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Wednesday, Mar 31 2004

Hummingbird Ltd., a leading global provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, is pleased to announce that Hummingbird Enterprise(TM) has won the Network Computing Editor's Choice Award for integrated document management systems. Evaluated in a comparative real-world review of five leading document management solutions, in response to a sample Request for Information (RFI), Hummingbird Enterprise - DM earned top marks for its rich set of collaboration and image-capturing tools and its superior functionality in the records management arena.

Monday, Mar 29 2004

Microsoft, Industry Partners Deliver Tools to Help Simplify Corporate Financial Compliance

Starting today, companies seeking to comply with new federal financial reporting regulations have a powerful new tool at their disposal: software and technology-architecture guidance from Microsoft Corp. that will help partners readily build custom solutions to compliance challenges.

By Gerry McGovern

Most organizations don't need content management software. Unless you have a very busy website with lots and lots of content being published, the return on investment is not there. The majority of those who do require such software need a very simple, streamlined solution.

Monday, Mar 29 2004

Combined Solution Will Enable Marketers to Optimize Productivity and Improve Management of Promotions, Brands, and Product Introductions

Interwoven, Inc., the world's next-generation enterprise content management (ECM) company, today announced an agreement with DoubleClick Inc. (Nasdaq: DCLK - News), the leading provider of marketing tools for advertisers, direct marketers and Web publishers, to offer a comprehensive Marketing Content Management (MCM) solution. Under the agreement, Interwoven will offer SmartPath(R) 5.0 to extend its Marketing Content Management capabilities SmartPath is a comprehensive MRM (Marketing Relationship Management) software application that enables marketers to manage marketing initiatives across the entire marketing supply chain optimizing core functions, including information management, production, operations, and team communication.

Friday, Mar 26 2004

Mary Chipman of MCW Technologies has published an interesting article on MSDN, covering XML authoring in Office 2003 tools. Mary provides a beginner's walkthrough of new functionality for using XML, allowing you to separate the data in a document or worksheet from its presentation in Word 2003 and Excel 2003. You can then use and modify the content with other tools and exchange data with other XML systems.

Wednesday, Mar 24 2004

New Offerings, Enhancements Create Significant Advantages for Standards-Based Publishing.

XyEnterprise, the leading developer of XML content management and enterprise publishing software, announced today a new style creation tool and support for XSL-FO in its leading XML publishing software -- XML Professional Publisher (XPP). XPP is used for automated and interactive publishing in XML publishing environments, providing unmatched support for XML content, automated rendering, and Web Services integration. The new features will enable customers to enjoy further productivity gains and standards support from the world's leading automated publishing engine.

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Tuesday, Mar 23 2004

Aaron Skonnard, a prolific technical writer covering topics such as XML and Web Services has published a nice overview of Blogs and RSS. His Q&A format covers such items as:

   -- What's the easiest way to set up a Web log?
   -- What's a feed and how can I subscribe to it?
   -- Which RSS version is the most current?
   -- What do RSS 1.0 and 2.0 look like?
   -- What is Atom?
   -- What are referrers, trackbacks, and pingbacks?

As an added bonus he includes a quick tutorial on generating RSS feeds from ASP.NET Web User Controls.

Aaron's ability to present lucid and digestible explanations makes this article a must read.

Enhancements Address Customer Demands Including E-Mail Archiving, Records Management & Archiving, Audit Trail, and Document Security.

ZyLAB, an established market leader of document management and information retrieval software, today announced that its is unveiling major new enhancements to its flagship solution, ZyIMAGE 5.0, to provide customers with the industry's most powerful solution for digitally filing and managing vast amounts of paper and electronic documents. Available immediately, the enhancements provide users with the ability to address major compliance requirements and offers increased management, audit, and security capabilities for enterprise-wide information.

Openwave Systems Inc. , the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that the Company and SurfControl, the world's number one Web and e-mail filtering company, is demonstrating the pioneering content monitoring and management system for mobile operators at CTIA booth number 1417.

Monday, Mar 22 2004

New Hampshire-based Web Content Management player Ektron has presented Microsoft with a direct challenge. By adding a native .NET Web CMS to their product lineup, Ektron has provided the answer for those who've been waiting for an MCMS 2004 or an MCMS 2003.

This week at Fawcette TechnicalPublications' VSLive! San Francisco, Ektron Inc., will unveil a content management solution developed in a "native" .NET Framework-based environment. Ektron CMS400.NET, built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, is an evolutionary step in content management solutions that delivers advanced security, scalability, and interoperability to mid-sized enterprises.