Open Text Corporation’s FirstClass division announced the release of FirstClass 8.0, a major evolution of the company’s suite of integrated communication and messaging capabilities. The release includes both the FirstClass Business Edition and the FirstClass Education Edition, which is tailored to meet the requirements of FirstClass’ education customer base. FirstClass 8.0 new features include advances in system security and manageability, in performance and scalability, and in collaboration and customization capabilities. The new FirstClass Directory Services (FCDS) module facilitates the integration of FirstClass into corporate meta-directory environments including LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory. FCDS enables bi-directional user administration between FirstClass and meta-directories, as well as providing access to FirstClass directories from end-user client applications. FCDS also provides single sign-in support through external authentication. FirstClass 8.0 will be available on a wide variety of computing platforms, including Microsoft Windows (95, 98, NT, 2000, and XP versions), Apple Macintosh (OS 8, OS 9 and OS X versions), HTML/Web, and Linux. FirstClass 8.0 is available for free to all customers who are members of the FirstClass Support and Maintenance Program. www.opentext.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 324 of 470)
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/
Factiva announced the availability of search and tracking tools for customers of BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1. The new Factiva tools are designed to integrate with BEA’s portal via standards-based portlets. BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 is designed to enable customers to integrate Factiva content using the JSR168 standard for portlet integration. This allows BEA’s customers to download and integrate business information from Factiva and other BEA partner Web sites into their own BEA WebLogic-based portals and wireless browser devices in a virtually plug and play mode. www.factiva.com
Open Text Corporation said it will acquire Artesia Technologies, Inc. “Close of the transaction is imminent.” The acquisition expands Open Text’s rich media integration and management capabilities as part of its ECM suite, and provides a platform from which to address the content management needs of media and marketing professionals. Artesia provides customer organizations and their marketing and distribution partners with the ability to easily access and collaborate around a centrally managed collection of digital media elements. Applications include: Production Asset Management – Content reuse and collaboration at the center of creative process for digital media content; Brand Asset Management – Control over and reuse of the digital media elements used in marketing campaigns; Distribution Asset Management – Streamlining the distribution of digital media and digital marketing materials to the supply chain; and Rich Digital Media Asset Management – Enhances content management and collaboration by extending search, retrieval, viewing and analysis to rich digital media content and its associated metadata. The transaction is not material to the financial results or operations of Open Text. The acquisition will be discussed during Open Text’s fourth quarter earnings conference call, scheduled for Tuesday, August 31, 2004. www.opentext.com, www.artesia.com
GlobalSight Corporation announced that it has entered into agreement with enterprise content management software provider, Mediasurface, for integrating end-to-end Web content creation into GlobalSight’s Ambassador product. The new functionality will be sold as an add-on module to Ambassador. This joint global content management solution combines localization automation software with Web content development and management technology. While Ambassador will continue to integrate with other content management solutions, organizations that have not deployed a CMS now have the option of deploying a fully integrated end-to-end environment that enables authoring and multilingual content management. www.mediasurface.com, www.globalsight.com
Tablus, Inc. announced the latest version of their content security solution, Content Alarm 1.1. Content Alarm monitors all outgoing traffic at the network perimeter and accurately identifies sensitive content leaving the network in email or email attachments, HTTP posts, FTP transmissions and other traffic protocols. Content Alarm employs an advanced Linguistic Analysis Engine to determine if data leaving the network matches any content that has been designated as protected. Because Content Alarm monitors content transmission instead of document access, it can detect a wide range of violations, e.g., if paragraphs of a strategic plan are pasted into an outgoing email message. Content Alarm looks at all traffic exiting on multiple protocols, not just email. Completely non-intrusive and transparent to end-users, Content Alarm tracks email attachments, FTP file transfers, HTTP posts and more. Sophisticated policy tools support audits of all or only selected activities. For example, certain transactions, such as data transmissions to a specific destination can trigger an audit. Content Alarm 1.1 is currently available. www.tablus.com
Endeca announced the immediate availability of Endeca ProFind 4.5, a new version of the company’s enterprise search and navigation platform. Endeca ProFind combines search, Guided Navigation and Content Spotlighting capabilities to help organizations integrate and take advantage of structured, semi-structured and unstructured enterprise data. Endeca ProFind 4.5 includes several new features designed to improve relevancy, customize the discovery process and further simplify administration and management. These features include: personalization, a seach application wizard, expanded relevancy ranking capabilities for unstructured data, enhanced classification and taxonomy management, new administration tools, and a new web-based interface to simplify administration and maintenance of Endeca implementations. Endeca also announced immediate availability of Endeca InFron 4.5, a new version of their commerce search, navigation and merchandising solution. www.endeca.com
Atomz announced the second major upgrade this year to its Atomz Commerce solution. Atomz Commerce integrates search, promotion, e-marketing and content management capabilities to create a Guided Commerce experience for customers. Managed Relevance is the foundation of the merchandising platform and provides fine-grained control over page query relevancy based on user-controlled interfaces and algorithms. This affords retailers enhanced control over the delivery of search results enabling them to present products in order of importance. Merchandising Controls allow direct control over relevancy information based on any type of metadata, such as inventory, margin, SKU, brand, price, and ratings. Merchandisers are given the flexibility to immediately adjust site rankings and relevancy to drive product sales. Large Capacity Search offers capacity to handle millions of SKUs while providing interruptible crawling and indexing. Guided Commerce Query Management generates relevant results based on broad search terms to help visitors find the products they are looking for. Automated Metadata Creation looks at a Web page and automatically generates metadata to create a multi-faceted search. Relational Metadata Queries allows sophisticated queries to be performed on product metadata based on specific attribute information. www.atomz.com
Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity TeleForm release 9.0, the latest version of the company’s high volume content capture solution. Verity TeleForm is a software solution that replaces manual data entry with paper-to-digital processing. This is the first TeleForm release under the Verity corporate banner since the company completed its acquisition of Cardiff Software. The new enhancements are: Microsoft SQL-Verity TeleForm integration; Support of Microsoft VBA to facilitate customization of application-specific business rules; Security enhancements that include expanded Microsoft LDAP support, password-protected PDF file exports, and strengthened protection for file transfers; Simplified troubleshooting and support through TeleForm’s modules for Reader and AutoMerge Publisher that can now be handled as Windows services; and Improved recognition and throughput from higher performing RecoFlex multi-engine recognition technology. TeleForm is available in three product families, TeleForm Desktop, TeleForm for Workgroup, and TeleForm Enterprise. www.verity.com
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