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

msalvatierra

Oracle has announced a new release of MySQL. Version 5.5 has debuted and with it come some decent enhancements.
Some of the enhanced capabilities of this new release include:
<ul>
<li>Improved performance and scalability: MySQL Database and InnoDB storage engine have been enhanced to provide optimum performance and scalability when running on the latest multi-CPU and multi-core hardware and operating systems. In addition, with release 5.5, InnoDB is now the default storage engine for the MySQL Database, delivering ACID transactions, referential integrity and crash recovery.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Higher availability: New semi-synchronous replication and Replication Heart Beat improve failover speed and reliability.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Improved usability: Improved index and table partitioning, SIGNAL/RESIGNAL support and enhanced diagnostics, including a new PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA, improve the manageability of MySQL 5.5.</li>
</ul>
Oracle also claims that this release has some significant performance improvements such as:
<ul>
<li>On Windows: Up to 1,500 percent performance gains for Read/Write operations and up to 500 percent gain for Read Only.(1)</li>
<li>On Linux: Up to 360 percent performance gain in Read/Write operations and up to 200 percent improvement in Read Only.(2)</li>
</ul>
The full press release is available here: <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/195726">http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/195726</a>

MySQL 5.5 Now Generally Available

mike-johnston

A new release of ExpressionEngine has hit the shelves just in time for the holidays. Version 2.1.2 is now available from their website. Here's what Robin Sowell had to say in her release announcement:
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We’re very happy to get this release out the door in time for the holidays. We again give thanks to all the folks who have helped improve EE through their bug reports and feedback. This release delivers a number of new features and over 60 bug fixes.
We also took the opportunity to reduce and simplify a few settings that have repeatedly caused problems in the past. As a result, you will notice that both the “Honor Entry DST” and “Convert High ASCII” settings have been removed. These are superseded by our move to UTC and UTF-8, respectively.
As Brandon already let slip, our Control Panel themes are now <a href="http://expressionengine.com/blog/entry/expressionengine_2.1.2_leaner_and_meaner/">Leaner and Meaner</a> and MUCH easier to customize.  We also added a member group setting to disallow editing of HTML formatting buttons, enhanced the message on forwarded Private Messages, added an importer to the IP to Nation module, and….  Really, there’s too much to list in a blog post!  Check out the <a href="http://expressionengine.com/user_guide/changelog.html#v212">Change Log</a> and compare your favorite addition to those of the development team!
My personal favorite is the ability to include custom member fields in the Control Panel’s Member Registration form.  That’s something I had to custom code on a few sites back in the day, so I particularly appreciated the usefulness.
Pascal’s favorite was an easy guess- the complete revamp of autosave.  This version achieves everything we’d envisioned, including saving the data prior to entry creation and an unobtrusive manner of operating.  You don’t notice it until you need it.  But when you need it, you’re really grateful it’s there!
Greg’s pick was the removal of PHP4 support.  Yes, this seems an obscure choice at first, but it resulted in the removal of over 700 lines of code from the member module alone!
Brandon thinks the override.css is kinda cool.  Not being much of a designer myself (understatement) I poked him to elaborate on how this adds crunchy goodness to EE.
If you want to change the pink, just make a new theme with one file.  Not that there’s anything wrong with pink, of course!
Well, that does sound sexy!  Hrm….  I could make a goth theme, all in black and grey.  And bats could fly out of the menu when you mouse over the tabs!  Sorta like in the old Scooby Doo intro.  Perhaps it could trigger a midi of the Scooby Doo theme song!
Alas, our plates are full even without the challenge of a Scooby Doo theme.  Time for me to get back to work.  We wish you and yours a safe and happy holiday and hope you enjoy this new release!
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You can purchase your copy from their website: <a href="http://expressionengine.com">http://expressionengine.com</a>

ExpressionEngine 2.1.2 Released

Alkacon OAMP DocCenter Module 1.0.2 for OpenCms is now available from <a href="http://alkacon.com">alkacon.com</a>.
The OAMP DocCenter Module extends an OpenCms installation with the capability to easily create highly configurable download areas with directory listings. Based on the look and feel of your custom template, editors just have to upload documents to publish them online.
The latest OAMP DocCenter Module release version 1.0.2 comes with lots of new features and improvements:
<ul>
<li> Implements versioning of downloadable files</li>
<li>Allows free predefined sorting for selected categories or sub categories</li>
<li>Folders show number of contained documents</li>
<li>and many more</li>
</ul>
Get the latest version of this add-on for OpenCms now!
All Alkacon OAMP modules are released as full Open Source under the GNU GPL version 3.
The source code of the modules is freely available in the public CVS of cvs.opencms.org.

