Stellent, Inc. announced it has acquired Content Management de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., a content management solutions provider who has offered sales, support and training services for Stellent products across Mexico and Central America since 2001. Stellent purchased the company for $750,000 in cash and certain contingent considerations based on revenues generated in Mexico over a two-year period. www.stellent.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 329 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/
Open Text Corporation announced an alliance with Siemens Business Services, a subsidiary of Siemens AG. Siemens will combine its range of IT services, including consulting, systems integration and IT systems management, with Open Text’s Livelink Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software. As part of the partnership, Open Text becomes a Siemens premier partner, providing its full range of Livelink-based solutions. Siemens Business Services becomes a Premier Business Alliance Partner of Open Text, with the ability to deliver management consulting, system implementation, software customization and project-based reselling for Open Text solutions. The agreement also allows all affiliates of Siemens Business Services worldwide to participate in the contract. www.siemens.com/sbs, www.opentext.com
Captaris, Inc. announced the launch of Interchange, a solution to combine content integration with information delivery. Captaris Interchange, built on Microsoft .NET architecture, provides integration with enterprise business applications through a rules-based workflow engine that provides information processing and formatting and allows multiple concurrent delivery options including fax, email, HTML, XML and SMS. Interchange will initially be available in North America through select distribution channels in Q3 2004. www.captaris.com
Language Weaver, Inc. announced general availability of its application software upgraded to version 2.2. New or improved features include: A friendlier, easier-to-read and more informative web client for the client-server application; Translation job queuing when using the web client for the client-server application; Optional web client user authentication; Multithreading, which enables users to process translations up to 20 percent faster on a dual-CPU system; Transliteration control for applicable language pairs, which allows users to independently toggle display of unknown words and transliteration of unknown words; and Browser support for Netscape 7.1 and higher, in addition to Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and above. Language Weaver has upgraded all language pairs to be compatible with the new application software. Those customers upgrading from a previous version will need to replace their language pair CDs, which are available from Language Weaver at no additional charge. Language Weaver has also adopted a new numbering scheme to make it easier for customers to identify the compatibility of application versions with the language pair software they use as they move forward. www.languageweaver.com
Conviveon Corp. announced Version 6.0 of SiteConnect Server. The new version incorporates built-in shopping cart functionality with customizable fulfillment workflow capabilities. SiteConnect’s new shopping cart functionality is integrated with its content management, collaboration, and e-marketing functionality. SiteConnect Server 6.0 now allows the creation of enhanced RFQ functionality and more traditional e-commerce solutions. Version 6.0 also includes a new XML based interface for providing dynamic content on existing web sites using existing technology, including Microsoft .Net, PHP, Cold Fusion, and Active Server Pages. Also included are new features for ranking search results by relevancy and the ability to index documents attached to a content record. Additional enhancements to SiteConnect Server include upgraded multi-lingual content management and development capabilities, and expanded options for content organization. The new version of Conviveon SiteConnect Server is available now. www.conviveon.com
Extreme is a technical conference devoted to markup, markup languages, markup systems, markup applications, and software for manipulating and exploiting markup. Papers at Extreme this year discuss: Topic Maps; Overlap; Querying XML; RDF; XSLT; quality assurance, error correction, and error prevention in XML documents; Ontologies; XML software; and case studies from government, industry, and academia. Gilbane Report Subscribers get $100. discount! Enter “Gilbane” in the “Coupon Code” box on the registration form. , www.extrememarkup.com
Join the Gilbane Report’s Mary Laplante and Tina Steil of Meredith Corporation at a Gilbane Content Technology Works webinar to learn how Meredith’s Creative Library enables the company to increase revenues and decrease costs. The Creative Library is an enterprise digital asset management solution that serves as a resource for Meredith’s many publishing and marketing businesses. The seminar will be held Thursday, July 29 at 3:00 PM EDT and is hosted by Artesia Technologies. Click here for more information and to register., www.artesia.com/webseminar/gilbane_form.html
RenderX, Inc. announced the availability of XEP.NET — an XSL formatter component for the .NET environment. XEP.NET employs XML-based processing to convert user documents into high quality typeset publications, including PDF and PostScript formats, for high volume printing and electronic distribution. Created for networked deployment and distributed processing, XEP.NET is based on the same core software as RenderX’s Java version — XEP. In the future, RenderX will maintain both applications with identical functionality; any enhancements to features will be released in both the Java and .NET products at the same time. With this release, RenderX updated both XEP and XEP.NET with new features including support for kerning both XSL FO text and SVG text, page master selection which fully conforms to the XSL specification, improved treatment of overflow conditions, new extension elements, SVG color naming capability, and support for markers in SVG. www.renderx.com
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