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Category: Content management & strategy (Page 21 of 464)

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/

CI&T and Crownpeak partner

January 9, 2023 /

CI&T, focused on driving digital transformation for global brands, and Crownpeak, a digital experience platform (DXP) provider, announced a partnership to build retail experience management accelerators combining the companies’ expertise in the industry and technology.

The Retail Experience Platform is a digital experience platform using composable commerce architecture with reusable components to support specialty retail sales. As a result, retail and e-commerce companies can bring their brand’s unique customer experiences to life – launching and continuously optimizing those experiences to maximize conversions, revenue, and customer engagement. Leveraging a composable architecture to build a personalized “best-of-stack” platform, companies do not have to compromise on future, scalable performance or uncontrolled costs.

Crownpeak helps bring enterprise marketers and IT professionals together with its hybrid, headless, and composable DXP architecture to deliver content-driven commerce – fast, secure, accessible, and transactional omnichannel digital experiences. Crownpeak also finalized its acquisition of Attraqt in December 2022. Attraqt is a provider of SaaS solutions that powers product discovery experiences and online conversion for top brands and retailers globally.

https://www.crownpeak.com ■ https://ciandt.com/

Solodev launches serverless CMS

January 9, 2023 /

Solodev announced the launch of Solodev Serverless CMS: a cloud-native enterprise content management system that runs serverless on AWS. Solodev Serverless CMS is fully deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is capable of running high-availability workloads.

Solodev Serverless CMS delivers a composable set of cloud-based services to support traditional and headless websites and apps, including Jamstack frameworks like React. Solodev Serverless CMS utilizes container technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate, all instantly deployed on the AWS infrastructure. Solodev Serverless CMS also delivers cloud-first features such as dynamic modules, a drag-and-drop page builder, furl management, and advanced form capabilities, including security and fraud prevention. Solodev Serverless CMS users will also have access to the Solodev Marketplace, featuring hundreds of third-party platforms like Salesforce and cloud services from AWS.

Solodev Serverless includes everything from Git to container orchestration with AWS Fargate, cloud-based IAM with AWS Cognito, database services like AWS DynamoDB, monitoring via Amazon CloudWatch, and more. Powered by Solodev Serverless, Solodev Serverless CMS is now available and can be procured on-demand through the AWS Marketplace, via public sector schedule contracts, and soon through the Solodev Marketplace.

https://www.solodev.com

Confluent to acquire Immerok

January 6, 2023 /

Confluent, Inc., a data streaming platform, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Immerok. Immerok is a contributor to Apache Flink, a technology for building stream processing applications and a popular Apache open source project. Immerok has developed a cloud-native, fully managed Flink service for customers looking to process data streams at a large scale and to deliver real-time analytical insight. Immerok leadership includes multiple Flink Project Management Committee members and Committers for the open-source technology, and would add extensive stream processing expertise to the Confluent team upon the closing of the transaction.

Confluent plans to accelerate the launch of a fully managed Flink offering that is compatible with its managed Kafka service, Confluent Cloud. Thanks to Flink, Kafka Streams, and ksqlDB offerings available natively on Confluent, customers are expected to soon have access to the three stream processing tools designed specifically to process and enrich data in real time.

Confluent’s initial focus will be to build an Apache Flink service for Confluent Cloud, bringing a cloud-native experience that delivers the same simplicity, security and scalability as Confluent for Kafka.

https://www.confluent.io ■ https://www.immerok.io

Progress to acquire MarkLogic

January 3, 2023 /

Progress, a provider of application development and infrastructure software, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MarkLogic, specialists in managing complex data and metadata, and a Vector Capital portfolio company. Upon closing of the planned transaction, MarkLogic is expected to enhance Progress’ ability to deliver products to develop, deploy and manage high-impact applications by providing a unified enterprise-grade semantic data platform that helps customers derive value from complex data.

MarkLogic offers a proprietary, multi-model NoSQL database, along with semantic metadata management and AI capabilities, complementing the larger Progress product portfolio. MarkLogic also aligns with Progress’ Total Growth Strategy, adhering to Progress’ acquisition criteria, offering scale, a strong recurring revenue model and products with high customer retention. The acquisition is also expected to provide an opportunity for Progress to leverage its operating model and infrastructure to maximize efficiency. When closed, the acquisition is expected to add more than $100 million in annual revenue and contribute strong cash flows. Subject to the satisfaction of the terms and conditions set forth in the definitive agreement, Progress is expected to acquire MarkLogic for $355 million. The acquisition is currently expected to close in early 2023.