Version 1.0.2 of Alkacon OAMP DocCenter module available

The Tiki Community is proud to announce the immediate availability of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware 6.1.
This update includes over 250 code changes by nearly 20 Tiki Community members. Although these updates are primarily fixes and improvements to existing features, there are several new items that Tiki administrators will be happy to see, including:
<ul>
<li> Continued upgrades for WYSIWYG editing</li>
<li> Default toolbars include a new button to easily select a file (after file upload, if needed), and it's name and link are added to the textarea of that wiki page, forum, blog, etc.</li>
<li> A new admin panel for Clipperz online password management</li>
<li> Improvements to CSS inclusion for newsletters</li>
<li> Many translation updates (from Tiki's interactive translation feature)</li>
<li> New and improved plugins for third-party media (such as Vimeo, Blip.tv, and YouTube) and generic buttons.</li>
<li> Updated plugin interface</li>
<li> New module: Tracker help</li>
<li> Export or show a wiki page in text-only format (useful to be used with Pretty Trackers)</li>
<li> Static text fields in Trackers can be sent with wiki-parsed text in notification emails.</li>
<li> New language.js file added to language folders to assist in translation of text and UI elements used in JavaScript functions.</li>
<li> and more!</li>
</ul>
See the Release Notes ([<a href="http://tiki.org/ReleaseNotes+6.1">http://tiki.org/ReleaseNotes+6.1</a>]) and the Tiki6 document ([http://doc.tiki.org/tiki6]) for complete details on this release. All Tiki administrators are encouraged to upgrade to this latest release. You can download Tiki 6.1 from [http://tiki.org/download].
About Tiki
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (35+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery and Smarty. Actively developed by a very large international community, Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge bases, intranets, and extranets. Tiki is managed by the Tiki Software Community Association. For more information, visit <a href="http://tiki.org">http://tiki.org</a>.

Tiki Releases 6.1 Update

ICanLocalize™, an innovative global provider of translation software and Web services for content management systems including WordPress and Drupal, announces WordPress Multilingual [WPML] version 2, facilitating translation-tasks and workflow for enterprise teams. Addressing the increasing use of WordPress for business websites, ICanLocalize empowers editorial workflow for multiple languages and teams of writers, translators, and editors. The powerful Translation Dashboard of WPML2 delivers faster, less expensive, translation of business websites.
Website builders and project managers get access to pools of language-specific translators, who can bid competitively on translation and localization work. Each translator receives a jobs queue in WordPress, simplifying translation work. Moreover, translators have no need to learn the content management system (CMS) or how to create links, fields, categories, or taxonomy.
There are clear advantages from competitive bids for translation into several languages. More advantages come from the management interface that handles these simultaneous streams of outsourced tasks—or keeps the translation of certain languages in-house.
The benefits for corporations, large interactive agencies, and design shops that develop websites are the ability to manage translation tasks and workflows more easily through the WPML2 plugin. The process is faster, less expensive, and improves quality. In addition, the Translation Dashboard continues to serve for translation of future, editorial changes to content.
Find The Plugin For WordPress At WPML.org (<a href="http://wpml.org/">http://wpml.org/</a>)
The WPML.org (http://wpml.org/) website, built by the translation software professionals at ICanLocalize, hosts the plugin, documentation, and best practices for website internationalization and software localization.

