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Release Party: IBM, Mambo, ISYS Unveil Upgrades
Tom Dunlap
9/21/2006
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In the fast-growing content management and enterprise search arenas, IBM, Mambo, and ISYS made three of the biggest announcements.
Taking the latter first, ISYS Search Software this week took another leap in the field of enterprise and desktop search. The company announced the availability of ISYS 8, its next-generation suite for search, navigation, and discovery.
ISYS says the suite is designed to address the entire scope of information access needs. It is comprised of three core products: ISYS:desktop 8, ISYS:web 8, and ISYS:sdk 8. The suite includes many new features that address a company's search requirements, including:
Text mining, e-discovery, and expertise location via ISYS Entities. Power and scalability through content caching, scripting, and federated search support. Adherence to business rules via tuning and editorial controls such as Best Bets. Full-featured search analytics capabilities through enhanced ISYS SearchTrends. Broader content support, including Microsoft SharePoint and Office 2007.
"With ISYS 8, we further distance ourselves from limited and inflexible appliance-based search systems, while remaining much more reasonably priced than competing software-based solutions," said Ian Davies, founder and managing director of ISYS.
The enhancements are designed to ensure that workers spend less time looking for information and more time using it. A closer look at some of the capabilities include:
ISYS:desktop 8
Enhanced interface -- ISYS:desktop 8 now delivers an even more intuitive interface, due to collapsible menus and a built-in search window. Associated documents -- To help users better understand the context of a given result, ISYS now displays a search result's associated documents -- particularly handy when dealing with e-mails and their attachments.
Core ISYS 8 Features
New document formats -- ISYS 8 now supports .wma, .wmv, and .xps formats, as well as Microsoft Office 2007 formats (based on the current Microsoft beta). Content caching -- Content caching offers the ability to rapidly extract portions of large or slow documents, thus delivering faster browsing, summarization, and analysis. Improved performance -- ISYS 8 offers even faster indexing than was possible with version 7, with indexing speeds of up to 20 GB per hour.
New Mambo Dances to a Faster Beat
Also this week, Mambo, the award-winning open source content management system, announced the release of version 4.6. This is the first major release in almost two years and provides users with a leaner, faster Mambo with improved scalability, stability, and more choices.
Version 4.6 is being released in two configurations: 4.6 Complete includes the core system as well as an assortment of the most popular extensions and templates. 4.6 Lite is comprised of only the core files.
"Corporate and SMB customers will, I think, find 4.6 to be a giant step closer to the sort of CMS product they want and need," said Ric Shreves, president of the Mambo Foundation Board of Directors.
Mambo 4.6 improvements include:
More templates. New variants to the default template have been added to this release. More helpful help. New help screens have been added and the help system has been expanded to help decrease inaccuracies in the delivery of help content. Speed boost. A faster, cleaner Mambo, with more potential for development. While all sites will see performance gains, large sites with high activity levels will notice in particular improved load handling and fewer bottlenecks. Better search engine optimization. Improves avoidance of server load problems and provides better handling of bad URLs by means of 404 errors. New RSS newsfeed reader (Magpie) that is more efficient and powerful. Multiple bug fixes and minor enhancements. 4.6 resolves a number of open issues.
Download 4.6 now from http://source.mambo-foundation.org.
On Wednesday, IBM announced the availability of IBM Workplace Web Content Management 6.0, which offers easy customization tools that assist with content creation and provide integration with WebSphere Portal.
Big Blue said the new Web content system delivers easy-to-use authoring tools, making it simple for non-technical users to create, publish, and share customized, up-to-the minute Web content.
Other features of the suite include:
Pricing and AvailabilityOpenness and interoperability with other content authoring packages: Web Content is now stored in the Java Content Repository (JCR). This allows authors to publish content as a Real Syndication Stream (RSS) or Atom feed using simple Web content management presentation templates. A simplified process for authors to create personalization rules for content: An author can now pick and choose from a set of actions to create a personalization rule for the piece of content they own. For example, insurance agents can make sure that if users logging-in to their Web site own property insurance, they will see content about new trends in property protection. Ease-of-use improvements for non-technical authors including "in-context" editing: Authors can make edits directly in the Web site portal view to instantly see their edit results and to avoid switching to a less-familiar software program. New link management enhancements to secure the reliability and reputation of information in a public forum, such as a Web site: Protection against broken or non-working URLs.
IBM Workplace Web Content Management is available as a stand-alone offer or packaged with WebSphere Portal 6.0. Customers who purchase six units of Portal will receive one unit of Workplace Web Content Management. Otherwise, new customers and IBM Portal Server 6.0 customers can purchase WCM for approximately $20,000 per processor.
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