Alfresco Software Inc. announced that it has partnered with Inovox to deliver open source email archiving to address business requirements driven by numerous federal and state regulations including Sarbanes Oxley, SEC 17a 3-4, HIPPA, Basel II and NASD to name but a few. The solution, developed by Inovox, supports Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Postfix, Sendmail and Kolab allowing email to be archived into Alfresco. The email monitoring operates as a SMTP proxy and uses Alfresco’s Web Service interface to store the emails and all of their attachments. Alfresco is able to manage these emails with full auditability and the option of transforming them into a different format for easy access or long-term readability. The emails and attachments can be automatically categorized, full text indexed with meta-data extracted to enable easy, rapid searching and access. This allows customers to reduce cost through open source and manage compliance, litigation discovery and productivity.
Month: January 2006 (Page 5 of 8)
For Immediate Release:
The Gilbane Report’s Mary Laplante Elected to the Content Management Professionals Association Board of Directors
1/17/06
Contacts:
Mary Laplante
617.497.9443 ext 212
mary@gilbane.com
Cambridge, MA, January 17, 2006. Content Management Professionals (CM Pros), the international content management community of practice, announced that Mary Laplante and Scott Abel have been elected to the 2006-2007 CM Pros Board of Directors and that Janus Boye and Mollye Barrett have been elected to serve on the organization’s Management Committee as director of member relations and director of communications, respectively.
A member-driven organization, the CM Pros Board of Directors and Management Committee are nominated and elected in an open process by the members of the organization. Scott Abel and Mary Laplante were elected to replace two outgoing Board members – Frank Gilbane and Ann Rockley – whose terms expire this month. Directors Seth Gottlieb, Erik Hartman, and Samantha Starmer remain on the Board until January 2007.
As Vice President of Consulting Services with Bluebill Advisors and senior editor of The Gilbane Report, Mary Laplante offers more than 20 years in business and marketing in the content management arena. As the first executive director of the organization now known as OASIS, she offers CM Pros first-hand knowledge of the challenges facing an early-stage not-for-profit professional association.
A technical writing specialist and content management strategist, Scott Abel helps organizations improve the way they author, maintain, publish, and archive their information assets. Scott is actively involved in the content management arena and a frequent contributor to a wide variety of magazines, newsletters and industry conferences. His blog, TheContentWrangler.com is a popular web destination for those interested in content management. A director of content management with more than two decades experience in writing, Director of Content Management at Ken Cook Co., Mollye Barrett has been a professional writer for more than 25 years including eight years as a content management consultant. Janus Boye is managing director and founder of Denmark-based Boye IT, a vendor-neutral consultancy focused on content management. In addition to his consulting activities, Janus is also a contributing author to the CMS Report from CMS Watch and principal author of the forthcoming Enterprise Portals Report. He is also the conference chair of cmf2006, an international content management event bringing together users, consultants and vendors.
Established in October 2004 with founding support from more than 100 content management professionals, this is CM Pros second annual election. Over the past 15 months, the organization has grown to more than 600 members and continues to expand rapidly. The newly elected directors will be seated officially at their first Board meeting on Friday, January 20. http://www.cmprofessionals.org
About Bluebill Advisors, The Gilbane Report
Bluebill Advisors, Inc. serves the content management community with publications, conferences and consulting services. The Gilbane Report administers the Content Technology Works(TM) program disseminating best practices with partners Software AG (TECdax:SOW), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Artesia Digital Media, a Division of Open Text, Astoria Software, ClearStory Systems (OTCBB:INSS), Context Media (Oracle, NASDAQ: ORCL), Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Idiom, Mark Logic, Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX), SDL International (London Stock Exchange:SDL), Vasont Systems, Vignette (NASDAQ:VGN), and WebSideStory (NASDAQ:WSSI). https://gilbane.com
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The recording of the DITA Webinar is now available online. Follow this link and then click on the link, “View All Recorded Events.” You can access the full set of Webinar slides here (PDF).
