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ATLANTA, Aug 30, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
ADERANT,
the world’s largest independent legal software company, announced today
that Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel Burns, LLP has selected ADERANT
StarLaw as its enterprise content management system. Johnson Pope
Bokor Ruppel Burns is one of the Tampa area’s leading law firms with
more than 50 timekeepers and offices in Clearwater and Tampa, Florida.

“Our firm cast a wide net in search of the industry’s best document
management system before we ultimately determined that ADERANT StarLaw
was the most intuitive, well designed solution in the marketplace,” said
Frank R. Jakes, managing partner for Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel Burns.
“We have a proud tradition of leveraging technology to increase
efficiency and using creativity to improve the practice of law, and we
feel that ADERANT StarLaw aligns well with those directives.”

As a long-standing ADERANT client, Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel Burns
will add the ADERANT StarLaw enterprise content management system to
streamline operations and reduce risk. ADERANT StarLaw is a
comprehensive suite that delivers integrated document, records, and
email management functionality.

Chris
Giglio, chief executive officer for ADERANT said, “As a client of
more than 17 years, Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel Burns has always looked
for opportunities to maximize both internal efficiency and the client
experience. By using ADERANT StarLaw, the firm will manage its exposure
to risk by effectively and efficiently managing the entire lifecycle of
documents, records, and emails.”

Designed from the ground up to meet the unique needs of law firms,
ADERANT StarLaw supports how attorneys utilize information and is
accessible through Microsoft Office applications for ease of use. It
manages the entire lifecycle of data, allowing attorneys to easily
create, categorize, store, access, share, and dispose of documents,
records, and emails.

Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel Burns, LLP will implement ADERANT StarLaw in
2012. The firm presently uses ADERANT
Expert, ADERANT’s signature practice management system, which
provides additional ways to streamline work processes, improve business
operations, and increase profitability.

About ADERANT

ADERANT, headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., is a global provider of
comprehensive business management software for law and professional
services firms. ADERANT’s complete suite of solutions includes: business
development, calendar/docket matter management with built-in court
rules, client relationship management (CRM), practice and financial
management, time and billing, case management, document management, and
business intelligence. ADERANT helps firms more effectively and
profitably run, grow, and protect their businesses. More information is
available at
www.aderant.com .

Editor’s Note: The correct usage of the ADERANT name is all capitals.

ADERANT and ADERANT Expert are registered trademarks of ADERANT
Holdings, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks mentioned
herein are the properties of their respective owners.

SOURCE: ADERANT

        ADERANT Public Relations
        Adam Kincaid, 678-668-1028
        adam.kincaid@aderant.com

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SharePoint has come along way since SharePoint 2003. Its success has surprised many and frustrated others. But to be successful, you can’t remain in one place. And it sounds like Microsoft has some big plans in the works, much related to web content management and customer experience.

SharePoint Success

According to Jared Spataro, Director, SharePoint Product Management at Microsoft Corporation, SharePoint earned the software giant US$ 1.2 billion last year and has achieved double digit growth since then. He says that if SharePoint were a standalone vendor it would be bigger than Salesforce.com.

A few other tidbits: SharePoint has 100% penetration in developed economies and on average 70-80% around the world. It is, without a doubt, the 200 lb elephant in the corner of the room.

But Spataro says people aren’t asking what SharePoint is anymore. Now, they are asking “what can I do with it” or “what’s the best way to take advantage of it”?

Enter Microsoft’s research and a three phase model that shows how SharePoint has been implemented in the enterprise:

1. Initial deployment
2. Broad adoption
3. Business solutions

Phase 1 — Initial deployment — is where you see the penetration numbers coming from mentioned above. In its research, Microsoft found that the bulk of SharePoint 2010 deployments over the last couple of years have focused on team sites and portal sites, with fileshare coming in third. Spataro said that one of the main things they observed is that organizations are focused on specific capabilities and that governance is key for every feature and/or capability implemented.

