Merant announced that its content management solution, Merant Collage, achieved certification as part of the SAP NetWeaver Partner Initiative. Merant Collage’s “Powered by SAP NetWeaver” status means that it can be deployed on the SAP Web Application Server and accessed through mySAP Enterprise Portal via pre-built iViews. The integration between Merant Collage and the SAP NetWeaver integration and application platform enables users to integrate sources of enterprise data and content from SAP and other vendors to control heterogeneous IT environments. Merant Collage is certified for SAP Web Application Server 6.20 and SAP Enterprise Portal 5.0. www.merant.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 374 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/
iMarkup Solutions announced the availability of a joint iMarkup/Vignette V7 content management, document annotation and markup solution. The joint solution combines Vignette V7 content management products and iMarkup Server V4 to allow text markups, sticky notes, freeform drawings and other types of annotations to be applied to all types of Web formats, from HTML and ASP to JSP and PDF. www.imarkup.com
XyEnterprise announced that it has released version 1.1 of its XML Professional Publisher (XPP) Web Services Toolkit. XyEnterprise also announced the availability of XPP Personal Edition, a new single-user version of its XML publishing software. Both offerings are available now. Version 1.1 of the XPP Web Services Toolkit adds functions for e-mail notification, support for SOAP attachments, improved file manipulation capability, and other enhancements. XPP users can proof, modify, and publish their documents in a browser from any location. XPP Personal Edition customers include individual users who have had prior experience with XPP at larger organizations, initial deployments in specialty publishing environments (such as STM journals or reference guides), or remote contributors working for larger organizations. XPP Personal Edition includes the XyView interactive interface with composition and editing functionality, the CITI module for generating Contents, Indices, Tables, and Illustrations, and a choice of two Hyphenation and Justification dictionaries. Other optional components (including MathML, XyDiff, EDGAR) are also available. www.xyenterprise.com
Click2learn in conjunction with partner Recombo announced the availability of a new library of “Aspen-Ready” content developed to run through Click2learn’s Aspen Enterprise Productivity Suite without customization or integration. Housed on Recombo’s Aspen-specific Web site, the catalog of more than 3000 “Aspen-ready” courses and other learning resources is drawn from third-party content providers and spans a range of subject matter, including software training, business skills, regulation compliance and certification, as well as content relevant to specific vertical industries. To ensure that third-party content will be immediately interoperable with Aspen when it reaches Click2learn’s customers, Recombo has installed Aspen in its content integration lab and has developed tools and processes for accelerating content integration. The resulting content catalogs are mapped to Aspen’s descriptions of learner paths and competency requirements and tailored to the needs of specific industries. In addition to their ongoing content partnership, Click2Learn and Recombo share a common commitment to promoting the Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM). www.recombo.com/click2learn, www.click2learn.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced the availability of the Interwoven Web Change Management Solution. The solution addresses the change requirements of Web applications faced by IT departments today by standardizing the way an organization’s code and content changes are aggregated, synchronized, and deployed throughout development, testing, staging, and production environments. While the solution delivers full reporting and version control capabilities required for regulatory compliance, it also speeds application time-to-market and reduces IT costs by automating inefficient, manual change management processes. Components of the Interwoven Web Change Management Solution include Interwoven OpenDeploy Distribution Server software, Interwoven Control Hub Server software, and Interwoven Trusted Advisory Practice. www.interwoven.com
FatWire Software announced the establishment of new offices in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Germany, China, Japan, and Singapore. The move follows FatWire’s recent acquisition of the Content Server product line from divine, inc. FatWire has also signed reseller agreements with Content Server representatives in Australia and the Nordic region. Covering the European and Asia/Pacific markets, FatWire’s facilities will provide local support, sales, and service.
www.fatwire.com
Ontopia AS Announced the Release 2.0 of the Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS). This major release of the OKS brings: the full release of the Web Editor Framework for building custom topic map authoring environments, extension of the query language to cover tasks that had required, either API programming or use of the Navigator Framework tag libraries, new built-in predicates now allow querying all parts of a topic map, support for import and export of RDF data to topic maps, the free-download, Omnigator, now includes support for
hierarchy visualization, and more. The OKS uses the Topic Maps model to enable the rapid development of complex systems. Using the OKS, integrators can create
representations of diverse information and knowledge models, and then access and manipulate them with a common tool set and query language. The OKS, a Java toolkit for applying Topic Maps functionality, consists of a topic map engine with scalable API, J2EE-compliant toolkits for development of editing and browsing applications, full-text search, schema tools, and persistent and scalable storage of topic maps in an RDBMS. The suite will be available from 19 December 2003. www.ontopia.net
Docucorp International announced the availability of Policy Xpress for the insurance industry. Policy Xpress provides insurers with a complete library of fully implemented ISO industry standard forms for the property and casualty (P&C) marketplace. Docucorp’s Policy Xpress offering includes: a standard data dictionary, which includes field definitions for all known P&C data elements (used for tagging forms); standard XML schema; ISO forms; pre-defined data mappings for all forms; pre-defined forms triggering; and default systems configuration. Since most P&C insurers utilize industry standard forms, Docucorp used ISO forms as a standard for developing Policy Xpress. As this service offering grows, Docucorp plans to include other industry standard forms for both the P&C and Life insurance industries. www.docucorp.com
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