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Monday, Jun 30 2008

Oracle is stepping up their game through the acquisition of two new software companies that will enhance their enterprise content management offering in very specific industries. Some say it may finally put them in front of the pack of big boys like IBM and EMC. But how will this new offering stack up against rival Interwoven?

Monday, Jun 2 2008

Archiving has become a huge deal for organizations large and small as rules and regulations dictate how easily information needs to be available for compliance and legal purposes. So it’s no surprise that enterprise content management vendors are incorporating these requirements into their solution offerings.

Oracle, being no exception, has developed the Oracle Online Archive that uses their database as a storage repository for all types of content, including email, files, etc. Seems like they have been down this road before though. Does a “single solution for all content types” work in the real world?

Tuesday, Apr 22 2008

Newmerix, a provider of comprehensive Application Lifecycle Management solutions, has introduced new versions of Automate!Control and Automate!Change, part of their Automate! suite designed to reduce high costs and effort required to maintain packaged applications like SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle E-Business Suite.

These programs now offer workflow, document management, improved data reporting and enhanced security for PeopleSoft and Oracle E-Business Suite customers. They also integrate with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, letting customers benefit from increased collaboration, information sharing and productivity.

Tuesday, Apr 15 2008

Oracle has taken it’s Universal Content Management solution to a new level by announcing two new components: Universal Online Archive and Email Archive Service. Both of these components are just the latest in the long line of integrated products to support the growing needs of content management.

Friday, Mar 14 2008

IBM is not the only ECM vendor looking to leverage social networking capabilities in their applications. Looks like Oracle is getting into the game as well. In this case, it’s a mix of CRM and social networking in an On Demand solution.

Sounds a little like salesforce.com’s new Spring 08 release to me.

Thursday, Mar 6 2008

Oracle Universal Content Management clients must feel a warm rush of excitement hearing that Clay Tablet, an integrator of content management technologies and translation systems/providers will support connectivity to the Oracle CMS.

Tuesday, Mar 4 2008

Like the other big software players, Oracle likes to hold something back for conferences like AIIM so that it has something to talk about — other than event catering and the weather — when it bumps into it’s professional contemporaries in the bar. Oracle doesn’t “do” small-talk very well. And probably doesn’t even go to the bar, come to that, preferring to spend the time training for triathlons or something.

So while it may be a lousy drinking buddy, Oracle makes for a good enterprise software partner, and the updates unveiled at this year’s AIIM make its Enterprise CMS package a yet more attractive proposition.

Monday, Feb 25 2008

Are you an Oracle Content Management fan? Then here’s the event of the year for you. It’s Oracle’s Collaborate 08 conference and it’s happening April 13–17, 2008 at the Denver Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.

Thursday, Jan 24 2008

You’ve all heard the news by now that Sun went out and snapped up MySQL for a hefty $1 billion. Yes, that’s right…turned the open source community on it’s ear…or did it?

So…what do you think about the Sun/MySQL deal? Reckon it’s good for open source in general? Does it affect your orientation towards MySQL? What about the price? Are they nuts?

That’s exactly what we asked a bundle of the movers and shakers around the open source CMS community. And they were mostly upbeat about the deal.

Which is great, but…boy, how we would have loved someone to come out guns-a-blazing against those Sun guys, or MySQL, and given us some controversy or blackmail material. Next time we do this, we’ll get them on the sause first.

Thursday, Jan 17 2008

Seems Oracle is on a buying spree these days. It announced the purchase of document capture solution provider, Captivation right on the heels of it’s acquisition of BEA Systems for $8.5 billion. Put these two things together and it’s obvious Oracle is a mission to be numero uno in the industry.

Monday, Dec 10 2007

In the world of Java servlet engines, there are but a few major players. Everybody is familiar with the 800 lb gorillas — BEA’s WebLogic and IBM’s Websphere. Oracle has a commercial product in the Oracle Application Server, while the open source offerings Jakarta Tomcat and RedHat’s JBoss round out the major players in the space.

But hold the show, according to an InformationWeek article, use of the Tomcat engine outpaces that of it’s competition by a rather surprising margin. And according to BZ Research, 64.3% of the respondents participating in a Java survey from December 2006 are using the Tomcat engine, with Websphere in use at 36.9%, JBoss in use at 32%, WebLogic in use at 23.7% and the Oracle Application Server in use at 22.4% of the environments.

Wednesday, Nov 28 2007

Back for a seventh year, EContent Magazine has spent agonizing days, weeks, months — or just a lot of time, compiling their annual Top 100.

Top 100 what? Well, it’s the best of digital content companies in the industry today. You’ve seen many such lists covered here before, I’m sure.