1177369200Content Wireadminacquisitions,Advertising,Business,business content,business models,Companies,computer,dynamic content,global network,Google,headlines,landscape,market research,market research firm,models,profiles,recent research,research analyst,research firm,worldwide marketUser-Generated Content Market in FluxLawsuits, acquisitions, and experimentation are now the tools being used to craft the User-Generated Content (UGC) landscape, and even with all that has transpired, we still only have an unfinished foreground in place,say analysts. Business models continue to adapt and change, as do experimentations with advertising, making the overall landscape of this market appear to be as dynamic as a feather in the wind, the high-tech market research firm says. "Three companies in particular have and will likely continue to make headlines: Google, YouTube, and Viacom," says Michael Inouye, In-Stat analyst. "The US continues to be the market leader and will be for the foreseeable future," he says. Recent research by In-Stat found the following: - Worldwide revenue from UGC content will increase from $80 million in 2006 to $1.6 billion in 2011. - Flash continues to be the output format of choice. - As more UGC content is viewed on the TV rather than the computer monitor, the impetus to both submit and receive higher quality content will translate to much larger files being uploaded and downloaded. www.in-stat.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/user-generated-content-market-flux1169078400Content Wireadminacquisitions,blog,browser,Business,business content,business development,business metrics,business solutions,business users,consumer service,content integration,content management,Content Management,content management platform,content management services,content management solutions,creating a website,data conversion,data management,Data Management,data services,Development,integration costs,integration platform,Internet,internet,key business,launch,management platform,management product,management solutions,management vendors,marketing,Marketing,Media,metrics,new business,new data,new product,new release,news content,news service,news sites,news stories,product integration,product strategy,revenue share,search engine,service revenue,significantly,streamline,subscriptions,tags,Web 2.0,web content,web content management,web pages,web usersSocial Bookmarking For Press ReleasesBusiness Wire has introduced new bookmarking links to increasingly popular social bookmarking websites such as Digg, Del.icio.us, and Reddit. These bookmarking websites allow internet users to save their favorite web content and share it with other users. Click to learn the importance of data management in creating availability solutions including clarification of availability terminology. Cost containment for communications vendors and their carrier customers can be achieved on two fronts. Click here to find out what they are and how to streamline the development and maintenance costs associated with building the product. Over the past decade, consumer debt has surged at an alarming pace. The likelihood of recovering debt, however, decreases with each passing day. Click here to learn how to maximize revenue. The integration of bookmarking features across the entire Business Wire website comes as part of the company's overall social media strategy. Following the successful introduction of Business Wire's EON (Enhanced Online News) web-delivery platform -- which has already enabled since its launch in 2006 such social media features as bookmarking, tags for blog search engine Technorati, and tracking of blog entries that refer to press releases -- Business Wire has decided to implement social media features throughout its web properties. "Enhancing our entire website with social media features is a key component of our ongoing mission to provide news that is linkable, searchable, accessible, and useable by whomever wants it, whichever way they want it," says Michael Lissauer, EVP of Marketing and Business Strategy at Business Wire. "Whether you're a journalist, blogger, investor, or end-consumer, we will make it easier for you to receive and use Business Wire content." In addition to enjoying potential increased exposure of their press releases on such social media sites, also termed Web 2.0, Business Wire clients now receive new measurement metrics about social bookmarks on their NewsTrak reports. Summary of the new features: Social Bookmarks: At the bottom of every Business Wire press release page there is a series of icons and links of popular bookmarking sites. By clicking on those icons, users are able to easily save those articles and share them with other users: -- By clicking on the Digg or Reddit icons, a new window will open where users will be prompted to login, submit the story, and provide a short description of the content they are submitting. Once the story is submitted, other users of these bookmarking services will be able to read the story and vote for it, thus potentially increasing its ranking. The more votes a story receives, the more visible it will become on the bookmarking websites. Popular stories are featured on the bookmarking websites' home pages and carried on their RSS feeds. -- By clicking on the Del.icio.us icon, a new window will open prompting users to save the link on their online favorites page (similar to "My favorites" or "Bookmarks" in a web browser). Users are then able to share their favorites with friends and family, colleagues, and other users. Popular links are featured on the Del.icio.us home page and are offered via RSS subscriptions. Measurement: when accessing the NewsTrak feature, clients can monitor the performance of their releases on social media sites, including break-down by service and number of hits.http://www.content-wire.com/social-bookmarking-press-releases-01160521200Content Wireadminacquisitions,beneficial,content delivery,content delivery service,content offerings,data services,delivery service,digital asset management,email,financial services,Google,malware,market research,productivity,research analyst,service offerings,software vendors,spam,three months,value proposition,web content,WorldIncreasing Security For Content Filtering MarketTraditionally, the web, e-mail and instant messaging (IM) filtering markets have evolved separately. The uptake of solutions, especially in the e-mail filtering market, has been successful. As a result, the content filtering market is maturing and