Category: Content management & strategy (Page 189 of 468)

Vignette Corp. (NASDAQ:VIGN) announced the integration of its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite of solutions with HP Reference Information Storage Systems (RISS) for financial services customers and Medical Archive Systems (MAS) for healthcare, including public sector medical, customers to manage the lifecycle of information. Vignette also announced support for HP’s Integrity server platform. Customers using Vignette’s Collaborative Documents and Records solution with HP’s RISS hardware storage device can benefit from Vignette’s document management, process automation and records management functionality and the assurance of high-performance, redundant mass storage and archiving provided by the HP RISS device. Vignette Integration with HP MAS – Digital storage of the “complete” electronic health record makes critical patient data more accessible to medical staff at point of care. HP MAS, combined with Vignette’s Imaging and Workflow solution, provides an archive of clinical images and administrative documents to healthcare customers. Vignette and HP will offer a web solution running on Integrity servers to help customers leverage their content through an Intranet, Extranet or public Web site. http://www.vignette.com

WebSideStory, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSSI) announced the launch of WebSideStory Search 4.0, a site search solution to automatically integrate site search and web site behavioral data. This technology, called Active Ranking, enables marketers to optimize the ranking of their search results based on any number of important visitor metrics, such as conversion rate, entry pages, most requested pages and visits, and improve their online business objectives, including increasing conversions or delivering the most relevant content. WebSideStory Search 4.0 integrates with WebSideStory’s HBX Analytics solution via the company’s Stream Reporting API. WebSideStory Search 4.0 offers a number of other capabilities, including guided site navigation, an increase in search capacity, and automated SEO sitemap and shopping engine feeds.

Intellext announced the release of Watson 2.3, a search tool that proactively finds and delivers relevant information to users. The latest version of Watson improves the user experience with new usability features such as the addition of people and company content from Zoom Information, a Drag and Drop feature for easy information collection and Yahoo! Desktop Search integration. Watson recognizes when someone is looking at information about people and companies, and queries the ZoomInfo search engine for relevant results. Content from ZoomInfo is then delivered to the user in Watson’s sidebar interface. Another new addition to Watson 2.3 is the Drag and Drop feature, which simplifies the process of incorporating information that Watson finds into the user’s work. Any result that Watson finds, whether a web page, email or desktop file, can be dragged from Watson’s sidebar interface into the program the user is working on, then dropped for information collection. Watson 2.3 also now supports and integrates with Yahoo Desktop Search, and includes several performance and stability improvements, such as the elimination of the need to reboot after installation.

SDL International announced the release of SDL AuthorAssistant 2006, which accelerates time-to-market and improves brand consistency across enterprise-wide global authoring processes. SDL AuthorAssistant enables creators of corporate content to perform automated checks against existing translation assets, such as previously translated content and terminology glossaries, as well as against corporate writing guidelines. These capabilities have been enhanced with SDL AuthorAssistant 2006. The new release extends its reach to the entire global ecosystem by enabling organizations to access centralized translation assets in SDL Trados, SDL MultiTerm, SDLX and SDL TermBase formats. It saves time in the content lifecycle with additional customizable style checks and provides management insight into global authoring savings with a range of new reporting capabilities. http://www.sdl.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced it has acquired Trade and Technologies France (TTF), makers of computer-aided design (CAD) data interoperability software. The acquisition will help build on the existing 3D visualization and collaboration capabilities of Adobe software and solutions for the manufacturing industry and other markets. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. TTF is a privately held company headquartered near Lyon, France. Along with the industry expertise of its staff, TTF’s technology includes CAD software interoperability translators and software libraries for high-end 3D visualization. http://www.adobe.com

SDL International announced a strategic technical and commercial partnership with content management vendor Trisoft. SDL and Trisoft have co-operated to deliver integrations between Trisoft’s Infoshare content management system and SDL Translation Management System (SDL TMS). The new partnership is the result of investment at the executive level to provide tighter technical integration. The combined offering will enable customers to benefit from content management and translation management technologies, offering a single “user experience” whilst delivering an effective solution to create and maintain multilingual assets, which generally make up 90% of a companys global content. http://www.sdl.com

Lighthouse Seminars and the Gilbane Group released some late breaking news on next week’s Gilbane San Francisco, including new sponsors and exhibitors, new details on the various debates, and preliminary survey results on the hot topics of most interest to attendees. Adobe’s Enterprise Solutions and Developer Group has joined the event as a Gold sponsor. See other recent announcements on some of the new products and features to be shown by the 50+ exhibitors at . In addition to Gilbane’s popular analyst session, two analysts will face-off on 7 topics they disagree on in “Content Technologies: A Town Hall Debate”. See . These debates complement the CMS Idol competition taking pace that is open to all, see . The early results from a survey on questions to ask the keynote panel show the topics attendees are most interested in are, in order: (78%) What are the top 3 technologies that must be considered in any content management strategies in the next 12-24 months? (60%) Are there any breakthrough classification or metadata tagging technologies on the horizon that you should be watching for? (57%) How will content management lite offerings from Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM affect the content management market? (55%) How is widespread adoption of RSS/Atom going to affect content delivery? And what does this mean to enterprise content management or publishing strategies? (55%) What new publishing technologies should we expect to see in the next 12-18 months? Will they make it easier to incorporate better design elements to improve customer facing applications? (55%) Is there any real breakthrough search technology search on the horizon that you should consider for your intranet or extranet applications? (49%) How will Blog and Wiki tools be used in enterprise content applications? How are they being used today? (49%) Are there authoring tools on the horizon that are both user-friendly and capable of authoring for both electronic and print output? Partial results of the responses to all the questions are available at https://gilbane.com/sf06_draft_survey.html. To participate in the survey go to . Also, the top write-in question topic so far is on globalization and content management. This is a hot topic at the event – there are multiple sessions covering it, and many vendors showing related products and services – some of them have even put together a Content Globalization Pavilion.
There are over 100 expert speakers covering these and other topics. The complete conference program is at href=”http://lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_sf_06/sf_cm-confgrid.html. The event is immediately preceded by the Content Management Professionals Association Spring Summit. See the Summit program at