EMC Corporation announced software that allows customers to more effectively search, retrieve and utilize active enterprise archives created with EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS). The new EMC Centera Seek and EMC Centera Chargeback Reporter software enable the advanced search and retrieval of fixed content across multiple terabytes, making utilization-based reporting and billing possible. EMC Centera Seek provides a new, advanced search capability using metadata. EMC Centera Chargeback Reporter is a new reporting tool that provides detailed archive data reports for corporate chargeback systems. Centera Chargeback Reporter also leverages stored metadata to provide sophisticated and customizable capacity utilization reporting. Centera Seek’s advanced searching capabilities can be leveraged by more than 170 applications from independent software vendor (ISV) applications that have been integrated with the Centera API. Centera Seek improves any type of discovery request through a more accurate and efficient search method. This new software is based on technology from FAST Search and Transfer (FAST) and its InStream enterprise search engine product through an OEM agreement with EMC. EMC also announced a rebranding of its EMC Centera Compliance Edition, EMC’s CAS solution for regulated organizations, to EMC Centera Governance Edition. EMC Centera will continue to market its Compliance Edition Plus solution targeting the most stringently regulated environments. www.emc.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 293 of 480)
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/
IXIASOFT announced the availability of TEXTML Server 3.5. This new version builds on TEXTML Server’s native XML storage and information retrieval technology and introduces new features designed to help OEM partners develop enterprise-scale content management solutions. Available with TEXTML Server 3.5 and above, TEXTML Universal Converter enables the conversion of over 220 data types to XML. TEXTML Universal Converter transforms unstructured data into an XML schema in the form of the SearchML standard. In addition to the COM, JAVA, WebDAV, and OLEDB APIs already available, developers will now be able to have access to a native .NET API. Each API interface fully supports all functionalities of TEXTML Server. The new version of TEXTML Server fully supports the XPath standard. Developers are now able to move and copy sets of documents from one folder to another, while maintaining the complete history/versions and properties of all documents. www.ixiasoft.com
Coveo Solutions Inc. has developed a version of its product Coveo Enterprise Search (CES) that securely indexes and retrieves content stored in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Technologies (SPT). The new product, called Coveo Enterprise Search for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Technologies, is set for release in early March 2005. With the introduction of CES for SPT, all search functionality of CES will be available for organizations that have deployed SPT. Enhancements that CES can offer for the SPT user, include: Intelligent summarization and concept extraction technologies; a “View as HTML” feature that provides cached HTML versions with highlighted query terms for Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDFs and other non-HTML documents; improved relevance with query capabilities based on syntax that supports spelling suggestion, stemming, exact phrase and Boolean operators; configurable search preferences; advanced handling of metadata and XML data; plug-in-style integration with SPT; search that leverages existing SPT security. CES for SPT is scheduled to ship in early March and will be priced according to server and user licenses. Product versions supported by CES for SPT will include SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS). Coveo has given GTSI, the leading government IT product and solutions integrator, exclusive distribution rights for offering CES for SPT to government entities. www.coveo.com
Aprimo announced it has joined the EMC Documentum Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Alliance Program and the Application Logo Program, which will result in an integration of Aprimo’s Marketing Resource Management (MRM) offerings and EMC Documentum’s Marketing Content Management offerings. The combined products will provide solutions to marketers with sophisticated needs for the creation of marketing digital assets, as well as the planning and execution of the marketing activities that use them. Through the alliance, marketers will have the opportunity to utilize the Aprimo Marketing MRM products addressing Planning and Financial Management, Production Management, and Fulfillment and Delivery Management, in conjunction with EMC’s Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Rich Media, Marketing Content Distribution and Web Content Management capabilities. These integrated offerings will provide control of marketing campaigns from inception of the creative idea through the execution of all related marketing activities. www.aprimo.com
Leading analysts, consultants, and practitioners from a dozen countries explore the latest content technology technologies, trends, and practices – Preliminary program now available
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Cambridge, MA, February 23, 2005. The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies to take place in Amsterdam at the RAI Centre, 24-26 May 2005, includes an unprecedented gathering of international experts in content management technologies. The preliminary program for the conference is available at:
www.gilbane.com/conferences/Amsterdam_05_program.html.
