Topologi announces the 1.1.6 release of its Collaborative Markup Editor. Along with several interface improvements for both Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, Topologi announced new support for very large file handling. From original conception, Topologi has committed the Collaborative Markup Editor to addressing the needs of SGML and XML publishing production environments. However, feedback to date has been that working with 8-10 megabyte files is still not enough for many users. The editor’s core has been extensively reworked in version 1.1.6. Using memory profiling techniques, users can make final edits to million-line (50 megabyte) files without performance problems. Other improvements in this release include improved interactive diagnostics of markup syntax errors, support for Java 1.4.2 features such as mouse wheels and improved file chooser, Schematron 1.1.6 compliance, allowing better datatyping, improved support for RTF import of foreign languages including Chinese, built-in hex and image previewer, and faster load times. The Topologi Collaborative Markup Editor is available as a 30 day evaluation download or as a licensed purchase for US$60 at www.topologi.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 399 of 481)
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/
Plumtree Software unveiled plans to offer a J2EE version of its portal software by the middle of 2004, designed to run with Java application servers hosted on UNIX, and later, Linux. Plumtree plans to continue developing the .NET version of its portal alongside this new J2EE version. The 5.0J version of the portal software is expected to have the same features, functionality and server architecture as the 5.0 Windows product but will have a re-designed Java kernel, and will use many J2EE components and specifications including JDBC for access to multiple databases, JMX for management and monitoring of the portal server, JNDI for naming and directory services, and JNI for JVM communication. In addition, both J2EE and .NET versions of the portal are designed to support the new Java portlet standard JSR 168. The 5.0J portal design draws on the J2EE application server, but uses the same HTTP-based Web Services Architecture as the Windows portal for communicating with other systems and the same parallel processing technology for communicating with a large number of Web services simultaneously. Plumtree plans to test application and Web servers including Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and Sun Java System Application Server, running on Sun Solaris and IBM AIX operating systems. Plumtree currently plans to offer Linux support later in 2004. www.plumtree.com
Microsoft Corp. announced plans to offer new versions of Content Management Server (CMS) 2002, including a Standard Edition (SE) for medium-sized businesses and an enhanced CMS 2002 Enterprise Edition (EE) that provides compatibility with Windows Server 2003 and is localized into three new languages. In addition, Microsoft will be updating the content integration pack for enterprises looking to integrate CMS 2002 with the newly released Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. The new features in the Content Management Server 2002 Connector for SharePoint Technologies include the abilities to publish CMS content directly from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and to integrate document libraries. A beta version of the Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Connector for SharePoint Technologies is available today at ; the final version will be released by the end of 2003. Pricing for CMS SE will start at $6,999 ERP per CPU. It will be limited to 15 content contributors and also will offer a Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Connector for SharePoint Technologies. Future versions of Content Management Server 2002 Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition will support French, Japanese and German. www.microsoft.com
Equilibrium announced the availability of Equilibrium MediaRich Server for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 as a digital asset management (DAM) solution for mid-sized to enterprise corporations using Microsoft Office 2003. The new version extends Microsoft Office 2003’s collaborative experience with brand management and image automation. The resulting DAM solution allows corporations to maintain revision control for a single high-quality asset, create derivatives on demand, and deliver consistent brand assets for the Web, print, wireless and Microsoft Office 2003 applications. Equilibrium MediaRich Server for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides previews of CMYK images, vector images, and layered Photoshop files along with related metadata, and reads and writes BMP, WBMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, PCT, TIFF, PDF, TGA, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop PSD or EPS files with accurate ICC color profiles. Equilibrium MediaRich Server for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (beta) is now available. Companies may download a 15-day evaluation of Equilibrium MediaRich for SharePoint Products and Technologies at www.equilibrium.com.
Antenna House, Inc announced their XSL-FO processor [XSL Formatter V3.0] is now available. XSL Formatter is a software to format XML documents for production-quality printing and output to PDF. Some of the key features of V3.0 as compared to V2.X are: V3.0 is significantly faster then XSL Formatter V2.X, V3.0 has newly developed SVG support to retain the vector information for the output module thus meeting the increasing demands for SVG delivery and viewing, and the V3.0 formatting engine has been developed from scratch to be able to
format “any” size of document. This overcomes the V2.X limitation of
approximately 4,000 pages in a single document. V3.0 is able to format about 10
times as much as V2.X. System Requirements: Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/Server2003, or Sun Solaris 8, 9 (Sparc version), or RedHat Linux 8.0 or later, SuSE Linux 8.1 (libstdc++.so.5 required). www.antennahouse.com
Ektron announced version 4.0 of Ektron eWebEditPro+XML and eWebEditPro. Version 4.0 includes a new Design Mode feature which automates the manual step of creating XML structure and supporting documents, including XSLTs and schemas. eWebEditPro+XML’s new Design Mode builds an abstraction layer that hides the complexities of XSLTs and schemas. Developers can give non-technical users this tool to create environments for data input and validation. Using a new Drag and Drop toolbar, the user creates a Web page that resembles a form. With the tool, the user can position elements to define and design the layout of XML data, and use simple dialogs to define criteria for data validity. Additional new features in both Ektron eWebEditPro+XML and eWebEditPro Version 4.0 include enhanced form field editing (for standard HTML page editing) and support for Ektron WebImageFX, a browser-based image editors. Pricing starts at $299 for 10 users, with enterprise pricing available. www.ektron.com
TripleHop Technologies announced MatchPoint 3.0, its new enterprise contextual search software. MatchPoint 3.0 combines statistical and semantic analysis to give users increased sensitivity to the context of their query including the user profile and existing enterprise knowledge. MatchPoint 3.0 enhances the sensitivity of a query as it factors in the context of the search. MatchPoint automatically generates a contextual thesaurus as it crawls and indexes enterprise documents, and uses this thesaurus to disambiguate and expand the user query based on existing enterprise knowledge, the user profile and the customer’s work process. MatchPoint’s index architecture gives users immediate access to new documents. The product uses a distributed architecture to create as many “Search Services” as necessary. Each Search Service can have several indexes and each index can be partitioned. User queries are launched into multiple indexes and sub-indexes, and the results are merged through the MatchPoint Federator. This distributed architecture helps handle terabytes of data without substantially degrading response time. www.triplehop.com
OpenPages introduced Sarbanes-Oxley Express 2.0 a framework that supports companies’ corporate governance strategies. SOX 2.0, a Web-based suite of enterprise applications, addresses both the specifics of Sections 404 and 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, as well as ongoing modifications and additions proposed by the SEC and other regulatory organizations. Version 2.0 extends SOX with enhancements that address Section 302, which requires officers to sign statements verifying the completeness and accuracy of financial statements. Specifically, 2.0 includes a fully articulated Survey capability. Sarbanes-Oxley Express 2.0 is built on the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) framework, and runs on top of the OpenPages 4.0 Enterprise Edition OP4 Platform. The OP4, a J2EE-compliant environment, combines a set of services, including document and content management, collaborative and automated workflows, and multi-channel publishing. www.OpenPages.com
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