EasyAsk announced EasyAsk Enterprise 9, a platform for unifying all forms of enterprise content and enabling information access across commerce, service and decision support activities. EasyAsk Enterprise 9 delivers information quickly, regardless of format or location. Users can be guided through dynamic navigation, or they may use an advanced natural-language interface to go directly to the content they seek. EasyAsk Enterprise 9 offers three different components. EasyAsk Decision Advisor provides enterprises with an internal solution for harnessing real-time information from multiple sources. It provides novice to expert business users access to information contained within and reports generated from BI platforms. EasyAsk Service Advisor facilitates a variety of enterprise information access for customer self service and call centers and within enterprise portals. For online B2C commerce and catalog merchants and B2B manufacturers and distributors, EasyAsk Commerce Advisor enables their customers to quickly find and browse through merchandise and catalogs that meet their specific criteria. www.easyask.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 391 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/
iManage, Inc. announced a new partnership with Kofax that will bring scanning capabilities to users of the iManage WorkSite suite. iManage has also joined the Kofax Technology Alliance Program. Ascent Capture will be tightly integrated with iManage WorkSite to provide users with a complete, out-of-the-box capture and collaboration solution. Ascent Capture automates the capture of information from documents and forms and delivers retrievable information into business applications. Documents scanned with Ascent Capture will be delivered automatically into iManage WorkSite, capturing the information alongside all project work within the repository — such as emails, spreadsheets, reports, etc. — keeping all content in context and readily available for access, editing, collaboration or completion. www.kofax.com, www.imanage.com
Xyleme and Inxight Software Inc. announced that they have signed an OEM deal and a VAR agreement. Xyleme will integrate Inxight’s LinguistX product into its XML repository and will distribute both Inxight ThingFinder and Inxight Summarizer. The integration of Inxight LinguistX with Xyleme Zone Server allows a technical evolution to the Xyleme solution. The new edition will take the name Xyleme Zone Server Lx, referencing the linguistic functionality made possible by integrating Inxight software. Integrating Inxight LinguistX has reduces the size of the index by about 20%, improves response precision for selected complex queries, and provides support for an extended collection of natural languages. In addition to English and French managed by the Xyleme Zone Server Classic edition, Xyleme Zone Server Lx will be able to manage Danish, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Inxight and Xyleme also reached an agreement that will allow Xyleme to distribute Inxight ThingFinder and Inxight Summarizer. www.xyleme.com, www.inxight.com
WHITTMANHART announced that it has formed an alliance with ATG. The companies are developing customer self-service solutions that combine WHITTMANHART’s portal and content management implementation experience with ATG’s portal and publishing solutions. ATG Publishing provides an interface for creating product catalogs, posting updated knowledge base articles, and designing targeted e-mail marketing campaigns. Combined with the ATG Portal, WHITTMANHART and ATG will deliver solutions for self-service and collaboration. www.whittmanhart.com, www.atg.com
ClearForest Corp. and Ness Technologies have partnered to develop comprehensive business intelligence solutions for the Life Science industry. The partnership will combine ClearForest’s content extraction and analysis software with Ness’ 17 years of expertise delivering IT solutions to Life Science companies. The partnership is focused on applying text mining and other advanced knowledge management capabilities to clients’ strategic initiatives in drug discovery, clinical development optimization, competitive and business intelligence. In addition to joint product development and implementation, ClearForest will provide Ness with extensive technical, marketing and sales resources to ensure successful integration and implementation with its Life Sciences and other customers. www.clearforest.com, www.ness.com
Altova Inc. announced the availability of XMLSPY 2004 integrated with Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET versions 2002 and 2003. The new integration of XMLSPY 2004’s XML development tools and utilities, directly within Microsoft Visual Studio .NET will enable the Microsoft developer community to build XML-enabled software applications for the Microsoft platform. The XMLSPY 2004 integration for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET is included in both XMLSPY 2004 Professional Edition and XMLSPY 2004 Enterprise Edition which retail for $399 and $990 (USD) per installed user. Volume discounts, Support and Maintenance, upgrade pricing, and concurrent licensing options are available, see Altova’s online shop for complete price list. www.altova.com
RedDot Solutions announced that it has partnered with Logicworks to provide customers with a new hosted content management solution based on RedDot’s product, RedDot Content Management Server (CMS) 5.0. The joint offering delivers enterprise-class CMS functionality at a fixed monthly cost to small to medium-sized businesses. Logicworks’ infrastructure will provide value-added services that enable secure hosting, operating system patching, rapid development and deployment, upgrades, management and flexible finance options. Terms of offering are based on 12 and 24 months with option to convert to a perpetual license. The RedDot/Logicworks hosted solution is created for organizations with fixed budgets that need a full content management system or are limited with hardware resources. Logicworks’ managed infrastructure supports RedDot CMS implementations with a dedicated server(s), operating system and connectivity, 24×7 monitoring, failover & redundancy options, back-up and recovery. www.logicworks.net, www.reddot.com
Xerox Corporation unveiled DocuShare 3.1. The new software components include two add-on modules that make it easier for end users to share information. Built on the Dralasoft Workflow engine, the Enterprise Workflow add-on component extends DocuShare’s core document approval and routing capabilities. For Web collaboration on team projects and documents, DocuShare users can integrate DocuShare Interact an add-on built on Sparrow Web technology developed at Palo Alto Research Center. DocuShare Interact allows people to create shared, collaborative Web pages for project management, reports, calendars, meetings, to-do lists, blogs, and other types of group work that needs to be published and updated on the Web. In addition, the DocuShare Developer Environment enables further development and customization of DocuShare solutions. The entry-level U.S. list price for a complete DocuShare system with 10 seats is $4,045 and a 100-seat system is $9,995. Existing DocuShare 3.0 customers with a support agreement can upgrade to DocuShare 3.1 at no charge. DocuShare 3.1, DocuShare Interact, DocuShare Enterprise Workflow and DocuShare Developer Environment will be available beginning Oct. 15. www.xerox.com
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