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What I Mean to Say: A Practitioner Perspective on AI, Semantics, and Content Evolution

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The latest release of the ever popular <a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a> is now out. Version 3.3 brings with it the following changes:
<h3>For Users</h3>
Experienced users will appreciate the new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, the new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and the new Tumblr importer. We’ve also been thinking a ton about what the WordPress experience is like for people completely new to the software. Version 3.3 has significant improvements there with pointer tips for new features included in each update, a friendly welcome message for first-time users, and revamped help tabs throughout the interface. Finally we’ve improved the dashboard experience on the iPad and other tablets with better touch support.
<h3>For Developers</h3>
There is a ton of candy for developers as well. I’d recommend starting your exploration with the new editor API, new jQuery version, better ways to hook into the help screens, more performant post-slug-only permalinks, and of course the entire list of improvements on the Codex and in Trac.
Check out this video showcasing the features:
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WordPress 3.3 is out

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Nuxeo, the provider of an open source content management platform for business applications, today announced the availability of Nuxeo Platform 5.5, a significant upgrade to the company’s unified platform for building and running content-centric applications. Nuxeo Platform 5.5 offers a complete set of enterprise content management applications, including document, digital asset and case management, as well as social collaboration features, mobile readiness and an improved developer experience. It is ideal for deploying a large range of solutions in a single repository – from basic to customized, vertically specific, content-centric applications.
Social Collaboration Nuxeo Platform 5.5 streamlines communications and interactions within enterprises with a novel social collaboration module that enables the capture of project- and community-centric exchanges with a searchable and traceable flow. Features include new social workspaces, an activity stream, circle-based relationship network management and micro-messaging.
“The new social collaboration features are pivotal to the cooperation and sharing of knowledge between our many different communities of students, teachers and researchers,” said Mustapha Alouani, service research and development manager, École Centrale Paris (ECP), an elite engineering school in France. “Working with the Nuxeo team, we have developed a united, integrated solution with the modularity and extensibility to grow with ECP’s use adoption.”
Mobile Android Readiness In addition, Nuxeo Platform 5.5 delivers features to any Android-based mobile device, a giant step towards mobile content management. A ready-to-use Android client SDK is delivered separately, offering API access to power customization, synchronization, client-side storage, and authentication and offline capabilities. The solution also offers an offline mode; documents and content are available on the mobile device even when it is offline, and content and documents are synced back to the server when the connection resumes.
Improved Developer Experience Nuxeo Platform 5.5 is an important step in Nuxeo’s commitment to arming developers with the right tools to boost productivity and improve their experience, providing faster time to market and better quality of content management projects.
Developers building on Nuxeo Platform 5.5 will benefit from Nuxeo IDE features such as the hot reload capability, wizards and templates, as well as a range of new features for Nuxeo Studio, the customization and configuration environment provided as a service for the platform, such as better support for multimedia assets and case-centric applications. User interface and graphic designers will welcome a new theme and style engine that makes it easier to customize the look and feel, offering a simple yet powerful cascading style sheets framework.
As well, architects can build on a unified software platform that meets the requirements of multiple, complex enterprise projects and all content management needs. The single underlying platform and infrastructure now includes modules for document, digital asset and case management, resulting in simpler application maintenance and management.
“Nuxeo’s bundling of platform and application technology, along with the ability for customers to select or deselect modules during installation, is meant to help architects match the application to functional and technical project requirements, and lay the foundation for future changes,” said Kathleen Reidy, from The 451 Group. “This can work because of the openness and modularity of Nuxeo’s ECM platform.”
The modular, flexible architecture of the Nuxeo Platform makes developers more productive by enabling them to focus solely on design and development, and reduces IT costs by easily fitting into any IT strategy, architecture or design with unparalleled ease and maintenance. It also accelerates and automates many of the manual processes of customization work, enabling architects to focus entirely on the specific needs of business applications and function innovations, rather than custom code, ensuring delivery of reliable, sustainable, high-quality code and software that can be easily upgraded without recreating the custom capabilities.
“With Nuxeo Platform 5.5, organizations now have greater control and ease of development with a single software package, and formerly independent products now run together, making the same content available for different use cases,” said Eric Barroca, Nuxeo CEO. “The social collaboration features and Android-readiness also take content management capabilities to a new level of performance we know will be much appreciated by our customers.”
Availability Nuxeo Platform 5.5 is currently available on premise or as platform-as-a-service (PaaS) in the cloud, enabling maximum deployment and management flexibility so organizations are not locked into a single option, whether content, application or infrastructure. The Nuxeo Connect subscription is available to offer support, maintenance and an automated customization toolset with the option of a development-to-deployment environment in the cloud.
For more information on Nuxeo and to download Nuxeo Platform 5.5 visit <a href="http://www.nuxeo.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.nuxeo.com</a>.

