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
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 332 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/
GlobalSCAPE announced the release of CuteFTP Server, a software application that allows individuals to host their own FTP servers from home. A free 30-day trial of CuteFTP Server is available immediately and it has a standard list price of $49.99 per single-user license. The professional version, SecureFTP Server, is available for businesses and has a standard list price of $349 per single-user license. www.globalscape.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
Interwoven, Inc., Kofax, and BCS Systems announced the companies have teamed to offer an enterprise information capture and collaborative document management solution. BCS Advanced Capture integrates Kofax Ascent Capture, Interwoven’s content management capabilities, and any enterprise business application to maximize access to important documents within the business context. It also provides visibility of information subject to regulatory compliance initiatives. With BCS Advanced Capture, Interwoven users are provided with the ability to capture documents and contextual metadata, apply web navigation elements and place the documents in the ECM repository. Advanced Capture also works with many multi function centers to provide distributed transaction capture across the enterprise. Upon arrival to the Interwoven repository, documents can be assigned to pre-defined workflows and routed to appropriate business processes. Ascent is a modular application that can be used right out-of-the-box to meet the needs of a specific department, or expanded to meet the complex needs of a high-volume enterprise. Ascent can extend the basic application to handle complex forms processing tasks, as well as information capture directly from remote offices. HostConnect integrates ERP, CRM, line of business and mainframe applications with Interwoven WorkSite MP. Additionally, Object Bundler provides clients with a regulatory compliance application that can provide a virtual electronic snapshot of business documents. www.kofax.com, www.bcssys.com, www.interwoven.com
Surety, LLC announced a partnership with Documentum that will enable companies to protect their intellectual property, defend evidence in court and comply with regulatory mandates by validating their electronic records. The combined solution will enable customers, third-party auditors and government regulators to prove the date and time and content integrity of any object created in the Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform independent of an organization’s internal system controls. As part of the partnership, Surety will build an integration of its AbsoluteProof data integrity solution with the Documentum ECM platform, and will make the combined solution available to companies in the pharmaceutical, legal, and government markets. www.documentum.com, www.surety.com
Microsoft Corporation announced the availability of telerik r.a.d.editor for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 (MCMS). The product represents a specially modified edition of telerik’s content editor for ASP.NET, which can replace the default HTML Placeholder in MCMS. Featuring a Word-like interface, r.a.d.editor MCMS edition enables non-technical users to author and manage HTML-based content easily. Developers can seamlessly deploy the product in Content Management Server 2002 using the supplied r.a.d.editor Placeholder control, and can configure it in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. r.a.d.editor tightly integrates with MCMS and follows its security model. The editor allows users to insert and store images, media, and document files in the Resource Gallery, as well as insert hyperlinks to other Postings/Channels by simply selecting them from a treeview. r.a.d.editor can be localized and includes a multilingual spellchecker with support for Microsoft Word dictionaries. Other features include: full table editing, format stripper, thumbnail generator, skinnable toolbar and dialogs, XHTML output, etc. telerik r.a.d.editor MCMS edition is available at no cost to all customers of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. http://www.telerik.com/mcms
SSA Global announced it is enhancing its position in the product lifecycle management (PLM) market with Enterprise Content Management in their SSA PLM Suite for Discrete and Process Manufacturers. SSA Enterprise Content Management shares, manages and consolidates product data from different enterprise departments and extends the information to all organization levels. Organization members from separate departments can leverage enterprise content and engineering information and incorporate it in their business processes allowing seamless information flow. SSA Enterprise Content Management supports a manufacturer’s PLM strategy to align inter-department communication with role-driven data access and visualization. The application functions as a product data navigator within an enterprise, working with various systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Product Data Management (PDM) to manage and share product-related information across departments. It also allows various users controlled access to engineering data, such as product structures, drawings, and design files. www.ssaglobal.com
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