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Category: Content management & strategy (Page 84 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/

Adobe announced Adobe Acrobat for Box

Adobe and Box have been working together to help people from small businesses to enterprises work with PDFs stored in Box. Joint customers have been using Adobe Acrobat DC and the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to open files and get work done with PDFs in Box, as well as sending documents to be signed directly from Box using Adobe Sign. Today, we’ve delivered a new solution to help make enterprise workers’ lives a bit easier, Adobe Acrobat for Box. The Adobe Acrobat for Box integration helps employees access essential PDF and e-signature workflows directly in Box. Employees can stay in the cloud and no longer need to download the file to their individual desktop. IT can flip the ‘on’ switch from the Box Admin console for employees who use Box have access.

Users will have the following capabilities directly within Box:

  • View PDFs with an integrated Acrobat web viewer with search and annotation tools.
  • Create PDFs that preserve fonts, formatting, and layouts.
  • Modify and organize existing PDFs with the available delete, reorder, and rotate capabilities.
  • Combine multiple file types including PDF, Microsoft Office, image, text, and Adobe design into one that you can use for archiving or distribution.
  • Export PDFs into editable Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or RTF files that preserve fonts, formatting, and layouts.
  • Send a document for signature and track its progress with Adobe Sign from the Box Recommended Apps experience, a list of curated, contextual applications that customers see whenever they preview a file in Box.
  • Capture e-signatures in the Box Activity Stream, a central place to view all the activity related to a file both on Box and across all third-party applications

https://theblog.adobe.com/new-adobe-acrobat-for-box-streamlines-productivity-in-the-cloud/

WordPress.com announces all-new P2 for remote team collaboration

WordPress.com publicly launched an all-new version of its remote work collaboration tool P2 — the “secret sauce” behind Automattic’s 15-year success as a fully distributed company, with over 1,200 employees working from 77 countries. It’s the first time that P2 has been released as a standalone product for small and large teams to collaborate. Automattic has built a refined version, which focuses on communication that is asynchronous, accessible across time zones, and allows teams to organize plans, projects, and big picture ideas, communicating across the entire company.

P2 is a companion to real-time tools like chat and videoconferencing. P2 can be used as internal blogs that move teams and organizations away from siloed email inboxes, and it helps minimize things “getting lost” in real-time chat. Teams working on any type of project together can write and post regular updates. Through comments on posts, teams can come to a consensus and decide together what to do next. They can share photos, videos, GIFs, and charts, or they can take a poll, and share quotes and summaries from the day’s work. P2 can be more broadly used as external team blogs to organize communities and events. P2 teams see updates on the web, via email notifications, and in the WordPress mobile apps. P2 is the glue that gives your team an identity and coherence. This current version of P2 is free for users, who can create as many P2 sites as they need. More premium features are coming soon.

https://wordpress.com/p2/, https://www.automattic.com

Hyland announces Brainware Foundation

Hyland announced Brainware Foundation, the latest release of its intelligent data extraction and text analytics software. Brainware Foundation EP1 includes enhancements to functionality, usability and security – most notably the addition of a new handwriting recognition engine. Brainware users can now opt to leverage Microsoft’s cloud OCR engine through Azure Computer Vision, an intelligent content analysis tool within the portfolio of Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services. The Microsoft engine includes advanced OCR capabilities for extracting difficult handwritten inputs, in addition to machine-printed text. Extraction can be performed in a single pass on free-form printed or scripted writing without anchors, constraint boxes, color dropout, or additional OCR/ICR engines. Other features within the Brainware Foundation EP1 release include:

  • Increased license control in hosted environments: The latest version of Brainware automatically moves runtime license files to a database. This improves supportability and scalability for solutions hosted in multi-server environments. Additionally, users can configure the location, size and storage time of log files.
  • Usability and security enhancements: Additional usability and security enhancements provide the ability to reclassify documents earlier in the document separation process, upgraded security and user access controls with TLS1.2, and password masking within solution configuration.

https://www.hyland.com/en/platform/product-suite/brainware

Sitecore updates experience and commerce platforms

Sitecore announced Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) 10 and Sitecore Experience Commerce (XC) 10. XP 10 is a digital experience platform to create efficiencies for both marketing and IT departments by delivering full container support for rapid deployment and efficient team and solution onboarding; while XC 10 provides a foundation for commerce teams with new product bundling and promotion capabilities. Sitecore Experience Platform 10 is available starting today. Sitecore Experience Commerce 10 will be available mid-August.

