1188823975Content WireDeskacquired,adoption,business content,business information,business opportunities,business solutions,chief executive,content acquisition,content integration,content management,Content Management,content management services,content management software,content management solutions,content management system,content technology,global content,global provider,global technology,gross revenue,information technology,integration software,leading technology,management market,management product,management requirements,management solutions,management technology,new business,new product,new technology,penetration,product integration,prospects,revenue growth,revenue opportunities,SDL,signs,six months,system integration,technology integration,technology provider,technology solutions,translation,translation technology,Tridion,web content,web content management,web content management systemSDL interim results not as bad as expectedTridion contribution of revenue of £3.8m and £1.8m of profit before tax SDL, provider of Global Information Management (GIM) solutions that acquired Content Management company Tridion earlier this year, has announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2007 today. Overall, the results seem to show signs of revenues increase, says the company Highlights include: <ul><li>Results ahead of market expectations </li><li>Gross Margin up 2% points to 52% compared to the first half of 2006 </li><li>Tridion contribution of revenue of £3.8m and £1.8m of profit before tax </li><li>Successful integration of Tridion with encouraging early signs of cross-selling opportunities </li><li>Strengthening of product set with acquisition of Passolo for €2m </li><li>Strong market penetration: SDL supplies technology and/or services to the world’s top 10 brands </li><li>Significant new business wins including Intel, Phillips and Greater London Authority </li></ul> Mark Lancaster, Chairman and Chief Executive of SDL, comments“We are pleased to announce a strong performance for the half year, ahead of market expectations. We continue to see solid organic growth driven by the increased adoption of our technology and a growing awareness of our solutions. In addition, the acquisition of Tridion, a leading web content management software company, has integrated well into SDL, contributing to the growth in the period. “Looking ahead, we remain confident in our prospects for the full year. Overall, we are encouraged by the progress achieved to date and anticipate to see continued growing interest in Global Information Management Solutions. Our newly acquired web content management capability combined with SDL’s Translation Management System, make for a compelling proposition to address the complex requirements of an evolving market place. We anticipate that this combined offering will deliver continued growth in the longer term.” www.sdl.com http://www.content-wire.com/sdl-interim-results-not-bad-expected1185539442Content WireDeskacquired,Companies,direct marketing,entities,financial management,financial services,gross revenue,key industry,management product,management technology,management tools,margins,marketing,natural fit,presence,product strategy,return on investment,revenue growth,search engine,search technology,technology companies,technology provider,turnover,twelve months,unprecedented,unprecedented performance,unprecedented searchTradeDoubler Acquires The Search WorksTradeDoubler has acquired all shares in The IMW Group, which includes The Search Works and those companies trading as The Technology Works TradeDoubler AB announced its acquisition on July 25th of all the issued shares in Interactive Marketing Works Ltd and its subsidiaries (‘The IMW Group’). The purchase price amounts to £56 million. The IMW Group consists of two trading entities, ‘The Search Works’, a well established search engine marketing agency and ‘The Technology Works’, a technology provider for search engine marketing, whose products include ‘BidBuddy®’ - a search management technology. The IMW Group is a profitable and well managed company which has built up a significant client base, including such brand names as Asda, Comet, EasyJet, First Choice, Interflora and The Carphone Warehouse. The Group has a strong reputation within the industry for professionalism and driving return on investment for its clients. The Group was founded in 1999 and currently employs 108 staff. Turnover for the rolling twelve months preceding June 2007 amounted to £69 million and gross profit for the same period was £7.8 million. The acquisition complements and expands TradeDoubler’s existing performance-based product portfolio which includes affiliate marketing, online advertising campaigns, pay-per-call and an online tracking and ad-serving technology. The newly combined offering has great synergies for both TradeDoubler’s and The IMW Group’s client bases. Search engine marketing and affiliate marketing are the largest direct response online marketing channels, with significant growth forecasted in both areas. The Search Works is active in the UK, while The Technology Works has additional presence in Europe and in Asia. TradeDoubler has an extensive presence throughout Europe which spans 18 countries. “Product expansion and further internationalisation are key components in TradeDoubler’s growth strategy. The acquisition addresses both these areas by rolling out The Search Works and The Technology Works throughout Europe and by utilising The Technology Works’ Asian foothold to assess the roll out of TradeDoubler’s product offerings into Asian markets.” says William Cooper, CEO, TradeDoubler. Nick Hynes, CEO, The IMW Group adds, “There is a natural affinity between