ClearStory Systems announced participation in IBM’s PartnerWorld Industry Networks. ClearStory’s Radiant Enterprise Media Server (EMS), a J2EE software platform for integrating rich media into content management systems and other enterprise applications, will be ported to IBM’s DB2 and WebSphere platforms. Porting Radiant EMS to the IBM platform will also include integration with IBM Content Manager, allowing customers to store digital assets in IBM content repositories. Teaming up with IBM represents an expanded marketing and distribution opportunity for ClearStory and ActiveMedia 6.0. The IBM platform release of Radiant EMS is targeted for general release on June 30, 2005. ClearStory announced general availability of Radiant EMS 2.0 on April 18, 2005 and ActiveMedia 6.0 on May 9, 2005.
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 259 of 469)
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/
Hot Banana Software Inc. has announced the shipping of its new product – the Hot Banana Active Marketing Web Content Management Suite. The Hot Banana Active Marketing Web Content Management Suite consist’s of the Hot Banana Web Content Management Suite, and the Hot Banana Active Marketing Suite. All versions are shipping immediately, either as Hot Banana On Demand, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or, as Hot Banana Licensed Software. Hot Banana Active Marketing Web Content Management Suite will allow non-technical users to take ‘hands-on’ control of their online marketing and communications. All Hot Banana Active Marketing programs and campaigns can now be tracked by using WebTrends 7 On Demand Web analytics to measure results and Web site performance. Improvements to the Web site and marketing activities can then be made, such as tweaking and changing the Web content, so the campaign can be fine tuned, either while it’s in progress, or optimized in preparation for the next scheduled campaign.
Whitehill Technologies Inc. unveiled Whitehill Layout Designer, the latest
product in its portfolio of document composition and data transformation software. Whitehill Layout Designer is a graphical interface for the creation of stylesheets that control the presentation of XML data. Whitehill Layout Designer can be run as a standalone application or used as a component part of Whitehill xml-Transport, the company’s data conversion and distribution software. Customers can use the tool to create customized, data-driven documents. For example, customer service teams have the ability to create customized business documents, allowing the insertion of specific targeted messages and customer data. Whitehill Layout Designer allows customers to create layouts for styled documents via a drag-and-drop user interface. These stylesheets define the presentation of XML data and enable the creation of attractive final documents. Whitehill Layout Designer creates documents by assigning the contents of an XML file to placeholders on a page and using formatting styles to give the document a professional look.
Five Across, Inc. announced it has extended its technology to enable the creation of multi-page web sites. The hosted service, Bubbler, provides page navigation that is generated automatically; updates text and pages in real time; provides drag-and-drop photo, audio, and video sharing; and has a group model that provides wiki-like collaboration for authorized users. Five Across’s new technology brings the ease of blogging to business users and professionals. Users create web pages by dragging and dropping their content including digital photographs, movies, audio, and other multimedia assets, as well as business documents like spreadsheets, documents, and presentations. Five Across’s Server technology combines the content into web pages instantly. As each page is added, navigation is created automatically and added to all site pages. Content can be presented in different styles through a set of designer templates. The media-rich hosted sites are powered by Five Across’ Server, which integrates multiple network protocols into a replacement for Apache web servers. The Five Across Server transparently integrates web hosting, content management and messaging. The Five Across Workgroup Server, which includes the instant messaging and group collaboration client software, is also available to corporations for business blogging behind the firewall. Five Across offers Bubbler Hosted accounts starting at $5 per month, depending on storage and bandwidth usage. A free Bubbler 1 account is available for content contributors or for simple text blogging. The Five Across OEM Server for ISPs and other blog hosting providers and the Five Across Workgroup Server are both available immediately. http://www.bubbler.com
SilkRoad technology inc. announced the availability of Eprise On Demand. The new hosted solution enables medium-sized businesses to build Web sites, intranets and extranets leveraging content editing, personalization and workflow capabilities previously only available with their enterprise offering. Eprise On Demand provides rapid implementations of multiple Web sites via QuickForms, in-context editing capabilities, the ability to manage workflow on content approvals directly from the Website, and integration with Microsoft Word, Windows Explorer, and Internet Explorer. Eprise on Demand is now available starting at $2,900 per month. ,
Today marks the official release of the public draft of the governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) paper that I have worked on over the past couple months with Ted Frank, of The Compliance Consortium, and others. The writing of the paper was driven by three convictions:
- GRC stands apart: Governance, risk management, and compliance are all of a piece–and they are related to a coherent set of objectives and practices that are fundamentally different from the other things going on in an organization.
