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Alterian to Acquire Mediasurface
The boards of Alterian and Mediasurface announced that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended offer by Alterian to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Mediasurface. The Offer will be on the basis of 9 pence in cash and 0.0375 of a Consideration Share for each Mediasurface Share. The Offer values the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Mediasurface at approximately £18.1 million and each Mediasurface Share at 15 pence, representing a premium of 150.0 per cent to the Closing Price of 6 pence per Mediasurface Share on 23 April 2008. Alterian is a international provider of enterprise management software with its headquarters in Bristol, UK but with a significant proportion of its operations in North America. The Company employs over 130 staff in the United Kingdom and North America. Since being admitted to the Official List in 2000, Alterian has grown both organically and through the completion of several acquisitions. The Alterian Directors have identified Mediasurface as a strategic acquisition to enhance the Company's online marketing software offering as well as providing a number of additional benefits. The combination of the two businesses would create an Enlarged Group with, on the basis of the last audited accounts of Alterian and Mediasurface, annualised revenues of over £30.0 million and which generates approximately 50 per cent. of its revenue from the sale of online marketing software. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close late June 2008 and the Directors expect that regardless of the outcome of these discussions, the services that Mediasurface provides to existing and future customers will be unaffected. http://www.alterian.com, http://www.mediasurface.com
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CYA Technologies Announces CYA SmartRecovery and CYA Recycle Bin for the EMC Documentum 6
CYA Technologies announced CYA SmartRecovery 5.0 and CYA Recycle Bin version 2.0 supporting the EMC Documentum 6 enterprise content management platform. CYA SmartRecovery protects EMC Documentum repositories against "more than 80 percent" of all information loss incidents, which result from common occurrences such as programmatic, human, operational and logical errors, malfeasance, and metadata corruption. Using CYA SmartRecovery, a single administrator can recover one, several, or thousands of documents and their associated metadata (e.g. audit trails, workflows and digital signatures) back to their original state without taking EMC Documentum offline. CYA SmartRecovery enables ECM objects to be recovered back to any point in time, allowing recovery of objects that have been created or modified as little as 15 minutes ago. CYA Recycle Bin is an "un-delete" tool enabling EMC Documentum end-users to instantly restore files that they have accidentally deleted from the content repository back to their original location. CYA SmartRecovery and CYA Recycle Bin, previously accredited as "Designed for EMC Documentum," have both been validated on the EMC Documentum 6 platform and have been designated "Documentum 6 Ready" by EMC. Both products are also available for EMC Documentum version 5.3. http://www.cya.com
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IBM and RIM Mobilize Web 2.0 Capabilities
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM) (TSX: RIM) are delivering to mainstream business professionals the full line of Web 2.0-powered IBM Lotus collaboration software and information on demand on the BlackBerry platform. The joint initiative enables customers to securely manage their communications, contacts and schedules and collaborate and network through social software, all from within the interface of their BlackBerry smartphones. This includes the general availability of the new BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections, IBM's social software for business. IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM dashboard software lets businesses build Web sites and single screen dashboard views that deliver information, applications and processes personalized to the individual BlackBerry smartphone user. The BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections helps people tap into the collective knowledge of others and find the people and information they need for the task at hand while on the go. BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino enables access to key email and calendaring functions as well as custom applications built with Lotus Domino. The BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Sametime lets people access their full buddy list, send and receive instant messages, view presence information and convert an IM session to a phone call. IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile business intelligence software is a business intelligence solution designed specifically for the BlackBerry platform. It provides personalized secure business information in the right context to allow people to view and interact with dashboard-style reports. The BlackBerry mobile solution for the Lotus collaboration software suite is available today and the BlackBerry client software for Lotus Sametime and Lotus Connections are both now available as a free download for Lotus customers at http://www.blackberry.com/go/ibmresources, http://www.ibm.com
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EMC Unveils Documentum XML Store and Documentum Dynamic Delivery Services
