ScholarOne® Launches Web Services for Application Information Exchange (ScholarOne)

Charlottesville, VA – February 28, 2006 ScholarOne, Inc., the leading provider of Web-based workflow and management solutions for scholarly publishers, is pleased to announce Web services for Manuscript Central™ version 3.4.

Google Base will get e-commerce functions (InfoWorld)

Google makes it easier for people to buy items using their Google Accounts

Ask seeks answers without Jeeves (FT)

Media mogul Barry Diller is stepping up the battle for a share of the search market with Monday’s global relaunch of Ask Jeeves, the number four US search engine acquired for $1.85bn by his internet conglomerate, IAC/InterActiveCorp.

Google Desktop for the enterprise remains controversial (InfoWorld)

Feature for searching across computers incites concerns about privacy, security

Ask Jeeves' Relaunch Does Little to Clarify Future Strategy (Gartner)

Ask Jeeves has relaunched as Ask.Com, emphasizing its consumer-focused search features. This relaunch is missing several features popular with consumers, but Ask.com remains a rich search offering.

Google's Web page hosting service closed to new users (InfoWorld)

Google launched an early test version of a Web page creation and hosting service on Thursday and hours later stopped accepting sign-ups, citing overwhelming demand.

IBM Positioned in Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management Software (Market Wire)

ARMONK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/24/2006 -- IBM today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned IBM in the visionary quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management, 2005.*

According to Gartner, this market is attracting end-user organizations that are trying to achieve a single view of product data. Gartner expects to see strong growth across a wide range of industries, including retail, consumer goods, industrial, automotive, life sciences and distribution/wholesale. By 2009, the product information management market is expected to reach revenue of more than $500 million.

Buzzword: Product Information Management (PIM)

Google Preps Strategy For Real-Time Business Search (CRN)

Services To Extend Search's Reach Into Transactions, ERP

Imperia AG mit Schwerpunkt Portalintegration auf der CeBIT 2006 (contentmanager.de)

Auf der CeBIT 2006 finden Sie die Imperia AG mit ihren Partnern Seitenbau GmbH, e-tecture GmbH und Netpioneer GmbH in Halle 3, Stand D31.

Die Imperia AG präsentiert die 8. Version ihres Enterprise Content Management Systems Imperia mit zahlreichen neuen Funktionalitäten auf der CeBIT in Hannover. Dabei liegt der Schwerpunkt der Präsentation auf dem Thema Portalintegration. In diesem Rahmen stellt die Imperia AG verschiedene Möglichkeiten zur Realisierung komplexer Internet- und Intranetportale vor. So steht u.a. die im Herbst fertiggestellte SAP-Portalintegration nun als von SAP zertifizierte Schnittstelle zur Verfügung. Das Zusammenspiel von Imperia 8 mit dem SAP NetWeaver Portal verstärkt die Vorteile beider Systeme zu einem Optimum und schafft erhebliche Synergieeffekte bei der Verwaltung von Unternehmensinhalten. Mit dieser Kombination lassen sich komplexe Unternehmensszenarien mit Standardanwendungen aus den Bereichen ERP, SCM und CRM komfortabel abbilden.

Finding the Right Content (Line56)

It's always a challenge in commerce situations; what IBM has to contribute

We first came across iPhrase in 2003, when we profiled the company's natural-language search contribution to a big call center. A lot has happened to iPhrase in the intervening three years, notably its acquisition by IBM, but the search technology's proposition remains just as relevant in an age of exploding content.

CeBIT 2006: FIRSTSpirit - Professionelles CMS in SAP-Portalumfeld (FIRSTSpirit)

Die zertifizierte Integration des Content Managament Systems FIRSTspirit in die Portaltechnologie von SAP steht im Mittelpunkt des diesjährigen CeBIT-Auftritts des Dortmunder Softwarehauses e-Spirit. Die Lösung, für die sich bereits Unternehmen wie Bosch, EADS Headquarter und Eurocopter entschieden haben, wird dieses Jahr erstmals an zwei Ständen demonstriert: Am SAP-Stand (Halle 4, Stand D12) zusammen mit dem Partner HLP Informationsmanagement und am eigenen e-Spirit-Stand (Halle 3, Stand E47) mit den Partnerunternehmen adesso AG, kernpunkt GmbH und der Würth Phoenix GmbH

Microsoft 'Snaps' Office into Dynamics applications (InfoWorld)

Microsoft Corp. this week introduced a set of tools that connect its Office 2003 suite to data and business processes within its Dynamics back-end applications.


The tools are similar to software, code-named Mendocino, being co-developed by Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) and SAP (Profile, Products, Articles) AG to link Office to SAP's ERP (enterprise resource planning) system.

Microsoft's Office Live services debut with e-mail, Web hosting services (InfoWorld)

The first installment of Microsoft's (Profile, Products, Articles) Office Live initiative landed in beta form last week. No one really thought an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) version of MS Office was imminent, but it was still slightly disappointing to see that Office Live went little beyond the fee-based e-mail, HTML template, and Web hosting services that a range of vendors have offered before to small businesses.