Nuxeo Platform 5.5 Takes Content Management into Social and Mobile, and Boosts Developer Experience

docSTAR, a leading provider of document-driven process automation solutions, announced docSTAR version 3.12 document management software. docSTAR 3twelve offers several major enhancements, including expanded rules-based workflow automation, an extensive business analytics reporting tool, new group security features and embedded Active Directory/Lightweight Directory Protocol (AD/LDAP) integration.
“docSTAR 3twelve delivers an improved workflow system, a graphical workflow designer, and a new business analytics reporting tool. Using docSTAR’s sophisticated workflow and business analytics, organizations can automate, monitor, and report on document-driven business processes, which results in greater productivity”, says Ray Emirzian, VP of Product Management. “Additionally, docSTAR 3twelve adds a new level of security and administrative sophistication. IT managers will love how easy the system is to set up and maintain.”
Automated Rules-based Workflows docSTAR 3twelve contains a powerful workflow system that enables unlimited workflow possibilities. The workflow system allows organizations to:
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<li>Distribute documents to users or groups automatically.</li>
<li>Send automatic notifications.</li>
<li>Provide guided user interaction.</li>
<li>Allow automated index information acquisition at any point in the process.</li>
<li>Create any number of automated or user-guided steps that include multiple possible branches.</li>
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About docSTAR docSTAR is a recognized leader of comprehensive and integrated document management solutions. docSTAR allows instant access to documents and immediate cost savings while delivering ease of use, fast implementation, safety, and security. For more information, go to<a href="http://www.docstar.com"> http://www.docstar.com</a>.

docSTAR Releases Version 3.12

Bitrix has announced the release of Bitrix Intranet Version 11.0 (www.bitrixsoft.com/intranet/). This new product version includes such important enhancements as: extended CRM and Time Management, complete Task Management tools, Report Wizard, Activity Stream, comprehensive set of tools for Meetings, mobile version of the Intranet, and over 80 other additions, and improvements made throughout the product.
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<li>The new Activity Stream displays all changes and updates on tasks, work reports, blogs, documents, photo galleries according to user access rights.</li>
<li>The “Like” button – messages, documents, and other items can be ‘liked' in the intranet. More heavily ‘liked' material can be found more easily, and is placed higher in search results.</li>
<li>Tasks and Project Management tools are now equipped with Gantt Chart view, integrated with Reports and Time Management tools, and are also available in the Extranet workgroups.</li>
<li>The new Report Wizard allows creating daily, weekly or monthly reports which can be further analyzed and evaluated by supervisors and department chiefs.</li>
<li>The fully revised CRM is a huge step forward, with integrated tasks, business processes, calendars, bulk email, and super-flexible access settings.</li>
<li>Meetings &amp; Briefings is a start-to-finish tool for scheduling meetings, distributing the agenda, approving the minutes, carrying over topics to the next meeting, and follow-up on decisions.</li>
<li>The mobile version is built in HTML5 and supports Android, iOS, WindowsPhone7. The Activity Stream, employee directory, microblog, documents and tasks are quickly accessible via the mobile intranet.</li>
<li>Document Library module now has more flexible access rights for files and folders, the “Like” button, and a Mozilla Firefox plugin for direct document editing.</li>
<li>Back-end Dashboard with multiple Desktops – the Control Panel in the product's back end now has personalized desktops where chosen gadgets can be arranged as needed.</li>
</ul>
How to upgrade to version 11.0?
Current Bitrix Intranet owners with active subscription for technical support can upgrade to Version 11.0 at no charge using the SiteUpdate feature in the product. The new version is available for download as a free 30-day trial version (<a href="http://www.bitrixsoft.com/download/intranet.php">www.bitrixsoft.com/download/intranet.php</a>), or can be tested online using the instant 3-hour demo (www.bitrixsoft.com/products/intranet/demo.php).