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) unveiled two new EMC Documentum products designed to bring XML technology to a broader range of enterprise information. Leading the announcement is EMC Documentum XML Store, a native XML repository that integrates into the Documentum platform to provide XML processing. The Documentum repository gives organizations a full range of ECM management for their XML content, along with new capabilities for granular content reuse, standards-based search/retrieval, dynamic publishing, and archiving. Documentum XML Store is the foundation for the second product announced, EMC Documentum Dynamic Delivery Services. This server-based content delivery technology improves the way XML can be delivered dynamically to various applications. With Documentum Dynamic Delivery Services, organizations can transform traditional content publishing from a static activity to an on-demand process where personalized, relevant content is delivered to users based on their specific requests, preferences and profiles. With the addition of Documentum XML Store to the Documentum enterprise content management platform, XML can be now be a driver for any type of content-rich application using office documents, blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, mash-ups, business processes, or messages. Documentum Dynamic Delivery Services embeds XML Store to aggregate and cache content from any number of source systems. Documentum XML Store's full text engine and an XQuery engine combine to support search and retrieval of any type of content. Output documents are dynamically constructed from content fragments, and Documentum Dynamic Delivery Services' architecture allows it to serve high volumes of personalized requests. EMC's Documentum XML Store and Documentum Dynamic Delivery Services are available now. http://www.emc.com/
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Alpha Five Platinum Brings AJAX to the Enterprise
Alpha Software is now shipping Alpha Five Platinum Edition, the ninth major release of the company's Web database development platform. It's a development tool that can visually build AJAX-powered applications, integrate SQL databases with drag+drop, and deliver enterprise-scale availability, without having to write pages of computer code. And while coding is optional, Alpha Five's integrated development environment (IDE) still gives developers full access to forms, interactive reports, browsers, Web components, APIs, XML, and more. It includes 200 reusable ActionScripts, "Supercontrols," HTML and CSS builders, the full Xbasic/Xdialog language, Portable SQL, and "Genies" that generate editable code for any custom requirement. There's also a custom report generator (with drill-down support), a role-based Web security framework, and native SQL support for every major database, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, IBM DB2, and EnterpriseDB/Postgres Plus. In all, Alpha Five Platinum has 85 new or enhanced features. Alpha Five Platinum Edition is available now. Pricing starts at $299.00 for an upgrade. http://www.alphasoftware.com
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Syncro Soft Announces New Release of Oxygen XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger
Version 9.2 introduces a new XML Author edition specially tuned for content authors providing a well designed interface for XML editing by keeping only the relevant authoring features. The major additions in Oxygen XML Editor 9.2 are related to the WYSIWYG-like editing support and in particular to the DITA support. The general visual editing improvements include displaying the resolved content in the editor and navigation through links. With the new DITA features that include a new DITA map editor, actions for inserting conref links, a tight integration of the latest version of the DITA Open Toolkit, Oxygen XML Editor becomes an easy to use DITA editor. Other improvements are browsing of XML databases using WebDAV connections, better handling of Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) text, support for the Intel XML Software Suite and multiple component updates. The new Oxygen XML Author is available both as a separate product (standalone and Eclipse plugin) and also as a part of Oxygen XML Editor. The new DITA maps manager allows viewing and editing DITA map files and also acts as a project manager allowing to open different topics for editing. The tool chain for generating DITA output in a multitude of formats (XHTML, PDF, HTML, JavaHelp, Eclipse Help, DocBook, etc.) is ready to use out of the box. Oxygen XML Editor and XSLT Debugger is available immediately in 3 editions: Multi-platform XML Editor Academic/Non-profit license costs USD 48, Multi-platform XML Editor Professional license costs USD 299, and Multi-platform XML Editor Enterprise license costs USD 366. Oxygen XML Author is available immediately in 2 editions: Multi-platform XML Author Professional license costs USD 179, and Multi-platform XML Author Enterprise license costs USD 220. http://www.oxygenxml.com/
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Inmedius Debuts S1000Dmanager V3.0 S1000D Publication Lifecycle Management System
Inmedius, Inc. announced the release of S1000Dmanager V3.0, the next evolution in their S1000D management. The system's new platform facilitates the professional management of content, delivering the tools and information needed to efficiently manage the S1000D publication process. Manager's technical publication lifecycle architecture adds a library and centralized control center to the system's S1000D project setup and management support capabilities. The combination of a flexible library system, Dashboard approach, and integrated business intelligence provides complete command over information assets. New functionality in the S1000Dmanager V3.0 release includes a library system where users access and view information organized by Standard Numbering System (SNS). S1000D projects are managed from within the document library where multiple users, with security access, can edit project information. Another new feature is managing Data Module Requirements Lists (DMRL) as separate XML documents that may be checked out, issued, approved, and that have their own workflow. With quantitative metrics, the new, centralized Dashboard provides transparency and a visual representation of the S1000D technical documentation process. Publication managers are able to monitor organizational efficiency, identify problem or choke points in the process, and adjust resources as necessary to ensure project deliveries are on time and within budget. In conjunction with the upcoming release of S1000DauthorPro, Manager V3.0 will include editing and management capabilities in support of S1000D Specification Issue 3.0 requirements. Manager and AuthorPro are two of seven modules in the Inmedius S1000D Publishing Suite. http://www.inmedius.com
