SchemaLogic announced that it has partnered with Advent One, an Australian IBM partner, to extend SchemaLogic’s reach into Australia. As a result of the agreement, Advent One will be a major reseller of SchemaLogic’s Business Semantics Management Software in the Asia Pacific region. SchemaLogic’s solution leverages the terminologies, knowledge and know-how of the enterprise to be mapped to enterprise content (documents, text in databases, or rich media). These solutions harmonize how enterprise search, content management, and portal applications work together. Advent One will provide sales, marketing and support service in Australia for SchemaLogic SchemaServer, SchemaLogic Adapters for IBM Discovery: OmniFind, Content Discovery Edition and Classifier module, and SchemaLogic Adapters for IBM Content Management: Content Manager, Document Manager & Records Manager. http://www.adventone.com, http://www.schemalogic.com
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Lighthouse Seminars and the Gilbane Group released some late breaking news on next week’s Gilbane San Francisco, including new sponsors and exhibitors, new details on the various debates, and preliminary survey results on the hot topics of most interest to attendees. Adobe’s Enterprise Solutions and Developer Group has joined the event as a Gold sponsor. See other recent announcements on some of the new products and features to be shown by the 50+ exhibitors at . In addition to Gilbane’s popular analyst session, two analysts will face-off on 7 topics they disagree on in “Content Technologies: A Town Hall Debate”. See . These debates complement the CMS Idol competition taking pace that is open to all, see . The early results from a 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? Partial results of the responses to all the questions are available at https://gilbane.com/sf06_draft_survey.html. To participate in the survey go to . 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.
There are over 100 expert speakers covering these and other topics. The complete conference program is at href=”http://lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_sf_06/sf_cm-confgrid.html. The event is immediately preceded by the Content Management Professionals Association Spring Summit. See the Summit program at
SDL International announced a strategic technical and commercial partnership with content management vendor Trisoft. SDL and Trisoft have co-operated to deliver integrations between Trisoft’s Infoshare content management system and SDL Translation Management System (SDL TMS). The new partnership is the result of investment at the executive level to provide tighter technical integration. The combined offering will enable customers to benefit from content management and translation management technologies, offering a single “user experience” whilst delivering an effective solution to create and maintain multilingual assets, which generally make up 90% of a companys global content. http://www.sdl.com
We have posted the results of our survey to date on the questions we’ll be asking our keynote panel at our conference next week. We’ll comment later, but wanted to let everyone see what topics attendees are most interested in. Some of these questions will also be covered in our analyst panel.
You can still vote the list of questions we have put together, and suggest additional questions. Voting also gives you a chance for a free conference pass to one of our conferences. Of course you can also still join us (expo-only attendees can attend the keynote panels).
Lumen Software announced the release of their Lumenation v6.0 Portal with unlimited User Licensing. The Portal can be downloaded from the company’s website. Organizations can immediately begin providing key information to users appropriately based upon who the user is and what role they play in the organization regardless of the underlying OS (Microsoft, Mac, Linux, Unix). The Lumenation Portal is web based, allowing secure access from any computer with Internet access and a browser (Mozilla, Firefox, Microsoft IE, etc.). Users have access to manuals, tutorials and Forums directly from the Lumenation users support Portal designed to allow organizations to setup and administer the Portal minimizing implementation and operational costs. Lumen Software also offers a full range of services including complete turn key implementation or just fulfilling specific parts of the deployment process such as data integration. The Lumenation v6.0 Portal “knows” who a user is, what applications they have access to, what content they may access within an application, what files, even the users language. The system is also LDAP compliant, allowing the integration of directory services to authenticate and provision users. If you do not have a directory service, Lumenation inherently provides all the necessary user management tools. Organizations are able to create multiple Portals on one server, or different servers to communicate to specific groups, locations and departments. http://www.lumensoftware.com
