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Current Sponsors

• Ademero -- Affordable document management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses.
• CMS Watch -- The analyst firm covering and uncovering the details of the content management industry, including an in-depth SharePoint report.
• Ektron -- Makers of one of the leading .NET web content management solutions.
• Ephox -- Rich web content editing which blends ease of use with enterprise features.
• eTouch SamePage -- The enterprise-strength wiki solution that combines the best of wikis and blogs to effectively support and streamline collaborative team efforts.
• The Gilbane Group -- Conferences, reports, webinars, consulting and more. Gilbane keeps the industry informed.
• Ingeniux -- Makers of Enterprise 2.0 web content management solutions.
• Kentico -- The developer friendly, flexible Web CMS that's geared for ASP.NET developers.
• Open Text -- Blending enterprise content management and email life cycle management Open Text manages enterprise content.
• Quantum Art -- QP7 is a .NET web content management and content application platform that enables rapid development of content-centric functionality.
• Sitecore -- Enterprise grade web content management with a strong eye towards .NET friendly tools and APIs.
• Telerik Sitefinity -- A light-weight, modular and accessible ASP.NET web content management system that pleases both the developers and the marketers.
• Xythos -- On demand or on-premise, Xythos brings sanity and collaboration to both enterprise and SMB document management.
• ...and of course dear old uncle Google

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Don’t need the complexities of enterprise-level document management, but still want some of that functionality? You’re not alone, and you have quite a few solutions to choose from.

The latest on the document management solutions market is DOCCENTER’s DocLanding -- a new Document Management System built on Microsoft's .NET framework, offered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and designed for an “average user.”

In the world of search, all that once was lost can now be found. Be it through Google Search, semantic search, green search or using your nose to sniff through the web-o-sphere, search functionality and optimization is the latest and greatest trend.

Capitalizing on this, O'Reilly introduces a new conference, simply called Found.

Touted as a search acquisition and architecture conference, Found has been scheduled for June 9-11, 2009, at the San Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, CA.

Yes, Lotus Notes is still part of the daily routine for some folks out there. United Planet, a European developer of Enterprise Portal software, has released a Lotus Notes Business Adapter for its portal, intranet and Web application software -- Intrexx Xtreme.

The Adapter aims to simplify the development of Web applications, Web services and process management for the Intrexx Xtreme Lotus Notes community.

And the winner of the PacktPub 2008 Open Source CMS Award goes to... Today is the day, PacktPub.com has announced the winner of the Overall Open Source CMS for 2008.

A lot has happened since this contest started. The public had a vast amount of great nominees to sift through. And the finalists they chose made the judges' job that much more difficult.

Going green isn’t just environmentally considerate anymore. In fact, these days, it’s downright trendy. Businesses of all sizes are joining in on the trend, and IBM is no exception.

Earlier this week the computer technology superstar released several new software applications and services targeted to help businesses cut energy consumption by more than 35%.

What iTunes has been to music, Google hope its new deal with the U.S. publishing industry will be to books.

Hailed as a key moment in e-publishing, Google will offer readers an opportunity to view free samples of titles -- even those out-of-print or hard to find -- which they search for using Google and get the option to buy more. Google will pay royalties to the Book Rights Registry, which will distribute them to authors and publishers.

Some people enjoy the thrill of the crowds, the keynote speeches, meeting partners and vendors, and seeing first hand all the neat new things to come -- that's why they go to conferences like Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2008 (PDC2008).

Some are either too cheap to go, or their companies are too cheap to send them. For those of you that fall into this category, you must live vicariously through the media and other bloggers to get your conference thrills.

We didn't get to the PDC2008 Conference either, but here's some highlights we have gleamed by listening to those that did go.

Remember when Facebook released its applications platform? It was unquestionably the smartest move in social networking history and the company has been a dominant force in social networking ever since then. But watch out Facebook -- LinkedIn is joining the party with its OpenSocial-based application platform called Intelligent Applications.

These are not your typical applications.

Following this week's Windows Azure announcement by Microsoft, the ball was in the competition's court. And Yahoo! responded with a cloud-related announcement of its own.

