JotSpot launched JotSpot Live, the first in a series of online collaboration products that the company will introduce this fall. JotSpot Live is a simple Web-based application that enables live note-taking by multiple users on the same Web page at the same time. Combining the interactivity and speed of chat with the utility of building collaborative documents, JotSpot Live is designed for group brainstorming, virtual meetings, and collaborative agendas. JotSpot Live is Web-based, accessible from any browser, and requires no software installation. JotSpot Live is available immediately. Users can use the basic version of JotSpot Live for free and paid plans start at $5 per month, where users can create up to 15 pages per month. There is also workgroup plan for greater use. All plans allow for unlimited collaborators on any page.
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Vignette Corp. (NASDAQ:VIGN) announced the creation of a dedicated business unit designed to help organizations seamlessly blend learning with work. The Vignette Enterprise Learning solution enables organizations to better align training and business initiatives across the enterprise. Vignette Enterprise Learning is a holistic solution of products and services that manages the entire learning lifecycle. Subject matter experts may asynchronously discuss and share their knowledge by authoring discrete learning modules in collaborative spaces. Learners may search for learning content, identify prerequisite skills, informally assemble learning modules, schedule relevant training, review course history and assess their professional development within the context of their online work environments. Line-of-business executives may directly correlate investments in employees, such as sales force enablement, with corporate financial objectives through composite application dashboards. Vignette Enterprise Learning helps organizations operate within the processes prescribed by human resources departments and other mandates, such as BASEL II, NASD 3010 and 3012 and Sarbanes-Oxley sections 302 and 404. Vignette helps organizations reduce the time to comply by accelerating employee adherence to policies and operating constraints. http://www.vignette.com
Unicon, Inc., a provider of enterprise portal, collaboration, learning, and integration technology for higher education institutions, and RedDot Solutions (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM), announced a partnership where Unicon will package RedDot’s CMS Web Content Management Solution with Academus, its enterprise portal offering for higher education. The combined solutions of RedDot’s CMS and Unicon’s Academus portal and collaborative groupware provide a customized, e-Learning foundation built on uPortal open-source technology for educational establishments to create, edit, and update an online experience through a unified interface. Unicon’s Academus provides a Web interface integrated with pre-configured channels to encourage collaboration and communication online. In addition, Academus serves as an integration platform to a number of outside applications. , http://www.hummingbird.com, http://www.unicon.net
StoredIQ, Inc. joined the Google Enterprise Professional Program, which extends Google search and helps customers get more value out of their Google enterprise search deployments. The Google Search Appliance will be deployed in parallel with StoredIQ’s Information and Classification Management Platform to provide Google enterprise customers ad-hoc search capabilities and automated policy-based actions. By extracting concepts, facts, keywords and alphanumeric patterns, StoredIQ is able to classify, protect and manage information based upon content. http://www.StoredIQ.com, http://www.google.com/enterprise/gep
Attunity, Ltd. (NASDAQ: ATTU) announced it has joined the Google Enterprise Professional program. The Google Enterprise Professional program includes developers, consultants and independent software vendors that provide value-added services for Google enterprise products. As part of the program requirements, Attunity engineers have undergone training as part of the Google Enterprise Professional program. The integration will enable enterprises using Google’s search to access information stored in legacy, mainframe and relational data stores through the Google Search Appliance. Enterprise information can now be searched in real-time and delivered for reporting and analysis. This is intended to deliver increased visibility to corporate performance measurements and compliance with real-time data searches and delivery and updating of indices of changed data using Attunity Stream, Attunity’s Changed Data Capture (CDC) solutions for real-time applications. http://www.google.com/enterprise/
NEON Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NEON) announced the company has joined the Google Enterprise Professional program to bring enterprise search capabilities to organizations that rely on mainframe systems. As a participant in the Google Enterprise Professional program, NEON, and its Shadow RTE mainframe integration technology will help Google customers extend their use of enterprise products to these previously hard-to-search areas of their infrastructure, such as legacy data locked in mainframes, through a secure, real-time mainframe integration platform that meets their unique requirements for information access and security. http://www.google.com/enterprise/, http://www.neonsys.com
Hot Banana Software Inc. and ExactTarget announced that Hot Banana has become an affiliate partner of ExactTarget, the first phase of an integrated technology partnership. ExactTarget’s permission-based email marketing campaigns drive qualified visitors to Web sites that are not always optimized for eMarketing as Hot Banana is. Hot Banana’s Active Marketing Web Content Management Suite is already integrated with WebTrends 7, is search engine friendly and allows non-technical marketers to change campaign content on their Web site. , http://www.exacttarget.com
Astoria Software, Inc. and SDL International announced a partnership to provide joint solutions to multinational manufacturers. Global information management solutions from Astoria and SDL help manufacturers publish and deliver content to international markets. Built on XML and DITA, the Astoria-SDL solution manages information for complex products with long lifecycles, frequent technology changes, and global usage. http://www.sdl.com, www.astoriasoftware.com
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