ICanLocalize announces WPML2 plugin for enterprise-grade WordPress translation

KnowledgeTree, provider of cloud-based document management solutions, today announced product enhancements that help small- and mid-sized businesses share content and collaborate more efficiently without restrictions. The upgrades, combined with new subscription packages, enable an unlimited number of users to share and co-author documents and workflows inside and outside their organizations, using the Web or desktop Microsoft® Office® applications.
According to the Association for Information and Image Management's State of the ECM Industry study (http://www.aiim.org/Research/Industry-Watch/ECM-State-of-Industry-2010), “Enterprise Content Management is at something of a tipping point. Driven by the need to control content chaos, organizations large and small are looking to impose order through an ECM project. The positive benefits of information sharing and improved collaboration are resonating with decision-makers… Compliance is seen as an added benefit, but the prime driver is the need to maximize employee productivity and enhance their engagement with each other.”
The new KnowledgeTree features include:
•	KnowledgeTree for Office: powers content co-authoring and social collaboration from the desktop to the cloud. Microsoft Office users will be able to search, access and work with their KnowledgeTree-hosted content directly from their desktop Microsoft Word®, Excel® and PowerPoint® applications. The Office Toolbar will let multiple users collaboratively author documents, merge edits and receive alerts about document revisions. •	On-demand sharing: lets users easily share specific content with external, non-KnowledgeTree users on an as-needed basis. This is particularly useful when documents need to be reviewed and edited by external third parties such as attorneys sharing contracts with clients. •	Unlimited users: removes the restrictions usually associated with document management usage within an organization and increases opportunities for document sharing and collaboration. New users can be invited to join by simply providing an email address. •	New subscription packages: provide businesses with a range of pricing and feature options to match their business needs. Pricing starts at $35/month. More at http://www.knowledgetree.com/pricing. •	An affiliate promotion program: enables technology services or solutions companies to earn commissions by promoting and selling KnowledgeTree subscriptions via their own websites. More at http://www.knowledgetree.com/partners/affiliate.
“We needed a document management service that integrates with the Microsoft Office products we use every day,” said Stephen Combs, Vice President Legal of Sharecare, an interactive healthcare social media platform. “The new KnowledgeTree for Office feature will make co-editing and collaboration seamless, which means we'll spend less time on the process of reviews, editing and approvals, and more time moving our business forward.”
“Document management in the cloud should enhance collaboration among users, not restrict it,” said Daniel Chalef, KnowledgeTree CEO. “We take this seriously and designed these product enhancements to do just that. Unlimited user engagement, on-demand sharing, and better integration with Office are important upgrades that bring real and functional benefits to document management collaboration that just don’t exist elsewhere for SMBs and mid-market companies.”
KnowledgeTree is now available in the Google Chrome Web Store! Users who sign up at the Chrome Web Store will be able to access KnowledgeTree via the Chrome dashboard. Click here for more information.
About KnowledgeTree KnowledgeTree makes sharing content and controlling document processes simple with secure, affordable online document management solutions for growing SMBs and departments at larger companies. Designed for business professionals, KnowledgeTree is easy to use, does not require extensive training and enables content to be accessed and managed anytime, anywhere via cloud computing. Rich and open APIs allow for seamless integration of popular third party business applications. KnowledgeTree accelerates return on investment by streamlining document-centric business processes and increasing collaboration with workflow, document alerts, version control and full transaction histories. KnowledgeTree is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.knowledgetree.com">www.knowledgetree.com</a>. Follow us on Twitter @knowledgetreesw.

KnowledgeTree Enhances Online Document Management With Microsoft Office Integration and more