existing vendors are expanding and diversifying their product and service portfolios. According to Frost & Sullivan the World Content Filtering Market earned revenues of $1.31 billion in 2005 and estimates to reach $4.86 billion by 2012. Although the content filtering industry is maturing, there is growing demand from two areas, the first being security. Content filtering is increasingly overlapping with the broader security field. Malware attacks have increased in spread and potency. These attacks are increasingly motivated by financial gain. Phishing, botnets, denial-of-service and directory harvest attacks have become increasingly common over the last 18 months. "Whilst the traditional issues of spam and employee productivity are still driving the content filtering market, protection against malware is becoming a strong driver for market growth," notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Katie Gotzen. "With malware attacks becoming more sophisticated in nature, enterprises are eager to protect themselves. As a result, web and e-mail filtering are becoming useful tools in the security battle of enterprises." The second factor driving market growth is compliance. Legislation such as Sarbanes Oxley and HIPAA in the United States and the Data Protection Directive in Europe increasingly regulate the content of emails that leave an organisation. This is resulting in the increased uptake of email filtering solutions as well. "The content filtering market is taking over the IM market as well, since most IM vendors have been bought by content filtering vendors and most content filtering vendors now possess IM filtering capabilities," notes Ms. Gotzen. The diversification trend also applies to delivery modes. Earlier, vendors delivered solutions in the form of either software, appliances or managed services. This trend has changed and vendors are now offering two or three of the options of software, appliances and managed services. Vendors that are competing in only web or e-mail filtering and rely on a single delivery mode are rightfully concerned about their competitive potential. In such a scenario, considering mergers and acquisitions, or partnering in order to diversify their product offerings will prove beneficial. Diversification strategies can include both web and e-mail filtering, strengthening outbound e-mail filtering capabilities, or adding hardware and/or hosted services to product portfolios. www.networksecurity.frost.com <script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-7258139694566163";google_ad_width = 300;google_ad_height = 250;google_ad_format = "300x250_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="";google_color_border = "CC99CC";google_color_bg = "E7C6E8";google_color_link = "000000";google_color_url = "00008B";google_color_text = "663366";</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>http://www.content-wire.com/increasing-security-content-filtering-market-01156114800Content Wireadminacquisitions,advanced technology,benefit,Business,business applications,business benefit,business content,business process,business process management,business users,Companies,content acquisition,content analysis,content management,Content Management,content management applications,content management software,Content Technologies,content technology,data management,Data Management,Day Software,deployments,enterprise applications,enterprise content,enterprise content management,EVER,FileNet (IBM),functionality,Hummingbird (Open Text),IBM,launch,management applications,management functionality,management market,management requirements,management technology,management vendors,market leaders,market share,Microsoft,Open Symphony,Open Text,Oracle,protocol,segment,share price,software applications,software vendors,Technology,technology alliance,technology companies,technology deal,time to marketContent Management Domination Not Guarantee for SatisfactionIBM last week entered into a agreement to acquire FileNet, in an all-cash transaction at a price of approximately $1.6 billion. According to analysts, the deal is among IBM's largest acquisitions, and the biggest since Rational acquisition in 2003, for $2.1 billion. If confirmed, the acquisition would make IBM the market share leader in this fast-growing sector, leaving EMC recently estimated by IDC as number one in the ECM segment, to be downgraded. Hours after the announcement, <a href="http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=17925&hed=Offers+in+Store+for+FileNet">market observers</a> were already speculating the potential of an outbid for the deal from other major content management market leaders and competitors, such as EMC, or Oracle, following the recent coup by Open Text that snatched Hummingbird with a hostile bit from first time takeover offer from Symphony Technologies just weeks earlier. <a href="http://www.redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=7696">Others</a> say that it could be aimed to interfere with Microsoft close alliance with Filenet, and even that it could spur a <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33624">a frenzy</a> of other deals in the market Content Management Software applications have matured rapidly over the years, and have become the center of advanced enterprise deployments that extend to support business process functionality, and to satisfy more advanced and complex requirements up to data analysis. Part of the market consolidation occurring today is the result of content management vendors trying to upgrade their technology offer to become more integrated and offer broader support for other enterprise software, and partly a strategy to gain market share with the idea of becoming the dominating vendor. While the resulting range of offering in the top end market may benefit from expansion and upgrading, the organisational complexities arising from such large mergers are unlikely to be easily absorbed by customers. Integrating an expanded technological offering with increased business agility is a must for the top players - and surely a challenge for companies that are becoming larger by the day Agility is one quality that the software giants find hard to sustain. Revenues, company size and market position are not in themselves a meaningful measure of success, - but customer retention and satisfaction, speed of response and ability to fulfil ever changing requirements are. And large content management vendors have yet to demonstrate their ability to deliver