Marklogic News & Articles

MarkLogic has announced the latest version of their XML database. MarkLogic is making it clear with the latest release, MarkLogic 5, that NoSQL newbies aren’t the only ones that can do big data.

MarkLogic (news, site), which we all know from its work with Big Data, has received another stamp of approval that should in the future result in some significant contracts from the US government -- in particular with intelligence, military and secret agencies that most of us have never even heard of, but that we all suspect exist.

Things happen quickly in the industry, including changes in employment. Here's a quick and dirty list of the biggest moves that hit our radar over the last couple of weeks: 

MarkLogic (news, site) has a new CEO and he thinks it's time to bring MarkLogic into the limelight as the go-to provider for information management.

Only a matter of weeks after it released v4.2 of its server, MarkLogic (news, site) has released a set of Microsoft toolkits that enable users to access content that has been created in Office and reuse it in other documents from within Microsoft Office.

It’s been over a year since the last version of MarkLogic (news, site) server was released. With the release of v4.2 this week however, MarkLogic adds significant new features to the database including Information Studio, which the company describes as an “Extract, Transformation, Loading (ETL) tool", and enhancements to recovery functionality.

From my ECM-er perspective, the reason the iPad is so important is because it marks the beginning of the end of the old generation of publishing, and the popularization of e-publishing.

Mark Logic (news, site) has just announced that it is providing a new line of cloud services that will enable customers to access and use the MarkLogic server on Amazon EC2.

Apart from the fact that they will now be able to use Mark Logic software on a pay-per-hour basis, they will also be able to subscribe to it directly from Amazon Web Services for ease of access, and use only what they need to use.

By definition, being an innovative company means providing a service that is new and different. But with the sheer number of companies all vying for the same status, it can be a bit difficult to pinpoint which are providing something truly out of the ordinary, and which are just full of fluff.

IDC recently helped clear a path in the confusion by compiling a list of what they feel are the top underdogs, or, as they put it, Innovative Information Access Companies Under $100M to Watch. We're happy to report that included on that list are three very familiar names: FatWire, MarkLogic and Recommind.

The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.

Highlights of the Week

• SharePoint 2010, A Business Collaboration Platform. Coming down the pike is the latest version of Microsoft's SharePoint. Here's an early peek.
•  Nuxeo Galaxy: Extending Enterprise CMS to CEVAs. Nuxeo, being quite a busy bee lately, launched their Galaxy Program. No, astronautical adventures are not included.
• Plone Web CMS Update - What's Coming in v4. Following the PLIP process, the Plone 4 Framework Team has polished off their list of what's to be included in this release.
• A Quickie with Microsoft Office 2010. The ol' suite is most certainly a seasoned player, which, so far, has proved its ability to keep up with the changing times.
• Hannon Hill Updates Web CMS to v6.2, Improvements Aplenty. After only a month of testing Cascade Server 6.2 Beta, which was released on June 9th, the official release of v6.2 incorporates all the major changes in the beta version plus a few fixes.
• Mark Logic Launches New Application Services, Updates Core Software. World, meet both MarkLogic Server 4.1 and MarkLogic Application Services 1.0.
• New Software Glues Alfresco Enterprise CMS to Scalable Storage. It was inevitable that tighter integration between the two was on the way, and yesterday they formally announced the launch of the Alfresco2CAStor connector between the two platforms.
• Socialtext Offers Cheap Microblogging  for Your Intranet. Take a look at the new Socialtext Microblogging Appliance. It’s like Twitter for your Intranet, and it’s only a dollar per user, per month.

Most Popular Articles

And these are the articles you couldn't get enough of during the past week -- if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So, what was your fancy? SharePoint 2010, Social Media and Drupal SEO.

• SharePoint 2010, A Business Collaboration Platform. Now Microsoft gives us a bird's eye view into what SharePoint 2010 is really going to look and behave like. Time to take a little tour.
• More Moms Ditch Magazines, Turn to Social Media. Once, all that was needed to identify a mom was her jeans. Now, it's her twitter handle.
• Drupal SEO - 5 Must Do Configurations. Some people say that system X is better than system Y for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes. This may be true to some degree. But I've never seen a serious Web CMS project that expected to use the software without any configuration or modifications.
• Open Atrium: A Drupal Based Intranet Ecosystem. Open Atrium, now officially in its public Beta phase, is an open source starter intranet package that includes popular tools like blogs, wikis, a calendar, to-do lists, a ticketing system and microblogging.
• SharePoint 2010: Developer and IT Professional Outtakes. In this sneak peek, let's look at what's new for developers and IT professionals.
• Microsoft Silverlight and Expression Hit the Big 3 Mark. What's new under the hood of Silverlight 3 and Expression 3.
• WordPress 2.9 Takes Aim at Multi Media. Things are moving pretty quickly in the Web CMS world, as usual. Accordingly, hot on the heels of WordPress 2.8 comes an announcement about 2.9.

