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SpringCM, an enterprise document management vendor, has announced that KMWorld Magazine has placed its Software-as-a-Service platform in the Trend-Setting Product List of 2008.

Another one bites the dust -- er -- makes the list. KMWorld's List of Trend Setters for 2008 also includes Ektron and their CMS400.Net content management solution.

Now you all know who Ektron is, they are the little guy that beat out the likes of Vignette, Microsoft, Open Text, Oracle, SDL Tridion, Sitecore, EMC and others for top spot in Gartner's MarketScope for Web Content Management 2008. The only one they didn't "beat" was Interwoven.

According to Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor-in-chief, "Ektron has proven that they are committed to providing both quality and excellence in their solutions that benefit the customer experience."

Other than winning all these awards, Ektron's been pretty busy this year. They opened offices in Canada, brought social networking into the office as part of their solution offering, integrated CMS400.net with Silverlight, launched a new partner portal and more. Whew...busy little beavers aren't they.

Now on version 7.5 of the web content management solution CMS400.Net, we expect to see even more from these guys over the next little while.

While we don't argue with these vendors making the list -- in fact, in most cases it's easy to see why they do -- it would be nice if KMWorld was a little more specific on what "trend setting" really means and how it applies to each vendor. Maybe we'll see more detail in the Septemeber issue of the magazine when the list is released in full.

Yes, that's right, KMWorld has released it's list of Trend-Setting Products for 2008 and we have yet another vendor announcing they made the list. This time it's iDatix and it's enterprise content management solution iSynergy.

The 12th annual KMWorld and Intranets Conference and Exhibition is scheduled for September 23 – 25, 2008, in San Jose, California. This year's theme, Driving Enterprise Innovation and Achievement: User-Focused Tools and Practices, emphasizes the myriad of new ways to communicate, collaborate and exchange knowledge within the enterprise.

The event will also cover such hot topics as ECM, intranet and portal strategies, enterprise 2.0, knowledge sharing, enterprise search and much more.

JustSystems, a Japanese software vendor specializing in XML and information management technologies, announced that XMetaL, the company's XML-based software for structured authoring and content collaboration, has been selected as a 2008 KMWorld Trend-Setting Product.

KMWorld has published it's annual list of 'Companies That Matter' in Knowledge Management. Editor Hugh McKellar and an esteemed board of industry-savvy judges have sifted through the marketing gloop, sorted the wheat from the chaff, held up the KM Champions and banished the chancers and n'er do wells to eternal KM oblivion.

Until next year, at least.

I am always skeptical of any "Year's Best" award given out well before the year has finished. I liken it to movies that premier in January and call themselves the "must-see movie of the year." It always seems a little too premature.

In this case, I'll make an exception. Nstein's Ntelligent Content Management Suite, which has the unique ability to relate to both publisher and consumer, has deservingly been crowned one of the “Trend-Setting Products of 2007” as named by KMWorld magazine.