Mobius Management Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired technology and certain other assets of Cytura Corp. Cytura software delivers Web site management, document management and digital asset management in a single platform. It gives business managers and non-technical employees the ability to create, personalize, transform, manage and publish content. Cytura technology will be integrated with the Mobius ViewDirect TCM software suite to deliver a comprehensive integrated solution for enterprise content requirements. Mobius paid Cytura $2.2 million in cash for the acquired assets. In approximately one year, Mobius may be obligated to pay Cytura up to an additional $800,000, depending on the price of Mobius common stock over the next thirteen months.
www.mobius.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 463 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/
Soft Experience has released Catalogue 4.0 – Files Metadata Miner. Catalogue 4.0 is a Windows utility to automatically gather file metadata and to generate HTML/XML/RDF reports. Collected metadata includes: Microsoft Office, Star Office and OpenOffice.org summary information; summary information of any Windows 2000 file; HTML document title and meta tags according to Dublic Core schema (IETF RFC 2731); Adobe XMP metadata; user-defined information of any Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org document; Macintosh comments of any Macintosh file stored on NTFS volumes; PDF Document information; and IPTC-NAA fields for JPEG/TIFF images. The program can generate directly HTML, CSV, Word or XML reports of collected metadata, and is able to apply appropriate XSL transformations to build any text/csv/html/xml report. Language support includes English, French, German, and Portuguese,and you can modify or add your own user interface language.
Percussion Software announced a partnership agreement with Olidium, who will integrate its technology with Percussion’s Rhythmyx Content Manager and offer the products in tandem to customers. C3Liaison is an Internet-based platform allowing customers, suppliers and trading partners to collaborate, manage and share an extended network of business processes and inter-enterprise applications. The C3Liaison suite of applications comprises a portal framework and seven applications: catalog manager, sourcing, procurement, fulfillment visibility, asset management, collaborative inventory and maintenance, repair and engineering (MRE). Olidium supports Sun Solaris, Linux, and Microsoft Windows 2000 operating systems; as well as Oracle, IBM DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server databases. It has been built to be integrated with legacy ERP systems and other vertical applications. C3Liaison will integrate with Rhythmyx Content Manager V4.5 to update and repurpose content via Olidium’s Rhythmyx Publisher Plug-in. This integration will occur in three main areas of Olidium’s C3Liaison suite: Portlets, Catalog Manager and Documentation. www.percussion.com, www.olidium.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced TeamPortal for IBM WebSphere Portal – Express, to complement WebSphere Portal – Express recently announced by IBM. The offering will enable customers to quickly and easily get portal initiatives up and running as well as provide the ongoing management of portal content, documents, and code. Interwoven TeamPortal for IBM WebSphere Portal – Express will be available on October 31st in conjunction with IBM’s availability of WebSphere Portal – Express. www.interwoven.com
Factiva announced Factiva Fusion, a content enhancement tool that categorizes and creates relationships between critical business content sets, according to a taxonomy. Factiva Fusion structures content for retrieval and contextual integration into portals, intranets, and other business applications. Factiva’s experts work with customers to tailor Factiva Intelligent Indexing, reducing the time needed to create a unique classification scheme. The solution does not seek to replace existing portals, intranets, and content management systems, but to complement and enhance their performance by consistently organizing the content within those repositories. With Factiva Fusion’s developer’s kit companies can invoke Web services to supply enhanced information that supports specific job functions (e.g., Finance, Marketing, etc.) Fusion incorporates an editorial interface for content collection and taxonomy management, and a pre-defined search interface for out-of-the-box access to unified content. Factiva has strategic partnerships with EIP application providers such as Microsoft, IBM, and Plumtree. www.factiva.com
iXmatch Inc. announced that its search software, iXfind, has been integrated with Microsoft Corp.’s new version of one of its .NET Enterprise Servers, Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, to provide customers an option for advanced search functionality. iXfind allows people to search structured and unstructured data across all areas of a Web site or network, including documents, catalog content, product details, and support information. iXfind provides advanced search functionality, including dynamic clustering, best bet content recommendations, document profiles, and auto-categorization. iXfind’s server controls allow customers to quickly deploy it with Content Management Server 2002. The software crawls, indexes, and classifies the content to make it searchable, with no further maintenance. The goal is to provide Content Management Server 2002 customers with advanced search functionality out of the box. www.ixmatch.com
Ektron, Inc. announced a formal technology relationship with Microsoft Corp., whereby Ektron supports integration of Ektron eWebEditPro and eWebEditPro+XML in Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. Ektron eWebEditPro, a browser-based, multilingual XHTML content editor, offers “word-processor-like” capabilities to non-technical users and significant customization options for Web developers. eWebEditPro+XML extends the functionality of eWebEditPro by adding a WYSIWYG XML authoring environment. Ektrons technology complements features in Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, especially in the area of XML. For example, Microsoft adds a new XML data store, making content more readily accessible for other purposes, such as repositioning to various devices and enhanced searching. Additional Ektron features for Microsoft include extensive compatibility with Microsoft Word, advanced style sheet (CSS) control with style classes, advanced table and image functionality, and support for content authoring and spell checking in any Windows-supported language. Currently, Ektron eWebEditPro dialogs are available in 15 languages. www.ektron.com
Corel Corporation announced that Corel Ventura 10 is now available. A page-layout and publishing application, Corel Ventura 10 provides tools designed specifically for the creation of highly-formatted and visually-rich business documents with new features such as XML import, Publish to PDF, and enhanced graphics support. Together with Corel XMetaL 3, Corel Ventura 10 enables enterprise customers to quickly and easily create and professionally publish XML content. The XMetaL interface enables anyone within an organization to create XML. Corel Ventura 10 is available for the suggested retail price of US$699. Registered customers of Corel Ventura 7 or 8 may purchase Corel Ventura 10 at the suggested upgrade price of US$249. www.corel.com/ventura10
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