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Vivvo is a publishing CMS that has been around for a number of years. We took s0me time to have a chat with it's founder, Boris Krstovic about it's origins and the future of the product.
CC: Please tell us a little about yourself and what role do you play within Spoonlabs?
 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/pimlico-580x450_i3z8bp.png" alt="Boris Krstovic" />
BK: I’m co-founder and managing director at Spoonlabs, responsible for business development, product direction and strategy. My background is both in business development and sales/marketing, and current focus around online media, CMS’s and experimenting with measuring reader (audience) engagement in publishing.
CC: What prompted the creation of Vivvo?
BK: Vivvo started as a small script, a helper to deploy article-based websites. I created myself the first version in 2005 (while still tampering with PHP), and looking back to it from this perspective I don’t think I even have the courage to call it a CMS J. The script got the name “Vivvo” in 2006. Thru several iterations Vivvo grew up to a full-fledged CMS, and for the latest major stable release that was a huge leap for product stability and versatility (v4), solution designer was Slobodan Utvic (@utvara).
CC: How do you feel Vivvo compares to other products in the marketplace?
BK: Vivvo holds somewhat unique position in the landscape of commercial CMS’s on LAMP stack. We aim to be #1 platform for publishing – a solution for online publishers, content creators and newspapers. Of course, you can run a portfolio website, or anything else with Vivvo – but it would probably be bulky and cumbersome to manage it. Vivvo is a publishing solution, an when it comes to running a daily paper with 10 writers, editors and 150 articles posted daily – Vivvo runs like hell.
CC: What differentiates it?
BK: The paradigm and framework in Vivvo are tailored for publishing, as well as our proprietary template engine (VTE). Things that need lots of workaround or hacking in other CMS’s are native in Vivvo, such as ability to easily “flag” and exclude used articles on page so they do not duplicate. While other CMS’s proudly feature “setting expiration date” for content, in Vivvo you have article scheduling as a core concept – you can easily manipulate with attributes such as duration and recurrence for an article, opening vast possibilities for publishers.
CC: What are you goals for Vivvo?
BK: To set standards for online publishing and to allow businesses and individuals to run professional-grade publishing solution under $1000. Up to few years ago, this was almost impossible. You had few “article management scripts”, with alternative to use heavily modified Drupal or WordPress as publishing engines. Our mission was to change that, and position Vivvo as publishing solution that can do 70% of things enterprise solution such as Escentic Content Engine or Nstein do, at a fraction of ownership cost.
CC: Do you plan to move into other areas of business such as online marketing?
BK: Well, not in that direction anyway. We gathered lots of experience over the years with content publishing that we channel now on experimenting with ways to improve content effectiveness. We want to provide content creators, bloggers and editors an analytics tool to measure readers’ engagement with content. The platform we’re developing is currently in proof of concept phase and CMSCritic will be one of the first sites to use it in our private beta launch, and I’m looking forward to getting feedback
CC: What kind of migration options do you offer to help get people to transition from their existing systems to Vivvo?
BK: We have completed many successful migrations to Vivvo CMS in the past, involving the websites based on Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Textpattern, as well as various other proprietary/commercial CMS systems.
Being fully aware of commitment migration to another CMS brings, we usually start by offering migration review sessions, free consultancy sessions in which we try to grasp clients’ needs for new platform and help them realize the scope and ownership investment transition to new CMS brings. After that, we offer content, data, design/layout migrations, as well as one very important detail – URL migration, to avoid loss of PR and appearance of 404’s.
CC: Do you have any hosted or SaaS options available?
BK: Not yet, although there were plans for offering hosted solution since 2009 we just didn’t carry out yet.
CC: What can we expect down the road in the next version of Vivvo?
BK: We want to transform Vivvo into native multi-site publishing platform, as managing multiple websites has become de-facto standard for vast majority of bloggers and publishers. This will require a significant shift in product design – transforming to a central content repository from which you can pull content to one or more websites at will.
CC: Whom do you often find yourself competing with and why do you feel Vivvo is the better option?
BK: There isn’t much competition in this niche, and if you look around you’ll see that overall there are few commercial publishing platforms on LAMP stack in $100-$1000 price range. So technically – they are all our competition.
CC: People often ask – why would we purchase Vivvo at $395 when we can use WordPress (drupal/joomla/etc) for free?
BK: Simple answer is – if you just need to install off-the-shelf software and don’t need any support at all – then don’t. But if you take into perspective that typical total cost of ownership for CMS is beyond “off the shelf” installation, and includes process of system integration, design, user acceptance and mostly important – stable and responsible support, you’ll find that “free” solutions are not so free anymore. In such scenario choosing between Drupal and Vivvo is on a totally different level than just comparing license costs.
Our product is a vendor-supported product. If you would like to have “vendor support” for Drupal, you might want to check how much Acquia charges for such service. Or check WordPress VIP support – it starts at $15,000/year with 2 business days response time (?!).
CC: Do you offer 24/7 365 support options?
BK: Yes, we do. Standard support SLA includes support on weekdays during business hours. However, clients in need of tight support level agreements and immediate reaction can count on phone support, 24/7 email support and we even have the option for corporate clients to have my private cell phone number. I strongly believe that this type of trust between our clients and us is essential, and being able to reach out for managing director via skype/email/phone directly brings needed level of comfort to important clients in need of agile responsiveness.
CC: Thank you Boris.
For those interested in <a href="/tag/vivvo/">Vivvo</a>, you can check out their website here: <a href="http://www.vivvo.net">http://www.vivvo.net</a>

