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Thursday, Jul 31 2008

Not tired of hearing about SharePoint training? Good, because here’s another one that crossed our path. Tony Byrne of CMS Watch will be conducting a SharePoint Symposium, a Satellite Event at KMWorld & Intranets 2008 on September 26, 2008 in San Jose McEnery, CA.

Are you running an open source WCM website that needs a little social interactivity? You can get with it KickApps. The SaaS social media solutions provider has been working hard to provide their services to open source content management solutions like Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. You can learn all about it at the Linux World Expo in San Francisco next week.

Brava! Alfresco Labs 3 is striving to be a viable open source alternative to Microsoft’s SharePoint MOSS enterprise content management offering.

As of today, Alfresco Labs v3 — the application formerly known as Alfresco Community — offers potential SharePoint customers a different option, providing them with what they claim is the first fully-compatible open source SharePoint repository.

Thursday, Jul 31 2008

Jive Software, a provider of enterprise collaboration and community software, can hardly stand it. They are just bursting at the seams with good news. With record growth, a new online community and a new CFO, who wouldn’t be excited?

Some small and medium sized organizations struggle to intergrate a solid document management system with their business line applications. Enter Computhink, an Illinois based Document Management solutions provider that has released the ViewWise Application Enabler for their flagship document management system ViewWise. It makes easier for an organization to add ViewWise Document Management functionality to their 3rd party business apps like Microsoft Dynamics, Intuit, Sage, SAP and Oracle.

Here at CMSWire, we’ll be the first ones to tell you how awesome we, who work in the web and technology fields, are. As for data to back up our claim, well there’s not a lot of it. So, that’s why the folks at A List Apart, the webzine for web designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers and everyone else who makes websites has taken it upon themselves to once again survey us so that a “true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide” can be represented.

Wednesday, Jul 30 2008

Another ECM vendor recognizes the need to provide tighter integration with third party applications. This time it’s iDatix, introducing the newest release of their enterprise CMS iSynergy v3.8.

If you think you know how application integration works, think again.

Wednesday, Jul 30 2008

You’d think that after Google, nobody would even dare to venture into the search engine market. That apparently doesn’t include some former Googlers who launched Cuil - the newest search engine that describes its mission as “to index the whole Internet” and “analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results.”

Cuil (pronounced “cool”) claims to have a “fundamentally different approach” to search engines due to its new architecture and algorithms. Sounds good in theory, but how does it actually do in reality?

Known as one of the more knowledgeable people on content management, he spends a great deal of his time traveling the globe teaching us about the trials and tribulations of content management and related technologies.

He’s Tony Byrne of CMS Watch and he’s decided to bring his extensive knowledge to the world of online education.

EssentiaESP developed by Essentia is a community-based platform designed specifically for commercial open source in order to efficiently build and manage vibrant open source communities.

The product combines principles of social networking, community management, collaboration and content management in a platform that supports multiple CRM integrations.

Tuesday, Jul 29 2008

When we first wrote about Knol, Google’s online knowledge management service, there didn’t seem to be much interest in it. After all, Google’s forte is search, is it not? Now that Knol has been released to the general masses, popular opinion is everywhere about the service — good and controversial.

What’s the saying, ‘another man’s trash is another man’s treasure’? Well, it might not exactly summarize the situation facing print newspapers and their web counterparts, but you get the point.

What has been a dismal year for print newspapers, has also been a year of promise for newspaper websites. A report released by Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America shows that newspaper web sites attracted nearly 66.4 million unique visitors on average — 40.2 percent of all Internet users — in the second quarter of 2008, a 12.2 percent increase over the same period, a year ago.