Category: Content management & strategy (Page 369 of 470)

GlobalSCAPE announced the availability of its PureCMS hosted content management service. PureCMS now enables organizations to share responsibility for Web site content among non-technical team members, without the need to install and manage a software application internally. The service enables an administrator to manage multiple Web sites from a single Web-based interface and ensures consistent workflow for content contributors. The PureCMS hosted service enables small organizations with limited IT resources to save time and money through use of a content management system that does not require investment in hardware, software or additional IT personnel and provides 24-hour availability, backup and ongoing maintenance of a staging environment for their Web sites. Users can access the service from any computer connected to the Internet with Internet Explorer 5.5 or greater. Users simply browse to a protected copy of their Web site, hosted on GlobalSCAPE’s PureCMS staging server, click the page they want to edit and make textual or graphic changes on screen. Users can even copy and paste information from Windows applications such as Microsoft Word or Excel into their Web sites. Once the user saves the proposed changes, PureCMS sends the designated group leader an email notification that the changes are pending approval. The group leader can compare the proposed changes to the previous version, approve and publish, or schedule for publishing later. The PureCMS hosted service is available immediately from GlobalSCAPE. Pricing begins at $99 per month for 3 users. Service fees include live technical support, maintenance and a storage allowance. www.globalscape.com/purecms

Libertas Solutions launched its web content management (CM) product for small businesses. Libertas Site Wizard gives small businesses the opportunity to create, edit and manage their own websites through familiar word processing features and “wizard” type forms to build and maintain the site. The Libertas Solutions CMS suite is entirely web based. The Libertas Solutions CMS suite has been developed to meet the specific needs of all types of business users, ensuring that the same core principles are applied to the entry level Libertas Site Wizard product as the enterprise Libertas ECMS product, which has been developed to meet the needs of local government and large corporatations. Also, Libertas Solutions have included the streaming of multi media content in its latest upgrade of the enterprise web content management product, Libertas ECMS. www.libertas-solutions.com

RenderX, Inc. and Assentis Technologies AG announced their agreement to enter into a strategic alliance. This partnership will deliver enhanced products and services to their joint customers worldwide. The combined solution creates the a comprehensive tool for high-quality design of XSL for dynamic documents. Assentis will include RenderX’s product XEP into their professional document solutions — Assentis:WebText, Assentis:DocBase and Assentis:Cockpit. Cockpit, an advanced XSL FO document engineering solution, will integrate with XEP and support its XSL FO extensions. Assentis and RenderX will build a common sales, support, and service organization in the first quarter of 2004. RenderX will be responsible for the joint offering in the United States and Canada. Assentis will cover Europe, the Middle East and Africa. www.assentis.com, www.renderx.com

Tridion announced two new content management solutions: Tridion Web Content Management and Tridion Intranet Edition are entry-level solutions aimed at making content management accessible to business units within large organisations and project managers not ready for an enterprise-wide system. The products offer a foundation for managing internal and Web-based content, with the option of adding further modules to scale with the needs of the business as it grows. Tridion Web Content Management Edition enables departments to centralise control of websites and ensure content is created once and repurposed many times. Tridion Intranet Edition is a solution designed to make internal information more accessible to employees. It improves knowledge-sharing within an organisation by ensuring content on the company Intranet is relevant, up-to-date, accurate and readily available. Available with both products is an optional Starter Toolkit. The toolkit incorporates best practice development techniques deployed by Tridion’s Professional Services team and its partners. The toolkit consists of a set of schemas, templates, events, workflow and front-end functionality and aims to reduce overall implementation time. www.tridion.com

Venetica announced the availability of a Content Bridge to IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand, enabling customers to leverage distributed content stored in statements, invoices and other formatted computer output on behalf of enterprise initiatives such as customer service, regulatory compliance and supply chain management. This announcement is part of an ongoing relationship in support of IBM technology. With VeniceBridge, IBM customers can build enterprise-spanning business applications on the WebSphere platform that provide access to content throughout the organization and leverage business processes defined across multiple business units. These solutions can use a combination of IBM DB2 Content Manager and Lotus Domino.Doc for managing and archiving critical digitized content, Lotus Notes for collaborative information and knowledge management, IBM WebSphere MQ Workflow for enterprise-wide business processes, and other disparate non-IBM systems being used to manage content and processes across the organization. Venetica’s technology has been deployed in IBM customer environments on multiple IBM operating systems including AIX, Linux and zOS. www.venetica.com

DataPower Technology, Inc. along with Accordare announced a partnership aimed at easing the creation and ongoing maintenance of XML-based trading partner connections. The agreement combines Accordare’s Reflector and DataPower’s XS40 XML Security Gateway to provide an intelligent e-business mediation point. The combined offering delivers “no-coding” XML security, eases coping with mismatched XML business document formats, detects common business process protocol interoperability errors, helps debug disagreements over security and standards specifications, and overcomes other obstacles to launching and maintaining electronic business connections. By combining Accordare’s Reflector and the DataPower XML Security Gateway, a “drop-in” network device purpose-built to provide complete XML Web services security and wirespeed XML performance, enterprises can now eliminate these barriers and get business-to-business transactions flowing “live” in record time. www.datapower.com, www.accordare.com

Context Media, Inc. announced that its Interchange Suite content integration software provides additional support for multiple IBM platforms. Context Media Interchange Suite is now powered by IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM Tivoli Directory Server and IBM DB2 Information Management platforms. Context Media also announced that it has integrated Interchange Suite with IBM DB2 Content Manager and WebSphere Portal, allowing customers to directly import data from third party content management systems onto their desktops through WebSphere Portal or Context Media user interfaces like Intershare, a Windows based client that acts like a shared drive within any desktop application. Context Media also announced that it has expanded its relationship with IBM by joining the IBM Value Advantage Plus (VAP) partner program to drive joint solutions into the small and medium business (SMB) marketplace. Interchange Suite, powered by IBM WebSphere Application Server, DB2 Universal Database and IBM Tivoli Directory Server, is currently available. www.contextmedia.com

Obinary has released Magnolia 1.1, an update to its free Java-based Enterprise Content Management System. Magnolia 1.1 includes an improved caching mechanism that works seamlessly and automatically to deliver performance for dynamically created web pages, while maintaining full authentication mechanisms. New sample templates demonstrate the use of server side image resizing. This allows storing images independently of their display dimensions. The same source image can thus be displayed in several sizes, for example to have thumbnails and “show detail” functionality. Numerous small interface improvements and a streamlined and renamed core API further enhance the ease-of-use of Magnolia. All documentation has been updated to reflect the new API. Magnolia installers and updaters are available for all major operating systems. Magnolia can be installed quickly on all common operating-systems (JDK 1.4.1 required) and is available free of charge at www.magnolia.info, www.obinary.com