RenderX, Inc. and Rascal Software announced a strategic alliance where Rascal will be extending the functionality of their products to include high-quality print and PDF output using the RenderX XEP Rendering Engine. Rascal Software has embedded RenderX’s XEP product into Veredus, Rascal’s XML-based single-source authoring solution. Veredus, designed for documentation professionals, is an authoring tool for creating complete documentation projects. Veredus customers will be able to create PDF and print output through the embedded XEP software. XEP converts XML documents into a printable form (PDF or PostScript) by applying XSL Formatting Objects styling. XEP is written in Java and supports programming interfaces for XML processing, allowing it to be integrated into such applications as Veredus. www.rascalsoftware.com, www.renderx.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 355 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/
Vignette Corp. announced the general availability of Vignette Application Portal 7.0, with added capabilities including increased internationalization support, support for users with disabilities and broad platform support. Vignette Application Portal 7.0 is immediately available for trial evaluation purposes at no charge. In addition, Vignette offers plug-ins for Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), which give software developers a way to develop JSR 168 portlets within their IDE of choice and deploy them within Vignette Application Portal. Vignette Application Portal 7.0 has been certified by Vignette on the Sun Microsystem Test and Compatibility Kit (TCK) for compliance with the recently adopted JSR 168 portlet interoperability standard, and customers can leverage existing portlets designed for other vendors’ JSR 168-compliant portals. In addition, Vignette Application Portal now provides support for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 508. Vignette Application Portal 7.0, which has been verified for compliance using the federal government’s Voluntary Product Assessment Test (VPAT), allows disabled administrators to easily manage portal sites. Licensing costs begin at $75,000. www.vignette.com
Crown Partners announced the release of the latest suite of software products that are built for supporting large enterprise users of Documentum’s WCM Edition. The new Buldoser release offers clients a method to move content from other systems to Documentum or between Documentum Docbases. The “Web in the Box” is a product and Professional Services solution which provides for a bundle of enhancements for WCM, such as Site Identifier, Dynamic Content Factory, and WCM Wizard. www.crownpartners.com
Cardiff Software Ltd. announced that Dreamsoft, a French-based consulting and integration service company, and Realise, a Scottish e-business solutions company, have become certified channel partners for Cardiff LiquidOffice. Additionally, Realise will act as a certified channel partner for Cardiff LiquidCapture. Dreamsoft integrates workflow and portal products into organisations across a range of vertical markets. Cardiff’s suite of business process automation solutions will complement Realise’s existing content management, document management and portal product portfolio which includes Interwoven, RedDot, Plumtree and Vignette technologies. Cardiff’s capture and eForm solutions support all types of forms, including PDF, HTML and InfoPath. www.cardiff.com
Open Text Corporation announced enterprise-wide instant messaging (IM) for Livelink. The solution, called Livelink Instant Messenger, offers the ability to retain and track IM content, providing a record of electronic communication for legal and regulatory requirements. Once retained, IM content becomes fully indexed and auditable, so users can search in Livelink to retrieve specific information. This capability gives companies a way to capture useful content in IM and make it searchable as part of a company’s corporate knowledge repository. Livelink Instant Messenger also offers improved security over IM solutions used by consumers. Embedded in Open Text’s Livelink suite, Livelink Instant Messenger is deployed inside the firewall, and utilizes SSL to encrypt information both inside and outside the firewall. Livelink Instant Messenger will be available March 15 and works with Livelink 9.1.0 SP4 and 9.2 SP1 on all supported platforms. www.opentext.com/livelink
Datawatch Corporation released VorteXML Designer V3, with W3C XML schema support and other features that make it easier to convert data into valid XML for Web Services, content management, online bill presentment, application integration, and many other applications that require XML. VorteXML Designer allows users to visually extract, map and transform data from structured text output (including invoices, purchase orders, reports, log files and HTML documents) into valid XML, without programming. The desktop application extracts and interprets a variety of string, numeric and datetime formats from text data, and enables transformation and derivation of that data. VorteXML Designer is part of a solution suite that also includes VorteXML Server, a product that automates the extraction and conversion of text documents into XML. Pricing starts at $599 for a single user license of VorteXML Designer. VorteXML Server starts at $7,999 per server. VorteXML Designer V3 system requirements are Windows 98, ME, 2000, NT 4.0+ or XP, Internet Explorer 5.5 with SP2+, and MSXML 4.0. A free evaluation copy of VorteXML Designer V3 can be downloaded. www.datawatch.com
IBM announced it has agreed to acquire all the shares of Trigo Technologies, Inc., a provider of product information management middleware. Financial details were not disclosed. Trigo’s product information management middleware enables companies to integrate and centrally manage comprehensive product information that is typically scattered across an enterprise and a supply chain. Trigo’s middleware also links product-related information with terms of trade such as pricing and then synchronizes this information internally with existing enterprise systems and externally with business partners. The acquisition of Trigo’s technology will extend IBM’s portfolio of integration middleware as part of the WebSphere brand of products. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including government regulatory approval. The two companies expect to close the deal in the second quarter of 2004. www.software.ibm.com, www.trigo.com
Industrial Medium unveiled Version 2.7 of its Expressroom content management system, the first major upgrade to the software since it was acquired from Borland Software last year. Version 2.7 includes major enhancements to the core product, including new automation tools, an embedded search engine for searches both within Expressroom and on the resulting Web site, lower resource utilization for higher performance, and significant improvements to all major software modules. An optional module, the Expressroom Document Assistant, allows content authors and other contributors to create and edit documents in Microsoft Office programs and transform them into Web content designed specifically for their sites. The module automatically handles the reformatting and conversion tasks for a range of text, image, presentation and other file formats. Expressroom was originally developed in 1997 by Worldweb.net, based in Alexandria, VA. Worldweb, along with Expressroom, was acquired in 2001 by Starbase Corp. Two years later, in January, 2003, Starbase was in turn bought by Borland Software. Last May, Industrial Medium finalized an agreement with Borland to acquire the Expressroom product line. Expressroom 2.7 is available for immediate deployment. www.industrialmedium.com
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