Content migration can mean many different things to different organizations. Yet regardless of the origin of the content and where it's moving from and to, there's no disputing the fact that most organizations have a lot of content. And as their business plans and processes evolve, a migration of that content into a new system is often a necessity.
Posted Mar 17, 2011
Eccentex Corp. will introduce its Glen Schrank as its new CEO, as well as its PaaS (platform-as-a-service) AppBase at the upcoming AIIM on March 21. The company's AppBase platform allows organizations to design, develop, and deliver cloud business apps.
Posted Mar 15, 2011
Demandware, Inc., announced the release of a new Demandware Commerce platform, which features enhanced product content management capabilities, available this spring. The new functionality aims to aid merchants in preparing product information, creating a brand image, and delivering to consumers across multiple channels, applications, and devices.
Posted Mar 15, 2011
Information management and data recovery firm Kroll Ontrack released Ontrack PowerControls version 6.1, an enhancement that gives users the ability to open and read SharePoint 2010 data, as well as connect to SharePoint 2010 targets. Ontrack PowerControls 6.1 provides complete support for the SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010 environment, as well as support for several versions of Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5.
Posted Mar 10, 2011
North Plains, LLC, provider of digital asset management, announced that it has received a growth equity investment provided by Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity investment firm. The investment will be used to fund continued growth and expansion, and to further capitalize the business to support its existing customer base, generating a global company focused on rich media management.
Posted Mar 08, 2011
Data sharing and making effective use of information are two of the main challenges of modern police work. When the Memphis Police Department began looking for ways to improve its fight against violent crime, it recognized that simply deploying additional police officers was not the answer. Instead, the department began looking for a more elegant and cost-effective solution. The MPD needed a way to sift through the available data and discover insights that could guide the deployment of its large force of uniformed officers.
Posted Mar 03, 2011
Sherpa Software, a provider of e-discovery and information management solutions, made available Sherpa Software Mail Attender version 4.7 for Microsoft Exchange environments. This new release of Sherpa's email content management software improves management capabilities for Exchange 2010 desktop PST files, letting administrators automatically scan PST files located on user desktops to determine the owner of the PST data and report on it.
Posted Mar 03, 2011
AuraPortal, a provider of business process management (BPM) tools, announced the upcoming launch of its Content Management Module as part of the AuraPortal Business Management Platform. The module is integrated with the rest of applications that make up the platform, including the Business Process Management and Business Rules System, Document Management, Customer Relationship Management, and Online Commerce.
Posted Mar 03, 2011
Visible Technologies has enhanced its Visible Intelligence platform, enabling businesses to make more accurate decisions based on data gathered from social media. According to Kelly Pennock, the CEO of Visible Technologies, the new platform "aggregates social media content...enhances it with business focused analytics, and then enables its distribution."
Posted Mar 01, 2011
Simple Software announced the latest version of its document scanning and indexing application, SimpleIndex 7. This release will include the ABBYY FineReader 9 OCR engine, and will allow users to view up to nine pages at once during ISIS scanning, to convert files to PDF, and to capture OCR data even on unstructured documents, among other features.
Posted Mar 01, 2011
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is improving the Tiki Trackers feature, which is designed to provide a simpler, user-friendly experience when creating structured content in Tiki. The CMS application uses browser-based configuration to create custom forms, images, dates, files, and custom lists, so no coding is required.
Posted Mar 01, 2011
Socialtext has announced an updated release of its social software platform that focuses on connecting employees with the relevant colleagues, information and systems that drive their business. It aims to deliver analytics that assist IT departments in managing the platform, in addition to an intranet infrastructure that promotes the sharing of information. Employees can use the software to communicate, access content and rich media, and create a personalized intranet homepage called a dashboard.
Posted Mar 01, 2011
DotNetNuke Corp. has acquired Active Modules, one of the providers of ecommerce and social collaboration solutions for the DotNetNuke platform, in order to increase the functionality of DotNetNuke. The acquisition will provide more features to current DotNetNuke users, including the Active Forums, Active Social, and Active Purchase modules.
