Six Apart announced two new services today, the first being Typepad Business Class is a hosted service with security, management, and integration features that should appeal to a wide array of business customers that want to get started with blogs with low cost and practically no IT requirements.

The second product announcement is Movable Type Enterprise. This product has a number of new features, but two things that really rise to the level of must haves for enterprise customers like SAP, directory (LDAP) integration and email features. It’s good to see a company taking a lead in not only building in features for enterprise customers, but also taking a lead in promoting the use of blogging as a tool behind the firewall.

I’ve been pretty tough on Six Apart for the issues that Typepad has experienced and the inconvenience this caused me, but I’m also a big fan of the company and the people behind it. When I had to select a platform for SAP’s internal blogging network it was not a tough choice, I chose Movable Type.