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Open Text (news, site) launched Open Text Media Management 7, the next version of its Artesia-acquisition-based Digital Asset Management (DAM) product.

Among new features -- redesigned user interface, business process management automation; as well as integration with ECM, WCM and mobile devices.

Open Text (news, site) is starting to reveal its plans in regards to the recently closed deal on Nstein Technologies. Just as we thought, the first bets are on Nstein’s Text Mining Engine (TME) -- now known as Open Text Content Analytics -- and its integration with the entire Open Text Enterprise CMS Suite.

Semantic search has been the new black in the high fashion of content management and the industries around it. Nstein (news, site), a provider of Web CMS, DAM and text-mining technologies, just released a new product -- which they say is more flexible, intuitive and extensible than Google Search Appliance -- called Semantic Site Search, or the “new kind of site search,” as the vendor humbly refers to it.

We had a chance to get an early demo and talk to Eric Williams, Nstein’s product manager, who told us all about his "little baby" under the code-name 3S. It may be a newborn, but it comes with a strong featureset of multi-index federated search, embedded Text Mining Engine, semantic widgets and a more flexible presentation layer.

Despite going through turbulent times, Vignette announced upcoming availability of an update to its Vignette Media product. We covered Vignette Media last year, when it just came out. And yes, we expressed a bit of skepticism then.

The new Vignette Media 7.1 is still positioned as a digital media publishing platform aimed at TMEs (telecommunications, media and entertainment) and CMEs (communications, media and entertainment).

Using this platform, organizations can upload, publish and manage rich media, video, editorial and marketing content across multiple websites. The goal is still to be able to manage, promote and sell digital assets; as well as capture advertising revenue.

There doesn’t seem to be much detail yet on what new and/or improved functionality will be available in the upcoming release, but there’s a microsite here if you want to poke around.

Some of the known Vignette Media 7.1 features seem to include improved DAM and ingestion of large volumes of media assets. Plus -- some visual mechanisms to better manage data.

Vignette Video Services module remains to be part of this offering. So we, probably, should expect some improvements related to management of video assets.

Vignette Media 7.1 should be available in the second half of 2009. By then, all logistics of the Vignette acquisition by Open Text should be sorted out, but we don’t expect Open Text to have much influence on the upcoming release.

Web CMS vendor Bitrix announced new editions of Bitrix Site Manager for managing enterprise portals, media portals, large e-stores and other sites with high traffic or content volume.

You can now choose from the Bitrix Site Manager Premium or Ultimate Editions — both touted as “robust and proven technology frameworks.”

KMWorld magazine has selected Nstein Technologies’ Web Content Management (WCM) as a “KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of 2008”. Nstein’s WCM product joins another Nstein creation, Text Mining Engine (TME), in earning the honor, with TME being named a trend-setting product for the past few years.

WCM is a content management system that has many familiar and useful features including content editing workflows, content tagging, and metadata management. WCM is engineered by Nstein to make it possible for content creators and editors to manage content without necessarily having to involve technical staff. WCM is build on web standards and utilizes declarative XML to allow its users to customize the site’s content layout and look/feel.

WCM 4, Nstein’s latest version, features a semantic assistant to help tie content together to create a sticky customer experience. Also, the backoffice of the product has been re-designed to make publishing content easy and quick. The editorial dashboard is customizable, allowing site administrators to tailor the content management user interface to their staff’s needs.

KMWorld selected the list 2008 trend-setting products by evaluating product’s ability to deliver astounding customer value.

And by “media,” in this case, we mean TME — Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment — companies. These verticals are being targeted by the Enterprise CMS provider Vignette with its new publishing platform designed specifically for the TME. It is called, naturally so, Vignette Media.

Re-using many of the already existing modules, Vignette gets creative in Q3 with the new solution that promises to “allow content-based companies to create and manage digital storefronts, online games and UGC-based communities from a single interface.”