Writing for SearchDomino.com, Peter Bochner puts IBM’s acquisition of XML hardware vendor DataPower in perspective. For Bochner and Zapthink’s Ron Schmelzer, the goal is to bolster WebSphere performance. But I think there is a broader story here, and the article itself points out that both Intel and Cisco have gotten into the XML hardware game.
Month: October 2005 (Page 4 of 9)
Datacap Inc. announced the availability of direct integration with EMC ApplicationXtender Release 5.2, technology for providing end-user access to relevant business documents. The Taskmaster Release Task for AX provides Taskmaster and ApplicationXtender customers with integration for a combined automated indexing, forms processing and content management solution. The Taskmaster Release Task for AX is available with Taskmaster 6.2. http://www.datacap.com
EMC Corporation and Captiva Software Corporation announced a definitive agreement for EMC to acquire Captiva. EMC will pay $22.25 per share in cash, or approximately $275 million net of Captiva’s cash balance. The transaction is subject to regulatory and Captiva stockholder approval, and is expected to be completed in either late 2005 or early 2006. Upon completion of the acquisition, EMC expects to take a charge of approximately $15 million to $20 million for the value of Captiva’s in-process research and development costs. Excluding this charge, the transaction is not expected to impact EPS in the first full year of operation. Captiva focuses on the early stages of information lifecycle management – information capture, digitization and categorization. In addition to tighter integration with Captiva, EMC will continue to develop Captiva software as an open platform as it does with all EMC multi-platform software, including the underlying content management platform. http://www.emc.com,
NewsGator Technologies, Inc. announced that NewsGator Enterprise Server (NGES) has shipped to several clients in various markets throughout the world. An application of RSS aggregation tools, NGES applies all of the benefits of NewsGator’s existing products, services and capabilities behind the firewall for secure and manageable RSS aggregation of both internal and external content. Companies are using NGES “Smart Feeds” function to monitor what’s being said about their brand, their prospects and their competition; others are using NGES to subscribe to existing internal blogs or RSS feeds off of their ERP and other business systems; yet others are creating internal RSS feeds for project management and corporate communications. http://www.newsgator.com
We updated our survey on enterprise use of blog, wiki and RSS technology for our presentation on the same subject to a group of documentation and training managers yesterday. With 91 respondents the results are a little more respectable. The only obvious differences from our earlier results were an increase the use or planned use of RSS, and the amount of support provided by IT for blogs, wikis, and RSS. We are not sure if there is real “hockey stick” growth going on here – our results don’t show it – but there just might be. Chris Shipley thinks their numbers show it. Perhaps they do, but we need to know more about the demographics. Our own demographics are very broad and include a sizable non-technical component, which could explain the difference. There was certainly strong interest among the doc and training folks yesterday, but deployment was almost non-existent. The only other sort of relevant survey we are aware of is Technorati’s, but that was aimed at bloggers so is a very different animal.
Based on all the evidence, my inclination is to believe the growth is hockey-stick-like. We’ll try and come to some more concrete conclusions on this in time for our keynote debate on this in Boston next month.
Almost forgot to mention the new Yahoo! White Paper on RSS (pdf). If you thought most internet users knew what RSS was you had better read this.
Addendum: Here is more info on the demographics and methodolgy we were looking for re the Guidewire/Edelman survey mentioned by Chris Shipley we referenced above.
We updated our survey on enterprise use of blog, wiki and RSS technology for our presentation on the same subject to a group of documentation and training managers yesterday. With 91 respondents the results are a little more respectable. The only obvious differences from our earlier results were an increase the use or planned use of RSS, and the amount of support provided by IT for blogs, wikis, and RSS. We are not sure if there is real “hockey stick” growth going on here – our results don’t show it – but there just might be. Chris Shipley thinks their numbers show it. Perhaps they do, but we need to know more about the demographics. Our own demographics are very broad and include a sizable non-technical component, which could explain the difference. There was certainly strong interest among the doc and training folks yesterday, but deployment was almost non-existent. The only other sort of relevant survey we are aware of is Technorati’s, but that was aimed at bloggers so is a very different animal.
Based on all the evidence, my inclination is to believe the growth is hockey-stick-like. We’ll try and come to some more concrete conclusions on this in time for our keynote debate on this in Boston next month.
Almost forgot to mention the new Yahoo! White Paper on RSS (pdf). If you thought most internet users knew what RSS was you had better read this.
Addendum: Here is more info on the demographics and methodolgy we were looking for re the Guidewire/Edelman survey mentioned by Chris Shipley we referenced above.
Avantstar Inc., has announced the latest version of Transit Solutions, a Web publishing software application developed by Stellent. Transit Solutions 7 allows users to build Web sites from standard business content. The software accomplishes this by using a single-source publishing model whereby business employees leverage content from standard office suites and productivity applications such as Microsoft Word, Word Perfect or Visio. Transit then analyzes this content and incorporates the navigation and overall look and feel for the site. New features include WML publishing options for wireless devices; support for Microsoft Office 2003 and WordPerfect Office 12; and support for business productivity applications, such as Microsoft Visio 2003 and Microsoft Project 2003. As a stand-alone application or integrated with Web development applications, such as Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe GoLive, Transit Solutions 7 helps users publish and maintain content on the Web. Common uses of Transit Solutions include the rapid publishing of policies and procedures, documentation or regularly changing business content. Transit Solutions 7 is available immediately. Pricing begins at $4995. A 30-day evaluation version of the software is available.
Open Text Corporation announced that it has formed the Artesia Digital Media Group to help customers address growing competitive and regulatory pressures to improve the management of digital content, such as audio, video, photos and graphics. Open Text’s Artesia subsidiary is the core of the new group, providing its digital asset management (DAM) software as part of Open Text’s suite of Livelink ECM Solutions. The Artesia Digital Media Group will provide sophisticated support for the production, management, collaboration and distribution of all types of rich media content. This specialty business within Open Text will lead the company’s horizontal strategy for digital media as a key component of ECM. Open Text has appointed Scott Bowen, Co-Founder and former President of Artesia Technologies, to lead the Artesia Digital Media Group. http://www.opentext.com
