Category: Content management & strategy (Page 343 of 479)

CrownPeak Technology introduced Advantage ES, an Extended Suite of developer tools and customization capabilities. Advantage ES offers solution developers the ability to build and customize integrated content management applications without installing software or purchasing any hardware. Advantage ES consists of a new range of developer tools, an expanded API, a full suite of gateway interfaces with configuration tools, and a complete set of pre-configured customizations for applications like extranets, intranets, workflow engines, document and/or asset catalogues, and e-commerce systems. In addition, CrownPeak is announcing support for development in external platforms and connections directly into the CrownPeak application suite via Web Services (SOAP). The first major platform supported in this program is .NET. As part of the CrownPeak ES launch, the company is unveiling a new section of the CrownPeak site for developers, with code samples, documentation, and integration support. CrownPeak has also launched a complete developer training and support program. www.crownpeak.com

Brulant, Inc. and Percussion Software announced a partnership. Brulant will offer implementation services for Percussion’s Rhythmyx 5 Enterprise Content Management (ECM) System to its customers with comprehensive content management requirements. Brulant’s partnership with Percussion will enable it to design, develop and deliver content management solutions for clients’ Web sites, intranets, extranets, document management applications, and enterprise portals. www.percussion.com

CMS Watch announced the release of Version 6 of “The CMS Report”, with updated analysis and product surveys. The CMS Report provides a comprehensive overview of Web Content Management products and best practices. The new version includes updated, 4-7 page comparative evaluations of 25 Web CMS offerings as well as short descriptions of more than 15 other products across 7 vendor categories. Version 6 of The CMS Report comes in an optional, expanded “Enterprise Edition,” which addresses special issues of enterprise-level implementations, including multisite management, content integration,
enterprise-class deployment, enterprise governance models, and new “ECM”
product suites. The Enterprise Edition examines five vendor offerings — from Interwoven, Vignette, FileNet, Stellent, and Documentum – in addition to those of 20 additional Web CMS vendors reviewed in the Standard Edition. The report is available for purchase online from CMS Watch. www.cmswatch.com

Convera Corporation announced the launch of Screening Room 3.0, video search technology with new enterprise security features. Screening Room 3.0 is an optional component to Convera’s RetrievalWare enterprise search platform, which also searches text and audio data. Scalable for increasingly large video archives, Screening Room provides tools to manage and repurpose rich media assets. Used in conjunction with RetrievalWare, Screening Room delivers real-time capture, encoding, analysis and cataloguing of video, in addition to closed caption text, text generated by speech-to-text converters and other metadata over corporate intranets/extranets. Screening Room can eliminate the need for analysts, archivists and general users to watch or play an entire video when only a small clip is needed by leading the searcher directly to the relevant portion of the video. New security features to authenticate users and control the viewing and editing of sensitive video material are included within Screening Room 3.0. www.convera.com

Open Text Corporation announced its support for the Secure Access For Everyone (SAFE) initiative. SAFE was unveiled by a group of biopharmaceutical companies, in cooperation with regulators and industry associations, to provide an open, global standard for secure and legally enforceable digitally signed e-documents exchanged among biopharmaceutical companies and with their regulators. The SAFE initiative will address the challenge of securely sharing massive, complex regulatory documents produced during research and development, and submitted to regulators to gain approvals on new drugs or medical devices. SAFE will establish a digital identity standard that will help create a common, trusted infrastructure between companies, partners and regulators. The SAFE model will allow pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations to meet the requirements for document authentication, legally binding digital signatures, integrity, uniform liability controls and privacy through the use of existing technology. Open Text will introduce and market a fully compliant Livelink solution for SAFE shortly after the SAFE certification process is in place. www.opentext.com/pharmaceutical/safe.html

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced it has extended the Adobe Intelligent Document Platform with new software that delivers document services technologies to help organizations automate business processes. The new server software, named Adobe LiveCycle, delivers document services to integrate manual processes into enterprise applications. The platform consists of three components: The intelligent document, document services and the universal client. Intelligent documents combine XML and business logic with PDF to move data to and from back-end systems using document services from Adobe. Adobe’s document services deliver document generation, collaboration, process management and document security and control capabilities for integrating intelligent documents into enterprise applications. The universal client is Adobe Reader. Adobe also announced two new document services that are available through Adobe LiveCycle software. The new services are process management and document control and security. The process management service gives customers the ability to design, initiate, modify and enable people to participate in processes on or offline. The document security and control service enables them to apply persistent document security features across the extended enterprise. Adobe LiveCycle software is available immediately. It can be purchased as a stand-alone offering, by CPU or by user. www.adobe.com/enterprise

INSCI Corp. announced the release of its ESP+ Solutions Suite 3.0, the latest version of the Company’s software. Designed to help large enterprises capture and store mission-critical documents long term, this newest version has enhanced capabilities for managing a broader range of content, with functionality for repurposing compliance documents for customer communications initiatives. Among its new features are: Expanded records management functionality in support of EMC Centera, Compliance Edition; Enhanced content delivery functionality including automated marketing templates, bounce processing, and access tracking for proof of receipt; Desktop application content capture, enabling Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and other content to be archived and preserved; Image capture of ID cards, paper-based documents, and other documents that must be preserved and easily retrieved for compliance; Java-based Web portal integration tools; and a Web-deployable desktop client. Also available in 3.0 is an enhanced ESP+ Messenger module, INSCI’s automated content delivery solution. The ESP+ Solutions suite is available today from INSCI and selected VAR dealers. www.insci.com

The Unicode Consortium announced the release of new versions of the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR 1.1) and the Locale Data Markup Language specification (LDML 1.1), providing building blocks for software to support the world’s languages. This new release contains data for 247 locales, covering 78 languages and 118 countries. There are also 36 draft locales in the process of being developed, covering an additional 17 languages and 7 countries. To support users in different languages, programs must not only use translated text, but must also be adapted to local conventions. These conventions differ by language or region and include the formatting of numbers, dates, times, and currency values, as well as support for differences in measurement units or text sorting order. Most operating systems and many application programs currently maintain their own repositories of locale data to support these conventions. But such data are often incomplete, idiosyncratic, or gratuitously different from program to program. The Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) provides a general XML format for the exchange of locale information for use in application and system software development, combined with a public repository for a common set of locale data in that format. In this release, CLDR 1.1 contains roughly 50% more data than CLDR 1.0: adding many translated terms for languages, scripts, countries, currencies, and time zones. It also improves collation for a number of languages in Eastern Europe, and adds stand-alone month data for Slavic languages and Greek, and narrow month/day names for quite a number of languages. The LDML 1.1 adds new formats for narrow and stand-alone month and day names (used in online calendar applications), and POSIX compatibility fields. www.unicode.org/cldr/