- GRC needs high level attention: Governance, risk management, and compliance comprise a set of concerns and objectives that must be dealt with at the board of directors and senior management level.
- GRC is manageable: Even though governance, risk management, and compliance touch thousands of processes and objectives throughout an organization, there really is a small, manageable set of concerns that should inform board and management decision-making.
This last point relates to the “both forest and trees” view that I wrote about in my recent post on XBRL and Compliance. To make GRC manageable we need ways to zoom into the details and zoom back out to the big picture. Said more formally, we need ways to deal with the concept at different levels of abstraction, from fine-grained to chunky. XBRL looks promising in this regard.
One of the key ideas expressed in the paper is that the United States Sentencing Commission guidelines regarding compliance and ethics can serve as a good starting point for identifying the important, board and senior management level GRC objectives. This idea is practically appealing, since following the guidelines can result in a 95% reduction in penalties in the event that, despite a company’s best efforts to prevent it, fraudulent activity takes place. The intent of the paper is to also make this idea appealing at an operational and functional level — we believe that we make the case that concentrating on just seven objectives can get management and board members focused on the right concerns and questions.
If this interests you, take a look at the paper. If you have comments, you can of course add them here — but if you want your comments to get more in the way official consideration, you should also express your views on the Compliance Consortium website.
For Immediate Release:
5/16/05
Document Serves as Foundation for Managing Sarbanes-Oxley and Other Regulatory Mandates
Contacts:
Mary Laplante
Bluebill Advisors, Inc.
617.497.9443 ext 212
mary@gilbane.com
Cambridge, MA, May 16, 2005. The Gilbane Report and The Compliance Consortium, an international membership organization to promote effective governance, risk and compliance management (GRC), has published its operational approach for managing GRC requirements within the enterprise. Applicable to both public and private companies, the framework is designed to assist senior management and boards of directors in setting objectives for managing a wide range of compliance-related activities and instituting the programs needed to attain those objectives. This initial version is a “public draft” and is intended to invite constructive criticism and ultimately to build a broad consensus within the hundreds of companies that have registered as part of The Compliance Consortium Community over the past year. Interested parties may access “Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance: An Operational Approach” at https://gilbane.com/publications/GRC_Operational_Approach_PD1_0_050512.pdf or at www.thecomplianceconsortium.org.
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 program disseminating best practices with partners Software AG (TECdax:SOW), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Artesia, Atomz, Astoria, ClearStory (OTCBB:INCC), Context Media, Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), IBM (NYSE:IBM ), Idiom, Mark Logic, Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX), Trados, Vasont, and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN). www.gilbane.com
About the Compliance Consortium
The Compliance Consortium is an international membership organization designed to promote effective and efficient enterprise governance, risk and compliance management (GRC). Areas of interest include GRC best practices and reference architectures, influencing and contributing to GRC-related industry and computing standards and establishing conferences and other professional events focused on GRC-centric topics. Founding Consortium Members include Axentis, Approva, Corpedia, Hyland Software, Inc., Hyperion, Intuition, Jefferson Wells, Navigant Consulting and The Network. www.thecomplianceconsortium.org
About the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG)
OCEG is a not-for-profit organization that provides a framework (the OCEG Framework) for integrating governance, compliance, risk management, and integrity into the tangible practice of everyday business, drives adoption of the Framework through a multi-industry, multidisciplinary coalition and provides a community of practice for the exchange of information, tools, benchmarking and feedback for continual improvement of the Framework. www.oceg.org.
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Ipedo announced the latest version of its EII platform, incorporating several product enhancements to facilitate delivery of on-demand intelligence. Ipedo XIP 4.0 introduces a dual SQL/XQuery engine, giving it a broad span of information integration. The new release also features several new capabilities designed to reduce the cost and complexity of information integration, including a visual rules processing interface, Web Services publishing, and integration with BusinessObjects and Crystal Reports. In all, Ipedo XIP 4.0 has over 50 new additions and improvements, including enhanced query optimization techniques, new data source discovery and mapping capabilities, and new visual wizards for data import. Ipedo XIP leverages SQL and XML Query to integrate and manage information from disparate, complex data sources to enable real-time business decisions. Ipedo’s approach treats existing corporate databases and external data flows as a single, virtual data source. Ipedo XIP 4.0 is available now for Windows 2000, Windows NT, Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux. Pricing is on a per-CPU basis. http://www.ipedo.com
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