Interwoven, Inc. announced the availability of Interwoven MediaBin Asset Server 4.0. MediaBin 4.0 is the cornerstone of Interwoven’s Marketing Content Management Solution, also announced, providing a foundation for solutions that manage the marketing content supply chain between enterprises and their internal and external sales channels. The new version connects multiple servers, both inside and outside of the organization, to help manage all marketing content locally, while providing centralized, global access for employees and business partners to ensure that brand-related digital content is always properly formatted and up-to-date throughout the marketing content supply chain. Features in MediaBin Asset Server 4.0 include Syndication Manager, a Mac OS X Client, metadata enhancements, and MetaTagger Content Intelligence Server Integration. Interwoven MediaBin Asset Server 4.0 can be purchased from Interwoven today. www.interwoven.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 372 of 485)
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/
Ektron Inc. announced the latest version of the company’s content management solution, CMS300. Ektron CMS300 Version 4.1 now includes support for membership groups, administrators and users can create, assign and monitor content management tasks on a Web site or intranet, a “smart desktop dashboard”, highlighted search, Out-of-the-box intranet, IXIASOFT TEXTML integration, and threaded comments. www.ektron.com
Documentum announced a strategic alliance with Thunderhead, Ltd., a provider of technology for rules-driven document assembly and multi-channel publishing. Documentum will integrate Thunderhead with its ECM platform and deliver a solution that will enable organizations to automate and accelerate the creation, assembly and delivery of vast quantities of personalized documents across multiple channels such as email, web, PDAs and print. This solution is designed for highly regulated industries such as investment and retail banking, insurance and other financial services, which rely on high-volume, document-intensive processes as the foundation of their core business. The solution leverages business rules to guide the assembly of finished documents from components that may include regulated content, personalized text, graphics and data. Built on J2EE and XML, the solution allows non-technical business users to remain in control of the document generation and publishing processes. www.thunderhead.com, www.documentum.com
Vasont Systems announced the availability of the Vasont Universal Integrator (VUI) as a software extension of Vasont, a content management system that enables organizations to store their multilingual content once for delivery to print, PDF, CD-ROM and Web formats. The VUI streamlines the writing and editing process by providing a simple editorial interface so that authors and editors can access the Vasont content management system’s functionality from the toolbar menu of their favorite XML editing tools. The VUI eliminates the need for users to toggle back-and-forth between applications; instead, they can work within their editorial tools while accessing, editing, and updating their content in Vasont. www.vasont.com
Vignette Corp. announced that it is shipping a suite of content management, integration and portal applications that natively support the Linux operating system. The recent addition of Linux support to Vignette Content Management and Vignette Business Integration Studio join existing support for Linux in Vignette Application Portal to enhance Vignette support for Linux.
www.vignette.com
CambridgeDocs announced the xDoc SDK. Aimed at providing programmatic access to the xDoc Server’s APIs, the xDoc SDK is designed to reduce the time it takes for developers to build custom business applications that take advantage of the rich content stored in unstructured documents. CambridgeDocs’ xDoc Server functionality not only automates the conversion of files to XML, but is also capable of transforming XML documents into desired output XML schemas or even to end-user documents like MS Word, PDF or XHTML. The xDoc SDK contains access to all of CambridgeDocs’ APIs including .NET, Command Line, and COM as well as an enhanced Java API, and Servlet Interface for EJB connections. With the xDoc SDK content-centric applications can be built on top of either Linux or Windows systems. CambridgeDocs’ Server support XSLT, and XSL:FO. It can also use any XML-schema or DTD as the target or source for transformation, including DocBook XML, 3001 MIL STD, Legal XML or customer-specific schemas or DTDs.
www.cambridgedocs.com
Autonomy Corporation plc announced a strategic OEM agreement with Captiva Software Corporation. Captiva will embed Autonomy’s pattern-recognition technology within its Digital Mailroom system to provide customers with classification and routing for digitized images of inbound mail and electronic communications. Autonomy’s pattern-recognition software will replace Kofax’s Mohomine toolkit. www.captivasoftware.com, www.autonomy.com
Pembroke International announced Lotus Notes Integrator for Documentum (LNI) that enables integration with and migration from Lotus Notes to the Documentum Content Management System. Deployed as an automated enterprise implementation, the Documentum Integrator can be used for one-time export and as a co-existence solution for maintaining Notes authored documents in Documentum. Features include: export of either the Notes client or Web view of documents; metadata map between Notes fields and Documentum document attributes; runs on either an ad hoc or scheduled basis, automatically adds new content or revisions to Documentum, or replaces existing content; automatic attachment of Doctypes, ACLs, Workflows and Lifecycles to document objects; batch processing of local and remote databases and Views; resolves Inter/cross-database doclinks to Documentum http links so documents are fully functional after uploading; and attachments linked to parent documents. www.pembroke-int.com

