Stories by: Cathleen Moore

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Portal vendors unite behind standards 11 November, 2003 08:27

Attempting to drive real-world deployments of standardized portlets, several competing enterprise portal vendors this week kicked off an open source site designed to let customers share portlets developed according to new standards.
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Microsoft releases Windows Rights Management client 08 September, 2003 08:29

Microsoft this week made available the first product in its digital rights management strategy that was announced back in February.
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XMPP vs SIMPLE: The race for messaging standards 27 May, 2003 13:51

There's a race on for the future of the enterprise messaging system. The contestants are backing competing protocols for IM and presence awareness. Which standard takes home the prize may depend less on technical merits than on brute force. At the head of the competition are SIMPLE (Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions) and the open-source, XML-based XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). Both are currently being developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
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Messaging seeks new frontiers 26 May, 2003 08:41

Messaging vendors are rolling out low-cost e-mail systems that have been slimmed down to meet the needs of mobile and deskless workers in settings such as hospitals and factories.
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XMPP rises to face SIMPLE standard 22 April, 2003 08:17

With the lure of presence-aware applications and systems dangling before them, competitors are warming up for a heated race to establish an industry standard protocol for presence awareness and instant messaging interoperability.
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E-records management moves front and center 02 April, 2003 07:39

A raft of new software offerings are taking aim at the growing problem of electronic records management, which as ascended to a top priority for many enterprises in recent years as tighter corporate governance and regulatory scrutiny have increased pressure on the issue.
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Messaging looks to the long term 10 March, 2003 08:10

Long deemed essential to the enterprise, messaging platforms are poised for a significant makeover as evidenced by the maturation and confluence of technologies in today’s enterprise messaging space.
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Corechange adds BPM fuel to corporate portal 29 October, 2002 11:46

Enterprise portal software vendor Corechange Inc. on Monday unveiled software designed to let business users create and manage automated business processes through its Coreport portal framework.
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Adobe ties documents to back-end apps 22 October, 2002 14:27

Known primarily for its desktop publishing tools, Adobe Systems Inc. is branching out to the backend enterprise, seeking to extend document-based processes to core business applications.
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Messaging management takes center stage 10 October, 2002 10:39

Aiming to tame the growing complexity of enterprise messaging environments, several vendors at Microsoft's MEC 2002 conference introduced new tools to control and secure wired and wireless messaging.
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Messaging vendors aim to undercut Exchange 08 October, 2002 09:57

As Microsoft lays out its messaging platform road map at the Exchange User Conference this week, competing vendors are attempting to lure Exchange customers with the promise of lower cost, less complex platforms and licensing agreements.