Microsoft Corp. is launching Content Management Server (CMS) 2002, part of the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server family, which also includes BizTalk Server, Commerce Server and SharePoint Portal Server. Microsoft has invested in Content Management Server to provide deeper integration with Microsoft .NET and support for industry standards, resulting in a more extensible and flexible Web content management solution. Integration with the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET provide developers with an environment to rapidly build and assemble content management-enabled Web applications and content-driven Web services. Integration with Microsoft Office improves business user productivity by allowing content creation and direct Web publishing from Microsoft Word. Also new in Content Management Server 2002 are: deep integration with Visual Studio, native support for managing XML content and XML Web services, and faster time to deploy. Content Management Server 2002 will retail for $42,000 per CPU (reseller prices may vary) and will be generally available by the end of the year. www.microsoft.com/cmserver
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 465 of 480)
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/
SOFTWIN introduced document conversion to XML format conforming to the DocBook DTD and a DRM solution. The new output option for content conversion (XML DocBook) is now available on intuitext as well, SOFTWINs free online conversion service. SOFTWINs intuitext provides a wide range of output options: XML with custom DTD, HTML, OeB, Adobe eBook Reader, and proprietary ebook formats like Gemstar and OeB Baker &Taylor. SOFTWIN also announced its DRM solution, enabling the secure distribution of online and offline content through Internet, email, and CD-ROM. SOFTWINs solution targets the entire range of publishing agents, with an emphasis on management of periodic content delivery (journals, updates, newsletters) following complex rules in a controlled manner. www.softwin.ro, www.intuitext.com
Vignette Corp. announced the availability of a new Vignette V6 Adapter for Unstructured Content that enables organizations to more easily integrate unstructured content into portals and Web applications developed with Vignette V6. Rather than treating unstructured content as monolithic static files content aggregation agents created using the V6 Adapter for Unstructured Content are able to look inside the content, discern unique patterns in the information and aggregate only what is relevant, such as specific news information intended for an employee intranet. Because of its pattern-recognition-based approach to content integration, the V6 Adapter for Unstructured Content is able to adapt to changes in the format or location of content. The Vignette V6 Adapter for Unstructured Content enables organizations to not only extract content from enterprise content sources, such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel and popular desktop applications, but also makes it possible to input data from a variety of sources into these applications. The Vignette V6 Adapter for Unstructured Content is available and included with the purchase of the Vignette V6 Content Suite. www.vignette.com
Documentum announced an agreement to acquire privately held eRoom Technology, Inc. Documentum will issue approximately 7.7 million shares of its common stock and pay approximately $12.6 million in cash for all of the outstanding shares of eRoom’s capital stock, based upon eRoom’s current capitalization. In addition, Documentum will reserve approximately 1.7 million shares of its common stock for issuance upon exercise of eRoom stock options being assumed in the acquisition. The acquisition is expected to close in December 2002, subject to customary closing conditions. The joint Documentum and eRoom solution will offer a broadened spectrum of structured, ad hoc, real time and anytime collaboration functions, integrated with Documentum’s ECM platform. Customers will have access to tools for content-centric and collaboration-centric applications, each supported, leveraged and extended by the other. Following completion of the transaction, Documentum will sell the eRoom products and the ECM platform, through the combined sales channels. www.eroom.com, www.documentum.com
Pipeline Interactive unveiled a new content management tool for Web site managers. Called, “eZ Publisher,” the new release makes Pipeline’s proprietary content management system available to a much broader range of users. The new system enables Web site publishers, both technical and non-technical, to easily manage Web site content. It also allows managers to assign publishing rights based on individuals, departments or even countries. eZ Publisher modules include content, graphics, news, events, calendar, employment, FAQ, contacts, display and links, products, documents, and site map. The system can be deployed across intranet, extranet and Web sites. Because it allows users to manage multi-lingual sites, it can also be used to develop localized sites. The package is available in ASP and ColdFusion. www.pipelineinteractive.com
Autonomy Corporation plc announced the release of Autonomy’s Legacy Compatibility Module (LCM). LCM enables companies to leverage existing legacy systems and transition to an advanced information management technology. LCM, based on Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), builds a bridge between legacy systems and Autonomy’s technology to allow all enterprise data to be accessed within new, contextual automated systems. LCM can connect directly to popular legacy indexes and a variety of formats including legacy index files, legacy categories, topics and taxonomies. LCM provides the ability to manually edit and supervise legacy methods for backward compatibility. Autonomy’s IDOL integrates unstructured, semi-structured and structured information from multiple repositories through an understanding of the content. www.autonomy.com
Context Media, Inc. announced the release of Interchange Suite 3.0, its enterprise content management software solution. Interchange Suite 3.0 allows distributed and disparate digital asset and content repositories to remain distributed, while giving users a single, unified way to access the content these repositories contain. The suite is comprised of three software applications. The Interchange Suite components can work together or on their own. The Interchange Suite web services-based applications include: Interchange Content Server – the core web services suite that categorizes, manages and powers access to enterprise content; Interchange Integration Console – discovers content stored in various distributed and disparate content, document and digital asset management systems across the enterprise; and Interchange Distribution Console – provides services that allow companies to deliver content across the enterprise and to external parties. All services and features are enabled in a web services environment interoperable with Sun One and Microsoft.Net initiatives. Interchange Suite ships with support for Sun Solaris, Linux and Microsoft Windows 2000; application server support for BEA, iPlanet, JBoss, Oracle 9iAS and IBM Websphere; and database support for ODBC and JDBC compliant databases. www.contextmedia.com
Inxight Software, Inc., announced Inxight SmartDiscovery 3.0. Inxight SmartDiscovery expands upon Inxight’s existing metatext extraction and analysis applications, adding features that include taxonomy management, enterprise-class categorization and a guided information retrieval environment. In addition, Inxight SmartDiscovery provides text analysis and retrieval capabilities that include on-the-fly entity extraction that identifies names of people, places, things and relationships from documents and groups them by category; automatic document summarization that creates intelligent summaries in a fraction of a second; a similar document finder that provides all other similar documents for a given document; concept search that organizes query results into a hierarchy of shared topics and themes; full text search that features basic keyword search and a Boolean information retrieval model for specifying the exact information needed; and multi-language support for accurately analyzing and retrieving information in 23 languages. Inxight SmartDiscovery is available immediately. www.inxight.com
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