that.http://www.content-wire.com/content-management-domination-not-guarantee-satisfaction-01156114800Content Wireadminacquired,acquiring,acquisitions,analytics,benefit,Canada,Clicktracks,Companies,content acquisition,content analysis,content integration,content management,Content Management,content management software,content management solutions,content management tools,Content Technologies,content technology,email,email marketing,finance,Finance,Hot Banana,insight,integration software,investors,leading technology,management solutions,management technology,management tools,marketing,Marketing,new technology,parents,return on investment,service revenue,stock,targets,Technology,technology companies,technology integration,technology provider,technology solutions,web content,web content management Web Analytics and Web Content Management For e MarketingJ.L. Halsey Corporation JLHY announced has acquired Web analytics leader ClickTracks Analytics, (www.clicktracks.com), of Santa Cruz, and emarketing Web content management company Hot Banana Software (www.hotbanana.com), of Ontario, Canada. With more than 13,000 clients now, these acquisitions make J.L. Halsey one of the largest providers of marketing technology solutions to mid-market businesses. To finance these acquisitions, the Company closed a $10 million subordinated bridge loan. The acquisitions of ClickTracks and Hot Banana are significant steps in the strategy of J.L. Halsey -- to become the leading provider of software solutions for digital marketers at mid-size businesses. The company is building on its existing portfolio of email marketing solutions, with an eye toward providing the key technologies that mid-size marketers need to produce greater return on investment from online marketing budgets. It acquired email marketing leaders Lyris Technologies (www.lyris.com) and EmailLabs (www.emaillabs.com) in May and October 2005 respectively. "J.L. Halsey is acquiring award-winning, innovative companies that specialize in sophisticated, but highly-usable marketing tools for mid-sized businesses," said David Burt, CEO, J.L. Halsey. "The acquisitions of ClickTracks and Hot Banana further our goal of providing a complete emarketing toolset that directly increases the effectiveness and ROI of organizations' emarketing spends. At the same time, by adding Web analytics and Web content management solutions we are extending our commitment to bringing distinct, best-of-breed marketing technologies under one roof for the benefit of the marketing community." At the closing of the ClickTracks acquisition, Halsey paid the security holders of ClickTracks approximately $7.6 million in cash, issued to the security holders of ClickTracks who are "accredited investors" approximately $2.9 million worth of Halsey common stock (valued at a 30-day trailing average of Halsey's closing sale prices), agreed to pay to the security holders of ClickTracks who are not "accredited investors" a total of approximately $100,000 in cash, and agreed, in the event that certain milestones are reached over the next two years, to pay the owners of ClickTracks an additional $3,300,000 in earn-out payments. An additional $510,000 will be paid subject to working capital adjustments. At the closing of the Hot Banana acquisition, Halsey paid the owners of Hot Banana approximately 1.9 million Canadian dollars in cash and will make installments totaling up to approximately 750,000 Canadian dollars if Hot Banana achieves specified revenue and technology integration targets in the first and second year following the closing. An additional 500,000 Canadian dollars will be paid subject to working capital and other adjustments. ClickTracks was voted "Best Web Site Analysis Tool" in ClickZ's 2003, 2004 and 2005 Marketing Excellence Awards, and received a Computerworld Innovative Technology award in the Web site management category. ClickTracks has reported two consecutive record quarters for revenue in 2006. Hot Banana is available directly, or from 21+ Channel Partners Worldwide, either on-demand (software as a service), or installed software. Clients include InsureMe, Algoma Steel, Bell Industries, Parents Action for Children, Archdiocese of New York, Ansell Healthcare Europe and Johns Hopkins University. All four companies will continue to develop and sell standalone products.http://www.content-wire.com/web-analytics-and-web-content-management-e-marketing1156114800Content Wireadminacquired,acquiring,acquisitions,analytics,benefit,Canada,Clicktracks,Companies,content acquisition,content analysis,content integration,content management,Content Management,content management software,content management solution,content management solutions,content management tools,Content Technologies,content technology,cooperation,email,email marketing,finance,Finance,Hot Banana,integration software,investors,leading technology,management solutions,management technology,management tools,marketing,Marketing,member countries,new technology,parents,return on investment,service revenue,stock,targets,Technology,technology companies,technology integration,technology provider,technology solutions,web content,web content managementWeb Analytics and Web Content Management For eMarketingJ.L. Halsey Corporation JLHY announced has acquired Web analytics leader ClickTracks Analytics, (www.clicktracks.com), of Santa Cruz, and emarketing Web content management company Hot Banana Software (www.hotbanana.com), of Ontario, Canada. With more than 13,000 clients now, these acquisitions make J.L. Halsey one of the largest providers of marketing technology solutions to mid-market businesses. To finance these acquisitions, the Company closed a $10 million subordinated bridge loan. The acquisitions of ClickTracks and Hot Banana are significant steps in the strategy of J.L. Halsey -- to become the leading provider of software solutions for digital marketers at mid-size businesses. The company is building on its existing portfolio of email marketing solutions, with an eye toward providing the key technologies that mid-size marketers need to produce greater return on investment from online marketing budgets. It acquired email marketing leaders Lyris Technologies (www.lyris.com) and EmailLabs (www.emaillabs.com) in May and October 2005 respectively. "J.L. Halsey is acquiring award-winning, innovative companies that specialize in sophisticated, but highly-usable marketing tools for mid-sized businesses," said David Burt, CEO, J.L. Halsey. "The acquisitions of ClickTracks and Hot Banana further our