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Companies create competitive advantage with technology by building on current practice in ways that others in their industries have yet to discover or implement. Structured content can support a wide range of business activities, from more common and well understood classic examples of structured content to emerging applications that help organizations become leaders in their fields. The rewards those leaders realize can be significant, in terms of revenues, operational costs, or other business measures, as well as in terms of new skills, knowledge, and expertise that create true, lasting competitive advantage.

Time again to bring you a list of upcoming webinars that may send you straight to the executive office. Learn a little something new and impress the boss, or just the guy sitting next to you who thinks he knows it all. This time we have have views into open source Web CMS and Enterprise CMS, publishing with XML and developer looks into the world of Alfresco content management.

Open source DAM anyone? It has arrived -- an open source enterprise-level DAM system named Razuna. Fathered by a Swiss company called SixSigns, Razuna comes to the world with its latest release 1.1.2. Albeit a point release, this version has a lot to offer (to some scenarios).

Being that Clearview Enterprise Content Management is, as they say, the first SharePoint-based solution, we think they rock pretty hard. Well, in the world of Microsoft at least. And now, not even six months since we last reported an upgrade to Clearview ECM, they’ve gone and released version 5.0 (more rockage). The release offers lots of exciting changes and new features, including a new Business Process Management module and compatibility with Kofax 8.0.

MadCap Software, a company madly caps-over-heels about integrated applications for content management and delivery, released MadCap Search Optimizer and free MadCap Toolbar. In addition, the vendor added support for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standard to its roadmap in order to provide users with authoring and publishing tools for creating, managing, translating and publishing DITA content.

ZyLAB, a developer of Information Access solutions, recently announced the release of ZyIMAGE 5.0 service pack 7. The upgrades to their solution are aimed to empower legal, eDiscovery, compliance and law enforcement users with enhanced operational efficiencies.

In this article, discover how the Action Web Service module implements Web services functionality in Ruby on Rails. Action Web Service creates server-side support for SOAP and XML-RPC Web service protocols. You can declare and publish APIs using Action Web Service.

Where, you ask? This time around -- in Boston. The upcoming Gilbane Boston 2008 Conference gives us thrills, that’s how exciting the conference program looks.

Ah, yes, another wonderful Webinar for the viewing pleasure of those who are curious about how technology can help businesses grow and function more efficiently. This upcoming Webinar by XyEnterprise, Component Content Management In Action: Delivering on the Promise of XML, focuses on how businesses can utilize XML and structured content in combination with frameworks (such as DITA and S1000D), processes and technologies to create and realize value.

Most mapping applications assume that the desired view is always north at the top of the image. Learn how to use JavaScript and the Imager Perl module to interface with a Firefox extension for rotating image tiles in Google Maps.

The XML Challenge is a series of five XML contests created by the International DB2 Users Group at IBM to search for XML Superstars around the world. You have an opportunity to vote, comment, and enter Video, Gadget, Query, Ported App and XML Programming contests. Huge prizes await many winners.

Packt Publishing, the publisher of computer related books, announced the release of its new book OpenCMS 7 Development. OpenCms is a professional-level open-source Website Content Management System, based on Java and XML. Many companies or organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the standard OpenCms application. Thankfully, OpenCms can be used by Java developers to create sophisticated add-ons and customizations that extend the power of OpenCms in virtually unlimited directions. Targeting version 7 of OpenCms, this book is for Java developers interested in extending and further customizing OpenCms through its Java API.

Pilgrim Software, a provider of Enterprise Compliance and Quality Management (ECQM) software solutions, announced a strategic partnership with Virtify, a producer of web-based software solutions for the Life Sciences industry. Together, they will provide an Electronic Regulatory Submissions solution to reduce the complexities and accelerate the submissions process lifecycle.

JustSystems, a Japanese software vendor specializing in XML and information management technologies, announced that XMetaL, the company's XML-based software for structured authoring and content collaboration, has been selected as a 2008 KMWorld Trend-Setting Product.

The latest release of XyEnterprise's ContentaView seeks to ensure that information is provided to the right people, at the right time and that the use of that information is carefully tracked. With the web-based distribution capabilities, the need for a lot of hardware may be only a distant memory.