Managing Google Desktop Search (Line56)

Gartner warns users to disable or rigorously control one feature of Google's new enterprise tool

Office 2007 Gets New Forms, Groove Servers (CRN)

Office 12—now dubbed Office 2007—will feature a converged SharePoint and Content Management Server, new forms and Groove collaboration servers and tweaked desktop SKUs.

The week in technology: Office update fails to impress (FT)

It was a busy week for Microsoft as they revealed details of some hotly-awaited new products, while defiantly defending itself against European Union regulators and critics of its actions in China.

Can Google gain a foothold in the enterprise? (InfoWorld)

Partnerships, new software bolster the search vendor's appeal to corporate customers

Google's got its eyes on your corporate data, and if its ability to parlay its whip-smart Web search technology into a vast empire of consumer services is any indication, you may be Googling enterprise apps and data sooner than you think.

For several years, Google (Profile, Products, Articles) has been putting the wheels in motion for a serious enterprise play, but the Web-specific nature of its search has limited its reach. That obstacle may have fallen last week as consulting services company BearingPoint announced a partnership to extend the GSA (Google Search Appliance) throughout the enterprise with services, support, customized plug-ins, and security integration.

Manage Google's Desktop Search Now or Lock It Out (Gartner)

The newest release of Google's desktop search application is fine for technically adept personal users. But the Search Across Computers option should be disabled or heavily managed by enterprises.

Manage Google's Desktop Search Now or Lock It Out (Gartner)

The newest release of Google's desktop search application is fine for technically adept personal users. But the Search Across Computers option should be disabled or heavily managed by enterprises.

Ajax - Week of 02/09/2006 (Analyst Views)

Ajax - Week of 02/09/2006

It was roughly a year ago, with the introduction of Google Maps, that the term Ajax was coined. Ajax, an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is not a technology itself but a web development technique that combines preexisting technologies that have been around for years. A recent report by IDC refers to Ajax as, "A development technique that uses HTML, JavaScript, and often XML to allow Web applications to communicate with web servers and present new information to the user without continually reloading the page." This may not appear on the face to be significant, to many it may be read as 'faster loading web pages,' but it is. The spreading use of Ajax has already raised the bar for Web development; further, there are those that say that Ajax will make desktop applications obsolete. Though IDC does not go that far, they do state that, "Ajax may be the buzzword of 2005, and some of the hype is deserved: it closes one significant gap between Web and desktop applications by allowing Web applications to move away from their traditional, page-based model."

As stated above, one of the first Web applications to make use of Ajax was Google Maps. Google Maps differs largely from prior map programs in that it allows for features such as zooming and rotation without requiring the page to refresh. Prior to this the process was more or less, 'click zoom and wait for the new page to load;' any user of Google Maps will quickly notice its fluidity. Another example of Ajax in action is Gap's (or many other) eCommerce site; here users can get close ups of merchandise or see merchandise displayed in an alternate color without refreshing the page. The NetFlix web site is also a notable user of Ajax; here Ajax is used to present supplemental information about movies when the title is hovered over. This implementation is significant for two reasons, it avoids the need to load all relevant information initially, which would slow the page load, and it does not require the user click on the 'details' link to gain access to such information. Microsoft is also using Ajax in its web-based version of Outlook, as is Google's Gmail. All this shows the power of Ajax on the Web, but what does it mean for the future of desktop applications.

Those that would state that a typical desktop application, for example Microsoft Word, will be replaced by Ajax (or similarly) enabled technologies base the idea, at least in part, on Ajax's ability to store data remotely as it is typed, rather than requiring a user to hit a 'save' or 'enter' key. In this scenario a user could create a document on any PC and have it saved in cyberspace for retrieval from any PC at a later time. This functionality is already available at sites such as Writely.com; it is also the direction that Microsoft Live! is moving in; what Ajax could do is make this possible without an Internet browser.

As far as overtaking common desktop applications there are several barriers that would need to be surpassed for this to happen, at the top of the list are connectivity and code. A true web-based application can only run if the user is connected to the Web with a fast connection; and JavaScript, on which Ajax relies, is not noted for its streamlined code. Despite these barriers, Ajax according to IDC, has already transformed, "Expectations and standards for what a Web application can (and should) do." With the need for desktop applications to be more portable, implementations which allow this will continue to gain in popularity. However, as IDC puts it, "Ajax is hot right now, and many are suggesting that it will make the desktop application obsolete. Remote scripting is worthy of hype and attention, but as with most over-hyped technologies, such claims are extreme. Significant gaps remain between desktop and Web applications."

Here comes Measure Map (Google Blog)

My first post to my blog was a little paragraph about my obsession with cycling, and I remember feeling a little ... let down. Sure, it was remarkably easy. Write. Click a button. Reload. Cool! But then what? It wasn't until someone left a comment that I was hooked. An audience! Someone is reading!

