Hot Banana Software, provider of Web Content Management (WCM) and Active Marketing solutions, announced that it has signed a Channel Partner agreement with a content management consulting specialist, Duo Consulting of Chicago, Illinois. Duo Consulting will be reselling, implementing and supporting Hot Banana’s Active Marketing Web Content Management Suite. The announcement was made from the Hot Banana booth (# 106), at the Gilbane Content Management Conference, November 29 – December 01, 2005 in Boston. , http://www.duoconsulting.com
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Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced that FAST now supports the Sun Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). FAST also joined the Sun Partner Advantage Program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Sun’s Ten Moves Ahead partner initiative to speed market adoption of the Solaris 10 OS. The Sun Partner Advantage Program for ISVs will enable FAST to build, market, and sell enterprise search-based applications designed to leverage Solaris 10 OS. A critical component of FAST’s OEM enterprise search strategy involves FAST InStream, an OEM-specific enterprise search solution developed specifically to meet the complex application-based search requirements of ISVs. FAST InStream runs on a wide variety of operating systems, including the Solaris 10 OS powered by UltraSPARC processors, HP-UX, Windows, Linux, and AIX software platforms. http://www.fastsearch.com
Endeca announced the availability of new Information Access Solutions for Media & Publishing. Built on Endeca’s search and Guided Navigation platform, the solutions help online publishers, content providers and other information suppliers deploy retrieval capabilities for websites, customer and employee-facing content services and online directory applications. The solutions, directory solutions, online publishing solutions, and multimedia content solutions, are designed to simplify and speed access to desirable information. Each of the new information access solutions combine search and navigation functionality with “Content Spotlighting” capabilities, providing users and customers with multiple, integrated ways to explore, find and access content through a single interface. http://www.endeca.com
Xyleme Inc. announced the release of Xyleme Application Developer Kit (ADK) 3.4 at the 2005 Gilbane Conference, being held in Boston, MA from November 29th through December 1st. The release includes a new version of Xyleme Views and the first release of Xyleme Application Builder. The new version of Xyleme Views provides a drag-and-drop mapping interface so that developers can manage diverse content structures, build complex XML queries and generate web applications, without writing any code. The new ADK also includes Xyleme Application Builder, an extension of Xyleme Views. Xyleme Application Builder uses a simple web-based form and drop-down menus to allow technical and non-technical users to generate XML-based queries and applications. In the financial services industry, for example, traders and brokers on a Xyleme platform can now immediately query across multiple systems as if all the data were in a single XML schema, even if trades are stored in myriad data structures. For organizations managing a multitude of diverse legacy systems resulting from mergers and acquisitions, Xyleme Views and Xyleme Application Builder can assimilate diverse content into a single unified view to deliver real-time, global reporting across customers and lines of business. Xyleme will demonstrate Xyleme Views and Xyleme Application Builder in Pavilion Station G. In addition, Xyleme will also demonstrate its new generation Assemble-on-Demand Publishing Solution and its Single-Source Publishing Solution for Technical Documentation and Training. http://www.xyleme.com
The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies San Francisco will take place April 24-26, 2006 at the Palace Hotel. Returning to San Francisco, the event is expanding its educational and conference programs to include in-depth discussions on enterprise search, automated publishing technologies for design-critical content, and how blogs and wikis fit into the enterprise. In addition, the event includes the new co-located Enterprise Digital Rights Management (E-DRM) Conference, chaired by noted authority Bill Rosenblatt, Editor of DRMWatch.com. This industry-analyst driven event brings together thought leaders and practitioners to provide attendees with actionable advice, techniques, best practices, and case studies to help successfully implement content technologies critical to their businesses. Proposals for papers are due on January 9th, but should be submitted as soon as possible. To apply visit: https://gilbane.com/speaker_guidelines.html. The Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies San Francisco will offer attendees with six tracks, including a: Content Management Track, Content Technology Track, Enterprise Search Track, Automated Publishing for Marketing Track, Blog & Wiki Track, and a Content Technology Works Case Studies Track. In addition to the educational and conference sessions is the Demonstration Pavilion, a forum that hosts 70+ content technology suppliers to demonstrate their latest products and features.
A user wrote the following question to the CMPros list, but didn’t get much response, so I offer it here, with some initial thoughts. I would love to hear more ideas about this kind of thing, as I get queries like this at least a couple of times a year.
I write and manage content for a small non-profit (80+ employees). We’re just now implementing a CMS that’s basically a set of templates with no functionality for managing and scheduling content to ‘go into’ the templates.
I’d appreciate any recommendations for software that (1) manages content development (sign-off by editors & reviewers) & (2) schedules content development from start to publication. I’m seeing the management aspect as some kind of checklist; the scheduling functionality as some kind of Gantt chart, with different development stages visually differentiated and/or indicated by milestones (like Msoft Project, but with far less need for Project’s bells and whistles). Maybe I’m dreamin’…
I’ve tried doing all that with Outlook and Sharepoint, and they kinda work, but I’m hoping there’s something a lot better out there.
I suggested the server version of Microsoft Project. The Project server can interact with Outlook clients via Exchange Server, and it can also generate Web clients. For example, you could have a server version of Project running a very high level schedule, which could then provide prompts to the user community. These prompts could be emails, they could be emails with URLs, or they could be tasks sent to the user’s email account which then appear as either tasks or calendar events in the user’s outlook. I did this for a Web development team a couple of years ago, and another client has implemented something like this recently.
Of course, this doesn’t address interaction of the Project server with the CMS, which in this case happens to be Enginuity from Pandora Systems.
Other thoughts and ideas? Feel free to email me as well as posting your comments here.
Translations.com and Percussion Software announced a strategic partnership under which the companies have integrated their product offerings to enhance the creation and management of global web content. The integration of Translations.com’s GlobalLink Globalization Management System as a multilingual module for Percussion’s flagship Rhythmyx 5.7 Content Management System (CMS) solution allows content managers to produce and update global content in as many as 100 languages. The combination of GlobalLink translation technology and the Rhythmyx Content Management System creates a one-stop-shopping solution for organizations that want to roll out a scalable multi-site Web presence. http://www.translations.com, http://www.percussion.com
RedDot Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM), announced the new RedDot Content Integrator – a solution based on IBM’s Information Integrator Content Edition, formerly known as Venetica’s Venice Bridge. With the new Content Integrator from RedDot, users can access and connect the content repositories of most ECM providers through Web sites, intranets, extranets and portals powered by RedDot’s CMS and LiveServer Content Management and Content Delivery Software. The new RedDot Content Integrator will aggregate content from many other ECM solutions into one system and make it securely accessible via the intranet, extranet, Web sites and portals, through a single sign-on. RedDot’s new content integration software enables organizations to access information such as business documents, still images, digital media and Web pages, and integrate the content into RedDot’s CMS and LiveServer. The RedDot Content Integrator provides complete access to most major ECM solutions, and will be available in Q1 2006. , http://www.hummingbird.com
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