Category: Content management & strategy (Page 315 of 486)

Hot Banana Software Inc. announced the integration of WebTrends Web analytics solutions with Hot Banana’s Web CMS. The integration is designed to assist Hot Banana’s mid-sized clients to easily adopt Web analytics to accelerate their business results. With this integration, Hot Banana clients can set up WebTrends solution’s content groups, campaigns and conversion scenarios from within the Hot Banana interface. As a result, clients will be able to determine which campaigns are driving the best results; understand which areas of the site require improvement, and which are of most interest; and evaluate how to best optimize Web site conversion scenarios to increase the number of visitors fulfilling their business goals. Hot Banana’s customer Web sites can be analyzed with WebTrends 7, which utilizes data collection technology called WebTrends SmartSource, based on page tagging. By integrating WebTrends SmartSource with Hot Banana’s Web CMS, customers can automate the process of tagging and testing Web pages for analysis using the Hot Banana interface to minimize hand-coded errors and ensure that their sites are properly coded for collecting Web traffic and visitor behavioral data. www.hotbanana.com, www.webtrends.com

SilkRoad Technology, Inc. announced the availability of Eprise Docs, a document management system fully integrated with Eprise 2004, SilkRoad’s content management system. Eprise Docs enables organizations to manage the flow of documents and information throughout the enterprise and to the Web. Eprise Docs exposes Eprise’s core library services, including check-in, check-out, version control, roll-back, meta-data management and workflow, through an extension to Windows Explorer that exposes a remote document tree along with a custom toolbar to activate functions. A full Web interface for adding, browsing, retrieving and sharing documents is available for remote access. Eprise Docs’ roles-based security system is fully integrated with Eprise 2004, enabling businesses to distribute permissions through recursive role delegation. Eprise supports its own native security and can also be integrated with user directories such as NTLM, ADS, and LDAP. Users can even use single sign on (SSO) through NTLM or third party SSO applications. Within Eprise Docs, users can apply rules for data added to folders. For example, a folder may be restricted to allow only image files. Further, when a document is dropped into a folder, events may be triggered. These events include prompting a user to enter meta-data, notifying users of the document or starting a workflow process. Eprise Docs enables both the consumption of Web services and exposes Eprise Docs functionality as callable Web services. www.silkroadtech.com

Liquid Machines announced Liquid Machines Document Control Version 3.0. Liquid Machines Document Control allows enterprises to centrally create and enforce document access and usage policies for any content within native applications including Microsoft Office, Visio, and Adobe Acrobat. Version 3.0 delivers scalability, performance, and usability enhancements that support large-scale deployments and make it easier for organizations to share confidential information across the extended enterprise. Liquid Machines Document Control 3.0’s enterprise features include support for Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Accelerators which provide users with increased access to data that is critical to maximizing business performance. Liquid Machines Document Control 3.0 automatically assigns corporate-defined usage policies to customized business intelligence reports created using Microsoft’s Excel Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services. www.liquidmachines.com

Endeca announced a new exclusive partnership with IBM to bring the next-generation capabilities of Endeca’s Guided Navigation to IBM DB2 Information Integrator customers. According to the terms of the deal, IBM will offer Endeca’s software to customers seeking the ability to integrate search and navigation capabilities for improved usability and access to disparate enterprise content. The integrated solution will be offered as a key, premium component to IBM’s recently unveiled DB2 Information Integrator (DB2 II) OmniFind Edition, formerly code named Masala. IBM’s DB2 Information Integrator (DB2 II) OmniFind Edition, announced in late September 2004, provides enterprise search middleware for powering intranets, extranets, and corporate public web sites. Endeca’s Guided Navigation leverages characteristics of data to categorize results and present valid refinement and exploration options in the form of navigational links. This next-generation functionality can be used to organize and refine long lists of search results or can be used as a stand-alone querying mechanism to help users find relevant content with a few simple clicks of the mouse. Endeca is an IBM Advanced Business Partner and is a preferred provider for IBM’s WebSphere Commerce Group – Endeca is the Advanced Search and Guided Navigation option for WebSphere Commerce. www.endeca.com

Senior Editor Bill Trippe looks at the case for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) in “Topic-Oriented Information Development and Its Role in Globalization.” Sponsored by Idiom, Inc. www.gilbane.com/whitepapers.html

Oracle announced the launch of its enterprise-class content management technology, Oracle Files 10g, built on the Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server. Oracle Files 10g, available on its own or as part of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g, was created with the broad business user population in mind. The intent is a content management solution that delivers the functionality users require without changing the way they work. The new release combines file management and sharing capabilities with new policy-based document management functionality such as fine-grained security, automatic versioning, enforced attribution and event-driven workflows. Together, these capabilities are designed to increase productivity by adding structure, context, and intelligence to content without burdening the user with unnecessary information or additional actions. Oracle Files 10g facilitates regulatory compliance with advanced records management functionality. Oracle Files 10g’s file-plan creation and management processes, as well as its document retention and disposition management capabilities, facilitate compliance with federal, local and industry-specific regulations. The product provides a rich set of Web services application programming interfaces. In addition, Oracle is working closely with partners, developers and customers to support integration, automation and functional extension of the product. www.oracle.com

Oracle announced Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g with new real-time collaboration tools and enterprise content management capabilities. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g is designed to enable contextual collaboration and to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time and in the context of their current activity. Built on the Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Application Server 10g, it supports management of all enterprise information, structured and unstructured, on a single architecture. The real-time collaboration component of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g brings together a full suite of collaboration tools. By adding presence awareness, instant messaging and voice functionality to its existing Web conferencing capabilities, this new version of Oracle Collaboration Suite enables users to detect other users, chat via text or voice, share information and collaborate with colleagues, partners and customers. Using Oracle’s collaborative portlets technology, corporate portals can be customized to include a user’s favorite collaboration tools, such as Web conferencing, IM and content management. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g also enables real-time collaboration tools to be built into any business application, including Oracle Applications. www.oracle.com

Cognos announced it is extending its open data strategy through the company’s strengthened partnership with IBM. Cognos has enhanced its support of IBM’s DB2 Information Integrator product in its latest release of Cognos ReportNet for customers who have requirements to access a diverse set of data sources including mainframe, database, and content systems. Cognos’ solutions, built upon the information infrastructure layer provided by IBM DB2, offer data access tools integrated with an automated data management process. IBM’s DB2 Information Integrator software helps businesses access and integrate any data – e-mail, XML, multi-media, Web services, and competitive data sources such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases – wherever it resides, in real-time, as if it were stored in one place. DB2 Information Integrator extends the reach of ReportNet to a wide variety of information sources, including traditional, mainframe non-DB2 data sources such as VSAM and IMS, and content repositories such as IBM DB2 Content Manager, FileNet and EMC/Documentum. By accessing message queues, Cognos’ solutions can monitor real-time data within organizations that have EAI systems. Cognos customers needing critical elements of business activity monitoring (BAM) and guided analysis can define highly personalized business alerts that can be delivered to any e-mail- enabled device. The federated data access capabilities of DB2 Information Integrator extends Cognos’ reach to include non-relational data sources such as any remote SOAP Web Service, Flat Files, XML files, and content repositories. www.cognos.com