Bitrix Intranet 11.0 is Out: Managing Ideas, Projects, and Social Communications

A new maintenance release of Drupal has been made available. Version 7.10 was released yesterday and aims to resolve several major bugs, including one causing errors with the 5.x branch of Drush, have been fixed this release. See the <a href="http://drupal.org/node/1361968">Drupal 7.10 release notes</a> for a full listing.

Drupal 7.10 released

We recently had an opportunity to interview Steve Allen, CEO of iDatix to get his thoughts on the state of the company, the industry and the challenges they have faced. For those unaware, iDatix produces a document management system called iSynergy. You can visit their <a href="http://www.idatix.com/document-management-software/">website</a> to learn more.
Please tell us a bit about yourself and your background.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/typo3-seven-zero_2c533ba706_pexo4i.png" alt="Steve Allen, CEO of iDatix" />
I have always been a technology driven person with a passion for the creative and aesthetic, and my career has taken me all over the world designing products from robotic systems and emergency vessel location to hand-print character recognition.  My experiences as an engineer have often focused on leveraging technology to literally replace mundane human labor and the user interfaces to make the technology work.  The benefits of this work have been significant for me.  From lifesaving, in the case of a system I designed for the marine radio market, to life liberating as in eliminating the mundane data entry of hand-printed forms.
My creative side has focused on how to make things simple, elegant and intuitive.  I never wanted to create something complex.  I have always seemed to find the “easy” solution and been able to deliver solutions quickly by using previous innovations to build new ones.
In my endeavors, I have not been the politically popular individual in selling the benefits of the technology I have helped to develop and market. I am often accused of eliminating jobs, but I have found more often than not that we actually create many more jobs as a result.  I can look back and see many companies that once empowered with this revolutionary technology, have experienced explosive growth; growing from 30 employees to over 300 or from 150 to 600.
In my transition from an Engineer to a Sales Executive and then a CEO, I have had to reinvent myself from the core and keep myself in a continual state of learning.  I have failed many times and wish I could undo many mistakes, mostly with people and not understanding good leadership and management, but with many books, CEO groups and hard lessons learned, I can say I am getting better.  Today, I am most proud of the children I have raised (seven), the relationship with my wife and the people at our company iDatix. iDatix has been listed as “Best Places to Work in Tampa Bay” for five consecutive years and it is a joy to have such an engaged group of people working toward a common vision to “Simplify the Workplace”.
Who is iDatix and what product / services do you offer?
iDatix has been a technology focused business with a mission to “Simplify the Workplace” for the past 11 years.  We have been very successful at transforming the operations of over 500 companies worldwide and have built a wonderful product base that we truly believe are different and critical for the operations of most businesses.  It is now our new mission to let the world know who we are and how we can make their business better.In laymen’s terms, we help a company go as paperless as possible and then move the work from desktop to desktop or department to department or company to vendor, customers and partners to get work done.  It’s delivering everything to the right person at the right time so they can take action on it, review it and make decisions according to defined business rules, policies and procedures.
Our core product, iSynergy, is a suite of business automation tools that empower an organization to innovate their company’s operations, processes and management.  We provide a solution for merging people, processes and technology into a unified platform for operational effectiveness.  We do this by automating and driving the process of taking action on information and content by employees, partners, vendors and management when and where it is needed.  We eliminate manual operations and processes and replace them with a unified web-enabled solution to make companies more productive and profitable.
You can think of our technology as Document Management, Content Management, E-Forms, Workflow and Business Process Management all rolled into one solution to eliminate the Gaps in any businesses operations.
What separates your product from the large number of contenders in the market?
Our focus on simplicity, ease of use, integration capabilities and business process design tools clearly separate us from the rest of the competition.  iSynergy is a platform solution that provides powerful functionality within a completely web-based architecture.  There is no easier way to design and deploy a complete solution faster than with iSynergy.Because each of the solution modules were specifically designed to operate seamlessly in as an integrated solution it can be maintained and expanded by process owners without the need of IT services.  This enables companies to leverage their investments and compound the returns in our technology.
Progression, our workflow and business process automation tool stands apart of the industry in its capabilities and ease of use.  Simply draw a picture of your business process, define your business rules with point and click ease and then click on implement.  iSynergy’s Progression does the rest, creating a complete web-based solution that automates employee and other manual interactions, tasks, database exchanges, automated notifications, escalations, and real-time reporting with management dashboards and controls.
