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eMag Solutions (news, site), provider of enterprise content management (ECM) and electronic discovery solutions will introduce the launch of PreVu 3.0 this week at the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) conference in Washington, D.C.

PreVu 3.0, a hosted raw data culling application, allows corporations and law firms to sort, search and filter electronically stored information (ESI).

Google (news, site) gave more power to administrators who have to integrate offline and cloud-stored data with a collection of new Google Search Appliance (GSA) connectors -- all in the name of quicker and higher ROIs.

In its quest to make all data, wherever it hides, available to Google's monstrous search tools, the company has released a new collection of Connectors that help tie together yet more data that may be hiding in previously inaccessible corners of an enterprise's systems.

Among the new Connectors is one for Salesforce which allows the Google Search Applicance to search any data in the salesforce.com CRM. As Salesforce is a big thing in many organizations, making that data available to users and help them find client information that may be stored in databases, spreadsheets and other resources.

Additionally, improvements have been made in the existing connectors for content management systems, including SharePoint, Documentum, FileNet. Notably, the SharePoint connector adds 64-bit Windows support, batch authorization and multiple site collection.

The release of Kentico (news, site) CMS v4.1 sees a number of upgrades to the Czech ASP.NET-based Web CMS that go beyond the usual bug fixes associated with a one point step-up.

Principal amongst those are an upgraded search engine, enhanced multilingual features and a new interface that enables the easy upload and manipulation of images.

If we don’t sound excited -- or even surprised -- well, that’s what you get for outlining exactly what you are going to include in your next update five months before you do it. Keeping promises is good though. All that really remains is to see whether Kentico CMS 4.1 has everything promised.

There are many solutions available for eDiscovery. Yesterday, we talked about Clearwell Systems' initiative for updating data without having to move it.

Today, Recommind (news, site) says there's no need to go back and add or change keywords when you can have a concept search engine that knows all the keywords for you.

Recommind with its Mindserver Categorization focuses on enterprise and legacy data and provides some tools that aim to make records management a little easier.

Since my old company, Document Sciences, was bought by EMC, I have been following the Enterprise Content Management market closely; The Fortune 500 have invested billions of dollars in databases and ERP technologies leading to multi-billion dollar franchises such as Oracle, SAP, etc. focused on the structured data world.

However, the next frontier of productivity will come from the unstructured data that includes your emails, you-tube videos, word document, power point presentations, pictures, etc.

What recession? That must be the question asked at Vyre (news, site) who has recorded a revenue rise of 81% compared to the first half of 2008 thanks to sales of its Unify CMS.

Memopal (news, site) improves its mobile access and search to the company's cloud storage facility with Cloud Search 2.0.

If you already use Memopal's online storage service (which we've covered recently), you can use its Cloud Search 2.0 feature for free. It lets mobile users, with a particular focus on all those lovely iPhone owners, search their own files which are kept remotely stored for easy access, from anywhere on the planet.

The search engine makes use of Memopal's own Memopal Global File System (MGFS) to provide rapid results. So, if you have masses of data stored on the service, you can track down documents, data or other files faster than manually opening them all on a computer and wading through them manually.

The files that you access in the cloud when using the Memopal service are monitored, so the most commonly used are prioritized at the top of the search stack and more readily accessible.

While you can't open the files on a mobile device, you can make them available to others. So, when the inevitable call comes in from a boss or client for all documents about "Company X", you can provide the answer and access, wherever you are and without needing a laptop at hand.

There is a 30-day trial for those wanting to try out, those wanting a little more involvement can join a beta test for 60 days.

BA Insights, a provider of content connectors, has just released the latest in a line of application connectors for SharePoint: Salesforce Connector for SharePoint.

The Salesforce Connector enables you to access data in Salesforce.com CRM applications and Force.com cloud-based applications within SharePoint search.

Adjusting your pricing model to bring more customers to your door has become a common theme lately. Vorsite (news, site), a provider of enterprise content connectors, has offered up their new pricing model designed to not only help them, but SharePoint as well.

It's been a while since we heard from Laserfiche (news, site), the company that was then busy launching its enterprise content management system Rio.

However, recently Laserfiche announced the availability of  Weblink 8, which they say, will significantly expand Rio by enabling developers to build a portal site without having to bother with any of the tiresome coding usually associated with such projects.

British companies CogniDox (site) and Flax (site) reckon the typical user gets over 1.5 GB of data in a day, including documents and streamed content, and thinks that repository search is the answer.

How many times have you been on a website and wanted to find something, only to find that it didn't have a search box, or worse yet, that its search was crap. Probably more than you'd like to admit.

Well Squiz (news, site) doesn't want those websites to be any of theirs. And they've made an acquisition that will go a long way towards supporting search on websites that use their MySource Matrix web content management system.

With all the talk of new solutions, new technologies and new versions of technologies, it would be hard to imagine that a considerable number of companies are still having problems with the basics of digital asset management (DAM).

That would appear to be one of the primary conclusions of a new report released by the Aberdeen Group (news, site) for Widen, a provider of web-based digital asset management applications. The report says that only half of Best-in-Class organizations (53%) indicated they currently have searchable access to content.

Some technology partnership announcements make complete sense. Others leave you scratching your head as you try to decide what these people were thinking.

The announcement that Lucid Imagination (news, site) and ISYS Search Software (news, site) have partnered to combine their search technologies is fortunately not the latter.

Creating an effective search results page takes hard work. In the first installment of this article, I introduced how designers need to understand the users' tasks and ensure every result delivers great scent. In this installment, I'll elaborate on the specific principles of the scent of information that play an important role when designing search results.