goal of providing a complete emarketing toolset that directly increases the effectiveness and ROI of organizations' emarketing spends. At the same time, by adding Web analytics and Web content management solutions we are extending our commitment to bringing distinct, best-of-breed marketing technologies under one roof for the benefit of the marketing community." At the closing of the ClickTracks acquisition, Halsey paid the security holders of ClickTracks approximately $7.6 million in cash, issued to the security holders of ClickTracks who are "accredited investors" approximately $2.9 million worth of Halsey common stock (valued at a 30-day trailing average of Halsey's closing sale prices), agreed to pay to the security holders of ClickTracks who are not "accredited investors" a total of approximately $100,000 in cash, and agreed, in the event that certain milestones are reached over the next two years, to pay the owners of ClickTracks an additional $3,300,000 in earn-out payments. An additional $510,000 will be paid subject to working capital adjustments. At the closing of the Hot Banana acquisition, Halsey paid the owners of Hot Banana approximately 1.9 million Canadian dollars in cash and will make installments totaling up to approximately 750,000 Canadian dollars if Hot Banana achieves specified revenue and technology integration targets in the first and second year following the closing. An additional 500,000 Canadian dollars will be paid subject to working capital and other adjustments. ClickTracks was voted "Best Web Site Analysis Tool" in ClickZ's 2003, 2004 and 2005 Marketing Excellence Awards, and received a Computerworld Innovative Technology award in the Web site management category. ClickTracks has reported two consecutive record quarters for revenue in 2006. Hot Banana is available directly, or from 21+ Channel Partners Worldwide, either on-demand (software as a service), or installed software. Clients include InsureMe, Algoma Steel, Bell Industries, Parents Action for Children, Archdiocese of New York, Ansell Healthcare Europe and Johns Hopkins University. All four companies will continue to develop and sell standalone products.http://www.content-wire.com/web-analytics-and-web-content-management-emarketing1155078000Content Wireadminacquisitions,application development,asset management,asset management software,assets,assets management,Business,business content,business development,business information,business opportunities,business process,business process management,business solutions,content management,Content Management,content management application,content management capabilities,content management software,content management solutions,content management system,data formats,Development,digital asset,digital asset management,digital assets,Digital Assets Management,digital rights management,Digital Rights Management,Documentum (EMC),email,enterprise content,enterprise content management,Enterprise Web,images,information assets,Information Management,integration platform,key business,management application,management capabilities,management market,management solutions,market research,new business,new research,platforms,records management,Records Management,research and development,revenue opportunities,significant impact,web content,web content managementECM leadership by revenueThe research notes that EMC provides all of the key capabilities of a complete content management suite – from the management of documents, to Web content, digital assets, images and records. In addition, it has recently begun to expand into other areas including enterprise reports management, information rights management and business process management through organic development and a string of strategic acquisitions. According to the report, "EMC's competitive position in the content management market can only be enhanced as it exploits the myriad opportunities before it to deliver integrated information management solutions that leverage its strengths not just in content management but in archival and storage management, e-mail management and application management. We are already seeing the first of new products that will forge tighter links between content management and archival." Building on its 2005 success, excluding the impact of Captiva, EMC's content management software license revenues grew 30% in the second quarter of 2006. Also during the quarter, EMC Documentum eRoom and Documentum Business Process Management software each received the coveted AIIM E-DOC Magazine AIIM 2006 Best of Show Award for exceptional quality and significant ROI potential for customers www.idc.com <script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-7258139694566163";google_ad_width = 300;google_ad_height = 250;google_ad_format = "300x250_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="";google_color_border = "CC99CC";google_color_bg = "E7C6E8";google_color_link = "000000";google_color_url = "00008B";google_color_text = "663366";</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>http://www.content-wire.com/ecm-leadership-revenue1155078000Content Wireadminacquisitions,application development,assets,assets management,benefit,Business,business content,business development,business information,business opportunities,business process,business process management,business solutions,content management,Content Management,content management application,content management capabilities,content management software,content management solutions,customer loyalty,Development,digital assets,Digital Assets Management,digital rights management,Digital Rights Management,Documentum (EMC),email,enterprise content,enterprise content management,Enterprise Web,images,information assets,Information Management,key business,management application,management capabilities,management market,management solutions,market participants,market research,new business,new research,records management,Records Management,research and development,revenue opportunities,significant impact,watermark,web content,web content managementECM market leader by revenueThe research notes that EMC provides all of the key capabilities of a complete content management suite – from the management of documents, to Web content, digital assets, images and records. In addition, it has recently begun to expand into other areas including enterprise reports management, information rights management and business process management through organic development and a string of strategic acquisitions. According to the report, "EMC's competitive position in the content management market can only be enhanced as it exploits the myriad opportunities before it to deliver integrated information management solutions that leverage its strengths not just in content management but in archival and storage management, e-mail management and application management. We are already seeing the first of new products that will forge tighter links between content management and archival." Building on its 2005 success, excluding the impact of Captiva, EMC's content management software license revenues grew 30% in the second quarter of 2006. Also during the quarter, EMC Documentum eRoom and Documentum Business Process Management software each received the coveted AIIM E-DOC Magazine AIIM 2006 Best of Show Award for exceptional quality and significant ROI potential for customers www.idc.