Vivisimo, Inc. unveiled a free online service that automatically categorizes the search results from FirstGov.gov – the U.S. Government’s official web portal. Vivisimo’s new service helps citizens find government information quickly and easily by organizing FirstGov search results into meaningful subject categories. FirstGov provides a comprehensive search of government information including over 51 million web pages from federal and state governments and U.S. territories. A FirstGov search can produce 1000 or more search results in a long ranked list. Vivisimo’s automatic document clustering technology improves the FirstGov search and helps users sort through the results.
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 426 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/
InQuira, Inc. announces the availability of Web analytics embedded as part of its InQuira 6 customer search and navigation application. InQuira 6 enables Web site visitors to ask a question in natural language and then interprets the real intent of their query, automatically responding with the answer and guiding the user to additional related information and opportunities to buy products and services. InQuira 6 utilizes content diagnostics to measure the quality of each users’ Web experience, enabling businesses to identify content gaps and add new content to improve the Web site. InQuira 6 contains a new analytics architecture and an extensive set of new reports. The architecture features an OLAP engine, a normalized reporting database, a star-schema analytics database, and a built-in business intelligence tool. The reports provide enhanced information, ranging from aggregated management information to drilldown into individual users, questions and sessions. www.inquira.com
Sun Microsystems Inc. announced the iForce Content Network, a new partner-based initiative designed to bring together resources from Sun and an extensive community of partners to help customers manage content complexity in the enterprise. The iForce Content Network, with more than 30 partner members, provides revenue generating opportunities which include demand-generation programs and support from a growing number of community members such as Agari Mediaware, Inc., Artesia Technologies, Autonomy, ContextMedia, Day Software, Inc., Documentum, Engage Inc., FatWire Software, FileNet, GAUSS Interprise, Interwoven, Intraspect, Open Text, Pinnacor, Pixion, RealNetworks, Stellent, Streamserve, ThoughtWeb, Inc., Verity, Vignette, Xerox, and others. All participating partners can enjoy a portfolio of benefits offered through Sun’s iForce Initiative, including iForce Solution Centers, iForce go-to-market programs, and early access to Sun’s technologies. The iForce Content Network is currently available at www.sun.com/contentnetwork
Vignette Corp. announced the integration of its Vignette Content Management Suites, Vignette Portal Suites and other capabilities into the Vignette Application Suites. Vignette Application Suites provide an integrated suite of applications and software services that combine at graduated levels content management, enterprise information integration, collaboration, portal management, business intelligence and business process management. All of these capabilities can be managed through an integrated console. These suites unify content management, portals, information integration, collaboration and business processes for the creation and management of mission-critical enterprise Web applications while delivering highly personalized and targeted enterprise information. Vignette Application Group Suite and Vignette Application Business Suite are currently available. Licensing costs for Vignette Suites begin at $125,000. www.vignette.com
Context Media, Inc. announced the integration of the Context Media Interchange Suite with Sun Microsystems’ Sun ONE Portal Server 6. Additionally, Context Media announced that it has joined the iForce Content Network, a Sun Microsystems’ initiative that provides the tools, resources and services for ISV, SI and reseller partners to build, deploy and market content and knowledge management solutions on the Sun platform. Interchange Suite and the Sun One Portal Server utilize Web services in order to provide secure access and management of all forms of enterprise content, including rich media, text files, and structured data. The combination of the solutions allows businesses to aggregate digital content stored in multiple repositories and systems around an enterprise and present it to users through a single interface. The Sun ONE Portal Server serves as the primary interface and presentation layer through which individual users access and view the content. The Sun ONE Directory Server provides users a security solution through user, policy, identity management and single sign-on capabilities. www.contextmedia.com
Red Hat, Inc. announced the Red Hat Enterprise Applications family of products. Red Hat now offers a complete enterprise solution that is delivered and managed through Red Hat Enterprise Network. The Red Hat Enterprise Content Management System and Portal Server are available now. www.redhat.com
Ektron Annouunced CMS300 version 2.5 with new Web Services features. Additional enhancements include Oracle support and new editing functionality from eWebEditPro+XML. Ektron CMS 300 version 2.5 will ship on April 18, 2003. Beyond new Oracle support, CMS300 version 2.5 adds automatic image upload when pasting from Microsoft Word, commenting features for collaboration, search and replace in WYSIWYG and HTML mode, and other editor enhancements. www.ektron.com
Convera and Intelliseek announced a partnership designed to extend distribution and bring greater functionality to their current product offerings. Under the agreement, Convera will add new federated search capability to its product line by offering Intelliseek’s Enterprise Search Server (ESS) solution as an optional component of Convera’s RetrievalWare search and categorization platform. Intelliseek will become a reseller of Converas RetrievalWare product to add indexing and search of internal content to Intelliseeks product line. Intelliseek’s ESS solution is pre-configured for over 1,000 different Internet and legacy search engines. Customers can purchase an optional Agent Development Kit featuring a point-and-click interface to create new adaptors for additional sources. www.convera.com, www.intelliseek.com
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