Interview with Vivvo founder, Boris Krstovic

Following the recent release of its Content Hub Appliance, EntropySoft, a specialist of content integration and connectivity, announces a partnership with information management company Iron Mountain. Electronic documents coming from as many as 35 document repositories can now be archived easily to Iron Mountain’s cloud-based storage archive, increasing EntropySoft’s ability to link the enterprise and the cloud.
Iron Mountain provides information management services for helping organizations to realize greater value from their paper and digital records. The company’s solutions for records management, data protection and secure shredding enable customers to protect and manage their information so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Through its Developer Program, Iron Mountain allows third parties and developers to integrate their solutions with its secure cloud archiving platform. This is the first instance of integration between EntropySoft and Iron Mountain.
EntropySoft’s Content Hub Appliance is a single platform that provides out-of-the-box connectivity to ECM systems. In a matter of hours, any customer can connect all its Content Management Systems to Content Hub Appliance and start moving documents to Iron Mountain’s archive. All the affiliates of a company can connect to the same platform and regroup in a single repository all critical corporate information, therefore increasing compliance with regulatory environments and facilitating eDiscovery.
“Companies are looking to leverage the cloud to reduce their information storage costs, and customers of EntropySoft can now do that securely and in a tightly integrated manner,” said Jaimin Patel, director of business development, Iron Mountain. “Iron Mountain has been offering secure cloud storage and archive solutions since 1995. More than just secure storage, though, our cloud solutions enable faster access to information and help organizations to address compliance and regulatory concerns, all while reducing the operational complexities and costs of data storage.”
The partnership between EntropySoft and Iron Mountain highlights EntropySoft’s capacity to solve the main concerns with cloud adoption: security and integration. Content Hub Appliance addresses these issues for documents, as it enables a secure link between the cloud and the enterprise.
“EntropySoft is very pleased with this partnership and integration. It takes only minutes to deploy our software appliance in a virtualized environment, therefore minimizing the efforts usually needed to connect enterprise and cloud repositories. Now companies of all sizes can archive simply all documents, reducing the costs and risks associated with storing and protecting important documents,” said Nicolas Maquaire, EntropySoft CEO.
Large organizations use EntropySoft products for managing advanced document processes. Software vendors use EntropySoft products to facilitate information access. Content Hub Appliance is the secure link between the Enterprise and the Cloud for all companies.
Content Hub Functionality The virtual appliance can be downloaded from EntropySoft’s support site. It only takes minimal installation and configuration for the virtual machine to be ready to start operating in the customer environment. In a few minutes, the Appliance can be connected to all the company’s document repositories. A user-friendly web interface allows authorised company staff to search, browse and work with all connected repositories. Then a transfer “bridge” connects the chosen repositories to Iron Mountain’s digital archive. The bridge can also implement the customer’s specific requirements. Once the bridge is configured, the document archiving is effective.
Customers can select from different archiving options. Documents can be archived manually, on a scheduled basis or in real-time, For example, if this last option is chosen, as soon as a document is created in the document management system, it is instantaneously moved or copied to Iron Mountain’s digital archive.
The Iron Mountain cloud archive becomes a centralizing point for all the information stored in the various content silos of the company. This allows the Legal, IT and Compliance departments to cost-effectively manage in one place all relevant electronically-stored information.
Pricing and Availability Using Content Hub Appliance is very cost-effective compared to specific developments usually associated with linking an archiving platform to content silos. The service is offered by EntropySoft on a monthly subscription basis and a pay-as-you-use model that includes content transfer and digital archiving.
About EntropySoft EntropySoft is a specialist of content integration. EntropySoft’s mission is to connect applications to information. EntropySoft technology is used by software vendors and large companies to simplify integration of their products with Enterprise Content Management solutions and cloud repositories. Application fields are numerous: Enterprise Search, BPM, e-discovery, Records Management, Collaboration, Data Loss Prevention, Multi-Function Printers etc. The following leading global organizations chose EntropySoft products: Alfresco, EMC Kazeon, Endeca, IDS Scheer, Kroll Ontrack and Symantec. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.entropysoft.net">www.entropysoft.net</a>

EntropySoft partners with Iron Mountain to offer secure cloud storage and digital archiving

WordPress 3.0.3 is available and is a security update for all previous WordPress versions.
<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">This release</a> fixes issues in the remote publishing interface, which under certain circumstances allowed Author- and Contributor-level users to improperly edit, publish, or delete posts.
These issues only affect sites that have remote publishing enabled.
Remote publishing is disabled by default, but you may have enabled it to use a remote publishing client such as one of the WordPress mobile apps. You can check these settings on the “Settings → Writing” screen.
<a href="http://wordpress.org/download/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Download 3.0.3</a> or update automatically from the “Dashboard → Updates” screen in your site’s admin area.

