Docucorp International announced the availability of Transall 11.0, a new version of its data translation tool that enables data interchange between enterprise-wide applications. Transall extracts data from host and PC-based files, XML documents, print streams and databases, and then organizes and normalizes the data for storage or use with other systems. Transall 11.0 highlights include: Print stream data source – offers new capabilities for gathering data from print stream files, including AFP, Metacode, PCL and text; Enhanced scripting syntax support – expands support for Visual Basic’s scripting language, including new syntax constructs and built-in functions; Enhanced source and destination metadata update – automates the process of updating data source and destination content; and Scripted data sources and destinations – processes data from new types of sources and destinations, such as custom DLLs, COM or Java objects. Current licensees of Transall will receive upgrade notices from Docucorp’s Customer Support on how to receive the newest version. www.docucorp.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 314 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/
Extensis Inc. announced immediate availability of an update to Portfolio 7, its Digital Asset Management solution, offering new and updated SQL connect modules for Microsoft SQL, Microsoft MSDE, MySQL and Oracle databases. The SQL Connect add-on modules enable companies utilizing Portfolio to scale to millions of assets and provide more automation to their workflow. Portfolio 7 is available at an estimated street price of $199.95US with a single NetPublish license. Additional NetPublish licenses can be purchased for an estimated street price of $199.95US (five concurrent web connections) or $999.95US (unlimited web connections). In addition, upgrades to Portfolio 7 are available for an estimated street price of $99.95US from versions of Portfolio 4, 5 and 6. Portfolio Server’s estimated street price is $3,499.95US. Upgrades to Portfolio 7 Server are available for an estimated street price of $1,199.95. NetPublish Server licenses can be purchased for an estimated street price of $1999.95US. SQL Connect for MSDE is available for $4,499.95. SQL Connect for MySQL is available for $4,499.95. SQL Connect for Oracle 9i/10 is available for $7,499.95. SQL Connect for MS-SQL is available for $7,499.95. www.extensis.com
Addressing comments received during Last Call, the World Wide Web Consortium XSL Working Group has released a Working Draft of XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0. Comments are welcome. Version 2.0 of the XSLT language allows transformation of XML documents and non-XML data into other documents, is designed for use with XPath 2.0 and includes the means to serialize the results of a transformation. www.w3.org/TR/xpath20
The Unicode Consortium announced the release of new versions of the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR 1.2) and the Locale Data Markup Language specification (LDML 1.2), providing key building blocks for software to support the world’s languages. This new release contains data for 232 locales, covering 72 languages and 108 territories. There are also 63 draft locales in the process of being developed, covering an additional 27 languages and 28 territories.
To support users in different languages, programs must not only use translated text, but must also be adapted to local conventions. These conventions differ by language or region and include the formatting of numbers, dates, times, and currency values, as well as support for differences in measurement units or text sorting order. Most operating systems and many application programs currently maintain their own repositories of locale data to support these conventions. But such data are often incomplete, idiosyncratic, or gratuitously different from program to program. The CLDR project provides a general XML format, LDML, for the exchange of locale information used in application and system software development, combined with a public repository for a common set of locale data in that format. In this release, there are major additions to the CLDR data, to the LDML specification, and in implementation support. The CLDR is continually being enhanced and extended, with CLDR 1.3 expected early in 2005. All new data or defect reports for CLDR 1.3 must be submitted no later than January 15, 2005 www.unicode.org
Alchemy Software Development Limited announced the release of a new solution the Alchemy TRADOS Component that bridges the gap between localizing visual content in software and localizing content in product documents and other materials. The solution, developed jointly with TRADOS Inc. reduces the complexity and time required to share translated content and terminology between the different formats. The Alchemy TRADOS Component enables an organization to move translated content from Alchemy CATALYST’s software localization process into product content globalization on TRADOS Translation Memory Server and TRADOS MultiTerm Server for use in technical and marketing documentation and information. http://www.alchemysoftware.ie, www.trados.com
Hot Banana Software Inc. has signed Connexion Corporate Communications SA of Brussels, Belgium as a Channel Partner for Hot Banana software. Hot Banana is now immediately available in Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Northern France. This agreement marks Hot Banana’s entry into the European market. Hot Banana presents Web content in a search engine-friendly manner, so that all search engines that crawl the Web can access a Hot Banana Web site in a totally
unrestrictive way. This enables the site to achieve the all-important balance between organic search engine rankings on the one hand and a paid-ranking strategy with all the leading search engines, including Google, Yahoo!, and MSN, on the other. Hot Banana allows organizations to develop a sophisticated Web presence on the Internet, Extranet and Intranet, and helps to develop marketing campaign Micro-Sites, and then leverage the content of those sites to the maximum so that Internet sales and marketing campaigns are fully optimized. www.connexion.be, www.hotbanana.com
INSCI unveiled its new corporate name, ClearStory Systems, and announced the Radiant Content Suite, a suite of enterprise solutions built on the company’s content management technology. At the heart of the Radiant Content Suite is the Company’s media platform, which provides capabilities for developing targeted rich-media content management solutions. ClearStory’s Radiant Content Suite is deployed through a set of targeted solutions that support the use of enterprise content — from business documents and email to video, compound documents, and other rich media. Solutions within the Radiant Content Suite focus on key functional areas such as Video Communications, Marketing Content Management, Customer Service, Enterprise Media Services, Enterprise Report Management, and Compliance Content Management. The ClearStory portfolio includes INSCI’s fixed-content management solutions along with the WebWare digital asset management solutions and hosted services. www.clearstorysystems.com
Mark Logic Corporation and Really Strategies, Inc. announced the signing of a technology and services partnership agreement to help publishers and media companies build solutions for managing and delivering content. Really Strategies will leverage Mark Logic’s technology to define, build and integrate content-centric solutions to meet publishers’ business needs. Some of these publishing solutions include: XML repository development and integration, Print-On-Demand content delivery, Content management system development and integration, Editorial and production system development and integration, Web site and portal development and integration, Subscription and registration access control, and Custom software and database development. www.reallysi.com, www.marklogic.com