Category: Content management & strategy (Page 57 of 468)

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/

Adobe adds new headless CMS capabilities to experience manager

February 8, 2021 / NewsShark

Adobe announced new headless content management system (CMS) capabilities in Adobe Experience Manager to help developers seamlessly deliver content, and new updates to the Commerce Integration Framework (CIF) allow developers to create shoppable app-like experiences that combine content and commerce.

To allow developers to fuel content into multiple touchpoints, Adobe is introducing GraphQL APIs for headless content delivery. GraphQL, an application-agnostic query language to retrieve content, lets developers get exactly the content they need, nothing extra, so that content matches the needs of their app. Additionally, queries can also return all nested content in a single call. Because fewer requests are being made in both directions and less bandwidth is being used. By leveraging the GraphQL API, a mobile app developer can query for marketing content from Adobe Experience Manager. Personalized content is then sent to the app which renders its UI. From there, a marketer can use Experience Manager’s authoring UI to flexibly add and edit marketing content across multiple devices and touchpoints.

Adobe Experience Manager can now integrate and extend commerce services from Magento and other commerce solutions through Adobe’s Commerce Integration Framework (CIF). CIF is built on APIs that can be extended, enabling a storefront authoring experience in Adobe Experience Manager.

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/02/08/new-adobe-tools-help-developers-manage-content-and-power-digital-experiences.html

Automattic acquires Parse.ly

February 5, 2021 / NewsShark

Parse.ly is joining WPVIP, Automattic’s enterprise WordPress SaaS software division. With the Parse.ly acquisition, WPVIP is expanding their commitment from supporting premium WordPress-based content management to the much wider market of digital experience, across all content platforms.

For WPVIP, content management is only one part of this much wider digital experience market. In the same way that you can use Adobe Analytics (formerly Omniture) without using Adobe CQ or Experience Manager (AEM), Parse.ly users can use our product without using WordPress or WordPress VIP. With the addition of Parse.ly, WPVIP now offers a way for any site or app, running any CMS (or even several CMSes), to utilize our content analytics system. As a customer, regardless of whether you’re running WordPress or not, Parse.ly will continue to provide active, CMS-agnostic development and support.

Parse.ly’s open source WordPress plugin is already a popular way to deploy Parse.ly to websites. And we have lots of ideas for how Parse.ly’s dashboard and API can improve enterprise WordPress sites. Parse.ly has worked with media, entertainment, e-commerce, financial services, professional services, non-profits, tech, and more. We’ve sold to Fortune 100 companies, and across every continent (except Antarctica). And worked across content teams, marketing teams, product teams, and data teams with titles ranging from C-level executive to copywriter to data scientist.

https://blog.parse.ly/post/9995/wpvip-acquisition/

Information Model

Gilbane Advisor 6-9-21 — stacks & aggregation, JavaScript for data, news

Poq & Amplience partner to offer native apps

February 4, 2021 / NewsShark

Native SaaS retail mobile app platform, Poq, announced a new partnership with headless commerce experience provider, Amplience. Amplience offers a headless content management system (CMS) and digital asset management solution, while the Poq appcommerce platform enables retailers and brands to launch effective and fully customized native mobile apps. The partnership between these two cloud-native SaaS providers will enable Poq platform and Amplience CMS clients to deliver native mobile app-based shopping experiences powered by a single integrated commerce content engine.

The new partnership helps to eliminate duplication of management effort, training and resources across these channels by providing an out-of-the-box, application programming interface (API) plugins for centralized content production alongside native app control. Joint retailer clients will be able to harness advanced appcommerce engagement tools, such as lookbooks and interactive App Story content carousels, from a single content dashboard view.

https://poqcommerce.com/us/, https://amplience.com

eccenca and Ontotext partner on enterprise data management

February 3, 2021 / NewsShark

Ontotext and eccenca announced they have teamed up to boost the value of semantic technologies by jointly creating vertical and horizontal enterprise data solutions. eccenca Corporate Memory provides a multi-disciplinary integrative platform for managing enterprise data related rules, constraints, capabilities and configurations in a single application. By making enterprise data both machine-readable and human-interpretable, enterprises are enabled to drive agility, autonomy and automation without disrupting existing IT infrastructures. GraphDB is an enterprise-ready semantic graph database engine combined with content and data analytics capabilities. GraphDB allows users to link diverse data, index it for semantic search and enrich it via text analysis to build big knowledge graphs. GraphDB’s differentiators include integration with full-text search engines (Elasticsearch, SOLR and Lucene) and document databases (MongoDB).

