Stellent, Inc. announced a content and document management solution designed specifically for the commercial real estate industry. The Stellent Commercial Real Estate Solution provides paper-intensive real estate companies and corporations with internal property management needs with a hosted, Web-based application for sharing and accessing critical business documents such as leases, amendments and architectural drawings. The Stellent Commercial Real Estate Solution is an online document management service that enables customers to securely store all business documents where they can be managed, accessed and shared by employees, partners and external third parties via the Web whenever and wherever they are needed. www.stellent.com/commercialrealestate
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 417 of 479)
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/
Cardiff Software Inc. announced the general availability of two Cardiff LiquidOffice Connect Agents for IBM Content Manager for Multiplatforms V8.2 and for iSeries V5R1. The Connect Agents enable LiquidOffice eForms to be automatically sent to IBM Content Manager systems for archival or additional workflow processing. The Connect Agents were developed by ImageTech Systems Inc. using LiquidOffice’s Connect Agent API. The new Connect Agents enable LiquidOffice users to export completed HTML and PDF forms and related attachments into IBM Content Manager systems. LiquidOffice forms exported into IBM Content Manager’s centralized document repository are indexed and archived in PDF along with any attachments in their native format. Once archived, users can conduct searches to retrieve a requested form. www.imagetechsys.com, www.cardiff.com
Mondosoft announced enhancements to its third generation search activity and visitor behavior reporting software, BehaviorTracking. BehaviorTracking 5.1 offers insight into web site visitors’ behavior and identifies new trends on the web site, and new content demands. It gives a picture of the site performance, success in meeting users’ expectations as well as a number of success metrics. The information is available online and sent directly with individual content to the inboxes of management, marketing, and web editors. BehaviorTracking 5.1 was built using .NET technology and has been integrated and tested to support Microsoft’s Enterprise server product suite. Along with the BehaviorTracking enhancements, Mondosoft offers an InformationManager tool kit that use search best practice metrics, to apply findings from the search and visitor behavior data for continual site tuning and optimization. www.mondosoft.com
Easypress Technologies released Atomik Roundtrip 1.5, its XML software for QuarkXPress. The enhancements include support for attribute-driven and contextual rules along with QuarkXPress special control characters. The combination of these features enables Atomik Roundtrip to further automate the application of styling based on specific information contained in the XML. Atomik Roundtrip now includes character entity mapping to enable better support for scientific, medical and technical (STM) publications. This new functionality enables users to import XML into QuarkXPress and have Atomik Roundtrip automatically interpret any entity references in the XML and map them to the appropriate font and character in QuarkXPress. It can also do this in reverse if the user re-exports the XML from QuarkXPress. There is now a QuarkXPress 5 native version of Atomik Roundtrip. The suggested retail price for a single-user licence of Atomik Roundtrip is Pounds 3,495, $4,495 or Euro 5,495, and for a 5-user licence of Atomik Roundtrip is Pounds 9,950, $16,119 or Euro 15,423 depending on the country of purchase. Existing Atomik Roundtrip customers with software maintenance agreements will receive the 1.5 upgrade free of charge. www.easypress.com
Progressive Information Technologies announced the release of Vasont SG, a low-cost version of its content management system for cross-media publishing. Vasont SG specifically addresses fundamental content management needs for editorial groups with limited resources. Vasont SG is available as a client/server system for small editorial groups within organizations that have a need for content management for technical documentation, manuals, reference materials, and publications that are continually updated and republished in multiple media channels. The license fee for Vasont SG is $29,975 USD and includes one server and five client/server seats. Full support and training are also available. Vasont SG clients who determine a need for additional seats, Web seats, or advanced content management functionality can purchase a full Vasont system and receive credit for the entire Vasont SG purchase price. www.vasont.com
Macromedia announced Macromedia Authorware 7. Authorware enables developers to deliver AICC/ADL-SCORM compatible courseware, and the latest version adds learning management system Knowledge Objects that make it easier to communicate between the application and the LMS. A Learning Object Content Packager helps developers organize and upload content to the LMS. The packager compiles the metadata, Authorware files and resources, and an XML manifest into an ADL SCORM-compatible zip file. The product imports and exports XML to create data-driven applications, supports JavaScript to enable additional programming depth, and enables all product properties to be scripted, allowing developers to create commands, Knowledge Objects, and extensible content. Macromedia Authorware 7 is available as both a standalone product or as part of the Macromedia eLearning Suite. Authorware 7 is expected to ship later this month for Windows 98, SE, Me, NT 4, 2000, and XP. The product is priced at $2,999 for new users, $399 to upgrade from Authorware 6.5, and $899 to upgrade from Authorware 5.x and 6.0, with educational pricing at $499. www.macromedia.com/go/aw7
Autonomy Corporation plc announced an upgrade to the core algorithms that power Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) Infrastructure technology. Dynamic Reasoning Engine vs 4 (DRE4) increases the speed and sophistication of real time analysis, and provides enhanced indexing performance, increased querying, improved storage, new logging features, enhanced field processing, split data storage, enhanced XML operations, multi-language support and simultaneous multi-security operations, Communication with DRE 4 is implemented over HTTP using XML and can adhere to .Net and SOAP. IDOL interface (application layer) Portal-in-a-Box vs 4 (PIB4) now provides a suite of analytics interfaces for automated navigation. These include enhanced automatic/manual query and results interfaces that power personalization and collaborative operations fusing text, voice and video sources in a single operation. For users who wish to employ manual operation techniques and editing features Legacy Compatibility Module vs 3 (LCM3) now provides as standard, advanced Proximity Keyword Search; Soundex; Metadata Search; Federated Search and Parametric Search. www.autonomy.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MediaBin, a digital asset management (DAM) company. The two companies announced the integration of their products in October 2002. The new joint solution will combine Interwoven Intelligence Server software for content classification and taxonomy management with MediaBin, to deliver intelligent management of rich media assets. This combination of Interwoven and MediaBin’s capabilities will allow organizations to protect their brand by ensuring consistent, accurate, and current content assets to support all enterprise products and services. This new solution will include extensions to print applications, such as Adobe InDesign, and will utilize Interwoven’s ContentServices standard for Web Service-enabled applications. The Interwoven Digital Brand Management Solution is available from Interwoven today and can be purchased for an entry price of $100K. Interwoven will market both the MediaBin DAM line of products and the combined MediaBin and Interwoven solution immediately. Interwoven client services and technical support are trained and prepared to assist customers with these products. www.interwoven.com
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