Mondosoft announced the availability of Mondosoft Integration Services, a new toolkit allowing Mondosoft partners to add search and search analytics capabilities and build customized applications. Mondosoft Integration Services is a Web Service that provides a new point of entry to Mondosoft’s product suite. It enables a licensee to tap into search data and analytics functionality without being limited by a pre-defined user interface, as it decouples the search engine from its out-of-the-box presentation. For developers, Mondosoft Integration Services liberates data and allows search functionality to be integrated into knowledge management applications. Mondosoft Integration Services enables Mondosoft technology partners and system integrators to integrate MondoSearch, InformationManager and BehaviorTracking with CMS solutions like Sitecore and EPiServer and other applications such as Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. The new development toolset controls crawling and indexing from within third-party applications. The Mondosoft approach permits seamless access to Microsoft XP, Advanced Server, and Vista functions and enables a partner or licensee to extend the reach of the search system and its analytics components into AJAX interfaces. The Mondosoft implementation extends the functionality to other operating systems and content management systems, including those running on UNIX and Linux.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced the new Google Search Appliance, featuring Google OneBox for Enterprise, developed in partnership with enterprise applications vendors. Google OneBox for Enterprise, one of many new features of the Google Search Appliance, gives corporations secure access to information in any application in the enterprise from the convenience of the Google search box. “OneBox” refers to the process of typing a query into Google.com for specific category information, such as airline flight times, local weather, or stock prices. With Google OneBox for Enterprise, corporate information, such as contact and calendar info, HR benefits, sales leads, or purchase order status, is now instantly searchable through a Google search box as part of the Google Search Appliance. Google OneBox for Enterprise functionality was developed by Google working with content in repositories from Cisco, Cognos, Employease, NetSuite, Oracle, Salesforce.com, and SAS. Google is also announcing the Google Enterprise Developer program, a community site where developers can get access to Google Enterprise SDKs, documentation, and post their work for sharing with other customers, partners, and developers. The new Google Search Appliance includes additional new features: Native File System crawler reaches all content in Windows-based file systems (more than 220 file types such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, PDF, etc.); Expanded enterprise security and authentication, including LDAP and standard SAML interfaces; Enhanced search relevancy through context-sensitive stemming and synonyms, learned from billions of searches on Google.com; New index of external metadata repositories in document and content management systems; Up to 25 queries per second on one server (500 percent increase); and up to 3 million documents on a single server (100 percent increase). These features, including Google OneBox for Enterprise, are available as part of the new Google Search Appliance or as free upgrades to current version 4 customers. http://www.google.com/enterprise
Ektron, Inc. announced the availability of Ektron CMS400.NET Version 6.0, its all-in-one application for creating, deploying and managing interactive web, intranet and extranet sites. With new features, such as site analytics, blogging, forums, polls, surveys and content ratings, the company expands CMS400.NET with more out-of-the-box capabilities. In CMS400.NET Version 6.0, Ektron brings together more functionality, including: Website analytics – Understand and optimize web, intranet and blog usage with built-in measurement, analysis and reporting; Blogging – Automate and control the blog posting process, including RSS syndication, pinging and trackbacks, support for structured blogging and microformats to syndicate content; Forums – Create and manage discussion forums to encourage online community; Surveys, polls and content ratings – Gain feedback from site visitors with built-in surveys, quick polls and ratings that allow readers to evaluate and comment on content; AJAX-enhanced search – Improve visitors’ search experience and help them find information quickly with AJAX-powered results; Multimedia asset management – Manage multimedia assets, such as Flash, RealAudio and RealVideo, Microsoft Windows Media and QuickTime, track changes, reference and display files within website templates or content, and define and assign metadata to the multimedia files, optimizing them for search engines; and Multi-site management – Use one interface and one installation of CMS400.NET to manage multiple sites and subsites. In addition, CMS400.NET Version 6.0 introduces document management support for OpenOffice.org, and Oracle Database 10g for storing site data. Ektron CMS400.NET Version 6.0 is available immediately. Pricing starts at $8,640 USD for a 10-user, one-URL license with one year of maintenance, which provides access to all product upgrades and Ektron support. http://www.ektron.com