All of this results in shorter deployment times, reduced costs, reduced risks and a faster payback.
What do you feel has been the biggest challenge of 2010/2011 for your company?
We have always delivered great technical results and success to our clients, but our transition to a more sales and marketing focused company from a technology driven company has been our biggest challenge over 2010/2011.  As the “propeller head” leading our company as CEO, sales and marketing have been difficult to manage, to create a culture and produce repeatable results.  Even with these challenges we have managed to grow, but not at the level our team and products could support.A colleague of mine in a CEO group, after hearing me complain about our sales struggles, told me I had a marketing problem, not a sales problem.  It took over a year for me to really understand how to apply his advice, but we have finally gotten a marketing team that is producing a steady lead-flow that is resulting in more and bigger opportunities.
We will be continuing to nurture a marketing and sales culture here at iDatix through 2012 and beyond to hit the growth curve we have set our vision on.
Currently the market is in the process of recovering from a rather aggressive recession, how did you weather the storm?
Prior to the recession, iDatix was one of the fastest growing companies in Tampa Bay.  We were adding a significant number of employees, preparing for the growth we were experiencing.  When the recession hit, everyone stopped signing the deals in front of them.  Our pipeline timeframes kept growing and deals kept delaying.  In the end, we had to pull back a little and our revenues were flat in 2009 until 2010.  Once everyone saw that things weren’t getting better quickly and that they must also correct for the current economic environment, the deals started to flow again.  Companies realized that they had to do more with less and this actually helped fuel the growth of iDatix once again.In 2010 iDatix grew at nearly 40% and we expect the same growth to continue and even compound over the next few years.
In the realm of document management, what do you feel is the next big thing coming down the pipeline and why?
Document Management has provided great benefits to organizations over the past 20 years.  From the simple archival systems to the new full content management solutions, the challenges facing us in everyday business get more voluminous, complex and require more work to complete.  We have reached the point where document management is critical to business success and you are really crippled in your operations, competitiveness and ability to meet the demands of today’s clients for customer support without it.Moving into the future, we are more connected than ever before and the demands on our time have been increased by mobile technologies.  Businesses no longer have the borders of the office walls or office hours.  Our personal lives have been invaded by mobile technology and business has found its way into our personal lives to a level that can be viewed as pervasive.  But, if we turn that around and look at it as empowering, we can see documents and business tasks being delivered on the mobile platform in new and effective ways to free us from the traditional workplace. By using workflow and business automation together with document and content management we can deliver neatly bundled packages of work to the most qualified and capable individuals anytime anywhere in the world.  We can monitor the productivity, bottlenecks and reassign work instantly with the touch of a phone screen.  Work can be directed, measured and performed at our convenience!
What type of CMS integrations does iDatix offer?iDatix provides a complete set of integration tools at the user level, system level and programmer’s API level.  iSynergy can be integrated in to federated systems or as a component to portal solutions such as SharePoint or other systems.
Do you offer any ERP or CRM integrations?
iSyenrgy has been fully integrated into most ERP, CRM and other key line of business solutions including accounting, medical, manufacturing, banking and others.  Our off-the-shelf integration technology iLink and Data Exchange accelerates the integration process by not requiring any form of programming.  It easily allows end-users to define integration points for document management, content capture or workflow via a simple to use point and click tool that allows you to add buttons to 3rd party applications.
What has been the biggest achievement you or the document management industry have seen this year?
The speed with which companies are delivering mobile and SaaS solutions has been remarkable in 2011.  I think iDatix has the advantage, as our products have been browser and web based since our inception in 2000 and this is especially true of our workflow tools.
Do you have any predictions for 2012?
I believe in 2012 the industry will continue to see growth and consolidation as others try to create “total” business process automation solutions that fill the gaps between employees, processes, systems and management.  To do this you have to manage the documents, content, forms, data, process flow, business rules and management activities.
There are still so many companies running without this technology that need it, or companies that need a technology refresh.
Thank you for your time Mr. Allen, do you have any closing remarks?
It would be great if 2012 were the year that the industry came together to form a new acronym that clearly defined clearly why this technology is so critical for business success.
Here is my stab at it:
Document Oriented Essential Solution Integrated Total Functionality Automated by Systems and Technology
DoesItFast!
Well done sir. Thank you for your time.