TradeDoubler’s products and services and the search management technology that we offer. We also believe there is a strong cultural fit between our two organisations. Together we will be able to offer unprecedented online marketing services and tools to a range of clients across Europe and beyond.” TradeDoubler also released its second quarter financial results today and reported strengthened gross profit margins and solid revenue and gross profit performance. Revenues for the period from April to June 2007 increased by 27.9%, compared to the same period in 2006, to reach SEK 512.6 million (approx €56m) and gross profit was up 25.4% to SEK 143 million (approx €15.5)http://www.content-wire.com/tradedoubler-acquires-search-works1174521600Content Wireadminacquired,Business,business development,business partners,business solutions,Consultants,Development,Google,partnership,semantic,StandardsTopic Maps acquisitionBouvet, a Norwegian consulting house of more than 300 consultants, which has had a strong focus on Topic Maps for a number of years, has acquired all shares in Ontopia. "Getting Ontopia's deep Topic Maps competence on board at Bouvet is very exciting for us. It strengthens our ambition to deliver a broad range of Topic Maps-based solutions. Given today's focus on semantic standards the timing is perfect," says Ole-Jørgen Tallaksrud, head of business development at Bouvet. "We were looking for alternative ways to grow, and found Bouvet to be the most attractive option. Bouvet's broad competence complements our own narrower focus very well," says Ontopia's CTO Lars Marius Garshol. "We believe we can achieve much more than we were able to on our own." Employing around 40 consultants building Topic Maps-based solutions, Bouvet acquires all of Ontopia's employees, partners, and customers, as well as the Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS). Ontopia and Bouvet have had a close partnership over many years. The acquisition makes Ontopia part of a much larger entity, with the resources to take the Ontopia vision forward. www.ontopia.net <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/topic-maps-acquisition-01171065600Content Wireadminacquired,advanced technology,architecture,consultancy,consulting firm,content acquisition,content integration,content management,Content Management,content management applications,content management software,content management solution,content management solutions,content management system,content management tools,Content Technologies,content technology,enterprise applications,enterprise content,enterprise content management,enterprise search,environments,Information Management,information technology,initially,integration software,integrations,intelligent content management,knowledge management,Knowledge Management,large enterprises,launch,leading technology,leading the way,look forward,management applications,management consulting,management market,management product,management solutions,management technology,management tools,market opportunity,product integration,search capability,search software,search technology,software applications,system integration,tagging,taxonomy,taxonomy software,Technology,technology integration,technology solutions,text search,time it takes,time to market,user experience,user interfacesTaxonomy Software AcquisitionEarley and Associates, a consultancy firm in information architecture, content management and taxonomy, has acquired Wordmap Limited, a vendor of enterprise taxonomy management software with US offices in Needham, MA, for an undisclosed sum. Wordmap has been a leading vendor of taxonomy solutions since its launch in 2000 Wordmap Incorporated will continue to develop and support the Wordmap range of products, which includes: Wordmap Designer – a system dedicated to the management of enterprise taxonomies. Content Tagger, Intelligent Text Classifier, an advanced statistical text classifier based on Support Vector Machine algorithms. . and Navigator – a tool that takes published taxonomies from Wordmap Designer and converts them into HTML browsing interfaces. Seth Earley, Earley and Associates’ Principal, says: “For some time we have seen Wordmap as a point of technical excellence in this field. Earley and Associates can strengthen that capability with the knowledge and experience we have of designing and compiling taxonomies. Wordmap’s customers have some of the most advanced taxonomy integrations we have seen. They are already using the software in sophisticated and highly granular indexing applications, as well as in search and navigation. Making taxonomies operational in content management and search is a focus for Earley and Associates, and we look forward to working with existing Wordmap customers as well as other large enterprises looking for a holistic approach to taxonomy – a solution rather than just a product.” Bill Hutchison, Wordmap CEO comments: “This is a very exciting opportunity for Wordmap to make the most of its innovative technologies. Our colleagues at Earley and Associates will allow us to bring together an outstanding software product with some of the best taxonomy consulting skills in the market, and these will complement each other and help our customers achieve a much better result, more quickly. Taxonomy is about much more than technology, and we think that we now have the mix of software and skills to make taxonomy work for the enterprise.” Seth adds “An interesting aspect of the Wordmap suite that differentiates it from many products on the market is the integration with content tagging and search. After all is said and done, taxonomies are only useful if they are presented to the user in a meaningful way. Wordmap modules have the ability to do that without a lot of API level coding. The tagging module overcomes many limitations of content management tools in presenting and applying taxonomies for tagging. The navigation module is an easy way to add faceted search (also called guided navigation) without having to acquire additional faceted search tools. In these ways, Wordmap adds value to existing search and content management environments.” www.wordmap.com www.earley.