This is only tangentially related to content management of course, but events like this remind me it is high time we expected our computers to do a better job of the basic things they are supposed to do.
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 271 of 482)
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/
Yesterday the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) issued its
response to concerns that Sarbanes Oxley Section 404 requirements were onerous,
unwieldy, and just too expensive. The PCAOB published a policy
statement that affirmed the goals and requirements in the regulations
implementing Section 404, which requires that public companies have effective
internal controls over financial reporting and requires that an independent
auditor provides an opinion regarding the effectiveness of these controls. No
surprise there.
What was more interesting and important was that the PCAOB did acknowledge
that many first year audit efforts were inefficient and too expensive. The
important parts of the statement called for a top-down, rather than bottom-up,
approach to internal control assessment. The PCAOB also made important
clarifications about the kinds of interactions between auditors and the
companies that they audit that are permissible and useful.
Understanding this business about "top-down" and
"bottom-up" is easier if you put it in the context of how auditing
practice has developed over time. Without that big picture perspective, Section
404 and the PCAOB statements sound like a lot of accounting jargon. But, given
the perspective, it is easier to see that we are talking about some fundamental
changes–and about expense and confusion emerging from not getting the changes
right during this past year.
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. ,
Xythos Software announced that Oracle has licensed the Xythos Drive to enhance integration between the Windows desktop and the Oracle server products. The Xythos Drive provides folder-level access and management control to simplify how users interact with application content, even when they are not connected to the Internet. In addition, Xythos technology allows developers to make content management and collaboration instantly familiar, helping everyday users easily access new web-enabled applications. With Xythos products, software developers can add WebDAV document and file management capabilities to enhance applications and create new products.
FileNet Corporation introduced the newest version of its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform, FileNet P8 3.5. FileNet P8 3.5 enables organizations to address a broad range of content, process management and compliance needs. This platform upgrade brings significant new features and capabilities including Content Federation Services (CFS), which enables FileNet P8’s ECM platform capabilities to be integrated with and federate content from a broad range of both FileNet and non-FileNet content repositories. With CFS, FileNet customers can manage all content in their organizations from one enterprise content catalogs. FileNet’s Content Federation Services allows enterprises to search, catalog, classify, secure, retain, comply, activate, update and delete content residing in repositories across the enterprise. CFS enables the FileNet P8 3.5 platform to manage information that is stored in remote content repositories as if it were native FileNet content. This content can also be exposed to external business applications through FileNet’s XML Web Services. Similarly, content and its associated metadata can be accessed and consumed by the various product suites that FileNet offers (i.e. Business Process Manager, Email Manager, Records Manager, etc.) http://www.filenet.com
Traction Software Inc. announced Release 3.6 of Traction TeamPage, Traction Communicator and its new Traction TeamPage Feed Reader. With help from its new partner, B- Spirit of Switzerland, Traction Software also announced French language localization, in addition to English, German and Japanese. Traction’s TeamPage Release 3.6 includes over 20 new features that focus on content management and security, building on TeamPage’s document management capabilities. TeamPage Feed Reader is a new product that can read RSS or Atom feeds and publish each post into a selected Traction TeamPage project. Each feed can be configured to automatically post attachments and copies of inline images and, on a rules-driven basis, automatically apply selected Traction labels to each incoming article. TeamPage Feed Reader supports authentication and TLS/SSL encrypted HTTPS syndication feeds, as well as public HTTP feeds. TeamPage Feed Reader requires Traction TeamPage Release 3.6 and is a separately priced product. Traction’s Release 3.6 is a free upgrade for Traction Software customers who subscribe to Traction’s annual maintenance plan. http://www.tractionsoftware.com, http://www.b-spirit.com
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