Quark Inc. announced that it has acquired the assets of In.vision Research Corporation, a Florida-based software company that develops add-in to Microsoft Word for XML authoring. In addition, this acquisition will enable Quark to support Microsoft Word users within all types of workflows, both desktop and enterprise. In.vision initially partnered with Quark to supply Xpress Author for Microsoft Word, which helps authors already familiar with Microsoft Word to easily create reusable XML content for Quark's Publishing Solution. As part of this acquisition, Quark also gains products that support industry standards such as DITA (widely used for documentation) and SPL (Structured Product Labeling, an initiative of the U.S. FDA), which helps Quark access other markets and applications. http://www.quark.com/invision
Cynapse announed the release of Cyn.in v2, open source collaborative knowledge management software. cyn.in manages, secures, tracks and organically structures a content base of files, documents, digital media and any free form content. Cyn.in's content workflows, rules and role based granular security works in compliance with existing business processes and collaboration methodologies. cyn.in enables enterprises to setup collaboration work spaces for employees, business partners, and customers. These workspaces encompass various collaborative applications like wikis, blogs, file sharing repositories, shared event calendars, image galleries and more. cyn.in allows users to create digital content and share it with peers. cyn.in's live search, categorization and interlinking features help users to find relevant content quickly. Key Features of cyn.in include: Collaborative applications like Wikis, Blogs, File Repositories, Galleries, Event Calendars, Link Directories & Discussions; Enterprise class Content Management capabilities including customizable workflows, rules engine with definable actions on triggers, version control & bulk management; Live Search displays results as you type, filtering out results on-the-fly to display accurate knowledge results; Smart views allow users to create perspective oriented views of any content based on multiple filtering criteria; XML-based APIs allow extensibility and integration into existing systems. http://cyn.in
WebTrends Inc. and SDL Tridion have introduced WebTrends Enabler, tagging code that streamlines the integration of their marketing technologies. The WebTrends Enabler lets marketers drag and drop the tracking code onto their web sites using modular templates, a streamlined approach to template design and management. The code enables the WebTrends Marketing Lab suite to monitor the sites and feed customer results and other insights into SDL Tridion solutions. The suite provides measurement, multidimensional analytics, online search optimization and other online marketing resources. The new collaborative offering grew out of SDL Tridion's participation in WebTrends Open Exchange, the marketing solutions network that unites WebTrends Marketing Lab with solutions for ad serving, content management, customer relationship management, e-mail marketing, enterprise campaign management, site search, targeting and optimization, user experience, web site monitoring and other marketing applications. http://www.webtrends.com
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XyEnterprise announced version 4.0 of Contenta, its content management software. Contenta 4.0 provides support for Microsoft SQL Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Contenta 4.0 includes support upgrades to Oracle 10.2, several web-based technologies and Autonomy's IDOL K2 Enterprise Search software. XyEnterprise has supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the company's publishing software, XML Professional Publisher (XPP). In addition to these enhancements to Contenta, XyEnterprise now offers support for organizations that use virtual software to manage their Contenta environments. Enhancements to the checkout/checkin options for graphics and other binary file types will help users update and manage those object types more efficiently. Users will be able to work with multiple graphics at once, simplifying previously tedious tasks. In addition, Contenta 4.0 gives greater visibility into the object status by indicating states like read-only, locked and available. In Contenta 4.0, XyEnterprise also added a graphical and editable workflow to Contenta Web, a web-based user interface. This client is an alternative to the desktop client and is unique to Contenta. The ability to create and manage workflows, is the final feature that rounds out the Contenta Web offering. http://www.xyenterprise.com/
Daybreak Intellectual Capital Solutions, Inc., a provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software and consulting services announced the launch of its new partner alliance and channel program called the Daybreak ESP program. The Daybreak ESP program is designed to engage all types of partners, delivering resources and benefits that align with each partner's business model and relationship with Daybreak. The Daybreak ESP program includes partner enablement and support, market/opportunity development, deal registration, and discounts on eCapture Suite software. The program objective is to help partners develop new and complementary revenue streams that capture a piece of the growing distributed capture market. To help kick off partner recruitment efforts for the ESP program, Daybreak is promoting its eCapture LaunchPad incentive, which provides accelerated discount levels for any partners who sign up by 8/31/2008. http://www.daybreakICS.com
