Arbortext, Inc. announced a new partnership where Arbortext will offer data conversion services from Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL). Including DCL data conversion services with Arbortext applications gives organizations access to more comprehensive solutions as they build and implement XML-based publishing applications. www.dclab.com, www.arbortext.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 393 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/
INSCI Corp. announced the acquisition of WebWare. The acquisition was made for cash and stock. Further terms of the transaction will be disclosed on Form 8K to be filed with the SEC by the end of the month. This transaction is anticipated to accelerate the development of the next generation of ActiveMedia SOAP/J2EE platform. WebWare ActiveMedia software brings INSCI a digital asset management platform for integrating rich media contentsuch as images, illustrations, layouts, slide presentations, video and animationinto content management systems, web publishing systems, and e-commerce portals. This complementary technology is expected to broaden INSCI’s product suite, which is designed for the capture, long-term preservation and web presentment of such content as banking and financial statements, explanations of benefits (EOBs), claim images, and e-mail. The resulting expanded enterprise solution manages wide-ranging business contentfrom documents to e-mail, graphic images to video. www.webwarecorp.com, www.insci.com
RedDot Solutions announced that it has expanded its support of multilingual web development with the latest version of its Translation Editor. The RedDot Translation Editor assists organizations with managing the translation of content between multiple languages and enables organizations to automatically default to the primary language during a translation. RedDot offers native support for English, French, Spanish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese and Polish languages. The RedDot multi-language project structures are centrally administered allowing administrators and editors to manage the different language variants. Organizations can use the RedDot system to design sites that display the same information in multiple languages. The solution also provides for characteristics such as UTF-8/UTF-16, all ISO character sets and SHIFT-JIS for Asian character sets. www.reddot.com
Atomz announced that it has added a series of new features and functionality to its Web-native software. Nearly a dozen new enhancements work together to improve the ease-of-use, security, customization and reliability of its suite of products. Context menus of the content management solution’s Rich Text Editor now allow users to right-click their mouse to Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete and Select All. Administrators using Atomz Publish now have a greater ability to control the exact format of automatically generated file names. Web teams working on collaborative projects will benefit from the upgraded WebDAV support for Macromedia Dreamweaver. Search Restrictions is a new feature in Atomz Search that is useful for Web sites that wish to limit the viewing of search result content in some manner. Atomz Promote now enables multiple site search promotions to be rotated across a particular keyword or key phrase. Search Personalization has been added to Atomz Search. Atomz Promote can now be utilized in conjunction with the categorization feature of Atomz Search. www.atomz.com
Ipedo announced their software platform now handles concurrent assimilation of complex information sets from Oracle 9i, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server and Web Services. The information integration was done using Ipedo’s XML-based views and query technologies. With this new capability, Ipedo allows enterprises to create custom information views on demand. The XML-driven EII capabilities of the Ipedo XML Information Hub go beyond integration and allow custom assembly and persistence of information, in the variety of industry standard formats. The testing was done using the Ipedo XML Information Hub 3.3 with Oracle 9iR2, DB2 Universal Database v3.1, MySQL Pro v4.0, SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition, and a public Web Service from Google. Information was integrated using XQuery to quickly aggregate real-time business information across multiple sources, leveraging Ipedo’s XML Views, Web Services Views, Content Conversion and Universal XQuery Engine capabilities. www.Ipedo.com
The Gilbane Report announced that it has agreed to administer an industry initiative to be known as The Gilbane Content Technology Works Program. Under the auspices of this program, best practices and success stories will be documented, assessed and published. Founding partners represent leaders from every segment of the content technology marketplace including enterprise infrastructure, content management, portal, XML databases, search and categorization, digital asset management and content integration. Gilbane Content Technology Works founding partners include Software AG, Sun Microsystems, Artesia Technologies, Atomz, Context Media, Convera, Vignette, and WebWare. Material will be developed in collaboration with enterprises able to share their experiences and will be written in “the enterprise’s voice.” Final editorial review and the essential components of these works will be established by the enterprises whose stories we relate. In order to develop this valuable information at no cost to the consumer, leading content technology vendors have been invited to subsidize the expense of developing and distributing content technology best practices. Vendor partners do not determine which enterprises we collaborate with and will be subsidizing success stories that do not include their technology. The first collection of success stories and best practices will be rolled out through all of our channels during the 4th quarter of 2003. www.gilbane.com/technology_works.html
IXIASOFT and Ingeniux announced a new technology partnership to integrate TEXTML Server with Ingeniux Content Management System (CMS). Combining these two XML technologies will provide customers with a comprehensive XML-based Web content management solution. IXIASOFT’s TEXTML Server is an XML content server designed for software developers who require advanced storing, indexing, and searching capabilities for their applications. Ingeniux CMS provides a complete Web content management and publishing system for developing, managing and deploying Web content throughout the enterprise. Ingeniux CMS empowers non-technical users to contribute to and manage the Web publishing process. Adding TEXTML Server, a native XML repository, to Ingeniux Content Management System will extend its functionality by providing users with advanced searching and publishing capabilities. The joint product offering is aimed at organizations who wish to take full advantage of a pure XML architecture. As part of this technology partnership, IXIASOFT and Ingeniux will collaborate on and coordinate sales and marketing efforts. www.ixiasoft.com, www.ingeniux.com
Vivisimo announced the upcoming Release 4.0 of its Clustering Engine, which organizes internet or intranet search results on the fly into meaningful folders. The Clustering Engine now integrates a fully compliant XSLT processor, allowing administrators to customize the end-user interface. Corporate information managers can customize the installation by adding company or industry-specific knowledge such as synonyms, acronyms, abbreviations, spelling variants and type-of relations as XML declarations or via a web-based interface. Or they can select Vivisimo’s built-in knowledge bases for news, science, government, medicine, and others. Using XSLT, regular expressions, and an enhanced conversion framework, the Vivisimo Clustering Engine can extract meta-data and convert any type of data sources to XML. New versions of Vivisimo’s Content Integrator, Enterprise Publisher and Software Development Kit are included in Release 4.0. Customers and OEMs now get an integrated solution that solves the twin challenges of organizing information and providing a single entry point to multiple information sources. www.vivisimo.com
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