Yahoo! announced that it will offer the Zimbra Collaboration Suite as a hosted solution for educational institutions. According to Zimbra, over 500 schools are already using Zimbra. This hosted solution is currently available exclusively to .edu's. Who knows -- maybe, if all goes well, the solution will expand its wings beyond the .edu market.

Google has launched Google Apps Labs, an experimental area that will enable Google Apps for Your Domain customers to place add-ons into popular Google hosted applications. These third-party applications will need to be added by the domain administrator of a Google Apps-enabled domain.

Google has thrown out 3 Labs add-ons as a demonstration of the type of functionality available from using Apps Labs including: Google Code Reviews, which will enable software developers to collaborate on code; Google Short Links, which makes it possible to shorten URLs; and Google Moderator, an app that allows you groups to have an online home for a question and answer portal.

It remains to be seen how popular it will be to create third-party add-ons for Google Apps, but it is refreshing to see Google open up and allow for the possibilities to be manifested.

Businesses interested in sprucing up their video solutions might want to take a look at FeedRoom. The video solutions provider recently released its fourth iteration of their enterprise video platform that comes with new features allowing users to more easily and efficiently manage, upload and distribute video.

The company considers FeedRoom 4.0 as the most exciting release yet. The system has been heavily modified to stand up to the competition in the video marketplace. In the process, the company has also managed to provide a robust solution that also features a modular design.

The diversified office automation equipment and electronics provider, Ricoh Americus Corporation, recently announced the internal deployment of their document storage and management SaaS solution -- DocumentMall for Salesforce.com.

Every great web CMS contest showcases winners in much anticipated categories, frequently highlighting names everyone already knows. But what about the new guy on the block? PacktPub.com is proud to announce the 2008 Most Promising CMS winners.

OpenID has gotten a big lift this week with two big announcements coming from two very different camps. First, Microsoft has announced that Windows Live will officially support OpenID for login and that users will be able to log into any OpenID site with their LiveID account. Second, Google has announced that it will also be a provider of OpenIDs.

New Apatar Connector was recently released to aid those struggling with integration of open source suite SugarCRM with third-party applications, databases, flat files, other CRM/ERP applications and Web 2.0 destinations.

Apatar claims to be able to do it all "without coding.”

Those that have kept up-to-date with the technology headlines know that we are being treated to a trifecta of mobile phone gadgetry that our grandparents likely never dreamed possible. There are also plenty of new and impressive consumer electronics products on the rise. So with times of such technological progress in full swing, why is newly released research pointing towards less adoption of these devices and the services available on them?

Enterprise content management provider Open Text has announced a "first-of-its-kind" records management and archiving capability for Microsoft’s new cloud-based operating system Windows Azure.

Azure is Microsoft's new cloud-based operating system. Open Text will incorporate these cloud-based capabilities into its Enterprise Library Services offering early next year.

Webinars are a great marketing tool. They bring people to a vendor -- virtually -- and provide a window of time in which that vendor can sell their solutions. But while we know they are essentially developed for marketing purposes, we can get much from them. In many cases they have provide you with objective information designed to help you make decisions.

From all walks of enterprise content management, to social networking, social communities, search and just about everything else related to content management, Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0, there's a webinar out there waiting to be attended.

Here are just a few that captured our attention and possibly your interest.

Kentico Software, a Web CMS vendor, announced at Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2008 (PDC2008) that they have integrated Silverlight 2.0 and Windows Live ID support into Kentico CMS.

Kentico CMS, a Web CMS developed for ASP.NET, now enables Web site developers to easily integrate Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 content into their sites, which ultimately results in more interactive Web sites. Granted, Silverlight lacks the adoption rate to have that much of an impact, but its support is likely very welcomed amongst developers who utilize this technology.

Also new for Kentico CMS is the support for Windows Live ID user authentication -- Visitors to Kentico CMS-based Web sites can sign in with an existing Windows Live ID account, without requiring to create a new account.

While Silverlight 2.0 lacks adoption, plenty of users likely have Windows Live IDs, and this might end up being far more useful to the Kentico CMS, at least in a short-term outlook.

The Kentico team is currently showing off both technologies integrated into Kentico CMS at PDC2008. Visit Kentico's Web site for more information about their products and services.