Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced Adobe InDesign Server CS2, which enables system integrators and third party developers to build automated, design-driven publishing solutions. Built on the same code base as Adobe InDesign CS2, their design and layout program, Adobe InDesign Server CS2 brings high-end composition and graphics support to a server platform, allowing Adobe partners to introduce automation and design quality to editorial workflows, collateral creation, data-driven publishing and template-based Web publishing solutions. InDesign Server CS2 offers programming capabilities via scripting, C++, or SOAP. InDesign Server CS2 delivers output capabilities, built-in language support, scripting DOM (document object model), and SDK as Adobe InDesign CS2 software. Additional features include support for multiple concurrent instances, error capturing, and server operating system support for Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, or Mac OS X Server, version 10.3.x and 10.4.x. InDesign Server CS2 solutions will be available through third parties as a component of automated publishing solutions designed and built by system integrators and developers. Currently, as part of a pilot program for InDesign Server CS2, Cacidi, the Peter Schmidt Group, Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), Sansui Software, SoftCare Software-Service GmbH, XMPie Inc., Wave2 Media Solutions Limited, and WoodWing Software are building and deploying solutions. Adobe InDesign Server CS2 will be available to qualified Adobe developer partners in Fall 2005. http://www.adobe.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 239 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/
KnowNow, Inc. announced that its new KnowNow eLerts service is now available as a hosted solution for businesses. The KnowNow eLerts service, which instantly notifies users about changes in information as soon as it happens, can be used as part of an overall marketing and branding campaign to more effectively communicate and update employees, customers and partners. Businesses can securely deploy this service for internal and extranet use with proprietary data or communications. For employees and partners, access to KnowNow eLerts means that time sensitive information can be received immediately from internal or external sources. Whether from websites or enterprise systems, transactions and CRM data arrives as it changes. Companies can push wanted information directly to customers, such as promotions, news, policy changes, new offerings and events.
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) announced the acquisition of Moreover Technologies, a wholesale aggregator of real-time content for Web sites, search engines and enterprise customers. By combining Moreover’s content aggregation services with VeriSign’s global feed management infrastructure, VeriSign will offer bloggers, publishers, enterprises and Web portals an intelligent and scalable, real-time content platform. The new content aggregation services will utilize VeriSign’s ping server infrastructure to increase the reliability and intelligence of its content distribution network. Currently, Moreover aggregates more than 12,000 news sources and millions of blogs. Harvesting information from across 126 countries in 25 languages, Moreover uses a content tagging system with more than 30 metadata tags and 380 categories to deliver hundreds of thousands of unduplicated real time content articles every day. The price of the acquisition was approximately $30 million in cash and it is being accounted for as a purchase transaction. http://www.verisign.com
BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BEAS) and Day Software announced that they have entered into a technology alliance to deliver a JSR 170 compliant connector for BEA WebLogic Portal. The Day repository connector is designed to enable BEA WebLogic Portal to interact with enterprise content repositories, such as Day’s Content Repository Extreme (CRX), that are compliant with the new JSR 170 industry standard. , http://www.bea.com
Information Week has published some research on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) spending, and the numbers are impressive indeed. 186 business-technology professionals were asked to comment on spending trends in ECM, and 45% said ECM-related spending will increase over 2004 and 24% said it would be equal to 2004. Only 16% said spending would be lower than 2004, with the remaining 15% saying they did not know.
Moreover, nearly one-third of surveyed companies said they will spend more than $500,000 on content management technology and services this year.
Not surprisingly, compliance seems to be the driving factor.
More than half (52%) of respondents say that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has led them to adopt enterprise content management. The law, which requires companies to document and test internal controls over financial reporting, has challenged companies to move beyond spreadsheets toward building dedicated repositories for collecting information on internal processes… Electronic-records-retention laws also were cited by 52% of respondents as driving adoption of enterprise-content-management systems, followed by intellectual-property and copyright protection (48%), customer privacy (36%), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (32%).
While we don’t do market research, these numbers certainly reflect what we have been hearing and seeing in the marketplace. Organizations are actively looking at and buying ECM solutions, and the focus is often on document management, records management, and compliance. At the same time, we see a lot of activity outside of compliance-driven applications, such as in product support applications where globalization and enhanced customer experiences seem to be driving the work.
