Category: Content management & strategy (Page 313 of 479)

Endeca announced the immediate availability of Endeca ProFind 4.6, a new version of its enterprise search, Guided Navigation and Content Spotlighting platform. The new software features Rich Site Summary (RSS) support for custom alerting and Web Services and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) support for system-to-system integration and customization. RSS support allows users of Endeca applications to create custom alerts and have them delivered as RSS feeds or via e-mail systems. RSS-enabled Endeca applications provide customers with a tool to deliver online content through a real-time, opt-in delivery mechanism. Endeca has added support for XML-based Web Services standards including SOAP and Web Services Description Language (WSDL). New time/date rules enhance business user control over Content Spotlighting. In addition to expanded phrase relevance ranking modules, new automatic phrase handling capabilities enhance the accuracy and relevancy of search results for multi-word queries. New content adapters for Microsoft SharePoint and Stellent content management offerings help ease application development and speed time-to-market. www.endeca.com

E Solutions Corp. announced the launch of E-CMS, an electronic content management solution designed to give small businesses greater control over their web sites. Employees with just word processing and Internet browser experience can use E-CMS to quickly change their company’s web site content, post news articles, alter the content’s size and color, add graphics and hyperlinks, or add and delete pages, all while maintaining the look and feel of the original web site. Users pay a one-time fee based on the number of pages in the web site. E Solutions also offers training for the site administrator and content administrators. www.esnet.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated introduced Adobe Acrobat 7.0 software. Now, workgroups can use Acrobat 7.0 and Adobe PDF to manage a range of business activities such as assembling documents from multiple sources, creating intelligent forms, and more securely collaborating on projects inside and outside the firewall. Acrobat 7.0 Professional customers can now include virtually anyone in an electronic review of a PDF document by enabling access to commenting tools in free Adobe Reader 7.0 software. Adobe Reader users can provide feedback on a PDF file that consists of several content types — from scanned paper to spreadsheets, presentations, and now, 3D computer-aided design (CAD) content. The Acrobat 7.0 family now offers enhanced integration with Adobe LiveCycle software. The inclusion of Adobe LiveCycle Designer, the company’s professional form design tool, with Acrobat 7.0 Professional provides users the ability to create sophisticated XML and PDF forms that can be integrated into back-end systems. The combination enables organizations to apply and manage document policies for helping control access, auditing, expiration, and revocation rights to a PDF document. Adobe also announced Adobe Reader 7.0. Acrobat 7.0 Professional and Acrobat 7.0 Standard for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X v10.2.8 and v10.3, are expected to ship in English by the end of the current calendar year, and in French, German and Japanese in early 2005. Acrobat 7.0 Professional is expected to be available for an estimated street price of US$449. Registered users can upgrade to Acrobat 7.0 Professional for an estimated street price of US$159. Acrobat 7.0 Standard is expected to be available for an estimated street price of US$299. Registered users can upgrade to Acrobat 7.0 Standard for an estimated street price of US$99. www.adobe.com

Vasont Systems introduced a new integration between the Vasont content management system and Microsoft InfoPath, a forms-based data collection solution. Vasont is a single-source content management system that enables organizations to store their multilingual content for multi-channel delivery. Using the Vasont Universal Integrator extension, this integration enables content from InfoPath to be stored in Vasont’s repository for reuse and repurposing. InfoPath provides organizations with an efficient way to collect information that they can then standardize, validate, and integrate with an organization’s server systems. Vasont’s integration with InfoPath enables that same information to be managed and stored in Vasont’s repository, allowing the content to be single-sourced, reused, and repurposed. This integration also enables authors to move seamlessly from an unstructured writing environment to XML-structured authoring, allowing users with no markup experience to benefit from XML. www.vasont.com

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) announced the latest release of its Brava! Enterprise content visualization server, which extends content security as part of a unified visualization component to enterprise content management (ECM), portal and project data management (PDM) solutions. Brava Enterprise is designed to augment intranet and extranet deployments where content is to be securely accessed, shared and annotated in a collaborative workflow. It is thin-client software that can view, markup and print a variety of document, image and CAD drawings using Internet Explorer, providing enterprises with a unified visualization framework that minimizes the need to have each corporate application on every desktop. The new Brava Enterprise v5.1 creates and views IGC’s Content Sealed Format (CSF), which incorporates the Visual Rights security framework. Visual Rights gives authors selective and persistent security controls over their content. Markups can be “burned-in” to CSF files, and the Block-out feature (redaction) allows users to hide specific file content from view, text search and print. CSF files are viewable by all Brava products, including a free reader that can be distributed along with CSF files. Brava Enterprise v5.1 introduces a non-Java client, so customers now have a choice to use ActiveX or Java. Also released are the Brava Enterprise v5.1 integrations to content management solutions like Documentum and Open Text and to portal solutions like Microsoft SharePoint. www.infograph.com

