POET Software, announced support for Commerce XML — or cXML, an open-standard subset of XML for electronic commerce designed to reduce online business costs by facilitating the exchange of content and transaction information between buyers and sellers. www.poet.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 478 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/
Quest Software, Inc. announced a new release of its Vista Plus Report-Based Information Management (RBIM) solution. Vista Plus 4.1 provides enhanced report management as well as electronic document management capabilities. A client/server-based solution, Vista Plus automatically captures, stores, indexes, and distributes mission-critical report data of any Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions. www.quests.com
SoftQuad Software Inc., announced new value-added tools for HoTMetaL Application Server, its low-cost solution for deploying e-commerce, customer service and personalized content applications. These tools–Quick Apps and Power Parts–are pre-built mini-applications that are ideal for end-users and developers alike, enabling them to increase the functionality of their sites with drag-and-drop ease. Quick Apps and Power Parts are available at no charge via SoftQuad Software’s new web site, www.hmfx.com. HoTMetaL users can access these sophisticated tools via the HoTMetaL Resource Manager. Once loaded into the Resource Manager, users just drag and drop to add the mini-applications to their web sites. Absolutely no programming or testing is required. Power Parts are building blocks that enhance a Web site’s productivity instantly. They are also developed using Miva scripts, and are accessed through the HoTMetaL Resource Manager. Power Parts include a Mail-to form, a banner ad rotator and statistical analysis tool, and a robust password protection system with the ability to add and delete users, create and change passwords, and more. To add Power Parts to a site, users just select one from the Resource Manager, define a few parameters and settings, and then insert it onto their site. www.softquad.com
Unisys, IBM, Oracle, Platinum, Fujitsu, Softeam, Rational, Sprint, Sybase, Xerox, MCI Systemhouse, Boeing, Ardent, ICONIX, Integrated Systems, Verilog, NCR, NTT and Daimler-Benz are some of the vendors who are collaborating on the Object Management Group’s new XMI (XML Metadata Interchange) specification. XMI is a new open industry standard that combines the benefits of the web-based XML standard for defining, validating, and sharing document formats on the web with the benefits of the object-oriented Unified Modeling Language (UML). It provides application developers with a common language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting distributed objects and business models. The XMI specification quickly moved through the OMG’s Technology Adoption process and is currently undergoing the formal technology adoption vote by the OMG membership. Market demand for XMI is encouraging vendors such as IBM, Unisys and Oracle to expedite implementations of the technology and products as early as mid-1999. www.omg.com
Open Market, Inc., has announced results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 1998. Net revenues were $16.1 million, compared to net revenues of $18.6 million for the fourth quarter of 1997. Net loss for Q4 1998, which includes the charge of $2.0 million for restructuring costs, was $6.4 million or $0.18 per share. This compared to a net loss of $3.0 million or $0.09 per share for the same period of 1997. Net loss excluding the charge for restructuring was $4.3 million or $0.12 per share. For the year ended December 31, 1998, revenues were $62.1 million compared to $61.3 million of revenues for the year ended December 31, 1997. Net loss for the year ended December 31, 1998 was $34.9 million or $1.04 per share, compared to a net loss of $58.0 million or $1.87 per share in 1997. Excluding the charges for in-process research and development in connection with acquisitions and the charge for restructuring costs, the net loss for the year ended December 31, 1998 was $22.1 million or $0.66 per share, compared to a net loss of $23.8 million or $0.77 per share in 1997. www.openmarket.com
PC DOCS Group International Inc. has reported its second quarter results. Revenue for the second quarter ended December 31, 1998 was $45.5 million, a 52% increase over the $29.9 million for the same quarter last year and 21% over the $37.5 million for the first quarter this year. Software license revenue rose by 41% to $23.9 million from $17.0 million last year and was 31% over the $18.4 million in the prior quarter. Compared to last year, revenue for the enterprise document management business was up by 66% and by 40% over last quarter. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in the second quarter were $7.6 million compared with $4.3 million in the previous year. Net earnings were $2.8 million compared to $0.98 million for the same period last year. Fully diluted earnings per share were $0.12 compared to $0.05 in the previous year and $0.01 in the previous quarter. For the six months to date, revenue was $83.0 million, 49% over the $55.7 million for the same period last year. Net earnings, excluding the reversal of restructuring charge accruals, were $1.8 million for the six months to date compared to $1.6 million last year and fully diluted earnings per share were $0.07. www.pcdocs.com
Interleaf, Inc. announced the availability of Interleaf 7 (I7). This next-generation e-Content publishing solution enables workgroups in either Microsoft Windows or UNIX environments to author and publish complex documents to all current Web and e-Content formats – HTML, XML, SGML or PDF. I7 provides Interleaf’s installed base of 2 million users with a new way to publish complex Web documents by eliminating the need to tie content creation to the publishing format. www.interleaf.com
Bluestone Software, Inc., the creator of Sapphire/Web, announced XwingML. XwingML is a public domain contribution from Bluestone labs that accelerates the learning curve for early adopters of XML/Java tools. Available today, XwingML is provided free-of-charge by Bluestone and can be downloaded at www.bluestone.com. XwingML was developed by Bluestone labs as the framework for creating Bluestone’s commercial dynamic XML products: Bluestone XML-Server, and Bluestone Visual-XML, a toolkit for building XML applications.
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