The Gilbane Conferences provide vendor neutral educational information for IT managers, system architects, and technically oriented business and project managers. At our Amsterdam conference, experts from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom, the US, and more, will cover a broad range of content management technologies including:
- enterprise and web content management
- intranets, knowledge management, and collaboration
- enterprise search, categorization and taxonomies
- document management & compliance
- and many other technologies for creating, managing and delivering with enterprise content
“Our educational conferences includes everything IT Strategists and project teams need to know in a hype-free environment and offer insights into existing and upcoming technologies necessary to implement content management applications,” said Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair. “Nothing can compare with the rich in-depth learning experience of being surrounded by subject matter experts and industry colleagues from all over the globe who are at various stages of implementing initial, or second or third projects that you can learn from”.
As an added bonus, attendees of the Gilbane Conference will be able to attend sessions at the co-located XTech 2005, giving attendees of both events unprecedented educational and networking opportunities. Formerly known as the XML Europe conference, XTech has widened its scope to incorporate neighboring technologies from the web and business. As well as XML, XTech 2005 will cover web development, browsers, open data, the semantic web and more. www.xtech-conference.org/
Justsystem is the Diamond sponsor of the Gilbane Conference. Adobe Systems, and Blast Radius/XMetal are Gold sponsors. Other exhibitors to date include: Antenna House, Astoria Software, AuthorIT, DataDirect Technologies, Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) Corporation, O’Reilly, Percussion Software, Quark, Quasar Technologies, Syncro Soft/oXygen, and Vamosa.
Additional Gilbane conferences in 2005 include: San Francisco, April 11-13, and Boston November 29 – December 1. For customer testimonials and more information see: www.gilbane.com/conferences/overview.html
About Bluebill Advisors, The Gilbane Report
Bluebill Advisors, Inc. and the Gilbane Report serve the content management community with vendor neutral publications, conferences and consulting services. They also administer 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), Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX), Trados, Vasont, and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN). www.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. www.lighthouseseminars.com
The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies to take place in Amsterdam at the RAI Centre, 24-26 May 2005, includes an unprecedented gathering of international experts in content management technologies. The Gilbane Conferences provide vendor neutral educational information for IT managers, system architects, and technically oriented business and project managers. At our Amsterdam conference, experts from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom, the US, and more, will cover a broad range of content management technologies including: enterprise and web content management, intranets, knowledge management, and collaboration, enterprise search, categorization and taxonomies, document management & compliance, and many other technologies for creating, managing and delivering with enterprise content. As an added bonus, attendees of the Gilbane Conference will be able to attend sessions at the co-located XTech 2005. Formerly known as the XML Europe conference, XTech has widened its scope to incorporate web development, browsers, open data, the semantic web and more. Justsystem is the Diamond sponsor of the Gilbane Conference. Adobe Systems, and Blast Radius/XMetal are Gold sponsors. Other exhibitors to date include: Antenna House, Astoria Software, AuthorIT, DataDirect Technologies, Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) Corporation, O’Reilly, Percussion Software, Quark, Quasar Technologies, Syncro Soft/oXygen, and Vamosa. The preliminary program for the conference is available at: www.gilbane.com/conferences/Amsterdam_05_program.html,
www.lighthouseseminars.com
Autonomy Corporation plc and NCorp announced that Autonomy has acquired NCorp from private shareholders. Combining Autonomy’s IDOL technology for unstructured information and NCorp’s technology for structured information allows enterprises to fully integrate the processing and delivery of all enterprise content. Based upon mathematics and pattern matching, NCorp’s Ijen technology puts the database into a multidimensional space in order to enable ‘fuzzy queries’; by putting differing items into a multidimensional space, comparisons can be made by calculating their similarity. Combining Autonomy’s IDOL Server with NCorp’s Ijen technology produces a parametric search capability set which relates n-dimensional structured objects to each other conceptually where no direct field match exists. www.autonomy.com
I will start with an analogy.
