Open Text Corporation, a provider of ECM software, announced an expanded family of social media offerings that will enable businesses to securely apply the value of social media to solve core business challenges, such as improving customer engagement or promoting team productivity.
Posted Jun 03, 2010
Axceler, a provider of administration software for Microsoft SharePoint, acquired echoTechnology, a company that provides SharePoint migration services. The deal was made with an eye toward providing customers with both administration and migration services, two important considerations as the market moves toward SharePoint 2010.
Posted Jun 01, 2010
Real Story Group, formerly CMS Watch, announced a set of new research findings that demonstrate that digital asset management vendors have begun incorporating increasingly advanced features into their offerings in order to compete with web content management and document management vendors that have begun offering partial DAM features in their own software.
Posted May 27, 2010
Kentico Software announced the release of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET version 5.5, a new version of its CMS software that provides full support for Visual Studio 2010 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. Kentico CMS 5.5 will also include support for mobile websites, and both Facebook Connect and OpenID authentication, allowing users to more easily log into websites without the need to remember individual logins and passwords.
Posted May 27, 2010
Oracle announced the acquisition of the intellectual property assets of Market2Lead, a provider of demand generation and marketing automation software. Market2Lead's technology helps companies improve demand generation to increase sales and marketing effectiveness. Oracle announced that it plans to integrate Market2Lead's technology into Oracle CRM applications.
Posted May 27, 2010
coAction.com, a provider of advanced business collaboration software, is launching an integrated on-demand collaboration solution designed to support multiple business processes, including finance, sales, and customer service. The service uses the SaaS model to speed delivery of a rich desktop user interface that gives users access to multiple ready-to-use business tools from a single location.
Posted May 27, 2010
MIE Solutions unveiled a new business management and collaboration tool, MIE Dashboard. The new product is designed to allow workers within a company to share information, collaborate, chat, and manage files. Dashboard can be used in organizations with users that number in the thousands.
Posted May 25, 2010
A new link organization platform, Kbucket, is now in beta. Kbucket allows researchers and information professionals the ability to categorize, comment, and tag thousands of links and publish the result to a Kbucket page.
Posted May 25, 2010
Nordic River, a developer of document collaboration tools, released its TextFlow application for the Google Apps Marketplace. TextFlow, positioned as an alternative for Microsoft Office's track changes, document comparison, and review functions, integrates with Google Documents and enables users to view, evaluate, and decide upon each contributor's edits to a Google Document.
Posted May 25, 2010
The new version HyperOffice is now available to small and medium business (SMB) clients, the company announced. HyperOffice, a cloud-based messaging and collaboration suite, had been in beta for 6 months. This version was rebuilt leveraging Ajax and boasts improvements in performance, scalability and security.
Posted May 25, 2010
DocuLex, creators of content management software, announced the addition of customized business process and collaborative workflow capability to DocuLex Archive Studio's just released WebSearch version 4.2. The program features a new, intelligent "decision engine" that organizes project information, and orchestrates flow to each staffer involved.
Posted May 20, 2010
Access Innovations, Inc., lifted the curtain on version 3.7 of its Data Harmony data management software suite. Data Harmony 3.7 contains taxonomy management, automatic categorization, and metadata management tools. For the latest version, Access Innovations solicited user input and incorporated those suggestions into the software.
Posted May 18, 2010
Pervasive Software Inc., announced a partnership with Melissa Data, a provider of data quality software and services. The two companies will collaborate to allow Pervasive Software customers access to Melissa Data's out-of-the-box connectivity to Melissa Data's data quality offerings.
Posted May 18, 2010
Oracle consulting company AppsDBA.co.uk Limited announced the upcoming release of an application for iPhone and iPad for monitoring, managing, and tuning Oracle databases. The mDBA app allows users to monitor performance data and options on the go from an iPhone or iPad.
Posted May 18, 2010
PaperThin, a provider of Web content management solutions, unveiled CommonSpot 6.0, the newest release of its CMS platform that comes complete with a sleek new user interface, as well as marketing and development tools to improve site effectiveness.
Posted May 13, 2010
Nuxeo announced that its Galaxy partner metaLogic has released a new toolkit for Lotus Notes customers adopting Nuxeo's open source enterprise content management platform. Lotus Notes IMT for Nuxeo ECM simplifies email and document management between Lotus Notes and applications built on the Nuxeo open source ECM platform.
Posted May 13, 2010
EMC Corporation announced the new EMC SourceOne for Microsoft SharePoint, which enables organizations to adopt an information governance strategy for content spread across multiple SharePoint sites and farms. SourceOne for SharePoint delivers operational control, compliance, and e-discovery capabilities without impacting SharePoint end-users.
Posted May 13, 2010
The Tiki community, while beta testing Tiki 5.0, added two new features to its portfolio. Online collaboration is now available through BigBlueButton and video sharing through Kaltura.
Posted May 11, 2010
Socialtext, the creator of SocialPoint, announced the new version of its enterprise social software platform will include two communications capabilities that are able to be integrated into Microsoft SharePoint. Through Socialtext Signals, customers can engage in enterprise microblogging within SharePoint.
Posted May 11, 2010
Kapow Technologies announced the latest release of the Kapow Web Data Server, version 7.2. The Kapow Web Data Server is used by more than 400 Fortune 1000 companies to automate the access to and integration with any web data source.
Posted May 11, 2010
Ex Libris Group announced the release of version 2.0 of the Rosetta digital preservation system. Rosetta 2.0 is currently live at the National Library of New Zealand and will be rolled out to all Rosetta customers over the course of 2010.
Posted May 11, 2010
MuseGlobal announced a new release of its Muse Content Machine, including support for interoperability with the SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search application. The new Muse Content Machine allows users to use Muse Smart Connectors as a means of gathering information from enterprise applications and commercial content sources.
Posted May 11, 2010
Cenveo, Inc. entered an agreement to acquire Glyph International from Infomedia 18 Limited. Glyph, which operates in New Delhi and Bangalore, India, as well as in London and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., specializes in full suite content production, from project management through editorial, composition, artwork, and XML creation.
Posted May 11, 2010
Linguistic and cultural issues impact the success of businesses seeking to expand throughout the increasingly global marketplace, as well as successes closer to home—given the fact that many countries are populated by those speaking different languages. Previously, only companies of a certain size looked beyond their borders. Today, every business is in competition with every other business across the planet.
Posted May 10, 2010
Thomas the Train had a vision ("I think I can, I think I can"), never let obstacles get in his way, stayed focused on his goal and eventually realized success! As I looked across the landscape of this year's Open Government and Innovations (OGI) Conference held this week in Washington, D.C. , it became apparent there were more Thomas-train types than the doubting Thomases I talked to last year. Like Penn Station at rush hour, the ballroom at the Grand Hyatt was jammed as people listened, tweeted and tapped their keyboards to spread the message of the keynote speaker, Cory Ondrejka, co-creator of Second Life, whose message was like a trumpet sounding the cry for government to become more open and agile. To those present, he seemed to say, "You can, You can, You can."
Posted May 06, 2010