Third-party vendors piggyback SharePoint 2010

Third-party software providers piggybacked the release of SharePoint 2010 at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 with releases of their own that flesh out the platform or plug some gaps.
Informative Graphics Corp. launched Brava! Enterprise 6.2 and Redact-It Enterprise 6.2 for MOSS 2007. Brava provides viewing and annotation capability for documents, with the ability to recognize search terms used in SharePoint and apply them to the document being viewed. Redact-It offers the ability to automatically redact sensitive data such as social security numbers or medical records from specified document libraries according to pre-set redaction specifications. Versions of the software supporting SharePoint 2010 are expected to be available when Microsoft makes that platform generally available ...
iTechnology was displaying its free Forms Accelerator software, designed to enable business users to take control of the forms they use without involving developers or IT. Built on Silverlight 3, the software includes templates for basic forms such as timesheets and status reports, and short “how-to” videos offer instruction for using Forms Accelerator. Drag-and-drop functions and fields let users create custom forms, and APIs are included to bring in Web services and other external assets. The software is to be generally available Nov. 1…
MicroLink introduced DiscoverPoint, software to automate the delivery of data and other information relevant to users through the use of social networking tools. Providing context that is not currently available in SharePoint 2010, DiscoverPoint compares search results within organizations to locate people with common interests or certain areas of expertise …
RepliWeb released version 2.2 of its RepliWeb Operational Synchronization for SharePoint (ROSS) with the ability to replicate MySites and Site Variations, and Workflow Definitions, including those built in Designer, Visual Studio and Nintex Workflow 2007. The updated tool also now provides the ability to manage .WSP deployments across farms; to replicate such things as Structure, Look & Feel, Data, Workflows, Security and more; to reverse unintended deployments and restore to the last known good state; and to issue reports and notifications …
Simplement, an SAP consulting firm and Microsoft ISV, unveiled is Data Liberator, which helps organizations migrate data from SAP onto SharePoint via its SQL Server-based abstraction layer. Upon installation, Data Liberator takes a snapshot of the SAP implementation, and going forward, captures every new data entry and replicates it. SharePoint users then get the data delivered into that platform from Data Liberator (through a Web Part created by Lightning Tools) with no performance impact on the SAP server.
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