Category: Content management & strategy (Page 211 of 479)

Justsystems US Holding, Inc. and Blast Radius, Inc. announced that they have reached an agreement for Justsystems to acquire the XMetaL software business of Blast Radius. XMetaL provides XML content creation and collaboration solutions. The transaction is subject to various conditions prior to closing. The XMetaL family of XML authoring solutions provide a variety of functions, including content development and authoring, realtime document collaboration and multi-channel publishing. The XMetaL solutions also provide an advanced collaboration platform, enabling users to simultaneously work on XML documents. Justsystems intends to continue all current XMetaL activities, including product development, sales, and marketing. XMetaL customers will continue to receive new product updates, service and technical support through the XMetaL division. In addition, Justsystems will offer XML solutions and services based on a combination of XMetaL’s application know-how and Justsystem’s xfy technology. http://www.blastradius.com, http://www.justsystems.com

iNetOffice Inc. announced that a Firefox-compatible version of its online Web editor iNetWord has entered alpha testing and is now available to the public. Offering a Firefox version means that iNetWord is now cross-browser compatible. iNetWord uses HTML+CSS as its file format. iNetWord bridges the gap between document and Web editing as users can now do both with a single familiar user interface. iNetWords Firefox version, while customized in several important areas, “looks and performs exactly the same as the Internet Explorer version.” iNetWord utilizes Ajax/Web 2.0 technology.

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced the acquisition of the assets of Onfolio Inc., a privately held, Cambridge, Mass.-based Internet research and information management provider. Onfolio’s technology has been incorporated into the Windows Live Toolbar to enhance the way people discover, save and reuse their personal and professional Web research. The new Onfolio Add-in for the Windows Live Toolbar beta will give people convenient ways to collect information online and organize it on their PCs. People can harness this information by saving it onto their computer so that it can be accessed for use in documents, e-mail messages and blog postings. In addition, new online information is discovered and accessed through Onfolio’s integrated RSS aggregator and reader. Collections of Web content created with the Onfolio Add-in can be organized and annotated with research notes, flags, keywords, and highlighting. As Web search becomes more precise, the ability to save the information available online in an organized way onto the desktop becomes increasingly important. It lets people use this data for authoring documents, share data and find it later using Windows Desktop Search. Support for RSS also helps people quickly and easily access the information online that matters most to them. , http://www.microsoft.com

ZyLAB announced the immediate availability of the ZyIMAGE eDiscovery Suite for Federal Government. An integrated document, content and records management solution, ZyIMAGE eDiscovery enables government organizations to capture, investigate, structure and disclose information in a simple, secure and efficient manner. The ZyIMAGE eDiscovery suite is built on an XML data repository and provides users with investigative tools to store, search and retrieve vital information through a standard Internet browser. All unstructured data is stored in the XML data repository, and integrated functionalities enable users to capture and add new data, analyze and collaborate on the data, and retrieve and share this data. Because of its modular structure, the ZyIMAGE eDiscovery suite is scalable and provides a solution to address the requirements of both departmental and enterprise-wide organizations. The key motivation for users engaged in eDiscovery is not to miss any archived e-mail, document, or electronic file that may have relevance to a particular FOIA request or investigative activity. Therefore, eDiscovery searching must concentrate 100 percent on recall rather than on precision. The ZyIMAGE eDiscovery suite empowers users to find the information they are looking for quickly in any format and in most languages. The ZyIMAGE redaction tools offer a full range of features, including redaction on scanned images as well as click-and-drag capabilities, multi-color redaction, synonym redactions, version control, and more. Redactions can be tagged with additional key field information, which can contain data and time stamps, exemption rules, comments or applicable legal rules, redaction creators, and additional user-defined key fields. http://www.zylab.com

Convera Corporation (NASDAQ:CNVR) announced the addition of four partners to its Open Excalibur partner program. The Open Excalibur search platform provides integration of the 3rd party products and services by adhering to standards such as REST and XML. In addition, Convera is working with partners on an indexing API to allow 3rd party technologies such as language processing, entity extractors, and geo-tagging to fit directly into the indexing pipeline. The Open Excalibur platform will allow customers to incorporate other technologies to customize the Excalibur search and analysis capabilities to their specific needs. Convera and Factiva plan to develop a universal data box utilizing a platform built on Excalibur and representing a large, deep index of categorized and authority-ranked Web results. The companies also plan to create an open source consortium to help them target vertical markets such as government and law enforcement organizations and to launch a secure hosted data center to provide secure subscription service access to open source content. FMS Advanced Systems Group of Vienna, Va., is porting their Sentinel Threat Management System (TMS) link analysis suite so it can work directly with Excalibur to enable analysts and researchers to use the Internet more extensively. Sentinel TMS represents the way for visualizing, analyzing and managing complex data, including 2D and 3D models, Social Network Analysis and secure collaboration for workgroups. http://www.convera.com

Stellent, Inc’s. (Nasdaq:STEL) Content Components Division announced the release of Stellent Outside In Technology version 8.1. Stellent Outside In Technology enhances software applications such as enterprise content management, search, email management, security, compliance, data forensics, litigation support, e-discovery and portals. These companies use the Outside In software development kits (SDKs) to identify files, extract text and metadata, provide a high-fidelity view of file contents, and convert files into any one of 11 output formats without reliance on native applications. Outside In Version 8.1 is a new release of the entire suite of Outside In products: Outside In File ID, Outside In Viewer Technology, Outside In Content Access, Outside In Search Export, Outside In HTML Export, Outside In XML Export, Outside In Image Export and Outside In Transformation Server. The new release features performance improvements, new and enhanced file format support, and support for the latest operating system versions. Additionally, it leverages the interoperability between the products to enable programmatic annotation of converted output. Stellent Outside In version 8.1 includes a new SDK, Outside In File ID, which identifies file types without using file extensions or mime types. Version 8.1 of Stellent Outside In Technology supports four new formats, adds support for new versions of nine additional formats and offers enhancements to filters supporting 30 formats. With this release, Outside In Technology now supports more than 390 file formats. All supported operating systems have been updated to the latest versions, and Outside In Content Access has been ported to FreeBSD. http://www.stellent.com

Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (NASDAQ:TSX:) (NASDAQ:OTC) announced the release of a major new version of its internal controls software, with new features to manage the costs of complying with corporate governance laws such as the U.S.’s Sarbanes Oxley Act and similar legislation worldwide. Open Text Internal Controls 3.0 offers a centralized, enterprise-wide system to manage internal controls information, including the ability to automate processes and internal reporting. The solution is based on Open Text’s Livelink ECM suite, which provides a broad platform for managing enterprise compliance, so customers can bring internal controls processes into a broader compliance strategy. The solution combines corporate governance tools, including a “controls library” to maintain all information on internal controls and risk mitigation; controls testing and self assessments; issues remediation and task management; audit trails; employee certifications; and reporting. The solution offers a variety of configurable options to minimize the need for customization, and can be applied to address the U.S.’s Sarbanes Oxley Act; Canada’s Bill 198; the U.K.’s Combined Code and Turnbull report and the Companies Bill; France’s Loi de Securite Financiere; Germany’s KonTraG – Law for Control & Transparency and the German Code of Corporate Governance; and the European Union’s Proposed Directive on Statutory Audit. Other features include workflow and e-mail integration to manage processes involved in the certification of internal controls. http://www.opentext.com

There was no official release, but a number of publications have reported that EMC acquired Authentica last week, presumably to add enterprise digital rights management to Documentum. , http://www.emc.com