Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM) announced an enhanced strategic relationship with Microsoft and its plans to deliver technology integrations with the scalability and functionality of Hummingbird Enterprise on the Microsoft platform. Included are access to Hummingbird Enterprise through Outlook, SharePoint Portal Server, Office, and Microsoft Internet Explorer; Native support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005; Continued commitment to the Microsoft .NET strategy; Early support of the next release of Microsoft Office products code-named Microsoft Office “12”; and Continued development relating to performance and scalability such as Hummingbird Content Drive which provides kernel level integration between the Microsoft desktop and the Hummingbird Enterprise repository. Hummingbird will work with Microsoft to proactively deliver high value enterprise content management solutions. Hummingbird will provide field level alignment with Microsoft to address customer and market requirements for industry specific content lifecycle management solutions.
http://www.hummingbird.com
Day: February 6, 2006
Traction Software Inc. announced that it has signed two new European resellers to distribute, integrate and support Traction’s enterprise blog solution, TeamPage. The two resellers, Adhena Consulting AG, focused on Switzerland, Austria, France and Germany, and e-mediate, covering Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg are both focused on bringing the latest in enterprise content management solutions to its customers in a variety of industries. http://www.tractionsoftware.com, http://www.adhena.com,
EMC Corporation announced the new EMC Documentum Submissions Manager for eCTD. Available immediately, the new software is based on the EMC Documentum enterprise content management platform (ECM), providing a solution to help life sciences organizations speed new drug applications. It is designed to support the regulatory submissions process for the Electronic Common Technical Document (eCTD) standard, which is a specification for the exchange of data between life sciences companies and regulatory agencies. The new software helps companies streamline the regulatory submissions process, from the departmental creation of content and submission-ready approvals, to assembly, validation, publishing and delivery to agencies. Documentum Submissions Manager for eCTD offers enterprise content management features that help it serve as a component in the enterprise compliance infrastructure of life sciences companies. The Documentum Submissions Manager for eCTD is available immediately. Users have the option to integrate products from third parties to enhance the Documentum Submissions Manager for eCTD functionality to, for example, perform XML authoring or to handle all paper-based submissions. Additional product information, including a pre-recorded audiocast on the Documentum Submissions Manager for eCTD can be found at http://www.documentum.com/DSM, http://www.emc.com
SpringCM unveiled the latest version of its web-based, integrated content management product, which delivers greater collaboration capabilities and content routing for files and documents. The new release is part of SpringCM’s plan to give its customers monthly product innovations. A check-out function now makes it easier for colleagues to collaborate and share edits on a document or a group of documentsSecurity levels can also be set so content is only viewed and edited by appropriate users. When a user is done editing a document, there is the option to automatically notify the next person who should make edits to the working version. Users need only sign-in once on the SpringCM Web site to access multiple accounts or create a new account. http://www.springcm.com
