Hummingbird Ltd. and Certus Software, Inc. announced a technology partnership to offer organizations a comprehensive solution to implement and certify internal controls to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 404 financial business processes. Hummingbird Enterprise DM creates an organized, secure environment that manages the lifecycle of financial documents from creation to destruction. Companies can capture and organize policies and procedures in secure and manageable repositories allowing users to search and access documents across the enterprise. Hummingbird will integrate Certus’ Governance Suite, into Hummingbird Enterprise to provide internal controls and assurance software based on a compliance platform for SOX Sections 103, 302, 404, 409, and 906. Certus’ software helps corporations document, implement and sustain internal and disclosure controls required by law. Certus’ suite enables documented activities to be instituted, executed, monitored, tested and demonstrated. www.certus.com, www.hummingbird.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 327 of 477)
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/
ClearForest Corp. announced release of its Quality Early Warning industry module as part of its product suite. In combination with ClearForest Analytics, the Quality Early Warning module facilitates resolution of warranty, product safety & quality issues through early discovery of component and system-level failures. By enabling organizations to systematically analyze unstructured text and enterprise data simultaneously, ClearForest facilitates unified business intelligence. Developed specifically for capital equipment, automotive & durable goods manufacturers, ClearForest’s Quality Early Warning solution provides industry-specific expertise necessary to detect, analyze & reduce warranty costs by uncovering root cause & effect. ClearForest solutions may be deployed as a stand-alone analytics application supporting specific queries, visual analytics and reports, or fully integrated within existing Business Intelligence systems such as those offered by Cognos or Business Objects. Examples of unstructured text sources include web-based survey data, news articles or research as well as other electronic formats such as emails, contracts, spreadsheets and warranty claims. www.clearforest.com
Vignette Corp. announced enhancements to its integrated content management and portal solutions including capabilities for expanded presentation management, real-time delivery of information from its native sources via real-time page generation and assembly, and advanced caching. Vignette content management now provides modular dynamic content delivery to Vignette portals and other Web sites, with a page region caching mechanism for dynamic sites. New presentation management capabilities span Vignette’s content management and portal applications to allow IT departments to create templates that can be customized for any number of unique sites. Vignette solutions separate control of layout, content and presentation so that static content, dynamic information, content selection rules and active applications are all assembled at request time to satisfy the Web user’s requirements. The latest versions of Vignette Content Management, Vignette Application Portal and the integration modules are available and shipping to customers today. www.vignette.com
Vasont Systems announced that Innodata Isogen, Inc. joined its Vasont Important Partner (VIP) Program. The strategic alliance between Vasont and Innodata Isogen will include joint projects, marketing and sales efforts. Additionally, Innodata Isogen and Vasont are working together with customers to implement environments where external authoring and publishing tools are integrated with the Vasont Content Management System to support automated localization and single-source publishing of multilingual content. www.vasont.com,
www.innodata-isogen.com
IBM announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Venetica. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth-quarter. Financial details were not disclosed. Venetica’s operations will be integrated into the Information Integration group within IBM’s Information Management software business and Venetica products will be available from IBM and its Business Partners. Venetica is a provider of enterprise content integration software that enables organizations to access unstructured information such as business documents, still images, digital media and Web pages, and integrate it into existing business processes. With Venetica technology integrated into IBM’s DB2 Information Integrator software, IBM will ba able to deliver comprehensive information integration infrastructure. Additionally, in support of IBM’s infrastructure strategy, Venetica software can also work with both IBM and non-IBM data sources, including EMC/Documentum, FileNet, Hummingbird, Interwoven, Open Text and Stellent, enabling organizations to leverage their existing content assets. Once the acquisition is completed, IBM plans to Integrate Venetica’s software assets and personnel into the Information Integration group within IBM’s Information Management Software group and market and sell Venetica technology worldwide through IBM direct sales and its business partners. Venetica technology will be integrated into IBM’s DB2 Information Integrator family of products and complement other IBM middleware offerings, including DB2 Content Manager, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Business Integration and IBM’s Workplace initiatives. www.ibm.com/software/data
Hummingbird Ltd. announced it is extending Hummingbird Enterprise with several new functionality and productivity enhancements for the legal industry. Hummingbird now offers advanced information retrieval and knowledge discovery capabilities from within Microsoft Outlook; enhanced BlackBerry support for interactive access to knowledge assets; new optimizations for centralized deployments; and e-filing capabilities. With Hummingbird Enterprise, legal teams now have access to their enterprise taxonomy, and can perform federated searches across multiple content sources, including non-Hummingbird repositories such as file systems, ODBC data sources, Microsoft Exchange repositories and Web sites, directly from within the Microsoft Outlook client. The most relevant information will be displayed in an amalgamated result set and users can drag and drop any information from the KM result set directly into their DM libraries. Result List Clustering dynamically categorizes large result sets into “clusters” so related information is found together. www.hummingbird.com
CambridgeDocs announced the upcoming release of the Java Document Library, which allows cross-platform Java applications to read, access and create Microsoft Word, WordML, HTML, RTF, and PDF files. The Java Document Library software development kit is for Java server-side applications that need to import or export textual or published content. Using the publishing capabilities of the Java Document Library, applications running on Windows, Linux, and many Unix versions can read and write Word, HTML, and PDF documents. The Java Document Library can also convert existing files (WordML, Word, RTF, HTML, PDF) into XML and to XSL:FO, HTML, and into RTF. The Java Document Library is a general purpose Application Framework and Java class library for incorporating document functionality into J2EE and J2SE applications. The Java Document Library provides a consistent programming interface across different document-types. It is available for download immediately. Pricing starts at $15,000 per server. www.cambridgedocs.com
Inxight Software, Inc. announced partnerships with Factiva, Indraweb, KAPS Group, Taxonomy Warehouse and WAND to provide Inxight SmartDiscovery customers with pre-built and custom taxonomies. Inxight SmartDiscovery provides search, categorization and taxonomy management, and entity and fact extraction. Working with Inxight’s taxonomy partners, SmartDiscovery customers can integrate pre-built industry taxonomies, which are able to serve as the basis for organizing intellectual capital and creating efficiencies. For organizations that use multiple taxonomies for different functions or applications, Inxight’s partners provide the ability to customize taxonomies by analyzing the work processes and information stores of a particular company. SmartDiscovery’s taxonomy and information categorization tools enable users to manage their taxonomies over time. www.inxight.com
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