Sun Microsystems, Inc. and FatWire Software announced that a free five-user license of FatWire Spark pCM (portal content management) is available immediately for download for Sun ONE Portal Server 6 customers. Spark pCM offers a full-featured, integrated content management solution for the Sun One Portal Server. Customers will now be able to create, deploy, and manage content incorporating multiple data types and deliver in a personalized manner via a portal. The Sun ONE Portal Server and FatWire’s Spark pCM offering provides users with portlet interfaces for content creation and production, as well as system administration. The integrated offering delivers out-of-the-box integration with Sun ONE Portal Server. Sun will work with other content management partners to offer similar levels of integration. Spark pCM will be available immediately for download for Sun ONE Portal Server and will be co-packaged in second half 2003 for customers worldwide. It can be quickly and seamlessly upgraded to FatWire’s 25-user Spark pCM product or to UpdateEngine 6.0, FatWire’s enterprise content management platform. www.fatwire.com, www.sun.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 428 of 481)
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/
FileNet Corporation announced it is partnering with Steelpoint Technologies to provide an ECM solution addressing the market demands for regulatory compliance and litigation risk management (CLRM) solutions. The partnership pairs FileNet’s Content and Business Process Management technology with Steelpoint’s Introspect eCM, a litigation support application. The joint solution is designed to help companies manage risk and comply with a wide range of corporate governance requirements and regulations, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Additionally, the CLRM solution supports dispute resolution by helping manage the millions of documents involved in large corporate litigations. At the core of the CLRM solution is Steelpoint’s eDiscovery technology, which allows corporations to collect, categorize and store information from a variety of sources, identify the relevant and responsive content, collaborate on issues of risk, and drive corrective mitigation processes. www.filenet.com
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.
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
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
Document Sciences Corporation announced the release of xPression version 1.2. The latest version of xPression adds support for BEA WebLogic 7.0, and two new Web Services that allow organizations to extend the content processing capabilities of their existing enterprise applications. XPressions new Web Services, a Document Requestor and Document Distributor, allow Content Management, CRM, Portal and Business Application applications to call on xPression’s capabilities from within an existing workflow to request or distribute xPression-created documents. XPression is compatible with Windows 2000, Solaris, AIX, and HP/UX platforms. Support for z/OS will be added later this year. xPression is Unicode compatible and can support XML in any dialect. 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. www.docscience.com
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