Xenos Group, Inc. (TSX: XNS) unveiled the Oracle Asset Vault solution for financial services organisations. The Asset Vault solution is an offering from Oracle and Xenos comprising Xenos d2e Vision software residing on Oracle Application Server 10g. It enables organisations to load, update and consolidate multiple disparate document archives into a single, high volume, high performance, Oracle database10g without changing existing legacy applications. This enables customers, CSAs, agents and financial advisors to have Web access to multiple systems with dynamic retrieval and view customer documents such as statements, cheque images, signatures, invoices, policies and correspondence, as well as access to XML-enabled e-business applications. Xenos d2e Vision version 2.1 processes IBM AFP and Xerox Metacode/DJDE printstreams, PDF documents and TIFF files to generate PDF, HTML/CSS, Image, TIFF, AFP, Metacode and XML Output formats for e-business applications such as customer Statement presentment. Xenos d2e Vision version 2.1 runs on Windows NT/2000/XP, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and IBM z/OS (running Unix Systems Services) with JVM 1.4.x. http://www.oracle.com,
Liaison Technologies announced the release of Liaison Enterprise Content Director 5.0. Major enhancements in version 5.0 include support for role-based display preferences, dynamic linking to nested repositories, Ontology data-type overrides and enhanced image and binary content capabilities. Liaison Enterprise Content Director permits disparate IT systems to pull information from constantly updated data pools maintained by Liaison Technologies, using industry standards such as UCCnet, papiNet, CIDX and XML technology to ensure accurate data synchronization. http://www.liaison.com
Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies Boston to Host CM Professionals Annual Summit
10/11/05
Summit and Conference Co-Locate to Facilitate Exchange of Ideas and Information with other Content Management Professionals and Industry Experts
Contacts:
Evan Weisel
Welz & Weisel Communications
703-323-6006
evan@w2comm.com
Cambridge, MA, October 11, 2005. The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars today announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies Boston (November 29th – December 1st), will host CM Professionals third summit on Monday, November 28th at The Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts.
The one-day CM Professionals Fall Summit will kick-off with an industry keynote followed by roundtable discussions and workshops. Attendees will have an opportunity to get advice and recommendations from experts who are already well established in the field, and to exchange ideas with other professionals working in the dynamic, increasingly important content management community of practice.
“This Summit is a natural complement to our three-day program that will focus on the broad range of content technologies available for enterprise applications, including already widely deployed technologies like content management and enterprise search,” said Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair. “We are co-located to provide attendees with the opportunity to maximize their time out of the office, to network with, and learn from their peers and industry analysts about the latest content management applications and deployments.”
Attendees participating in Monday’s Summit will have access to the following sessions:
- Content Management Systems and Personalization
- Knowledge Discovery through Semantic Content Management
- A-Z Indexes for Content Searching
- The Relationship Between a CMS and the Organization’s Intranet
- Managing a Hybrid CMS Across the Enterprise
- Taxonomy for Personalization
- Workflows for Personalization
- Selecting a Content Management System
The full summit agenda is at: http://www.cmprofessionals.org/events/summit/program.html
Following Monday’s Summit, attendees can then participate in the three-day Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies. Complete event details can be found at: www.lighthouseseminars.com/gilbane_boston_05/GeneralInformation.html
This event is unique in that the majority of the conference sessions are delivered by industry analysts and researchers to offer attendees a neutral and balanced market perspective related to content technologies and trends. The event brings together thought leaders and practitioners to provide attendees with actionable advice, techniques, best practices, and case studies to help successfully implement content technologies critical to their businesses.
This year’s conference will focus on the broad range of content technologies available for enterprise applications, including widely deployed technologies like content management and enterprise search. It will also look at the use and applicability of newer technologies for corporate content applications, especially blogs, wikis, RSS and “rich internet” applications. The five educational program tracks are:
— Content Managers Track (CM) – This track is for anyone managing content of any type, for everything from small websites, to knowledge management intranets, to large enterprise content strategies.
— Content Technologists Track (CT) – These sessions are for IT or technically oriented content or business managers. The material is a little more technical and looks at a select set of content-related technologies.
— Marketing Managers Track (MT) – This track is designed for content managers who need to manage marketing content, whether for an e-commerce site or a cross-media brand or publishing strategy.
— Business & Compliance Managers Track (BC) – This track is for managers responsible for compliance, governance, and managing content to enhance business processes and risk reduction.
— Content Technology Works Track (CTW) – This track presents and examines case studies – the emphasis is on all aspects of successful implementations.
About Bluebill Advisors, The Gilbane Report
Bluebill Advisors, Inc. serves the content management community with publications, conferences and consulting services. The Gilbane Report administers the Content Technology Works(TM) program disseminating best practices with partners Software AG (TECdax:SOW), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Artesia Digital Media, a Division of Open Text, Astoria Software, ClearStory Systems (OTCBB:INSS), Context Media (Oracle, NASDAQ: ORCL), Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Idiom, Mark Logic, Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX), SDL International (London Stock Exchange:SDL), Vasont Systems, Vignette (NASDAQ:VGN), and WebSideStory (NASDAQ:WSSI). https://gilbane.com
About Lighthouse Seminars
Lighthouse Seminars’ events cover information technologies and “content technologies” in particular. These include content management of all types, digital asset management, document management, web content management, enterprise portals, enterprise search, web and multi-channel publishing, electronic forms, authoring, content and information integration, information architecture, and e-catalogs. http://www.lighthouseseminars.co
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