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/ecm-market-leader-revenue1154473200Content Wireadminaccess control,access digital,acquired,acquisitions,Business,business content,business development,business information,business processes,business solutions,collaborative content,content management,Content Management,content management software,content management solutions,content management tools,Content Technologies,data access,data management,Data Management,database management,desktops,Development,development tools,digital publishing,digital rights management,Digital Rights Management,document management,elements,enterprise content,enterprise content management,Enterprise Web,financial management,functionality,global content,global provider,global reach,Information Management,innovations,intention,key business,key industry,maintain control,management functionality,management product,management solutions,management tools,metadata,metadata,mobile content,mobile data,mobile devices,proprietary,provide tools,records management,Records Management,submission,transformation,web content,web content management,wireless data,wireless industry,wireless solutions,wireless technologiesContent Management Acquires Content Control ToolsStellent acquired SealedMedia Limited, a leader in easy-to-use, enterprise digital rights management solutions, and Bitform, a provider of content cleansing technologies. These technologies will enable Stellent customers to better secure and control sensitive content both inside and outside of the enterprise. "A key tenet of enterprise content management (ECM) and financial compliance initiatives is the efficient and secure sharing of information both internally and externally," said Dan Ryan, chief operating officer for Stellent. "Stellent already is an industry leader in facilitating secure access to content on Web sites and within repositories, and we provide policy-based records and retention management. However, to ensure content is secure throughout collaborative business processes, information technologies must reach beyond repository-level security. These two acquisitions strengthen our functionality in this area. Our customers will now be able to better secure and control documents internally and externally using enterprise digital rights management. In addition, we can ‘cleanse’ documents of ‘hidden’ information prior to publication and distribution." SealedMedia is a London-based company with a broad list of Global 1000 customers, including Vodafone, Fenwick & West, the U.S. Department of Energy, Rhodia, Johnson Matthey, O2, Harvard Business School Publishing and Citrix. Founded in 1996, SealedMedia helps organizations maintain complete control, for the lifetime of a document, over who can use their most sensitive information and when they can use it. Its enterprise digital rights management software protects information wherever it is stored and used. Unlike conventional information management products that only manage information while it resides in servers, SealedMedia extends security, control and tracking to information on remote end-user desktops, laptops and mobile wireless devices. Bitform is an early-stage software development company. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Chicago, Bitform’s primary product addresses the rising challenge of hidden data within documents, which can create security and policy risks. This hidden information includes metadata, tracked changes and comments, revision and author history, fast-save data, and database connection details, among many other elements. The Bitform Secure SDK identifies and cleanses or strips files of sensitive, confidential or proprietary metadata and hidden information that may pose risks to organizations if exposed. Stellent plans to integrate the SealedMedia and Bitform technologies within its enterprise software products in order to further differentiate its ECM offering. www.stellent.com <script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-7258139694566163";google_ad_width = 300;google_ad_height = 250;google_ad_format = "300x250_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="";google_color_border = "CC99CC";google_color_bg = "E7C6E8";google_color_link = "000000";google_color_url = "00008B";google_color_text = "663366";</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>http://www.content-wire.com/content-management-acquires-content-control-tools1153868400Content Wireadminacquisitions,deployments,environments,India,Indonesia,new technology,Philippines,ThailandNascent Asian WiMAX Market Gains MomentumThe total APAC market, including WiMAX CPEs, WiMAX Base stations and WiMAX commercial services, but excluding the non-radio-access part of total WiMAX solutions, is valued at US$106.4 million in 2006, and that figure will grow to US$4.3 billion in 2011, reports In-Stat. "No APAC service provider can ignore WiMAX," says Victor Liu, In-Stat analyst. "Providers need either to evaluate the possibility of adding WiMAX to their existing services portfolio, or to assess the competitive pressure from other WiMAX service providers." Among the findings - Equipment vendors, including chip set makers, CPE makers and system solution providers, have to act very quickly to adopt the latest technical specifications and optimize their equipment performance in real environments. - Trial network deployments are in progress in at least 13 APAC countries. - Many service providers in developing countries such as India, Thailand, Philippines, and Indonesia have shown great interest in setting up WiMAX networks and extending telecommunication services coverage to under-served places. www.in-stat.