IBM announced four new Lotus Workplace software products that will enable customers to add modular collaborative capabilities — such as e-mail, instant messaging, and Web conferencing — to their business applications and corporate portals. The new Lotus Workplace products give employees a set of collaborative tools that can be tailored to their specific work environment. Lotus Workplace products include IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging 1.1, IBM Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration 1.1, IBM Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning 1.1, and IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management 1.1. The 1.1 version of the Lotus Workplace family of products will be available for download in Q4 2003. IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging 1.1 will be available for $29 per user, while the IBM Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration 1.1 will be available for $89 per user. IBM Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning 1.1 will be available for $35 per user, and IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management 1.1 will be available for $49,999 per CPU. IBM Lotus Workplace server products are currently available on Linux for Intel 32 bit: SuSE 7.2 and 7.3, IBM AIX, Version 5.2 and Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. Supported client operating systems include Microsoft Windows 2000 sp3, Microsoft Windows XP, SuSE Linux 7.2 and 7.3 on Intel. Supported browsers include Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 service pack 2, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and Mozilla 1.3 on SuSE Linux. www.ibm.com/lotus/workplace
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 392 of 480)
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/
Vitria announced its partner, Appropria, has added a new connector for the Vitria:BusinessWare integration platform to its ~Advantage product suite. ~Advantage users will now have direct access to the Vitria BusinessCockpit, CommunicationBus and TaskManager workflow functionality from within their ~Advantage portal framework. Supporting Single Sign on, an ~Advantage user with this new connector can now seamlessly search for any content sourced via Vitria’s CommunicationBus, view real-time process metrics obtained via BusinessCockpit and automatically relate these real-time views to supporting content and information. In addition, ~Advantage offers Vitria:BusinessWare users an easy to use portal framework. ~Advantage makes participation in process workflows managed by Vitria’s TaskManager an improved user experience and automatically delivers the information and content users need to make decisions and execute tasks. www.appropria.com, www.vitria.com
Full Degree and The Kodiak Group announced a partnership that provides end-to-end UCCnet-compliant product information management and data synchronization solutions to retailers and manufacturers. Full Degree’s product information management applications combined with Kodiak’s hosted Quick-To-Market solution and UCCnet consulting services enable enterprises to unify and manage disparate product information as well as synchronize data with UCCnet’s GLOBALregistry. UCCnet is a global, Internet-based electronic commerce service that enables companies to synchronize and store product data in a standardized format, ensuring that trading partners have access to accurate, up-to-date, industry-compliant trading information. The UCCnet initiative is growing rapidly across multiple segments of the retail industry. www.kodiakgroup.com, www.fulldegree.com
Documentum announced a new joint offering with TRADOS and Lionbridge. Extending existing partnerships, the three companies have worked together to integrate the TRADOS Language Server with Documentum 5. By integrating the TRADOS language technology with the Documentum ECM platform, customers can store and reuse previously translated content, accelerate the delivery of content to global markets and have direct, centralized control over their translated content. The TRADOS Language Server for Documentum combines translation memory and terminology management modules with the Documentum ECM platform to enable customers to capture, store and reuse localized content that has been previously translated. As a partner to both Documentum and TRADOS, Lionbridge will provide globalization services to deliver the complete multilingual content management solution. www.trados.com, www.lionbridge.com, www.documentum.com
ClearForest Corp. announced the availability of ClearForest Release 5. The latest version of the content extraction and analysis suite extends the functionality of the company’s unstructured data management applications with new relationship analysis tools, industry-specific solution modules and enhanced database scalability. Link Analysis enables users to find important, previously unknown implicit information within an organization’s unstructured data sources. Fact Viewer allows for the search and retrieval of events and relationships without the constraint of explicit keywords. ClearForest is also delivering four new Discovery Modules providing out-of-the-box text patterns and relationships for Life Sciences, Counter-Intelligence, Intellectual Property and Financial Services applications. Users and organizations can leverage their own unique expertise by extending Discovery Modules. ClearForest has also added the ability to tag and analyze Arabic and Hebrew in addition to primary Western European languages. www.clearforest.com
Sybase, Inc. announced general availability of its Content Capture Technology built for software companies to embed into their application(s). This technology extracts, aggregates and integrates real-time data, allowing Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to offer their end-users views of their own and other’s information. Sybase Content Capture Technology is a toolset specifically for software vendors and publishers delivering prepackaged business applications and infrastructure solutions for document management, analytics and custom application development. Sybase’s technology extracts and aggregates traditional structured and unstructured Web information to give end-users views of their information quickly and easily. Rather than physically storing the information, a small blueprint of the information view is stored so that when the actual information is needed, the total content is dynamically reconstituted from the blueprint. www.sybase.com
Critical Mass and Interwoven announced a strategic alliance that aims to deliver tailored content solutions that enhance the management of complex, dynamic online customer experiences, from brand management to eCommerce. Critical Mass will leverage Interwoven TeamSite Content Server software and MediaBin Asset Server software to support the management of clients’ online initiatives. This alliance will allow Critical Mass to continue to extend current customer solutions and Website experiences. Access to Interwoven’s new product development initiatives will enhance the ability of Critical Mass to provide solutions to clients. www.criticalmass.com, www.interwoven.com
IXIASOFT announced the availability of the beta version of TEXTML Server 3.0. This new version builds on TEXTML Server’s native XML storage and information retrieval technology and introduces new features designed to increase reliability, productivity, and security. Enhancements were developed to answer specific needs of partners and customers with large, enterprise-scale requirements. With TEXTML Server’s new Replication Search Agent (RSA), the search load can now be distributed on multiple servers where a master server acts as a publisher of content to one or many subscribers. TEXTML Server now provides version controls settings which deliver the flexibility to manage multiple versions of a document, access to previous versions, and the ability to control the number of versions maintained. Various security settings restricting access to the server can be assigned to documents, collections, and document bases allowing more granular security. To download a free 30-day evaluation version TEXTML Server 3.0 beta, visit www.ixiasoft.com
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