Verity, Inc. announced a technology alliance with A2iA Corporation. The partnership brings together two applications for automatic data capture on forms, including the recognition of cursive handwriting. Verity will offer A2iA FieldReader as an add-on recognition engine that works with Verity TeleForm 9.0 content capture software. Combining OCR, ICR and IWR in a single engine, A2iA FieldReader expands Verity TeleForm’s capabilities by enabling users to convert complex cursive, natural or freeform handwriting on paper forms into computer-useable data. A2iA FieldReader contains multiple recognition engines using artificial intelligence and neural network technology to locate, clean, de-slant and segment writing into words and characters. Because it recognizes entire words and phrases, and utilizes predefined field attributes and vocabularies, A2iA FieldReader improves overall accuracy for TeleForm users who previously could only capture data character-by-character. http://www.a2ia.com,
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 281 of 484)
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/
BrowserMedia announced the official release of BrowserCMS 2.0, the latest version of their Web Content Management System. Improvements in version 2.0 include a completely redesigned user interface, featuring a unique, rich internet application allowing “drag and drop” control over the website architecture. BrowserCMS 2.0 remains affordable CMS and continues to support both large and small website deployments. A new website has been launched to provide CMS product marketing as well as technical support for current clients. BrowserCMS is available under both corporate and non-profit licenses. http://www.browsermedia.com
Idiom Technologies, Inc. announced the immediate availability of the newest version of its WorldServer product family WorldServer 7.5.1. With the introduction of WorldServer 7.5.1, Idiom now offers: tightly integrated support with Arbortext Epic Editor – previously, Idiom only offered deep integration with Adobe FrameMaker for XML authoring; enhanced XML content storage, search and retrieval capabilities that make it easier to achieve global content reuse goals; improved filtering for Microsoft Office documents; improved workflow management; and enhanced content management capabilities to better support Idiom customers who choose to use WorldServer as their content management platform, as well as their globalization platform. WorldServer also supports XLIFF, an XML-based standard for the exchange localization data between products, as well as a number native translation workbench formats for products such as TRADOS Desktop and SDLX. WorldServer 7.5.1 is available immediately. Pricing has not changed.
TRADOS Incorporated announced the coming availability of TRADOS 7, the latest version of its TRADOS desktop solutions for freelance translation professionals, corporate localization teams and language service providers. Starting next week, TRADOS 7 can be pre-ordered at “early bird” prices. The release includes many enhancements including: increased XML support, including XLIFF, DITA, and conditional XML; Translator’s Workbench fully supports the latest open TMX standard, TMX 1.4b, as well as related standards such as Segmentation Rules Exchange (SRX); full support for Hindi and twenty other new languages; enhanced support for Microsoft Word documents in Context TM and TagEditor – Microsoft Word documents can now optionally be processed as XML-based TRADOStag documents in Context TM and optionally translated in TagEditor as XML-based TRADOStag documents; support for multiple termbases in active terminology recognition; and
improved ease of use. Starting April 25, 2005, customers ordering TRADOS 6.5 (new licenses or upgrades) will receive special early bird promotions when TRADOS 7 is released in June 2005. Early-bird promotions expire on June 27, 2005.
Teragram announced the general availability of Teragram TK240 for Collaborative Development version 2.0. This optional add-on software module, based on Teragram’s taxonomy management software and categorization engine, enables teams of specialists in an organization to collaboratively create, manage, and implement taxonomies in real time. TK240 for Collaborative Development uses Teragram’s categorization technology to analyze document contents and organize them into flat or hierarchical taxonomies that facilitate and accelerate the retrieval of information. At the same time, the software enables more than one developer to modify the taxonomy and categorization rules for the same project, enabling users to work simultaneously while individually accessing the specific portion of the taxonomy that is most appropriate. Multiple information workers using TK240 for Collaborative Development to organize large corporate archives, for instance, can work simultaneously on specialized portions of the master taxonomy without conflicting with or overwriting the other’s work. http://www.teragram.com
Our opening keynote panel at our Amsterdam conference on 25 May, The Future of Content Management will be looking at strategic technology issues businesses, governments and NGOs need to be thinking about. Our panel is made up of technology executives who are responsible for a huge number of installed tools, and for strategic technology development at their respective firms. There will certainly be strong differences of opinion, but where this panel agrees on something, it will be worth knowing.
Some of the questions (with a few links to some of our views) we expect to ask the panel are:
- There is a lot of debate about ECM (enterprise content management) suites vs. individual content applications. What is an “ECM suite”, and which approach makes the most sense, and why?
