KMtechnologies Inc. announced a new partnership agreement with Swingtide. FSwingtide has licensed KMtechnologies’ work2gether platform to deliver the Swingtide QoB Assistant. Leveraging the work2gether collaborative features, the QoB Assistant is a productivity tool for architects and developers to understand, define and manage the interoperability of XML used in service-oriented architectures. The QoB Assistant is a software application packaged with an online knowledgebase of XML standards that’s accessible from your network. The QoB Assistant automates planning in several key ways. First, the QoB Assistant lets you make specific choices about XML and make them persistent across your local copy of the knowledge-base as design guidelines. Second, several people can work and collaborate on a design simultaneously. The QoB Assistant comes complete with discussion thread capability, email notification when team members update a portion of the design, and even support for distance collaboration. Additionally, the QoB Assistant enables you to add custom content that can be leveraged by the rest of the team. www.kmtechnologies.com www.swingtide.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 423 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/
FatWire Software introduced a new dCM Integration kit with six free FatWire dCM portlets for IBM’s WebSphere Portal. The portlets allow business users to easily create and modify both structured and unstructured content and publish it to the WebSphere Portal to provide users with fresh, relevant information. The new dCM Integration Kit provides J2EE integration between FatWire’s dynamic content management software, UpdateEngine, and IBM’s Web Sphere Portal v4.1 to allow business users to easily create, edit and publish content to WebSphere Portals. FatWire’s six new dCM content-rich display portlets include The User Display Portlet, The Launch Pad Portlet, The News Portlet, The Job Listing Portlet, The Document Portlet, and The Advertisement Portlet. The dCM Integration Kit and six portlets are available from the IBM Portlet Catalog (Code: 1WP1000CK). www.ibm.com, www.fatwire.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced the official opening of its office in Milan, Italy. The new Interwoven Italian office is located at Via Monte di Pieta, 21, 20121 Milano, Italia; Tel: +39 02 86 33 7 237. www.interwoven.com
Scene7, Inc. announced the integration of its Infinite Imaging Platform with IBM DB2 Content Manager Version 8.2. IBM and Scene7 jointly market Scene7’s platform with IBM software and hardware platforms. Scene7 clients can computer generate any digital image they need — in photo quality — for uses including Websites, catalogs, partner extranets and marketing collateral. Scene7 integration includes the ability to publish dynamically generated imagery, including related image attributes and server requests, to IBM DB2 Content Manager v8.2 as a secure repository. Within Content Manager’s standard e-client, users can directly view all published images and related metadata. Using Scene7’s enhanced e-client, these users can search, browse, edit and transform image assets directly from IBM Content Manager. In support of this integrated solution, Scene7’s platform operates on all major IBM environments, including DB2, WebSphere Application Server, Linux, AIX, Portal Server, and eServer hardware (xSeries, pSeries). www.scene7.com www.ibm.com/software/data/cm
Document Sciences Corporation announced the release of xPression, a content processing services architecture. xPression extends the capabilities of enterprise Content Management, CRM, Portal and Business Application systems through a J2EE/XML component-based architecture. xPression uses XML to connect an organization’s existing workflow components. xPression works with Microsoft Word to design documents based on business rules. xPression can communicate with any solution, customize content at a high level of granularity, generate output through multiple channels and handle both transactional and high-volume batch processes. It runs on an IBM WebSphere, and is compatible with Windows 2000, Solaris, AIX, and HP/UX platforms. Support for BEA WebLogic, and z/OS will be added later this year. XPression is Unicode compatible. It integrates with Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server. Xpression’s Upgrade Utility allows companies currently using Document Sciences’ Autograph DLS product to migrate their applications to the xPression environment if application server operability is desired. Supported output formats include: PDF, HTML, Postscript, AFP, Metacode, and PCL. www.docscience.com
Microsoft Corp. began distributing a half-million copies of the beta 2 version of the new Microsoft Office System to customers and partners worldwide. Seven Office System products are provided in the beta evaluation kit, including beta 2 versions of the new Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Access), the two new Office System additions, Microsoft Office InfoPath, Microsoft Office OneNote, as well as Microsoft Office FrontPage, Microsoft Office Publisher, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server “2.0,”. The products were developed with four key design goals in mind: information intelligence, process management, effective teaming, and personal impact. The release of the Microsoft Office System to beta 2 testing enables Microsoft business partners to build information worker solutions that incorporate collaboration and portal capabilities and improved desktop tools. Business partners also can begin testing the new information and research services they will be able to offer as Web services. Microsoft Office System products are scheduled for release in mid-2003. Pricing and availability are unavailable. www.microsoft.com
Factiva and Microsoft, Inc. announced a relationship that will deliver news and business information from Factiva into the Microsoft Office 2003 suite. Factiva’s first solution for Office 2003, Factiva News Search, will allow information workers to conduct research on Factiva’s 8,000 sources directly from a report or presentation they’re creating. For example, while drafting a competitive brief in Word 2003, competitive intelligence professionals can use Factiva News Search to quickly look up industry trends from newspapers, journals, and newswires from around the world and insert that research into their document. Factiva News Search will be integrated into the Research Task Pane of all Microsoft Office 2003 applications, including Word 2003, Excel 2003, Access 2003, Outlook 2003, and PowerPoint 2003. Factiva News Search is currently available as part of the Microsoft Office 2003 Beta 2 trial. Factiva’s investment in a platform based on XML and Web services enabled its integration with the Microsoft Office 2003 system. While evaluating beta test feedback, Factiva and Microsoft will also be researching customer solutions that can be built on top of the Office 2003 System. www.factiva.com
ZyLAB announced that it has enhanced its ZyIMAGE data storage and records management & archival product suite by incorporating XML as the data format to store scanned and electronic documents. A key driver to incorporating XML data formats is to help ZyLAB customers better adhere to corporate governance legislation such as Sarbanes Oxley, which is designed to ensure organizations have clear policies, proper records management systems, and adequate audit trails for its enterprise-wide information. www.zylab.com
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