Category: Content technology news (Page 274 of 625)

Inxight Software, Inc. announced a partnership with Agent Logic, a provider of enterprise event detection and response software, which offers customers a new way to access, exchange and use information. Using Inxight SmartDiscovery, Agent Logic’s Enterprise Agent Server automatically processes data and event information from existing enterprise data sources such as search engines, databases, live data streams, Web page inputs, incoming e-mail reports/alerts, and legacy systems. Based on pre-defined subscriber profiles, any new or changed data is processed and delivered directly to systems in other organizations, or to multiple users in the form of alerts through email, pagers, Instant Messages, or real-time Web browser displays. The joint solution features include Personalized Instant Alerts, Information Summarization, Actionable Data, Monitoring, Storage, Visualization, and Link Analysis. Enterprise Agent Server is available immediately. www.agentlogic.com/, www.inxight.com

Macromedia announced the immediate availability of a Macromedia Web Publishing System update that includes Macromedia Contribute 3.1 and Macromedia Contribute Publishing Services 1.1. WPS provides everything an organization needs to affordably build and manage intranets and public-facing websites. The WPS update offers users additional enterprise control and oversight features as well as expanded web services connectivity and extensibility solutions. The WPS update supplies a host of enhancements and capabilities, along with Really Simple Syndication (RSS) activity feeds and deployment management. Administrators can now customize WPS to receive notifications about website changes in any RSS reader. Sub-site management gives enterprise administrators the ability to distribute administrative tasks to employees while maintaining complete, granular control over websites and users. Other new features include an enhanced LDAP/AD connectivity interface, Macromedia Breeze integration, staging-to-live deployment, and streamlined document publishing. Current users of WPS can download the free English update. Volume discounts and government and education licensing are also available. www.macromedia.com

Nacio Systems Inc., a California-based hosting service provider announced a partnership with Ektron, Inc., to provide a fully managed hosting solution for Ektron’s content management (CMS) customers. By partnering with Nacio, Ektron will be able to offer its customers the Ektron CMS product line in an ASP-environment. www.ektron.com, www.nacio.com

The Gilbane Report announced it has published two new white papers. Dale Waldt looks at W3C standards in practice in “Using XML and Databases”, and Bill Trippe reports on meeting the demands of the most complex content applications in “Component Content Management in Practice”. Both white papers are available at no charge at www.gilbane.com/whitepapers.html. Additionally, the Gilbane Report’s Bill Trippe and Jeroen van Rotterdam, X-Hive CEO, explain why component content management systems enable reuse that’s flexible and can be adopted over time in a webinar on Tuesday April 6 1:00 PM EST. Both white papers and the webinar are sponsored by X-Hive Corporation. Register for the webinar at www.x-hive.com/news/upcoming.html

Knowledge Anywhere, Inc. unveiled its new Global Content Manager. The Global Content Manager solution streamlines the development of content for multinational audiences and makes it easier for clients to review, translate, and post content in their native language. Knowledge Anywhere builds technology-based learning solutions and channel solutions to help companies improve employee performance and drive sales. www.knowledgeanywhere.com

RedDot Solutions announced a new version of its Web Content Management System, RedDot CMS 6.1. The latest version offers several new features designed to make complex Web projects easier to administer, faster to implement, and simpler to test against diverse standards. Among the new features, RedDot CMS 6.1 includes drag-and-drop functionality, enhanced editing tools, preview options and comparison templates for improved version control. Late this spring, RedDot plans to release a new add-on module to RedDot CMS, the Web Compliance Manager, to ensure compliance with Section 508 and WCAG A, AA and AAA standards. www.reddot.com

Endeca unveiled Endeca Latitude, a data analysis solution built on Endeca’s information retrieval platform. Endeca Latitude introduces a new way to access, discover and analyze critical business data. The new software gives employees and customers the combined exploration, reporting and analytical capabilities that today only a handful of trained power users, analysts, and IT enjoy. Built on Endeca’s information retrieval platform, Endeca Latitude brings the simplicity of searching and browsing online to the world of business intelligence. Latitude combines this intuitive accessibility with charting and data visualization capabilities, allowing non-technical, business users to interact with business-critical data. This combination of simplicity and accessibility empowers employees and customers to reach intelligent and informed decisions on their own, without the dependencies, bottlenecks and delays inherent with traditional BI and OLAP tools. www.endeca.com

EMC Corporation announced the next-generation EMC Documentum enterprise content management (ECM) platform. As an integral element of EMC’s strategy to help customers align their IT infrastructures with their business based upon the changing value of information, the platform showcases a completely unified architecture that advances the world of enterprise content management. In addition, EMC introduced a wave of content management products. Building upon technologies for the management of documents, XML files, rich media, web content and business process management, the new Documentum platform unifies collaboration, federated search and retention management capabilities into one platform. EMC Documentum enables all content management applications to share the same unified architecture with a common code base, security model, repository, object model and API. The Documentum ECM platform and suite of products will be generally available March 31, 2005. At that time, the platform and products will also be available in seven languages on all supported operating systems, databases, directories, application servers and storage systems. www.emc.com