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/nascent-asian-wimax-market-gains-momentum-01152658800Content Wireadminacquisitions,caution,Google,intelligence,Microsoft,repository,subsidiarySix SigmaXL Add-In for Statistical and Graphical AnalysisSigmaXL was designed from the ground up to be a cost-effective, powerful, but easy to use tool that enables users to measure, analyze, improve and control their service, transactional, and manufacturing processes. As an add-in to the already familiar Microsoft Excel, SigmaXL is ideal for Six Sigma training, said John Noguera, senior partner, SigmaXL. New features include Multiple Dotplots, Improved Multiple Linear Regression, Process Capability Combination www.SigmaXL.com <script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-7258139694566163";google_ad_width = 300;google_ad_height = 250;google_ad_format = "300x250_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="";google_color_border = "CC99CC";google_color_bg = "E7C6E8";google_color_link = "000000";google_color_url = "00008B";google_color_text = "663366";</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>http://www.content-wire.com/six-sigmaxl-add-statistical-and-graphical-analysis1134432000Content Wireadminacquired,acquisitions,architecture,asset management,asset management software,Business,business applications,business benefits,business content,business information,business need,business process,business process management,business solutions,business user,collaboration,content infrastructure,content management,Content Management,content management applications,content management capabilities,content management infrastructure,content management platform,content management services,content management software,content management solutions,content management systems,content offerings,content repository,Content Technologies,current content,current market,digital asset,digital asset management,document management,document management systems,Documentum (stellent),Documentum (EMC),enterprise applications,enterprise content,enterprise content management,enterprise systems,Enterprise Web,FileNet (IBM),functionality,game,Hummingbird (Open Text),IBM,Information Management,infrastructure,infrastructure software,Interwoven,Interwoven,lifecycle,management applications,management capabilities,management functionality,management infrastructure,management market,management platform,management product,management requirements,management solutions,management vendors,market leaders,market research,methodology,Microsoft,Mobius,new business,new product,new research,next wave,open architecture,Open Text,Oracle,platforms,presence,product strategy,records management,Records Management,RedDot (Open Text),repository,research analyst,senior analyst,senior research,software applications,software platform,software vendors,Stellent (Oracle),usability,Vignette,web applications,web content,web content management Compliance and Governance fuel spending surge in Content ManagementGrowing compliance and governance requirements are fueling a spending surge in enterprise content management (ECM), leading to a 19 percent CAGR that will outpace the overall software market through 2008. Rather than purchasing multiple products to address varying content and usage needs, firms are looking for enterprise content platforms that provide a common set of services. A new report from Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) uses its Forrester Wave(TM) methodology to evaluate ECM vendors' new suite offerings that bundle a number of individual ECM technologies with the needs of IT decision-makers in mind. "The ECM suite market is still emerging as content and infrastructure vendors continue to respond to the needs of IT decision-makers by developing, assembling, or buying point content products," said Forrester senior analyst Kyle McNabb. "Infrastructure vendors are taking advantage of the fact that IT organizations want ECM capabilities within their IT infrastructure portfolio. Pure-play content vendors that can't compete on the infrastructure front will move aggressively into content-centric applications." Forrester evaluated ECM market leaders EMC Documentum, FileNet, Hummingbird, IBM, Interwoven, Microsoft, Mobius Management Systems, Open Text, Oracle, Stellent, and Vignette. Approximately 55 criteria were grouped into three high-level categories: current offering, strategy, and market presence. A combination of vendor surveys, product briefings and demos, and customer reference calls were used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each vendor. Forrester Wave Results Forrester found that IT infrastructure vendors have established early leadership in an evolving market. IBM and EMC Documentum lead the market, although other strong performers and contenders should not be immediately discounted, as they possess differentiating capabilities that may be better suited for specific business needs. Leaders: -- EMC Documentum is a good choice for organizations interested in making ECM an extension of their existing IT information management infrastructure. This vendor seeks to advance its ECM capabilities into a broad information life-cycle management platform. -- IBM's information management strategy and its broad ECM portfolio helped this vendor overcome average scores for its current offering and below-average suite readiness scores. Strong Performers: -- FileNet is a good fit for organizations with high-volume production imaging needs coupled with human-centric BPM requirements. -- Hummingbird benefits from strong document management and a newly acquired WCM product from RedDot Solutions. It is best suited for organizations that need document and Web content management with a focus on end user usability. -- Interwoven offers a broad set of ECM capabilities and excels in Web content management, document management, and digital asset management. This vendor's strategy is focused on meeting organizations' content-centric needs. -- Open Text, through acquisitions, has created a broad ECM suite of capabilities and can expect improvement with a focus on content-centric applications. -- Oracle has limited ECM capability breadth but a strong foundation that appeals to IT decision makers. -- Stellent's high scores in breadth of capabilities, suite readiness, and architecture offset a limited set of extended capabilities like collaboration and business process management. -- Vignette's suite readiness is negatively influenced