Interview with Steve Allen, CEO of iDatix

<a href="http://www.crownpeak.com">CrownPeak</a> has launched its highly anticipated new user interface (UI). The CrownPeak Cloud content management solution (CMS) is the first enterprise-grade CMS to offer a consumer-like interface that enables non-technical users to create and publish content to all digital channels resulting in the ability to run faster and more effective campaigns.
The complexity of multi-lingual marketing into many digital channels combined with regulated publishing environments has resulted in cumbersome workflow interfaces. The new CrownPeak UI removes these complexities and allows digital marketing content to be implemented quickly with a zero learning curve for new system users.
<blockquote>“Web content management plays a vital role in helping global 1000 enterprises achieve major business objectives including: managing the global brand, capturing new customers, launching new products and markets, and retaining customers,” stated Jim Howard, chief executive officer at CrownPeak. “The new CrownPeak user interface fundamentally changes what is expected of an enterprise WCM system. While WCM was once the domain of a select few – essentially an expert-only system – organizations can now expand their content contributor pool dramatically and enhance their online customer engagement as a result.”</blockquote>
The CrownPeak UI presents the entire content management dashboard workflow in one, easy-to-view, comprehensive screen. Content creators no longer need to toggle between multiple windows. They can seamlessly view, add, and share dynamic content, layouts, analytics, lead generation data, and web content optimization information in a single interface. The workflow is intuitively designed so communication with team members, recent file activity, tutorials, best practices tests, targets, and reports can be managed while a preview of the page being worked on remains in view.
IT departments can maintain control of the infrastructure while giving marketers the ability to serve visitors with the right content at the right time. The CrownPeak solution offers pre-integrated frameworks, the ability to deliver Cloud WCM globally without replicating IT infrastructure, and a platform-agnostic solution to import, export and publish data through standard protocols and formats.
“Great user interface design is based on an intuitive application which is not usually found in the enterprise,” continued Howard. “Simplifying common tasks like finding, modifying, and moving content through workflow, but still enabling the power to perform advanced tasks like adjusting workflow or targeting content to specific user segments, all in the same interface, was the requirement. Every CrownPeak customer will have access to a UI that achieves this objective. Furthermore, CrownPeak manages the system upgrade which enables every customer to toggle back and forth between the new and old interface on the day we hit general release. That’s the beauty of SaaS – we ensure that customers constantly receive the newest and most innovative technology.”
In addition to unveiling the new user interface during Gilbane Boston, executives from ACE Group and Progress Software will share product case studies demonstrating the effectiveness of the CrownPeak Cloud SaaS CMS approach. CrownPeak is also participating on a customer and engagement panel discussing how to reach a global audience.
More information about the benefits of a Cloud CMS System can be found in CrownPeak's Resources Library. Enterprises interested in learning more about the new CrownPeak user interface can contact CrownPeak at 800-887-1977 in the US; +44-203-384-6598 in Europe to request a demo or click here for additional contact details.

