Justsystems News & Articles

It’s been busy release-wise in the document management space with the recent upgrade to EMC’s Captiva, the addition of 3D imaging to JustSystems XMetaL authoring software, Colligo offering a private beta of its Office 365 integration, and two mobile apps from Quickoffice and enprovia that make mobile document management easier.

Wikipedia is probably the world's biggest and most successful collaborative writing project. The free, web-based, multilingual encyclopedia offers site visitors millions of articles written by volunteers around the world.

Ah yes, collaboration. For many businesses, collaborative writing is almost synonymous with "pain" and practically the definition of "necessary evil." But think: On Wikipedia, collaboration is so not-painful that people do it for free. What is Wikipedia doing right that corporations aren't? What is Wikipedia's lesson for corporations about how to make collaboration work?

In what SDL (news, site) is describing as a “significant” deal, the information management vendor has bought Dutch XML editor developer Xopus in a deal that will initially cost €1.6 million (US$ 1.97 million), but could cost in the region of € 2 million (US$ 2.46 million) when it is finally closed.

New versions of JustSystems' (news, site) XMAX and XMetaL Developer now play nicely with the latest XML implementation and Microsoft OS.

Take the on-demand approach to XML via this interesting tie-up between JustSystems (news, site) and Stilo.

Companies that adopt structured content have consistently seen it accelerate the creation, simplify the maintenance and improve the quality of their content. They've seen structured content drive higher quality information, reduced publishing costs and faster times to market for their technical manuals, policy documents, financial information and other content and content-based products and services.

So how does an organization -- a department, division or an entire company -- get on the structured content bandwagon? Or, if it's already on the bandwagon, how does it expand the use of structured content within its operations? Here's a start.

It must have been some party at JustSystems (news, site)  when they celebrated the tenth birthday of XMetaL because we haven’t really heard a lot from them, until now. They have just announced the launch of XMetaL Author Enterprise and Reviewer 6.0.

Anyone familiar with JustSystems’ XMetaL will be familiar with earlier versions of both products, which combined, give users collaborative XML authoring and powerful document reviewing tools.

However, they haven’t just upgraded the two products; they have also integrated them in a move that provides authors with the tools to inititate and manage reviews, as well as specialized editing commands that enable authors act as soon as problems are flagged.

The cat’s outta the bag—we’ve got a birthday in the house!

Yesterday JustSystems (news, site), provider of XML and information management technologies, announced that their flagship product has been around for ten whole years.

XMetal is a powerful solution for structured content authoring and collaboration. It can be used as a stand-alone solution or as an integrated application with various content management and publishing systems including EMC's Documentum, IBM's FileNet and Microsoft's SharePoint. Using industry standards including Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), XMetaL enables content creators to create, collaborate, and reuse information that can be repurposed into the languages and formats customers need.

With a little bit going on for everyone, XMetaL boasts user-friendliness and ease of use for the technically challenged as well as powerful features for tech fanboys and fangirls.

"XMetaL has been one of the industry's top choices for the last ten years because customers can easily achieve a measurable return on investment as a result of their XMetaL implementation," said Aaron Deitcher, vice president of North America and EMEA for JustSystems.

Cut yourself a slice of cake, break out the bubbly, and learn more about XMetal here. 

Continuing to move and shake the world of XBRL are our friends at JustSystems (news, site), who after announcing their new XBRL Report a couple weeks ago are back again with a partnership to leverage data aggregation, content creation and publishing of financial reports using the business reporting language.

The new partnership with XML server provider Mark Logic (news, site) was announced at the Mark Logic User Conference earlier this month in San Francisco.

Japan’s JustSystems (news, site) has announced the launch of its beta program for xfy eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). Claiming it’s the first of it’s kind, the XML solutions providers designed the program specifically for people who’ve spent nights dreaming of the day they’d be able review and analyze the typically unreadable XBRL data.

Isn’t that considerate?

It has often been said that necessity is the mother of invention. In current times, with recession depriving many businesses of the barest survival necessity – cash - invention is key to getting through the next 12 months.

In this respect then, the recent announcement from XML and Information Management software vendor JustSystems (news, site) that Keyence Corp, a developer of sensors for factory automation, is to take a 44% stake -- worth US$ 44.7m -- in the Japanese vendor is logical.

The logic in this case being take the money where you can find it.

A new version of an XML and DITA authoring tool that can be used with SharePoint (news, site) has been unveiled by JustSystems (news, site), the Japan-based vendor of enterprise software for information management.

Extending the SharePoint platform, XMetaL Author Enterprise provides an easy-to-use content creation solution that utilizes XML and DITA to manage content more efficiently with an interface that even novices can use.

News and events from around the content management industry are coming in faster than we can cover them. But we don't want to let them disappear into the unknown. Here are a few that we didn't get to that may interest you.

Bridgeline Unifies Content Management, Analytics and eCommerce with iAPPS: Offers Bridgeline customers a superior user experience through tighter and deeper product integration, more timely and targeted data for improved decision making and additional functionality for more effective management of web content

JustSystems Bolsters Content Contribution Capabilities in XMetaL Reviewer: Re-enforcing the collaboration and review role as central to document creation, this latest version lets subject matter experts and others contribute directly to the document.

McLaren Software Releases Enterprise Engineer Web Services: Designed for organizations in the Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Life Sciences, Natural Resources, Process Manufacturing Industries, Enterprise Engineer manages the processes around the creation, management and use of engineering documentation.

JurInnov Increases Document Review Efficiency:  Upgrades to Ringtail Legal™ On-Demand have resulted in increased document review productivity and efficiency, more streamlined customer service and an expanded infrastructure to support growth.

Xenos unveils document storage reduction solution for enterprise content management: "A document storage reduction strategy can result in massive recurring cost savings, freeing up valuable IT budget for more important strategic initiatives and staffing."

When President Obama appointed his new federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, last week, Kundra announced ambitious plans to "democratize" federal government data by making it accessible in open formats and in data feeds. His plan calls for the creation of a single point of access to all public federal information. The idea is to enable the data to be accessed by developers whose applications will open up federal data to the sunlight of millions of citizens by encouraging them to scrutinize how the Recovery Act’s dollars will be spent.

Big time Japan-based software vendor JustSystems is working hard to get everyone on the same page. Their latest release, XMetaL Author Essential, lets content creators generate content that can easily be repurposed into different languages and formats for multi-channel publishing.