Saas News & Articles

Content Circles (news, site) keeps right on connecting. The company burst onto the scene not too long ago with their innovative, server-free collaboration solution. Shortly after the debut, they released a Xerox DocuShare connector which allows DocuShare users to share documents with a specified team, sans server. Now, the company is expanding their circle again by adding a similar connector, this time with Alfresco Software.

Who needs an internet connection? Not Content Circle users. The new connector enables Alfresco ECM users to share, collaborate, track and manage content offline or online.

Here come the Marketeers! Hot on the heels of last week’s launch of SDL Tridion’s (news, site) Unified Online Marketing Suite, Moderandi, an Arizona-based web applications developer, has today launched a new marketing platform called Growth Panel.

Targeting the small-to-medium (SMB) sized business market, this SaaS solution enables marketeers and consultants create plans and manage marketing projects in the cloud.

Moderandi says that this new platform fills a gap in the market that is not being properly serviced, notably for SMBs, who have neither the cash, nor the bandwidth to develop an all-inclusive marketing campaign.

In the competitive world of localization it's not unusual for companies to make exaggerated claims about their products to get a little bit of attention. So in October 2007, when Clay Tablet (news, site) said v2.0 of its Translation Management system could integrate any content management system with any translation system, there may have been a few raised eyebrows.

However 18 months and no complaints later, Clay Tablet has unveiled v2.5 at the Localization World Conference in Berlin which continues until tomorrow. This version comes with two new features: InSync Master Asset Management (MAM), and MultiPoint Flexible Routing technology (MFR).

A new version of YouDu Web CMS designed specifically for professional associations, government, e-commerce websites and intranets has been unveiled by the UK-based Big Oxford Computer Company (BOCC).

Internet Simplicity (site), a Silicon Valley-based company who launched a visual web editor last year has just moved into the world of web content management systems with the launch of a suite offering, you guessed it, simplicity of use and ways to solve common content management problems.

The company describes the entire solution -- web editor and CMS -- as a user-friendly platform requiring no technical skills and comes in two versions: TypeRoom Lite and TypeRoom Professional.
 

Earlier this year in an interview, George Grippo, VP Media Asset Management at North Plains, indicated that many Digital Asset Management (DAM) vendors are struggling to cope with the special requirements of video asset management.

While he didn’t explicitly say in the interview that North Plains (news, site), a rich media and DAM solution vendor, was working on a solution to do just this, this week’s release of their latest version of Telescope Video Manager shows that they were.

Available as an on-site or SaaS solution, the Telescope Video Manager provides a relatively inexpensive solution that even novices can use in the creation, editing and distribution of short and long form video across multiple platforms like YouTube and other social networks.

CrownPeak (news, site), a provider of SaaS web content management solutions, now has a home in the heart of New York City. The newly opened East Coast office will be run by Scott Samios, who used to work for Omniture as a regional director.

Samios is a seasoned executive with more than 15 years of experience with expertise in business development and online marketing.

The new Manhattan office in the epicenter of interactive marketing will focus on CrownPeak's roster of East Coast creative and interactive agency partners, including Molecular and The Berndt Group.

Location, location, location… CrownPeak has, certainly, picked the right city to work their agency magic.

Samios said that digital agencies "need to take control of the visitor experience from the ad through the on-site success metric." How do you achieve this in the best way possible? By using the marketing-centric and SaaS-based CrownPeak CMS, of course.

"My goal will be to help our interactive agency partners in this region develop both a technology platform and a content process that delivers on the true promise of marketing ROI," concluded Samios.

A new set of business management applications that can be hosted on-site, from a data center, or as a SaaS has just gone on general availability (GA) from Virgina-based Acumatica.

Describing the new package as an economic alternative to traditional ERP and CRM systems, the company says it can be used enterprise-wide once a server license has been acquired.

And to ensure as deep a market penetration as possible, the GA launch is supported by a number of resellers, who are already bringing it to market.

Last year when EMC (news, site) finally unveiled its updated version of Documentum -- v6.5 -- it offered the promise of “balance between business agility and IT control.”

While it came chock-a-block with new Web 2.0 abilities, for Wipro, the global IT solutions provider, the new document and record management abilities prompted them to develop a new Hosted Document Management (HDM) solution leveraging Documentum.

Unveiled at last week’s EMC World 2009, the new solution, which is entirely scalable, is already available for interested companies.

Anyone working in marketing will know that while your customers won’t love you for offering poor service, your competitors definitely will. Perhaps with that in mind, SaaS web content management solutions provider CrownPeak (news, site) has really been pushing the customer service side of their business over the past year with at least one notable success.

The success this time comes as a finalist – for the second year running – in the Best Customer Service Department category of the American Business Awards 2009 (the ‘Stevies”). The awards ceremony next month will be the culmination of a judging process that began in March and only finished recently.

Softlayer (news, site), a Texas-based provider of on-demand virtual data center services, has been approved as a partner in the Microsoft Hosting BizSpark Program.

Hosting Partners are partners who can provide hosting services for SaaS solutions developed by BizSpark Startups. Startups that intend to deploy a product on the Internet within 12 months of enrollment are encouraged to engage a Hosting Partner to assist them in hosting their application on the internet.

Hosting Partners obtain Microsoft server products to provide hosting services to startups directly from Microsoft under their Service Provider License Agreement with Microsoft.

Working out of facilities in Dallas, Seattle and Washington DC, Softlayer was created in 2005 and integrates all aspects of IT development to create automated solutions for clients that gives them security, scalability and easy manageable IT infrastructures.

Chief Strategy Officer for Softlayer said participation in the programme would enhance their ability to offer clients dynamic platforms at critical stages in their business development.

A new platform that fuses online collaboration, community development, content management and business tools has just been unveiled over the weekend by Concursive Corporation. The new solution, which includes an open source version, ConcourseConnect will enable users to create online communities with embedded Web 2.0 tools like blogs, forums and wikis

Xenos (news, site) has been doing enterprise content management for around a quarter of a century providing cross industry solutions for enterprise content management and enterprise report management . The company celebrates its achievements with IBM's ECM Software ValueNet Strategic Technology Partner of the Year Award for 2008. What are the capabilities that IBM thinks so highly of?

Vivvo (news, site), the simple PHP-based Web content management system that we noted lacks basic capabilities but is still suitable for small publishers, is extending its arms.

In what’s undoubtedly an attempt to nab some extra fans (and do away with the burden of downloading), the company is now offering hosted trial versions of their solution, free for the asking. The next step, according to the founder, is to provide a full SaaS CMS offering.

A new set of semantic tools that enables users to track, monitor and manage content on websites has just been unveiled by UK-based website quality monitoring solutions provider Magus.

Particularly useful for companies concerned about compliance monitoring, ActiveStandards Aboutness Reports (ASAR) gives enterprises, especially those with multiple sites, a significantly enhanced view of website content.

While there are many Enterprise Content Management Systems that include a ‘birds-eye’ view of content, Magus’s new tool – powered by the Thomson Reuters OpenCalais service – can tell if your content is up-to-date, on-topic, on-brand and search optimized.

As an added attraction it comes as a SaaS.