CrownPeak launches new user interface that dramatically simplifies Web Content Management for global enterprises

Call Tracking + AI 

Call Tracking + AI that Turns Calls into Leads

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<a href="http://granitehorizon.com/">Granite Horizon</a>, a provider of Web-based content management solutions and <a href="http://www.nuxeo.com">Nuxeo</a>, the provider of an open source content management platform for business applications, today announced a partnership.
The new alliance enables Granite Horizon to complement its existing web content management offering with Nuxeo’s extensive content management technology, for functionality ranging from document management to digital asset management to case management, and more.
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“We are delighted to work with Nuxeo, an international leader in enterprise content management,” said Greg McAvoy-Jensen, Granite Horizon executive director.  “Particularly exciting is the advanced workflow management Nuxeo provides, enabling all kinds of business processes to be automated using a graphical design environment. Nuxeo's world class document, case and digital asset management capabilities are a great match for our existing Web-facing platform,” McAvoy-Jensen noted.
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“There is a nice synergy between ECM and WCM solutions, and our clients frequently request this type of connection,” said Nuxeo CEO Eric Barroca. “Granite Horizon is an innovative company in a fast-growing space, and we are pleased to partner with them.”
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Nuxeo’s award-winning partner program continues to grow throughout North America to help expand and promote the Nuxeo ecosystem.

Open Source WCM Implementer Adds Nuxeo Open Source ECM to its Solution Portfoli

In business, it is possible to use various types of software to help make processes more efficient. For instance, the majority of businesses collect data about what is going on in their company; this could be information relating to finance, sales and the type of customers who tend to use their services. <a href="http://www.sage.co.uk/softwaresolutions">Computer software</a> can be used to manage and analyse this data more successfully, meaning it offers as much value to the business as possible and the most accurate results are produced.
Two common types of software used to do this are <a href="http://www.sage.co.uk/crm">CRM software</a> and CMS applications. CRM stands for customer relationship management and it is something that is important for all businesses – no matter whether they use specific software for it or not. CMS stands for content management system, and this can be used to complement a business’s CRM solutions to make sure information is managed as successfully as possible.
This means that CMS and CRM systems can be very useful at supporting each other. Let’s take the example of a small clothing store that is looking to boost its sales and improve the number of customers who offer them return business. That company could use a CRM system to gather information on existing sales. For instance, how many customers do they get every month? How much do they spend? How many customers sign up to the business newsletter? What do they buy?
These are all important questions that can help a business to build better relationships with its customers and the CRM software can also be used to track trends in information. For example, what are the sales of a particular product like before and after a targeted marketing campaign? If there is a sales boost, is it sustainable or is more marketing needed? Information such as this can be used to determine what the business needs to do in order to create better relationships with their customers.
In order to do this, though, the information needs to be managed properly and the actions of the business need to be tracked sufficiently so that the impact of those actions can be determined. This is where CMS can help businesses: it allows staff to collaborate and for multiple employees to work on similar issues, while making sure information stays up to date by recording details on the relevant software.
This can also help with assigning employees specific tasks. For instance, one employee might be tasked with coming up with a marketing campaign to generate more customers – the details of what they do can be entered into CMS systems and the impact of the work can be measured through CRM software. This means that CRM systems and CMS applications are very useful in their own right, but they are arguably even more useful when used in conjunction with each other.
There are various software options available for businesses to choose from, so it’s important for companies to choose the system that will best suit them. Overall, CRM is important for <a href="http://www.sage.co.uk/why-sage/sage-for-bigger-businesses.html">any successful business</a> and so it makes sense to choose software that will help them to do the job well.