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WordPress 3.0.3 is available

Joomla! 1.5 Top Extensions Cookbook is a new book from Packt that will help readers to set up, take control and use the best extensions available for Joomla! Written by Suhreed Sarkar, this book covers extensions for just about every use of Joomla!, while allowing readers to implement access control list across groups.
Joomla! is one of the world’s most high-profile open source, award-winning content management system written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.
Joomla! 1.5 Top Extensions Cookbook enables users to add maps, image galleries, slideshows, video players, security, forums, shopping cart, guestbook, and other mind-opening functionalities to their sites. This book starts off by teaching users to control access to their Joomla! site and then goes on to explain integration of Joomla! with phpBB. Additionally, users will learn to improve communication among their site customers, to add Ajax contact forms and to build database applications without coding, through this book.
Using this book, developers will learn to create backups that can be restored on any other Joomla! site, import hundreds of users from a CSV file enabling them to log in without registering themselves, send tweets automatically upon publishing articles in Joomla!, add project management functionalities to their Joomla!-based sites and get notified about new contents from time to time (for subscribers), and to add attachment to an article in a much easier way using the Attachment plugin.
Packed with step-by-step instructions to use Joomla! extensions to achieve optimal sites, this book is ideal for developers, who wish to build basic Joomla! sites, and are looking for information on the use of Joomla! extensions and their customization. The book is out now and available from Packt. To read more about it, please visit: <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-top-extensions-cookbook/book">http://www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-top-extensions-cookbook/book</a>

Learn to use the best extensions available for Joomla! using Packt's new book

Telerik announced that they currently have 4 starter kits in development for Sitefinity 4.0.  When Sitefinity 4.0 is officially released (on January 14, 2011) these starter kits will be included with the Sitefinity Software Development Kit and will give everyone access to a wealth of resources and tools.
The starter kits currently being developed are:
<ul>
<li>Charity starter kit by Telerik</li>
<li>Education starter kit by Telerik</li>
<li>Intranet starter kit by Falafel</li>
<li>Real Estate starter kit by ProPeople</li>
</ul>
<h2>Charity</h2>
Telerik has been a long time sponsor of GiveCamp.  In the past, they have donated Sitefinity to participating charity teams, volunteered as a team and provided on-site support.  This year, during the upcoming national GiveCamp, the Telerik Sitefinity team will go even further.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/charity-1-183x300.jpg" /><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/charity-2-183x300.jpg" />
Through the charity starter kit, Sitefinity will be providing all teams with an instant full-featured charity web site.  This will include donation forms, PayPal integration, social media widgets, volunteer opportunities, event scheduling and more.
<h2>Education</h2>
Telerik International University (TIU) website was included in the Sitefinity installation and was shown to thousands of prospective customers.  This website is now reborn with Sitefinity 4.0.
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<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/education-1-300x251.jpg" />
This starter kit will demonstrate how far you can go with Sitefinity 4.0’s built-in functionality, sprinkled with a few customizations.  This website is being created by 1 developer &amp; 1 designer in 1 week.  The Education Starter Kit will stand as a testament to the productivity gains offered by 4.0.
<h2>Intranet</h2>
With the fast growth of organizations, it is sometimes hard to stay in the loop.  The Intranet application is intended to help organizations communicate and collaborate internally.
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<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/intranet-1-252x300.png" /><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/intranet-2-210x300.png" />
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/intranet-3-204x300.png" />
This Intranet starter kit is being created by Falafel Software and is designed to address these real-world internal challenges.  The starter kit will include solutions for scheduling, instant messaging, status (who is online), reporting, event registration, travel planning and more.
<h2>Real Estate</h2>
<a href="http://www.sitefinity.com/Libraries/MetaBlogLib/Windows-Live-Writer-d94c608332b3_D0EC-search-result-advanced-search_2.sflb.ashx" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.sitefinity.com/Libraries/MetaBlogLib/Windows-Live-Writer-d94c608332b3_D0EC-property-item_2.sflb.ashx" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.sitefinity.com/Libraries/MetaBlogLib/Windows-Live-Writer-d94c608332b3_D0EC-property-item-map-2_2.sflb.ashx" target="_blank"></a>
This starter kit will provide real estate companies with a huge head start on their project, as well as giving developers a template for adding custom features to Sitefinity.  It will include a property listing module, property search, agent directory, photo galleries, maps and more.
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Expect more real-life development stories with Sitefinity 4.0 in the following weeks. When Sitefinity 4.0 is released all of the components used in these starter kits (templates, themes, widgets, modules, etc.) will be made available individually through the Sitefinity marketplace.
More information about Sitefinity 4.0 is avaialable at: <a href="http://www.sitefinity.com/4.0/asp-net-features.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.sitefinity.com/4.0/asp-net-features.aspx</a>
About Sitefinity
Sitefinity is a Web Content Management System that leverages the .NET 4.0 development patterns familiar to Microsoft developers. Sitefinity provides a convenient drag and drop interface for visual construction of web pages. The system is completely open with all content exposed as REST-ful services and fluent API for easy programmability. Sitefinity can be easily integrated with external web applications, CRM systems, and marketing tools to power entire web-based businesses.
The developer tools included with Sitefinity – Telerik award-winning RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, RadControls for Silverlight together with the ready-to-use code samples and widgets further improve the developer productivity and reduce development time. With one of the largest 3rd party .NET communities with over 400,000 members, and a rich marketplace for add-ons, developers will find all the resources and guidance to create a truly engaging website that drives your business.