According to its research, about 80% of organizations will have upgraded to SharePoint 2010 in the next twelve months. It looks like SharePoint 2007 may be on it’s way out the door — finally.

Phase 2 — Broad Adoption — is about using SharePoint as the platform it’s designed to be. It’s about content management, mostly document management, but sometimes web content management. The rich metadata and term store features within SharePoint 2010 are key to this. Also in this phase, organizations are moving from doing just SharePoint governance to the broader Information governance.

Phase 3 — Business Solutions — This, says Sparato is the place many are interested in. But he warns that orgs should do Phase 1 first. This is where you see many partners getting on board, integrating their solutions into the platform and extending SharePoint. But it’s also where you see custom solutions created from scratch by development teams, to support specific needs within the organization.

Microsoft plans to spend the next twelve months sharing the message and publishing the technical content needed to support organizations in all of these phases. But they are also heads down thinking about what comes next. And it sounds like customer experience management is a key part of the next phase of SharePoint.

What’s Coming Next for SharePoint

I don’t have my crystal ball in hand right now, and you know that Spataro wasn’t going to give me specifics. But he did tell me a few things:

1. Microsoft knows Customer Experience is critical and it has been making key investments into the different areas of CXM that will push SharePoint into a leadership position in this area. Here, web content management will play a role.
2. Microsoft is learning a lot from the FAST acquisition and it will be taking a lot of that into SharePoint.
3. The focus on SharePoint as a broad platform will not change and Microsoft is committed to growing its business via the fantastic ecosystem that currently supports it.

Web Content Management  the Customer Experience

Spend a little time with Jared Spataro and you will see that Microsoft is serious about using SharePoint for web content management, and they have the clients to prove it. The wssdemo.com website shows you 2,263 public facing websites built on the SharePoint platform, ranging from government to financial to educational sites. The user experience ranges from Flashy to portal like and the functionality varies as well.

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WOBURN, Mass., Aug 31, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) –
Bridgeline Digital, Inc.


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, developer of the award-winning iAPPS web experience management (WEM) platform and interactive technology solutions, today announced that the iAPPS Product Suite has been named a Trend Setting Product for the second consecutive year by KMWorld Magazine. KMWorld is the leading information provider serving the Knowledge, Document and Content Management systems market with over 45,000 subscribers. Bridgeline’s iAPPS Product Suite is the only leading WEM platform available as either a SaaS or perpetual license that unifies Content Management, e-Commerce, e-Marketing, and analytics capabilities – enabling Marketers to swiftly enhance and optimize the value of their web properties. The iAPPS Product Suite was recently selected as a finalist for two 2011 CODiE Awards and iAPPS Content Manager is the 2010 CODiE Award Winner for Best Content Management Solution, globally.

iAPPS enables Marketers to optimize their online channels and more effectively hit their web marketing goals. The recently launched iAPPS Analyzer offers a smart recommendations engine that proactively suggests ways in which all site content, whether on a landing page or within an eCommerce store, can be optimized to meet and exceed identified business and campaign goals. Further enhancing iAPPS’ overall WEM capabilities, iAPPS Analyzer brings Goal Driven Marketing directly into the web browser and empowers Marketers to optimize all of their multichannel marketing efforts under unified campaigns. Marketers can then track campaign progress in a way that drives towards attainment of set goals and business objectives.

Inclusion in the Trend Setting Products listing has been a significant achievement since its inception in 2003. The 2011 Trend Setters were selected from over 800 products and were assessed by KMWorld’s judging panel which consists of editorial colleagues, analysts, system integrators, vendors, line-of-business managers and users. The products selected all demonstrate clearly identifiable technology breakthroughs that serve the vendors’ full spectrum of constituencies, especially their customers.

“The iAPPS Product Suite has a clear track record of steady and significant innovation, more than legitimizing last year’s designation as a Trend Setter, and making this year’s successive award even more significant,” says Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor in chief. “Bridgeline remains well ahead of the content management curve, offering true benefit and creative solutions to the industry. With iAPPS’ latest innovations, they have added significant advantages that organizations can easily use to manage and interpret online campaigns and enhance results on an ongoing basis.”