Posted Mar 01, 2011
CollabTrends.com launched its eponymous website, which is dedicated to analyzing the advantages of business collaboration. The site is designed to promote and examine the advancement and benefits of knowledge management and sharing, providing users with articles, studies, white papers, technology updates, customer solution stories, and surveys. CollabTrends.com is driven by Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and sponsored by Hitachi Consulting.
Posted Feb 24, 2011
The Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware project is releasing Tiki 6.2, which includes a variety of fixes and updates. The release comprises more than 240 code contributions from Tiki Community members; full release notes for the upgrade are available through the Tiki development website.
Posted Feb 24, 2011
No discussion on content management product selection is complete before the topic of "suites" versus "best of breed" comes up. Almost everyone wants to know which route they should take. Unfortunately, it is seldom as simple as choosing one route over the other. It's one of those questions that unfortunately requires the far less satisfying response: "It depends ..."
Posted Feb 23, 2011
The Drupal Associationand community announced the general availability of Drupal 7, the not-for-profit organization's latest web content management platform. Drupal is an open source content management platform already in use by millions of sites, such as WhiteHouse.gov and Warner Media Group. Drupal 7 includes a variety of user experience improvements and is already in use by sites such as Examiner.com.
Posted Feb 17, 2011
Translations.com, a provider of language services and translation-related technologies, is releasing the latest version of its localization management suite, GlobalLink 4.0. GlobalLink lets organizations quickly translate, review, and deploy any multilingual content online or offline. The latest release matches GlobalLink's modular design to an improved user interface and a flexible application architecture
Posted Feb 17, 2011
Magnolia, an open source content management vendor, announced that it has picked Vaadin web framework as the basis for the new user interface for Magnolia 5.0. The new user interface will employ next-generation technology that cuts development time by partners and Java developers by up to 50%.
Posted Feb 15, 2011
Webnodes AS, a company developing an ASP.NET based semantic content management system, announced full support for OData in the newest release of their CMS. In the latest version of Webnodes CMS, there's built-in support for creating OData feeds. OData, also called the Open Data Protocol is an open protocol for sharing content. Content is shared using tried and tested web standards, and makes it easy to access the information from a variety of applications, services, and stores.
Posted Feb 15, 2011
SoleraTec LLC, a provider of video lifecycle management and storage software solutions, has partnered with Cohu Electronics of Poway, CA, to provide compatibility and interoperability between the two firms' products. Cohu Electronics produces the Helios family of RTSP-enabled IP video surveillance cameras, which is now fully supported by SoleraTec's Phoenix RSM surveillance video management software.
Posted Feb 10, 2011
Outliner software MemoMaster is releasing its latest version, MemoMaster 4. MemoMaster lets users store important facts in a modern knowledge database that functions similarly to a file cabinet. Users can store texts, pictures, or PDFs, and can also import e-mails. Users can also create Memos by using the internal Word-compatible word processing or the Excel-compatible spreadsheet processing feature.
Posted Feb 10, 2011
Carousel Industries, which develops data networking and unified communications products, signed a letter of intent to acquire the assets of Marlborough, MA-based OmniPresence, Inc. OmniPresence, which integrates audio-visual and visual collaboration services, will form the basis for Carousel's Visual Communications and Collaboration Group once the acquisition is completed.
Posted Feb 10, 2011
Interact, a supplier in intelligent intranet software, announced it has entered into an agreement to join the Rackspace Partner Programme with Rackspace Hosting, a specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry.This agreement will enable Interact to provide its customers with a fast and reliable secure intranet solution hosted by Rackspace. The use of hosted software has become a sensible option for many businesses and offers a great alternative to a network based application. Hosting enables access to the intranet anywhere, anytime via a web browser which enhances collaboration opportunities for distributed or remote users. It also reduces pressure on limited in-house IT resources as there is no software to deploy or servers to maintain.
Posted Feb 08, 2011
With continued focus on its role as an industry-leading provider of cloud storage access solutions, Gladinet has released Cloud Desktop 3.0 with file sync, significant enhancements in usability, and performance.Cloud Desktop now adds file synchronization across multiple PCs by leveraging any cloud storage service. It adds file sync with Google Docs, Amazon S3, AT&T Synaptic Storage, OpenStack, Mezeo, EMC Atmos, Windows Azure, and others.
Posted Feb 08, 2011