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/taxonomy-software-acquisition-01159830000Content Wireadminacquired,Canada,content acquisition,content management,Content Management,customer relationship management,Hummingbird (Open Text),news sites,Open Text,publishers,share price,virus protectionContent Management Acquisition Deal ClosedOpen Text Corporation and Hummingbird have closed the deal whereby Hummingbird's common shares were acquired by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Open Text, Canada Inc. at a cash price of US$27.85 per share The transaction is valued at approximately USD $489 million and was previously announced by Open Text on August 4, 2006. www.opentext.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/content-management-acquisition-deal-closed1159398000Content Wireadminacquired,aggregation,collaboration,content management,Content Management,content management solution,content management solutions,content management system,content technology,current content,desktops,document management,drug discovery,earnings,email,enterprise content,enterprise content management,Enterprise Web,management solutions,management technology,networking,new technology,one of the few,People,Social Technology,tags,Technology,technology provider,technology solutions,user experience,users experience,Web 2.0,web content,web content management,web content management system,web usersContent Management 2.0 ?<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0>Web 2.0</a> is new stuff that has emerged over the past few years, and that got even mentioned in the <a href=http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=495475> hypecycles</a>. It's all about automating collaboration and interactivity, and enhancing social networking Koral, a provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions for businesses, is making available a free-to-use Content Management solution in that class. By applying the <a href=http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html#mememap"> principles</a> of Web 2.0, Koral aims to deliver an experience that complements the way that users work today. People can rapidly contribute documents to the system directly from their desktops. Koral even claims to analyze content and automatically recommends how to classify it. By replacing complex folder-hierarchies with tags and smart-searching technology, users can quickly find what they’re looking for, subscribe to their favorite topics and receive updates and recommended content via email and RSS feeds. The system also aims to ensure that everyone is working from the most current version of a document. When a user opens a previously downloaded document, the system will alert them if there is a newer version available and – with one click – show them what’s changed compared to their desktop version, says the company. www.koral.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-2-0-01159398000Content Wireadminacquired,adoption,architectures,blog,collaboration,complexity,developer community,email,enterprise applications,enterprise search,enterprise systems,Enterprise Web,extensible,flexibility,functionality,innovation,intranet,love,new research,open source,People,productivity,productivity gains,search software,software applications,software developers,source of information,tagging,usability,user interface,user interfaces,Web 2.0,web applications,web usersWiki Web Services Foster Innovation and SOATraditional enterprise software fails both in the confluence of costs and user demands for unstructured collaboration. Enterprise 2.0 enables users to contribute knowledge in the process of getting things done more efficiently, and revealing emergent structure. Whereas traditional enterprise software only gains 40% adoption according to the Gartner Group (especially compared to the high levels of adoption of email, where 90% of collaboration currently occurs, according to IDC), Enterprise 2.0 builds upon the bottom-up demand for tools that don't get in users' way. SocialText announced the immediate availability of version 2.0 of its solutions -- a simple wiki to adopt, use and extend. Featuring a fundamental redesign of the user interface, Socialtext 2.0 (S2) resolves the complexity that confronts new wiki users while preserving the power of a flexible enterprise tool. S2 also provides Wiki Web Services to support both the Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) of modern enterprises and demand for innovation within Socialtext's open source community. The result is a powerful collaboration and intranet tool, as simple to use as email, but with transparent productivity benefits to the enterprise. "Our usability research revealed that expert users love wikis for their power and flexibility, but new users needed simplicity and orientation," says CEO Ross Mayfield. "At the same time, our developer community demanded more flexible ways to integrate and build upon Socialtext. The solution isn't turning the wiki into yet-another-enterprise-tool, but to raise the bar on what a wiki can be, while making it open and extensible." New wiki users can get overwhelmed with the complexity of understanding interfaces and orienting themselves. S2 simplifies orientation with a personal homepage