https://www.progress.com ■ https://www.marklogic.com

Acquia enhances customer data platform 

December 22, 2022 /

Acquia introduced enhancements to its customer data platform (CDP) to deepen support for enterprise marketing teams. The new capabilities expand the ways marketers and data scientists can work with information managed by Acquia CDP and strengthen the product’s central role in composable customer data strategies. Acquia CDP now includes: 

  • Unified data layer: Powered by Snowflake, Acquia’s unified data layer allows for centralized storage of customer data. Acquia CDP and other martech products no longer need to pass data back and forth to keep information such as customers lists in sync. This lowers costs associated with the system, helps ensure better data quality, and can increase system performance.
  • Direct SQL access: Data scientists can directly access analytics, insights, and data in Acquia CDP. This capability allows data scientists to run data models directly on Acquia CDP without requiring users to download data and move it to other systems.
  • Integration with Acquia DAM: Acquia CDP can integrate with every product information management system, including Acquia PIM. Now it also integrates with the company’s digital asset management (DAM) system, allowing customers to seamlessly use existing marketing content, product information, and marketing strategies across both platforms.

https://www.acquia.com/products/marketing-cloud/acquia-cdp

European Broadcasting Union announces EBUCorePlus

December 19, 2022 /

The EBU (European Broadcasting Union) announced EBUCorePlus, a new media metadata standard ontology for media enterprises. It is defined by EBU Members for the media community. It follows up on two long-standing EBU ontologies: EBUCore and CCDM (Class Conceptual Data Model). The two were merged and revised. The result is EBUCorePlus, the new standard that can fully replace its predecessors. It inherits both the reliability of EBUCore and the end-to-end coverage of the media value chain of CCDM. EBUCorePlus is specified using the ontology web language and therefore strictly semantic.

EBUCorePlus serves as a plug and play framework. It can be used out of the box, either in its entirety or just a subset of its elements. But it may also be adapted and extended to enterprise-specific needs. Especially for system integration tasks and defining requirements, projects benefit from EBUCorePlus as a business – not technology – oriented language.

The EBU’s free CorePlus Demonstrator Kit (CDK) can help with extending development skills from entity-relationship models to ontologies, from tables to triples, and from SQL to SPARQL, and is available in cloud, hybrid and on- prem versions. It contains a graph database, populated with the EBUCorePlus ontology and sample data.

https://tech.ebu.ch/news/2022/12/from-data-to-knowledge-with-ebucoreplus

Xpublisher announces SaaS architecture

December 15, 2022 /

Xpublisher GmbH announced their editing system will feature a cloud-based SaaS architecture, making their multichannel publishing system accessible and ready to use from anywhere. The Xpublisher Multichannel Publishing system is part of Fabasoft’s PROCECO business process ecosystem.

Expanding and enhancing business logic is possible at any time with no need for custom programming, as well as increasing the number of users, the amount of storage space, and the scope of services. The graphical BPMN editor lets users design their own workflows that will help to digitalize complex work processes and boost collaboration. With a personalized worklist, everyone has an instant overview of all pending tasks.

Integrated digital asset management keeps all the content organized in one place, and by adding metadata, it gives users drag-and-drop control over their data. They can edit these assets from their desktop applications, including Adobe Photoshop and InDesign as well as Microsoft PowerPoint. Xpublisher Digital Asset Management can be licensed either as part of Xpublisher Multichannel Publishing or separately.

The new Xpublisher guides users throughout the content production process. Xpublisher specializes in output for digital channels as well as fully or partially automated processes for producing magazines, books, technical documentation, legal documents, and financial reports.

https://www.xpublisher.com/en

Drupal launches Drupal 10

December 14, 2022 /

Drupal, the open source content management system for everyone from the small non-profit to the enterprise, is launching the latest upgrade to its software. With Drupal 10, users will find more tools to help build the versatile, structured content that dynamic web experiences require. This latest version brings a modernized backend look, a future-proof platform upgrade, new features, and an enhanced user experience. The new features target the next generation of the web and include the Claro administration theme, the Olivero front-end theme, CKEditor 5, and more. Drupal 10 is built on the latest Symfony 6.2 version. It also streamlines the core system with the least used components removed, focusing more on its foundational strengths.

The upgrade tools and processes are the same as the previous major release, with almost all code changes automated and three times as many contributed extensions available at launch time as with the last major update. The Drupal community is focused on keeping Drupal on the leading edge of content management. From a secure automatic updates mechanism to a project browser for easily installing Drupal extensions.

https://www.drupal.org/about/in-the-news/blog/drupal-launches-drupal-10-the-latest-version-of-the-open-source-digital-experience-platform

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