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Tuesday, Mar 18 2008

Your team has gone through the initial discovery analysis and you have selected your new web content management system. All is going well as you kick off the planning until someone on your team asks, “What about the content migration?”

You look to your agency and they just shake their heads, your guys from IT are staring back at you wide-eyed and your CMS vendor stutters back in response, “Uh..uh..uh well, that’s usually the customer’s responsibility.”

Thursday, Feb 21 2008

Here’s another must attend event if you live on the west coast — or just feel like visiting Vancouver, British Columbia — home of XFiles series.

For content management professionals who need to look more strategically at their content, the Content Convergence and Integration 2008 conference could be the trick.

The 3 day event March 12-14, 2008 is brought to you by the Strategy A Consulting Group.

Monday, Nov 26 2007

In January 2005, Massachusetts became the first state to throw down the gauntlet in terms of moving all public documentation to a non-proprietary format. The justification being, that it shouldn’t be necessary to purchase proprietary software to use digital public documentation.

Not only does it hold the constituents hostage in their need for a tool to read the proprietary format, but it also holds the government hostage in that the initiative to change off of any proprietary format is colossal.

Monday, Nov 12 2007

The eTouch team have released a new version of their enterprise Wiki platform today. Highlights of the update include greater support for internationalized content and an import function which will migrate content from your old Wiki, or from HTML sources, straight into your spanking new SamePage Wiki.

Tuesday, Oct 23 2007

Paul Trotter, CEO of Author-it Software Corp., is a man who knows what he is talking about. If you don’t believe me, just take a look at his bank balance.

He just published a White Paper on the implementation challenges presented by Content Management Systems as a whole. It ought to be required reading for boardroom-types, IT managers, webmasters — just about anyone whose job entails management of digital content.

But for those just waking up to the fact that they need a CMS, and are fretting over the issues involved in getting it up and running, you might want to take a look.

Friday, Oct 5 2007

It is universally known that a content management system is only useful when it has content to manage. Unfortunately, the problem of how to migrate content either into a new CMS or from one CMS to another is rarely considered ahead of time and is far from trivial.

Wednesday, Sep 26 2007

Happy news for Microsoft aficionados: Fast Extract (FACT) for Oracle now operates on the Windows platform.

FACT helps unburden large Oracle tables onto to portable flat files in fixed- or variable-length formats with supported combinations of native SQL SELECT features.

Operating SQL*Loader and SortCL alongside FACT helps with high-volume reorg, replications, migration and reporting.

Parent company Innovative Routines International, Inc. also purveys CoSort, a data manipulation package.

Wednesday, Sep 26 2007

This is the third and final article in our series on migrating content from a previous version of Vignette to Vignette V7. The first article in the series painted the broad overview and in the last article we talked in detail about the Content Analysis part of the process. Now, we continue by digging into the final planning phase: Defining the Migration Approach.

Monday, Sep 24 2007

When we left off from part one in this series, we mentioned that there are four steps involved in the content life cycle migration process — analyzing the content, deciding on a migration approach, the actual migration and post-migration processing. Here in part two, we go into detail on the Content Analysis step.

Wednesday, Sep 19 2007

Vignette revamped its Web Content Management technology with version V7 to adopt industry standards J2EE, XML and Web Services. While this move helped customers lower total cost of ownership by leveraging open standards and application server services, it posed new challenges in migrating existing sites running on earlier versions V5/V6.

V7 introduced an entirely new architecture, making V6 implementations almost obsolete. Customers going for the V7 platform have to model, design and rebuild the site.

Along with re-engineering the site, one of the most critical tasks in V7 migration is to rebuild the content into new V7 server from an old story server. As re-creating the whole site content is quite a tedious task, customers might wonder if there is any way out.

Friday, Sep 14 2007

Vamosa, which received accolades for its “cool” factor in the ECM sector (there’s a cool factor?), has decided to spread the love.

The content migration pros will be hosting free webinars for people seeking to learn more about analysis and migration tools for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

The webinars start this month and last through the end of 2007. You’ll get online demonstrations of the Vamosa content and document store analysis and migration offerings, along with info on how to conduct successful migrations yourself.

Register for a webinar at the Vamosa website.

Friday, Sep 7 2007

Meet Fortis Email Management, a solution that allows simpler Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes archiving. It plays nicely with one or the other, and permits the capture and archive of e-docs to Fortis’ document management software.

Brought to you by Fortis Document Management Software Teams (courtesy of Westbrook), in conjunction with Sherpa Software.