Ektron Inc. announced it has attained Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program with competencies in ISV/Software and Business Process and Integration Solutions. Ektron CMS400.NET was one of the first content management applications to be designated Microsoft .NET Connected, and its technology uses or integrates with other Microsoft technologies, including Windows Servers, Microsoft Office, SharePoint Portal Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio and ASP.NET 2.0. To reach Gold Certified status, Ektron had to declare its Microsoft Competencies. Microsoft Competencies are designed to help differentiate a partner’s capabilities with specific Microsoft technologies to customers looking for a particular type of solution. Each competency has a unique set of requirements and benefits, formulated to accurately represent the specific skills and services that partners bring to the technology industry. http://www.ektron.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 209 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/
Nuxeo delivers the new release of its Enterprise Content Management platform. This major release puts strong emphasis on scalability, performances, usability and high-level features. Founded on a component architecture, CPS, through its integrated approach, enables organizations to implement global ECM solutions definitely focusing their investment on specific business needs. CPS 3.4.0 is available for download under open source license. http://www.nuxeo.com/en/
Day Software (SWX:DAYN) (OTC:DYIHY) announced the general availability of Day Content Repository Extreme (CRX) version 1.1, the latest version of Day’s product that enables the storage, management and exchange of content across large-scale enterprises and implements the Content Repository API for Java Technology JCR (JSR 170). Day CRX provides an open, standards-based infrastructure for integrating business applications with any structured or unstructured content in an enterprise. New features in Day CRX enable the exchange of content between applications and repositories. Major feature enhancements include: virtualization, integration with Microsoft SQLServer, integration with Oracle RDBMS, improved support for the development and implementation of CRX adapters and connectors, and improved resource management capabilities and overall performance increases. CRX can be downloaded at
The World Wide Web Consortium has released “XForms 1.0 Second Edition” as a W3C Recommendation. The new generation of Web forms, XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server, offer device independence, and reduce the need for scripting. This second edition adds clarifications and corrects errors as reported in the first edition errata. Second edition publications include the following documents: XForms 1.0 Second Edition http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xforms-20060314/, XForms for HTML Authors Part 2 http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms-for-html-authors-part2.html, XForms Quick Reference http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms-qr.html, XHTML to XForms Converter (XSLT), http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms.xsl, and a Revised XForms Test Suite, .
Canto announced CanFlow, a new product aimed at building complete workflow solutions spanning creative, production and distribution processes around digital assets. At the same time, vertical market solutions built on CanFlow and Cumulus, Canto’s DAM product, and other 3rd-party products will be released. Initial solutions will target the Corporate, Government, Education and Medical sectors. CanFlow is based on an open-source workflow technology that includes a GUI-based workflow builder and an engine that manages the instances of the workflow templates. Workflow templates are created in XML. The workflow engine uses MySQL as its database. The CanFlow-based solutions will ship with pre-configured workflow templates, but consultants and system integrators can fine-tune these templates to specific customer needs. CanFlow 1.0 will be tightly integrated with Cumulus, Canto’s DAM solution. Users of the system will benefit from automatic notifications, a dashboard listing their tasks and important details, and asset access. Project managers and “customers” of the solution will benefit from a Web-based management user interface. The various solutions currently developed by Canto will also integrate with selected 3rd party products. The CanFlow product is scheduled to ship in June 2006. A 10-user license will be available at $8,995. Vertical market solutions will start shipping in June 2006. Each solution will consist of separate Canto and 3rd party products and further enhancements. Individual pricing and further details will be announced for each solution. http://www.canto.com
Infostoria Inc. announced general availability of its Content Integration Suite. The suite lets companies bring together people from different groups and business critical content from different sources. With help of the integration suite, companies in media, publishing, advertising, and financial services can implement content driven business processes that span organizational and system boundaries. Infostoria Content Integration Suite consists of two products: Infostoria Content Integrator – a middleware platform that enables people and applications to manage, search, and securely share digital assets regardless of where they are physically stored; and Infostoria Workgroups – a collaboration portal that helps people form ad-hoc workgroups and populate them with digital assets from disparate repositories. Key features of the Content Integration Suite include: Full-text indexing and search that spans content repositories; Extensive set of media services for image thumbnail creation, video storyboard extraction, format transcoding, and others; Meta-data extraction, auto-tagging, and categorization of content across repositories; Transparent and secure access to content stored in shared file folders and content management systems from different vendors; Integration with managed file transfer products for efficient content delivery and network traffic optimization; and a workflow engine capable of orchestrating business processes driven by content stored in different repositories.
Pound Hill Software extended the MetaGrove product line and announced the general availability of the MetaGrove toolset for Mac OS. The MetaGrove toolset for Mac is now available for immediate delivery. As previously announced, it includes MetaGrove Developer and MetaGrove Plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. The company extended the toolset by unveiling a new plug-in for Adobe InCopy, which is also available for immediate delivery. The MetaGrove toolset for Windows, as well as Mac and Windows XTensions for QuarkXPress, will ship in the second quarter of 2006. MetaGrove enhances Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) by making it easier to define, capture and display the descriptive metadata that make digital media files more intelligent. XMP is an open-source labeling technology that can embed metadata into the file itself to enable more efficient digital asset management, including job processing, workflow automation and rights description. Pricing for the toolset is based on the quantity purchased, with typical enterprise pricing of $470 for MetaGrove Developer and $65 to $85 per MetaGrove Plug-in.
Cignex, a deployment sppecialist in open source consulting and software services, announced the completion of the first phase of the Goldegg Initiative, Goldegg One. The Goldegg One project team worked to establish a roadmap for Plone to encourage enterprises who have not yet adopted the Plone stack for Content Management System to try the technology, and to protect the technology and resource investments made by existing users. Co-funded by a large Cignex customer in the public sector, Goldegg included more than 26 developers from about 17 companies across 6 countries, and the involvement of community leaders, one of the largest groups of open source experts and innovators in the content management industry, to make the open source Plone CMS a viable alternative for enterprise content management. Plone is an out-of-the-box ready content management system that is built on the open source Zope Application server for managing web content for application portals, extranets, intranets, and custom web applications. In order to be adopted broadly by enterprises however, the Plone application must be more tightly integrated with its underlying stack and supported by a migration path for future upgrades. Zope 3 is an open source web application server primarily written in the Python programming language built on “component architecture.” It features a transactional object database which can store not only content and custom data, but also dynamic HTML templates, scripts, a search engine, and relational database (RDBMS) connections and code. It features a through-the-web development model, allowing you to update your web site from anywhere in the world. http://www.cignex.com,
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