Web Content Management System (CMS) News & Articles

Open source Web CMS, ImpressPages (news, site), has created a tool to preserve the formatting of your words but get rid of the underlying code that can screw up your pages when cutting and pasting.

Welcome to the August installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

Any acquisition (and there have been quite a few of them lately) in the content management industry usually makes a splash. Today, it was Day's day to stir up the media, analysts, bloggers, twitterati and industry watchers; provoking pontifications around the announced US$ 240 mil. acquisition by Adobe.

Here’s the first look at what the industry was buzzing about and what some of the possible implications of the deal might be — for Day, for Adobe, for the market.

Following Adobe's enormous acquisition of Omniture, in a deal roughly one-eighth the size, the company has snatched-up Switzerland-based Day Software, a well known (to us) maker of Java-based content repositories and enterprise-focused Web Content Management software, via an all-cash bid of about US$ 240 million.

Open Text (news, site) has released Web Site Management 10.1, formerly known to most as Open Text Web Solutions and Red Dot. How has this merging of solutions made the life of content and website administrators easier?

Open source J2EE/Java Web CMS dotCMS (news, site) got a face-lift and several new capabilities in the latest release of version 1.9.

Bridgeline Digital's (news, site) latest version of iAPPS Web CMS eases the content approval workflow process for those on the go.

It is probably appropriate that a little less than two months after Oracle (news, site) released its Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g, Dmitri Khanine, who publishes the Independent Oracle UCM Knowledge Center, is in the process of releasing a new book that promises a whirlwind tour of the Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) component of the suite.

Welcome to the weekend and to our column highlighting some of the main happenings of this week.

We looked at how the latest standard CMIS can be used to manage content intelligently by providing a layer of simplicity and a standard interface for all CMSs. Among other topics this week, we talked about how to calculate your Enterprise CMS ROI, but also, more importantly, how to protect your return on investment projections and minimize any negative influences in your ECM project via change management, for example.

Editor's Picks

• Managing Content Intelligently Using CMIS. One of the key principles of this intelligent management is the ability to find and use content in the appropriate context using standards, such as the new Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS).
• How to Measure Enterprise CMS ROI and Minimize Negative Influences. Enterprise CMS is an expensive investment that usually comes with a need to demonstrate ROI in order to justify purchase decision.
• Integrating an Enterprise CMS with BPM: A Strategy for Bridging the Gap. Enterprise content management and business process management are two separate, but complimentary solutions.
• MediaBeacon Integrates DAM Solution into IBM's Web CMS, Portal. MediaBeacon has been doing DAM for ages but that hasn't stopped the company from looking to keep innovating.
• Aberdeen Says Companies are Safer in the Cloud. A recent Aberdeen survey may put some fears to rest, while turning apprehension on its head.
• Web Engagement: Optimizing Your Press Releases. A great press release can go a long way in terms of gaining virtually free publicity for your business, especially in an increasingly digital media environment.
• SharePoint 2010 Gets Its Official CMIS Connector. Packaged as part of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit, here's a look at the two features that come with the Connector.

Most Popular Articles

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

• ExpressionEngine 2.1 CMS Review, Part 1. On July 12, EllisLab finally released EE2.1, the first non-beta version of ExpressionEngine 2, a massive change from the EE 1.x line that changes all the underlying code of the software.
• TeamViewer iPad App Provides Remote Access to PCs. The newly released iPad app from TeamViewer gives businesses and private users the ability to control remote PCs from the iPad.
• Web CMS: MODx Revolution Targets Drupal, Joomla Markets. This is the future of the MODx project. Let's take a peek.
• Mid-Market .NET Web CMS Darlings Push Ahead. When SharePoint doesn't cut it for WCM, often more user-friendly and less expensive .NET Web CMS products can be  in a position for the classical "veni, vidi, vici."
• SharePoint 2010, A Business Collaboration Platform. 100 million licenses and 4,000 partners later, Microsoft thinks they have a handle on this SharePoint phenomenon.
• ExpressionEngine 2.1 CMS Review, Part 2. This is part two of an indepth review of the latest version, including a look at the engine, add-ons and what's gone.
• Gartner Says Spending on Social CRM Will Grow Faster Than Traditional CRM. Gartner has officially recognized the growing movement that is Social CRM by giving it a place on the list of Magic Quadrants.
• Content Strategy: Why Content Matters. Welcome to our new weekly column on Content Strategy. This week we examine content for the sake of content and what makes it so darn important to the rest of what we do.

Our Polls and Your Votes

The Intranet as we know it is a rapidly evolving creature, at least for some of us. Our latest poll looks at how your Intranet is being used (or if you even have one at all) and whether collaboration tools are present.

Poll: Does Your Intranet Include Collaboration Tools or Features?

This poll is now closed. Stay tuned for results.

In the meantime, check out our previous polls and commentary:

• 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

• SharePoint Specialist at Systems Alliance
• Vice President, Strategic Solutions Group at SymphonyIRI Group
• SEM Analyst at Webtrends
• MimeoConnect API Evangelist at Mimeo
• Technical Writer at Loyalty Lab

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

• Aug 5, 2010 – Webinar: How Combining Enterprise CMS and BPM Boosts IT Efficiency

• Sep 19, 2010 – Oracle OpenWorld 2010

• Oct 7, 2010 — HartmanEVENT 2010 - Social Media & Mobile Usability

With video now one of the real “must haves” for any enterprise website most vendors are either integrating with outside video management systems or building their own. Such is the case with Systems Alliance (news, site), which has just released its video management system called MediaExecutive that is fully integrated with its Web content management system SiteExecutive.

Recently, the Real Story Group identified mid-market Microsoft .NET-based content management systems as the biggest Web CMS trend for Q3.

I was inspired to explore this topic a bit more, as industry anecdotes of organizations selecting one CMS vendor over the other based on the "We're a 100% .NET" claim sprang to mind.

This past March we saw a hint of what was coming from the open source Web CMS project called MODx (news, site). Now their latest release, MODx Revolution v2.0, has officially arrived. This is the future of the MODx project. Let's take a peek.

Attention all you Drupal (news, site) heads! The DrupalCon conference in Copenhagen is coming up,  so if you're going to be in Europe at the end of August, swing by for some face time with project founder Dries Buytaert. 

On July 12, EllisLab finally released EE2.1, the first non-beta version of ExpressionEngine 2. This is part two of an indepth review of the latest version, including a look at the engine, add-ons and what's gone.

Hedgehog Development's release of Team Development 2.1 for Sitecore is a perfect example of how a technology partner can create a product that makes development and deployment of the Sitecore (news, site) Web CMS that much easier.

Content management and e-commerce firm Bridgeline (news, site) is going for growth via the shopping spree route.

Last October, DAM developer MediaBeacon (news, site) hired Tom Rieger, ex-IBM, Informix and FileNet director. At the time we asked what he was going to do there. The integration of MediaBeacon’s DAM platform into IBM’s (news, site) Lotus WCM and WebSphere Portal probably helps answer that.

 SDL (news, site) adds to their translation capabilities with the acquisition of Language Weaver, a provider of SaaS-based statistical machine translation. What does this acquisition mean for SDL's global information management platform?

Perhaps the "2" stood for 2 years.

On July 12, EllisLab finally released EE2.1, the first non-beta version of ExpressionEngine 2, a massive change from the EE 1.x line that changes all the underlying code of the software itself, adds an impressive array of new features both large and small, and (EE developers hope) brings to an end a long plateau in the evolution of ExpressionEngine.

Living systems get constant feedback from their external environment. To truly succeed, web teams need constant feedback from their customers.