The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced the faculty for the Gilbane Conference on Content Management to be held at the Westin Copley in Boston, November 30 December 2, 2004. The conference program is entirely focused on content technologies, and includes 27 educational sessions covering today’s most critical issues for businesses planning or implementing a content management strategy. The program is organized into 6 tracks: Content Management, Enterprise Search & Knowledge Management and Collaboration; Document & Records Management; Enterprise Information Integration; Digital Asset Management; and Content Technology Works Best Practices and Case Studies. In addition, there are 3 half-day intensive workshops on: “Web Content Management Systems: Principles, Products & Practices”, “Content Technology Choices for Technical Communicators”, and “Enterprise Search – Principles, Players, Practices, & Pitfalls”. The conference faculty consists of 65+ speakers carefully chosen for their expertise and communication capability, and is comprised of analysts, consultants, and practitioners from many vertical industries who have successfully implemented content technology applications. Analysts and consultants from Robert W. Baird & Co., IDC, InfoWorld, Ovum, Delphi, Yankee Group, InfoTrends/CAP Ventures, CMSWatch, the Gilbane Report, and many others, will provide insight on technology and market trends and tell you how to get started on a successful project. Well-known authors and practicing consultants, including Bob Boiko, (“The Content Management Bible”), Ann Rockley (“Managing Enterprise Content: A unified Content Strategy”), Bill Trippe (“Digital Rights Management: Business and Technology”), Lynda Moulton (“Data Bases for Special Libraries: A Strategic Guide to Information Management”) and many others will be on hand to share their expertise with attendees. IT and business executives from WGBH, Hewlett Packard, BBC, University of Buffalo, Lexis/Nexis, Sesame Workshop, IDX Systems, Analog Devices, CMP Media, J. & W. Seligman, Grand Circle Travel, RC Hagen, and others will share their experiences in successfully deploying content technology in their enterprises. Sponsors of the Gilbane Content Management conference in Boston include EMC Documentum (NYSE:EMC), GMC Software, Interwoven (NASDAQ:IWOV), Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX), and Stellent (NASDAQ:STEL). The conference program and faculty listing is available.
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 333 of 485)
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/
CrownPeak Technology rolled out a new program offering state, county and local government entities up to a 33 percent discount on its Advantage CMS content management software – and announced it is offering additional bundled services to all government agencies, designed to meet their unique accessibility and design compliance needs. CrownPeak has developed specific bundled services to ensure compliance with accessibility, design and archival standards. CrownPeak can guarantee consistent compliance with Section 508 of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which requires Web sites to be accessible to blind and low-vision visitors. A template system enforces design and navigational standards throughout all Web pages. The company’s versioning and content monitoring tools enable government organizations to come instantly into compliance with data archive regulations, as they are established and modified. CrownPeak’s special pricing extends to billing terms for government agencies, under which the company will agree to amortize upfront service fees over the first year or even 18 months of a contract. CrownPeak is certified for purchase through GSA and many state purchasing mechanisms. www.crownpeak.com
Davisor, a developer of Java-based data visualization, conversion and presentation tools, has introduced two new Java- and XML-based products, which enable companies to convert legacy documents from different sources into XML, and to publish fully personalized materials by merging dynamic information into these legacy documents. The new Offisor Transformations allows companies to convert their legacy documents into several different output formats. Offisor Transformations converts Offisor XML outputs into HTML, XHTML, XSL-FO (PDF), RTF and DocBook. With Offisor Transformations companies can now produce different types of demanding outputs from their legacy data. Offisor Transformations is used together with Offisor, which converts legacy documents fully into XML. Davisor has released Offisor 3.0, which now converts also PowerPoint documents into XML, in addition to Word and HTML documents and images contained in them. With Offisor 3.0, companies can fully access their document archives containing valuable data in different formats, and search for the information they need. Offisor Transformations can then be used to publish the documents both on- and off-line and in print. Davisor Offisor and Transformations can be used to create e.g. personalized marketing materials, offers, order confirmations, invoices etc. from Word templates and dynamic data coming from different sources. Offisor can be either embedded into any pure Java application or used independently with command line applications. Davisor Offisor 3.0 and Offisor Transformations are available today. www.davisor.com
Kanisa Inc. and Knowlysis announced a strategic partnership. The alliance enables Kanisa’s customers to leverage Knowlysis’ years of knowledge management, data analysis, content conversion and Web publishing experience to improve customer service. In addition to standard Kanisa implementation services, Knowlysis will provide Kanisa’s rapidly growing customer base with highly specialized knowledge management consulting, including Best Practices for Legacy Content, Optimization of Knowledge Ontologies, and Automated Content Feeds. www.kanisa.com
Venetica announced general availability of its Content Bridge for Hummingbird Enterprise DM. This announcement is part of an on-going sales and marketing partnership with Hummingbird Ltd. The Content Bridge for Hummingbird DM enables users to perform federated searches across DM and other repositories, copy content from other systems into Hummingbird and access content from other systems as part of a Hummingbird business process. Venetica’s integration will also enable users to access Hummingbird content from enterprise business solutions, such as Siebel, and enterprise portals, including BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and Oracle. VeniceBridge enterprise content integration capabilities can also be integrated into Hummingbird Enterprise RM to apply enterprise-wide records management for distributed content. www.hummingbird.com, www.venetica.com
RedDot Solutions announced the release of RedDot Live Server. The latest extension of RedDot’s enterprise content management solution, RedDot Live Server gives businesses the ability to securely deliver targeted online content to customers, partners and employees without affecting other critical systems. The modules available with RedDot Live Server include RedDot Live Server Personalization Manager, RedDot Live Server Application Portal, RedDot Live Server Application Framework, RedDot Live Server Web Service Connector, RedDot Live Server Open API, RedDot Live Server Search Engine, and RedDot Live Server Portal Integration. www.reddot.com
Top Image Systems Ltd and Xtramind Technologies GmbH announced a new OEM partnership agreement. Through Top Image Systems’ (TiS) solution, all documents entering a client’s organization are captured, processed, and delivered. The integration of Xtramind’s content classification component into TiS’ eFLOW platform allows for automatic routing, classifying and archiving of documents according to user-defined categories. Utilizing Xtramind’s modern language technology and artificial intelligence, eFLOW now offers precision in content analysis. The completed, integrated self-learning system can adapt to new document types, topics, and subject areas. All documents can be automatically distributed to the respective department or contact person within the organization at any stage of the process. The data extracted from the documents is delivered into ERP, CRM, or other enterprise application systems. www.topimagesystems.com, www.xtramind.com
Verity Inc. announced the availability of Verity Ultraseek release 5.3. This latest release incorporates: Page Expert to recognize patterns in HTML pages, so that the spider indexes only the relevant content, and skips over navigation, menus, advertisements and common template-generated text; Relevance Tuning and Editorial Control Options to fine-tune search results to match information structure of the documents and end-user needs; Multi-Spider to allow the spidering technology to make multiple simultaneous HTTP requests to a single host, enabling users to get access to new and updated content quickly; Weblog Update to ensure that new entries are searchable by accepting notification whenever new content is published to selected blogs; Enhanced Secure Search to ensure only those documents that a user is authorized to view will appear in the results lists; and Expanded Platform Support to include Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and SUSE Linux 8.0. www.verity.com/ultraseek
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