The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming

If you're looking to advance your career, or if your org has got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers, you're in luck. Catch the best fish of the season on our on our content management job board.

Featured Jobs:

• CTO with Drupal experience needed in San Francisco at Drupal Staffing
• Jr. Drupal CMS Engineer at North American Travel Journalist Assoc
• Drupal Developers needed in San Francisco (relocation ok) at Drupal Staffing
• Software Engineer - Knowledge Management at Amazon
• Visual Designer at Lime Wire

Whether Traveling or Virtual, There are Events to Attend

Wondering how to spend your time in the next few weeks or months? Attend a conference or maybe just a webinar or two. Have a look at our new Events Calendar to see what's happening in your area.

Featured Events:

• Usability Week Sydney 2009 July 27 - Aug 1, conference
• Drupalcon Paris 2009 September 1, Conference
• IDEA Conference 2009, Toronto, Canada September 15-16, Conference
• Adobe MAX 2009, Los Angeles, CA October 4-7, Conference

Today’s a double whammy kind of day for Mark Logic (news, site). The information-centric applications provider not only has a new version of their flagship solution to parade around, but a new product for designing, developing and deploying applications as well.

World, meet both MarkLogic Server 4.1 and MarkLogic Application Services 1.0.

"We have to know about our customers better because by 2012, it's likely that 75% of the content we interact with will be delivered to us based on what is known about us." says Whit Andrews, Vice President of Enterprise Search at Gartner.

"Crowds are smartest when the people in them are encouraged to act as individuals as much as possible," says James Surowiecki, author of the best-selling business book The Wisdom of Crowds and the opening keynote presenter at the MarkLogic User Conference yesterday, in San Francisco.

In his keynote address James explained why the power of the crowd trumps individual contributions 90% of the time. Let's have a look.

We've met the enemy and he is us.

It’s a fact, knowledge workers not only produce much of their tangible intellectual work via e-mail, but also implicitly form useful social networks, collaborate with geographically dispersed colleagues, and create organizational knowledge through the daily exchange of hundreds of e-mails.

As useful and necessary as e-mail is, it stills overwhelms us and costs businesses US$ 900 billion a year in lost productivity, according to research by New York analyst firm Basex.

Add to that the persistent loss of actionable knowledge -- because it's buried deep inside mail folders -- and you have yourself a nice little problem.

What can one do about this?

The brains at MarkLogic (news, site) think they have answers. And they are holding a webinar next Thursday to share them. The event is entitled: Reducing Information Overload: Turn Email into an Asset and will run Thursday, April 30th at 2pm ET / 11am PT.

What you will learn:

• How the corporate e-mail glut continues to cost businesses time and money 
• How to re-capture technical expertise for the entire organization
• How MarkMail -- an enterprise infrastructure tool -- is transforming the way we do e-mail archiving, e-mail search and knowledge management
• How Mark Logic uses MarkMail to eliminate chronic re-creation of repetitive knowledge, reduce unnecessary interruptions, and easily create an interactive knowledge system

Better Management of Email-borne Knowledge

MarkLogic's public MarkMail project celebrated its one year anniversary this past December. They set up this demo of the technology to give the public an accessible view into what they were capable of. To date they've cataloged over 7,000 public mailing lists with more than 37 million email messages, and the site is getting over a million unique visitors per month.

The idea is that email needs to be better leveraged. The company aims to deliver what Basex calls Friction Free Knowledge Sharing. With MarkMail email is the content source, allowing your organization to turn the "by-product of daily work into organizational knowledge."

Ready to learn more? Register today.

With the growing demand for instant delivery of content in a variety of formats via Web, print, mobile and e-reader devices, semantically qualified XML-based content management systems are getting focused scrutiny by developers. The use of structured XML lends itself to isolation and delivery of specific related content. An important consideration for all publishers wishing to maximize delivery of  the data they create, aggregate and disseminate. MarkLogic has partnered with DPCI deliver a new set of XML-based publishing solutions that may just be the answer to many publishers prayers.