that serves as a dashboard of activity and interest. The core "Page View" enables full-screen Wikiwyg editing, easy tagging, linking, and file attachments. "What's New" provides sortable lists and search options to find information and people in the wiki. RSS feeds are provided for every page, tag, watchlist, search and wiki. Weblogs enable one-click publishing and communication across projects. Part of Enterprise 2.0 is facilitating SOAs, where web services enable enterprise systems to adapt to an ever-changing environment. S2 includes Wiki Web Services, a collection of SOAP and REST standard APIs. Wiki Web Services enables open source developers to innovate in the language of their choice and mashup wiki functionality with other applications.http://www.content-wire.com/wiki-web-services-foster-innovation-and-soa1158188400Content Wireadminacquired,application developers,application development,broadband services,Business,business content,business development,business logic,business partners,chief executive,content creators,content management,Content Management,content management application,content management capabilities,content management software,creators,Development,development environment,document management,Ektron,functionality,gatekeepers,intranet,intuitive interface,logic,management application,management capabilities,management environment,management functionality,new business,new generation,new release,personalization,Site Executive,software developers,w3c,web content,web content management,web pages,web portal,XML,XML content managementPortal, Personalization and Compliance For Content ManagementEktron, web content management provider, released Ektron CMS400.NET Version 6.1, its all-in-one application for creating, deploying and managing interactive web, intranet and extranet sites. “We continually ask our customers and partners what they want their websites to do, and this CMS400.NET release reflects functionality they’ve been looking for,” said Bill Rogers, founder and chief executive officer, Ektron. “They want their web developers to be able to easily set up a site with out-of-the-box functionality, and if needed, extend it with their own custom business logic. They want their content creators to be comfortable in the authoring environment with intuitive features and seamlessly integrated document management. And finally, they want their site visitors to have a great experience with user-customized pages and content that is accessible by everyone. ”New and enhanced capabilities in Ektron CMS400.NET Version 6.1 include:- Personalization and portal support – - Broken Link Checker – - eWebEditPro+XML Version 5.0 with 508 & W3C Compliance Checker – - Integrated document management – - Software development kit (SDK) – Ektron’s second generation Application Programming Interface (API) and new Event Handler simplifies CMS400.NET development and extension. A new Visual Studio extension integrates directly into Visual Studio’s template library for quick access. www.ektron.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/portal-personalization-and-compliance-content-management1156978800Content Wireadminacquired,application developers,CMS,content management,Content Management,content management application,content management solutions,content management systems,creating a website,Drupal,Information Management,infrastructure,knowledge management,Knowledge Management,management application,management environment,management solutions,next generation,open source,Open Source Content Management Systems,People,portals,source of information,submission Open Source CMS GuidebookContent Management Systems (CMS) are becoming increasingly popular thanks to the variety of solutions that require no coding skills to upload and manage website content. Many prefer to use open-source CMS that can be downloaded for free without obligation. But all CMS require some degree of technical knowledge, and open source ones are often unsupported Many users, independently from their technical background, may need to go through a learning curve if they want to get hands on the application, especially if they want to install and use the most advanced features. There are different ways to go about it. The most common is to start working as part of the developers community, sign up for the forum and get involved. Get your hands dirty. Most developers and users learn as they go, and their main user guide is the documentation to be found on the relevant websites. That is generally the most comprehensive and up to date source of user information. Some however, especially beginners and non tech people, may still need the support of a manual printed on paper. Not many Open Source CMS have their own book on paper. Drupal is a popular CMS that has been around for a number of years, and recently its 4.7 version was released. The book entitled "Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites" written by David Mercer, published by PACKT is actually a physical publication, that guides users through the installation and configuration of Drupal in a Windows environment (because it is expected that the Linux community are sorted out already). More and more people, irrespective of their roles and background, are learning about open source CMS. This book may be right for them. Thirathep Chonmaitree an IT lecturer and would be Drupal adept downloaded the application and used the book as a guide to help him along. He answers some of our questions:http://www.content-wire.com/open-source-cms-guidebook1156114800Content 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-emarketing1154473200Content 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-tools1154473200Content