Sitecore Experience Platform 10

With full container support, XP 10 smooths deployment flows between environments through consistency, isolation and reproducibility. XP 10 makes collecting, analyzing and acting on enhanced customer data faster for marketers, providing deeper insights for audience segmentation to strengthen personalization capabilities across channels and grow customer loyalty. With the ability to filter analytics reports by audience segment, marketers can quickly see what content is driving engagement across different segments in order to identify personalization opportunities. Other XP 10 updates include:

  • Enhanced data capabilities, coupled with ability to extend targeting with auto-personalization.
  • Horizon editing interface providing in-context insights across multilingual and multisite experiences.
  • Updated connector functionality to send current visitor Experience Database (xDB) information to SalesforceMarketing Cloud in real-time.

Sitecore Experience Commerce 10

XC 10 provides more tools for brands to drive higher average order value and revenue with dynamic product bundling and new promotion capabilities. For example, using the new product bundling capability, brands can sell related and complementary products and services together at one price, driving higher order value. XC 10 includes broad support for Docker, Containers, and Kubernetes so XC 10 can be deployed and maintained quickly.

https://www.sitecore.com/whats-new

Magnolia partners with AyataCommerce

Content management system (CMS) provider Magnolia announced a partnership with global technology services agency AyataCommerce, to provide retailers with consultancy and ecommerce systems integrations. The partnership will enable retailers to address business-critical issues around speed to market and costs of ownership, creating future-proofed architecture design and effective information architecture.

https://marketplace.magnolia-cms.com/

Contentful releases free plan for digital experience builders

Contentful announced a new Community Plan that provides those who build digital experiences with free access to Contentful’s content platform. Contentful’s community gain new technology capabilities, training and resources to build and launch digital experiences across all channels, including websites, mobile apps, wearable devices and digital displays. COVID-19 forced businesses to pivot their primary means of customer engagement to digital channels. Contentful is helping digital builders and businesses get started quickly by removing the friction of a software trial with a “free forever” plan and expanded educational resources. Builders can immediately start using the platform with free training, free certification and free use of Contentful’s tools forever — no 14 day trial or credit card needed.

Contentful is also making it easier for businesses to upgrade as they grow with a streamlined self-service Team plan and expanded Enterprise options. These offerings will make it easier for businesses to scale as they deliver content-driven digital experiences across more advanced use cases. Teams and small businesses can accelerate development on a self-service plan that enables them to start building for free and then upgrade based on their project needs with just a credit card. This offering includes expanded authoring roles and locales to support basic publishing workflows.

https://press.contentful.com/190754-contentful-releases-free-plan-for-digital-builders-to-support-the-covid-accelerated-shift-to-the-digital-first-economy

Agility CMS and Gatsby team up

Agility CMS is a content management system that allows marketing teams to create and manage content across their digital properties. Agility CMS provides tools that close the gap between monolithic traditional CMS platforms and pure developer-centric CMS tools that provides creative freedom for web developers while presenting familiar authoring tools to editors and content creators. Gatsby is a static site generator that allows users to create a static, HTML-based website that doesn’t rely on databases or external data sources at runtime, avoiding server-side processing when accessing your website. Static websites can be a hassle for content editors who have to regularly interact with the website codebase to make updates to content. That is where Agility CMS steps in: by providing a headless content management system for managing the content behind Gatsby in your static websites. Agility CMS provides native support for Gatsby and with Agility’s built-in Page Management, the plugin can automatically generate web pages based on a page tree defined in the CMS. This means editors can create their own pages, add and remove content on each page, and move things around on the sitemap without requiring assistance from a developer.

https://agilitycms.com

Box adds automated classification to Box Shield

Box announced the addition of intelligent, automated classification to Box Shield, the company’s security solution for protecting content in the cloud. Leveraging machine learning, Shield can now automatically scan files and classify them based on their content, helping businesses detect and secure sensitive data without getting in the way of work. Box Shield helps prevent data leakage and proactively identifies potential insider threats or compromised accounts.

Using machine learning and data leakage prevention capabilities, this new feature scans files in real-time when they’re uploaded, updated, moved, or copied to specified folders, and automatically classifies them based on admin-defined policies. This enables customers to scale data classification and enforce policies across the enterprise, in order to reduce risk and meet compliance standards such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR. Customers will be able to:

  • Automatically identify multiple personally identifiable information types within files, including social security numbers, driver’s licenses, International Bank Account Number (IBAN) codes, International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9/ICD-10) codes, and more
  • Automatically identify custom terms and phrases within files – for example: “Box Confidential”, “Internal use only”, and “NDA required”
  • Easily create policies that apply the appropriate classification label based on desired logic – including and/or conditions and unique counts

Once files are classified appropriately, Shield can help prevent data leakage through a combination of access controls already in use by Shield customers, such as shared link, external collaboration, and download restrictions. The new feature supports the most common unstructured file types in Box, including documents, spreadsheets, PDF, Box Notes, and more. The new Box Shield automated classification capabilities will begin to be available today and will roll out to eligible customers over the next month. 

https://www.box.com/

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