SiteScape announced that it has signed an agreement to purchase Imidio. The company also announced Zon, a unified instant collaboration product developed by Imidio, which unifies instant messaging, teleconferencing, web conferencing, chat and presence into a unique instant collaboration solution. Zon provides a platform for real-time collaboration for groups of employees to communicate wherever they are, instantly. It integrates presence – determining who is at their desk, on the phone, or in a meeting – with web conferencing and instant messaging. Zon enables impromptu meetings by knowing virtual participant availability and launching meetings instantly without the lengthy set-up and coordination often associated with on-line collaboration. Zon is available immediately as a stand-alone product, and will be available in early 2005 as an add-on feature of SiteScape Forum. Pricing will be disclosed upon request and announced shortly. www.sitescape.com

Gilbane Content Management Conference Announces Thought Leaders Participating in Keynote Panels
11/9/04

Content Management Technologies Conference in Boston includes three interactive keynote panels with noted analysts, authors, and IT leaders from IDC, Forrester, Ovum, Baird & Co., InfoWorld, W3C, CMSWatch, WGBH, HP, J&W Seligman, and more. 

Contacts:
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Longleaf Public Relations
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Jeffrey Arcuri
Lighthouse Seminars
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Cambridge, MA, November 9, 2004. The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced the speaker line-up for the three keynote panels at the Gilbane Conference on Content Management to be held at the Westin Copley in Boston, November 30 – December 2, 2004.

The opening keynote panel on Tuesday November 30, 8:30 – 10:00am includes six highly-respected industry analysts who will provide an up-to-the-minute update on technologies & trends. Moderated by Frank Gilbane, the panelists include: Steven Ashley, Senior VP Research, Baird & Co., Joshua Duhl, Research Director, Content Management and Rich Media, IDC, Hadley Reynolds, Vice President & Research Director, Delphi, Robert Markham, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Vice President North America, Ovum, and Mike Maziarka, Director, InfoTrends/CAP Ventures.

The pre-reception keynote panel on November 30, 3:45 – 5:15pm will debate some of the key decisions facing content technology strategists and system architects, such as “Open” document formats, XHTML vs. HTML, and XSL vs. CSS. The expert panel includes: Jon Udell, Lead Analyst, InfoWorld, Bob Boiko, Author, The Content Management Bible, and Lecturer, University of Washington iSchool, Tony Byrne, Editor, CMSWatch; Author, The CMS Report, and Matt May, Web Accessibility Specialist, W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).

In the opening keynote panel on Wednesday December 1, 8:30 – 10:00am senior executives involved in forward-thinking content technology and business strategies will share their views on best practices & implementation strategies. Panelists include: David B. Liroff, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, WGBH Educational Foundation, Mario Queiroz, Vice President, Content and Product Data Management, HP, and Bill Benz, Vice President, eBusiness, J. & W. Seligman.

“Attendees will hear from top strategists at market-leading companies in financial services, high tech, and media and publishing,” said Track Chair Mary Laplante, Senior Editor of The Gilbane Report and VP Consulting Services at Bluebill Advisors. “Our panelists will share their experiences with successful deployment of content technology, which is what our Content Technology Works initiative is all about.”

The Gilbane conference program is entirely focused on content technologies, and includes 27 educational sessions covering today’s most critical issues for businesses planning or implementing a content management strategy. The program is organized into 6 tracks so attendees with specific interests can easily organize their itinerary. The tracks are: Content Management, Enterprise Search & Knowledge Management and Collaboration; Document & Records Management; Enterprise Information Integration; Digital Asset Management; and Content Technology Works Best Practices and Case Studies. In addition, there are 3 half-day intensive workshops on: “Web Content Management Systems: Principles, Products & Practices”, “Content Technology Choices for Technical Communicators”, and “Enterprise Search – Principles, Players, Practices, & Pitfalls”.

The complete Gilbane conference program is available at www.gilbane.com/CM_conference_program_Boston_04.html.

Sponsors of the Gilbane Content Management conference in Boston include EMC (NYSE:EMC), GMC Software, Interwoven (NASDAQ:IWOV), Open Text ( NASDAQ:OTEX), Stellent (NASDAQ:STEL), and Workshare. For a complete list of sponsors and exhibitors-to-date see https://gilbane.com/CM_conference_Boston_04.html

About Bluebill Advisors, The Gilbane Report 
Bluebill Advisors, Inc. serves the content management community with publications, conferences and consulting services. The Gilbane Report administers the Content Technology Works™ program disseminating best practices with partners Software AG (TECdax:SOW), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Artesia Technologies (Open Text – NASDAQ:OTEX), Atomz, ClearStory Systems ( OTCBB:INCC) , Context Media, Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), IBM (NYSE:IBM ), Trados, Vasont, and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN). www.gilbane.com

About Lighthouse Seminars 
Lighthouse Seminars’ events cover information technologies and “content technologies” in particular. These include content management of all types, digital asset management, document management, web content management, enterprise portals, enterprise search, web and multi-channel publishing, electronic forms, authoring, content and information integration, information architecture, and e-catalogs. http://www.lighthouseseminars.com

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