December 28, 2007: Continuing the run of 11th hour acquisition announcements, on Thursday EMC said that it has offered to buy the document management output software firm Document Sciences for US$85 (AU$98.2) million.
EMC already offers Document Sciences’ xPression products with its Documentum platform, however, by purchasing the company outright it will be able to deftly expand its transactional content management capabilities – the fastest-growing segment of enterprise content management according to EMC.
December 28, 2007: Updating its tools to fight dirty documents, ManTech has announced version 3.0 of its Document Detective is now available, claiming this new release provides enhanced protection for classified documents for government departments.
Titled Government Edition, ManTech claims version 3.0 is of the electronic document security tool prevents the disclosure of hidden data in classified documents by finding more hidden data thanks to an expanded ability to detect obscure text, and new tests to check for hidden data created by the ‘paste’ and ‘paste special’ functions in Microsoft Office files.
SAN JOSE, Calif., — December 12, 2007 — Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ: IWOV), a global leader in content management solutions, today announced that DLA Piper, a global 100 law firm, has selected Interwoven Universal Search – Professional Services Edition, a groundbreaking new solution uniquely designed to meet the demands and expectations of professional services firms. DLA Piper selected Interwoven Universal Search to enable staff in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia to search the organization’s knowledge repositories, and to provide fee-earners with immediate and highly accurate results for ensuring optimal sharing of firm expertise.
With more than 3,600 lawyers in 64 offices in 25 countries, DLA Piper's cross-border transactions and international operations demand leading-edge tools to enable fee-earners to deliver consistent, first-class service to clients. DLA Piper realized that a sophisticated search solution could serve as the cornerstone to address its knowledge management challenges – by unifying knowledge systems and empowering fee-earners to quickly locate essential information, best practices, and guidance.
SAN JOSE, Calif., — December 12, 2007 — For cancer patients, the gold standard of treatment is the ability to target and eradicate tumors, powerfully and decisively, while sparing damage to healthy tissues and organs. Proton Therapy, a revolutionary form of radiation treatment, does just that. Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC), the first hospital-based proton treatment center in the United States, has recently launched Protons.com, a truly cutting-edge Website designed to help patients understand and explore this treatment option – promoting not only the hospital’s advanced offerings, but bringing greater attention to proton therapy itself.
In launching Protons.com, LLUMC wanted to deliver the best possible Web experience and raise its visibility on the Internet to increase the number of new patients. Working with Earthbound Media Group (EMG), a leading interactive agency, and Interwoven (NASDAQ: IWOV), LLUMC utilized search engine optimization (SEO), Web analytics, and targeting to realize its vision of reaching as many patients as possible. EMG helped LLUMC build a new Web presence powered by Interwoven TeamSite, Interwoven OpenDeploy and other best-of-breed technologies. Interwoven TeamSite is enabling LLUMC business users to automate and manage their online content across different Web pages for more timely updates and better responsiveness to business needs. And the Interwoven OpenDeploy distribution engine has simplified the management and distribution of these changes throughout LLUMC’s Web infrastructure.
ARMONK, NY - 16 Nov 2007: Texas County and District Retirement System (TCDRS) has selected IBM (NYSE: IBM) to bring millions of records online with a new enterprise content management system which will provide pension fund members and customer service representatives with real-time access to pension and retirement information.
In an effort to better support its customers, help ensure compliance and business continuity, and improve the storage and archiving of important retirement benefits information, TCDRS digitized all their customer account information and is electronically capturing new documents for this $17 billion statewide public-employee retirement system serving more than 180,000 active, retired, and former employees of participating Texas counties and districts.