The Relationship between CRM and CMS

Delivering on its commitment to help customers grow the value of their enterprise content management (ECM) investment, Laserfiche today announced the immediate availability of Laserfiche 8.3. The new release spans various lines of business, helping organizations improve information governance and automate transactional processes such as accounts payable processing, case management, contract management and HR onboarding, among others.
“We are committed to providing product enhancements that improve the way organizations do business. Over the past year, our customers have begun automating more and more complex business processes, and we developed Laserfiche 8.3 to respond to their needs,” said Tom Wayman, Vice President of Product Strategy at Laserfiche.
Laserfiche 8.3 includes the following new and enhanced features:
• New Workflow activities that improve productivity. With Laserfiche, organizations quickly automate transactional processes by dragging and dropping pre-built workflow activities onto a graphical canvas. o Database activities automate the process of retrieving and updating information from third-party databases, simplifying integration. o PDF activities add immediate value to the product suite by enabling Laserfiche administrators to automatically import PDF forms into Laserfiche, retrieve information from PDF fields and map them to Laserfiche fields. o More than 60 built-in workflow activities make it easier than ever to customize workflow configuration to the unique needs of each organization and line of business. • Digital signatures that simplify information governance. Digital signatures in Laserfiche 8.3 are validated with signing certificates on the server, so users know that a signature is trustworthy. Digital signatures can also prompt Workflow activities that guide documents through the approval process. • A new Web Administration Console that improves deployment flexibility. Laserfiche 8.3 offers an easy way for administrators to securely access the administrative functions of the repository from anywhere—including remote sites, client computers and even mobile devices—making administration more flexible than ever.
“The advanced business process management capabilities and administration tools in Laserfiche 8.3 enable organizations of all sizes to rapidly implement a wide variety of transactional content management solutions,” said Wayman. “Laserfiche 8.3 is an infrastructure deployment that enables our customers to use ECM as a foundation for delivering shared services across the enterprise.”
Learn More about Laserfiche 8.3: • Watch quick, 5-minute video on the user-value of 8.3, and the development philosophy behind it. (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_2DVlOA5XY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_2DVlOA5XY</a>) • Get a full technical overview of features in our whitepaper. (<a href="https://support.laserfiche.com/GetFileRepositoryEntry.aspx?id=2257&amp;mode=download">https://support.laserfiche.com/GetFileRepositoryEntry.aspx?id=2257&amp;mode=download</a>)

Laserfiche 8.3 Takes Transactional Content Management to New Level

WordPress 3.3 beta 4 has been released.
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With all our major tickets closed, we are very close to a release candidate. In Beta 4 we’ve fixed a bunch of bugs, cleaned up the UI, added real text in some of the screens that still had placeholder text in Beta 3 (post-update screen, the Dashboard welcome area, new feature pointers), and generally tightened things up. We updated to jQuery 1.7.1 and addressed a LOT of bugs.
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Grab your copy from <a href="http://wordpress.org/news/2011/11/wordpress-3-3-beta-4/">http://wordpress.org/news/2011/11/wordpress-3-3-beta-4/</a>

