Brulant, Inc. and Percussion Software announced a partnership. Brulant will offer implementation services for Percussion’s Rhythmyx 5 Enterprise Content Management (ECM) System to its customers with comprehensive content management requirements. Brulant’s partnership with Percussion will enable it to design, develop and deliver content management solutions for clients’ Web sites, intranets, extranets, document management applications, and enterprise portals. www.percussion.com

CrownPeak Technology introduced Advantage ES, an Extended Suite of developer tools and customization capabilities. Advantage ES offers solution developers the ability to build and customize integrated content management applications without installing software or purchasing any hardware. Advantage ES consists of a new range of developer tools, an expanded API, a full suite of gateway interfaces with configuration tools, and a complete set of pre-configured customizations for applications like extranets, intranets, workflow engines, document and/or asset catalogues, and e-commerce systems. In addition, CrownPeak is announcing support for development in external platforms and connections directly into the CrownPeak application suite via Web Services (SOAP). The first major platform supported in this program is .NET. As part of the CrownPeak ES launch, the company is unveiling a new section of the CrownPeak site for developers, with code samples, documentation, and integration support. CrownPeak has also launched a complete developer training and support program. www.crownpeak.com

Verity Inc. announced Novatix Corporation, a provider of software for management and sharing of digital documents, images and other files, has integrated Verity KeyView Viewing Software Development Kit (SDK) into its ExplorerPlus file management suite. ExplorerPlus software is a suite of integrated desktop tools that lets users organize and manage folders, files, documents, Web pages and other content on the hard drives of their personal computers. Verity KeyView Viewing SDK lets developers like Novatix add WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) capabilities to their applications for viewing and printing of all popular word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphic, multimedia, compression and encoding formats. KeyView Viewing SDK allows the viewing and printing of multiple file formats, without requiring licenses and installation of multiple applications associated with the files types. www.novatix.com, www.verity.com

Interwoven, Inc. announced the Interwoven Accounting solution designed to provide tax, audit, and consulting professionals with firm-wide electronic content management to consolidate all forms of content — including financial statements, e-mails, attachments and scanned paper — into a single, searchable, and accessible repository. The new solution enables accounting firms to manage, search, and retain all firm content in a consistent manner. The cornerstone of the Interwoven Accounting solution is Interwoven WorkSite. The Interwoven Accounting solution aggregates all critical business content into engagement or client-centric WorkSpaces allowing professionals to quickly view all content such as documents, completed financial statements, engagement letters, scanned documents, and e-mails alongside critical dates, actions, and billing data in a single integrated view. All employees in the firm with appropriate permissions can then get an up-to-date view into any client or engagement related documents or correspondence from anywhere at anytime. The Interwoven Accounting solution provides capabilities for document management, team collaboration, e-mail management, workflow, and records management. The Interwoven Accounting solution is available from Interwoven today. www.interwoven.com/solutions/accounting/index.html

CMS Watch announced the release of Version 6 of “The CMS Report”, with updated analysis and product surveys. The CMS Report provides a comprehensive overview of Web Content Management products and best practices. The new version includes updated, 4-7 page comparative evaluations of 25 Web CMS offerings as well as short descriptions of more than 15 other products across 7 vendor categories. Version 6 of The CMS Report comes in an optional, expanded “Enterprise Edition,” which addresses special issues of enterprise-level implementations, including multisite management, content integration,
enterprise-class deployment, enterprise governance models, and new “ECM”
product suites. The Enterprise Edition examines five vendor offerings — from Interwoven, Vignette, FileNet, Stellent, and Documentum – in addition to those of 20 additional Web CMS vendors reviewed in the Standard Edition. The report is available for purchase online from CMS Watch. www.cmswatch.com

Convera Corporation announced the launch of Screening Room 3.0, video search technology with new enterprise security features. Screening Room 3.0 is an optional component to Convera’s RetrievalWare enterprise search platform, which also searches text and audio data. Scalable for increasingly large video archives, Screening Room provides tools to manage and repurpose rich media assets. Used in conjunction with RetrievalWare, Screening Room delivers real-time capture, encoding, analysis and cataloguing of video, in addition to closed caption text, text generated by speech-to-text converters and other metadata over corporate intranets/extranets. Screening Room can eliminate the need for analysts, archivists and general users to watch or play an entire video when only a small clip is needed by leading the searcher directly to the relevant portion of the video. New security features to authenticate users and control the viewing and editing of sensitive video material are included within Screening Room 3.0. www.convera.com

Open Text Corporation announced its support for the Secure Access For Everyone (SAFE) initiative. SAFE was unveiled by a group of biopharmaceutical companies, in cooperation with regulators and industry associations, to provide an open, global standard for secure and legally enforceable digitally signed e-documents exchanged among biopharmaceutical companies and with their regulators. The SAFE initiative will address the challenge of securely sharing massive, complex regulatory documents produced during research and development, and submitted to regulators to gain approvals on new drugs or medical devices. SAFE will establish a digital identity standard that will help create a common, trusted infrastructure between companies, partners and regulators. The SAFE model will allow pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations to meet the requirements for document authentication, legally binding digital signatures, integrity, uniform liability controls and privacy through the use of existing technology. Open Text will introduce and market a fully compliant Livelink solution for SAFE shortly after the SAFE certification process is in place. www.opentext.com/pharmaceutical/safe.html

RealObjects annouced the official release of its latest cross-platform WYSIWYG XHTML/XML editor “edit-on Pro 4”, designed to bring enterprise features to web-based applications and increase the quality of web content while enforcing corporate design and site standards for style, layout and code. The editor allows non-technical users to become content contributors without knowing HTML, XML or other markup languages. The new edit-on Pro 4 features include: DTD based filtering of imported and pasted content, Guaranteed XHTML compliance according to W3C standards through validation against XHTML DTD, Constraining to XHTML DTD subsets, Extension of the XHTML DTD with custom XML tags, Optional cleaning of Microsoft Word content, Template-based publishing through CSS based read-only elements and areas, WebDAV protocol support, Map of custom actions to document elements using CSS, User interface and XHTML content created are designed to meet the W3C WAI and section 508 accessibility guidelines, Real-time spellchecking as you type. Now including 18 international dictionaries (new: Legal English, Portuguese, separate pre- and post reform German), Tree view to navigate document’s structure and to edit the attributes of all elements with DTD guidance, Swing based UI, Safari support, and more. Customers who are using edit-on Pro 2.x or 3.x with a valid software maintenance subscription may upgrade to edit-on Pro 4 free-of-charge. www.realobjects.com