Content Management Professionals (CM Pros), the international content management community of practice, announced that Mary Laplante and Scott Abel have been elected to the 2006-2007 CM Pros Board of Directors and that Janus Boye and Mollye Barrett have been elected to serve on the organization’s Management Committee as director of member relations and director of communications, respectively. A member-driven organization, the CM Pros Board of Directors and Management Committee are nominated and elected in an open process by the members of the organization. Scott Abel and Mary Laplante were elected to replace two outgoing Board members – Frank Gilbane and Ann Rockley – whose terms expire this month. Directors Seth Gottlieb, Erik Hartman, and Samantha Starmer remain on the Board until January 2007. Established in October 2004 with founding support from more than 100 content management professionals, this is CM Pros second annual election. Over the past 15 months, the organization has grown to more than 600 members and continues to expand rapidly. The newly elected directors will be seated officially at their first Board meeting on Friday, January 20. http://www.cmprofessionals.org

Syncro Soft Ltd has announced the availability of version 7.0 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Debugger. Version 7.0 of the XML Editor adds more than 50 new features. Document validation has been improved by adding continuous validation support (validate as you type), error markers and overview ruler, multiple external validation engines and support for CSS validation. Parsed schemas are being cached to improve the validation speed. XPath support benefits now from an XPath aware content assistant showing functions and axes, variables and parameters as well as name tests for elements and attributes in context. For XPath 2.0 queries the XPath default namespace can be configured/automatically detected and used when writing XPath queries. XSLT editing features an XSLT input document view presenting the tree structure of the XML document set for the current stylesheet in the associated transformation scenario. You can create templates or other XSL snippets by dragging the nodes from the tree into the stylesheet; the generated XPath expressions are context aware. XQuery debugging has been added. The debugging support is based on the Saxon XQuery processor from Saxonica. XML Editor and XSLT Debugger is available in two editions: Multi-platform Academic/Non-profit license costs USD 48.00 Multi-platform Professional license costs USD 180.00 (20% off from the list price) if you buy before January 31st, 2006. Version 7.0 is available for free trial download from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html

iUpload announced that its enterprise blogging solution is now integrated with NetSuite’s on-demand business application software. This integration is driven by iUpload’s membership in NetSuite’s recently launched NetFlex Applications Program, which is an on-demand development environment to allow third party applications to integrate rich transaction data such as orders, inventory, invoices and shipments with their applications. The iUpload integration lets NetSuite users leverage iUpload’s blog and wiki technology to securely transform corporate blogs into sophisticated personalized web sites that feed customer and company information into the NetSuite platform. By providing this flexible and rich format of communication, iUpload gives NetSuite customers the opportunity to broadly collaborate with contacts, customers, workgroups and partners. With iUpload, sales and customer support personnel can share information securely through posting to their blog without ever leaving the NetSuite service. By choosing which NetSuite accounts and contacts they would like to give access to, users can invite customers or other employees to comment on or even edit information within the blog. The user can share a variety of information with customers and allow the attendees to add or edit its contents. With a customer login, customers can even contribute new content like product suggestions and industry news by simply posting to the blog. iUpload’s NetSuite integration is available immediately to NetSuite customers. , http://www.netsuite.com

Workshare announced DeltaView 3.0. DeltaView 3.0 features Word Act on Changes from DeltaView redlines, more than 100 enhancements to document comparison quality and accuracy, and updated email and document management platform integrations. The Act on Changes feature, also now available in the Workshare Professional suite, has been the #1 feature request from current DeltaView users. Workshare also announced the Workshare Customer Choice Program, a set of tools and resources to assist DeltaView 2.x customers in making their future plans for upgrading to DeltaView 3.0 or for migrating to the Workshare Professional 4.5 platform. In addition, Workshare introduced the Workshare Platform Migration Incentive, which provides up to 70 percent off of the list price of migrating from DeltaView to Workshare Professional. For a perpetual license, pricing starts at $1,495 for a five-seat minimum plus a $299 annual software support subscription for upgrades and hotline support. All DeltaView customers on a current software support subscription will receive DeltaView 3.0. DeltaView 3.0 will be released in March 2006 through all Workshare channels including value-added resellers, corporate resellers, online resellers and the Workshare online store. Volume purchase discounts are available. http://www.workshare.com

dtSearch Corp. announced Version 7.2 of its product line for searching terabytes of documents across a desktop, network, Internet or Intranet. The new version adds a .NET Spider API for the dtSearch Engine for Win & .NET, and updates the dtSearch Engine for Linux to the “terabyte indexer” code base. The new release also adds OpenOffice to the list of supported file types. dtSearch Desktop with Spider searches files on a PC. dtSearch Network with Spider searches across a network running in a client/server capacity. Both search and display with highlighted hits: email messages (Outlook, Outlook Express, Exchange, Eudora and other .MSG formats) along with the full text of email attachments, MS Office and now OpenOffice files, PDF, XML, HTML, ZIP, CSV, Unicode and other content. Through the dtSearch Spider, both applications can also add Web-based content to a local or network search. The dtSearch Engine for Win and .NET supports SQL, C++, Delphi, Java, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, C++.NET, and ADO.NET. The new release adds additional .NET APIs, including a new .NET Spider API. The new release also updates the dtSearch Engine for Linux, with C++ and Java APIs, to the current “terabyte indexer” code base. Pricing is $199 for dtSearch Desktop with Spider, from $800 for dtSearch Network with Spider, from $999 for dtSearch Web with Spider, and from $2,500 for dtSearch Publish. dtSearch offers a variety of royalty-based and royalty-free pricing options for the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine. http://www.dtsearch.com

Centric Software, Inc., leading provider of OpenPLM for the extended enterprise, announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Product Sight Corporation of Bellevue, WA, a privately held developer of product data and enterprise search technology. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Centric will immediately integrate Product Sight’s data search technology into its existing product line to offer solutions that leverage existing product data and resolve immediate, high-value product development challenges common to all manufacturers. Centric InSight searches for information in multiple sources of product data content and other enterprise data and classifies the results presenting a unified view of information sources. Centric MultiSight BOM manages global part and BOM data from multiple sources delivering different BOM views to different teams in different locations, based on their role and function in the product development process. Centric Software is now a PLM vendor with the ability to search, classify and connect to multiple MCAD, EDA, CAE, PDM, ERP, SCM and document management systems for related pieces of product data. The combination of search, classification and connectivity provides distributed product and project teams with automatic extraction and aggregation of real-time product and operational data, presenting cross-disciplinary information that enables more informed decision making. http://www.centricsoftware.com