Day Software announced the general availability of latest version Communique. Communique 3.5.4 is a content management solution that offers an integrated platform facilitating all aspects of the content life cycle for global enterprise customers. Communique 3.5.4 includes a wide variety of functionality to manage portals and business processes adding to the products content management, document management and digital asset management capabilities. Day enables global enterprises to build all their content-centric applications around the concept of their ContentBus architecture and a virtual repository. www.day.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 363 of 482)
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/
INSCI Corp. and Venetica announced a sales and marketing partnership. INSCI will sell and implement Venetica’s enterprise content integration software to deliver business solutions that can access and work with all structured and unstructured content across the enterprise. Through Venetica software, INSCI clients can integrate content from third-party content management systems into their INSCI business solutions. This ECI framework unites INSCI’s technology for managing rich media, document images, reports, statements, video, and graphics with content from multiple, disparate repositories such as those from FileNet, Documentum, IBM, Lotus, Microsoft and Open Text. www.insci.com, www.venetica.com
Stellent, Inc.’s announced that IPRO Tech, Inc., a developer of software solutions for litigation support that captures, indexes and analyzes litigation data, has embedded Stellent Outside In Image Export 7.7 and XML Export 2.3 for use in its IPRO ImageServer and IPROView products. The Stellent Outside In XML Export technology will enable users of IPRO ImageServer to create a searchable index for hundreds of file types, delivering accurate and effective retrieval of information. Outside In Image Export will expand IPROView’s existing viewing capability by providing the ability to convert to TIFF, JPG, PNG or GIF from more than 250 proprietary file formats, including word processing documents and spreadsheets. www.stellent.com
AssetLink Corporation announced the debut of AssetLink OnDemand, an enterprise digital asset management, collaboration and workflow automation solution. Companies seeking the benefits of DAM to work with sales and customer support teams, external partners and customers, can do so at a cost of $25 per user per month. An Internet-based DAM subscription service, OnDemand allows businesses to enjoy the benefits of DAM, such as storing, managing and retrieving valuable digital assets — from text and video to graphics and page layouts and related technologies — on a per-user basis. No investment is required for software, hardware or infrastructure, and there is no long-term commitment. Setup and implementation takes less than 24 hours to bring a company and its users on line. OnDemand’s Standard $25 per user implementation gives a company 24-hour/seven-day access to AssetLink’s application framework server, digital asset management application and basic marketing portal. www.assetlink.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced an agreement with DoubleClick Inc. to offer a comprehensive Marketing Content Management (MCM) solution. Interwoven will offer SmartPath 5.0 to extend its Marketing Content Management capabilities. SmartPath is an MRM (Marketing Relationship Management) software application that enables marketers to manage marketing initiatives across the entire marketing supply chain optimizing core functions, including information management, production, operations, and team communication. Integrating Interwoven’s MediaBin Asset Server 4.0 software with the SmartPath solution provides marketing organizations with the ability to accelerate time-to-market for product introductions and promotions. DoubleClick recently acquired SmartPath, which provides marketing resource management solutions to companies whose marketing operations are critical to their business. www.interwoven.com
Chuckwalla, Inc. announced the availability of Chuckwalla v5, the newest version of the company’s suite of products for managing rich media content. The cornerstone of Chuckwalla v5 is a Chuckwalla SDK for Microsoft .NET, the component which enables companies to gain access to their rich media content as a set of web services. This dynamically connects rich content within a web-based environment. Another feature of Chuckwalla v5 is its compatibility with Quark Xpress files. Chuckwalla v5 enables granular access to manage the relationships of the elements contained in Quark files. In addition, print designers can now drag- and-drop images stored in Chuckwalla directly into Quark Xpress layouts. Chuckwalla v5 is available immediately with native client support on Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP and Mac OS X & OS 9.2. www.chuckwalla.com
Microsoft announced the general availability of the new Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Sarbanes-Oxley, which is designed to help partners build solutions based on the Microsoft Office System. Companies using an Office-based solution can document and review their internal financial controls and use the Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Sarbanes-Oxley to help meet other compliance requirements mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Available to Microsoft Office System customers at no charge, the new tool is third in a series of accelerators aimed at helping companies handle business issues. Built on Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003, the Office Solution Accelerator for Sarbanes-Oxley is one of the first deliverables under a larger compliance initiative from Microsoft. Other current and future offerings will provide customers with solutions useful in other compliance initiatives, such as document and e-mail retention. www.microsoft.com
Extensis, Inc. announced the upcoming release of Portfolio 7 Server, a digital asset management (DAM) solution that enables workgroups to organize, retrieve, repurpose, and distribute digital files. Workgroups can build sites that include built-in file searching, collection baskets, low-resolution previews and batch-download capabilities. Advanced users can access and edit the underlying NetPublish templates to create fully customized websites. Portfolio Server offers optimized connection modules for Microsoft SQL Server available now, and Oracle and MySQL engines available in July 2004. Portfolio also supports the ability to read information stored using metadata storage conventions such as IPTC, EXIF, and Adobe’s RDF-based XMP metadata standard. Portfolio can also embed IPTC and XMP metadata directly back into JPEG, TIFF, and Adobe Photoshop PSD files. Portfolio 7 Server for Windows will be available in April followed by a Mac version in May. Portfolio Server’s estimated street price is $3,499.95USD. NetPublish Server licenses can be purchased for an estimated street price of $1999.95USD. SQL Connect for MSDE is available for $4,499.95. SQL Connect for Oracle 8i/9i/10 is available for $7,499.95. SQL Connect for MS-SQL is available for $7,499.95. SQL Connect for Oracle and MySQL will be shipping in July 2004. http://www.extensis.com
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