Category: Content management & strategy (Page 306 of 469)

iMarkup Solutions announced a technology partnership with Stellent, Inc. The companies are also announcing the integration of the iMarkup Java Annotation SDK with Stellent Universal Content Management. The technology will be distributed formally by Stellent in Q1 2005. Together, the integrated technologies offer a solution to meet the needs of enterprise users demanding collaborative content development and business process management. It has been architected to capture feedback as markup and annotations during workflow review processes and ad hoc content consumption. iMarkup Java Annotation SDK, which utilizes web page annotation functions, enables collaboration and web annotation functionality to be embedded within existing third party products. The component facilitates web-based collaboration on existing web content and enables companies to create affinity groups through which members can collaborate. It also ensures that reviewers can communicate their comments to members of those affinity groups. Applications that can benefit from collaborative web page annotations range from web content management and document management to portal and digital asset management. www.imarkup.com, www.stellent.com

Ektron Inc. is adding features to their CMS that give organizations control over their workflow processes. The workflow suite automates the collaboration, management and approval of content. Organizations can add content process control; which includes assigning tasks, monitoring progress and managing all content centric processes. Ektron’s workflow suite supports an organization’s Website, intranet and extranet maintenance tasks, as well as Web-enabled business processes. Site managers including Webmasters, marketing and HR managers – anyone who controls a section of a site – can now assign tasks, automate status, support messaging between users and run reports/statistics on the task or procedure. Archiving and complete history of tasks provides an analysis of the process and procedures. For organizations looking to address accountability and auditing issues associated with content, Ektron CMS300 provides them with real-time task monitoring information. Ektron’s new suite also enables organizations to easily create and manage multiple-language versions of the same content within one CMS. The workflow capabilities make it easier to manage and control the process of translating content on a Web site. Ektron’s CMS ships with three business-user interface languages: English, French and German. www.ektron.com

The World Wide Web Consortium released “XML Schema Second Edition” as a W3C Recommendation in three parts: “Part 0: Primer,” “Part 1: Structures” and “Part 2: Datatypes.” The second edition is not a new version; it corrects errors found in the XML Schema first edition. A modular approach well-suited to distributed applications, XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies and the structure of XML documents using those vocabularies. www.w3.org

Astoria Software announced Astoria for Aerospace, commercial off-the-shelf software that can handle the demanding documentation requirements of aerospace flight operations, maintenance and training. Astoria for Aerospace is one product in Astoria’s new family of structured document management products for aerospace that manages the entire documentation lifecycle — authoring, review, assembly and, publishing — with entry level to full XML-enabled solutions. In addition to Astoria for Aerospace, the company is offering two additional products designed to provide a range of content management solutions for a variety of needs across commercial airline operators: Astoria FastDoc is purpose-built for the airline industry, simplifying update and publishing through Adobe FrameMaker, and serves as a launching pad for XML content management; Astoria Reviser automates the review and manual editing of revised flight manuals, along with generating edit summaries of front and back matter (Table of Contents, Index, List of Effective Pages). www.astoriasoftware.com

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of Magnolia 2.0 final beta, the free open-source J2EE content management system based on JSR-170. The release date of the Magnolia 2.0 is November 15th, 2004. Some highlights of Magnolia Release 2 include: a new JCR repository browser and editor that lets you configure your application completely through the GUI; a customized and customizable KUPU rich text editor; an updated Java Content Repository (JCR); improved caching; a completely rewritten GUI; and modularization so it is easy to write and add modules to Magnolia 2.0 without the need to touch the code base of the core CMS. www.magnolia.info

Ephox Corp., the provider of EditLive! content authoring technologies, announced product and integration support for the Vignette family of software and solutions, including content management, portal, document and records management, collaboration, and integration capabilities. Ephox and Vignette will continue to enhance the integration of Ephox’s EditLive! for Java and EditLive! for XML with Vignette V7 to provide customers with comprehensive, cross-platform authoring technologies. www.ephox.com, www.vignette.com

Entopia, Inc. announced the launch of K-Bus 3, the latest release of its software infrastructure for information discovery. Entopia K-Bus 3 is a comprehensive infrastructure that captures the essence of enterprise content from both structured and unstructured information sources as well as all employee interaction around the content such as reading, writing, discussing, emailing, printing as well as security and access controls. By converting all of this valuable information into a single, unified language, Entopia can deliver personalized results that were previously unattainable through its discovery services Enterprise Search, Social Networks Mapping, Expertise Location and Content Visualization. Entopia K-Bus 3 is available immediately. www.entopia.com

Vivisimo announced Vivisimo Velocity, rapid-deployment, customizable enterprise software that combines dynamic clustering, search and meta-search into one solution. Velocity is a comprehensive search solution that lets enterprise customers customize their crawling instead of “re-customizing” their content to fit the arbitrary requirements of other search solutions. Velocity eliminates the need to re-format content or pre-define taxonomies, and is designed for applications that need to crawl up to one million documents and meta-search an arbitrary number of other search engines or documents. Velocity crawls textual information in databases, emails and files, meta searching external sources of information, and then integrating all of the results in easy-to-navigate clusters of information. As a result, knowledge workers can pull from multiple sources of disparate information–both corporate-owned and Web-based–and see it presented by theme. Vivisimo Velocity pricing starts at $10,000 per year and scales with the number of documents to be crawled or meta-searched. Velocity will ship within 30 days. www.Vivisimo.com