- The proliferation of content applications and repositories has created a huge integration challenge. How will this get resolved? And when?
- How will blog, wiki, and RSS technology affect content management applications?
- Will taxonomies or “folksonomy” tagging technologies have a major impact on future CMS applications?
- What is a content platform? Is it a repository? an index? a database, a file system? Does the concept of a content platform even even make sense? Will Longhorn’s WinFS change the game?
- Are Portals dead for good? If so, what will take their place?
- How will compliance requirements affect content technology, or digital/enterprise rights management products?
- How will open source content management related software affect future content management implementations? How should it?
- Are some open source software technologies more appropriate for enterprise content applications than others? If so, which ones and why?
- Where in the software stack is the best place to provide basic content management functionality, e.g., management of content elements with attributes and metadata?
- What percentage of enterprise content do you estimate is currently stored in XML? How do you see this changing in the next 12 -18 months? How will this affect technology development?
- How will enterprise search and content management technology be integrated in the next 12 – 18 months?
- What will be the most exciting content technology in the next 12 – 18 months?
If you have a question you would like to see us address, comment on this post, or send me an email.
Bill Trippe wrote a white paper recently that has been attracting a lot of readers. He’ll be talking about the content in a Webinar with X-Hive’s Jeroen van Rotterdam. Registration for the webinar, “Meeting the Demands of Complex Content Applications” on Wednesday April 27 1:00 PM EST, is here.
Also check out Dale Waldt’s popular white paper on “Using XML in Databases“.
For Immediate Release:
4/22/05
Astoria joins elite vendor group sponsoring case studies in successful deployment of content technologies
Contacts:
Mary Laplante
Bluebill Advisors, Inc.
+617.497.9443, ext 212
mary@gilbane.com
Eileen O’Rourke
Astoria Software Inc
+1. 650-357-7477 x150
eorourke@astoriasoftware.com
Cambridge, MA, April 22, 2005. The Gilbane Report announced today that Astoria Software Inc, the XML content management solutions company, has become a new sponsor of the Content Technology Works (CTW) initiative, administered by The Gilbane Report. The mission of CTW is to capture, publish and freely distribute in-depth case studies on successful deployments of content technologies. CTW is sponsored by vendors who are committed to working together to educate adopters and help them implement technologies with confidence, based on the experience of other companies.
“We are very excited about our partnership with the Gilbane team,” said Chip Gettinger, Astoria’s Vice President, Technical Sales. “CTW is a great opportunity to demonstrate the success of Astoria’s solution in a hype-free environment that benefits users.” Astoria recently released Astoria 4.4, software that automates “author-to-publish” processes for complex documents throughout their life cycles.
“We are delighted to welcome Astoria to the CTW initiative,” said Frank Gilbane, President and CEO of Bluebill Advisors, publisher of The Gilbane Report. “ Astoria’s success with helping companies deploy content management solutions will be a valuable addition to our library of CTW customer case studies.” Astoria customers will also share their experiences working with the company in user presentations at three Gilbane Conferences on Content Management Technologies in 2005.
CTW case studies are written by Gilbane Report analysts, based on interviews, information, and opinions of the customers. The result is an independent, third-party success story told from the customer’s perspective. Current CTW case studies profile market-leading companies including Avnet, CMP Media, Hewlett-Packard, IDX Systems Corporation, Meredith Corporation, MIT Technology Review, and Wachovia. The studies describe how these companies have successfully deployed technologies such as enterprise content integration, content globalization management, digital asset management, web content management, XML-based single-source publishing, and on-demand (hosted) content management.
About Astoria Software
Astoria Software, Inc. ( www.astoriasoftware.com) is the leading XML content management solutions company. Its powerful applications help enterprises manage and publish the world’s most complex mission-critical documents. Natively architected to optimize XML technology, Astoria manages content at the component-level to deliver simply revolutionary capabilities to an organization’s author-to-publish process. With increased flexibility in how content is authored, shared, managed, re-used, and published, customers benefit with lower total cost of operations, improved content integrity and higher return on investment. Enterprise customers including Texas Instruments, The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin, and Cessna Aircraft use Astoria Software to publish business critical content.
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 Technologies, Atomz, Astoria Software, ClearStory Systems (OTCBB:INCC), Context Media, Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), IBM (NYSE:IBM ), Idiom Technologies, Mark Logic, Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX), Trados, Vasont, and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN). www.gilbane.com
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