Vignette Corporation (NASDAQ: VIGN) announced the release of Vignette Content Management Audit Solutions. The solutions allow organizations to track and archive changes across multiple Web sites and provide a simplified process for meeting operational or regulatory auditing compliance requirements. In addition to enabling compliance, Vignette Content Management Audit Solutions help organizations optimize and improve operational Web site management processes by reporting on content creation, contribution and user trends that can identify system or process bottlenecks. Once an organization knows how and when its content is being managed, it can easily make modifications to drive efficiency and reduce the amount of time it takes to publish fresh content. Vignette Content Management Audit Solutions are available in complimentary and enhanced packages. Vignette Content Management Audit, included within the Vignette Content Management console, includes event history views. The enhanced offering allows organizations to leverage on-demand reporting of events, users and time periods in a dashboard or drill down format in order to identify trends. http://www.vignette.com
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SYSTRAN announced the release of SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7, the company’s first hybrid machine translation (MT) server designed for enterprise use. Based on a combination of self-learning and linguistic technologies, SYSTRAN 7 delivers consistent translations that meet corporate customer requirements. Machine translation products have traditionally either been based on rules or statistical models. With the introduction of its hybrid MT product, SYSTRAN has delivered a solution that brings together the strengths of these two approaches. SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7 combines the predictability and language consistency of rule-based machine translation with the fluency of statistical MT. SYSTRAN’s customization methodology includes the creation of dictionaries and the building of translation models from translated content. These tools supplement the out-of-the-box translation capabilities provided by SYSTRAN for 52 language pairs. SYSTRAN Enterprise Server has traditionally been deployed on corporate intranets as a solution for multilingual collaboration to help employees understand foreign language information such as emails, web pages, presentations and corporate documentation. SYSTRAN’s new hybrid MT engine enables enterprise customers to expand MT use for publishing. SYSTRAN Enterprise Server 7 offers reuse of validated translations through global content management workflows which allow users to create and manage multilingual content. By combining the latest linguistic and statistical techniques, SYSTRAN “learns” how words and phrases should be translated for specific domains based on existing human translations. As the data is re-used it gets “smarter” and updates itself. http://www.systransoft.com
Sitecore announced the Sitecore Online Marketing Suite for organizations to unify Web content management capabilities, Web analytics and marketing automation for greater customer engagement and personalization. Sitecore’s Online Marketing Suite (OMS) helps marketers track and better understand their online visitors and initiatives. Sitecore’s new marketing suite provides Web analytics out-of-the-box, without coding. Content editors can profile their content upon creation, establishing the relevancy for segmentation analysis and the delivery of targeted content. The software then automatically develops profiles on site visitors based on browsing behavior, geographical IP identification, and data collected through forms and survey submissions. Using content delivery rules and filters, Sitecore delivers targeted, action-orientated content and offers. The Online Marketing Suite’s A/B and multivariate testing lets marketers define and execute tests. With Sitecore’s CMS delivering the website user interaction and experience, the OMS analytics data now tells the story of a site visitor’s experience. The software measures online advertising campaign effectiveness and increases the agility of the campaign with immediate correlation between campaign initiatives and specific website goals. The campaign tracking is integrated with the site visitor session detail, recording further interests and actions automatically and providing full insight into the actual ROI of campaigns. Sitecore’s Online Marketing Suite will be generally available on June 30, 2009. http://www.sitecore.net
Deep Web Technologies introduced Search Builder, an automatic deep web search-engine creation tool. This tool enables Deep Web Technologies’ clients to personalize the federated search experience for particular individuals, departments, classrooms or other groups that require different default collections and/or a modified user experience when conducting deep web searches. In short, Search Builder makes it possible to deliver any number of individualized federated search portals within an organization. Search Builder allows administrators or authorized users to create as many federated search portals as needed, which represent privately branded search pages containing different default collections and search fields used for the search, as well as customized user experience. Future plans include integrating Search Builder into Deep Web Technologies’ free media sites, Mednar (http://www.mednar.com/), Biznar (http://www.biznar.com/), and ScienceResearch.com (http://www.scienceresearch.com/). http://www.deepwebtech.com/
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) announced free, full-function developer editions of its enterprise content management (ECM) products and launched two new online communities dedicated to EMC Documentum and XML developers. Through the Documentum and XML communities, developers will have open access to resources that includes code samples, tutorials, full product documentation and “getting started” guides. EMC Documentum Content Server Developer Edition provides developers free access and offers a “one-click” deployment that can be run on a laptop so that developers can quickly start creating their Documentum-based solutions. EMC Documentum xDB Developer Edition provides developers a scalable, high performance, native XML database at no cost for development and testing. .NET Productivity Suite makes it easier for developers to conduct integrations with Microsoft applications such as SharePoint by allowing them to work exclusively in a Microsoft environment. EMC Documentum Content Services for Salesforce CRM allows developers to embed Documentum content services within Salesforce CRM. All products are available today. The free developer editions of Content Server and xDB are for development, testing and trial only. Standard licensing fees apply for production and run-time deployments. http://www.emc.com/
Hippo, developer of web-based, open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Portal software, has launched a full product and support offering around the latest version of Apache Jetspeed, version 2.2 released on May 28th, supporting the Portal 2.0 specification. Hippo’s developers, with ten officially recognized committers already noted for their commitment to a range of The Apache Software Foundation’s projects, have contributed to the community effort to develop Jetspeed 2.2. Hippo’s close involvement in the Jetspeed community enables it to bring training, consulting and 24×7 support for the new version straight to the market, and to offer Jetspeed 1.x and 2.1 users an upgrade package and full support. Jetspeed is an open source Enterprise Information Portal using Java and XML to collect and present information from multiple sources via an intuitive and user-friendly interface. As a product of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), one of the open source organizations dedicated to collaborative software development, Jetspeed is available for free under the business-friendly Apache License. Hippo’s own product range features full integration with Jetspeed 2.2, including Hippo CMS 7, the Hippo Site Toolkit and the integrated ECM suite. Its products provide organizations with solutions for content management and online collaboration. The new release, combined with Jetspeed’s track record of performance, stability and its unmatched support for open standards, is an ideal fit for the highly scalable collaborative intranet and web architectures built on Hippo’s products. http://www.onehippo.com
Gilbane San Francisco is next week, and soon after we’ll be switching our energies to our annual Boston conference. The 2009 dates are December 1-3, and we are returning to the Westin Copley hotel for our 6th year. The first important date is the call for papers deadline, which is June 15th. Instructions for submitting speaking proposals can be found at: https://gilbane.com/speaker_guidelines.html.
