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Compiled by Mike Pastore Managing Editor, Intranet Journal June 9, 2004...
Ektron Offers CMS300 Version 4.5
CMS300 Version 4.5 gives marketing teams the power to create and deploy Web-based forms, to capture validated information, and to take action on the information. For example, a user can collect visitor information on a public-facing Web form, save it in a repository, export it to Microsoft Excel and use it to run marketing campaigns. With CMS300 it is no longer necessary for a developer to create a Web form; business users can do it quickly from their browser and apply validation criteria.
Read more at: June 8, 2004...
Vasont Unveils New Subscrption Option
Organizations pay a monthly fee to use Vasont over a 24-month period, offering them a convenient and cost-effective alternative to other content management systems that require a large upfront investment for the software. With the new subscription offering, organizations gain access to all of Vasont's features and functionality, empowering them to more efficiently create, manage, and repurpose their highly complex content, including technical documentation, users' manuals, and reference materials, to print, Web, CD-ROM, and wireless formats.
For more information: June 7, 2004...
Adobe Launches PDF Platform for Web Services
Adobe Document Services is the company's vision for a new layer in the IT services stack that handles all document processing throughout its lifecycle, from creation to disposal. Based on XML, this vision spans the desktop side for individuals creating intelligent documents, but also works at the server level, such as serving statements generated in a bank's network.
Read more at: June 4, 2004...
Gaim's Ground in a Closed IM World
Exact numbers of users are not known, according to Gaim lead developer Sean Egan, because users can get a copy of the software from a number of different places that they can't track or measure. The tool is included in virtually every Linux distribution as well.
Read more at: June 3, 2004...
Google Gets More Enterprising
In addition, the new GSA features a continuous crawl to make sure that the search inventory contains the most up-to-date content. Or, administrators can add pages manually.
Read more at: June 1, 2004...
Playing in the Collaborative Apps Space With Teamware
Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino are the big boys in this arena, but a number of alternative collaboration servers are out there, including Teamware Office, from Finland-based Teamware Group. Teamware Office is a cross-platform collaboration server, available for Windows, Solaris, and Linux operating systems. The Teamware Office server for Windows is a 45 MB download that consumes 125 MB of disk space on initial installation.
Read the rest of the review at: May 27, 2004...
CA Backs Open Source CMS With Zope
During its caworld conference in Las Vegas, CA said it would commit "significant development resources" and its enterprise management expertise to Zope's open source content management framework. CA also announced its support as founding member of the Plone Foundation. Plone is the open source CMS based on the Zope framework and is now integrated into CA's newest BrightStor Document Manager product. To hold it all together, CA announced that it would release its Ingres Enterprise Relational Database to the open source community.
For more information: May 26, 2004...
Authentica Extends Microsoft RMS
Authentica will extend the Windows RMS platform with the following capabilities: Mandatory Policy Enforcement; E-Mail Content Filtering Integration; Network Folder Integration; User Enrollment and Initialization; and Heterogeneous Messaging Support.
For more information:
Intranet Journal covered Authentica's Secure Office release in March: May 25, 2004...
Interwoven Releases WorkSite MP 4.0
WorkSite MP is an Internet-based product suite that delivers collaboration and document management solutions capabilities to allow teams, departments, and divisions of even the largest enterprises to collaborate, build, and share information and manage projects. The software is available in a browser-based interface, integrated with front-office applications such as Microsoft Office, Outlook, and Lotus Notes, or as portlets for the industry's most widely used portals. New features include records retention rules, BEA portlets, and a .NET SDK. Interwoven WorkSite MP 4.0 will be available in June.
For more information: May 21, 2004...
Gates on the Future of Productivity
Gates said that, after much work creating standards for Web services (define), businesses are now poised to reap their benefits. "This is the first year I can say a very significant percentage of our accounts are starting to build services around it." He said great technical cooperation among competitive companies, particularly between Microsoft and IBM, has put technical standards "at the finish line this year." Gates also foretold a shift from e-mail as the primary means of business communication and collaboration. While at its start, e-mail was hailed as non-interruptive and efficient, Gates characterized it as clunky and obtrusive, even as it's been clogged by spam.
Read more at: May 19, 2004...
Cisco, IBM Connect on VoIP
According to recent research from the Yankee Group, 54 percent of enterprises surveyed said they are testing or evaluating VoIP for their business. In this new offering, Cisco is contributing its unified messaging and call routing software, Unity and CallManager, respectively. IBM puts forward its Information Management database tool and Lotus Domino communications suite.
Read more at: May 18, 2004...
