Infodata Systems Inc. released of AnnoDoc 1.5, a major upgrade to its Content Review product. With this upgrade, AnnoDoc offers compatibility with Adobe Acrobat 6.0 so teams of people can simultaneously create, assemble, view, and control electronic annotations of Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents created with Acrobat 6.0. Annotations are managed as separate objects in the content repository from the original PDF document. Graphic images in all of the popular formats can also have annotations. In addition, AnnoDoc can be used offline and re-synchronized by users on the go. With AnnoDoc 1.5, the enterprise has the means to maintain tight control over their internal content-review processes. Depending on permissions set by a company, a user can view annotations and respond to comments from other parties. All annotations are retained for reporting and audit purposes. AnnoDoc 1.5 is integrated with Documentum, and our Infodata Foundation Server (IFS) allows for integration into other Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems such as Open Text, Stellent, and FileNet. AnnoDoc 1.5 for Windows is available now and is compatible with Adobe Acrobat 4, 5, and 6 and Documentum 4i and 5. www.infodata.com
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Hummingbird Ltd. announced the release of Hummingbird Enterprise 5.1, a suite of information and knowledge management solutions that feature integrated document, knowledge and records management, business intelligence, collaboration and portal applications. The enhanced suite of integrated technologies delivers a complete solution, encompassing all the components of a Smart Enterprise Suite (SES). The secure, consolidated platform of Hummingbird Enterprise 5.1 – the second generation of SES components – provides a single integrated solution for the complete lifecycle management of enterprise content. Hummingbird Enterprise further enhances the SES offering with additional capabilities including full query, analysis and reporting functionalities and data integration tools for managing metadata and integrating enterprise applications. www.hummingbird.com
The World Wide Web Consortium released SOAP Version 1.2 as a W3C Recommendation. The Recommendation is four documents: the “SOAP Version 1.2 Primer,” “SOAP Version 1.2 Messaging Framework,” “SOAP Version 1.2 Adjuncts,” and the “SOAP Version 1.2 Assertions and Test Collection.” Developed by the W3C XML Protocol Working Group, SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment such as the Web. www.w3.org/2003/06/soap11-soap12.html
The SALT Forum, a group of companies with a shared goal of accelerating the use of speech technologies in multimodal and telephony systems, announced that it has published a SALT profile for the W3C SVG markup language. The SVG profile supplements the SALT 1.0 specification, which was contributed to the W3C by the SALT Forum and already included profiles for use with the XHTML and SMIL specifications. By adding SALT to SVG, developers can further enhance the user experience with interactive spoken interfaces coupled directly to the visual interface. SVG with SALT provides the means to build sophisticated mobile applications for devices with easy-to-use speech interfaces that are accessible without looking at or touching the equipment. SVG with SALT can be used to provide speech “hot spots” within a graphic or provide spoken commands for scrolling and zooming the display. It can also be used to embed descriptive services for the visually impaired directly within a graphic, streamlining the workflow process. The SALT specification was designed to add speech input, speech output and call control capabilities to practically any XML-based language. www.saltforum.org
Axonwave Software announced the release of version 3.0 of its content intelligence software. The Axonwave Content Intelligence System (CIS) performs advanced information retrieval and analysis by locating precise and accurate information based on context and meaning, regardless of the type of document. Axonwave CIS can analyze massive volumes of unstructured information (MS Office documents, email, PDF, intranet content, etc.) according to user-defined natural language concepts, perform sophisticated content analysis, and present the information in a variety of dimensional views for extrapolating explicit and inferred information trends and correlations. Axonwave CIS gives users access to remote and inaccessible information that is stored across enterprise information repositories, including content management or document management systems, enterprise information portals, shared or local drives, or newsfeeds. Axonwave CIS also enables companies to monitor disparate information sources, and to take appropriate business action based on a precise analysis of information trends. www.axonwave.com
Document Management Solutions, Inc. announced the beta release of X2XL, a program designed to convert tables adhering to the OASIS XML Exchange model, based on the CALS table model, to Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. X2XL provides an easy-to-use GUI that guides the user through the setup process, defining userspecific markup used within the OASIS model to identify style information such as bold, italic, superscript and subscript, as well as any specific fonts and ruling requirements. The application can be run in the background for batch processing of hundreds of tables, or interactively on the desktop using point and click to process individual tables. Built on Java, X2XL runs on both Windows and Unix platforms, and works with Excel ’97, 2000, or 2002. www.dmsi-world.com
ZyLAB announced the formation of a dedicated public sector business unit to sell Federal and State & Local customers the company’s Records Management & Archival Solution (RM&A) – ZyIMAGE. ZyLAB also announced the immediate availability of ZyIMAGE 5.0. ZyIMAGE 5.0 offers government organizations with an XML framework for storage and integration and is DoD 5015.2 compliant. This solution offers new “add-on” capabilities to support the specific requirements of security, intelligence, law enforcement, and legal users. Features of ZyIMAGE 5.0 include: XML framework for storage and integration, support for over 90 languages, full color and gray scale support, higher quality OCR engine, and 64-bit indexing. www.zylab.com
Verity Inc. announced the availability of release 5.0 of its Verity K2 Enterprise (K2E) software. The latest version includes features and functions designed to better allow enterprises to create or expand intellectual capital management systems that match their global scale and scope. Verity K2E 5.0’s new multi-domain feature lets users from multiple organizations conduct authorized searches in each other’s content repositories. Connections between different K2E-based intellectual management systems can now be achieved with full security, presenting the knowledge bases of numerous repositories via a single access point. A more powerful recommendation engine now suggests individual documents, similar users’ queries, categories of documents as well as experts, communities of interest and other user-defined elements. When deployed with the Verity Federator, this extended social networking engine enables recommendation of documents even if they are beyond the content indexed by Verity K2E. Users can now create and share their own taxonomies, participate actively in the enhancement of their organizations’ taxonomies, and have the engine to automatically analyze and recommend related categories. K2E supports document-level security based on integration with identity management and single sign-on solutions from IBM, Netegrity, Oblix and RSA Security. www.verity.com
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