Online video platform vzaar announced a new video player branding tool, which allows users to design customized players. Developers and creative marketers can now add any image to the players, and edit the video player's parameters, including color, controls, links, and size, to alter the way it appears and functions.
Posted Jun 21, 2011
The Library of Congress collaborated with the Facing Change: Documenting America photography group to archive and publish a new documentary photography project. Work from the Farm Security Administration, a federal project that documented the American experience of the Great Depression and World War II across all economic levels, will now be available through the Library of Congress.
Posted Jun 21, 2011
Founded in 1873, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is one of the oldest zoos in the United States and a National Historic Landmark. When the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden became aware of a shift in its attendance patterns, it knew it had to gather and analyze data on these changing trends in order to be able to adjust its strategies to be prepared for the future. Zoo staff examined a variety of different software suites and packages before choosing IBM and its Cognos business intelligence platform.
Posted Jun 21, 2011
North Plains, LLC, announced version 9 of its Digital Asset Management platform TeleScope, a release that focuses on building and managing digital asset ecosystems. TeleScope 9 securely connects users and allows them to work on and distribute digital content.
Posted Jun 09, 2011
Acquia, a commercial open source social publishing solution for Drupal, partnered with Engine Yard to offer a fully managed cloud solution for Drupal and Ruby on Rails. The cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) partnership is aimed at combining open source web content management with custom web application development to accelerate development of social websites for Drupal and RoR.
Posted Jun 09, 2011
Learn It Live, an online network to give professional instructors and institutions a simple e-learning solution, announced the availability of its flagship Learn It Live service. The service is provided without cost to instructors, although instruction is restricted to select experts with a proven track record of excellence and who are generally authorized to provide certifications, continuing education credits, and accredited courses.
Posted Jun 09, 2011
Jahia, a provider of open source CMS solutions, announced the commercial release of Jahia 6.5, which benefits enterprises by bridging web, portal, social, search, mobile, and content management within a single composite platform, with no coding involved. Jahia 6.5 combines PHP and Java frameworks to build user-centric, content rich applications that include any enterprise and web content.
Posted Jun 07, 2011
Cabinet NG (CNG), announced enhancements to document management and workflow management software CNG-WEB, which makes CNG-SAFE more convenient and flexible. CNG-SAFE is document filing software that lets users scan, import, drag- and-drop, print-to, or save-as to input documents safely and securely, and users can also create new documents within the filing structure.
Posted Jun 07, 2011
The term "cloud computing" has become ubiquitous in the IT world. It has stretched out into the rest of the business world too, becoming one of the hottest buzzwords in recent memory. Some believe with a passion that all IT and data will ultimately reside in "the cloud." Others take a more nuanced view.
Posted May 30, 2011
EPiServer, a provider of software platforms that drive online engagement, conducted a survey of more than 100 companies at the Web 2.0 Expo that revealed that 34 percent of the respondents said that personalized campaigns have delivered "highly effective and measurable ROI," while 14 percent had seen "better response rate than mass-market" delivery methods such as print, TV, and newspaper advertising.
Posted May 26, 2011
Alkacon released the Alkacon OpenCMS Enterprise Extensions, commercial extensions that offer support for LDAP, clustering, replication and improved performance in the open source web content management system OpenCms. The latest OCEE release version 3.0 is a compatibility update to work with the new OpenCms 8.
Posted May 26, 2011
RingCube Technologies, a provider of personalization solutions for virtual desktops, announced the general availability of vDesk v 4.0. vDesk v.4.0 is a new enterprise desktop virtualization solution that expands an organization's virtual desktop user base and enables faster and more efficient VDI rollouts.
Posted May 19, 2011
The second beta release of Tiki 7 has been added to the Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware and is available for download. It incorporates updated fixes reported during the first beta release of Tiki 7. Tiki 7 contains added features and hundreds of fixes for problems reported in the last version, Tiki 6.0.
Posted May 17, 2011
Traction Software introduced TeamPage version 5.2, which offers project dashboards that display activity streams and workflow from any TeamPage space or context. Users can zoom in to see a project's task status, edits, and discussion, or zoom out to see the broad view of business activities, content navigation, and search.
Posted May 17, 2011
OpenCMS 8 was made available for download, developed by Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the international OpenCMS developer community. OpenCMS 8 is a major release that prominently features an improved user interface and an "Advanced Direct Edit" mode, which allows content managers to create page content through drag and drop. The new sitemap editor allows lets users create new pages and rearrange the navigation tree.
Posted May 12, 2011
Workshare, a provider of document collaboration software, released Workshare Compare Server 5.23, an upgrade to the company's server-based document collaboration solution. The updated version provides support for additional output file formats for comparison and can be used with a company's existing enterprise content management system or Microsoft SharePoint. The solution is designed to streamline document approval processes by identifying and reviewing a summary of the document changes, rather than going page by page to review each change.
Posted May 12, 2011
Software development and technology firm Systems Alliance released Enhancement Pack 1 (EP1) for SiteExecutive 2011, a software update for the company's flagship CMS. EP1 introduces a new social media module that eases integration with and consumption of content from Facebook and Twitter, while also including updates to a number of other modules and core CMS functions.
Posted May 12, 2011
Discovery has never been a simple process for organizations, even in the "old days" when discovery generally entailed gathering piles of documents into large boxes and wading through them by hand. Information long ago evolved from print documents to electronic formats, which has created challenges and opportunities.
Posted May 11, 2011
GSX announced the v.10 release of the GSX Monitor & Analyzer, which supports Microsoft SharePoint collaboration and an array of Microsoft Exchange facilities. GSX v.10 for SharePoint features monitoring of key services and components, monitoring of site availability and response times, and reporting on site usage, indexer workload, and catalog statistics.
Posted May 10, 2011
pTools, a Dublin-based web content management (WCM) provider, launched a new cloud-based version of its software, pTools System6. The software offers customers an enterprise level environment that's all ready for development, which is achievable because cloud computing offers scalability at lower costs.
Posted May 10, 2011
Motive Systems announced a new version of its M-Files Cloud Vault, a cloud-based document management service, that runs natively on the Windows Azure cloud platform. The Cloud Vault is reportedly the first document managing solution running on Azure, which provides the functionality to build consumer web apps as well as enterprise solutions.
Posted May 10, 2011
Cabinet NG announced the latest version of CNG-SAFE 7.0, which offers scheduling, document management, and workflow management capabilities. Before the release, previous versions only offered document and workflow management, and users had to manage scheduling in a separate system. In CNG-SAFE 7.0, the embedded scheduling tool allows schedules to be assigned at the cabinet, folder, and document levels.
Posted May 10, 2011
Colligo Networks and AvePoint successfully completed integration and compatibility testing of their SharePoint product suites, Colligo Contributor and the DocAve Software Platform. The Colligo Contributor suite helps drive SharePoint adoption by letting users easily access, capture, and tag SharePoint content from popular desktop applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Windows Explorer.
Posted May 05, 2011
DAM provider North Plains, LLC. is launching four new industry partnerships geared towards helping corporate marketing organizations create and use rich media content like video, graphics, and images across their organizations. The partnerships expand the utility and function of North Plains TeleScope digital asset management platform, and include the Aprimo marketing studio, the Equilibrium rich media delivery server, Front Porch Digital's archive and storage platform, and general support for HP infrastructure.
Posted May 05, 2011
Syncsort, a data integration developer, announced that it plans to contribute an external sort plug-in to the Hadoop open source distributed application project. The plug-in will help accelerate MapReduce process and improve performance on Hadoop's benchmarks.
Posted May 05, 2011