“We’re honored that the iAPPS Product Suite has been recognized for the second year in a row by KMWorld,” says Thomas Massie, Bridgeline’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “The innovations we’ve added to iAPPS with version 4.6 and iAPPS Analyzer over the past year have significantly advanced its web experience management capabilities. iAPPS continues to lead with innovations that empower customers to take control of their WEM and directly drive their online business with engaging content and exciting results.”

About KMWorld

KMWorld is the leading information provider serving the Knowledge Management systems market and covers the latest in Content, Document and Knowledge Management, informing more than 45,000 subscribers about the components and processes – and subsequent success stories – that together offer solutions for improving business performance. KMWorld is a publishing unit of Information Today, Inc. (
www.infotoday.com ).

About Bridgeline Digital

Bridgeline Digital is a developer of an award-winning web experience management product suite and award-winning interactive business technology solutions that help customers leverage best in class web-based technologies to achieve their business objectives. The iAPPS Product Suite is an innovative SaaS solution that unifies Content Management,eCommerce, eMarketing, and Analytics capabilities into the heart of websites, online stores, intranets, extranets, and portals — enabling business users to swiftly enhance and optimize the value of their web properties. iAPPS’ flexible architecture provides customers with a state-of–the-art Cloud-based deployment or traditional dedicated server deployments.

Combined with award-winning interactive technology development services by Microsoft Gold-Certified development teams, Bridgeline Digital helps customers to cost-effectively maximize the value of their rapidly changing web applications. Bridgeline’s teams of developers specialize in web application development, e-commerce development, usability engineering, SharePoint development, rich media development, and search engine optimization.

Bridgeline Digital is headquartered near Boston, with additional locations in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, and Bangalore, India. Bridgeline Digital has hundreds of customers ranging from middle market organizations to divisions within Fortune 1,000 companies that include: Sun Chemical, Honeywell, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Novartis, Shaw Flooring, Marriott International, Berkshire Life, PODS, Budget Rent A Car, AARP, National Financial Partners, The Packard Foundation, DTCC, Cadaret, Grant Co., National Insurance Crime Bureau, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. To learn more about Bridgeline, please visit
www.bridgelinedigital.com .

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Published 24 August 2011

More than just bug fixes going into next rev of popular open source CMS

Dries Buytaert, inventor of Drupal, founder of Acquia

The inventor of popular free and open source content management system Drupal, Dries Buytaert, said that Version 8 will have a big focus on the building of mobile applications for tablets and smartphones as well as key improvements to usability.

Speaking to CBR, Buytaert said that Drupal 8, expected later this year, will feature native support for HTML 5, making it what he called the, “go-to place for devs to build mobile applications”. The current version, 7.7, can be configured to support HTML 5 but it’s a bit of a chore today, Buytaert said.

He also told us that usability will again be a big theme – it was the biggest theme for the version 7 release.

Buytaert conceded that there is a “big learning curve” for developers getting to grips with the open source CMS – already used by millions of websites including ones as large and busy as Whitehouse.gov, Mozilla and NASA. “It’s easy if you just want to build simple websites but today everyone wants to build a Facebook,” Buytaert said. “It gets easier with each new version and it will get easier again with version 8.”

Buytaert also started a company in 2007 to help companies who have built their websites with Drupal to maintain and manage them – Acquia. Acquia, which has 140 staff, offers solutions, tools and support. But as well as the developers at Acquia and Buytaert himself, each new version of Drupal is contributed to by the open source community. Buytaert claims that there are thousands of active developers, though every change is approved by a team of up to 12, and signed off by Buytaert himself.

