Unlike the rest of our content, our white papers are sponsored. However, we are careful to only publish white papers we believe provide substantial educational value beyond any sponsor's message or strategy, and that are relevant to content management or information technology. Most white papers do not require any kind of registration, but a few do and are identified as such. Potential sponsors can learn more here.

Using XML and Databases - W3C Standards in Practice

by Bill Trippe and Dale Waldt

Sponsored by EMC

Component Content Management in Practice - Meeting the Demands of the Most Complex Content Applications

by Bill Trippe

Sponsored by EMC

Using Social Search to Drive Innovation through Collaboration

Search Becomes Strategic Technology

by Lynda Moulton

Sponsored by Vivisimo

Leveraging SharePoint in ECM

MOSS 2007, Paired with the Right Imaging Technology, Brings ECM to a Wide Range of Applications

by Bill Trippe

Sponsored by Knowledge Lake

Quality In, Quality Out: The Value of Technology in the Global Content Lifecycle

by Leonor Ciarlone and Mary Laplante

Sponsored by Sajan

The Multi-Website Challenge in Enterprise Content Management: Balancing Central Control and Distributed Content Creation

Balancing Central Control and Distributed Content Creation

by David Guenette and Bill Trippe

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Sponsored by Oracle

Strategic eMarketing: Converting Leads into Profits

Utilizing Web Content Management as an eMarketing platform

by Leonor Ciarlone

Sponsored by Hot Banana Software

Eliminating the Fear Factor: Creating a Culture of Compliance

Making compliance everyones business through simplified, ubiquitous and transparent adoption

by Leonor Ciarlone

Compliance regulations challenge organizations across multiple industries to reengineer business processes. While the focus has been primarily on electronic business processes and communications, corporate and compliance mandates are extending to paper-based processes. It is not uncommon for compliance officers and corporate legal departments to struggle with transforming strategy into reality. Despite efforts, many organizations experience costly, disruptive, and fragmented program implementations that often go underutilized. This paper discusses how creating a culture of compliance demystifies and distributes program adoption by integrating, managing, and monitoring compliance practices at the process owner-level. Proactively making compliance everyones business is essential to maintaining leadership and protecting global brand while balancing the pressures of current and future compliance regulations.

Sponsored by omtool

Success in Standards-Based Content Creation and Delivery at Global Companies

Understanding the Rapid Adoption of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)

by Bill Trippe

Sponsored by Idiom Technologies

The Agile Business and Its Digital Media Supply Chain

An Effective Flow of Digital Media Depends on the Right Management Architecture

by Bill Trippe & David Guenette

Sponsored by ClearStory Systems

Component Content Management in Practice

Meeting the Demands of the Most Complex Content Applications

by Bill Trippe

X-hive is now part of EMC. Click here for updated version of the paper

Sponsored by EMC (X-Hive, Inc.)

Using XML and Databases

W3C Standards in Practice

by Dale Waldt

X-hive is now part of EMC. Click here for updated version of the paper

Sponsored by EMC ( X-Hive, Inc.)

Topic-Oriented Information Development and Its Role in Globalization

The Case for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)

by Bill Trippe

Sponsored by Idiom, Inc.

Architectural Considerations in Digital Asset Management

Making the Case for Leveraging Content-Management Middleware in Digital Asset Management

by Mark Walter

What is the proper foundation for an enterprise-scale Digital Asset Management (DAM) system? How much of that system should be part of an organizations shared infrastructure and how much should be tailor-made to a specific application? There is no single answer to these questions, but changes in the technology industry are forcing everyonevendors and customers aliketo change their assumptions about how DAM systems will be built. This paper explains how the content-management infrastructure is changing, why that matters to DAM, and what benefits can be derived from leveraging a content infrastructure for DAM. Examples from an enterprise implementation at the University of Michigan illustrate the types of architectural issues and requirements that affect platform choices when selecting a digital asset management system.

Sponsored by Stellent, IBM

On-Demand Access to Rich Media Assets

Making the Decision to Use a Service Model Approach for Digital Media Management

by Bill Zoellick

The maturation of digital asset management technology and products has enabled on-demand DAM services to emerge as an attractive alternative to on-premises installation. Organizations facing a variety of problems and constraints, such as speed to market and scalability, are finding software services models to be the most cost effective approach to digital asset management. This paper identifies the four key factors in making the decision between a services model and on-premises installation. It also argues that the decision should be analyzed in terms of discounted cash flows and presents examples of such calculations.

Sponsored by IBM

XML Repositories: An Idea Whose Time has Finally Come

by Sebastian Holst

This white paper discusses the role of an XML repository into today’s enterprise infrastructure. Virtually every database and repository provide some degree of XML support; however, there are important distinctions between support for XML as a data type and the role of a repository whose architecture and operations are optimized to support the broad family of XML recommendations and standards. Specifically, this white paper will explore: The nature and extent of XML use across the enterprise, cost and quality of service implications of an infrastructure with, and without, an XML repository, the evolution of XML repositories from both a technology and a market segment perspective, criteria to determine when an XML repository would add significant value to an existing infrastructure, and capability and packaging recommendations for XML repository functionality that can be used to evaluate specific offerings.

Sponsored by Software AG

Total Cost of Adoption: A Framework for Evaluating Content Management Solutions

Total Cost of Adoption is the missing link to forecasting and maximizing ROI

by Sebastian Holst

Sponsored by Merant

Delivering Content That Makes a Difference

Local control facilitates informed decision-making by giving users access to highly relevant and timely information

by Bill Trippe

Sponsored by Inmagic

Bridging the Real Silos in Content Management with Flexible Content Objects

Leveraging the Right Content Management Technologies to Bring Content and Process Together

by Bill Trippe

Sponsored by Vignette

An Integrated Infrastructure for Content Services

The Sun ONE Content Services Platform & Partner Integrations

by Sebastian Holst

Sponsored by Sun Microsytems

Making Content Management Work in the Enterprise

The Importance of Unification, Usability, and Adaptability in the Deployment of Enterprise Content Management Technology

by Bill Trippe

Sponsored by Context Media

XrML and Emerging Models of Content Development and Distribution

Rights management and the new infrastructure for truly dynamic product development for publishers of all kinds

by Bill Trippe

Sponsored by ContentGuard

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