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Friday, Jun 29 2007

All the twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.

This week’s highlights include:

• Task Management, not Content or Technology Management. An undue focus on tech or content management shouldn’t drive us away from a website’s raison d’être: customers and their tasks.
• Be a Participant at CM Professionals Boston. Tell one and tell all: it’s a call for participation for the CM Pros’ Fall 2007 Summit.
• EMC and Oracle, A Match Made in Enterprise Heaven. It’s the stuff of made-for-TV movies.
• PloneGov Snags Lutèce d’Or for Open Source CMS Efforts. It’s the Oscars for Open Source! Congrats to PloneGov.
• IBM Drops an ‘e’, Goes Web 2.0 with Lotus Quickr. It was only a matter of time.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of (if unique visits are anything to go by, anyway). Looks like everybody’s still high off the Web content conference…

• Google Apps Go Mobile, Starting with iPhone
• Web Content 2007: The Relevance of Relevancy
• Vignette + HP = ILM Perfection & GRC Pleasures?
• Wiki Appliance Gets SaaS-y Behind the Firewall
• Web Content 2007: 7 Open Source Myths: Busted!

Thanks for the support y’all. The likes of Adido Solutions, Alpha Card, Asbru, Atlantic Global, Bitrix Soft, BrowserMedia, CMS Watch, Digital Original, Ektron, EMC/Documentum eTouch SamePage, Hot Banana, NetReach cmScribe, Quantum Art, Toshiba, Wild Apricot and of course dear old uncle Google have kept the Nespresso machines running this week. And we are thankful.

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At the CFUnited 2007 conference, Hot Banana announced v5.6, the latest legacy-bearer in a string of Web CMS solutions.

They couldn’t have picked a better place or time, considering a major feature of v5.6 is its compatibility with Adobe ColdFusion 8.

Friday, Jun 29 2007

At the recent National Education Computing Conference in Atlanta, Open Text Corp announced the release of FirstClass Colaboration Suite 9.0.

This is the latest version of its integrated communications and collaboration software for businesses and learning organizations.

Less than three months after announcing the availability of their affectionately named Compliance in a Box turn-key solution, Impact Systems announces their first production deployment of the product.

Until recently we’ve all thought of Iron Mountain as little more than a backup tape shipping and storage business. While offsite maintenance of tapes is a necessary pain of IT existence (and has been a successful endeavor), recent acquisitions and partnerships have demonstrated that Iron Mountain is headed into quite a new arena. The high dollar records management space would appear to be the company’s new calling and they’ve just put some serious resources behind it.

Thursday, Jun 28 2007

Plone recently received a “Grand prix du jury des Lutèce d’Or 2007” in Paris for its e-government initiatives. The award is bestowed upon open source projects that demonstrate a degree of sustainability and quality in the industry.

Wednesday, Jun 27 2007

If you are one of the 55,000 shared customers of EMC/Documentum and Oracle, then you just might be excited about the recently announced EMC Information Infrastructure for Oracle. If you’re not a customer, stick around anyway and find out what all the hubbub is about.

Connecting content management and business intelligence Datawatch Corporation — a company that specializes in Enterprise Information Management (EIM) — has announced that its web-based report mining and analysis solution, the Monarch RMS (Report Mining Server), is now fully integrated with Hyland Software’s OnBase Enterprise CMS suite.

A recent Forrester Research study — involving 119 CIOs — indicated that over 60% of those surveyed showed a “strong desire” to purchase and implement Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis and other light-weight collaboration tools. Manifesting a classic corporate quandary, those same CIOs also implied that they would prefer to purchase said technologies as a suite from a “large, incumbent software vendor”.

Its not music to everyone’s ears, but IBM with their new Lotus Quickr product intends to deliver for just such a crowd.

UK-based enterprise content management author and vendor Mediasurface plc just announced its desire to acquire Immediacy Ltd. for £5.6 million — about 19,347,826 new Ordinary Shares — plus deferred consideration of £0.80 per pound of net assets over £370,000.

Tuesday, Jun 26 2007

The Content Management Professionals association has announced a call for participation. This is for their Fall 2007 Summit, to be held on November 26, 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts. The topic of the year is our dear evergreen favorite: Web Content Management.

To quote, the Pros are specifically interested in “instructors willing to lead workshops and moderators to lead roundtable discussions that focus on a specific topic and that teach attendees new skills they can put to work when they return to the office.”

The theme is practical participation. The deadline for sign-ups is this Friday, June 29th. You can do so here.