Content Management

‘Xerox today announced the release of DocuShare 5.0 and DocuShare CPX. CRN Test Center engineers were permitted prerelease access, and at first glance, DocuShare CPX’s user interface is well organized, easy to learn and users can easily drag and drop folders from either Mac or Windows XP PC desktops.

After installing DocuShare CPX, the software creates a home page for new users and a collection of objects that speeds up usage, including the ability to create new workspaces. All of these features are available out of the box without administrators having to activate anything. However, the new components that can be created within workspaces are limited, although solution providers can extend the number of components by customizing templates.’

Read more at DocuShare 5.0, xerox, cpx | Content Management Made Easy With Xerox

‘The majority of companies are unable to archive, track and access e-mail, voice or instant messaging despite the fact that 58 percent of CIOs say that e-mail is sometimes their only record of business critical information.

FileNet Corporation, a provider of enterprise content and business process management solutions, has published the results of a survey exploring the compliance strategies of European companies. The survey of 200 CIOs in organisations with turnover in excess of 400 million euros shows that although 78 percent of companies recognise that is it important for them to be able to archive, track and access content as part of their compliance strategies 36 percent are unable to do so.’

Read more at Incomplete content management puts compliance initiatives at risk

‘Version 6.0 of the Asbru Web Content Management system for PHP, ASP and JSP/Java has been released. The system includes full WYSIWYG editing, collaboration, multi-lingual content administration, an ecommerce add-on module, and a community add-on module.

Version 6.0 of the Asbru Web Content Management system is a major upgrade with many new features and usability improvements for the core web content management system as well as added flexibility for developers.’

Read more at Asbru Web Content Management 6.0

‘Web Content Management (Web CMS) vendor Hot Banana Software and Active Marketing Solutions, have announced a new CMS solution - Hot Banana For Agencies - targeted exclusively at online, eMarketing and interactive agencies.

Hot Banana For Agencies is designed to help agencies manage their unique needs for clients who are running multiple marketing campaigns utilizing multiple time-limited, custom Landing Pages or Micro Marketing Sites.’

Read more at Web CMS for Micro Sites

Asbru Software has released version 6.0 of the Asbru Web Content Management system designed to provide control and simplicity for non-technical users while maintaining flexibility and power for developers.

Version 6.0 of the Asbru Web Content Management system is a major upgrade with many new features and usability improvements for the core web content management system as well as added flexibility for developers.

Among the new features is the ability to personalize the content delivered to website visitors. Depending on the website visitor’s Internet domain name or web browser language preference settings website visitors can be routed to different web content. The personalization improvements also include the possibility for website visitors to subscribe to various website sections.

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‘Blogs and editable Web pages called wikis are gaining popularity with enterprise users, introducing to these organizations a new level of content contribution and participation.

ECM (enterprise content management) apps, which over the past few years have been gathering a variety of collaboration tools under their wing, are still figuring out what to with these easy to use and highly accessible newcomers.

Unlike collaboration tools that came before, the deep and broad participation that blogs and wikis enable are forcing ECM vendors to address new security and access control challenges.’

Read more at Blogs reshaping content management tool

‘EMC Corporation, the world leader in information management and storage, today announced that EMC Documentum 5.3 enterprise content management (ECM) platform has been awarded the Common Criteria (CC) certification for meeting the security requirements as defined by the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS). The Common Criteria certification is a globally accepted standard for evaluating the security features and capabilities of information technology products.’

Read more at EMC Documentum Enterprise content management platform awarded common criteria certification

Versant, a Milwaukee-based marketing communications firm, and Ektron, Inc., an innovator in Web content management software, announced today the firms have partnered to provide Versant clients with more effective brand communication through second generation Web sites. As a member of Ektron’s partner program, Versant is utilizing Ektron CMS400.NET for client Web sites, intranets and extranets.

“Clients who value branding realize the role Web site content and interactivity play in engaging their audiences,” said Brad Hemze, Versant technology director. “The Ektron content management platform allows Versant and its clients to focus on the message and visitor experience rather than the programming, and to more closely integrate the site with offline marketing.”

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‘Darren Pywell (left in picture) and David Tattersall (right in picture) co-founded Intergral “with the vision to provide context-rich, unified information across the enterprise,” they told Cold Fusion Developer’s Journal in an exclusive interivew. Intergral (www.intergral.com)

“With this vision in mind, we wanted to build our solutions on INTERnet technologies and we knew that our software would be an inteGRAL part of the business – so we put the two together and came up with Intergral,” Tattersall says. Both founding partners have a long career history of building information and knowledge management solutions, so this was the natural choice for the company focus, they say.’

Read more at Cold Fusion Developer’s Journal Exclusive

‘SDL International, a provider of global information management (GIM) solutions, announced the latest releases of its enterprise GIM applications, SDL Translation Management System 2006 and SDL TeamWorks 2006. Delivering on SDL’s roadmap, the open platform capabilities and customer-driven innovations offer customers even greater flexibility to orchestrate their global content supply chains.

SDL GIM solutions manage content throughout the entire global information lifecycle — from authoring through content management to on-line and off-line publishing across world markets. With over 100 installations of its enterprise software, most recently into GlaxoSmithKline, Honda, National Instruments, Siemens, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Linde, Plantronics, QUALCOMM and VWR, SDL has become the clear standard for enterprise GIM solutions.’

Read more at SDL Announces New Global Information Management Applications