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Baynote Launches Merchandizing & Editorial Console That Blends Community with Control
Baynote, Inc. announced the availability of the Baynote Merchandizing and Editorial Console. The new management tool allows users to combine expert control with the inherent community wisdom distilled from web visitors' behaviors to optimize the delivery of product recommendations, content recommendations, and on-site search results. Baynote Recommendations and Social Search is built on a social science concept: that the collective behaviors of like-minded site visitors is the most effective way to display products and content based on a visitor's true intent. Leveraging crowd wisdom is especially important in content and product-rich "long tail" sites where manual merchandizing and editorializing is not cost or time effective. However, there are common scenarios where a merchandizing or editorial team requires the ability to exercise precise control over product and content recommendations to take into account product margin, inventory levels, promotions, breaking news, cross-channel content linking, and myriad other cases. While the new console benefits Baynote users in all vertical markets, it is particularly useful to online publishers and eCommerce businesses. http://www.baynote.com
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Sajan Extends GCMS 4.0 with New Portal Interface, Extended Analytics and Scalability
Sajan announced the extension of the latest release of GCMS, their on-demand translation management solution. GCMS is a Translation Management System (TMS) that incorporates all of the necessary functions of the entire global content lifecycle and puts them together in one on-demand model. Process automation is then wrapped around a multilingual data repository which centrally stores content at the segment level. The new 4.0 extension has portal usability enhancements and analytics to create greater efficiencies and transparency, giving the process more visibility. Additionally, GCMS allows for all translation project participants to work in the same collaborative environment. TMate Search Technology, the search and match algorithm released earlier this year, is core to the 4.0 extension, allowing for enterprise scalability and increasing fuzzy match rates by up to 60%. http://www.sajan.com
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Alfresco's Releases Enterprise Version 2.2 - Focus on Online Community Sites
Alfresco Software, Inc. announced the release of Alfresco Enterprise 2.2, which in particular is designed to power Web 2.0 properties and online communities. New feature enhancements support the creation, deployment and update of scalable Web 2.0 sites that can be developed using any web application language. These enhancements are a result of the company's work with interactive sites in the entertainment, online gaming, sports, telecommunications and publishing industries. With this new release, companies can move beyond the traditional marketing oriented Web site to provide users with a rich and interactive site that fosters community and customer relationships around a product or service. Other enhancements in Alfresco Enterprise 2.2 include: Web Farm Deployment Configuration - supports advanced deployment rules for web 2.0 scalable, 3-tier web application architectures; Web Application Preview and Test - provides the ability to preview in-context changes to any web application, including PHP, Ruby, Groovy, STRUTS, JSF, TILES and .NET; Site Templating and Branching - enables creation of new sites from existing templates and ability to baseline major site updates by branching existing site, and; Asset Reuse - allows content to be updated and shared across web projects. Alfresco Enterprise is the certified build of Alfresco, designed for production environments in corporations and government organizations that are looking for a stable, supported application. It is certified against commercial as well as open source stacks and offers commercial Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Alfresco Community is designed to be the research "Community Lab" for new features enabling developers to access a nightly build with the latest bleeding-edge functionality. It is unsupported by Alfresco and does not include the certification, QA (quality assurance) and services for production deployment. Alfresco Enterprise 2.2 is immediately available for enterprise customers. http://www.alfresco.com/
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Language Weaver and empolis Integrate Automated Translation Capabilities in Search and Customer Support Applications for International Markets
Language Weaver and empolis have entered into a strategic technology agreement that will support multilingual translation of enterprise applications. empolis will integrate Language Weaver's automated translation software into its e:SLS (empolis:Service Lifecycle Suite) application for customer service and into its e:IAS (empolis:Information Access Suite) information management application for cross-lingual enterprise search. Language Weaver's automated translation software offers translations based on the statistical likelihood of the correct meanings in context. empolis has integrated the capability into its existing applications, allowing its customers to access the automated translation functionality directly. The e:SLS application supports service organizations with creation, management and retrieval of service know-how. e:SLS enables organizations to provide the correct answers to customer queries with competent and consistent results via any channel, including telephone, e-mail, fax, letter, Internet, voice self-service and technical field service. e:SLS uses a central knowledge model as the foundation for intelligent search methods. It also builds a framework for multidimensional search and navigation structures to ensure efficient and precise information access. The e:IAS information management application supports intelligent and personalized information access, as well as efficiency and effectiveness when searching and navigating, analyzing, sorting and linking information and when creating new content. With access to multilingual information via the addition of Language Weaver's automated translation software, the searches become more comprehensive and effective in decision making. http://www.empolis.com, http://www.languageweaver.com