Stellent, Protiviti Team for Compliance Solutions
Under the agreement, Stellent will deliver and market compliance solutions based on Stellent's Universal Content Management system and supported by Protiviti subject matter expertise. These solutions, to be co-marketed by Protiviti, will offer capabilities such as audit trails; document management; project management and reporting; personalized interfaces; automated process documentation collection and process testing; secure, Web-based access by internal and external users; and records management. Protiviti is working closely with companies to help them understand, document and evaluate their disclosure and internal controls over financial reporting, and to recommend improvements in processes and controls. Protiviti also is assisting companies in testing their controls and processes and achieving full compliance within the deadlines established by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
For more information: May 14, 2004...
Dralasoft Announces Partnership with Xythos
Xythos has customized Dralasoft Workflow, Dralasoft's flagship BPM product, for use with its WebFile family of products. Both Xythos and Dralasoft use open standards, ensuring easy implementation of their products within existing enterprise environments. The new solutions will leverage a full range of Xythos/Dralasoft applications including Xythos WebFile Server (WFS) and Client Technology; WebFile Document Manager, WebFile Classification Manager, and WebFile Records Manager; WebFile Client and WebFile Scan Client; as well as Dralasoft Workflow Engine, Workflow Manager, and Workflow Studio.
For more information: May 12, 2004...
Macromedia Shifts Breeze for Others
The San Francisco-based firm said it's offering a Directory Services Accelerator and Breeze Scheduling Accelerator. The kits -- or "solution accelerators" -- are available immediately as free downloads for existing Breeze Presentations, Breeze Training and Breeze Live customers. The software uses standards such as XML and Java to exchange the data. Breeze is Macromedia's foray into the burgeoning $600 to 800 million per year market of live meetings, online tutorials and on-demand presentations. The application competes with market leader online meeting pioneer WebEx, as well as LiveMeeting from the Microsoft juggernaut. A study released earlier this month from research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan said WebEx has 67 percent of the market.
For more information: May 11, 2004...
SharePoint Security and .NET Impersonation
From a development perspective, the SharePoint Services platform provides an IT organization the unique opportunity to focus almost exclusively on providing specific domain logic and value-added functionality to the businesses they support. During the process of extending SharePoint it is imperative to understand the SharePoint security model. Several techniques can be applied that will provide the optimum combination of ease of development, deployment, functionality and security.
Read more at: May 10, 2004...
Ittrium Engine 4.0 Debuts
The release features extended content management capabilities, Web Services (WSDL) support, and enhanced content authoring and import tools. Web Services support enables the average business user to leverage the wide range of information services available via WSDL. Ittrium has beefed up its content management capabilities by adding scheduled publishing, innovative access control enhancements, and automated versioning. New access control capabilities simplify administration by generalizing permissions management while improving overall system performance.
For more information: May 5, 2004...
Bricolage CMS Unveils Version 1.8
Version 1.8 includes a bevy of new features and enhancements that improve the power, scalability, and flexibility of Bricolage for large organizations. One of the most important improvements is the new support for managing an unlimited number of sites from a single installation of Bricolage, with each site having its own categories, templates, document types, and workflows. Collaboration across sites is supported by document aliasing and shared workflow desks. Among the 110 improvements to Bricolage, are significant performance boosts to search queries and URI uniqueness validation; email distribution; a greatly simplified templating API; template sandboxes to enable template development without interfering with production templates; support for Template Toolkit templates (www.template-toolkit.org); new "Publish" and "Recall" permissions, for improved workflow management; per-user preferences; document formatting at publish time, rather than publish scheduling time; new German and Mandarin localizations; image thumbnails and icons or all media documents; and support for HTMLArea WYSIWYG editing (www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/).
For more information: May 4, 2004...
Microsoft Readies Next Enterprise IM Server
It's part of the Redmond, Wash., software giant's pledge -- Software Assurance (SA) -- to roll out timely updates to its software. SA grants, depending on the length of term bought by the customer, allow them to upgrade to new versions of the software for free. He added that it doesn't help customers when new software comes out with features that are already obsolete, or are spaced too far apart to take advantage of the SA grants, which range anywhere from one to three years. LCS sits behind the front-end Microsoft Office applications used in many businesses today, integrating IM functionality and Office applications for easy-to-manage collaboration efforts. For example, a workgroup located around the country is formed to craft a Word document. Users can look at the latest draft, check within the file menu to see who on the team is online, and contact them for an impromptu meeting via online chat -- all within the Word application.
For more information: May 3, 2004...