One of the themes of the Webinar was the use of DITA in applications beyond technical documentation and product support content. Paul Wlodarczyk of Blast Radius discussed applications of other, customer-facing content that could be structured in DITA. These include product descriptions on the e-Commerce site, including user-authored product reviews, bulletins and best practices on the customer support site, and sources like fault trees in a contact center knowledge base. DITA makes sense in these applications because of the value of such content–and the likely need to localize it.
Are people seeing other applications of DITA beyond technical documentation per se? Feel free to comment here and let us know.
EMC Corporation announced the addition of Google Desktop for Enterprise as the newest information source available to users through a single query within EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) Services. This announcement also marks a strategy between EMC and Google to give joint customers greater access to enterprise content. Documentum ECI Services is a federated enterprise search solution that integrates content within and outside the enterprise. By combining Documentum ECI Services with Google Desktop for Enterprise, users have a single point of access and an integrated user experience to search their local desktops in addition to a variety of internal and external information sources, regardless of whether the information resides in an application, database, Web site, or content management repository. Documentum ECI Services for Google Desktop for Enterprise will be available later this quarter. http://www.emc.com
Alfresco Software Inc. announced that has integrated the open source programming language, PHP, into its development environment. This enables PHP developers to create new content-centric applications and dynamic web pages that access Alfresco. PHP is an open source programming language. It is a simple scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded in HTML. This makes PHP an especially complementary language for the Alfresco ECM environment. Alfresco has used connectivity tools that use Web Services and a Service Oriented Architecture to hide much of the complexity for the PHP developer. This enables the full range Alfresco capabilities to be made available to PHP developers.
Content Management Professionals (CM Pros), the international content management community of practice, announced that Mary Laplante and Scott Abel have been elected to the 2006-2007 CM Pros Board of Directors and that Janus Boye and Mollye Barrett have been elected to serve on the organization’s Management Committee as director of member relations and director of communications, respectively. A member-driven organization, the CM Pros Board of Directors and Management Committee are nominated and elected in an open process by the members of the organization. Scott Abel and Mary Laplante were elected to replace two outgoing Board members – Frank Gilbane and Ann Rockley – whose terms expire this month. Directors Seth Gottlieb, Erik Hartman, and Samantha Starmer remain on the Board until January 2007. Established in October 2004 with founding support from more than 100 content management professionals, this is CM Pros second annual election. Over the past 15 months, the organization has grown to more than 600 members and continues to expand rapidly. The newly elected directors will be seated officially at their first Board meeting on Friday, January 20. http://www.cmprofessionals.org
Syncro Soft Ltd has announced the availability of version 7.0 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Debugger. Version 7.0 of the XML Editor adds more than 50 new features. Document validation has been improved by adding continuous validation support (validate as you type), error markers and overview ruler, multiple external validation engines and support for CSS validation. Parsed schemas are being cached to improve the validation speed. XPath support benefits now from an XPath aware content assistant showing functions and axes, variables and parameters as well as name tests for elements and attributes in context. For XPath 2.0 queries the XPath default namespace can be configured/automatically detected and used when writing XPath queries. XSLT editing features an XSLT input document view presenting the tree structure of the XML document set for the current stylesheet in the associated transformation scenario. You can create templates or other XSL snippets by dragging the nodes from the tree into the stylesheet; the generated XPath expressions are context aware. XQuery debugging has been added. The debugging support is based on the Saxon XQuery processor from Saxonica. XML Editor and XSLT Debugger is available in two editions: Multi-platform Academic/Non-profit license costs USD 48.00 Multi-platform Professional license costs USD 180.00 (20% off from the list price) if you buy before January 31st, 2006. Version 7.0 is available for free trial download from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
I have written in the past about how some of the business information aggregators are using XBRL in their financial offerings. Edgar Online today announced that it has extended one of its core product offerings, i-Metrix, allowing users to process content into XBRL format. This kind of commercial application of XBRL is more proof of user demand–and that businesses are finding value in doing the hard work of this kind of data transformation and analysis.
