MS Word 2003 users access to XML content management functionality. Authors working in MS Word 2003 will find their integration with Astoria retains Word’s user experience and functionality while adding Astoria’s XML content management capabilities, including the re-use of content along with automated review workflow, history and audit trail, and detailed notification features. Astoria’s integration with MS Word 2003 complements the company’s existing support for Adobe FrameMaker 7.1, Arbortext Epic Editor 5, Blast Radius XMetal ActiveX and Blast Radius XMetal Author 4.5. http://www.astoriasoftware.com
Endeca announced the availability of new Government Search and Analysis Solutions – a combination of information retrieval applications and services expertise designed exclusively for public sector organizations. Built on Endeca’s search and Guided Navigation platform, the solutions help government agencies deploy retrieval capabilities for public-facing websites and internal information management applications. The solutions are tailored to the most common and pressing needs of government customers by combining discovery features and security, with design, implementation and user experience expertise. The solutions include intelligence analysis, knowledge and information management, and eGov search and navigation. http://www.endeca.com
Open Text Corp. (TSX:OTC)(Nasdaq:OTEX) unveiled a content archiving solution for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. The solution helps large organizations address the demands and rising costs of preserving huge stores of electronic documents for court cases and compliance mandates. Open Text’s Livelink ECM Document Archiving for Microsoft SharePoint automatically archives documents from SharePoint Products and Technologies in compliance with specific requirements or industry standards. Users can access archived content as as before – the archiving process is transparent to users. Customers can use a single, long-term archive as a repository for all content across the enterprise. Documents and information from Word Documents to invoices to e-mails coming from SharePoint Products, ERP, CRM, e-mail or other ECM systems can be maintained in the Open Text archive. The Document Archiving for Microsoft SharePoint solution also allows customers to move content from expensive server space in Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies to lower-cost storage media. Open Text’s content archive works with storage systems from Hitachi Data Systems, StorageTek, Network Appliance, EMC, HP, Sun Microsystems and IBM. http://www.opentext.com
IBM announced plans to make available through open source its Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA), a technology designed to support software applications that can process text within documents and other content sources to understand the latent meaning, relationship and relevant facts buried within. UIMA provides an open software framework with standard interfaces for adding unstructured information analytics to any application. This framework makes it easy to integrate the analytic software tools and end-to-end enterprise applications across several different vendors. UIMA also provides tools to speed the creation of new, reusable analytic software components to handle unstructured information. The result of more than 4 years of development by IBM Research, UIMA has also received significant support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA and IBM formed a working group consisting of experienced research members who have contributed their expertise in unstructured information management to the evolution of UIMA. The contributors included several universities, along with industrial research and development organizations. Some of the universities that participated, such as Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Stanford University and The University of Massachusetts Amherst, are already using UIMA in courses and research projects. The other organizations actively supporting and using UIMA include Science Applications International Corp., BBN Technologies, The Mayo Clinic and MITRE Corporation. In addition, commercial adoption of UIMA was announced among more than 15 software vendors. The UIMA framework has already been embedded in IBM products, including IBM WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition, the first commercially available software platform for processing content based on UIMA. IBM WebSphere Portal Server and Lotus Work Place also leverage UIMA for content processing. The UIMA framework can currently be downloaded free of charge from IBM AlphaWorks at http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/uima
ZyLAB and Ingeniux announced a strategic partnership. The combination of ZyLAB and Ingeniux technologies will provide customers with an XML based solution for managing the content lifecycle. The Ingeniux Content Management System (CMS) provides a Web content management and publishing system for developing, managing and deploying content throughout the enterprise. Ingeniux allows non-technical users to contribute to and manage the Web publishing process, providing Web publishers with extended capabilities and effective cost controls. ZyLAB offers solutions for archiving, searching, and retrieving information. http://www.zylab.com, http://www.ingeniux.com
ClearForest and iPhrase Technologies announced a new technology partnership. Under terms of the agreement, the firms will work together to deliver a set of eSupport solutions that will enable manufacturing and technology organizations to tap existing enterprise content to automatically develop support knowledge that can be used online and within the contact center to improve the support resolution process. The companies’ joint solutions will be compliant with IBM’s Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA). iPhrase is working with ClearForest and IBM to deliver eSupport solutions to automatically create useful support knowledge by unlocking the value of existing enterprise content. IBM WebSphere Information Integrator provides a unified mechanism for tapping content that exists in various databases, content management systems, CRM applications and collaboration platforms. Once these documents are processed, metadata can be automatically discovered using UIMA annotators from Clearforest and iPhrase. With this approach organizations can leverage email dialogues, discussion group postings, case management notes, and related content to extend their support knowledge base by extracting information like the product line, product version, operating system, issue type, problem, and resolution. UIMA is a standard architecture developed by IBM Research that can be used to add text analytics to any application. http://www.iphrase.com, http://www.clearforest.com