Lawmakers Vow Tough Spyware Laws
Joe Barton (R-Texas) also urged Congress to pass legislation this year in order to "cure this cancer on the Internet." Consumer and privacy advocates are concerned about the growing number of programs that often surreptitiously piggyback on downloaded files, report back Internet traffic patterns to advertisers and generate unwanted popups.
Read more at:
You can learn more about Spyware in Intranet Journal's Spyware Guide at: April 28, 2004...
Ektron Releases eWebEditPro+XML 4.1
eWebEditPro+XML integrates with content management solutions, CRM, and other applications, reporting systems, and documentation repositories to use share and extend data across Web sites, applications, and other organizations. It allows anyone, regardless of technical skill, to design XML data. Examples of the forms created with eWebEditPro+XML include HR-oriented forms, such as intranet-based expense reports, requests for purchase, and employee self-evaluations; healthcare forms such as patient records; product catalogs, parts requisitions forms, and more.
For more information: April 26, 2004...
Open Text Releases Integrated Web Content Management Solution
Called Livelink Web Content Management Server, the product combines Web Content Management products from IXOS and Gauss to provide a full range of features, from out-of-the-box Web publishing to state-of-the-art, Java-based solutions customers can deploy for more sophisticated Web development requirements. Integration with Livelink brings Web content management together with team collaboration, document management, records management, process workflows, and other ECM capabilities. In the fall, Open Text will roll out an integrated solution for managing, tracking and storing e-mail, and content archiving for Livelink to give customers greater flexibility in their choice of storage solutions.
For more information: April 22, 2004...
Stellent Expands Functionality of Site Studio
The new globalization capabilities allow Web site designers to use their local operating systems to create sites, and content contributors can author site content in their native language automatically. Additionally, Site Studio's contribution user interface is available in English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. Site Studio also now gives content contributors more control over the formatting (i.e., styles, fonts, etc.) of their content, with available formatting managed by a central Web designer. The application also enables companies to design and develop Web sites for dynamic contribution — pulling and assembling content from a common repository — and then publish these sites as static representations built and delivered with HTML code on standard Web servers. Contributors now also have more control over the re-use and assignment of content during in-context authoring, a process that allows users to simply navigate to the area of a Web site requiring modification where they authenticate and update appropriate content based upon security permissions. In addition, non-technical contributors can easily link new or existing content by utilizing an intuitive user interface.
For more information: April 21, 2004...
PCs Monitored, E-Mail Bugged
Internet users are also under siege from "Web beacons." Traditionally used by legitimate Web marketers, these e-mail tags are now being heavily adopted by spammers. According to e-mail defense Solutions company MX Logic, Inc., nearly half of unwanted messages contain these beacons, which spammers use to validate e-mail addresses and detect activity.
Read more at: April 19, 2004...
Untangling IBM's Messaging Strategy
Domino currently owns about 24 percent of the corporate messaging market. Radicati estimates this translates into 85.9 million mail boxes. The research firm predicts Lotus Workplace, IBM's collaboration platform released late last year, will have a total of 3.7 million mail boxes -- about 1 percent of the market -- by year end. While it anticipates Workplace accounting for 50 million mail boxes by 2008, it will hit many bumps along the way.
Read more at: April 14, 2004...
SiteScape Anounces Enterprise Forum 7.1
According to SiteScape, the new version of Enterprise Forum is designed to ensure greater enterprise scalability, enhance document management capabilities, and create a richer graphical user interface. New tools such as Forum overview, HTML viewer, multi-file download, offline synchronization via HTML e-mail, folder maps, graphical workflow, time zone preferences, and language preferences, along with improved LDAP support, server security and administrative interfaces, make the product easier to use for both end- users and administrators.
Intranet Journal took a look at Enterprise Forum 7.0 when it debuted:
For more information: April 12, 2004...
SilkRoad Released Eprise 2004
Enterprises can create page templates and incorporate them across a Web site. Using these templates, employees can create and edit content without changing page structure or overall site look and feel. Version and rollback controls provide safe restoration of content when necessary and Eprise's administration interface allows for constant auditing and tracking capabilities along with management of content creation and publication tasks. Eprise 2004 also offers Web-browser editing using SilkRoad ReadyEdit, which allows business users to click into a Web page, edit text, and publish content without having to enter into a separate editing window or application. Increased corporate control is managed by distributing permissions through recursive role delegation. Eprise 2004 includes expanded support for Web Services standards both exposing and consuming remote applications. By exposing Eprise functions, business users can contribute, manage and publish assets in the context of other Web applications. Eprise 2004 also includes expanded support for new servers, databases, and Web servers, including Windows Server 2003, IIS 6.0, Apache 2, and Oracle 9.2., and the Verity V5 and K2 search engines. April 7, 2004...
