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• SharePoint 2010 Backup and Restore Support -- Now provides backup and recovery capabilities for SharePoint 2010. Also enables administrators to conduct an out-of-place restore of data from SharePoint 2007 backup sets into SharePoint 2010 environments saving countless hours and ensuring the security of data.
• FIPS 140 Federal Information Processing Standard Compliance -- Enables easy and secure deployment in government agencies and contractors required to ensure compliance with FIPS standards.

Pricing and Availability

Idera's SharePoint backup 2.8 is available now at $1495 per server. To learn more, visit Idera website.

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Titus Labs Metadata Security for SharePoint offers organizations an additional layer of security for SharePoint information. It enables administrators to protect any document type or item, and restrict access in SharePoint based on metadata properties, or SharePoint content types. Metadata Security for SharePoint automates the process of creating item level security permissions for sensitive information.

Here are some of the key features of Metadata Security for SharePoint:

• Automatically applying security permissions based on the document's metadata properties or content type, making per-document security much easier
• Support for metadata security for both document libraries and lists
• Allows permissions to be assigned to users or groups based on their Active Directory properties.
• Provides the ability to read user and group names from columns and populate them in item permissions, making it much easier to manage permissions for specific people or groups

Newly released version 4.2 of Contributor for SharePoint product line provides Microsoft Office/Outlook 2010 compatibility along with support for new SharePoint 2010 enterprise content management (ECM) features including keyword metadata, document sets, and in-place records management.

Colligo Contributor is a desktop software suite that enables users to easily access, capture, and tag SharePoint content from popular desktop applications, including Microsoft Outlook and Windows Explorer. Information workers can instantly view, modify, and create SharePoint documents, forms, lists, and metadata, whether online or offline. Easy to deploy, learn, and use, Colligo Contributor requires no server modifications and provides a new level of desktop support for all shipping versions of Microsoft SharePoint. Custom interfaces can be built on the Contributor runtime using the Software Development Kit (SDK).

New features and functionality in version 4.2:

• Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 Ready:  Contributor V4.2 is now compatible with Microsoft Office 2010 installations. Contributor Pro, Add-In, and Uploader customers can now take full advantage of Outlook 2010 in their organizations (note: V4.2 still supports Outlook 2003 and 2007).
• Keyword Metadata:  Version 4.2 now supports the use of Keyword Metadata fields, allowing user created folksonomies to be accessible via the Colligo metadata editor. Users can set, edit, and modify terms from term stores on the server through a simple type-ahead interface from the Colligo Term selector. Contributor retrieves potential term matches from the server and lets the users select the desired term. Selected metadata terms can then be used in filters and views to present items in a structure format.
• In-Place Records Management: In-place records management is a feature that restricts the use of items stored in SharePoint, without first moving them to a special storage location. Contributor V4.2 identifies in-place records using a special icon and respects the server restrictions on deleting and updating of declared records.
• Documents Sets: Documents sets are groups of items that are associated through a relationship, allowing them to be managed and controlled as a group. Contributor V4.2 downloads existing documents sets from the server and identifies them with a special icon. Document set items can be viewed, modified, added, or deleted from within Colligo Contributor V4.2.
• Synchronization Performance Optimization: A number of optimizations to the processing and synchronization of content with the Contributor SQL database are included to accelerate synchronization and increase overall performance.

Pricing and Availability:

The free Colligo Reader (for individual users only) and a 30-day trial of Colligo Contributor Pro are available at www.colligo.com.

Products in the Colligo Contributor product family can be purchased from the Colligo store at www.colligo.com/store. For more information on pricing and availability of the Contributor Software Development Kit, partners and customers should contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .Volume pricing available.

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QUMAS, a provider of Compliance Solutions to highly regulated companies, launched its Enterprise Compliance Solution for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The solution addresses all aspects of compliance content and process management, from Clinical through Regulatory, and on to Sales & Marketing, IT and Legal.

QUMAS' expertise of scalable and configurable enterprise Compliance deployments for Manufacturing and Regulatory allowed them to deploy solutions that support tens of thousands of users and millions of documents across multiple geographical locations. All of that domain knowledge and expertise will now be available on a SharePoint 2010 platform.

Providing a highly usable and intuitive environment for end-users, the QUMAS Compliance Solution adds key solution-specific functionality that leverages and extends the underlying SharePoint platform to support industry demands in a number of key areas. These will include:

• Manufacturing Controlled Documents
• CAPA's and Deviations
• Clinical Trial Management
• Regulatory Documentation
• SOP Management (Policies and Procedures)
• Customer Complaints
• Change Control
• Policy Training and Certification
• R&D Document Control

Idera's SharePoint Admin Toolset and Free SharePoint Performance Monitor Tool Support SharePoint 2010.

Comprised of 11 powerful tools, Idera SharePoint admin toolset is an essential set of utilities used by SharePoint users and administrators for daily SharePoint administration and troubleshooting tasks such as: performing backups, troubleshooting performance issues, analyzing and re-indexing SharePoint content databases, generating essential security reports, etc.

Idera SharePoint performance monitor is a free tool that enables real-time monitoring of critical performance counters for SharePoint, IIS and Windows Operating Systems in an easy-to-read graphical console that sends alerts when issues arise.

Pricing and Availability:

Free Trial for SharePoint Admin Toolset; $495 per user. Download it here: http://www.idera.com/Products/SharePoint/SharePoint-admin-toolset/

SharePoint performnace monitor is free. Download it here: http://www.idera.com/Products/Free-Tools/SharePoint-perf-monitor/

AvePoint has launched DocAve for SalesForce Chatter on SalesForce.com's ChatterExchange. It enables organizations to fully synchronize and surface SharePoint content via SalesForce Chatter for dynamic collaboration and enterprise-wide delivery.

DocAve for SalesForce Chatter is a new software solution for the automated integration of salesforce.com and SharePoint content. Using DocAve, organizations can automate the lossless synchronization of content from SharePoint repositories to SalesForce Content, where it can be surfaced via Chatter's real-time collaboration features, including news feeds, status notification, and various content sharing tools.

Pricing and Availability:

DocAve can be found on the ChatterExchange, a brand new category for social enterprise apps that is now part of AppExchange 2. Pricing available by request. Free trial can be obtained on www.avepoint.com.

• Seamless integration of Nevron Chart and Gauge web parts in SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010
• Seamless migration between MOSS 2007 and 2010 charts and gauges templates
• Displaying of numerous charting types and chart combinations with advanced data analysis features inside SharePoint
• Displaying of KPIs, numeric and real time data inside SharePoint

Pricing and Availability:

Nevron SharePoint Vision for MOSS 2010 is now available for download, starting at $1699. Visit www.nevron.com for complete pricing, developer licenses and discounts, and more information.

The integration of Equivio's technology adds an important layer of structure to SharePoint 2010 data repositories. The grouping of near-duplicates and email threads helps organizations that use SharePoint 2010 by:

• Enabling the presentation of search results in a compact structured manner
• Ensuring the consistent application of decisions, rules and policies across like documents
• Expediting the corporation’s response to e-discovery requests, internal investigations and regulatory inquiries

The SharePoint-Equivio integration is seamless and fully automated, with no human intervention required. The integration allows Equivio to read data stored in SharePoint, process it to discover groups of near-duplicates and email threads, and then write the grouping data directly back into SharePoint.

To learn more about winning with Equivio, visit vendor website.