Interwoven WorkSite 8.4?!?
Well I find out today that Interwoven will be releasing a v8.4!
It’s all part of the takeover by Autonomy and I know that until the merger goes through it’s difficult for them to disseminate information to customers on something that isn’t confirmed. But customers are still moving forward with projects and if you’re in the process of moving to v8.3 for the Vivisimo search, then you may want to take notes of these upcoming releases!
For those mid-project, here’s the order as a guide:
- v8.5 is imminent (with Vivisimo Velocity) on a limited release (Limited release is fully tested production code but only released to clients who ask for it so they can be given preferential support)
- v8.4 (with Autonomy’s IDOL engine) would follow this at some point. A server side upgrade retaining the v8.2 client – expect it to initially be a limited release while knowledge of IDOL grows within Interwoven.
- v8.5 would then be released with Autonomy’s IDOL engine as a limited release
- IUS (IDOL) limited release on a similar timetable to 8.5 IDOL
- General availability of all above would follow later in year
- Along with additional v8.5 modules such as SharePoint integration, WorkSite Web, IRM, language packs etc
- After all this there comes the Fileshare release (I’m looking forward to this one! From what I understand you can make your workspaces available through a windows file share!)
In terms of architecture, the feedback is that the IDOL engine requires a similar capability as Vivisimo Velocity, so in their words “we can ‘simply switch’ from one index to the other”.
March 12th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I got to see Fileshare at a recent demo. Very cool indeed. Basically makes Interwoven work with a mapped drive.
March 28th, 2009 at 10:06 am
& you really believe that they can simply switch from one index to the other … ‘magically’ ?
March 28th, 2009 at 11:00 am
apparently it is fairly straight forward. but I’m starting to doubt this given the difficulty we have had getting hold of 8.4 which is alledgedly out now.
seems to me that although from a developer point of view it may be straight forward, it will be difficult from an implementers point of view. will blog experiences when we get it though.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:22 am
We are going through it now. It is not simple.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
how is it going?
June 12th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
We’re live with 8.4 now (approx 3000 users and 25+m documents). And it works!
Still a little bit of tuning to do on the idol indexer but on the whole it’s doing what 8.2 and Verity couldn’t.