Using a CMS for Search Engine Positioning
Read more at: April 6, 2004...
IBM Targets Regulatory Compliance
IBM Content Management for Message Monitoring and Retention; IBM Lotus Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting and the IBM Tivoli Security Compliance Manager all offer specific tools to properly manage business data and set up a compliance policy across the enterprise. http://news.earthweb.com/ent-news/article.php/3336191 April 2, 2004...
Enforcer 3.1 Bars Unsanctioned IM, P2P Access
The 3.1 version of Enforcer has been enhanced to extend to Web-based IM products such as AIM Express and ICQ to Go. This adds to the product's previous support for AIM, Microsoft's MSN, Yahoo and other IM services. The new release also: adds filters for WinMX and OpenNapster, newer P2P protocols; extends IM and P2P blocking access across all network segments through multi-subnet support; and integrates with corporate directories to provide identification for users attempting unauthorized access to IM and P2P networks.
Read more at: April 1, 2004...
Web Service Portlets A Go-Go
The recently approved OASIS Standard, Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP), lets vendors and enterprises build portlets, small pieces of content or applications that operate across different providers' portal platforms. The demo, at this week's Delphi Group Enterprise On-Demand Summit in San Francisco, showed an audience of around 60 CIOs and technical architects how the same portlet can be dropped into different enterprise portals, blending in with the interface look and feel.
Read more at: March 29, 2004...
Plumtree, Yahoo Team for Enterprise IM Tools
The arrangement is aimed at speeding official adoption of IM in the workplace by giving developers tools to help incorporate them into their own application development projects. The San Francisco, Calif.-based Plumtree, which has recently launched enhanced portal tools for service oriented architecture, said the addition of Yahoo's popular text chat application would add presence awareness, instant messaging and application alerts to its suite of tools.
Read more at: March 26, 2004...
KnowledgeBase Releases Version 4.0
The most significant upgrades to KnowledgeBase.net include a more powerful self-learning search engine; remote search and indexing capabilities; an enhanced administrator User Interface based on text and intuitive icons; and a new customer facing portal including a .Net module for seamless integration. Additionally, KnowledgeBase.net v4.0 offers new remote Web site indexing and searching, which allows KnowledgeBase.net's customers to incorporate content located anywhere on the own company Web sites or intranets into their knowledge bases for more comprehensive results to user queries. The all of the data found on a company's corporate Web site can now be leveraged and automatically indexed to help respond to any search within the KnowledgeBase.
For more information: March 25, 2004...
Voice Over Vonage
We set out to find out, testing basic service from Vonage. We were pleasantly surprised — it works better than expected, though not perfectly all the time.
Read more at: March 19, 2004...
MailSite Sets Sights on E-Mail Needs
Most of MailSite 6's newest features are centered around virus and spam defense. This is, not surprisingly, the epicenter of growth in today's mail servers. The product offers a nicely multi-faceted approach to identifying and managing spam. To help identify spam, MailSite employs what Rockliffe calls a "cocktail," or combination of content filters, black lists, white lists, and ActiveState's heuristics technology.
Read the review from internet.com's ServerWatch: March 17, 2004...
Allaire Founders Tackle Web Collaboration
The program uses the information gleaned by Web browsers — optimized for Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) but compatible with others — to manage data in folders and sub-folders by subject. While it may sound like a glorified bookmark manager, which keeps track of links and information about the site, Onfolio provides much more. The application grabs documents and pictures, as well as the link itself, and is placed in a local folder. Users can add comments or snippets of text from within the document itself. Onfolio also grabs metadata information to determine the author and copyright information as well. A particularly useful feature of the program is its ability to take all the information collected in a Web search and process them as a report, thanks to IE's embedded ability to process multi-part HTML (define). The report can either be presented as a Word document, a Web page or even as part of an RSS (define) feed.
For more information: March 15, 2004...
Open Text Adds IM to Livelink
Once retained, IM content becomes fully indexed and auditable, so users can search in Livelink to retrieve specific information. This capability improves knowledge management by giving companies a way to capture useful content in IM and make it searchable as part of a company’s corporate knowledge repository. Livelink Instant Messenger also offers improved security over IM solutions used by consumers. Embedded in Open Text’s Livelink suite, Livelink Instant Messenger is deployed inside the firewall, and utilizes SSL to encrypt information both inside and outside the firewall.
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Read more at: March 12, 2004...
Convera Unveils New Search Taxonomies
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