Open Text announced plans to embed Oracle technology in its enterprise content products, expanding its relationship with the business software and hardware systems company. Specifically, Open Text is obtaining a technology and distribution license for the Oracle Universal Online Archive Content Management SDK, which will allow Open Text to fully make use of the capabilities of Oracle Database 11g as an enterprise content repository.
Posted Nov 09, 2010
Regardless of where they work and who they are, all employees have valuable knowledge to give and receive. That knowledge is perhaps one of the most important assets an organization can possess. Companies are increasingly recognizing the value of that knowledge, and how leveraging collaborative tools integrated with knowledge capture can not only streamline complex business processes but also provide valuable insight organizations can use today and tomorrow.
Posted Nov 09, 2010
BGRI's mission hinges on its ability to share knowledge with participants around the world. As an active research community, it needed a knowledge-sharing solution that would let individual participants publish and update information independent of the larger organizational hierarchy, while still maintaining certain administrative standards.
Posted Nov 08, 2010
Open Text Corp. acquired StreamServe, Inc., which Open Text reports will supply the Open Text ECM Suite with complementary document output and customer communication management software. In addition, Open Text's reach will be extended in the Nordic market while also enhancing its SAP partnership.
Posted Nov 02, 2010
ADAM Software and Van Gennep - Media Automation Consulting BV announced plans to develop seamless integration of their software systems to meet modern workflow requirements. The companies hope the collaboration will produce an easily deployed platform for digital asset management, business process management, and multi-channel publishing workflows.
Posted Oct 28, 2010
Microsoft Corp. announced three European research partnerships designed to support the European research community with access to cloud computing resources and technical support. The company is launching partnerships with Europe's VENUS-C (Virtual Multidisciplinary EnviroNments USing Cloud Infrastructures) consortium, France's INRIA (National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), and with the U.K.'s University of Nottingham Horizon Institute.
Posted Oct 28, 2010
IntraLinks, a provider of critical information exchange solutions, introduced IntraLinks for Corporate Legal Management, an expanded suite of solutions providing general counsels and corporate legal teams with tools to manage their increased responsibilities throughout the enterprise.
Posted Oct 28, 2010
Attivio's has announced its AIE for SharePoint Integration, a platform that combines diverse information sources in a universal index and links entities from SharePoint and other content to relevant data. AIE also includes search features such as relevancy profiles, document classification, and clustering, as well as text analytics, sentiment analysis, and statistical entity extraction.
Posted Oct 28, 2010
VBrick Systems announced that the United States Department of Justice purchased its recently released IP streaming video integration for Microsoft's Lync (formerly known as Office Communicator) and SharePoint products. The integration allows users to communicate via streaming video using these Microsoft products, allowing for a more unified communications experience.
Posted Oct 26, 2010
Image Fortress and Masterpiece Marketing Group (MMG), as part of a joint venture, have launched Advanced Image Archiving (AIA), a digital image archiving service for use with large collections of photographs. The service is aimed at newspapers, magazines, universities, museums, and other owners of large or unique image collections.
Posted Oct 26, 2010
IBM acquired Clarity Systems, a developer of financial governance software. IBM reports that this acquisition will extend its business analytics initiatives and expand its portfolio of business analytics software.
Posted Oct 26, 2010
ADAM Software announced the opening of its first US-based office, which the company hopes will further increase its ability to compete in the global DAM market. Dagbert Sansen has been appointed to the position of US Sales Manager for ADAM Software and will helm the office. He previously worked as sales manager for the Americas & Africa for Meucci Solutions, Ghent.
Posted Oct 21, 2010
Intranet Connections released the newest version of its intranet 2.0 CMS platform, which is designed to reduce administration overhead for intranet managers and simplify the design of site navigation. Intranet Connections version 10.5 is geared towards small and medium size businesses looking for SharePoint-like functionality without the price tag or management overhead.
Posted Oct 21, 2010
Microsoft Corp. has announced Microsoft Office 365, which brings together Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online in an always-up-to-date cloud service. With Office 365, people can work together from anywhere on virtually any device, while collaborating with others inside and outside their organization. As part of today's news, Microsoft is also opening a limited beta program for Office 365 in 13 countries and regions; it is expected to be available worldwide next year.
Posted Oct 21, 2010
As of this writing, it's impossible to escape daily news about the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Amid all this news, there is one term we haven't yet heard that will have a large role in this saga as it plays out: e-discovery, which refers to the pretrial action in a lawsuit where parties can request or compel digital documents as evidence.
Posted Oct 19, 2010
EBSCO Publishing and the American Psychological Association (APA) have forged an agreement through which rich APA content will appear on the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The APA resources that will appear on EDS are PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, and PsycCRITIQUES.
Posted Oct 19, 2010
Canto announced new mobile apps, based on its Cumulus service, for iOS, Android, and BlackBerry mobile devices. The suite of apps, named SuduS, allows Cumulus users to access files, production status updates, and catalogs remotely.
Posted Oct 19, 2010
Bitrix, Inc. launched new Enterprise 2.0 features for Bitrix Intranet Portal, which the company says are aimed helping HR executives attain more effective team management and employee engagement. Among the key features of Bitrix Intranet Portal are rich social networking, an integrated SCORM-compatible e-learning function, and an integration with Microsoft Outlook.
Posted Oct 19, 2010
The volumes of information now at the fingertips of companies and enterprises present unique challenges, not only in terms of understanding but also preservation, indexing, and security. One of the companies helping the enterprise meet these challenges is MarkLogic. The company has apparently had a very productive year so far, with its number of customers now topping 200. And with the 4.2 release of their MarkLogic Server platform on October 19, the company is showing that it hasn't forgotten about the fundamentals.
Posted Oct 18, 2010
thePlatform released the gold edition of its mpx video management platform. The platform is a complete redesign of its previous mps platform, featuring a brand new video management console allowing for easier management of large content libraries, the ability to use federated deployment to enable redundancy and integrated caching, and a new Publish Profile, which helps users publish content to different destinations without the need to delve into complex configuration options.
Posted Oct 14, 2010
Axceler began distributing version 4.1 of ControlPoint, its administration product for SharePoint. Among the new features in ControlPoint 4.1 are detailed analysis and management of SharePoint groups, the ability to find duplicate files across a SharePoint farm, enhanced SharePoint user reporting, SharePoint policy enforcement, and the ability to perform actions across multiple farms.
Posted Oct 14, 2010
Intranet DASHBOARD (iD), developers of the similarly named software platform, released the SharePoint Connector, which offers increased collaboration with Microsoft SharePoint. The application is the first to be developed using the new iD API, which allows for the extension and customization of iD.
Posted Oct 12, 2010
Ebrary announced that it has partnered with librarians and publishers in order to develop a new patron-driven acquisition (PDA) model. With ebrary's PDA, libraries can create collections of their choice, provide full access to end-users, and have titles added to their collection, in real-time, based on usage.
Posted Oct 12, 2010
e-Spirit is introducing a new version of its FirstSpirit CMS. With version 4.2 Release 4 (also called "4.2R4" by the company), e-Spirit AG is adding a series of functional enhancements and usability optimizations to help manage digital content across a wide range of communication options and editorial tasks. The CMS version is initially available being offered exclusively for pilot customers in the current roll-out phase.
Posted Oct 07, 2010
Alfresco, an open platform for social content management, made available Alfresco Community 3.4. Alfresco 3.4 broadens the reach of the company's open source and open standards-based content management platform with new tools and services for Spring-based developers.
Posted Oct 07, 2010