by lack of common administration and separate repository services for individual products, but it is very suitable for organizations in need of high-performance WCM, high-volume production imaging, and integrated document and records management requirements. Contenders: -- Microsoft has a powerful vision but is late to the game with very limited current capabilities. However, it still has the potential to become a stronger performer in the next few years. -- Mobius works best for organizations with deep archiving and report management requirements, which it complements with basic ECM functionality. www.forrester.com <script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-7258139694566163";google_ad_width = 300;google_ad_height = 250;google_ad_format = "300x250_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="";google_color_border = "CC99CC";google_color_bg = "E7C6E8";google_color_link = "000000";google_color_url = "00008B";google_color_text = "663366";</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>http://www.content-wire.com/compliance-and-governance-fuel-spending-surge-content-management1134432000Content Wireadminacquired,acquisitions,architecture,asset management,asset management software,Business,business applications,business benefits,business content,business information,business need,business process,business process management,business solutions,business user,collaboration,content infrastructure,content management,Content Management,content management applications,content management capabilities,content management infrastructure,content management platform,content management services,content management software,content management solutions,content management systems,content offerings,content repository,Content Technologies,current content,current market,digital asset,digital asset management,document management,document management systems,Documentum (stellent),Documentum (EMC),enterprise applications,enterprise content,enterprise content management,enterprise systems,Enterprise Web,FileNet (IBM),functionality,game,Hummingbird (Open Text),IBM,Information Management,infrastructure,infrastructure software,Interwoven,Interwoven,lifecycle,management applications,management capabilities,management functionality,management infrastructure,management market,management platform,management product,management requirements,management solutions,management vendors,market leaders,market research,methodology,Microsoft,Mobius,new business,new product,new research,next wave,open architecture,Open Text,Oracle,phrase,platforms,presence,product strategy,records management,Records Management,RedDot (Open Text),relationship management,repository,research analyst,saturation,senior analyst,senior research,software applications,software platform,software vendors,Stellent (Oracle),usability,Vignette,web applications,web content,web content managementCompliance and Governance fuel spending surge in Content ManagementGrowing compliance and governance requirements are fueling a spending surge in enterprise content management (ECM), leading to a 19 percent CAGR that will outpace the overall software market through 2008. Rather than purchasing multiple products to address varying content and usage needs, firms are looking for enterprise content platforms that provide a common set of services. A new report from Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) uses its Forrester Wave(TM) methodology to evaluate ECM vendors' new suite offerings that bundle a number of individual ECM technologies with the needs of IT decision-makers in mind. "The ECM suite market is still emerging as content and infrastructure vendors continue to respond to the needs of IT decision-makers by developing, assembling, or buying point content products," said Forrester senior analyst Kyle McNabb. "Infrastructure vendors are taking advantage of the fact that IT organizations want ECM capabilities within their IT infrastructure portfolio. Pure-play content vendors that can't compete on the infrastructure front will move aggressively into content-centric applications." Forrester evaluated ECM market leaders EMC Documentum, FileNet, Hummingbird, IBM, Interwoven, Microsoft, Mobius Management Systems, Open Text, Oracle, Stellent, and Vignette. Approximately 55 criteria were grouped into three high-level categories: current offering, strategy, and market presence. A combination of vendor surveys, product briefings and demos, and customer reference calls were used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each vendor. Forrester Wave Results Forrester found that IT infrastructure vendors have established early leadership in an evolving market. IBM and EMC Documentum lead the market, although other strong performers and contenders should not be immediately discounted, as they possess differentiating capabilities that may be better suited for specific business needs. Leaders: -- EMC Documentum is a good choice for organizations interested in making ECM an extension of their existing IT information management infrastructure. This vendor seeks to advance its ECM capabilities into a broad information life-cycle management platform. -- IBM's information management strategy and its broad ECM portfolio helped this vendor overcome average scores for its current offering and below-average suite readiness scores. Strong Performers: -- FileNet is a good fit for organizations with high-volume production imaging needs coupled with human-centric BPM requirements. -- Hummingbird benefits from strong document management and a newly acquired WCM product from RedDot Solutions. It is best suited for organizations that need document and Web content management with a focus on end user usability. -- Interwoven offers a broad set of ECM capabilities and excels in Web content management, document management, and digital asset management. This vendor's strategy is focused on meeting organizations' content-centric needs. -- Open Text, through acquisitions, has created a broad ECM suite of capabilities and can expect improvement with a focus on content-centric applications. -- Oracle has limited ECM capability breadth but a strong foundation that appeals to IT decision makers. -- Stellent's high scores in breadth of capabilities, suite readiness, and architecture offset a limited set of extended capabilities like collaboration and business process management. -- Vignette's suite readiness is negatively influenced by lack of common administration and separate repository services for individual products, but it is very suitable for organizations in need of high-performance WCM, high-volume production imaging, and integrated document and records management requirements. Contenders: -- Microsoft has a powerful vision but is late to the game with very limited current capabilities. However, it still has the potential to become a stronger performer in the next few years. -- Mobius works best for organizations with deep archiving and report management requirements, which it complements with basic ECM functionality. www.forrester.