Day Software announced the general availability of Day Content Repository Extreme (CRX) v1.4. The latest version of Day's product enables the storage, management and exchange of content across large-scale enterprises. Day CRX v1.4 was designed for large-scale enterprise production environments. The product is a packaged, commercial version of Apache Jackrabbit. Day CRX 1.4 manages both structured and unstructured content, enabling content-centric business applications to take advantage of the repository's content services, and flexible and extensible content storage. Day's technologies allow companies to access information about their specific businesses, processes, products, customers and documents, which were previously 'locked' in proprietary repositories. http://www.day.com
JustSystems announced that it has successfully completed testing of xfy (pronounced 'x-fye'), its document-based composite application for the IBM Retail Integration Framework. xfy serves as a management interface, providing retailers optimal management and decision support through real-time views of data in underlying applications and repositories. xfy Helps IBM Deliver Real-Time Visualization of SOA IBM Retail Integration Framework utilizes open standards, including Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS), Open Application Group Integration (OAGIS) and Global Standards (GS1), to unlock communications between services, information sources, and business processes, making the store and the retail enterprise one seamless landscape rather than disconnected islands. xfy, among the first solutions to take advantage of IBM's DB2 pureXML, unifies and processes data from multiple sources within a simple and intuitive document interface. The Retail Integration Framework initiative brings together platform- independent software vendors that deliver proven solutions designed and built for the retail industry. Through this initiative, IBM works with select IBM Business Partners to validate solutions that meet a rigorous assessment of next-generation, open-standards-based store environments. xfy provides an end-user interface that unifies and processes data from multiple sources into a clear, contextually-rich document interface. xfy connects directly to the native information sources that drive the retail environment, allowing the data processing to be done within the document itself and providing a real- time view of information. http://www.justsystems.com/
Open Text Corporation announced the acquisition of eMotion LLC from Corbis Corporation. The eMotion division will become part of Open Text's Artesia Digital Media Group. The acquisition gives Artesia a broader portfolio of offerings for marketing departments and advertising agencies, adding capabilities that complement its enterprise marketing asset management solution, Artesia DAM. The move will extend Open Text's digital media capabilities as part of its Enterprise 2.0 strategy. eMotion is headquartered in Seattle and has a team based in Virginia. Open Text purchased the division for approximately $5 million, net of cash and assets, effective July 2, 2008. It is currently anticipated that the financial terms and future impact of the acquisition will not have a material effect on future financial results of Open Text. http://www.opentext.com
The Imaging Source, the manufacturer of TX Text Control, has announced version 14.0. The latest version of TX Text Control now offers ISO ratified format as one of its many supported file formats. In addition to the new XML based MS Word format, legacy Word formats, such as Word 97 and 2003, Rich Text Format (RTF) and HTML are also supported. Furthermore, Adobe PDF documents can be created and saved. TX Text Control 14 has been optimized for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, supports the newest .NET framework 2.0 and 3.5 and ships in 64 bit and 32 bit versions for all current Windows editions. After a long development cycle, the word processing components now has a number of new features: Document sections with various page formats and different headers and footers are supported. MS Word formatted documents and templates, which contain mail-merge fields can be created. All the typical fields of Microsoft's Office packet are now supported by TX Text Control as default. The server functionality has also been extended to include the new MailMerge component, with which MS Word templates can be populated with data from a database. This allows print-ready documents to be created on the server. The server version of TX Text Control ships with a freely distributable template designer. http://www.textcontrol.com/news/versions/1400/
LSI Corporation announced the expansion of its offering to include content processing solutions for the Microsoft Silverlight platform. Initially based on video acceleration technology, the offering will now include the LSI Tarari family of content processor solutions. This family is a comprehensive set of solutions providing security, quality of service, content-based billing and bandwidth management functions. The addition of these hardware acceleration technologies enhances Silverlight to provide networking, storage, audio and video capabilities in various Microsoft operating systems as well as for Linux and the Mac OS. LSI solutions will provide additional security to enterprise and content creators while enhancing system performance with the Silverlight platform. Previously, LSI adapted its deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to create a deep frame inspection (DFI) capability. Now, Microsoft customers can take full advantage of the content processing capability as well. While DPI looks for viruses and intrusive code in packets, DFI examines each frame of video to calculate what has changed from the previous frame. The combined result is a compressed video stream. Web developers now can design new applications that efficiently include secured video content that can be merged with live data to create a layered application of multiple data types. The implementation of LSI technology in Silverlight enables acceleration of the underlying Microsoft Windows Media codec while maintaining secure video quality for standard or high definition output on a compliant, production ready, Windows Media VC-1-based codec software development kit (SDK) platform. http://www.lsi.com/
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