Alfresco Software Inc. announced that has integrated the open source programming language, PHP, into its development environment. This enables PHP developers to create new content-centric applications and dynamic web pages that access Alfresco. PHP is an open source programming language. It is a simple scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded in HTML. This makes PHP an especially complementary language for the Alfresco ECM environment. Alfresco has used connectivity tools that use Web Services and a Service Oriented Architecture to hide much of the complexity for the PHP developer. This enables the full range Alfresco capabilities to be made available to PHP developers.
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 220 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/
EMC Corporation announced the addition of Google Desktop for Enterprise as the newest information source available to users through a single query within EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) Services. This announcement also marks a strategy between EMC and Google to give joint customers greater access to enterprise content. Documentum ECI Services is a federated enterprise search solution that integrates content within and outside the enterprise. By combining Documentum ECI Services with Google Desktop for Enterprise, users have a single point of access and an integrated user experience to search their local desktops in addition to a variety of internal and external information sources, regardless of whether the information resides in an application, database, Web site, or content management repository. Documentum ECI Services for Google Desktop for Enterprise will be available later this quarter. http://www.emc.com
Syncro Soft Ltd has announced the availability of version 7.0 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Debugger. Version 7.0 of the XML Editor adds more than 50 new features. Document validation has been improved by adding continuous validation support (validate as you type), error markers and overview ruler, multiple external validation engines and support for CSS validation. Parsed schemas are being cached to improve the validation speed. XPath support benefits now from an XPath aware content assistant showing functions and axes, variables and parameters as well as name tests for elements and attributes in context. For XPath 2.0 queries the XPath default namespace can be configured/automatically detected and used when writing XPath queries. XSLT editing features an XSLT input document view presenting the tree structure of the XML document set for the current stylesheet in the associated transformation scenario. You can create templates or other XSL snippets by dragging the nodes from the tree into the stylesheet; the generated XPath expressions are context aware. XQuery debugging has been added. The debugging support is based on the Saxon XQuery processor from Saxonica. XML Editor and XSLT Debugger is available in two editions: Multi-platform Academic/Non-profit license costs USD 48.00 Multi-platform Professional license costs USD 180.00 (20% off from the list price) if you buy before January 31st, 2006. Version 7.0 is available for free trial download from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
iUpload announced that its enterprise blogging solution is now integrated with NetSuite’s on-demand business application software. This integration is driven by iUpload’s membership in NetSuite’s recently launched NetFlex Applications Program, which is an on-demand development environment to allow third party applications to integrate rich transaction data such as orders, inventory, invoices and shipments with their applications. The iUpload integration lets NetSuite users leverage iUpload’s blog and wiki technology to securely transform corporate blogs into sophisticated personalized web sites that feed customer and company information into the NetSuite platform. By providing this flexible and rich format of communication, iUpload gives NetSuite customers the opportunity to broadly collaborate with contacts, customers, workgroups and partners. With iUpload, sales and customer support personnel can share information securely through posting to their blog without ever leaving the NetSuite service. By choosing which NetSuite accounts and contacts they would like to give access to, users can invite customers or other employees to comment on or even edit information within the blog. The user can share a variety of information with customers and allow the attendees to add or edit its contents. With a customer login, customers can even contribute new content like product suggestions and industry news by simply posting to the blog. iUpload’s NetSuite integration is available immediately to NetSuite customers. , http://www.netsuite.com
