The Gilbane Report announced that it will host an ongoing webinar series on content technology best practices as told from the enterprise consumers’ perspective. The series complements the popular Gilbane Report conferences and publications and further extends the Gilbane Report community. This webinar series is the first public work to come from the Content Technology Works Program (CTW) announced in September and provides the industry with direct access to leading enterprises that are making content technology work today. The first seminar, “Content Categories That Work”, will be held on Dec. 16, 2003 at 12:30PM EST. Learn how three companies, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Mattel and Unisys, make sense of the content technology world for the benefit of their organizations, partners and customers. Other scheduled webinar topics include “Tips and Techniques for Adoption” and “Measuring Value, Managing Expectations.” To register, visit select “View Scheduled Events” and then the “Register” icon. www.gilbane.com/technology_works.html,
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 394 of 486)
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/
Context Media, Inc. announced the immediate availability of Interchange Suite 4.0, the latest version of their content integration software solution. The new version of the Web-services-based Interchange Suite includes a number of enhancements that together will improve content management, access and distribution capabilities. New features include additional application and infrastructure platform support; new metadata management capabilities, enhanced security, scalability and high availability features for business performance and continuity; and a number of end user enhancements that improve productivity and demonstrate substantial ROI. Content organized by Interchange Suite can also be accessed by Intershare, Context Media’s Web services client, which acts like a shared drive allowing “desktop level” access to all content. The solution bypasses the need for companies to standardize on a single vendor’s content management, digital asset management or document management system. www.contextmedia.com
INSCI Corp. announced the release of WebWare ActiveMedia 5.0: the latest version of its digital asset management (DAM) software. The newest version adds new capabilities for compound document support, providing management for QuarkXPress files including the ability to ingest, version, and maintain links between an Xpress document and all linked files. Identical handling is available for files created by Adobe InDesign, Adobe PhotoShop, and HTML files and their associated images and links. With the new ActiveShare folder and file sharing features, ActiveMedia 5.0 users can collaborate with other registered users. ActiveMedia 5.0 includes a new feature that enables users to email links of archived files to recipients inside or outside a firewall. Interoperability has been extended by the expansion of the ActiveMedia SOAP APIs, adding over 65 individual methods to support the development and extension of ActiveMedia’s functionality and interoperability. INSCI also announced the debut of its WebWare TransMedia Express service, an outsourced service enabling Adobe InDesign desktop publishing software users to automate the conversion of QuarkXpress documents into Adobe InDesign files. www.webwarecorp.com, www.insci.com
Open Text Corporation and Momentum Systems, Inc. said they will introduce a correspondence management and collaboration software solution that helps government agencies improve communication and comply with laws designed to move government online, such as the U.S.’s Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA). The solution, called Correspondence Management with Livelink, offers tools for capturing, tracking and managing correspondence with the public, with legislators and with other government agencies. Correspondence Management with Livelink lets organizations track correspondence from a variety of sources, including scanned letters, e-mails, faxes, electronic documents and hand-written notes, and manage them through automated processes to ensure proper handling of requests and a timely response. Correspondence Management with Livelink transparently captures and stores all communication in virtual work packages. The system uses a tabbed interface which logically organizes correspondence and related information into Web pages. Within each work package, users can place or access relevant documents, tracking data, status information and queries for that correspondence. www.opentext.com
GlobalSCAPE announced the availability of PureCMS 2.0. PureCMS 2.0 empowers organizations to share responsibility for Web site content management with non-technical team members, provides security and control for multiple Web sites from the same interface, and enables workflow for change management. PureCMS runs on a server with Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and it can publish to any Web server. Non-technical users browse to a copy of their organization’s Web site hosted on the PureCMS staging server, click the page they want to edit, login and make textual or graphic changes on screen. They can copy and paste content into the Web page from Windows applications such as Microsoft Word or Excel. Once proposed changes are saved, that individual’s team leader is notified of pending activity via e-mail. They are able to compare proposed changes to the previous version, approve, and publish, or schedule for publishing. PureCMS is available immediately from GlobalSCAPE based on a tiered, per-user license basis. Pricing begins at $350 per user. www.globalscape.com/purecms
Adobe Systems Incorporated introduced Adobe Acrobat Elements Server, new software that provides customers greater control over the deployment and maintenance of PDF generation across the enterprise. Using Acrobat Elements Server, IT managers can centrally deploy PDF creation capabilities across a company without the need to manage additional client software on the desktop. Through a selection of user interfaces — the Web for uploading documents, email aliases for sending attachments, or watched folders for drag-and-drop submissions — the product enables Adobe PDF conversion from a variety of common file types. Using the Web services API, Acrobat Elements Server also can be integrated into more complex document creation and assembly workflows driven by enterprise content management systems. Acrobat Elements Server for Windows 2000 (SP4), Windows 2000 Server (SP4), and Windows XP Professional (SP1) is available through Adobe and will be sold on a per-user and per-server basis. Pricing begins at US$28 per user for a 1,000 user license or at US$22,500 per server. Acrobat Elements Server will be available in English only and is expected to ship by the end of November 2003. www.adobe.com
Traction Software, Inc. announced the release of Traction TeamPage Release 3.0. Release 3.0. New features include: internationalization, enterprise authentication, a new extensible framework for user interface customization and branding, enterprise search engine compatibility, and enhanced support for standards. The new release of Traction’s Instant Publisher Client adds round-trip WYSIWYG editing as well as integrated one-click publishing from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer using a new .NET architecture. A preview edition of Traction 3.0 is immediately available, with delivery of a final edition in December 2003. Traction TeamPage 3.0 workgroup pricing starts at $4,995 per server. A personal edition Traction Communicator sells for $249. Traction 3.0 is free to all Traction Customers entitled to receive software updates. Traction also announced partnerships with Applied Knowledge Co, Ltd of Japan (AKJ), and Netcore Solutions Pvt, Ltd. of India.www.tractionsoftware.com, www.akj.co.jp
Macromedia unveiled Macromedia Flex. Flex expands the Macromedia MX product family to address the requirements of enterprise IT departments seeking to deliver end user experiences that combine the responsiveness and richness of desktop software with the broad reach of the web. Previously code named “Royale,” Flex offers a standards-based, declarative programming methodology and server runtime services for delivering user interfaces with the Macromedia Flash client. The Flex beta program is now accepting applications, in preparation for release in the first half of 2004. Flex developers define user interfaces using an XML-based language that the Flex server renders into intelligent client applications running in the Flash Player. The Flex application framework combines a programming syntax; an extensible class library of building blocks for creating applications; and runtime services for data connectivity, deployment, and experience management. The initial Flex release will run on top of J2EE application servers and a .NET version is planned for future releases. Flex is based on XML, ECMAScript, SOAP web services, and the Macromedia Flash (SWF) file format. Macromedia Flex is expected to ship in the first half of 2004. The Flex server will be licensed as an enterprise server software product. Free licenses are planned for evaluation and single user workstation development. Additional information on Brady, Partridge, pricing, licensing, and configurations will be available at a later date. www.macromedia.com/go/flex/
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