Enterprise Content Management Systems (CMS) News & Articles

Nuxeo (news, site) has rounded up 2009 with reports of triple-digit growth in revenue and subscriber base numbers, as well as a look at how the open source Enterprise CMS vendor plans to tackle the overcrowded and mature ECM market.

Personnel may change; business processes may change; retention periods do not. Every records culture is different. The Records and Information Manager requires the skills of an astute surveyor.

Many organizations either have a portal platform in place today or are considering implementing one. In addition, many content management systems and social software solutions offer portal capabilities.

What is the best approach to fostering knowledge management and team collaboration? Is the portal as a separate technology a thing of the past? Or is it still a required element of your information management strategy?

This poll will remain open until March 31. But don't wait until then, vote now and watch how the results unfold.

Oracle (news, site) has announced two major additions to the document management module of its Universal Content Management (UCM) Enterprise CMS today: Forms Recognition software and Imaging and Process Management 11g.

IT management software company CA (news, site)  has announced that it has just closed a cash deal worth US$ 350 million to buy monitoring solutions provider Nimsoft.

The Islandia, NY-based giant says this acquisition will open up a whole new customer base of midmarket/emerging enterprises and management service providers (MSPs).

Welcome to the weekend. The hyped SXSW is in full swing, check out our ongoing live coverage from Texas. More interesting content management events are coming up: J. Boye Philly and GilbaneSF. But first let's take a look back and see what's been cooking in the Enterprise CMS/Web CMS kitchen this week. Beware of strong social media flavors and spicy debates.

Editor's Picks

• Selecting a CMS: Managing Product Demos. If you followed the advice from the first two articles in this series (How to build a short list and Developing scenarios), you are now ready to move to the next step and start evaluating products against your defined requirements.
  
• 5 Things to Consider when Integrating your Content Management System and Portal. Portals and content management systems are widely used in organizations today. For many, the desire to integrate them into a single collaborative environment is critical. But there's a lot to think about before moving forward.
• CMS Review: Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM). Not all products deserve your attention when you're in the process of selecting a CMS. Here's a detailed review of Oracle UCM to help you decide if this Enterprise CMS is a good fit for you.
• Enterprise Software: To Be or Not To Be Like Facebook. A war has been waged in the name of the future enterprise. On one side, Marc Benioff. On the other, a crowd of naysayers who don’t like the idea of mixing business with pleasure.
• Clickability Extends SaaS Web CMS With Integrated IDE. While Clickability has long claimed to be accessible to a non-technical audience, it can now appeal to developers and web designers.
• Hippo CMS 7.3 Brings Facets, Surf-and-Edit, Pretty URLs. Since version 7.3 was expected in the fall of 2009 (per Hippo’s roadmap of 4 scheduled releases per year) you’re probably anxious to try out the new goodies.
• From Twitter to Yammer to Buzz, 10 Microblogging Must Reads. We’ve put together some must-read happenings that have occurred so far this year. Whether you’re in the mix for business or pleasure, these points are worth the read.
• Telligent Analytics 3.5: New Support Analytics, Updated User Analytics. Telligent Analytics is almost three and a half years old and there's no sign that this solution is joining the market of basic analytic solutions.

Most Popular Articles

These articles were what you fancied most this week, according to Uncle G's analytics data.

• How Document Management Has Evolved in SharePoint 2010. Adam Harmetz, Lead Program Manager for SharePoint Document and Records Management, gives us a tour around new DM features in SharePoint 2010.
• SharePoint Portal Alternatives - A Credible List. We took a look at some of these "SharePoint Alternatives" and let you know what SharePoint functionality they replace. Here's what we found.
• Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7. Did you know you can run SharePoint 2010 environments on both Windows 7 and Windows Vista SP1?
• Google's Marketplace Spells Trouble for Microsoft. Google set off an enterprise-tastic bomb when they announced the opening of Google Marketplace, an online store for business apps. Now, we can’t help but wonder, is Microsoft an impending casualty?
• Google Opens Marketplace for Google Apps: Box.net, Zoho on Board. After weeks of rumors, Google finally launched Google Apps Marketplace, their new online store for business applications that integrate with and extend Google Apps.
• Prepare for a May 12 SharePoint 2010 Launch. The official launch date for SharePoint 2010 is circling the net and like everyone else interested in SharePoint, we have marked our calendar with a great big exclamation mark.
• Sun Microsystems Chief Open Source Officer Leaves Oracle. March 8 turned out to be Simon Phipps' last day at Sun/Oracle. What does that mean for his pet projects, and Oracle's plans for Sun's open source properties? Timing is everything, as we just recently pondered about what the Oracle + Sun merger could mean for content management.