Buytaert originally developed Drupal as a message board, but soon started to add additional functionality that turned it into a full-blown CMS. He open sourced it under a license equivalent to the GPL, and it took off virally. Buytaert had originally wanted to call the thing Dorp, the Dutch word for village, but he spelled it wrong on a website registration application and ended up with ‘drop.org’, which he then morphed into drupal, the Dutch for droplet.

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CONCORD, Calif., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Formtek, Inc., a leading provider of document and content management solutions to industrial clients for over two decades, announced today that it had signed a Partnership Agreement with Ephesoft, Inc., developer of the only Open Source Document Capture Solution with enterprise support in the world.  

With this partnership, Formtek® adds the Ephesoft™ Enterprise Edition to its existing product portfolio, which includes Formtek | Orion™, Alfresco® Enterprise, and the Formtek Engineering Data Management (EDM) Solution for Alfresco.

Formtek chose to partner with Ephesoft because Ephesoft Enterprise Edition provides a feature set equivalent to that of the current industry leaders, using the latest tool sets, in a 100% web-based Open Source solution, and at a much lower total cost of ownership. Ephesoft advanced features include high performance automatic classification and separation technology based on content and layout, learning of documents, and meta-data extraction technologies using bar-code, regular expression, and phrases.

Formtek is also an Alfresco Gold SI Partner, and Ephesoft seamlessly interfaces to Alfresco through CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services). This allows Formtek to offer a single integrated solution that includes both advanced scan/capture, based on Ephesoft, and enterprise content management, based on Alfresco.

With the addition of the Formtek Engineering Data Management (EDM) solution for Alfresco, including the Formtek EDM Connector for AutoCAD®, Formtek is positioned to provide the market with the only pre-packaged, installation-ready, minimal services solution that combines enterprise scan/capture, content management, records management, and engineering data management, on an Open Source content platform, and without expensive license fees.

“We welcome Formtek as an Ephesoft Platinum Partner,” said David Talarico, Ephesoft Senior Vice President Sales Marketing – Americas. “Formtek brings over twenty years of experience in scan/capture, imaging, and document management to our Partner Program, as well as a unique domain expertise in engineering and other industrial markets.”

“Formtek has a long and very successful history of providing mission-critical content management solutions to some of the most demanding organizations in the world,” said Dennis M. Scanlon, Formtek’s President and COO. “With the addition of Ephesoft to our product portfolio, we now offer our clients a state-of the-art, Open Source alternative for advanced document and data capture to complement our existing document management, records management, and engineering data management solutions.”

Additional information on Formtek’s products, including access to datasheets, can be found at http://www.formtek.com/products/products.shtml

About Formtek

For over two decades, Formtek has been providing mission-critical Enterprise Document and Content Management solutions and services to some of the most demanding industrial operations in the world. Our capabilities and experience have helped both small organizations as well as large global enterprises manage their most important information assets. Formtek solutions address real, day-to-day engineering data management, document management, content management, records management, and secure collaboration requirements for worldwide customers in manufacturing, aerospace, defense, telecommunication, utility, and government. To learn more about Formtek, visit http://www.formtek.com/.

About Ephesoft

Ephesoft, Inc., based in Irvine, CA, has developed an intelligent document capture system designed to improve the automation of “mailroom” processes through classifying, sorting and separating incoming documents, and extracting pertinent information from these business documents for distribution and processing. Our mission is to have this technology available to enterprises of all sizes and enable them to process business documents efficiently and effectively in an integrated fashion. To learn more about Ephesoft, visit http://www.ephesoft.com/.

Formtek is a registered trademark, and Formtek | Orion is a trademark, of Formtek, Inc.

Ephesoft is a trademark of Ephesoft, Inc. in the United States, the European Union and other countries.

Alfresco is a registered trademark of Alfresco Software, Inc. in the USA and other countries.

AutoCAD is a registered trademark or trademark of Autodesk, Inc., in the USA and other countries.

Media Contact:

Mr. Victor Malespina
Formtek, Inc.
904-829-9251 (USA)
vmalespina@formtek.com

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