Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced the availability of FAST ProPublish, an enterprise search-based publication production management and delivery solution. FAST ProPublish, the latest Search Derivative Application (SDA) to leverage the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP), gives professional and business publishers a solution for gathering and processing data. With FAST ProPublish, publishers can provide a Web-based interface designed specifically for researchers. This interface, combined with the products contextual navigation and relevancy tuning, allows business users to rapidly find the right information. The out-of-the-box application framework, templates, and user interface components delivered in FAST ProPublish facilitate the construction of researcher-centric user interfaces. Capabilities specifically designed for the business and production managers within publishing groups include the FAST Production Manager, a graphical tool that allows publishers to perform live updates on their online and offline published content, protect it from unauthorized use, and manage content processing, subscriptions and site structure. The products modular Content Processing Pipeline offers stages for automated entity extraction, linguistic analysis, and content classification. FAST ProPublish includes support for both controlling access and administering content licenses. The publications can be restricted to a given user for a given period of time and even be timed-out at the end of the subscription. www.fastsearch.com
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Adobe Systems Incorporated and HP announced they are expanding their relationship to help technical professionals – including architects, engineers and construction (AEC) professionals – improve collaboration inside and outside their organizations and more effectively drive document-based work to completion. The first outcome of this expanded relationship will be a new offering for customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) that bundles Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional software with HP Designjet large-format printers. The combination helps improve efficiency and reduce costs by allowing technical professionals to reliably share all the components of a design project, both electronically in PDF and by printing the files in large format. The Acrobat 7.0 Professional and HP Designjet large-format printer bundle is immediately available in EMEA in English, French and German language versions. Spanish, Italian and Portuguese language versions are expected to be available by the end of March 2005. www.hp.com, www.adobe.com
TRADOS Inc. announced the launch of TeamWorks 2. TeamWorks manages and optimizes the global information lifecycle defined as the aggregate of all processes required to create, localize, and publish information that meets the needs of global markets. TeamWorks 2 delivers capabilities in four areas to effectively reach global markets: accelerated localization and publishing; improved global information quality; reduced costs; and increased visibility and control over the global information lifecycle for executives and managers. The new release also extends the product’s globalization workflow and its standards-based connectivity. TeamWorks 2 includes: expanded collaborative workflow services that create workflow templates for process automation, and that can work with companies’ existing workflow software; project templating to speed project setup and simplify automation of the localization process; integrated vendor management to automate cost estimation and simplify vendor selection; personalized web-based portals where internal and external customers can initiate and track localization requests and projects; extended capabilities for active content monitoring that detects changes in repositories throughout an organization, and automatically takes action, triggers alerts and updates; and enhanced reporting. www.trados.com
There’s been at least one very public war story from the field in terms of enterprise blogging sans corporate policy – and this one has a fatality. Seems that Mark Jen’s foray into blogging on his experiences as a Google employee went awry pretty quickly. Despite a single-day record of 60,000 unique visitors, Google was not amused by the inclusion of “sensitive information about finances and products.” Here’s the full story.
Jen is no longer a Google employee, fired on Jan 28th after 11 days of work. He maintains that Google gave him no reason for the termination. He continues to blog at 99zeros with a subhead of “Life After Google.”
Although many may remain skeptical about blogging’s potential impact on enterprise collaboration and productivity, the evolution of use should spur enterprises to take a look at P&P development sooner, rather than later.
