XyEnterprise and Blast Radius Inc. announced a partnership that integrates Blast Radius XMetaL DITA Edition into XyEnterprise’s content management system, Content@ to support both content creation and management using the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), the OASIS standard for authoring topic-oriented content in XML. XMetaL Author DITA Edition is a solution for authoring and publishing content using DITA. The new product includes Natural Structured Authoring, a user environment designed to reduce time-consuming authoring tasks into simple steps, as well as a visual map editor, reusable components, and support for single-source publishing. Content@ 3.2 is a content management system that gives content authors the ability to manage extensive repositories of topics. Content creators can find related topics that they want to reuse or refer to in their writing, track and review changes in progress, shield changes from those who want to see only approved and published data, and participate in an automated workflow based on their role and responsibility. , http://www.blastradius.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 235 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/
FileNet Corporation (NASDAQ:FILE) introduced system monitor solutions for its FileNet P8 platform. FileNet System Monitor enables FileNet customers to automate fault detection and fault prevention for higher availability of their FileNet P8 product suites. FileNet System Monitor solutions help system administrators anticipate and correct system outages. FileNet System Monitor is provides real-time, monitoring of all FileNet P8 product suites. http://www.filenet.com
Exalead, a provider of search software announced the availability of its unified search technology platform, exalead one:search, for American businesses. The exalead one:search platform serves as the foundation for Exalead’s portfolio of integrated search products, from desktop to enterprise and the Web. Additionally, Exalead announced the general availability of exalead one:desktop professional edition, the first software solution from the exalead one:search family of products. Coinciding with its entry into the United States market, Exalead is launching version 4.0 of the exalead one:search platform. Its design takes advantage of 64-bit processor architectures and offers a range of advanced search capabilities and navigational tools. A wide range of connectors are available for most industry standard information databases, including SQL, Lotus Notes and Documentum. The software supports a wide range of document files and formats, including multimedia files, e-mail (Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes), Adobe PDF, in addition to database applications through the Professional Edition. The exalead one:desktop software is the first available product based on the exalead one:search platform 4.0 and is available for download. The exalead one:workgroup, exalead one:enterprise and exalead one:datacenter products are scheduled for general availability later this year.
http://exalead.com
Enterprises and developers can now download the Alfresco open source content management system. Alfresco is built on modern, service oriented technologies and standards such as Spring, Hibernate, Lucene and Web Services, JSR-168, JSR-170 and MyFaces. The Alfresco ECM solution is designed for small to mid-sized enterprises and departments that want a system that is easy for end-users to use while also being simple-to-install and flexible for developers to create new and customized content applications. Alfresco integrates to the JBoss Portal, JBoss Application Server, JBoss Cache, JBoss Application Server, Hibernate and MySQL. The Alfresco software is zero footprint ECM whereby no ActiveX or Java Applets are required on the client. Alfresco uses the Microsoft CIFS interface, which enables users to treat content just as they would a Microsoft Windows shared file drive. CIFS enables users to take work offline and synchronize it when reconnecting. It also allows applications that will only work with mounted drives or non-networked file systems to work natively with the Alfresco repository. Alfresco also announced the availability of both a free open source “Community Network” and a series of fee-based support networks. The Community Network is free and is available for download. The Developer Network is $4.99 monthly per user and the Professional Network is $9.99 monthly per user. The Enterprise Network offers unlimited users for a monthly fee of $625. For a limited period all customers taking out a support subscription to the Alfresco Professional Network will receive the Alfresco Enterprise Network product capabilities free of charge. The Professional and Enterprise Network’s are available for download at , http://www.alfresco.org
Justsystems Corporation (JASDAQ: 4686), an enterprise software provider in Japan, announced that xfy Basic Edition 1.0 will be available starting October 31 for the U.S. market. xfy Basic Edition 1.0, an integrated XML application development and runtime environment, along with the xfy Developer’s Toolkit 1.0, which enables the generation of XVCDs (XML data processing sequence programs), can be downloaded free of charge. xfy Basic Edition 1.0, serves as a tool for creating and editing XML documents. It also provides in integrated fashion, a runtime environment for programs that contain XML data processing sequences, and an application development environment. Compound XML documents that include text, pictures, and tables can be displayed in xfy as a single seamless document, making it easy to create, edit, and view new documents. The scalable design concept of xfy helps ensure that, with this environment, future kinds of XML documents can also be edited. xfy Basic Edition 1.0 is written in Java, and runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. To allow more businesses the opportunity to utilize xfy, “xfy Basic Edition 1.0” and “xfy Developer’s Toolkit 1.0” will be available free for non-commercial individual use, for academic research, and for enterprise use. Starting October 31, 2005 download xfy Basic Edition 1.0 at
If you haven’t yet visited KeyContent.org, check it out. It is quickly becoming an incredibly useful wiki on issues related to technical communication, information architecture, and web design. Directors Bill Albing, Rick Sapir, and Sherry Steward got the ball rolling.
The Plone Foundation recently released the 2.1 version of Plone, a Content Management System for the Zope application server. Plone runs on all major operating systems including Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Plone is available in more than 50 languages. Notable features include time-based content deployment and role-based authoring and publishing. Plone 2.1’s new set of features provide users with tools to enhance their productivity while maintaining an optimal user experience. The new version also gives content managers and end users sophisticated, yet simple, ways to more effectively search and organize their content. “LiveSearch” provides an instant preview of search results when typing, while “Smart Folders” allow content managers to arrange content according to usage. Available add-on products allow Windows desktop integration, handling of multilingual content, rapid deployment into existing IT infrastructure, and a host of other features from blogs to enterprise authentication. A number of entities offer Plone products, training, support, hosting, and consulting services. http://plone.org/
KnowledgeLake, Inc. announced that its next major product release will extend the new ECM feature set in the upcoming Microsoft Office release, Office “12”. Microsoft’s new Office 12 Server will provide a server platform with core features such as records management, workflow, and content archiving. KnowledgeLake products are specifically designed to add application functionality to the Microsoft Office 12 platform and to have a product set that competes in the ECM market. Microsoft’s announcement of new platform technologies such as the Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF), XML Paper Specification (XPS), and support for Official Documents (records management) now allows KnowledgeLake to focus on bringing these platform functions together in a natural user workspace that supports various forms of content capture. KnowledgeLake Capture currently brings scanning functionality to the desktop and integrates with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. The next version planned for concurrent release with Office 12 will bring increases in functionality and support for new document formats. This along with enhanced workflow functionality based on WWF is the primary focus of the next product release.