FileNet Corporation and Venetica announced a relationship under which FileNet will re-sell Venetica’s Content Provider for the FileNet P8 Workplace, FileNet’s user interface for its FileNet P8 ECM architecture. The Content Provider for FileNet P8 Workplace leverages Venetica’s product VeniceBridge, and enables FileNet customers to access existing enterprise content through FileNet’s common API and user interface. FileNet’s VCM solution enables users to browse and search external content sources, and includes support for existing FileNet repositories, third party content management systems and custom content sources. Users can copy selected content into the FileNet P8 Content Manager or create real-time links to content residing in external repositories. www.venetica.com, www.filenet.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 410 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/
UCCnet, the not-for-profit organization that provides item registry and data synchronization services based on industry-developed standards, and Trigo Technologies, Inc. announced that Trigo Product Center 4 has been certified for UCCnet Foundation Services 2.1. By earning UCCnet certification in Supply Side, Demand Side (Buy) as well as Universal testing, Trigo Product Center delivers a certified solution that captures, manages, and synchronizes comprehensive product information for manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Trigo will participate in the UCCnet Foundation Services 2.2 beta program. Trigo’s participation in this program will ensure that Trigo Product Center continues to provide full support for current and future UCCnet and GCI (Global Commerce Initiative) standards. Trigo Product Center 4 exceeds current GCI standards for EAN.UCC data synchronization, enabling trading partners to manage and synchronize the broadest range of product information. www.uccnet.org, www.trigo.com
WebSideStory, Inc. Atomz announced an exclusive alliance to provide businesses with a solution for Web site search, content management and Web analytics. Under the agreement, the companies will integrate their products and services and work on a number of joint marketing projects. HitBox greatly extends Atomz Search’s reporting capabilities to include campaign ROI tracking, up-to-the-second merchandising reports, funnel analysis, visitor segmentation and more. Atomz will also integrate HitBox intelligence into its Atomz Publish content management system, allowing companies to get detailed, real-time insight into online visitor behavior. Using HitBox reports, companies can see which content visitors prefer, which navigational paths they take, which marketing campaigns they respond to, and more. www.atomz.com, www.websidestory.com
North Plains Systems Corp. announced the release of TeleScope Enterprise 7.0. TeleScope Enterprise 7.0 is designed to enable organizations to increase their ROI by expanding its use throughout the enterprise. Two major functional tools have been added to TeleScope Enterprise 7.0. The Lookup Broker option enables on-demand lookup of metadata from other data sources, such as pulling in the ISBN number based on just the book title or finding a list of episodes from the name of a particular television program. A new administrative capability has been built in to create an extensible scripting language of administrator-defined rules within the application, which simplifies “asset level” permissions within the TeleScope system. Digital Rights Management and Workflow Automation are other capabilities that are now easily configured using this new tool. www.northplains.com
BroadVision, Inc. announced a significant upgrade to the BroadVision 7 suite of enterprise portal applications, which includes BroadVision One-To-One Portal, BroadVision One-To-One Commerce and BroadVision One-To-One Content. BroadVision One-To-One Commerce is a multi-channel sales portal that automates the sales process. Key features of the 7.1 release include agent-assisted service to augment BroadVision’s self-service functionality, support for self-service returns and enhanced support for globalization. BroadVision One-To-One Portal is an application for deploying personalized business-to-employee, business-to-business and business-to-consumer portals. Key features of the 7.1 release include streamlined integration of external user management and content management systems and simplified management of community collaboration-focused microsites. BroadVision One-To-One Content allows organizations to manage all types of content throughout its lifecycle from creation and management through deployment and distribution. Key features of the 7.1 release include integration to other BroadVision applications, enhanced support for internationalization, and performance gains that accelerate workflow. www.broadvision.com
FatWire Software announced it will acquire divine’s Content Management business. As part of the divine bankruptcy auction, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Boston has approved the sale of divine’s content management assets to Saratoga Partners, a New York private equity firm, who will simultaneously transfer these assets to FatWire. The sale is expected to close in the next few days. divine’s content management business includes divine’s Content Server, formerly OpenMarket, divine’s Participant Server, formerly Eprise, and its over 300 worldwide customers. divine Content Server provides an extensible framework for growth. Customers leverage Content Server’s J2EE architecture to build their own content-driven applications. divine Participant Server manages and simplifies the flow of content to Web sites by enabling business users to add, modify, manage, and publish content without the assistance of IT staff. www.fatwire.com
Corel Corporation and LightSpeed Software announced a strategic partnership to deliver a comprehensive content management solution for authoring, managing and publishing technical documentation. The companies have built an integration between Corel XMetaL, Corel’s XML editing tool, and LightSpeed Astoria, LightSpeed Software’s content management system, providing customers with a single solution. This offering is available now. The Corel/LightSpeed Software solution offers content experts a way to create reusable XML content at an element level breaking documents into small managed elements or ‘chunks’ that can be shared, updated, located and delivered to multiple channels. By enabling anyone within an organization to create XML content, the costly and repetitive process of converting content from proprietary document formats into XML is eliminated. The solution supports the newly-released Corel XMetaL 4, giving authors the power to create XML content within any ActiveX-compliant application, including email and Web browsers. www.LSpeed.com, www.corel.com
Mobius Management Systems, Inc. announced the availability of ViewDirect Total Content Integrator, a new product that provides access through a single interface to content stored in disparate repositories. ViewDirect Total Content Integrator enables cross-repository, cross-platform searching and retrieval of content in any format stored in silos from vendors such as FileNet and IBM as well as homegrown systems. ViewDirect Total Content Integrator is a component of the ViewDirect TCM suite of total content management solutions, including Web site, digital asset and document management; workflow and imaging; Internet presentment and payment; records management; and enterprise report distribution. ViewDirect Total Content Integrator uses SOAP over HTTP/SSL to access remote repositories and APIs across firewalls. It is interoperable with Sun ONE and Microsoft.Net. The product features out-of-the-box connectors that understand the structure of the content source, an intelligent dictionary mapping service that resolves the relationship between data in disparate repositories, and Web services for distributed searching, user profiling, content retrieval and automatic content presentment. ViewDirect Total Content Integrator is scheduled for managed release in July 2003. www.mobius.com
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