Month: April 2006 (Page 6 of 9)

The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies San Francisco, taking place April 24-26, 2006 at the Palace Hotel, will offer free attendance to its exhibit hall featuring over 50 content management technology vendors. Attendees will see some of the most innovative and cutting-edge content management solutions available on the market today. To see the full press release with the new products and features to be highlighted see:

SealedMedia Inc. launched Version 5.0 of its enterprise digital rights management (E-DRM) platform. The new release delivers scalability, improved corporate compliance controls, and Web-based administration tools that simplify enterprise deployments. SealedMedia 5.0 features a Standard Administrative Model and a Web-based Management Console. These enhancements, coupled with the overall simplification of the implementation process, are aimed at positioning SealedMedia 5.0 as a mainstream E-DRM solution for everyday enterprise users who need to safeguard digital content within, across and between organizations. SealedMedia 5.0 was designed with corporate compliance in mind. The software’s Standard Administrative Model provides a hierarchical system that manages rules and enforces auditable segregation of duties. For instance, SealedMedia 5.0 can ensure that financial managers can’t access HR records, and vice versa. SealedMedia 5.0 supports enterprise-wide administration of policies. This helps ensure that SealedMedia 5.0 scales in global environments. http://www.sealedmedia.com

Stellent, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEL) announced the release of version 7.6 of the Stellent Sarbanes-Oxley Solution, designed to help companies streamline their 404 and 302 processes for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Stellent Sarbanes-Oxley Solution version 7.6 further simplifies global enterprise compliance with enhancements to the application’s shared component and process libraries, language and localization capabilities, internal audit testing and management assessment processes, and configuration features. The new features in version 7.6 are designed to increase efficiency, speed implementations and improve ease-of-use in organizations striving to meet the complexities of global compliance legislation. The functionality was designed with input on the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance process from Protiviti Inc., an internal audit and business and technology risk consulting firm, with whom Stellent holds a strategic integration and consulting agreement. http://www.stellent.com

Inxight Software and Clarabridge, provider of text mining software, announced an agreement to integrate and jointly market the Inxight SmartDiscovery suite with the Clarabridge Content Mining Platform. The combined solution allows users to rapidly extract meaning from text, alongside structured data sources. The partnership is meant to provide customers with a comprehensive suite of text processing technologies to transform unstructured content such as contracts, filings, forms, call center notes, medical records, insurance claims, emails, etc., into rich, structured data so it can be efficiently and effectively understood and analyzed within existing or future BI applications. The Inxight SmartDiscovery suite is a solution for text understanding in all major languages. Its set of text analysis tools includes search, categorization, and entity, event and relationship extraction. Automatically identifying concepts, people, organizations, places and other information, SmartDiscovery provides structure to unstructured text, providing that structure as XML-out, for use in routing, categorization, search and BI applications. The Clarabridge Content Mining Platform provides customers with the ability to source, transform, store and analyze unstructured data, and do it in a way that is easy to manage, allowing it to perform like structured data within an existing or future BI deployment. http://www.Clarabridge.com,

ceTe Software, a company which specializes in components for real-time PDF generation and manipulation, announced the release of DynamicPDF Generator v4.0 for .NET and DynamicPDF Merger v4.0 for .NET. These versions provide many new features such as linearization (fast web-view), creation of interactive form fields, PDF/X and prepress support, XMP, PDF417 bar codes, JavaScript, ordered and unordered lists, etc. Additionally, many enhancements were made to existing features. The DynamicPDF products enable software developers to provide PDF content dynamically from enterprise applications for presentation, distribution or archiving. These products are available with flexible licensing including royalty-free developer licensing and server-based licensing. DynamicPDF Generator v4.0 for .NET is a class library that can be used by software developers to create PDF documents from their applications programmatically. It offers an object model that is extensible and allows a high degree of customization. With DynamicPDF Generator, PDF documents can be generated straight to a file, byte array, Web Form or System.IO.Stream object. A free Community Edition of this product is available on the company website. DynamicPDF Merger v4.0 for .NET can be used by software developers to programmatically merge, split, stamp, form-fill and personalize PDF documents. The updated version 4.0 includes many new features such as retention of annotations, preservation of bookmarks, addition of interactive form fields to existing PDF documents, and preservation of document-level JavaScript. A free Evaluation version of Merger is available. http://www.cete.com

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) and NEC Corporation (NASDAQ:NIPNY) announced an expansion of their strategic business and technology alliance. The broader and deeper arrangements involve new technology development, distribution, joint marketing, customer service and support, and increased collaboration and integration of the two companies’ information management and infrastructure solutions. EMC and NEC intend to collaborate on the development of content management solutions for emerging customer requirements. EMC and NEC intend to jointly develop and resell these solutions globally, with a focus on Japan, to help customers better address certain business issues such as regulatory compliance, security and collaboration. EMC and NEC have agreed to collaborate on the development, manufacturing, distribution and support of certain future storage technologies and entry-level products. EMC and NEC intend to license various technologies from their respective resource management products (EMC Smarts and NEC WebSAM) and will incorporate them into future releases from each company. The companies will further ensure tight integration of the WebSAM framework and the EMC Smarts model-based architecture. Within Japan, EMC and NEC intend to deepen their relationship by further aligning each company’s sales and marketing, solution development, consulting, customer support and service functions. http://www.EMC.com, http://www.nec.com

Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN) and Lombardi Software announced a go-to-market alliance to better enable content-centric applications and the business processes that drive them. The alliance is intended to allow joint customers to create, deploy and manage web applications based on a Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that leverages standards such as BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation), JSR-168 (Java Specification Request), and Web Services. http://www.vignette.com, http://www.lombardisoftware.com