Content Management Matters ™

Content is a big deal these days, in case you haven't noticed. However, its exponential growth over the years has left some businesses struggling. IBM has stepped up its game by unveiling their integrated approach to helping organizations manage enterprise content with software that helps control and manage all types of content created and shared by workgroups across an organization.

It's called a Business Content Services strategy, and it's designed to help businesses of all sizes cope with the rapid growth of content, including business documents that have been created both individually or collaboratively across diverse and even global workgroups.

The EMC World 2008 event just wrapped up in wholesome Las Vegas and the content management industry eyes were ogling both the table top dancers and the (not so?) seductive CM story EMC was peddling.

If the dream for your installation of IBM FileNet P8 4.0 is that users have the ability to recover content and metadata at an even more granular level, and honestly who doesn't have that dream, then prepare for CYA Technologies to make your millennium.

IBM has announced an upgrade to its Classification Module, which automates the categorization of large volumes of enterprise information, integrating with the FileNet P8 CMS platform.

The system is aimed at data stored in FileNet repositories. It automatically determines the importance of information, then stores and classifies it appropriately.

Large amounts of previously unmanaged content can be processed, as can content already under management but in need of reclassification.

By uniting IBM's DB2 9 Viper data server and FileNet P8 with its xfy and XMetal offerings, JustSystem hopes to unify content and data views within the enterprise.

VP Paul Wlodarczyk of solutions consulting at JustSystem explains, IBM covers Web services with FileNet P8, and XML data with the DB2 9 Viper data server. With xfy and XMetaL, we can leverage content from each of those sources to help developers rapidly deliver the unified view that business users want."

Guess this means less tabbing back and forth for us. If all goes as well as planned, the solution will also:

• Speed document creation and collaboration
• Vanquish errors associated with dynamic documents
• Reduce costs by leveraging existing engineering data assets

JustSystems is currently appearing as a Diamond Partner for IBM's Information On Demand 2007 conference. Its offering is targeted to financial services, big pharma and life science, high-tech and manufacturing industries, if only because these sectors boast the same issues other enterprises have except with unique security, compliance and data issues.

Infolinx has just announced that its WEB Physical Records Management software has been merged with IBM's FileNet Records Manager.

The integration yields a new solution that taps the strength of both physical and electronic records management solutions - a collaborative first in this sector.

Gartner, everyone's favourite research firm, has read the ECM tea leaves and expects its global market to grow at a rate of 12 percent per year. If that growth rate holds true, by 2010 the worldwide market for content management will be valued at a whopping US$ 4.2 billion.

It might be safe to say most companies are only as good as the strength of their record-keeping. This cannot be more true than it is in the corporate legal industry, where the difference between government compliance and non-compliance is dependent on proper and efficient data organization and delivery.

UK-based Altien has just released Altien for Corporate Legal, an Enterprise CMS offering for legal departments that deals with the document management and workflow needs of in-house staff.

Swiss content management and content infrastructure software provider Day Software has announced its latest Java Content Repository (JCR) connector. This time the company has delivered wiring that enables standard JCR access to the IBM/FileNet's P8 Content Manager enterprise content repository.

CYA Technologies, which provides recovery and replication solution to the Enterprise CMS world, today announced the release of CYA SmartRecovery for IBM FileNet P8. This is presently the only discrete recovery product that enables online recovery of structured information in just minutes, without shutting down one's system or taking applications offline.