Wireadminacquired,assets,broadband,broadband services,consumers,enterprise portals,Google,Internet,internet,market research,market research firm,new business,personalization,portals,proportion,recent research,research analyst,research firm,video content,video services,worldwide marketContent Aggregators Move Beyond Online TelevisionAlthough Online Content Aggregators are in the early experimentation stages of rolling out video services, they will have some dramatic revenue-generating opportunities in the next five years, reports In-Stat. The worldwide market for online content services is expected to expand by a factor of 10, growing from about 13 million households during 2005 to more than 131 million households by 2010, the high-tech market research firm says. "AOL, Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Apple, major Broadcast TV networks, Pay-TV services and local TV stations are all working on ways to blend their video assets with personalized TV services," says Gerry Kaufhold, In-Stat analyst. "The future of television is slowly being defined online, where the big Internet portals are finding ways to blend professional video with their high-touch services that follow consumers from screen to screen during the course of a typical day." Among the recent research findings: - Worldwide broadband households will more than double between 2005 and 2010, growing from about 194 million in 2005 to more than 413 million by 2010. - Of all broadband households today, 12.8% are already regularly viewing professional content via Online Content Aggregators. - Traditional broadcast TV networks are finally figuring out that they need to capitalize on "all this personalization stuff" or they will have deep trouble ahead. - The Pay-TV services have realized that personalization is the trend for the future, and they won't be left behind while TV keeps expanding onto the Internet The research, "Online Content Aggregators – AOL, Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Apple – Slowly Defining the Future of Television" (#IN0602973CM), covers the worldwide market for online video services. It examines the growing number of consumer households connected to high-speed, broadband Internet connections. www.in-stat.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/content-aggregators-move-beyond-online-television-01153868400Content Wireadminacquired,analytics,Business,business intelligence,business solutions,content management solution,data management,Data Management,government agencies,integration costs,integration software,intelligence,management market,management requirements,management solutions,management tools,market leaders,marketplace,optimistic,portal solutions,project management,protocol,system integrationValue Management AcquisitionDeltek, provider of enterprise management software for project-focused organizations, has acquired C/S Solutions, a producer of business intelligence tools for the earned value management (EVM) marketplace. The acquisition of C/SSI extends Deltek's lead in the enterprise project management sector by incorporating powerful EVM analytics delivered by C/SSI's Insight software with Deltek's own advanced EVM engine, Deltek Cobra - creating the a complete industry-leading EVM solution. C/SSI wInsight is regarded as the established standard for government agencies in analyzing EVM data from federal contractors, while Cobra is the leading system for managing project costs, measuring earned value, and analyzing budgets, actuals and forecasts. wInsight enables government contractors and agencies to increase their effectiveness in meeting mandated federal project portfolio management (PPM) and EVM requirements, while providing superior integration between wInsight and Cobra. C/SSI customers include virtually every aerospace and defense contractor, including market leaders such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon. The acquisition will add more than 500 customers to Deltek's existing base of 11,000 clients, including several federal agencies.http://www.content-wire.com/value-management-acquisition-01153263600Content Wireadminacquired,blog,content management,Content Management,content management services,content management system,enterprise content,enterprise content management,enterprise search,Enterprise Web,flexibility,Information Management,new release,web content,web content management,web content management system,word processingContent Management: Movable Type New ReleaseSix Apart released the new version of its blogging tool and announced availability of Movable Type Enterprise Movable Type 3.3 and Movable Type Enterprise new features include: * Tag Support and feeds: Discover posts and subscribe to feeds by topic * Widget Manager: Rearrange page content by drag-and-drop, and integrate with third-party services * Transformer Plugins: Remix the entire Movable Type interface by using simple, free plugins * Activity Feeds: Manage your entire blog, its comments and TrackBacks, and get information on your blog’s status with customizable feeds for administrators * Style Catcher: Choose flexible designs without editing any HTML * Enhanced Task Scheduling: System or plugin actions can be automated and performed at scheduled times, without complicated setup or configuration. * Enhanced Activity Log: Every action in the system is recorded for administrators, and results can easily be filtered or exported for reporting * Flexible URL Archiving: Ultimate control over your blog publishing, letting you choose the web address for all of your content to optimize for search engines. www.sixapart.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/content-management-movable-type-new-release-0