Together the two companies are now offering a mature knowledge graph technology stack. They also provide custom industry solutions including Healthcare, Pharma, Automotive, Manufacturing, Financial Services and IT Management. The joint eco-system of Ontotext and eccenca also includes the ability to globally deliver custom solutions. Consulting partners of both companies include ATOS, BearingPoint, Capgemini, Deloitte, Fujitsu, InfoSys, NTT Data (Everis), MHP, PWC, Tata and Wipro. Both companies have been enabling enterprises to overcome complexity by digitally documenting and automating knowledge management.

https://www.ontotext.com/, https://eccenca.com/

Information Model

Gilbane Advisor 6-9-21 — stacks & aggregation, JavaScript for data, news

Box to acquire SignRequest

February 3, 2021 / NewsShark

Box, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement under which Box will acquire SignRequest, a cloud-based electronic signature company. Box also previewed Box Sign, an e-signature capability that will be developed on SignRequest’s technology and natively integrated into Box. Box Sign is expected to be included in Box business and enterprise plans, enabling customers to modernize the way they work and digitize important processes, while ensuring their agreements can be securely managed and governed in the Box content cloud.

SignRequest complements Box’s existing capabilities and its modern product fits with Box’s core design principles. Box Sign will inherit Box’s security and governance capabilities, ultimately helping customers reduce IT spend, eliminate content silos, and facilitate legal and regulatory compliance. Box Sign is expected to be generally available in the summer of 2021 and its native e-signature capabilities are expected to be included in Box business and enterprise plans with additional functionality such as e-signature APIs available at an incremental cost. SignRequest will also continue to operate and be available to both current and new SignRequest customers.

https://www.box.com, https://signrequest.com/

Contentstack announces new UI for CMS

February 2, 2021 / NewsShark

Contentstack, a Content Experience Platform (CXP), announced a complete redesigned and reimagined user interface for its headless content management system (CMS). The new design system brings a simplified user experience to both editors and developers, directly addressing the struggle between technological capabilities and user-friendliness in enterprise software. The new UI focus on productivity means a streamlined editing experience with more space for content, fewer clicks in the editorial process and faster discovery of content. This next level of usability will enable central content teams to provide more autonomy to subject matter experts and casual content contributors across the organization. As a result, businesses can accelerate content production and quality, shifting the function of the central content team to orchestration, quality assurance and creative work rather than filling in CMS forms.

Customers can now request early access through their Customer Success Manager and Partners can request early access through the Catalyst program. The new experience will be rolled out more widely at no additional cost to existing customers and partners starting March.

https://info.contentstack.com/project-venus-release.html

Alchemy Software updates localization management platform

February 1, 2021 / NewsShark

Alchemy Software Development, provider of visual software localization solutions and a division of TransPerfect, marks its 20th anniversary with the release of Alchemy Catalyst 2021, the latest iteration of its enterprise translation platform. Already recognized for its support of software formats in the industry, Alchemy Catalyst 2021 adds several features and capabilities for translators to streamline the localization process.

Alchemy Software Development’s Catalyst platform offers software localization solutions for multinational organizations looking to expand applications into new markets. Visual reporting tools help accelerate the localization process, while advanced translation memory technology increases overall translation accuracy and reduces implementation costs and timelines. With faster performance as a core design goal for this release, Alchemy Catalyst 2021 includes:

A new Project Manager feature, which allows the user to see statistics for multiple translation tool kits without opening them
The ability to sort and filter validation errors with the Validation Expert tool
Support for native RoboHelp and EPUB formats, adding to Catalyst’s existing native support for MadCap project files

https://www.alchemysoftware.com/products/alchemy_catalyst.html

M-Files launches new web client

February 1, 2021 / NewsShark

M-Files Corporation announced a new Web Client. Optimized for daily use, the new Web Client offers a simplified user interface that helps customers more easily adopt the M-Files solution. The Web Client brings a consumer-like experience to the daily work of ECM users, helping deliver new efficiencies in their information management operations. The Web Client integrates with Microsoft Office for creating and editing documents, and offers an intuitive approach for archiving documents, tagging documents with metadata, or sharing documents with colleagues. The improved search functionality with more search options and a fast search experience helps users find what they need faster, more accurately, and more easily than before. With the launch of its new web experience, spanning from the new web client and a broad set of integrations for widespread platforms such as Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Teams, Google Workspace, and Salesforce, users now can individually choose their preferred day-to-day working environment and take advantage of the benefits that M-Files offers, such as auto-classification and smart metadata.

https://www.m-files.com