EMC Corporation announced upgrades to its collaboration offering, EMC Documentum eRoom Enterprise. Documentum eRoom Enterprise 7.3 allows teams to model their critical business processes and eliminates barriers involved with building dynamic, team-based applications. It provides automated “dashboard” capabilities for increased visibility across multiple active project workspaces. It also leverages the EMC Documentum enterprise content management (ECM) platform to ensure that content generated adheres to compliance controls and can be seamlessly shared with other Documentum applications. Instant Messaging (IM) integration enables heightened project awareness and integrated real-time communication through instant messaging for facilitating faster time-to-decisions. Users can leverage their existing IM infrastructure to resolve critical project issues and meet delivery deadlines. Enhanced content server integration delivers improved team efficiencies. Content created or changed in the EMC Documentum Content Server can be automatically synchronized in a new Linked Folder that notifies project teams of new content. Version 7.3 also provides users access to the EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) Services where search queries can be easily formulated across all relevant information sources. New security features provide selective access to data table records. EMC Documentum eRoom Enterprise 7.3 is immediately available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. http://www.documentum.com/solutions/collaboration/index.htm, http://www.emc.com
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Simple truth: there’s no better way to judge the effectiveness of content technologies than by listening to the people that implement them.
When I transitioned from the corporate to the analyst world, I was determined not to fall into the “continental divide” that often disconnects pundits from practitioners. I’ve found that authoring case studies is one of the best ways to avoid the abyss. The process is rewarding in many ways, but the most profound is the ability to connect the dots between the potential impact of content technologies and real-world results.
Another simple truth? Content technology works. CTW’s newest case study on Whirlpool Corporation’s implementation of digital asset management is proof positive. The story describes the journey from departmental DAM to an enterprise brand management infrastructure as told by Whirlpool’s Creative Works organization. Their successes are admirable; their experiences are best practices material; their candor provides vital advice for content technology adopters.
Although I am certainly biased, this case study is well worth the read. Check it Out!
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. ,
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