WordPress 3.3 beta 4 released

Today sees the launch of GOSS iCM (intelligent Content Management) version 9.1.0.1, the latest upgrade to the market leading Web Content Management system built by GOSS Interactive.
The solution allows public, private and third sector organisations to drive efficiency savings into their business. GOSS clients can deliver more services online and gain a better understanding how website visitors use a website. For some clients, this has resulted in savings of up to £3 million.
Suggested external links and media Users of GOSS iCM could always search for external content, like links and media, from within the Web Content Management system. Additionally, users have been able to use iSuggest, a tool that suggests related content from the website database. The tool can even add related content to pages without users having to look through the suggested content.
Now the software engineers at GOSS have combined both technologies. Users can now enter copy into a web page that iSuggest will “read” and decide what the content is about. It will then search the internet, as well as internal libraries. It then finds relevant links and media that it thinks will enrich the page. You don’t have to just direct the software to libraries within GOSS iCM, extensions can be easily created to allow searching of other content repositories and document management systems. Examples are provided for various systems including Microsoft SharePoint.
If you pick any of the suggestions, it is automatically added to the GOSS iCM library and related to the page with a one click operation. To help users, external and internal links and media have different icons so that users can quickly see what is stored where and the external source.
Users need to be careful when selecting external media and ensure they have the correct permissions and understand the copyright implications, as outlined in this blog post, re-using web content and copyright.
Google maps picker Website users often want to indicate the location of something, be it an event, their favourite cafe or an abandoned vehicle. GOSS iCM now has the ability to offer website users a Google map onto which they can add a pin, to indicate a postcode or named location. Controls in the forms designer, that come free with GOSS iCM, allow administrators to set:
<ul>
<li>Default location</li>
<li>Whether the map is displayed or not</li>
<li>The type of map displayed (hybrid, terrain, roadmap or satellite)</li>
<li>The zoom level</li>
<li>The size of the map (height/width)</li>
<li>The text on the buttons</li>
<li>The label text above the map</li>
</ul>
The latitude and longitude is stored in GOSS iCM for administrator use. Within the forms package are simple workflow tools to allow staff to process a request and feedback to the customer. Watch this video showing the location picker.
Rob McCarthy, CEO at GOSS Interactive comments; “Our active community of users regularly suggests and vote on functionality that they would like to see in GOSS iCM. These two features come directly from that engagement. One creates a really powerful tool to make content contribution as easy as possible. The other equips website users to interact with organisations geographically.”
The upgraded software is free to all clients with a support contract. For further information about the release, go to <a href="http://www.gossinteractive.com/v9-1-0-1">http://www.gossinteractive.com/v9-1-0-1</a>

Mapping interaction and suggested content for easier content creation from GOSS

The XOOPS Project is proud to present XOOPS 2.5.4.
<a href="http://xoops.org">XOOPS</a> is one of the most successful Open Source CMS solutions, constantly winning top places in various competitions, and receiving various awards.
In addition to updating its internal libraries to their latest versions: phpMailer (5.1), TinyMCE (3.4.6), jQuery (1.6.4), and jQueryUI (1.8.16), the major focus of this release is on converting all Core modules (PM, Profile, Protector) to a new ModuleAdmin GUI, so all of them have a consistent “look &amp; feel”.

<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/xoops_gui_2_5_01-450x368.jpg" /> <img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/mg842_moheaderlogo_corp_fa_scfpg9.png" /> The new Module GUI will be the official GUI for all modules supported by XOOPS, and will drive:
<ul>
<li>Increased productivity</li>
<li>Decreased training and support costs</li>
<li>Reduced development time and costs</li>
<li>Reduced maintenance costs</li>
<li>Increased customer satisfaction</li>
</ul>
As next, the XOOPS Project will be working on a “Basic Module Pack”, which will contain the most popular XOOPS module in one user-friendly package, all with the new Module GUI.
XOOPS has not only a very loyal base, as the number of downloads suggests, but is also highly respected in the industry. In 2008 it was a finalist in SourceForge Community Awards and in the 2008 and 2009 CMS Awards by Packt Publishing. It also won the prestigious 2008 China Open Source Software Contest Award, the 2009 Grand Prize in OSS Challenge in Korea, and the 2010 “Best Technology Award” from Northeast Asia OSS Forum.
The main features of XOOPS are full modularization where modules can be installed/uninstalled/activated/deactivated with a mouse click, its versatile Group Permissions System, and a theme-based skinnable interface, where both webmasters and users can change the look of the entire website with just a click of a mouse. There are over thousand of themes and modules available for free download. With the most popular modules like News, Discussion Forums, Photo Galleries, Calendars, Jobs and Classifieds, Polls, and Video presentations, it's very easy for anyone to set up a “Community Website”. And since XOOPS is Open Source, the users can also contribute back to the development.
In the current economic downturn, Open Source software has become increasingly attractive to users and companies, as it helps them to save a lot of money. XOOPS is definitely one of these Open Source projects that can provide major financial savings.
System requirements
<ul>
<li>Any PHP version &gt;= 5.2</li>
<li>MySQL server 5.0+ is strongly recommended</li>
<li>Web server: Any server supporting the required PHP version (Apache highly recommended)</li>
</ul>

XOOPS Project releases XOOPS 2.5.4

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