Index Engines announced a significant upgrade to their enterprise indexing platform. Version 2.0 extends unstructured data indexing to include secondary storage and boosts processing speeds to 2 Gigabits per second wire speeds. This new release indexes information throughout its lifecycle as it is backed up, replicated, snapshoted, archived, or vaulted, for more comprehensive search, classification and management of data enterprise wide. Previous versions of the Index Engines solution supported indexing of primary storage data. With Version 2.0, files residing in secondary storage, even backup tapes, are fully indexed allowing comprehensive discovery of this data across the enterprise. Version 2.0 of the Index Engines platform is available immediately for early access clients and generally available on April 28, 2006. Prices start at $29,500 for an environment consisting of 2 million documents. http://www.indexengines.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 204 of 479)
This category includes editorial and news blog posts related to content management and content strategy. For older, long form reports, papers, and research on these topics see our Resources page.
Content management is a broad topic that refers to the management of unstructured or semi-structured content as a standalone system or a component of another system. Varieties of content management systems (CMS) include: web content management (WCM), enterprise content management (ECM), component content management (CCM), and digital asset management (DAM) systems. Content management systems are also now widely marketed as Digital Experience Management (DEM or DXM, DXP), and Customer Experience Management (CEM or CXM) systems or platforms, and may include additional marketing technology functions.
Content strategy topics include information architecture, content and information models, content globalization, and localization.
For some historical perspective see:
https://gilbane.com/gilbane-report-vol-8-num-8-what-is-content-management/
Digital Rights Management (DRM) gets a lot of bad press about its use and misuse, much of it well-deserved. But there is a less controversial use of DRM technology for corporate applications. “Enterprise DRM” complements content management, firewalls, and other technologies in helping to ensure that sensitive information such as confidential documents, email, and application data do not fall into the wrong hands or get used in ways it shouldn’t. Much corporate content needs to be managed according to certain rules (having nothing to do with copyright) that are outside the scope of workflow processes, and organizations are paying attention.
Our upcoming Conference on Enterprise DRM at Gilbane San Francisco is the first event devoted exclusively to DRM for corporate applications. The conference, chaired by Bill Rosenblatt of DRM Watch, will be a unique opportunity to explore DRM technologies and how they apply to a wide variety of business environments and technology architectures; several vendors will be on hand to demo their solutions. The program will include several case studies of Enterprise DRM deployments in such applications as financial services, human resources, high-tech manufacturing, and distance learning. The program will also feature leading analysts, including Rosenblatt, Jarad Carleton of Frost & Sullivan, and Trent Henry of Burton Group who will present a framework for analyzing Enterprise DRM solutions.
Executives from Enterprise DRM vendors, including Adobe, Cloakware, EMC/Authentica, Essential Security Software, Fasoo.com, Intelligent Wave, Liquid Machines, SealedMedia, and WorkShare will offer insights into technology and the market. The conference will feature panel discussions on technology issues such as Enterprise DRM for mobile devices, secure inter-enterprise collaboration, and integration of Enterprise DRM with content management.
DRM Watch and Gilbane readers can get a special $100 discount off the eDRM conference price of $495 by registering online with discount code “drmwatch”.
ABREVITY, Inc. announced availability of its FileData Classifier Information Value Management (IVM) solution. At $1497 for the first three terabytes and $995 per terabyte thereafter, FileData Classifier is a solution in the Information Classification and Management (ICM) space suitable for Small to Medium Businesses (SMB) or Small to Medium Enterprises (SME). Leveraging ABREVITY’s SLICEbase metadata database engine, FileData Classifier is not built on or require the use of a relational database. This provides for a rich feature set that includes user-selectable metadata parsing, Boolean file query (search) and ABREVITY’s exclusive Drag2Tag file tagging for data classification. The later feature allows users to query based on granular file attributes, such as specific file or directory words combined with file types, dates, creators, etc., and then simply drag selected files into one or more category “tags” such as Critical, Compliant, Legal, Tier One, etc. New categories and tags can be created. An upgrade option “sees inside” common file types such as Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF files, and extracts parsed file content such as social security numbers, etc. FileData Classifier software runs on standard Windows PCs or severs and supports Windows (CIFS) network or desktop storage systems. The software manages up three terabytes of data per single dataset. Users can also upgrade to ABREVITY’s FileData Manager software which offers features such as UNIX (NFS) scanning, more than three terabytes of federated data management and file content extraction for laboratory instrument files, 200+ common file types or email.
