Mediasurface announced that it has acquired selected assets of Reef SA/NV, a North American focused Content Management vendor. Under the agreement Mediasurface purchased the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of all three Reef product lines, including InternetWare: The core Reef product a Web Content Management suite with a customer base in North America; EveryWare: Web content transformation – takes content and converts it on-the-fly to any Internet access device (e.g. WAP phones, interactive TV, screenreaders, PDAs); and QuickStart: a Web Content Management solution offering functionality for the small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) market. www.mediasurface.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 461 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/
Volantis Systems Ltd. has been named as a three star partner for pervasive Internet (multi channel) solutions by BEA Systems Ltd. The partnership will provide organisations with a platform for the management and delivery of web applications across multiple channels and connected devices. The partnership covers sales, marketing and technology development, ensuring the rapid integration of Volantis’ solution, Mariner, with the BEA WebLogic Server and BEA Portal Server. The combined offering provides customers with an immediately deployable multi-channel infrastructure. www.volantis.com
Conviveon Corporation announced availability of its Conviveon Access Appliance, an integrated hardware and software content management solution. The Conviveon Access Appliance integrates a web server, application server and database server on a single piece of hardware, and comes pre-installed with Conviveon Access Server, an XML-based content management and integration software platform. The entry-level appliance, CAA100, is a 1U “pizza box” server ready to plug directly into a network, enabling web designers and users to start taking advantage of its capabilities immediately. Oracle and SQL Server options are also available, as are a variety of hardware alternatives. www.conviveon.com
SiteScape Inc. announced that it has released a number of new collaborative Content Delivery Agents (CDAs) for the Citrix NFuse Elite access portal server. SiteScape’s CDAs, which are individual, customizable components that “plug into” an existing back-end system to present tailored views of data to the portal desktop, allow NFuse Elite portal customers to access the basic collaboration, knowledge management and business process improvement features. SiteScape’s CDAs for Citrix NFuse Elite are free of charge and are immediately available for download from SiteScape’s website. www.sitescape.com/next/download.html
FileNET Corporation announced its support for Universal Application Network – a standards-based, vendor-independent application integration solution – launched by Siebel Systems, in conjunction with other application software vendors, integration server vendors and systems integrators. FileNET plans to provide out-of-the-box connectivity between FileNET ECM and Universal Application Network. Based on XML and Web Services standards, Universal Application Network enables organizations to integrate applications such as FileNET’s ECM solutions, and helps organizations avoid being locked into vendor-specific architectures. FileNET and Siebel Systems will deliver an enhanced integrated solution that combines the best practices drawn from both Siebel Systems’ business process library and FileNET’s approach to Enterprise Content Management. www.FileNET.com
Inclusion Technologies, Inc. announced release of the Intra.Net Information Management System 4.4, with enhanced tools for improving organizational effectiveness. With a new set of tools for managing common business processes, customers can now establish routing mechanisms that match organizational work flows, view document change histories, and rate them for easier approvals and distribution. Version 4.4 offers administration tools and low maintenance requirements that make it possible for individual departments, administrators, or resource managers to set up the Intranet and manage their own content, calendars, contacts and access privileges. Inclusion Technologies provides its secure platform as both a licensed product for use within customer data centers, and as a fully scaleable ASP solution for immediate deployment. www.inclusiontechnologies.com
LightSpeed Software, Inc. announced the release of Astoria 4.0, a major new release of their content management system. LightSpeed Astoria is an XML-based content management solution that works with current authoring tools to provide fine-grained control over valuable information assets. LightSpeed Astoria manages the collaborative authoring process, providing access control, versioning, flexible information and component reuse, meta-data tagging, workflow and distribution to the Web, PDA’s, paper and CD-ROM. LightSpeed Astoria 4.0 features include enhanced compatibility with current versions of XML and SGML authoring tools, including Arbortext Epic 4.3, Corel XMetaL 3.0 and Adobe FrameMaker 7, inclusion of advanced review and workflow features, as well as performance and scalability improvements. LightSpeed Astoria’s integration with Altova’s authentic 5 enables remote authoring of structured XML content through a standard Web browser. www.LSpeed.com
Ektron, Inc. announced the release of Ektron CMS200 version 2.0. Ektron expands its multilingual, browser-based content management solution to Microsoft ASP.NET, Macromedia ColdFusion and PHP, in addition to the existing support for Microsoft ASP. CMS200 runs simultaneously on various Web application servers. For sites running on multiple application servers, this new “multi-platform” capability allows developers to standardize on Ektron CMS200. For migration from ASP to ASP.NET, Ektron allows for the conversion of various sections over time, rather than a one-time full site rollout. Ektron CMS200 includes Ektron eWebEditPro. Beyond newly added support for multiple application servers, CMS200 version 2.0 adds improved tracking for library items, enhanced reporting, new site previewing support, better content scheduling and new capabilities for tiered, delegated administration. Prices start at US$3,000. www.ektron.com
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