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iUpload announced the integration of its Customer Conversation System with Microsoft’s SharePoint, bringing enterprise blogging and wiki capabilities to SharePoint users. The iUpload SharePoint integration brings all of iUpload’s features for managing large communities of blogs, including editorial control, template and taxonomy management, security and versioning, to the Microsoft SharePoint environment, and allows users to present blog, wiki and other content as Web Parts within SharePoint. With iUpload, SharePoint users can now draw in content from large blog communities that may include contributions from employees, partners and customers, while leveraging the blog, wiki, discussion forum, and podcasting features of iUpload. Since the iUpload Customer Conversation System supports third party blog authoring tools, the SharePoint integration also allows companies to harness, integrate, and manage independent blogs that already exist within most corporate environments regardless of the blogging tool that they are authored and hosted on. iUpload’s SharePoint integration is available immediately.

Snowbound Software announced support for static HTML in its Java imaging solutions, providing companies with a fast method to both view HTML and also convert it to a variety of other formats for archiving and distribution. Support for static HTML in the RasterMaster Imaging SDK and FlexSnap web viewers extends a company’s ability to utilize and repurpose information captured in HTML web-based forms. Companies can now convert the information from HTML to any of the other formats supported in Snowbound’s Java library including Word, PDF, Tiff, and JPEG. With the RasterMaster imaging SDK, developers can incorporate the ability to view and convert static HTML documents directly into their application. Through its FlexSnap universal Web viewers, users can quickly retrieve HTML files stored within a content repository or file server and view the information in the same application they view other documents including PDF and Word. In addition to Java, support for static HTML is also available in its RasterMaster Imaging Toolkit for Windows DLL, ActiveX, and .NET as well as its SnowBatch batch conversion application. http://www.snowbound.com

CambridgeDocs announced an OEM agreement with PTC, the Product Development Company. As a result, PTC will integrate the CambridgeDocs legacy conversion tools into the Import/Export module available with Arbortext version 5.2, the latest release of PTC’s publishing software. The CambridgeDocs xDoc Converter user interface and conversion server will be used as the basis for importing content from Microsoft Word files, FrameMaker, HTML, and PDF files into semantic XML for use with PTC’s dynamic publishing software. On the export side, the CambridgeDocs technology will be used as part of the system that publishes XML into Microsoft Word documents. The CambridgeDocs team has been working with PTC on the integration of the xDoc product with the Arbortext 5.2.

Stellent, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEL) announced a new strategy enabling customers to better manage wikis and blogs within their corporate environments and integrate wikis and blogs into a multi-site Web content management framework. Stellent Universal Content Management now enables wiki contributors to create hyperlinks in both pattern-matching and wizard style formats. This capability allows users to link to other topics and pages within a wiki site, as well as other Web sites. When an author creates a new hyperlink about a particular subject, the Stellent system will automatically link to a wiki page about that topic. If the page does not exist, it will automatically create a new page. Contributors can edit wiki pages in real-time and instantly view their changes. The Stellent technology also records a history of wiki activity, so readers know who writes or changes content, how many times content is revised and if there are certain topics currently under heavy debate. A locking and revision control feature ensures only one user may change content at a time, and it also keeps an audit trail of all revisions which is then available for records and retention management purposes. Stellent Universal Content Management now provides short, blog-formatted WYSIWYG forms, enabling authors to post new blog entries without requiring HTML expertise. Authors can submit new posts to a blog via email or by using word processing applications such as Microsoft Word or OpenOffice. Stellent Universal Content Management’s new, out-of-the-box templates enable organizations to quickly deploy RSS feeds for intranet, extranet and public Web site content managed in the Stellent repository. The Stellent system automatically generates RSS feeds of managed content using metadata and rule sets. These feeds can be static lists or dynamic feeds that change depending on the viewer’s role and access privileges. Stellent users also may leverage external RSS feeds to display content from other online news sources within the branding parameters of their particular Web sites. And, users can utilize the system to monitor and distribute blog posts via RSS feeds. http://www.stellent.com/blogswikis

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) announced the general availability of Arbortext 5.2, the latest release of PTC’s dynamic publishing software. The new release is geared towards helping customers solve their global publishing needs for technical documentation, product catalogs, and product information. The release includes support for EU languages, in particular for the new countries that joined the EU in 2004. For content editing, this release also supports Hebrew and Arabic. The user interface and help system of Arbortext 5.2 will also support the 9 languages common to other PTC solutions. These include English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. The Import/Export feature, which provides conversion between word processing/desktop publishing files and XML, will provide new functionality and replace the Arbortext Interchange module. The Import feature will offer finer control over the conversion of styles into XML tags, so that word processing and desktop publishing files can more easily be translated into XML. The Export feature will convert XML to RTF using the same stylesheets that are used to publish to print and electronic media. Without altering existing stylesheets, users will be able to produce Microsoft Word documents with just the click of the “Print” button. Availability of a Linux version is planned for March 2006. http://www.ptc.com

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced the release of version 1.2 of the Alfresco Network focusing on increased standards support, collaboration, security and developer support. Release 1.2 has increased functionality in the areas of: Administration – LDAP Support, Document-Level Permissions exposed in Web client, Upgrade Administration, Export/Import Permission support, Guest Access; Standards Support – JSR-170 Level 2, RSS; Customization – Web Services Starter Kit; Content Contribution – CIFS URL to access Web client; Team Collaboration – Forums/Threaded Discussions on a document or a space; Advanced Search – Multiple Category and Object Type support, Saved Searches; Other – JBoss Portal 2.2 and Firefox 1.5 support. http://www.alfresco.com

Idiom Technologies, Inc. announced expanded deployment and licensing options for its WorldServer globalization platform. Aimed at the translation and localization needs of global organizations of all sizes, Idiom now provides deployment and licensing options to suit nearly every IT resource and budgetary need. These options include hosted solutions, with the ability to deploy WorldServer offsite in a secure datacenter, and month-to-month or multi-year term licensing choices in addition to the company’s traditional perpetual license agreements. With WorldServer Hosted Solutions, Idiom Professional Services or an Idiom Technologies Certified Partner install, configure and run WorldServer offsite in a secure, reliable and high-performance datacenter. All WorldServer Hosted Solutions are based on a dual-server configuration designed for optimal performance. Customers may choose from Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle Database, and a variety of user configurations. An alternative to traditional perpetual licensing plans, WorldServer Term Licensing provides customers with the option to make time-limited software licensing commitments on a month-to-month or multi-year basis. Software maintenance is included in the term license fee.

Altova announced a new approach to accelerating the creation of reliable Web services by leveraging the visual design capabilities of Altova XMLSpy and MapForce. Customers can develop applications based on WSDL, SOAP, and other Web-based standards so that data can be shared across disparate business systems. To help customers better understand Web services and how Altova tools simplify their development, the Altova Solutions Center now contains specific business scenarios, case studies, technical guidance, video demonstrations, white papers, free online training classes, and a recommended gameplan for Web services success. The complementary features of Altova XMLSpy and MapForce automate many of the otherwise complex steps in Web services development so developers can concentrate on business rules and logic instead of becoming mired in source code or the arcane implementation details of the infrastructure. The Web services information resources are available now in the Altova Solutions Center and can be accessed free of charge at: http://www.altova.com/solutions_center.html