Web Content Management System (CMS) News & Articles

If you followed the advice from the first two articles in this series (How to build a short list and Developing scenarios), you should have a good idea of what you are looking for and with what products you might find some content management system bliss. This next article provides guidance on how you can start evaluating actual products against your defined requirements.

And it eventually will fly away. In less than a week, to be exact. Worry not, we have a discount code for our readers to make it even more fun and affordable. J. Boye Philadelphia 2010 is one of the content management events you don't want to miss.

The registration for Gilbane San Francisco Conference is in full swing. For those of you coming out to the event, don’t miss the keynote sessions presented by visionaries Jeremiah Owyang and Dan Rasmus.

Web CMS outfit Clickability (news, site) adds an integrated development environment to allow customization and flexibility for its on-demand CMS product.

Marketing Resource Management (MRM) is one of the areas — in addition to WCM and ECM — where Gartner (news, site) exercises its magic by the quadrant. In one of its recent 2010 reports, the analyst firm highlighted several Web CMS vendors as players in the niche quadrant for MRM.

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).

Enterprise search is a boom area and Bitrix (news, site) offers its new solution for finding data spread throughout an enterprise's online assets.

Open source Web CMS provider Tiki (news, site) updates the current forks of its product and announces plans for the next revision.

With Europe being under heavy snow this winter, the NL-based makers of Hippo CMS (news, site) seemed to have many cold days to concentrate on the next release as opposed to spending their time ice skating on Amsterdam's canals. Here's what's new in the recently released Hippo CMS 7.3.

As we all drown in today's unparalleled access to mostly disorganized information, the holy grail for many has become to perfect search. O'Reilly Media (news, site) has released a new book to help those following this path.

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.

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. 

Cloud computing and virtualization reflect a general movement driven by the Web: a shift towards a more service-driven economy.

If you live in the US or Canada you probably know that you can dial 911 for emergency services and 411 for directory assistance. However, did you know that many communities in these two countries offer 311 service as well?

The Open311 project promises to bring 311 services into the digital age.

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

With all websites increasingly under attack, Bitrix (news, site) ups the defences with a new security system for its users.

Some say Twitter has replaced the need for RSS feeds, but we think they’ve still got some life left in them. Seemingly on the same page, WordPress.com (news, site) now supports PubSubHubbub (PuSH), a service that "pushes" updates from the 10.5 million WordPress.com blogs to RSS readers in near real-time.  

The knowledge management site KMWorld has produced its list of the outfits making waves in the world of data awareness. Is anyone you know on the list? The answer is a resounding yes.

This week, new research shows a huge increase in the use of video email in SMBs. In the meantime, Symantec released email security SMB edition with simplified licensing.

Autonomy (news, site) is announcing major enhancements for its web content management system Autonomy Interwoven. How does integrated WCM, search, optimization and rich media grab you? Exactly.