Category: Content technology news (Page 207 of 624)

Xinet, Inc. announced its new, Uploader tool and an upgrade to Xinet WebNative. Uploader is a stand-alone application that lets vendors and contractors transmit photography, artwork and other deliverables to a client’s Xinet WebNative or WebNative Venture database by dragging and dropping files onto a desktop icon. Uploader can require vendors and contractors to enter metadata details before uploading files. The WebNative Venture database then automatically ingests that metadata and triggers e-mail notifications and other actions to streamline the workflow. Users can now review digital assets and the metadata associated with them by clicking directly on the images embedded in Xinet WebNative PDFs. Interactive PDFs make it easy to reuse images in production because clicking on a PDF reveals information about the source, original format and previous uses of a graphic. Xinet WebNative now makes Web previews from RAW camera files from 80 professional digital camera backs, including many Canon, Kodak, Minolta, Fuji and Nikon models. Users can see previews and custom-order these files. Xinet now offers a companion Versioning tool that brings the same functionality for Illustrator CS and CS2 workflows. The new Versioning tool allows designers to keep track of rounds of approved revisions, enables art directors to review work in progress, and lets clients view multiple versions of artwork in the context of a document. http://www.xinet.com

Dassault Systemes (DS) (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) announced the 3D XML format adoption in its ‘3D for All’ flagship solutions, Virtools Dev 3.5 platform. Dassault Systemes’ 3D For All strategy aims to make 3D technology available to users. This means that anybody from content creators right up to the product end user will have a set of solutions which allow them to imagine, share and experience in 3D. The adoption of 3D XML technology via a dedicated extension to Virtools’ solutions is the first step towards providing a complete solution for recreating the end user experience on virtual products, with real-time interactive scenarios. With this technology, PLM customers extend the benefits of using 3D technologies. The breadth of possible applications includes: simulation of product usage, ergonomic testing, creating the shopping experience, training scenarios, right through to branding, advertising and web marketing applications. Users of this technology can, for example, fully create scenarios to visualise a car driving through a city. These applications can be experienced online: browser-based, up to and including large scale virtual reality environments. 3D XML is a universal, lightweight XML-based format that enables users to share live, accurate 3D content quickly and easily. 3D XML is suited for fast and efficient communication, and provides unique features, such as multi-representational 3D content, and compression for complex, accurate geometry, enabling rapid communication and shorter load times. Dassault Systemes already uses the 3D XML format in its entire product line: CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SMARTEAM and SolidWorks. http://www.virtools.com, http://www.3ds.com

CambridgeDocs Corp. announced the release of Version 2.01 of its xDoc PDF-XML Converter and integration of it into its xDoc Converter Desktop and Server products, enhancing their platform for extracting document content to meaningful XML. As XML, the previously PDF content can be meaningfully used for indexing by search engines, XML repositories and content management systems, for example allowing it to be stored as chapters, sections, tables or cells within any repository for fast, easy and accurate re-use. The xDoc PDF-XML Converter extracts PDF content to XML and provides functionality for enabling conversion that yields: Stylistic XML, including format, layout and content information; Extraction of financial data; Organization of related XML “chunks”, such as financial tables; Compatibility with existing target XML schemas or DTD’s, such as Docbook or DITA; Conversion to HTML/XHTML, with visual information than surpasses even Google’s “view as HTML” functionality; and Conversion to simple text. Version 2.01 adds the PDF-XML Converter as a special module in the xDoc Converter 2.01 platform and includes sample conversions of PDF documents into a variety of XML formats, such as Docbook and DITA. The release also adds a new and improved user interface, called the TableDef interface for extracting financial data using positioning and textual clues. The integration of the PDF-XML Converter into the xDoc Converter enables easy access to its functionality by consolidating download, installation and licensing processes. It also provides access to xDoc’s Visual Mapping tool and works with xDoc’s Adobe Acrobat plug-in. The PDF-XML Conversion functionality is available for download now at

Kapow Technologies announced the release of its Kapow Adapter 1.2 for the SAP NetWeaver platform, which has achieved “Powered by SAP NetWeaver” certification. The adapter enables customers to access any web-based application, as if it was a service, for seamless integration with the SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (SAP NetWeaver XI). Via the adapter, the Kapow Web Integration platform connects business procesess within SAP NetWeaver-based solutions with web page interactions. These interactions are automatically executed by Web Integration robots that transmit the results of the interactions back to SAP NetWeaver. The Kapow Adapter for SAP NetWeaver is available immediately. http://www.kapowtech.com

Ektron Inc. announced it has attained Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program with competencies in ISV/Software and Business Process and Integration Solutions. Ektron CMS400.NET was one of the first content management applications to be designated Microsoft .NET Connected, and its technology uses or integrates with other Microsoft technologies, including Windows Servers, Microsoft Office, SharePoint Portal Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio and ASP.NET 2.0. To reach Gold Certified status, Ektron had to declare its Microsoft Competencies. Microsoft Competencies are designed to help differentiate a partner’s capabilities with specific Microsoft technologies to customers looking for a particular type of solution. Each competency has a unique set of requirements and benefits, formulated to accurately represent the specific skills and services that partners bring to the technology industry. http://www.ektron.com

Nuxeo delivers the new release of its Enterprise Content Management platform. This major release puts strong emphasis on scalability, performances, usability and high-level features. Founded on a component architecture, CPS, through its integrated approach, enables organizations to implement global ECM solutions definitely focusing their investment on specific business needs. CPS 3.4.0 is available for download under open source license. http://www.nuxeo.com/en/

Day Software (SWX:DAYN) (OTC:DYIHY) announced the general availability of Day Content Repository Extreme (CRX) version 1.1, the latest version of Day’s product that enables the storage, management and exchange of content across large-scale enterprises and implements the Content Repository API for Java Technology JCR (JSR 170). Day CRX provides an open, standards-based infrastructure for integrating business applications with any structured or unstructured content in an enterprise. New features in Day CRX enable the exchange of content between applications and repositories. Major feature enhancements include: virtualization, integration with Microsoft SQLServer, integration with Oracle RDBMS, improved support for the development and implementation of CRX adapters and connectors, and improved resource management capabilities and overall performance increases. CRX can be downloaded at

The World Wide Web Consortium has released “XForms 1.0 Second Edition” as a W3C Recommendation. The new generation of Web forms, XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server, offer device independence, and reduce the need for scripting. This second edition adds clarifications and corrects errors as reported in the first edition errata. Second edition publications include the following documents: XForms 1.0 Second Edition http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xforms-20060314/, XForms for HTML Authors Part 2 http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms-for-html-authors-part2.html, XForms Quick Reference http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms-qr.html, XHTML to XForms Converter (XSLT), http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms.xsl, and a Revised XForms Test Suite, .