Coveo Solutions Inc. announced general availability of Coveo Enterprise Search (CES) 4.0 for secure, unified search across all documents and multimedia content located in file systems, databases, enterprise applications, email servers, intranets and Web sites. Coveo Enterprise Search for SharePoint (CESS) 4.0, a version seamlessly integrated with Microsoft SharePoint is also available. CESS 4.0 allows SharePoint customers to securely find information inside of SharePoint, as well as content in repositories in the corporate network. This latest version of Coveo’s search solution offers new capabilities including: Improved user interface supporting faceted search, saved queries and an interface editor; The ability to securely search across Lotus Notes, Novell Netware, sound, image, and video files; An open crawler API to index virtually any data source; The ability to scale to more than 100 million documents with load-balancing and distributed indexing across multiple servers; Personalized rating that enhances relevancy via user behavior tracking; Collaborative ranking that enhances relevancy by applying personalized rating through groups of related individuals; Chinese (traditional and simplified), Japanese and Korean language support; Richer real-time analysis and comprehensive reporting for administrators; and 10-25% faster query and indexing performance over the previous release. Coveo Enterprise Search 4.0 installs with “out-of-the box” document level security, and delivers transparent integration with permissions on Windows file system, SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange.
Axaio Software, Callas software’s sister company unveiled MadeToCompare, a new solution for the collation and comparison of texts and
versions in Adobe InCopy CS and CS2. The product is intended in particular to be integrated with Adobe InCopy-based editing systems such as Softcare K4. The Plug-In analyzes different versions of open InCopy documents and then presents all text-related discrepancies in a dynamically-generated HTML document. MadeToCompare identifies words which are missing or have been changed, spaces which have been added or deleted, or paragraphs and line breaks which have been displaced. The results from the searched documents are contrasted using the browser, and all differences are pinpointed with the help of punctuation marks. MadeToCompare lends itself to integration with InDesign and InCopy-based editing systems; a connection to Softcare K4 has already been developed; versions for other editorial systems will be available shortly. The Plug-In runs both on Mac OS X and Windows 2000/XP. A single-user license costs 990 EURO. Demo versions can be
downloaded for free at http://www.axaio.com
McLaren Software, an independent software vendor specializing in applications for engineering process and content management, has announced the release of Version 3.5 of its application suite, Enterprise Engineer. The new release extends the broad, document-centric capabilities of earlier versions of Enterprise Engineer, thanks largely to its comprehensive work-management capabilities. This allows executives to gain insights into their company’s engineering operations and centralize control of key processes across the enterprise. Version 3.5 features include: A work management and audit-trail capability that enables companies to oversee and manage engineering tasks; A formal review and approval process that allows engineers to mark up individual sections of large-scale drawings with interactive comments and ensures all approvals are recorded with appropriate sign off information – including electronic signatures (double-blind signoff for 21 CFR Part 11 compliance) as well as an indication of the reason for specific approval; A new EE Transmittals application that provides audit trails, multiple notification mechanisms, automatic rendering of transmittal documents and reporting on transmittal status; A new EE Transmittals portal providing support for the auditable transmission of controlled documents and drawings to external organizations; A new EE Office Manager that integrates with Microsoft Office, allowing users to utilize all Microsoft applications as part of their engineering process; New business reports for managing engineering projects and tasks, including status reporting and exception reporting; Enhanced EE Drawing Manager providing direct access to the complete set of Enterprise Engineer functionality from within leading CAD environments; and Flexible integration with both the EMC Documentum and FileNet P8 platforms. http://www.mclarensoftware.com
Xythos Software and Softricity announced they will join each other’s certified technology programs as part of a solution to deliver web-enabled content management and collaboration with application virtualization and on-demand streaming. , http://www.softricity.com
EMC Corporation unveiled EMC Documentum Archive Services for Email and EMC Documentum Archive Services for Reports software. The new products leverage capabilities from the EMC Documentum content management technology and are based on a unified archiving platform. Through EMC products including Archive Services for Email and Archive Services for Reports, EMC’s unified archiving platform will enable customers to employ a common set of services for collecting, retaining, migrating, securing and discovering all types of information to be better equipped to search and retrieve information for compliance and legal discovery, and content re-use. EMC Documentum Archive Services for Email captures and archives all incoming and outgoing e-mail messages to ensure compliance with regulations and internal e-mail policies. Enhanced compliance capabilities enable customers to validate email compliance to regulators and the courts. In the event of litigation, investigators can search the archive and deliver high volumes of messages quickly, accurately and with assurance that the chain of custody is intact. Together, Archive Services for Email and EMC EmailXtender comprise EMC’s complementary set of e-mail archiving software. EMC Documentum Archive Services for Reports captures large volumes of computer-generated reports from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, invoices, statements, bills, as well as system-generated content from wireless devices, debit cards and web services. The content is converted into ISO-standard PDF-A format for long-term preservation, retention policy management and lifecycle-managed storage. EMC’s unified archiving software platform is supported by the full range of EMC’s storage systems, including EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS), EMC CLARiiON and EMC Symmetrix storage systems as well as non-EMC storage platforms. EMC Documentum Archive Services for Email and EMC Documentum Archive Services for Reports are available immediately. EMC Documentum Archive Services for SAP has been available since May 2005. Prices vary by configuration.
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