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Document Sciences Corporation (Nasdaq: DOCX) announced the general availability of xPresso, the newest design component to its dynamic content publishing suite xPression. xPresso enables companies to automate the creation of personalized marketing collaterals, brochures and catalogs, as well as customer invoices, bills and statements for both online and print distribution. xPresso provides a WYSIWYG document design technology for designing dynamic, rule-based documents using Adobe InDesign Creative Suite. xPresso can import static content and digital assets from enterprise content management systems and transform them into graphically-rich, dynamic document templates that can be used to produce hundreds of thousands of personalized documents in multiple formats, distributed across multiple channels. xPresso is for creating well-designed relationship statements and billing notices that combine transactional data with targeted marketing messages. Built on a service-oriented architecture, xPresso utilizes Java and XML to enable integration with other enterprise systems such as ECM systems. xPresso has received the EMC Designed for Documentum accreditation. xPresso outputs to multiple formats including PDF, IBM AFP, and Adobe Postscript.

EMC Corporation unveiled new advanced retention management software for the EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) platform that helps customers address various complicated day-to-day, governance and regulatory requirements. The new capabilities let organizations more effectively manage their archived information throughout its lifecycle. The new Centera features enable authorized application users and administrators to identify and extend retention periods for specific records or objects in the Centera archive. The new Event-based Retention (EBR) and Litigation Hold features help Centera Governance Edition and Centera Compliance Edition Plus customers deal with more varied and complex scenarios. For example, e-mail messages and documents that are scheduled to be automatically deleted per policy can be easily identified and retained if they are material to legal, regulatory or other events. The record or object can then be deleted when appropriate. Additionally, EMC is introducing new enhanced security features for Centera that provide greater levels of control. The ability to now create management profiles gives organizations greater flexibility to determine who can have access to specific data and at what level. The new feature also provides a full audit trail of all configuration and management activities for further governance and compliance purposes. The new Centera advanced retention software is available now and is licensed in four-node increments with a list price of $2,800. http://www.emc.com

SDL International announced the latest releases of its enterprise GIM applications, SDL Translation Management System 2006 and SDL TeamWorks 2006. SDL Translation Management System and SDL TeamWorks unify the translation and localization supply chain and link multiple vendors to provide the collaboration, control, integration and process flow required to prepare content for a global audience. The new releases integrate SDL and TRADOS technologies. SDL GIM applications support XML, DITA, TMX and XLIFF. SDL Translation Management System 2006 delivers new capabilities for enterprise administration and integration, including LDAP for user authentication, enhanced Web services and richer metadata support to facilitate greater process automation. Also included is interoperability with SDLX 2005.1, SDL TRADOS 7.1 for translation memory and SDL MultiTerm 7.1 for terminology management and enhanced standards support for processing DITA-compliant XML. SDL TeamWorks 2006 delivers enhanced performance, scalability and usability, and adds editing and review capabilities in an easy-to-use browser-based environment, as well as a new QA verification plug-in framework. Also included is simplified vendor interaction through a new browser-based vendor portal and integration with the latest SDL TRADOS 7.1 and SDL MultiTerm 7.1. http://www.sdl.com

Meadows Publishing Solutions (MPS) announced that they have released MPS Index Builder, a software module for QuarkXPress users that creates catalog indexes. Using the new software, catalog publishers can reduce the production time of creating a catalog index from hours to minutes. MPS Index Builder, compatible with QuarkXPress 6.5, is now available from MPS and its distributors. MPS Index Builder was designed for catalog-specific workflows. Index entries can be entered by hand at any time, or imported from a tab-separated text file. In addition, AutoPrice users can also extract SKU information to include in the final index. You can import existing indexes, make changes, and start tagging for the future. Index entries can also be saved, exported and shared by any other workstation. Included is a built-in batch processing feature that will process any number of individual QuarkXPress documents in a single session. www.meadowsps.com

Five New York State agencies presented the lessons learned and benefits gained from their participation in the Center for Technology in Government’s (CTG) XML Testbed. The Testbed served to assist New York State agencies in examining the benefits as well as the challenges of Web site management using the emerging technology of XML. The Testbed was undertaken in partnership with the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations (GOER), the Office of the Chief Information Officer
(OCIO), and the Office for Technology (OFT). Beginning in the summer of 2005, five New York State agencies were selected to take part in CTG’s XML Testbed and underwent six months of intensive hands-on training and workshops, which led to an XML-based Web site prototype and a business case analysis for each agency. The five participating agencies are the NYS Department of Civil Service, NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal, NYS Higher Education Services Corporation, NYS Office of Cultural Education, State Education Department and NYS Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. In the second phase of the Testbed, CTG will examine the Testbed activities and the agency results to produce a set of practical guidelines and case studies that draw on the experiences of Testbed participants to provide guidance for others trying to improve the management, performance, and value of their Web sites. In addition, the Testbed will produce a sharable library of XML technical resources to be made available in the spring of 2006. More information on the XML Testbed Project can be found at:

The Gilbane Report, Lighthouse Seminars and CMS Watch announced the launch of The Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies for Government, taking place at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C. June 13-15, 2006.

Modeled after the overwhelming success of its Boston and San Francisco events, this end-user driven event will offer attendees actionable advice for managing enterprise content to meet today’s Federal requirements.

At the Content Technologies for Government Conference, topics covered will include: Enterprise content management technologies, business applications, and solutions; How to get your content management project funded; Content technologies and 508 compliance; New standards in content interoperability; Enterprise architecture and enterprise content management; Latest enterprise search and text-mining technologies: beyond the hype; Comparative approaches for using XML to manage authoritative content; How different agencies have successfully implemented records management solutions; Comparative approaches to e-mail archiving; Role of new media technologies – blogs, wikis, and RSS – in public agencies; Best practices in content governance and web operations management; and, The future of the federal government Web.

In addition to two days of conference sessions, attendees can participate in introductory tutorials on key topics. An advisory board of leading federal and industry experts will shape the final program. Information and the call for papers is available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-conference-washington-dc-2006/

SAXOTECH, a software development and systems implementation company serving the publishing industry, and Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), announced an OEM partnership that will bring search features to SAXOTECH’s web publishing application platform for online media sites, as well as other SAXOTECH products. SAXOTECH will integrate FAST InStream with SAXOTECH Online, its web publishing platform developed exclusively to enable the rapid flow of content from news sources to dynamic, multimedia Web sites. By integrating FAST InStream with SAXOTECH Online, SAXOTECH’s customers can realize real-time indexing of content from multiple sources, a useful service to new media sites that typically produce hundreds of new articles and online classified advertisements per day. General availability of the initial FAST-integrated, search technologies will be with the mid-2006 release of SAXOTECH Online. http://www.saxotech.com, http://www.fastsearch.com

Alfresco Software Inc. announced that it has partnered with BitRock to enable Alfresco to be installed in minutes as part of an integrated open source stack, to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) for installation, upgrades and management. The joint offering provides an installer and configuration wizard for Alfresco and the surrounding open source ECM stack. It also provides a management and delivery tool for Alfresco to provide updates to its software, and to other stack components such as MySQL and JBoss. The stack supports a variety of Linux distributions and Windows versions. The new Alfresco installer will perform all required configuration tasks, so users will have a complete, ready-to-run ECM system as soon as installation is complete. , http://www.bitrock.com