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Sun Microsystems Joins Liferay Open Source Community
Liferay, Inc. announced that Sun Microsystems will formally be joining the Liferay open source community and will continue to contribute to the development of Liferay Portal. Sun's participation in Liferay's community will result in enhanced development of enterprise Web 2.0 features and optimized performance for Liferay Portal in combination with Sun's family of products. Sun and Liferay plan to separately market and sell products and services based on their collaboration. Sun plans to use core elements of Liferay Portal 5.0 as the foundation for Sun's web development and collaboration platform. In addition, Liferay will continue to offer the full suite of professional services and support for all platforms it already offers its customers. http://www.liferay.com
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ClearStory Systems Expands on Entry Level SaaS Solutions with New ActiveMedia Editions
ClearStory Systems, Inc. announced new ActiveMedia Software as a Service (SaaS) packages that offer hosted DAM services that cater to a marketing organization's size. ClearStory will offer three ActiveMedia-based service plans for marketing workgroups, departments, and larger enterprise organizations, starting at $100 per user per month. ActiveMedia Essentials offers basic marketing services for workgroups in small organizations of 5 to 10 users. ActiveMedia Professional supports larger marketing departments of 10 to 20 users and includes full access to ActiveMedia's standard work flow automation features. ActiveMedia Essentials and ActiveMedia Professional also provide fixed-fee deployment services and application training that ensure successful and rapid deployments. ActiveMedia Enterprise expands upon ActiveMedia Professional by increasing the number of users and storage, typically required by larger enterprise and global marketing organizations, and including options for full text search of document assets and enterprise-class video processing. http://www.clearstorysystems.com
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Powerset Unveils Semantic Search
Powerset released a service for searching Wikipedia that illustrates the capapbilities of the semantic search engine they are developing. From their site "Powerset's goal is to change the way people interact with technology by enabling computers to understand our language. ... Powerset is first applying its natural language processing to search, aiming to improve the way we find information by unlocking the meaning encoded in ordinary human language. ... Powerset's technology improves the entire search process. In the search box, you can express yourself in keywords, phrases, or simple questions. On the search results page, Powerset gives more accurate results, often answering questions directly, and aggregates information from across multiple articles. Finally, Powerset's technology follows you into enhanced Wikipedia articles, giving you a better way to quickly digest and navigate content." http://www.powerset.com/
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eVergance and Baynote Partner to Bring Intent-Driven Recommendations and Social Search to Customer Service and Knowledge Management
eVergance and Baynote announced that the companies have formed a strategic partnership to deliver Baynote's recommendation and social search capabilities to customer service and knowledge management environments. In addition, eVergance will be reselling the Baynote social search and recommendation solution, and will be tailoring its KM optimization and search tuning services to offer consulting capabilities to the Baynote customer base. The firm will also be developing programs to integrate Baynote's social search and recommendations capabilities with knowledge management solutions, such as KANA IQ. Baynote enriches the search and navigation experience by learning from user behavior and the collective experiences of the online community. http://www.eVergance.com, http://www.baynote.com
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MindTouch Releases Deki Wiki v8.05
MindTouch announced the release of MindTouch Deki Wiki "Jay Cooke" v8.05, the latest version of its open source enterprise collaboration and integration platform. MindTouch Deki Wiki v8.05 includes finctions for internationalization/localization, search, user management, integrated scripting, automation, mash-ups, user experience and more. Specifically, this new release enhances multilingual content management. Deki Wiki v8.05 introduces a new polyglot feature that allows customers to host all languages as a single site. Now language can be specified by sections and pages automatically adapting the user interface of Deki Wiki to the appropriate language. Also, users may search across all languages and search results are prioritized by the user's default language. Lastly, Deki Wiki v8.05 supports OpenSearch. http://mindtouch.com
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blinkx Releases blinkx Advanced Media Platform
