Inso Corporation today announced the formation of a new Product Data Management (PDM) Division. Headquartered in Milpitas, California, Inso’s new PDM Division was created after the company’s recent acquisition of Sherpa Systems Corporation, the developers of SherpaWorks. Paul R. Anderson, formerly vice president of corporate development at Inso, has been named vice president and general manager of the new PDM Division. As vice president and general manager, Mr. Anderson will oversee the continued development of the SherpaWorks product line and other PDM solutions, as well as the integration of Sherpa technology into Inso’s Enterprise Information Platform. Prior to joining Inso, Mr. Anderson held various senior management positions at Adobe Systems Incorporated. Stephen Baunach, Sherpa’s former chief technology officer, assumes the role of vice president and chief technology officer for the PDM Division. In this role, Mr. Baunach will continue to manage PDM product development, aid in extending Inso’s expertise in managing and publishing product-related information and lead the evolution of Inso’s PDM strategy. Inso has also appointed Stephen Schreifer as the vice president of worldwide sales for PDM products. Prior to joining Inso, Mr. Schreifer held senior sales positions at SDRC. www.inso.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 477 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/
PC DOCS/Fulcrum announced it will re-focus its current organization into six different operating Business Units to address the Professional Services (including Legal), Financial Services, Manufacturing, Government, OEM, and ISO markets. www.pcdocs.com
Lockheed Martin today announced the integration of Formtek, A Lockheed Martin Company into its Integrated Business Solutions Company (IBS). Lockheed Martin’s Integrated Business Solutions Company will create a new business area focused on Formtek’s commercial software product FORMTEK:ORION, and services focused on the Integrated Document Management market. The new business area will be headed by Dennis M. Scanlon, vice president for Integrated Document Management Solutions, and will report to Gary P. Mann, president, Integrated Business Solutions Company. www.formtek.com
InSystems Technologies, Inc., a provider of knowledge-based document processing solutions for financial services, announced the Calligo Toolkit, a software developer’s kit for Calligo. Calligo Toolkit will provide customers and alliances the ability to integrate their current applications such as ratings, contact management, or policy administration software with Calligo, InSystems document assembly, management and workflow solution. www.insystems.com
Dataware Technologies, Inc. announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 1998. For the fourth quarter of 1998, Dataware reported net income of $946,000, or $0.10 per share, on revenues of $8.6 million, excluding one-time charges totaling $1.6 million taken in the fourth quarter. These results compare to net income of $252,000, or $0.03 per share, on revenues of $7.8 million in the fourth quarter of 1997, excluding a one-time charge totaling $2.2 million. For the year ended December 31, 1998, Dataware reported net income of $1.9 million, or $0.20 per share, on revenues of $33 million, excluding one- time charges related to the acquisition of Green Book in the first quarter of $450,000 and the other one-time charges taken in the fourth quarter of $1.6 million. This compares to a 1997 loss of $5.8 million, or $(0.76) per share, on revenues of $37 million. After the accretion of preferred stock totaling $677,000, the net loss available to common stockholders for 1997 was $6.5 million, or $(0.85) per share. After the one-time charges, Dataware reported a net loss of $699,000, or ($0.08) per share, for the quarter which compares to a $1.9 million loss, or ($0.21) per share, for the fourth quarter of 1997. The Company reported a net loss of $207,000, or ($0.02) per share for the year, which compares to a loss of $5.8 million, or ($0.76) per share, for 1997 before the accretion of preferred stock. www.datware.com
Belgium-Based CEDITI, and Sequoia Software, today announced formation of a strategic marketing and development agreement between the two firms. The relationship will enable CEDITI, a value-added-reseller (VAR) and integrator of information technology in Europe, to resell and create new product packages with Sequoia Interchange2000 (i2K) or to use it in integration projects. Under the licensing agreement with Sequoia, CEDITI will be a direct distribution channel for i2K for Belgium providing training, technical support, marketing and sales. www.sequoiasw.com, www.cediti.be
QuickStream Software, Inc. announced three new interfaces to its Java-based DocCentral document management system. The QuickStream Developers Kit (QDK), Open Document Management API (ODMA) and HTML Interface are available for beta testing with a scheduled commercial release in March. Providing a base for the other interfaces, the QDK allows the creation of custom functions on top of the DocCentral application. The QDK is a set of simple Java functions that can be integrated into Java applications and Java applets. Developers can use the QDK to create customized features and incorporate them into DocCentral. Individually, the DocCentral server software is $2,950.00, the Java-based Director client is $495.00 and the HTML-based Associate client is $49.95. The small work group twenty-five user bundle includes Java server software, four Director clients and twenty-one Associate clients for $4,995.00. The large work group fifty user bundle is $8,995.00 and includes Java server software, ten Director clients and forty Associate clients. QuickStream also offers a “Get Started” bundle that can be downloaded from its website at www.quickstream.com
POET Software Corporation announced the completion of a $9.9 million financing round. POET Holdings, Inc., the parent company for the POET group, received $6 million in equity investments in exchange for “Preferred Series D” shares in December 1998 from both new and existing investors. New investors include Private Equity Bridge Invest Ltd.(PEBI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Private Equity Holding AG of Zug, Switzerland, and the German Technologie-Beteiligungs-Gesellschaft bmH (“tbg”). Previous investors who also participated in the “Preferred Series D” financing are European Technologieholding, Sigma Partners, El Dorado Ventures, INNOVACOM I, Atlas Venture Europe Fund BV, and Lawrence Owen Brown. In addition, tbg invested $3.9 million through a convertible long-term note. www.poet.com
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