Vignette Corp. (NASDAQ:VIGN) unveiled Vignette Collaboration release 7.0, the latest version of its enterprise collaboration product. Vignette Collaboration brings synchronous and asynchronous collaboration together in one interface, and includes packaged integration with the Instant Messaging server Microsoft Live Communications Server for enhanced synchronous communications. The product’s internationalization enables organizations to display, store, and search content authored in any Unicode supported language simultaneously, including Eastern European and Asian languages (e.g. Russian, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Simplified or Traditional Chinese and more). In addition, Hierarchical Group Support provides easier administration of access policies through better mappings to company directories; Search Engine Enhancements improve search engine integration and robustness; Administration Console Enhancements provide a simplified interface; Reduction of the number of clicks for common actions and provide in-place editing of documents, and more. Vignette Collaboration release 7.0 will be generally available in the fourth quarter of 2005. Licensing costs for Vignette Collaboration begin at $50,000. http://www.vignette.com
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Our conference in Boston served up evidence that companies are beginning to get serious about leveraging their content, moving beyond managing, storing, and retaining it. “Content in context” was a theme in the analyst panel and in the sessions on adoption of DITA and sustainable content strategies. Frank and Hummingbird CMO Andrew Pery discussed the issues in “Intellectual Capital@Work: Finding the Added Value in Your Enterprise Content” during a web seminar on December 6. Listen in here:
Recording URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/hummingbird1/view
Recording ID: C377S436
Look for “Tune Into Gilbane, Part 2” for information on our first venture into conference podcasting.
The latest version of JCMS brings enterprises higher performance and much larger data volumes. Its ergonomics have been refined, making it even easier to use. Measured during intensive benchmarking, the performance of JCMS aims at the future needs of Jalios’ very large client enterprises. Textual searching is now adapted to very large data volumes. Users have new possibilities such as spelling suggestion, content pertinence, search refinement and multiple search criteria. In addition to western languages, JCMS now supports others including Arab, Chinese and Japanese. JCMS can cross-reference various criteria geographic, hierarchical, activities, etc. to facilitate information personalization within very large organizations. In addition, there is faster service restart when handling very large data volumes by clearing tracking logs in a parameter-defined manner so as to conserve only important records, better performance and service availability through optimized back-office performance thanks to Ajax, and improved caching and load balancing features on several servers. http://www.jalios.com
SearchBlox Software, Inc. has released Version 3.1 of its Content Search Software with a REST-API that allows custom content to be indexed and searched. Other new features in this release include Spelling Suggestions for search queries and support for JDK 1.5. The API is available in the SearchBlox Free Edition, the Enterprise Edition and the Distributed Edition for Akamai EdgeComputing Platform. SearchBlox is available as a Web Component for all major J2EE Application Servers and as a standalone application for Windows and Mac OS X platforms. The SearchBlox Free Edition is available free of charge and can index up to 1000 documents. The software can be downloaded from
Touch Clarity, a supplier of automated content targeting software announced that they have partnered with WebSideStory. Touch Clarity’s content targeting software increases conversions and customer engagement online by building profiles of visitors to large consumer web sites based on behavior and uses those profiles to target content to them. The combination of Touch Clarity’s automated content targeting and WebSideStory’s digital marketing and website analytics is inteneded to reduce the integration effort required to install both products on a customer’s Web portal or e-commerce site. http://www.touchclarity.com,
Mobius Management Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOBI) and Sun Microsystems announced the integration of the Mobius ViewDirect TCM software suite with the Sun Microsystems StorEdge 5310/5310C Compliance Archiving System. This solution manages all traditional corporate records, e-mail and content in any format from any source and ensures its integrity, reliability and long-term availability. It makes content available to support business operations and it mitigates the risks and costs associated with legal and regulatory compliance. ViewDirect TCM integrates enterprise content in a consolidated repository or through access to multiple, disparate repositories and includes a suite of content-centric applications that enable regulatory compliance and automate business processes. ViewDirect TCM scales from the desktop to the enterprise. Implementations range from departmental applications to multi-server systems with hundreds of thousands of users and billions of documents. High-capacity serial ATA disks with WORM (non-erasable, non-rewritable) technology provide scalable capacity as well as the high-speed access. http://www.mobius.com/
Trivantis Corporation announced the release of the Lectora 2006 line of authoring and publishing tools, which includes Lectora Publisher, Lectora Professional Publishing Suite, and Lectora International Publishing Suite, plus special language versions in Spanish, German, and Dutch with more than 50 new features of Lectora 2006. Features to the Lectora 2006 line of authoring tools include a JavaScript Title Manager, a Translation Tool, Sticky Notes, Question Feedback Pop-Up, Question Feedback Pop-Up, and Object and Page Transitions. Lectora meets the latest elearning standards, enabling content to be easily published to SCORM, AICC, and Microsoft LRN. Trivantis’ destination-neutral philosophy carries through in Lectora, enabling content to be published to any standards-based learning management system, including Blackboard, WebCT, Pathlore, Plateau, Saba, TEDS, and many more. http://www.trivantis.com
RealObjects released version 4.3 of its WYSIWYG XHTML/XML editor edit-on Pro. The editor complements web-based Content Management, Knowledge Management, and e-Learning systems and streamlines the process of in-browser Web authoring across platforms without installation of client-side software. It empowers non-technical users to become content contributors without knowing HTML, XML or other markup languages. The RealObjects XHTML/XML editor technology is available both as a browser-based Java applet or as a JavaBean rich client control. The editor guarantees XHTML compliance of the contents created or pasted from other applications by validation. The focus for improvements in the new release was on the filtered copy and paste of Microsoft Word contents, increased performance as well as extended table and WebDAV functionality. Other important new features include the possibility to insert accessible tables and enhanced dialogs for lists, page properties and headings. Additionally it is now possible to include background images, insert comments or use further JavaScript-API functionality. The new version adds official support for the just-released Firefox 1.5 browser. Having a valid software maintenance subscription, RealObjects edit-on Pro customers can upgrade to version 4.3 free of charge. A free evaluation version is available at http://www.realobjects.com
