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Intellext announced the release of Watson 2.3, a search tool that proactively finds and delivers relevant information to users. The latest version of Watson improves the user experience with new usability features such as the addition of people and company content from Zoom Information, a Drag and Drop feature for easy information collection and Yahoo! Desktop Search integration. Watson recognizes when someone is looking at information about people and companies, and queries the ZoomInfo search engine for relevant results. Content from ZoomInfo is then delivered to the user in Watson’s sidebar interface. Another new addition to Watson 2.3 is the Drag and Drop feature, which simplifies the process of incorporating information that Watson finds into the user’s work. Any result that Watson finds, whether a web page, email or desktop file, can be dragged from Watson’s sidebar interface into the program the user is working on, then dropped for information collection. Watson 2.3 also now supports and integrates with Yahoo Desktop Search, and includes several performance and stability improvements, such as the elimination of the need to reboot after installation.

SDL International announced the release of SDL AuthorAssistant 2006, which accelerates time-to-market and improves brand consistency across enterprise-wide global authoring processes. SDL AuthorAssistant enables creators of corporate content to perform automated checks against existing translation assets, such as previously translated content and terminology glossaries, as well as against corporate writing guidelines. These capabilities have been enhanced with SDL AuthorAssistant 2006. The new release extends its reach to the entire global ecosystem by enabling organizations to access centralized translation assets in SDL Trados, SDL MultiTerm, SDLX and SDL TermBase formats. It saves time in the content lifecycle with additional customizable style checks and provides management insight into global authoring savings with a range of new reporting capabilities. http://www.sdl.com

CM4all announced the release of WebDrive, a new ASP Web storage solution aimed at Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web hosts, telcos, and cable providers who want to serve the market in online file storage space. The WebDrive application is currently available for licensing, customization, and installation in data centers beginning today. CM4all’s WebDrive application offers storage of files in their data center via an Web browser interface. CM4all WebDrive functions as a file manager, viewer, and a sharing application with data center levels of file protection, all of which can be controlled and managed on any computer or device with Internet access. CM4all’s technology is based on a high-speed XML application server and is operated on an ASP model. The company’s core product is the homepage tool kit CM4all WebsiteCreator, which is adapted for and licensed to individual OEM partners and is available in 11 different languages. http://www.cm4all.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced it has acquired Trade and Technologies France (TTF), makers of computer-aided design (CAD) data interoperability software. The acquisition will help build on the existing 3D visualization and collaboration capabilities of Adobe software and solutions for the manufacturing industry and other markets. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. TTF is a privately held company headquartered near Lyon, France. Along with the industry expertise of its staff, TTF’s technology includes CAD software interoperability translators and software libraries for high-end 3D visualization. http://www.adobe.com

SDL International announced a strategic technical and commercial partnership with content management vendor Trisoft. SDL and Trisoft have co-operated to deliver integrations between Trisoft’s Infoshare content management system and SDL Translation Management System (SDL TMS). The new partnership is the result of investment at the executive level to provide tighter technical integration. The combined offering will enable customers to benefit from content management and translation management technologies, offering a single “user experience” whilst delivering an effective solution to create and maintain multilingual assets, which generally make up 90% of a companys global content. http://www.sdl.com

Lighthouse Seminars and the Gilbane Group released some late breaking news on next week’s Gilbane San Francisco, including new sponsors and exhibitors, new details on the various debates, and preliminary survey results on the hot topics of most interest to attendees. Adobe’s Enterprise Solutions and Developer Group has joined the event as a Gold sponsor. See other recent announcements on some of the new products and features to be shown by the 50+ exhibitors at . In addition to Gilbane’s popular analyst session, two analysts will face-off on 7 topics they disagree on in “Content Technologies: A Town Hall Debate”. See . These debates complement the CMS Idol competition taking pace that is open to all, see . The early results from a survey on questions to ask the keynote panel show the topics attendees are most interested in are, in order: (78%) What are the top 3 technologies that must be considered in any content management strategies in the next 12-24 months? (60%) Are there any breakthrough classification or metadata tagging technologies on the horizon that you should be watching for? (57%) How will content management lite offerings from Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM affect the content management market? (55%) How is widespread adoption of RSS/Atom going to affect content delivery? And what does this mean to enterprise content management or publishing strategies? (55%) What new publishing technologies should we expect to see in the next 12-18 months? Will they make it easier to incorporate better design elements to improve customer facing applications? (55%) Is there any real breakthrough search technology search on the horizon that you should consider for your intranet or extranet applications? (49%) How will Blog and Wiki tools be used in enterprise content applications? How are they being used today? (49%) Are there authoring tools on the horizon that are both user-friendly and capable of authoring for both electronic and print output? Partial results of the responses to all the questions are available at https://gilbane.com/sf06_draft_survey.html. To participate in the survey go to . Also, the top write-in question topic so far is on globalization and content management. This is a hot topic at the event – there are multiple sessions covering it, and many vendors showing related products and services – some of them have even put together a Content Globalization Pavilion.
There are over 100 expert speakers covering these and other topics. The complete conference program is at href=”http://lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_sf_06/sf_cm-confgrid.html. The event is immediately preceded by the Content Management Professionals Association Spring Summit. See the Summit program at

SchemaLogic announced that it has partnered with Advent One, an Australian IBM partner, to extend SchemaLogic’s reach into Australia. As a result of the agreement, Advent One will be a major reseller of SchemaLogic’s Business Semantics Management Software in the Asia Pacific region. SchemaLogic’s solution leverages the terminologies, knowledge and know-how of the enterprise to be mapped to enterprise content (documents, text in databases, or rich media). These solutions harmonize how enterprise search, content management, and portal applications work together. Advent One will provide sales, marketing and support service in Australia for SchemaLogic SchemaServer, SchemaLogic Adapters for IBM Discovery: OmniFind, Content Discovery Edition and Classifier module, and SchemaLogic Adapters for IBM Content Management: Content Manager, Document Manager & Records Manager. http://www.adventone.com, http://www.schemalogic.com

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced the new Google Search Appliance, featuring Google OneBox for Enterprise, developed in partnership with enterprise applications vendors. Google OneBox for Enterprise, one of many new features of the Google Search Appliance, gives corporations secure access to information in any application in the enterprise from the convenience of the Google search box. “OneBox” refers to the process of typing a query into Google.com for specific category information, such as airline flight times, local weather, or stock prices. With Google OneBox for Enterprise, corporate information, such as contact and calendar info, HR benefits, sales leads, or purchase order status, is now instantly searchable through a Google search box as part of the Google Search Appliance. Google OneBox for Enterprise functionality was developed by Google working with content in repositories from Cisco, Cognos, Employease, NetSuite, Oracle, Salesforce.com, and SAS. Google is also announcing the Google Enterprise Developer program, a community site where developers can get access to Google Enterprise SDKs, documentation, and post their work for sharing with other customers, partners, and developers. The new Google Search Appliance includes additional new features: Native File System crawler reaches all content in Windows-based file systems (more than 220 file types such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, PDF, etc.); Expanded enterprise security and authentication, including LDAP and standard SAML interfaces; Enhanced search relevancy through context-sensitive stemming and synonyms, learned from billions of searches on Google.com; New index of external metadata repositories in document and content management systems; Up to 25 queries per second on one server (500 percent increase); and up to 3 million documents on a single server (100 percent increase). These features, including Google OneBox for Enterprise, are available as part of the new Google Search Appliance or as free upgrades to current version 4 customers. http://www.google.com/enterprise