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This week Six Apart (news, site) launched their very own microblogging service to complement the burgeoning family of TypePad conversational media hubs. TypePad Micro aims not to compete, but to work in tandem with popular services like Twitter.  

Voice over IP is an ever-growing feature for phones, and is now a lot easier to implement thanks to Global IP Solutions (news, site).

The latest edition of ADAM Software's (news, site) digital asset management suite aims to remove the drudgery of managing assets and improve how it plays with other software.

MindTouch (news, site) sees itself as the open source alternative to SharePoint. Its newest venture provides organizations with an enterprise collaboration platform in the cloud.

Saying there’s been a lot about web analytics of late is an understatement. After several fresh sandboxes, shocking acquisitions and curious new approaches, we think it’s safe to say that 2009 will go down as the year that jump-started our understanding of these data.

Webtrends (news, site) is taking the delivery reinvention route, highlighted back in August by their release of Webtrends Analytics 9, a platform that likes to tell stories, literally. The company is taking it a step further by adding real-time alerts and updates via popular vehicles like e-mail, Twitter, RSS and even an iPhone app. Welcome to yet another way to stay constantly connected. 

Long has there been discussion about which is better, Google Sites or SharePoint. Google aims to come out the winner, as it adds new functionality to Google Sites in the form of functionally designed site templates.

In July Bob Lentz became Digital Reef’s CEO, while Digital Reef's founder Steve Aker took over product innovation. This week they’ve added Larry D’Angelo as the Vice President of Sales.

Having served as the vice president of business operations for Makana Solutions, Larry D’Angleo brings more than twenty years of experience. From sales to marketing and business development, Mr. D’Angelo has worked with Autotask, IMB and Revenio. Digital Reef is confident that with such experience and skill, Mr. D’Angelo will help them reach the company’s 2010 goals of delivering smarter information management to the enterprise.

Digital Reef (news, site), best known for its scalable information management, governance and discovery platform, has been busy establishing partnerships in the eDiscovery, early case assessment (ECA) and electronic data discovery (EDD) space with Anacomp, Boston Litigation Solutions and Reliable.

Digital Reef thrives on partnerships with other companies who offer services that can integrate with theirs so that customers can best utilize out of the box connectivity to more enterprise content management systems. With a skilled executive leadership in place, building upon partnerships and collaboration, Digital Reef seems poised to head into a productive 2010.

After a return to some sort of form with IE8, can Microsoft (news, site) transform its browser for the lean and lite generation?

Only six weeks after Open Text (news,  site) and SAP (news, site) extended their partnership to include a reseller agreement for the SAP Extended ECM application by Open Text, the two have decided to beef up retention management, compliance and CRM elements.

Sometimes companies need a little insight when handling legal holds. Thank goodness that Recommind (news, site) has your back. They have announced the availability of Insite Legal Hold version 2.0.

In recent months many ECM vendors have been preoccupied with the development of platforms and solutions designed to fill a growing demand for case management software.

But what exactly is Case Management and how do Enterprise Content Management Systems support this growing market?

Salesforce's Chatter (news, site) adds social features and collaboration for the enterprise.

Microsoft may not be first to the cloud, but they are making every effort to become the best option. It certainly helps that companies like Automattic are plugging Windows Azure (news, site).

Ah yes, this is indeed a wonderful era for learning and networking. There are conferences and webinars coming out our ears, hotspots a-plenty and if you're lucky, sponsored drinks at the bar.

Our weekly events list is designed to help you plan ahead. And if we've missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to our industry events calendar.

November Events

December Events

A new reseller agreement between US-based eFileCabinet (news, site) and Belgium-based Aries Filing Systems will see the Utah document management software vendor moving into Europe. The deal will see Aries offering eFileCabinet software to its extensive European client base.

As it stands, that customer base is made up over 6000 companies in the private sector as well as a substantial foothold in the government sector, and will also give eFileCabinet access to markets in both Africa and the Middle East, which Aries is currently targeting.

eFileCabinet document management software and its online backup service, Concentsus, give users feature-rich solutions for document capture and management. With the launch of v4.0 of its DMS last February it added substantial security features for a range of industries (as these regulations can frequently be industry specific).

The agreement with Aries is not its first international reseller agreement since the company announced in November 2008 that it was going to take its VAR program abroad.

In April this year it entered a reseller partnership with Panama based Grupo Instrucontrol, which effectively moved eFileCabinet into in 17 Latin American countries including Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Panama.

That international expansion is central plank of its commercial strategy was underlined by the appointment of Craig Jensen as Vice President of Worldwide Sales in February and the appointment last year of a new CEO and president — Matt Peterson — who committed the company to cultivating new strategic partnerships. Interesting to see who will be next.

Semantic search has been the new black in the high fashion of content management and the industries around it. Nstein (news, site), a provider of Web CMS, DAM and text-mining technologies, just released a new product — which they say is more flexible, intuitive and extensible than Google Search Appliance — called Semantic Site Search, or the “new kind of site search,” as the vendor humbly refers to it.

We had a chance to get an early demo and talk to Eric Williams, Nstein’s product manager, who told us all about his "little baby" under the code-name 3S. It may be a newborn, but it comes with a strong featureset of multi-index federated search, embedded Text Mining Engine, semantic widgets and a more flexible presentation layer.

We’ve got more non YouTube related video content management news for ya. Kontiki, a provider of enterprise video solutions, just opened up the Kontiki VideoCenter enterprise employee video portal. The portal allows companies to gather, schmooze, and ultimately align their organizations around one vision.  

Just what you need — really, you probably do — another tool to help you develop Microsoft .NET applications. Telerik (news, site) brings you JustCode, a code analysis and refactoring tool for Visual Studio.

If little things mean a lot then Cabinet NG’s (news, site) CNG-SAFE (Shared Access Filing Environment) is a whole lot as they just keep adding to it, the case in point this time being two new search products that will make life a lot easier for its clients.