Aprimo announced it has joined the EMC Documentum Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Alliance Program and the Application Logo Program, which will result in an integration of Aprimo’s Marketing Resource Management (MRM) offerings and EMC Documentum’s Marketing Content Management offerings. The combined products will provide solutions to marketers with sophisticated needs for the creation of marketing digital assets, as well as the planning and execution of the marketing activities that use them. Through the alliance, marketers will have the opportunity to utilize the Aprimo Marketing MRM products addressing Planning and Financial Management, Production Management, and Fulfillment and Delivery Management, in conjunction with EMC’s Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Rich Media, Marketing Content Distribution and Web Content Management capabilities. These integrated offerings will provide control of marketing campaigns from inception of the creative idea through the execution of all related marketing activities. www.aprimo.com
Coveo Solutions Inc. has developed a version of its product Coveo Enterprise Search (CES) that securely indexes and retrieves content stored in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Technologies (SPT). The new product, called Coveo Enterprise Search for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Technologies, is set for release in early March 2005. With the introduction of CES for SPT, all search functionality of CES will be available for organizations that have deployed SPT. Enhancements that CES can offer for the SPT user, include: Intelligent summarization and concept extraction technologies; a “View as HTML” feature that provides cached HTML versions with highlighted query terms for Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDFs and other non-HTML documents; improved relevance with query capabilities based on syntax that supports spelling suggestion, stemming, exact phrase and Boolean operators; configurable search preferences; advanced handling of metadata and XML data; plug-in-style integration with SPT; search that leverages existing SPT security. CES for SPT is scheduled to ship in early March and will be priced according to server and user licenses. Product versions supported by CES for SPT will include SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS). Coveo has given GTSI, the leading government IT product and solutions integrator, exclusive distribution rights for offering CES for SPT to government entities. www.coveo.com
IXIASOFT announced the availability of TEXTML Server 3.5. This new version builds on TEXTML Server’s native XML storage and information retrieval technology and introduces new features designed to help OEM partners develop enterprise-scale content management solutions. Available with TEXTML Server 3.5 and above, TEXTML Universal Converter enables the conversion of over 220 data types to XML. TEXTML Universal Converter transforms unstructured data into an XML schema in the form of the SearchML standard. In addition to the COM, JAVA, WebDAV, and OLEDB APIs already available, developers will now be able to have access to a native .NET API. Each API interface fully supports all functionalities of TEXTML Server. The new version of TEXTML Server fully supports the XPath standard. Developers are now able to move and copy sets of documents from one folder to another, while maintaining the complete history/versions and properties of all documents. www.ixiasoft.com
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Cambridge, MA, February 23, 2005. The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies to take place in Amsterdam at the RAI Centre, 24-26 May 2005, includes an unprecedented gathering of international experts in content management technologies. The preliminary program for the conference is available at:
www.gilbane.com/conferences/Amsterdam_05_program.html.
The Gilbane Conferences provide vendor neutral educational information for IT managers, system architects, and technically oriented business and project managers. At our Amsterdam conference, experts from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom, the US, and more, will cover a broad range of content management technologies including:
- enterprise and web content management
- intranets, knowledge management, and collaboration
- enterprise search, categorization and taxonomies
- document management & compliance
- and many other technologies for creating, managing and delivering with enterprise content
“Our educational conferences includes everything IT Strategists and project teams need to know in a hype-free environment and offer insights into existing and upcoming technologies necessary to implement content management applications,” said Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair. “Nothing can compare with the rich in-depth learning experience of being surrounded by subject matter experts and industry colleagues from all over the globe who are at various stages of implementing initial, or second or third projects that you can learn from”.
As an added bonus, attendees of the Gilbane Conference will be able to attend sessions at the co-located XTech 2005, giving attendees of both events unprecedented educational and networking opportunities. Formerly known as the XML Europe conference, XTech has widened its scope to incorporate neighboring technologies from the web and business. As well as XML, XTech 2005 will cover web development, browsers, open data, the semantic web and more. www.xtech-conference.org/
Justsystem is the Diamond sponsor of the Gilbane Conference. Adobe Systems, and Blast Radius/XMetal are Gold sponsors. Other exhibitors to date include: Antenna House, Astoria Software, AuthorIT, DataDirect Technologies, Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) Corporation, O’Reilly, Percussion Software, Quark, Quasar Technologies, Syncro Soft/oXygen, and Vamosa.
Additional Gilbane conferences in 2005 include: San Francisco, April 11-13, and Boston November 29 – December 1. For customer testimonials and more information see: www.gilbane.com/conferences/overview.html
About Bluebill Advisors, The Gilbane Report
Bluebill Advisors, Inc. and the Gilbane Report serve the content management community with vendor neutral publications, conferences and consulting services. They also administer the Content Technology Works program disseminating best practices with partners Software AG (TECdax:SOW), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Artesia Technologies, Atomz, Astoria Software, ClearStory Systems (OTCBB:INCC), Context Media, Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX), Trados, Vasont, and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN). www.gilbane.com.
About Lighthouse Seminars
Lighthouse Seminars’ events cover information technologies and “content technologies” in particular. These include content management of all types, digital asset management, document management, web content management, enterprise portals, enterprise search, web and multi-channel publishing, electronic forms, authoring, content and information integration, information architecture, and e-catalogs. www.lighthouseseminars.com
