Content Management

‘Starting on April 24th, NAB visitors will be able to see DVS’ award-winning CLIPSTER workstation as well as the disk recorders Pronto2K and ProntoHD in their latest versions. The OEM boards Centaurus and SDStationOEM II will run with additional features and an extended SDK and application support package. As a special highlight at booth SL2964, DVS’ new Content Management System will make its debut in Las Vegas .’

Read more at DVS to Unveil New Content Management System at NAB 2006

‘Content Management Professionals (CM Pros), the international content management community of practice, today announced that Mary Laplante and Scott Abel have been elected to the 2006-2007 CM Pros Board of Directors and that Janus Boye and Mollye Barrett have been elected to serve on the organization’s Management Committee, as director of member relations and director of communications, respectively.

A member-driven organization, the CM Pros Board of Directors and Management Committee are nominated and elected in an open process by the members of the organization. Scott Abel and Mary Laplante were elected to replace two outgoing Board members Frank Gilbane and Ann Rockley – whose terms expire this month. Directors Seth Gottlieb, Erik Hartman, and Samantha Starmer remain on the Board until January 2007.’

Read more at Global Content Management Experts Elected To CM Pros

‘WordPress, the popular open-source content management system system, has received a significant update. The program was already popular with many companies because of its built-in support for web standards, ping notifications, comments and more. WordPress 2.0 adds many features that make it a more powerful content management system, especially for companies that want to maintain sites with multiple levels of users.’

Read more at WordPress Update Makes it a Content Management Contender

‘Manufacturing firm York International Corp. based in York, Pa. has slashed time spent on administration and laid the foundation for a server consolidation push, thanks to a major overhaul of its content management system.

According to Tim Fives, York’s manager of global content solutions, the company has saved cash and operating costs by replacing a mishmash of systems with a single document management system.’

Read more at York Saves With Content Management

‘The Enterprise Content Management Association has published the results from its new Industry Watch study ‘The Role of ECM in Storage Decisions: The Why, What, and How of Storing Business Critical Information.’

“One of the major issues AIIM wanted to explore in this survey was the interplay between storage decisions and enterprise content management, and document-related concerns within organizations,” cites John Mancini, President of AIIM.’

Read more at Enterprise content management storage explored

Wise, Inc. , a leading technology provider of mobile content solutions for operators, ASPs and content providers, today announced that Media Market, an East European-focused international mobile content provider, selected the MOMA Content Management and Delivery platform to deliver ringtones, images, games and other mobile contact to its customers in Russia and The Baltics, as well as markets with large population of East European ex-pats such as Germany, Israel and the U.S.

The Company switched to m-Wise’s MOMA Content Management and Delivery Engine platform to replace its existing self-developed platform and believes that the MOMA platform will be able to grow and scale along with the Company’s needs.

Zach Sivan, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for m-Wise, said, “This new relationship with Media Market and the expansions of existing relationships are testimony to the value of our MOMA platform of a seamless end-to-end solution for mobile content providers and operators. MOMA has demonstrated its ability to effortlessly scale to accommodate the needs of our customers. Increasingly our clients are discovering the tremendous added value of combining the key services that they require into one package.”

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‘Online content management helps you create content with common desktop applications and easy-to-use content authoring templates. It can also capture and incorporate existing content from a variety of sources. ECM manages this content and the content from other enterprise applications such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and enterprise portals. It adds intelligence by creating categorization schema, metadata, and tags that make search and retrieval faster and more efficient. ECM also manages the review, revision, and approval process for any piece of content according to user-defined business rules - often termed Business Process Management (BPM). It has inherent workflow and lifecycle management capabilities to help achieve this.’

Read more at Nimbus Content Management Solutions Case Studies by Nimbus

With the advent of database-driven Web sites, URLs became unsightly and unintelligible. Earlier versions of Tacklebox, along with most CM systems, spawned URLs like: http://www.brookgroup.com/engine/content.do?PUBLIC_ID=31Z06&BT_CODE=BG34Y12&TT_CODE=SUBPAGE.

Now sites created with Tacklebox display clean, memorable URLs like: http://www.brookgroup.com/Services/Web-Site-Design.

As a CMS vendor priding itself as a world-class Web design and customer experience shop, Brook Group set a goal long ago to develop a CMS capable of human-readable URLs. With Tacklebox version 5.1, that dream became a reality.

“Tacklebox now stands out as a competitive solution for a Web CMS. This new enhancement takes Tacklebox to a whole new level in functionality and operability. We expect to gain many more Tacklebox clients because of this advancement,” says Kara Brook, President of Brook Group.

Human-readable URLs provides a variety of benefits, including clarifying site navigation for visitors, creating URLs that are shorter and easier to remember, but most importantly, increasing visibility of a site to the search engines. Search engines assign higher page rankings to sites whose Web addresses echo the keywords and content of a page.

URL rewriting transforms machine-generated addresses into familiar, language-based Web addresses. The Tacklebox human-readable URL feature allows site managers to change the way a page’s URL segment looks. In Tacklebox, when a page is added, the system assigns a URL based on its name. The address can then be edited at any time.

Whether called human-readable, user-centered, user-friendly, or spider-friendly, plain language URLs are a boon to site visitors and owners alike, a key feature for organizations looking at content management systems. Brook Group facilitates the return of sites that are more accessible, locally-organized and easy to use.

‘Companies of almost all sizes plan to increase spending on content and document management in 2006, while more small and midsize firms expect to increase spending on imaging. These are just two of the conclusions from the recently completed “2006 Intelligent Enterprise Strategic Management Survey,” a massive Web-based survey that drew more than 1,131 readers of Intelligent Enterprise magazine and its related Web sites.

In an analysis drilling down on budget plans across 28 technology categories, respondents ranked “content and document management” second, with 50.2 percent saying they would spend more in 2006 (”security, privacy and identity management” was first, with 51.2 percent of respondents planning to spend more). An analysis by company size (see “2006 Content & Document Management Spending” at left) shows a fairly even distribution, with the exception of the very largest firms (more than 100,000 employees), which have less-aggressive-but-still-healthy plans to spend more on the category.

Why the increased interest in document and content management? One possible explanation could be found in the fact that 50 percent of respondents confessed their firms make poor decisions because users can’t get enough good information. Ranking various sentiments on a scale of one for disagree strongly to five for agree strongly, 36 percent of respondents (the largest share) were neutral on the statement “our company has selected an enterprise content management standard and is consolidating on that platform.” Meanwhile, 32 percent agreed somewhat with the statement “our content control needs are basic and are addressed by network directories, intranets, basic document management and/or portals.” And 33 percent agreed somewhat with the statement “we’re moving toward XML-based management and reuse of content across applications, departments and channels of communication.”‘

Read more at Content Management Heats Up, Imaging Shifts Toward SMBs

‘Xerox India Ltd on Saturday launched a web-based enterprise content management software, DocuShare 4.0, to help organisations reduce cost and improve efficiency.

The new software has an advanced ‘digital library’ tool that allows businesses instant access to their document repositories and gives multiple users across the enterprise the ability to edit documents collaboratively, a company said in a release.’

Read more at Xerox launches content management software