Polls and Your Votes

The release date for SharePoint 2010 is around the corner. So we asked you about your plans, and so far the majority of votes seems to indicate that SharePoint 2010 is not at the top of priorities list.

Do you agree? Click the link below and let us know.

• Poll: Is Your Organization Planning to Implement SharePoint 2010?

Also, check out our previous poll results:

• Poll Results: Web Analytics Need More Love
• Poll Results: Usability is Top DAM Challenge

Content Management Jobs

Here's what's been brewing lately in the CMS jobs and careers field. Both seekers and employers, catch the best fish of the season on our content management job board.

Featured Jobs

• Analyst, Serving Customer Intelligence Professionals at Forrester Research
• Senior Sales Rep at Clickability
• Project Manager/Digital Media at http://www.tmgcustommedia.com
• LiveServer/RedDot/OpenText - CMS Developer at LP Associates
• Lead Developer (Drupal) at Sandusky Newspapers, Inc

Traveling or Virtual, There are Events to Attend

Wondering how to spend your time in the next few weeks or months? Attend a conference, or maybe just a webinar or two. Have a look at our Industry Events Calendar to see what's happening in your area.

Featured Events:

• Mar 16, 2010 – Webinar: Smart Fixes for Slacker Web Pages
• Apr 21, 2010 – Drupalcon San Francisco 2010
• Apr 22, 2010 – AIIM International Expo 2010
• May 5, 2010 – CMS Expo 2010 (Evanston)
• May 20, 2010 – Gilbane Conference San Francisco

pTools (news, site) gets a little bit social with the introduction of new social media and social networking capabilities including an easy way to update your favorite social networks.

 March 8 turned out to be Simon Phipps' last day at Sun (news, site) / Oracle (news, site). What does that mean for his pet projects, and Oracle's plans for Sun's open source properties?

Inmagic has come out with a new version of Presto, a social knowledge network solution, that integrates tightly with SharePoint. Just another way to share all the information stored in one of the most popular collaboration platforms.

Oracle acquired Stellent's content management system in a US$ 440 million deal that closed in December of 2006. Since then Oracle has integrated the Stellent assets into the Oracle Fusion Middleware line of products. Here's a look at what is now known as Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM).

Companies have been contemplating compliance and governance issues for decades. But it’s only recently that they’ve been tackling the challenge that social media brings to corporate governance, risk and compliance. This week we examine a few of the elements impacting the industry.

SeeUnity, a company made up of enterprise content integration fankids, has just released Synchronize Express. The tool allows users to shift back and forth from SharePoint to external Enterprise CMS repositories.

Portals and content management systems are widely used in organizations today. For many, the desire to integrate them into a single collaborative environment is critical. But there's a lot to think about before moving forward. In this article we cover the basic considerations for integrating a CMS into an enterprise portal.

Despite persistent global economic difficulties, a recent survey from technology consultancy IDC (news, site) shows that the world-wide storage software market continues to hold its own with 6.3% growth between Q3 and Q4 last year.

However, while the combined market for all top vendors increased by 0.5% in Q4 last year compared with Q4 in 2008, the overall picture is gloomier with a total contraction of the market year-on-year of 4.7%.

The official launch date for SharePoint 2010 (news, site) is circling the net and like everyone else interested in SharePoint, we have marked our calendar with a great big exclamation mark.

eZ’s (news, site) 8th annual eZ Conference will be held in Berlin on the 24th and 35th of June this year. This Web Content Management and Digital Media gathering is designed for industry leaders, experts, web professionals, and all of eZ’s family. Care to be a speaker or sponsor? eZ wants you, too. 

eXo (news, site), the makers of Java middleware and open source Enterprise CMS, got a VC infusion of US$ 6 million. eXo plans to use the money to strengthen its U.S. operations, especially in the areas of sales and marketing. The new Board of Directors should provide the needed executive leadership in the expansion.

Last week we talked about 5 of 10 important issues facing risk and compliance managers in 2010. You can read part one here. This week we continue that discussion with the final 5 issues focusing on risk management investment, integration, reporting and more.

GRC is at the forefront of most industries and they all struggle with managing policy-based information so as to meet compliance and mitigate risks. Because email can generate massive amounts of information and is subject to great scrutiny, companies are always eager to implement new tools designed to make the management process easier. Like this new one from EMC (news, site).