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Dassault Systèmes  today announced that its subsidiary Exalead, the leading provider of search-based application platforms, has released CloudView 360, an extended package of CloudView modules developed specifically to integrate information from legacy CRM, ERP, HR enterprise applications, PLM systems and web content. Built around Exalead's award winning CloudView version 5 search technology, CloudView 360 adds semantic processing and information mash-up capabilities to enable, simplify and accelerate complete views of enterprise status and direction.
Today's business environment requires enterprises to compete globally. Exalead CloudView 360 offers a new approach, providing a comprehensive view of customers, products and processes and timely views of business activity. It can extract information from any and all relevant enterprise applications, collaboration applications and the web to give at-a-glance, detailed insight to the entire organisation from front-line workers to top executives. By adopting CloudView 360 and the search-based applications it enables enterprises to gain competitive advantage, operational efficiency improvements and can give better value to customers.
CloudView 360 extends its core capability by semantically relating key business activity relationships such as customer relationship records, past transactions and customer service dialogues. Results of user queries can be mashed-up into dashboards and real-time executive summaries that include traditional charts and graphs, descriptive extracts, key facts, relationship graphs and web-oriented representations such as word clouds. CloudView 360's unique combination of semantic data processing and mash-up information presentation enables users with at-a-glance understanding of key topics without having to work through tens or hundreds of documents. Search-based applications built with CloudView 360 address needs for information and insight across enterprise functions that include research and development, manufacturing and logistics, regulatory compliance, sales and marketing, human resources and finance. Deployments of search-based applications now serve the communities of tens of thousands of users.
“With Exalead CloudView 360, we were able to deploy the most comprehensive tourist portal on the market in only a few months,” said Pierre Matuchet, General Manager of Voyages-sncf.com, one of the most popular travel websites in France. “The portal intelligently and distinctively synthesises content from the Web, our partners' databases, and our own proprietary databases. Thanks to Exalead, we were able to bring one of our most ambitious Web projects to life.”
“Exalead CloudView 360 goes far beyond a simple search service. We now have the opportunity to build innovative business applications at the core of our IT,” said Bertrand Eteneau, CIO of Faurecia Group. “We already have a few projects under delivery and discussion. The benefits, in terms of usability for our organization and employees, are significant.”
“Search-based applications are the fastest growing segment of the search market today, and with good reason,” said Sue Feldman, Vice President for Search and Discovery Technologies at IDC. “These applications are built on a flexible, scalable search backbone like CloudView 360, then customised to incorporate knowledge of a business process. They are designed with specific users in mind, with a purposeful interface to enable easier interaction with information that is drawn seamlessly from multiple sources. The complexity of uniting disparate information and of finding the semantic relationships between documents and data is significant, but enterprises desperately need this ability. To do so, though, requires technology that goes beyond basic search, to include semantic processing and text analytics.”
CloudView 360 is available for license as on-premise or cloud-hosted software. Data sources supported include ERP applications (such as SAP), content management systems (such as Microsoft SharePoint and EMC Documentum), social media sources (such as Facebook and Twitter), e-mail servers (such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes), and relational databases from IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, among others. It also supports Microsoft Windows, Linux and Oracle/Sun Solaris operating systems.
To learn more, download CloudView 360 for Search-Based Applications in the Enterprise Product Brief.
About Dassault Systèmes
As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 115,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance to recycling. The Dassault Systèmes portfolio consists of CATIA for virtual product design – SolidWorks 3D for Professionals – DELMIA for virtual production – SIMULIA for realistic simulation – ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences. Dassault Systèmes' shares are listed on Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) and Dassault Systèmes' ADRs may be traded on the US Over-The-Counter (OTC) market (DASTY). For more information, visit <a href="http://www.3ds.com">http://www.3ds.com</a>
CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA, SolidWorks and 3DVIA are registered trademarks of Dassault Systèmes or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries.

