Category: Content technology news (Page 275 of 625)

ZyLAB announced the opening of its new North American headquarters located at 1577 Springhill Road, Vienna, Virginia, 22182. In 2005, ZyLAB will focus heavily on selling its low-cost solutions to small and medium-sized business (SMB) that are publicly-traded and must adhere to today’s compliance challenges. The company also plans to continue building out its channel program. In addition, the company will continue to expand its Federal government sales. www.zylab.com

Socialtext has relaunched its product line to provide greater focus on the broad enterprise market. Socialtext has aligned its offerings according to its three primary market segments: Socialtext Enterprise, for businesses that are looking to leverage their existing investments in enterprise systems for scalability, security and reliability as the enterprise strength, wiki simple solution; Socialtext.net, for small-to-medium size businesses looking for quick and simple collaboration; and Socialtext.org, for non-profit organizations, academic institutions and internet communities. Socialtext Enterprise, which is available in appliance or hosted service options, comes with a number of different features required for enterprise use including enterprise-class backup, monitoring and storage, directory integration, security, and easy migration between intranet and secure extranet uses. Both Socialtext Enterprise and Socialtext.net also offer integrated email, IM and weblogs. Socialtext also released a new interface and new email integration features. Users can simply ‘CC to wiki’ to communicate with groups, including sharing attachments, routing email to a wiki page, category or weblog post. Socialtext also supports Kwiki. Socialtext Enterprise is available in both Appliance and Hosted Service options for $40 per user per month. Socialtext.net, is available for $10 per user per month. A Starter Package for 5 users for one year is $495. Socialtext.org, is available for $5 per user per month for qualified non-profit organizations. A Starter Package for 5 users for one year is $245. www.socialtext.com

Managing Editor Inc. (MEI) announced an agreement with Wave2 Media Solutions Limited (UK) to market and support Wave2 products in the U.S. and Canada. Wave 2 produces workflow and content management software, including the Wave2 Publishing Platform. The agreement provides MEI exclusivity within all vertical segments of the publishing industry for the U.S. and Canadian territories. Third-tier support for MEI will be provided by Wave2’s offices in the UK and in Toronto. www.maned.com, www.wav2.com

The Gilbane Report’s Bill Trippe discusses the benefits that DITA-oriented, XML publishing brings to global enterprises like Information Builders, Inc., and Idiom founder and CTO Eric Silberstein weighs in on other customer successes. Hosted by Idiom Technologies, Inc. Join Bill at “Topic-Oriented Information Development and Its Role in Globalization” on Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 1:00 PM EST. www.idiominc.com/news/webinar_registration.asp

Day Software announced that Obinary will embed Day’s Content Repository Extreme (CRX) across its entire product set. CRX is a full implementation of JSR 170, the future standard for enterprise content. Obinary is the developer of the “obinary compass,” an enterprise-solution for process-oriented knowledge-management. Obinary specializes in communication efficiency and technology control. www.day.com, www.obinary.com

Interwoven, Inc. announced that it has extended its Digital Asset Management (DAM) system with the introduction of MediaBin Presentation WorkBench. Available as part of the latest version of Interwoven’s MediaBin Asset Server, Presentation WorkBench enables enterprises to manage and share Microsoft PowerPoint files within a centrally-managed system for all digital assets. Interwoven’s MediaBin Presentation WorkBench provides: single window access to multiple PowerPoint presentations, custom presentation assembly, pre-approved templates, and efficient storage. MediaBin Presentation WorkBench will be available as a standard component of the latest release of Interwoven MediaBin Asset Server beginning March 31, 2005. www.interwoven.com

Bowne Global Solutions (BGS) and TRADOS announced that they have teamed to deliver integrated global content solutions for multinational companies. The BGS and TRADOS alliance helps with the content delivery challenges of global enterprises, including product introduction delays, inconsistent branding, customer dissatisfaction, and escalating costs. BGS provides services for creating, localizing and publishing content including authoring, terminology management, localization, language quality services, and content hosting. TRADOS contributes its enterprise solutions that manage and automate content globalization for a broad range of publishing media (web, electronic, and hardcopy) related to multinational branding, marketing communications, sales support, technical support, and maintenance. As a first step in delivering collaborative solutions, BGS is standardizing core elements of its production on the TRADOS platform for all facets of their global services. www.bowneglobal.com, www.trados.com

Index Engines announced the commercial availability of an enterprise search appliance that indexes data inline with the existing backup process. Unlike traditional enterprise search solutions that crawl networks and desktops in order to find data, the Index Engines Appliance sits in the path of the data backup and transparently indexes data as it is flows through the storage network. The Index Engines Appliance shifts the indexing of unstructured data off the overburdened data network and onto the storage network, where file and email are collected and archived using existing backup procedures. The Index Engines Appliance supports the most common file types including, Microsoft Office files, text, html, Adobe PDF, compressed zip files and more. Additionally a beta version that includes support for Microsoft Exchange email as well as PST files is also available. The Index Engines Appliance is available in two models. The ES-100 model supports the indexing of four million files and sells for $29,500. The ES-200 model supports eight millions documents and sells for $34,500. www.indexengines.com