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/compliance-and-governance-fuel-spending-surge-content-management-01133740800Content Wireadminacquisitions,application developers,Business,business applications,business content,business users,data services,financial services,global content,menus,new business,new data,new generation,new release,portals,queries,schema,single solution,web applications,web content,web users,XML Drag and Drop Mapping for Content StructuresXyleme Inc. announced the release of Xyleme Application Developer Kit (ADK) 3.4 including a new version of Xyleme Views and the first release of Xyleme Application Builder. The new version of Xyleme Views provides a drag-and-drop mapping interface so that developers can manage diverse content structures, build complex XML queries and generate web applications, without writing any code. The new ADK also includes Xyleme Application Builder, an extension of Xyleme Views. Xyleme Application Builder uses a simple web-based form and drop-down menus to allow technical and non-technical users to generate XML-based queries and applications. In the financial services industry, for example, traders and brokers on a Xyleme platform can now immediately query across multiple systems as if all the data were in a single XML schema, even if trades are stored in myriad data structures. For organizations managing a multitude of diverse legacy systems resulting from mergers and acquisitions, Xyleme Views and Xyleme Application Builder can assimilate diverse content into a single unified view to deliver real-time, global reporting across customers and lines of business. Xyleme will demonstrate Xyleme Views and Xyleme Application Builder in Pavilion Station G. In addition, Xyleme will also demonstrate its new generation Assemble-on-Demand Publishing Solution and its Single-Source Publishing Solution for Technical Documentation and Training. www.xyleme.com <script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-7258139694566163";google_ad_width = 300;google_ad_height = 250;google_ad_format = "300x250_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="";google_color_border = "CC99CC";google_color_bg = "E7C6E8";google_color_link = "000000";google_color_url = "00008B";google_color_text = "663366";</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>http://www.content-wire.com/drag-and-drop-mapping-content-structures1129158000Content Wireadminacquisitions,advertisers,chief executive,Companies,consumer service,content management,email,global provider,global technology,Google,help companies,Internet,internet,People,pharmaceutical,platforms,portal platform,presence,proprietary,proprietary technology,safeguard,Technology,technology companies,technology platform,technology provider,time to market,worldwide marketMSN and Yahoo interoperability for Messenger servicesMSN and Yahoo jointly announced that they are setting up interoperability between their previously separate MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger global instant messaging communities. Logging on to either MSN Messenger or Yahoo Messenger will enable a user to engage in IM sessions with registered users of both communities. Beta testing will commence later this year, with full rollout scheduled for Q2 2006. MSN and Yahoo claim a combined registered user base in excess of 275 million worldwide. What technology is used? The technical implementation is based on SIP/Simple, and involves gateways between the proprietary technology platforms used by MSN and Yahoo. The companies plan to converge towards a common technology platform over time, though no timescale has been given for that. What does this mean for AOL? Might it draw users away? Probably not, in my view. People want to communicate with other people, not with IM brands. If your friend is on AOL, and you want to IM with that friend, then you need to be on AOL too. The interoperability between MSN and Yahoo will not change that. Both MSN and Yahoo acknowledge that their users would like interoperability with AOL, but there are no public plans for that at present. It's worth noting that AOL's attitude to interoperability in the past has been characterised by reluctance at best, and outright hostility at worst. Will it help dent the popularity of Google and its drive to be dominant in the market? In my opinion, the biggest external driver for this announcement must be MSN and Yahoo's mutual need to defend themselves in the long term against Google. Both MSN and Yahoo have big user bases for internet communications services: instant messaging and email. Google is a relatively recent insurgent in these services, but it is clearly determined to grow its presence there aggresively. The most important objective for an internet portal is to make itself attractive to advertisers: the bigger your base of registered users, the bigger is the audience that you can offer to advertisers. By combining their IM user bases, MSN and Yahoo 'raise the bar' that Google would need to clear to establish dominance as an IM provider, to a very high level. How might it impact the VOIP/telecoms industry? This announcement does not involve VoIP. However, both MSN and Yahoo have made recent technology acquisitions (Teleo and Dialpad respectively), in order to develop VoIP services. Although they are currently focusing on IM interoperability, MSN and Yahoo state that interoperability between their VoIP services is also on the roadmap at some future point. It's important to note that this is another area in which they would meet Google head-to-head, owing to the recently announced Google Talk service. However, the impact on telcos is likely to be minor for the foreseeable future, as all these VoIP services are will be used exclusively, or at least predominantly, for PC-to-PC conversations. John Delaney is Principal Analyst, <href="http://www.ovum.com">Ovum Consumer Group</a>http://www.content-wire.com/msn-and-yahoo-interoperability-messenger-services-0