BearingPoint partners with Google to launch Search Solutions Practice (Google)

BearingPoint partners with Google to launch Search Solutions Practice

Fixing Search (Line56)

How IKEA adjusted its online search processes; the whole picture

Schmidt's Google Broadens Gmail Reach (Forbes)

NEW YORK - Troubleshooting e-mail can be pricy for a medium-sized company. So when Google offered Friday evening to host e-mail for private domains belonging to businesses and organizations, the ears of many IT directors perked up.

IKEA Updates Online Search (Line56)

Replacing a bad search process with a good one; kudos, and a look at retail conditions

Blogs reshaping content management tools (InfoWorld)

Blogs and editable Web pages called wikis are gaining popularity with enterprise users, introducing to these organizations a new level of content contribution and participation.

Privacy fears over Google’s new software (FT)

A prominent digital rights group has forcefully urged computers users not to install the latest version of Google’s desktop software, which it says greatly increases the risk to personal privacy.

Lotus Touts Role of Blogs and Wikis (newsfactor.com)

"A lot of what we are doing now is figuring out where this all fits in. These things are not replacements for what we already have," says Duncan Mewherter, development manager for blogs, wikis and feeds at IBM Research. Instead, he describes them as a light layer of collaboration.

IBM/Lotus plans to expand its corporate collaboration tools by adding social relationship, behavior mapping and alerting technology that lets users easily share ideas, data, research and corporate knowledge.

Customers are hoping that the tools can help revolutionize the way their organizations communicate, share data, and analyze information and work patterns. The goal is to help improve collaboration.

At its annual Lotusphere conference, IBM/Lotus showed off plans to infuse its entire collaborative software lineup with social networking technology such as blogs, wikis and syndication feeds. While those tools are changing the face of the Internet, Lotus is adapting the concepts and features for internal corporate use in much the same way instant messaging was adapted for real-time communication.

Analysts still see fuzzy future for MSN as new chief takes helm (InfoWorld)

Industry watchers question how the portal will fit into Microsoft's Web strategy as the company builds out its new "Live" services brand

Setting up a KM Program (Line56)

A wealth of resources and guidelines

Setting up a KM Program (Line56)

A wealth of resources and guidelines

contentXXL – Business Content Management für den Mittelstand (contentxxl)

contentXXL wurde bereits 2003 mit dem Microsoft .NET Solutions Award im Segment Mittelstand ausgezeichnet und erhielt u.a. eine Anerkennung durch die bayerische Staatsregierung für die damit realisierten e-Government Lösungen. Zu den Anwendern von contentXXL zählen u.a. die Siemens AG, T-Com, das Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, die Swiss Olympic Association, Shuttle Computer Europa, Saint-Gobain Isover G+H AG, die Städte Erlangen und Fürth sowie zahlreiche kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen, Verbände und Kommunen.

SpringCM Releases Version 3.0 of its On-Demand Content Management Solution (Business Wire)

SpringCM Releases Version 3.0 of its On-Demand Content Management Solution; New Functionality Gives Businesses Smarter Collaboration, Adds Version Control for Documents and Files

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2006--SpringCM(TM) today unveiled the latest version of its web-based, integrated content management product, which delivers greater collaboration capabilities and content routing for files and documents. The new release underscores SpringCM's commitment to give its customers monthly product innovations.

SpringCM Releases Latest Version of Content Management Solution (Supply & Demand Chain Executive)

New functionality gives businesses better collaboration, adds version control for documents and files

Chicago — February 7, 2006 — SpringCM, an on-demand content management company, today unveiled the latest version of its Web-based, integrated content management product, which it said delivers greater collaboration capabilities and content routing for files and documents.

Gunning For Google (Forbes)

LONDON - The Google guys must be wondering what the hell hit them. For a year or two now, Sergey Brin and Larry Page have been hailed by Wall Street and the press, adored by fiendishly avid users and devoted investors, and all but worshipped by Silicon Valley colleagues and advertisers.

SpringCM to Provide Content Management On-Demand (EContent)

SpringCM has launched as an on-demand content management company for businesses of all sizes. SpringCM provides a way of making sure everyone is on the same document by removing the barriers that businesses have learned to tolerate, such as storage waste, email attachments, and dumb network drives. The company will deliver a suite of on-demand, integrated subscription solutions that incorporates enterprise search, remote storage, collaboration, and content distribution technologies.

Portal Excellence Awards (DMReview)

Each year at DCI's Portals, Collaboration and Content Management Conference, customers and their solution providers compete in the Portal Excellence Awards. At the November 2005 event in Miami, winners were announced in four categories: Best Customer or Partner Portal, Best Employee Portal, Best Content Management System and Best Knowledge Management System.

Microsoft increases funding for computer training (InfoWorld)

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates announced Wednesday that the company will increase funding for a program that provides basic computer training and job skills to people in countries lacking those services.