WebSideStory, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSSI) announced the launch of WebSideStory Search 4.0, a site search solution to automatically integrate site search and web site behavioral data. This technology, called Active Ranking, enables marketers to optimize the ranking of their search results based on any number of important visitor metrics, such as conversion rate, entry pages, most requested pages and visits, and improve their online business objectives, including increasing conversions or delivering the most relevant content. WebSideStory Search 4.0 integrates with WebSideStory’s HBX Analytics solution via the company’s Stream Reporting API. WebSideStory Search 4.0 offers a number of other capabilities, including guided site navigation, an increase in search capacity, and automated SEO sitemap and shopping engine feeds.
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Vignette Corp. (NASDAQ:VIGN) announced the integration of its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite of solutions with HP Reference Information Storage Systems (RISS) for financial services customers and Medical Archive Systems (MAS) for healthcare, including public sector medical, customers to manage the lifecycle of information. Vignette also announced support for HP’s Integrity server platform. Customers using Vignette’s Collaborative Documents and Records solution with HP’s RISS hardware storage device can benefit from Vignette’s document management, process automation and records management functionality and the assurance of high-performance, redundant mass storage and archiving provided by the HP RISS device. Vignette Integration with HP MAS – Digital storage of the “complete” electronic health record makes critical patient data more accessible to medical staff at point of care. HP MAS, combined with Vignette’s Imaging and Workflow solution, provides an archive of clinical images and administrative documents to healthcare customers. Vignette and HP will offer a web solution running on Integrity servers to help customers leverage their content through an Intranet, Extranet or public Web site. http://www.vignette.com
Siderean Software unveiled Seamark Navigator 4.0. Featuring new application integration, security and scalability enhancements, Seamark Navigator 4.0 enables business users to navigate and manage all types of structured and unstructured information across the enterprise. Key to Seamark Navigator 4.0 is the ability to enhance exploration and discovery from applications such as Google Enterprise Search and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search to help knowledge workers understand the scope and relationship of information available to them. With Seamark Navigator 4.0, users now have the ability to aggregate information from multiple sources regardless of format, navigate it quickly to illuminate previously unseen relationships so they can view what they don’t know, and humanize the information to access it with the least amount of clicks. Seamark Navigator 4.0 offers several new capabilities: External Search Integration with Google’s Search Appliance and Oracle’s Secure Enterprise Search; Role-Based Security to provide security at the facet level by filtering results based on the source of the information and the role assigned to the user; User Tagging to enable communities of interest to tag content for easy reference and enhance the navigational experience for all other users; Information Management Policies; Facet-Based Relevancy to enable the user to “boost” a facet allowing keywords found in that facet to have a higher priority than the same keywords found in another facet; Usage Analytics; On the Fly and Dynamic Facet Creation; and sixty-four bit scalability. Seamark Navigator 4.0 is immediately available. http://www.siderean.com
Inxight Software announced the general availability of Inxight SmartDiscovery Extraction Server (SDX), a solution for text analytics in more than 30 languages. This system delivers Inxight’s ThingFinder extraction capabilities, reading text to discover the “who,” “what,” “where” and “when” of each document, enabling publishers, government organizations and enterprises to extract people, companies, places and other key entities from terabytes of unstructured text. SmartDiscovery Extraction Server was designed to fit into Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services environments. The basic SDX architecture is a horizontally scalable, distributed extraction platform, designed to be deployed in a variety of configurations from 4 CPUs to 40,000 CPUs and beyond. New nodes can be added to the running system dynamically to meet demand. Administration of the system (managing distributed nodes, providing configuration parameters, etc.) is controlled through a Web-based user interface. The next version of SDX, scheduled for release this summer, will also incorporate Inxight Summarizer and Inxight’s new Categorizer product. Inxight SmartDiscovery Extraction Server is certified on Red Hat Linux ES 3.0 and 4.0, Red Hat Linux AS 3.0, Windows 2003 and Windows XP operating systems. Inxight SmartDiscovery Extraction Server (SDX) is generally available now.
CM4all announced the release of WebDrive, a new ASP Web storage solution aimed at Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web hosts, telcos, and cable providers who want to serve the market in online file storage space. The WebDrive application is currently available for licensing, customization, and installation in data centers beginning today. CM4all’s WebDrive application offers storage of files in their data center via an Web browser interface. CM4all WebDrive functions as a file manager, viewer, and a sharing application with data center levels of file protection, all of which can be controlled and managed on any computer or device with Internet access. CM4all’s technology is based on a high-speed XML application server and is operated on an ASP model. The company’s core product is the homepage tool kit CM4all WebsiteCreator, which is adapted for and licensed to individual OEM partners and is available in 11 different languages. http://www.cm4all.com
SDL International announced the release of SDL AuthorAssistant 2006, which accelerates time-to-market and improves brand consistency across enterprise-wide global authoring processes. SDL AuthorAssistant enables creators of corporate content to perform automated checks against existing translation assets, such as previously translated content and terminology glossaries, as well as against corporate writing guidelines. These capabilities have been enhanced with SDL AuthorAssistant 2006. The new release extends its reach to the entire global ecosystem by enabling organizations to access centralized translation assets in SDL Trados, SDL MultiTerm, SDLX and SDL TermBase formats. It saves time in the content lifecycle with additional customizable style checks and provides management insight into global authoring savings with a range of new reporting capabilities. http://www.sdl.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced it has acquired Trade and Technologies France (TTF), makers of computer-aided design (CAD) data interoperability software. The acquisition will help build on the existing 3D visualization and collaboration capabilities of Adobe software and solutions for the manufacturing industry and other markets. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. TTF is a privately held company headquartered near Lyon, France. Along with the industry expertise of its staff, TTF’s technology includes CAD software interoperability translators and software libraries for high-end 3D visualization. http://www.adobe.com
Here is a quick update on next week’s event:
New Sponsors & Exhibitors
Adobe has joined us as a Gold sponsor – their Enterprise Solutions and Developer Group in particular. See announcements on some of the new products and features to be shown from our 50+ exhibitors.
New Debates
In addition to our popular analyst session, two analysts will face-off on 7 topics they disagree on in Content Technologies: A Town Hall Debate. And of course, don’t forget CMS Idol.
Keynote Survey
The early results from our survey on questions to ask the keynote panel show the topics attendees are most interested in are, in order:
- (78%) What are the top 3 technologies that must be considered in any content management strategies in the next 12-24 months?
- (60%) Are there any breakthrough classification or metadata tagging technologies on the horizon that you should be watching for?
- (57%) How will content management lite offerings from Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM affect the content management market?
- (55%) How is widespread adoption of RSS/Atom going to affect content delivery? And what does this mean to enterprise content management or publishing strategies?
- (55%) What new publishing technologies should we expect to see in the next 12-18 months? Will they make it easier to incorporate better design elements to improve customer facing applications?
- (55%) Is there any real breakthrough search technology search on the horizon that you should consider for your intranet or extranet applications?
- (49%) How will Blog and Wiki tools be used in enterprise content applications? How are they being used today?
- (49%) Are there authoring tools on the horizon that are both user-friendly and capable of authoring for both electronic and print output?
UPDATE: You can see partial final results of the responses to all the questions here, and contribute to the survey here.
Content Globalization
Also, the top write-in question topic so far is on globalization and content management. This is a hot topic at the event – there are multiple sessions covering it, and many vendors showing related products and services – some of them have even put together a Content Globalization Pavilion.
We have over 100 expert speakers covering these and other topics. Conference program .
And don’t forget to look into the Content Management Professionals Association Spring Summit