dtSearch Corp. announced Version 7.2 of its product line for searching terabytes of documents across a desktop, network, Internet or Intranet. The new version adds a .NET Spider API for the dtSearch Engine for Win & .NET, and updates the dtSearch Engine for Linux to the “terabyte indexer” code base. The new release also adds OpenOffice to the list of supported file types. dtSearch Desktop with Spider searches files on a PC. dtSearch Network with Spider searches across a network running in a client/server capacity. Both search and display with highlighted hits: email messages (Outlook, Outlook Express, Exchange, Eudora and other .MSG formats) along with the full text of email attachments, MS Office and now OpenOffice files, PDF, XML, HTML, ZIP, CSV, Unicode and other content. Through the dtSearch Spider, both applications can also add Web-based content to a local or network search. The dtSearch Engine for Win and .NET supports SQL, C++, Delphi, Java, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, C++.NET, and ADO.NET. The new release adds additional .NET APIs, including a new .NET Spider API. The new release also updates the dtSearch Engine for Linux, with C++ and Java APIs, to the current “terabyte indexer” code base. Pricing is $199 for dtSearch Desktop with Spider, from $800 for dtSearch Network with Spider, from $999 for dtSearch Web with Spider, and from $2,500 for dtSearch Publish. dtSearch offers a variety of royalty-based and royalty-free pricing options for the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine. http://www.dtsearch.com
Workshare announced DeltaView 3.0. DeltaView 3.0 features Word Act on Changes from DeltaView redlines, more than 100 enhancements to document comparison quality and accuracy, and updated email and document management platform integrations. The Act on Changes feature, also now available in the Workshare Professional suite, has been the #1 feature request from current DeltaView users. Workshare also announced the Workshare Customer Choice Program, a set of tools and resources to assist DeltaView 2.x customers in making their future plans for upgrading to DeltaView 3.0 or for migrating to the Workshare Professional 4.5 platform. In addition, Workshare introduced the Workshare Platform Migration Incentive, which provides up to 70 percent off of the list price of migrating from DeltaView to Workshare Professional. For a perpetual license, pricing starts at $1,495 for a five-seat minimum plus a $299 annual software support subscription for upgrades and hotline support. All DeltaView customers on a current software support subscription will receive DeltaView 3.0. DeltaView 3.0 will be released in March 2006 through all Workshare channels including value-added resellers, corporate resellers, online resellers and the Workshare online store. Volume purchase discounts are available. http://www.workshare.com
The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) begins testing this month on NewsML 2 Architecture, a proposed standard for news exchange formats. Developed by a consortium of more than 40 of the world’s major news agencies and news system vendors, NewsML 2 Architecture is based on XML. The basic goal of the NewsML 2 Architecture is to provide a single generic model for exchanging all kinds of newsworthy information. Not only will this give news agencies and software developers a unified method for handling news, but it will also provide an XML framework for a future family of IPTC news exchange standards covering such diverse specialties as sports, entertainment and financial news. Under the IPTC model, text, photo, graphics, video or any combination of media types, can be bundled into packages that neatly wrap the news content, information about the content and a management layer. Senders can make the XML wrapper as simple or complex as desired, tailoring the final package to the exact needs of their customers. As with all IPTC standards, when work is completed NewsML 2 standards will be released for use without payment or royalties. In addition, it is compatible with the World Wide Web Consortium’s “Semantic Web” framework, building a universal data exchange using XML and other standard tools. NewsML 2 Architecture Version 1.0, Experimental Phase 1, will end on 15 February 2006. Although testing is generally intended for IPTC members, non-members may be invited to join. All documents and specification files for the current draft of the NewsML 2 Architecture are available at http://www.iptc.org
CambridgeDocs announced that it would provide out-of-the-box support for the DITA XML standard in all of its upcoming content migration and distribution products. DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is an XML standard that is both a set of DTD’s (Document Type Definitions) and an architecture for re-using and dynamically assembling content. Developed by IBM, DITA is widely regarded as an ideal architecture for fragmenting XML content and enabling content re-use. CambridgeDocs’ xDoc Converter product will include sample content and templates for transforming Microsoft Word content into DITA XML, including transformation into DITA topics and topicmaps. These samples can be customized to convert any legacy content, such as Microsoft Word, Framemaker, HTML, and PDF files, into the database DTD or into their own DTD-based DTD’s and architecture. The sample templates will also automatically break up DITA topics into separate XML fragments and generate a DITA topicmap for the source content. The fragmented content can then be put into an XML repository, Enterprise Content/Document Management System or other XML based publishing system. By combining xDoc Converter with the DITA Toolkit available from IBM, the fragments can then be re-displayed or re-assembled into new documents.
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