blinkx announced the availability of the blinkx Advanced Media Platform, a video content management solution that leverages blinkx's Conceptual Recognition Engine (CoRE) technology to enable media companies to unlock the potential of video assets and maximize their monetization. From the digital domain of the Internet and content management systems, to the offline world, the blinkx Advanced Media Platform is meant to solve the problems inherent in video processing and delivery. blinkx can identify and extract video assets from any storage system or packaging, online or offline. blinkx CoRE then makes it possible for media owners to search, discover and organize these assets based on their meaning, and for viewers to access these videos across different platforms, languages and formats. The Advanced Media Platform's SEO component captures new audiences while the advanced search and discovery functionality engages and retains them. With explicit and implicit user profiling, a content recommendation engine and automatic text-to-video linking, search results and display methods are tailored to relevant users. blinkx understands not only how a video is titled and tagged, but the content itself. Leveraging blinkx AdHoc, blinkx is able to place relevant ads against video content. http://www.blinkx.com/
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CM Pros to Host 2008 Spring Summit in Conjunction with Upcoming Gilbane San Francisco Conference
The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the 2008 CM Pros U.S. Spring Summit will take place on June 17 to coincide with the fourth Annual Gilbane San Francisco Conference which is June 18-20 at the Westin Market Hotel in San Francisco. The CM Pros Summit offers attendees an in-depth forum for discussing the business drivers and technical issues of managing and delivering dynamic content. Content Management Systems are viewed by many as being comprised of three predominant components: acquisition, management, and delivery. This summit will empower attendees with tangible and tactical real world solutions for the delivery component of content management. The CM Pros Summit includes users, practitioners and vendors of every aspect of content and digital asset management including: information architecture, usability, implementation, metadata and taxonomy, search, change management, software and tools. At the CM Pros Summit, speakers and attendees will: Leverage best practices for dynamic delivery; Hear the latest research, case studies, and best practices; Share experiences with others and learn from peers; Network at the event; Identify next steps in content management implementations; Collaborate for solutions. Meet with partners, suppliers, and potential customers; and, hear about new aspects of content management; drive new technology development. Current members who renew before June 17 will also receive the discount with a year added at the date of renewal. Also, CM Pros members receive a $200 discount off the cost of the Gilbane conference. Attend the Summit and join CM Pros for $75, a 25 percent discount off the regular fee. To take advantage of this offer, enter discount code: GILBSPR2008 at http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/, http://gilbanesf.com
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XyEnterprise Release ContentaView 3.5
XyEnterprise announced the release of ContentaView 3.5. ContentaView 3.5 adds support for advanced applicability filtering for the S1000D V3.0 applicability model and process data modules. It also provides enhanced content reuse, searching, reporting and audit trail capabilities. All of this is readily configurable to support specific customer requirements. Users can ensure they are working with the current approved version of content via the new One Click update feature, which provides an immediate method to install incremental updates from within ContentaView. ContentaView 3.5 can be configured to track not only the manual updates for each work station where it is installed, but also each section viewed, and every keystroke entered by a maintenance technician. A log of each session is captured in XML format, and can be routed as appropriate to confirm regulatory compliance or improve the maintenance function. The enhanced applicability feature allows consumers to filter the content they see based on applicability criteria relevant to their organization and document types. For example, an end user may select the "expert" version of content for one product while another may choose to view the "novice" content for a second product. ContentaView V3.5 now includes a new generic forms utility which provides the ability to create online forms that can capture any type of information to help improve the product, process or user experience. From within ContentaView, a user can then access, complete and print these forms. http://www.xyenterprise.com/
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Stylus Studio 2008 Release 2 Now Available
DataDirect Technologies, an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), announced the immediate availability of Stylus Studio 2008 XML Enterprise Suite, Release 2. This latest release features new and enhanced XML productivity tools designed to simplify and automate data integration tasks including increased support for several EDI data formats, code generation and enhanced scalability. Stylus Studio now supports the Edig@s EDI dialect. With a new Edig@s to XML Schema wizard, as well as support for the IATA 07.1 revision and numerous other formats including EANCOM, X12, and HL7. Code generation improvements include enhanced support for the Microsoft .NET processor and new support for the Saxonica Saxon .NET Processor when generating C# code for .NET. Stylus Studio can automatically create or update a Microsoft Visual Studio project to include the C# for .NET class for the XQuery, XSLT, or XML Pipeline for which you are generating code. The new release leverages enhanced optimization techniques, including streaming, to improve application performance and scalability when accessing and converting multiple, large data sources including relational databases and flat files. There is new support for XML processing APIs in the generated Java code, and various enhancements to the XML Editor, XQuery Mapper, XML Pipeline Designer, and XML Schema Editor. Stylus Studio 2008 XML Enterprise Suite, Release 2 is now available for free trial download, and for purchase at the Stylus Studio online shop. Stylus Studio 2008 XML Enterprise Suite, Release 2 is offered at $595 (USD) for a single-user license. Stylus Studio XML Professional Suite, Release 2 is now offered at $350 for a single-user license. http://www.datadirect.com
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