Mobius Management Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired technology and certain other assets of privately-held eManage Inc. of Ottawa, Ontario. eManage develops software solutions for e-mail archiving, records management and lifecycle management that enable organizations to manage corporate records at an enterprise level. The eManage software suite includes a records management facility for Microsoft’s SharePoint Portal Server. eManage technology will be integrated with the Mobius ViewDirect TCM suite to deliver a comprehensive enterprise content management solution that also meets e-mail and records management requirements. eManage software dovetails with the ViewDirect TCM suite, providing the ability to capture and archive, as indexed records, all e-mail messages entering and leaving the organization, as well as messages between users on an individual server and across multiple e-mail servers. The software provides built-in records management features such as automated destruction schedules; flexible rules that are easily administered and easily changed as regulatory rules are modified; and retrieval based on categorization and/or full-text search of archived e-mails and attachments. www.mobius.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 344 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/
Stellent, Inc. announced the release of Version 7 of the Stellent Content Integration Suite. With Version 7, developers can now embed Content Integration Suite directly into Java applications in order to provide integration with Stellent Universal Content Management. In either environment, the suite provides applications with real-time access to content and content management features. Stellent Content Integration Suite uses a Java Connector Architecture and Java Message Service functionality when run in a J2EE environment. This approach enables developers using J2EE-compliant systems to integrate Stellent Universal Content Management with enterprise applications ERP and customer CRM systems. In this environment, Stellent Content Integration Suite offers instant access to content and leverages application server benefits, such as asynchronous messaging, connection pooling and clustering. Stellent Content Integration Suite is priced at $30,000 USD. Stellent also announced Content Portlet Suite, which works in conjunction with version 7 of Stellent’s Content Integration Suite. Content Portlet Suite is available today and priced at $5,000 per platform. www.stellent.com
Venetica Partners with IBM to Deliver Integration Solution for Structured & Unstructured Information
Venetica announced a marketing and technology partnership with IBM that enables customers to access and work with a broad range of structured and unstructured information through a single SQL-based query. Under the partnership, customers will be able to extend the reach of business applications that utilize IBM DB2 Information Integrator to leverage content from more than 20 common content repositories supported by VeniceBridge, Venetica’s ECI platform. The combination of Venetica and IBM technology allows customers to access and work with all enterprise information, spanning customer information, financials, transactions and other structured data typically stored in databases, as well as documents, images, reports, email, rich media and other unstructured information typically stored in content management systems. The VeniceBridge Wrapper for IBM DB2 Information Integrator enables structured access, via SQL, to VeniceBridge unstructured content sources through DB2 Information Integrator. The VeniceBridge Wrapper for IBM DB2 Information Integrator is available immediately from Venetica. www.venetica.com
Workshare announced the availability of Workshare 3, version 3.5. This major new release allows Microsoft Word authors to interactively view and incorporate changes from many people, audit those changes in various built-in reports, prevent document corruption and integrate with major document management systems — all without requiring document reviewers to have Workshare 3. New features include: metatadata security, easy email retrieval, reporting of all proposed changes made to a document, easily-configurable distribution lists for sensitive business documents, and architectural enhancements for Document Management Systems. www.workshare.com
Arkivio, Inc. announced it has completed integration with EMC Centera content address storage (CAS) and is introducing an advanced solution for managing file-based, fixed content and regulated data over its lifecycle. The ARKIVIO auto-stor software, now integrated with the EMC Centera API, offers data and storage discovery, classification, and management all in one ILM solution for regulatory compliance. IT Administrators are able to identify and report on regulated files across EMC storage platforms, heterogeneous file systems, and DAS, NAS, and SAN volumes. Additionally, the ARKIVIO software organizes and classifies data according to its business value and then automates archival and migration to the EMC Centera based on administrator-defined retention policies without requiring deployment of agents on application servers or storage devices. www.emc.com, www.arkivio.com
Open Text Corporation said it is launching a broad Web Content Management offering, along with IXOS Software and Gauss Interprise, to give customers a single platform to manage corporate websites, intranets and extranets. The solution, set for release in May, is integrated with Livelink, so customers can include Web content in their complete Enterprise Content Management (ECM) strategy. The Livelink Web Content Management Server solution combines Web Content Management products from IXOS and Gauss to provide a range of features, from out-of-the-box Web publishing to Java-based solutions customers can deploy for more sophisticated Web development requirements. Integration with Livelink brings Web Content Management together with team collaboration, document management, records management, process workflows and other ECM capabilities. Livelink Web Content Management Server can scale globally with or without an application server, and also offers tight integration with application servers, such as IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and Oracle 9i. Open Text, IXOS and Gauss will also continue to support Web Content Management solutions offered to customers today, including Gauss VIP ContentManager, IXOS Suite for Content Management (formerly IXOS-Obtree C4), and Livelink for Web Publishing. www.opentext.com
XAware, Inc. announced XA-Xchange Hubs, a family of text integration engines available as packaged solutions for EDI, healthcare, financial services, and government markets. XA-Xchange Hubs feature a dynamic J2EE text transformation engine for integration of structured, semi-structured and unstructured text. XA-Xchange Hubs offer a Java integrated text processor that runs entirely within application servers such as IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, Oracle 9iAS, SunONE and JBoss. The XA-Xchange text engine transforms structured text with delimiters such as comma, tab and space; tagged-values; fixed-field; and application formats such as Microsoft Excel. XA-Xchange also transforms semi-structured text formats including EDI, HL7, X12, FpML, FIX, and SWIFT, as well as unstructured text such as HTML, ASCII, text documents and reports. XA-Xchange Hubs are packaged as a solution with software licenses, XA-Designer, XA-iServer, XA-Active Exchange definitions and professional services. XA-Xchange Hubs are available today. The average customer deployment is priced at approximately $75,000. Xchange Hub technology is also available as embeddable components to content management, portal, reporting, application server and other software vendors. www.xaware.com
Easypress Technologies announced the availability of its first update to Atomik Xport Personal Edition. Version 1.1 includes features aimed at further improving the quality and speed of XML export from QuarkXPress. By looking for consecutive tab characters in lines of text, version 1.1 identifies tabular content that has been constructed in text boxes within QuarkXPress. It can then export this content into XML using any of three table definitions including HTML, Atomik Xport, or CALS. Users can now specify how they would like QuarkXPress whitespace to be handled by Atomik Xport PE. The content grouping options in Atomik Xport PE 1.1 have been enhanced to enable content to be grouped together in the XML export more easily. A fully functional demonstration version is available for both Mac and Windows versions of QuarkXPress 4.1 and 5.01. A QuarkXPress 6.1 version is planned for Q2 2004. The suggested retail pricing for a single-user licence is Pound 695, $995 or Euro 995 depending on the country of purchase. Further pricing for 5, 10, 50 and 100-user licence packs is available upon request. www.easypress.com
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