Another week is over. While the content management community on Twitter was debating whether WordPress is a CMS (see Word of Pie's blog post and CMS Myth's take), many other Enterprise CMS, Web CMS and related happenings took place.

Here's the top news you might've missed along with our most popular reads, new job posts, featured events and more.

Editor's Picks

• Autonomy Interwoven Combines WCM, Search, Rich Media in Single Platform. Cha-cha-changes coming to Autonomy Interwoven, as the company announces major enhancements for its web content management system with integrated WCM, search, optimization and rich media.
• Key Questions Rarely Asked About Website Content Migration. Benjamin Franklin said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” Obviously, Ben wasn’t thinking about migrating content from one Web CMS to another. But we all know how his words apply here.
• Alfresco Offers Cloud-based SMB Edition of its Enterprise CMS. Alfresco now has something for the little guy. An Amazon EC2-based SMB version of Alfresco's Enterprise CMS is in beta. Just pay and go. Using shampoo and conditioner is now a more complicated task.
• 10 Important Issues For Risk and Compliance Managers (Part 1). Based on conversations with industry experts and customers, we've compiled 10 of the most important issues for compliance professionals. Here you give you a look at the first 5.
• SharePoint Portal Alternatives - A Credible List. We took a look at some of these "SharePoint Alternatives" and let you know what SharePoint functionality they replace. Here's what we found.
• A New ASP.NET Security Framework Comes with Bitrix Site Manager 4.6. To test the product, it was let loose at the a recent Russian hacking event, Chaos Construction 9, where it staved off thousands of attempted attacks.
• eZ Systems Targets iPhone, iPad Publishing with Mobile WCM Toolkit, Services. The wired world is jibber-jabbing about iPhones, iPads and the next generation of publishing. Open source Web CMS eZ Publish now includes a new iPhone and iPad content delivery product.

Most Popular Articles

These articles were what you fancied most this week, according to Uncle Google's analytics data.

• How Document Management Has Evolved in SharePoint 2010. Adam Harmetz, Lead Program Manager for SharePoint Document and Records Management, gives us a tour around new DM features in SharePoint 2010.
• Red Hat Launches Opensource.com. Red Hat, one of the poster children of the Linux and open source communities, has launched a new online community to promote open source across various industries.
• 8 Ways Web Content Management has Improved in SharePoint 2010. Some say that Microsoft hasn't really made many changes to SharePoint 2007's web content management functionality for SharePoint 2010. While the underlying architecture may not have changed, there are some improvements.
• Microsoft Compares Their Hosted Service to Google Apps. We know there is increasing competition for cloud-based services. But one of the biggest competitions — between Google and Microsoft — just got a little more interesting.
• Social Media Marketing with Facebook and Omniture. The point? No, measuring Facebook stuff is nothing new, but it looks like this year it's going to become increasingly important.
• Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7. Did you know you can run SharePoint 2010 environments on both Windows 7 and Windows Vista SP1?

Polls and Your Votes

The release date for SharePoint 2010 is around the corner. So we asked you about your plans, and so far the majority of votes seems to indicate that SharePoint 2010 is not at the top of priorities list.

Do you agree? Click the link below and let us know.

• Poll: Is Your Organization Planning to Implement SharePoint 2010?

Also, check out our previous poll results:

• Poll Results: Web Analytics Need More Love
• Poll Results: Usability is Top DAM Challenge

Content Management Jobs

Here's what's been brewing lately in the CMS jobs and careers field. Both seekers and employers, catch the best fish of the season on our content management job board.

Featured Jobs

• Technology Bloggers for Justmeans.com at Justmeans
• Development Project Manager at Objective
• Experienced UX Designer at Tanagram Partners
• Sales Executive/Representative at Socialtext
• Technical Writer - Software Applications at Bamboo Solutions

Traveling or Virtual, There are Events to Attend

Wondering how to spend your time in the next few weeks or months? Attend a conference, or maybe just a webinar or two. Have a look at our Industry Events Calendar to see what's happening in your area.

Featured Events:

• Mar 16, 2010 – Webinar: Smart Fixes for Slacker Web Pages
• Apr 21, 2010 – Drupalcon San Francisco 2010
• Apr 22, 2010 – AIIM International Expo 2010
• May 5, 2010 – CMS Expo 2010 (Evanston)
• May 20, 2010 – Gilbane Conference San Francisco