The track structure this year will be similar to what we are doing in San Francisco. We are still fiddling with the exact names and descriptions, but currently the tracks are:
- Web & Business Engagement
- Managing Collaboration with Colleagues and Customers
- Integrating, Searching & Publishing Enterprise Content
- Content Infrastructure Strategies
We’ll be continuing our focus on enterprise use of social software and how it integrates into various business applications. We’ll also be adding more coverage of mobile content strategies and technologies. The mobile channel is no longer just for pure consumer applications, but has a critical role to play in mainstream business applications, for collaborating and content delivery, and much more. "Smartphone" platforms are rapidly becoming at least as important as desktops, notebooks and netbooks. Some specific technology areas at the Boston conference will be:
- Web Content Management
- Enterprise Social Software
- Enterprise Mobile Content
- Authoring & Publishing
- Content Globalization
- XML & XBRL
- Enterprise & Site Search
- Semantic Technologies
- Enterprise Content Management
The preliminary Gilbane Boston 2009 site is live at http://gilbaneboston.com/. If you have questions about speaking proposals email us at speaking@gilbane.com.
UPDATE: We have just created a Twitter account for the conference: http://twitter.com/gilbaneboston, and we’ll use #gilbaneboston for the hashtag. We are going to use our main twitter account for Boston at http://twitter.com/gilbane .
Earlier comments in this blog referred to Autonomy ads in Information Week. They have continued throughout early 2009 with just the latest proclaiming “Autonomy Dominates Enterprise Search” in bold red and black, two of my favorite, eye-catching colors. Having read the publication for over ten years, I notice things that are different. Seeing a search company repeatedly showing up keeps me noticing because they are the first to spend on major advertising like this in an IT publication.
This week the predictable happened, it was an article by Information Week‘s Sr. VP focusing on Autonomy’s terrific business run in a tough economy. Fair enough – it happens all the time for big spenders.
I just want to remind readers that if you are a small unit in a large organization or a small or medium business, there are dozens of enterprise search solutions that will serve you extremely well, with much lower cost of ownership and startup effort than Autonomy. You do not need the biggest or fastest growing company’s products to get good or even excellent solutions. Furthermore, the chances of getting superior customer support and services from a more modest company, which is focused exclusively on search excellence, are much better.
Be sure to check out the offerings at the Gilbane Conference in San Francisco next week. A lot more guidance and good case studies will give you an earful of what else to consider. The search headliners at the conference with Hadley Reynolds moderating are:
E8. Search Survival Guide: Delivering Great Results
Speakers: Randy Woods, Co-founder & Executive VP, non-linear creations, Best Practices for Tuning Enterprise Search and Miles Kehoe, President, New Idea Engineering
E9/I5. The Next Big Thing: Tomorrow’s Search Revealed
Speakers: Stephen Arnold, ArnoldIT, What You Need to Know About Google Dataspaces and Jeff Fried, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
E10/I6. Bringing it All Together: Perils and Pitfalls of Search Federation
Speakers: Helen Mitchell Curtis, Senior Program Director of Enterprise Solutions, MacFadden, Federated Search in a Disparate Environment, Larry Donahue, Chief Operating Officer & Corporate Counsel, Deep Web Technologies, Federated Search: True Enterprise Search and Jeff Fried, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
E11/I7. The Special Case of Categories – and Where To Find Them
Speakers: Joseph Busch, Founder, Taxonomy Strategies, Taxonomy Validation, and Arje Cahn, CTO, Hippo, Find What You Need in Unstructured Content with the Help of Others (and your CMS): Demo of Wikipedia with Faceted Search
E12/I8. It’s Easier with Structure: Leveraging Markup for Better Search
Speakers: Dianne Burley, Industry Specialist, Nstein Technologies, Semantic Search and J. Brooke Aker, CEO, Expert System, A 3-Step Walk Through ECM Using Semantics
E13/I9. Improving SharePoint Search & Navigation with a Taxonomy and Metadata
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