Exalead Extends Search-based Application Leadership with Exalead CloudView® 360

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Kentico Software , the Web content management system vendor, disclosed that Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 will be Generally Available by December 15, 2010 at the LeWeb'10 conference. This new version of their flagship enterprise CMS provides document and project management, Microsoft Azure  support, WebDAV, Workgroups and Sharepoint 2010 support.
Already a key to enterprise Intranets for companies like Brussels Airlines or Shaw Industries Group Inc., Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 extends their intranet platform to include document and project management, WebDAV support, workgroup and SharePoint 2010 support.
“Kentico has always been a customer driven company. Extending our Intranet offering to include document and project management, and the inclusion of a starter site continues to showcase the value, scalability and stability of our CMS platform for our customers.“ said Petr Palas, CEO of Kentico CMS
Out of the box, Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 includes Project Management that helps users manage, assign and monitor projects and tasks. The new Document Management feature allows users to add/edit/delete documents and their permissions directly from a website without access to the administration UI. With the added support of WebDAV, users can now directly edit documents without the need to save them manually to a temporary location and then re-upload them.
“Several enterprise CMS systems were evaluated, but Kentico surpassed them all. We are now running the latest version of Kentico CMS to support our intranet websites. Our internal business partners love it, and we continue to be impressed with Kentico support. Kentico has exceeded our expectations several times over.“ said Shane Foster, Project Manager at 
Shaw Industries Group Inc.
Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 also includes Microsoft Azure support for single instance CMS installation.
“Kentico CMS sees the cloud as an important step for our customers and Microsoft Azure as the ideal delivery vehicle. The release of Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 provides single instance CMS customers an opportunity to move their CMS systems to the cloud.” said Martin Hejtmanek, Kentico CMS Chief Technology Officer.
Kentico showcases this latest release at the LeWeb'10 conference in Paris, France at stand D in Eiffel room.
More information about the release is available at: http://devnet.kentico.com/kentico-cms-55r2-windows-azure.aspx
Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 for ASP.NET can be downloaded as a free 30-day trial at http://www.kentico.com/Download.aspx or it can be trialed on-line without any installation at http://www.kentico.com/Demo.aspx.
Kentico CMS is an affordable Web content management solution providing a complete set of features for building Web sites, community sites, intranets and on-line stores on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform. It supports WYSIWYG editing, workflows, multiple languages, full-text search, SEO, on-line forms, image galleries, forums, groups, blogs, polls, media libraries and is shipped with 200+ configurable Web parts. It’s currently used by more than 4,000 websites in 84 countries.
The clients include Microsoft, McDonald's, Vodafone, O2, Orange, Brussels Airlines, Mazda, Ford, Subaru, Samsung, Gibson, ESPN, Guinness, DKNY, Abbott Labs, Medibank, Ireland.ie and others.
Kentico CMS is available at <a href="http://www.kentico.com">http://www.kentico.com</a>.

Kentico announces Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 with General Availability by December 15, 2010

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