Merant announced Merant Collage 4.0. Merant Collage 4.0 is easier to use, delivers advanced deployment capabilities, and offers enhanced support for Oracle9i Database, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Linux servers and Macintosh clients. Merant Collage 4.0 features enhancements to deployment capabilities, enabling organizations to deploy code and content to databases and portals in addition to staging and production servers. Merant Collage also allows companies to deploy assets residing outside of the Collage repository, associate custom commands with deployment at multiple points of time, and execute custom commands on deployment servers. Merant Collage 4.0 supports Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Linux servers and Macintosh clients, as well as the comprehensive, integrated platform provided by Oracle’s end-to-end technology stack, including the Oracle9i Database and Oracle9i Application Server. Merant Collage also supports multiple other operating systems, relational database platforms, application servers, desktop browsers and industry protocols. Merant Collage 4.0 will be available in April 2003. www.merant.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 428 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/
RedDot Solutions announced the launch of RedDot Content Management Server (CMS) 5.0. Among the new features are improved database support including native Oracle connections, and a graphical workflow designer. The RedDot translation editor is also now available as a server option. RedDot now offers full support for Oracle (in addition to MS-SQL Server and MSDE) as the internal database platform for a RedDot deployment. There is a new graphical browser-based interface for the design and modification of workflow processes within RedDot. The RedDot Translation Editor supports a global enterprise with translation tools to assist with the deployment of multilingual sites. Translators are notified via workflow e-mail when content has been created or modified and that content needs to be translated into the language that s/he is responsible for. The RedDot Translation Editor gives the translator a split-screen text editor with one side displaying the original content and the other a text editor ready for the translator to input the content in the language needed. For a detailed list of CMS 5.0 features and functionality, see www.reddot.com
Verity Inc. announced its Verity K2 Developer (K2D) software has been embedded into ApplicationXtender, an integrated suite of enterprise content management solutions from LEGATO Systems Inc. Verity K2D complements ApplicationXtender’s foreign language support in the enhanced search capability by supporting the languages offered by ApplicationXtender — Japanese, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. www.verity.com
Endeca and ClearForest announced a partnership that will provide customers with the ability to search, explore and navigate unstructured enterprise data. ClearForest will offer unstructured data auto tagging to customers deploying Endeca ProFind enterprise search application solutions. Endeca and ClearForest have integrated their technology products to provide a more powerful information retrieval system for large corporate and government users. Through its automated creation of metadata, ClearTags transforms unstructured content and makes it as accessible as the structured information typically found in databases. In combination with Endeca ProFind, an advanced search and Guided Navigation application, users will benefit from search and navigation of unstructured data. www.endeca.com, www.clearforest.com
Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software announced an integration suite that delivers access to FileNet’s P8 enterprise content management (ECM) architecture through the Plumtree Corporate Portal. The integration suite, developed and supported by Soft Cell, consists of portlets for incorporating FileNet’s content and business process management, and a certified Crawler Web Service for indexing and meta-tagging FileNet content in the Plumtree Corporate Portal Document Directory. The Crawler Web Service for FileNet Content Services by Soft Cell periodically scans the FileNet repository for the latest document versions and new content, and creates links in the portal’s document directory to text documents, images, spreadsheets or other forms of content. The Crawler and portlets are available from Soft Cell and Plumtree. www.softcell.be, www.plumtree.com
Artesia Technologies announced the immediate availability of a newly developed integration adapter linking the Artesia TEAMS solution with Vignette’s family of content management and portal solutions. With the release of this product, enterprises can integrate Artesia’s digital asset management solutions with Vignette’s solutions. The jointly developed integration package is currently available. Pricing information may be obtained through Vignette and Artesia. www.artesia.com
Hummingbird Ltd. announced the acquisition of Key Automation Nederland B.V. and its affiliate Dispro B.V. (herein referred to as “Key Automation/Dispro”) privately held distributors and integrators of document management solutions in the Netherlands and Benelux. Key Automation/Dispro are long standing Hummingbird partners in the deployment and integration of Hummingbird products. While their expertise spans multiple industries, Key Automation/Dispro is mostly recognized in the government sector for document, records and correspondence management solutions. Key Automation/Dispro provide product integration, deployment, implementation and educational services that deliver single source point of support to manage the entire life cycle associated with enterprise information management solutions. www.hummingbird.com
SmartPath Inc. announced a strategic partnership with MediaBin Inc. The integration of SmartPath’s MRM (Marketing Resource Management) solution with MediaBin’s DAM (Dogital Asset Management) solution provides comprehensive functionality to support production and project management initiatives for all marketing activities. This integration will offer large marketing organizations the capabilities they need to speed marketing campaigns and product launches while increasing efficiencies and reducing costs. www.smartpathinc.com, mediabin.com
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