Northern Light announced that it has released a new version of its high performance enterprise search engine for Linux and Solaris. The new version includes: support for Linux, support for database indexes over 50 million documents, support for over 150 queries per second from a single software installation on a single server, Document Relevancy Booster for using editorially selected collections and specially weighted metadata to manage results list placement, and an integrated spell checker. “With Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine software at an entry level price of $2500, a $1000 computer, and a free operating system, an enterprise can process 14 million search queries a day.” Other features include a configurable crawler, content filters for HTML, XML, MS Office, PDF, a 17,000 node subject taxonomy encompassing all human knowledge, a classification engine trained to automatically classify arbitrary unstructured content to the taxonomy, a clustering engine for organizing results from queries on the fly into subject categories, and sample user interfaces in PHP and JSP. The Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine for Linux can be downloaded for a 30-day free trial. www.northernlight.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 351 of 479)
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/
Captovation announced direct integration support between their eCapture software, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. With eCapture’s integration, SharePoint users can scan and index paper documents directly into a SharePoint repository. The integration is facilitated through an eCapture Data Provider (EDP) which transfers document images from eCapture and places them into a SharePoint repository. The eCapture component’s ecIndex, ecAutoFile Server, ecCommit Server, ecImport Server, ecNet Server and Captovation Check Capture are all capable of performing a document commit (archive) into SharePoint. Captovation’s direct integration support for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 utilizes Web Services to link eCapture users with a SharePoint Portal Server system. XML is used to structure the data between an eCapture system and SharePoint. The integration includes a SharePoint Template Manager, which allows an administrator to define field mappings between eCapture and SharePoint. On a per template basis, an administrator specifies the URL of a SharePoint Portal Server. After connecting, the SharePoint Template Manager retrieves all available user lists and respective field names. The administrator then correlates field names in SharePoint with available fields in eCapture. Upon commit, the images are converted to either Multiple Page TIFFs or PDFs. www.captovation.com
SAP AG and Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the joint delivery of Interactive Forms based on Adobe software as part of the SAP NetWeaver open integration and application platform. The solution is available today with mySAP Business Suite. The offering is aimed at automating and streamlining paper-based communications that companies rely on to increase business agility. Both will sell, support and provide implementation services for the delivery of Interactive Forms in mySAP Business Suite. With the availability of Interactive Forms, SAP customers will be able to further enhance data capture and streamline the dissemination of business-critical form processes. Whether government to citizen, business to business, or business to consumer, SAP customers can reach a much broader set of users inside and outside the firewall using Interactive Forms. www.adobe.com, www.sap.com
Centra Software, Inc. announced a series of enhancements to its core software platform, Centra 7. Centra 7 version 7.1 features greater integration for contextual collaboration with Microsoft Office, provides integration with Public Switched Telephone Networks (PSTN), streamlined pre- and post-meeting attendance and management capabilities, enhanced Knowledge Center reporting, increased enterprise-class administration features and enhanced branding capabilities. Created to support Centra’s four solution sets, Enterprise Application Rollouts, Sales Effectiveness, Collaborative Learning and Customer Acquisition, Centra 7 version 7.1 lets users monitor the progress of application training programs, facilitates project team meetings and provides a way for sales people to conduct customer meetings and online demonstrations. High-touch events like Centra-powered online Web seminars are now easier to setup, attend and record. Centra 7 version 7.1 makes it easier for learners to build their own blended learning programs. www.centra.com
SchemaLogic and Meta Integration Technology announced they have formed a technology alliance where SchemaLogic customers will be able to utilize over 50 additional adaptors to create a shared, cross-system, “active” metadata repository. Meta Integration Model Bridge connects to databases or information models from IBM, Oracle, Sybase, SAS, Business Objects, IBM Rational, Computer Associates, OMG and W3C. SchemaLogic provides a framework for shared metadata based on an active repository, a unified information model, collaborative change management with impact analysis, notification and approval, plus the synchronization of approved changes to subscribing systems using XML, SOAP and Web Services. This provides a holistic view of information assets including content, data and XML: who is responsible for each asset, how they’re organized (structure and semantics) and the relationships among them. Information architects, database analysts, content system managers and developers can see and control metadata definitions, taxonomies, hierarchical lists and vocabularies in one repository, available throughout the enterprise. www.metaintegration.com, www.schemalogic.com
Ricoh Corporation introduced GlobalScan frameworks for Documentum and Interwoven Worksite for use with existing Ricoh Aficio Multifunctional Products (MFPs). Using Ricoh’s Aficio MFP combined with GlobalScan Sever software and the framework to Documentum, paper-based documents can be scanned for delivery to the Documentum doc-base. By combining Ricoh MFPs, GlobalScan and the Interwoven WorkSite frameworks, users can convert paper documents into a variety of file formats including PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint. They can then distribute electronic files directly to worksite databases with a single scan. www.ricoh.com
Arbortext, Inc. announced it is shipping Arbortext 5.0, its latest product release that expands the publishing software suite’s functionality and ease of use. Arbortext 5.0 features four major new products and many enhancements, including: Styler, a new development tool that allows designers to create stylesheets to drive automated publishing from a “single source of style” to print, PDF, Web, HTML Help, and wireless devices; Contributor, a Web-based XML editor that runs in a browser and requires no desktop installation. Contributor provides simplified XML editing; Companion, an add-in for Microsoft Word 2003, Companion simplifies the development of XML authoring applications for Word; and DCAM, an optional component of Arbortext’s E3 publishing server that lets authors create and manage the hundreds or thousands of inter-document and intra-document links that typically exist in a large collection of information, and it supports the publishing of dynamic documents that contain links. www.arbortext.com
IBM has entered into a strategic portal partnership with Danish CMS vendor, Synkron A/S. By integrating the Synkron.web CMS into IBM’s WebSphere technology, enterprise customers can now get content management coupled with portal functionality. www.synkronweb.co.uk
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