A long time ago, before XML had been invented and when SGML was a new, radical idea, I often found myself having to explain how SGML was different from the kinds of typesetting codes and other markup that were already familiar to people in publishing. The reason that I was in this spot was that my business partners and I had created a product that produced SGML markup. But nobody, as yet, knew why they would want SGML, much less our product.
The analogy that seemed to work best had to do with cakes and recipes for cakes. If I give you a cake, all you can do is eat it. But if I also give you the recipe for the cake, well, then you can bake one for yourself, or
make a bigger one, or a sweeter one, and so on. SGML was like having the recipe.
Well, it is a wonder that anyone knew what I was talking about. Maybe the pitch worked because people liked cakes. I suspect that some of them got stuck on the image of eating a cake and then came away with warm feelings about our product. Anyway, what I was trying to get after was the value of abstracting rules. You can deal with the thing (the cake), but you have a lot more power and flexibility if you deal with the rules for making the thing. Control of product is great, but control of process is even better.
Which leads, of course, to compliance.
James McGovern sent me a trackback ping from one of his blog entries in which he references a paper by Stephen O’Grady of RedMonk titled “SOA Meets Compliance: Compliance Oriented Architecture.” The paper came out last summer, but was new to me, and may be new to you. It is a good read.
You should read the whole paper (it is free), but here is the argument in a nutshell:
- Many companies are taking a “project” approach to compliance requirements. So, SOX compliance becomes another Y2K problem. And HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance becomes an entirely different project–yet another Y2K. At least with the real Y2K, there was only one of them …
- This is bad news, since, unlike Y2K, SOX or HIPAA are never “over.”
- This is also bad news because each compliance “project” tends to stand alone–separate resources, costs, and headaches.
- But, in fact, many of the same kinds of information and views of that information are required for the different compliance efforts.
So, the RedMonk paper proposes a “Compliance Oriented Architecture” or “COA,” — a specific instance of a services oriented architecture — so that companies can address different compliance requirements with a single investment in compliance services.
The proposal is another instance of the importance of focusing on the recipe, not the cake. Rather than rushing off to the store to get all the ingredients for one cake, and then heading out a second time to buy more ingredients for a second cake, you realize instead that there are common ingredients. With a little planning, you can maybe even bake both cakes at the same time. (I’m hungry already …)
O’Grady describes the COA as emerging from a “radical–even heretical–notion.” The heresy is the assumption that there are services that are common to the different regulations with which companies must comply. The heart of the paper is a table in which O’Grady sketches out a starting list of such core services along with vendors and products that offer these services.
He may be a heretic, but I am sure that O’Grady is right about his core assumption. Using the old arguments for SGML as an analogy again, the key here is to enable “reuse.” Companies must move toward
architectures that can support many compliance applications with from a single system. As with SGML, the key to value is in looking at the process, not the product.
So, it is a good paper. But I have a misgiving about the focus on “compliance” in “Compliance Oriented Architecture.” I can see where O’Grady is going … wanting to get companies to stop thinking of SOX, HIPAA, and other compliance requirements as separate projects — seeing them instead as instances of one, bigger thing. But I wonder whether we shouldn’t perhaps go for something even larger … “Governance?” “Internal Control?” My discomfort is with “compliance” as a primary objective.
Another analogy: When driving a night, I “comply” with the 45 mile an hour speed limit on the five miles of narrow road leading down the peninsula to my house because I want to have the car under control when a moose steps out in front of me. (So far, I have been able to stop.) Compliance is a good idea, but it is a side effect. The primary goal is to be able to stop the car in time.
It seems that some of the same thinking applies here, and so I am not sure about “Compliance Oriented.” But that is a small detail that does not subtract from the real value of O’Grady’s paper.
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