IXOS SOFTWARE AG and Open Text announced the IXOS 6 Suite, an ECM platform that will enable corporations to securely and compliantly manage, archive, and retrieve enterprise content. The IXOS 6 Suite, with its capabilities for meeting regulatory compliance, will become a key part of both companies’ ECM solution portfolios, designed to address the full spectrum of enterprise requirements, from content creation through final archival and disposition. IXOS 6 Suite delivers an integrated, modular solution set for ECM strategies based on a core repository architecture. At the core of this architecture is functionality that provides a single point of access to all structured data and unstructured data within an organization. The IXOS 6 Suite central repository system enables companies to store content, along with its metadata in one place, so enterprises can share content across applications including SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and MS Sharepoint, etc., regardless of whether the application is running on individual desktops. The IXOS 6 Suite will be generally available in May. www.ixos.com, www.opentext.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 363 of 470)
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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/
Atomz announced On-Demand Web Site Solutions for enterprise, commerce and media companies. These solutions integrate search, content management, promotions, e-marketing and reporting. Atomz Commerce guides online visitors to products they want and influences them to purchase more merchandise through cross-sell, up-sell and merchandising. Atomz Media & Entertainment enables content-focused Web sites to deliver the right content and increases Web site agility by empowering writers, editors and marketers. Atomz also announced a Site-Centered Content Management capability, which provides content contributors a content management experience that’s like navigating a Web site. Users “browse to edit” until they see the content that they want to edit or add — there is no need to login and navigate through a disconnected system — then use “one click editing” and “one click publishing”. A single click on an Instant Shortcut icon on the browser toolbar brings up interfaces for previewing, editing, viewing history, and collaborating. Content owners and colleagues can use email to communicate regarding changes to the Web site, while Atomz tracks each communication and maintains a history and audit trail. www.atomz.com
Mobius Management Systems, Inc. announced that it has supplemented support for EMC Centera on Unix and Windows NT platforms with native support for Centera from Mobius ViewDirect TCM on the z/OS platform. EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) is a software-driven architecture designed to address the storage requirements of fixed content such as documents, reports, images, audio, video and Web elements. Mobius ViewDirect TCM provides integrated access to content stored on any platform and provides a range of content-centric applications. ViewDirect TCM components include Web site, document and digital asset management; workflow and imaging; Internet presentment and payment; records management; enterprise report distribution; and regulatory compliance. Native integration with EMC Centera delivers a solution for managing high-volume content repositories. www.mobius.com, www.emc.com
FileNet Corporation unveiled a comprehensive ECM compliance management framework. Leveraging the FileNet P8 platform, FileNet’s Compliance Framework is intended to manage three elements of compliance. First, it helps companies put in place processes to react to changing regulations. Secondly, it provides organizations with the ability to manage content. Finally, the framework can connect with various legacy systems found throughout the enterprise. The FileNet Compliance Framework helps to provide consistency across the organization and better control in the management of records and business processes by tracking real-time information on who’s done what, where, and across which departments. This helps validate the process of how information was gathered for internal auditors and external regulators, and allows them to see how and why decisions were made. The FileNet Compliance Framework provides an event-driven architecture, which can identify and initiate responses to material events, such as a change in a financial report. FileNet’s Compliance Framework is scheduled for availability during the second quarter of 2004. www.filenet.com
Blast Radius and Corel announced that they have signed an agreement whereby Blast Radius will acquire all assets of Corel’s XMetaL division. The deal is expected to close within the next several days. The XMetaL XML authoring product complements Blast Radius’ existing content collaboration product offerings, also based on XML. www.blastradius.com, www.corel.com
Xyleme announced the availability of Xyleme Zone Server for eForms. Designed to easily connect and communicate with data collected from any eForms tool, Xyleme Zone Server allows for the real time integration of content generated from these applications, regardless of structure or origin. Xyleme Zone Server for eForms contains a Web Services API that provides for aggregation of eForms content, and allows an organization to use any number of different eForm configurations to meet departmental or functional needs. Zone Server for eForms includes enrichment utilities that support intelligent querying such categorization, information validation, metadata extraction and advanced XML conversion. Multiple eForm structures can be mapped to customized views of the data allowing eForm applications to manage new and evolving standards. With Xyleme, multi-sourced eForm content is already aggregated within the repository and ready to be queried via Xylemes structured query language. Entire eForm documents, relevant elements of these documents, or an aggregation of relevant elements from various eForms are ready for manipulation, syndication and distribution to other applications. www.xyleme.com
Astoria Software announced a partnership with Data Conversion Laboratory where Astoria will now resell DCL’s data conversion services. Astoria and DCL share a common vertical market focus in commercial technical documents, government, military and publishing. Customers utilize Astoria’s native XML-content repository and applications to manage the authoring-to-publishing content lifecycle for structured content, along with DCL’s data conversion services for the migration of legacy data. Astoria’s content repository and software applications provide the authoring-publishing process with granular control of content that enables reuse, revision, and repurposing of complex content. DCL’s data conversion process allows clients to integrate existing content assets into the XML content environment regardless of format. www.dclab.com, www.astoriasoftware.com
Nstein Technologies announced it has joined the Cognos Partner Program (CPP) as a Technology Partner. Cognos has created a network of companies dedicated to best practices in business intelligence and enterprise planning. By combining Nstein’s technology solutions to Cognos’ current offering, organizations will be able to explore their vast amount of unstructured data and apply transformations to their data to produce new insights. These insights can be analytical or predictive, and may support decisions as well as automation. Nstein’s technology is easy to integrate within a corporate performance management system to perceive trends and produce key business performance indicators and other management metrics. www.nstein.com, www.cognos.com
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