Content Management Matters ™

BEA, a leader in enterprise infrastructure software, has harnessed the powerful forces of the sea, resulting in the new BEA AquaLogic User Interaction Suite. It promises to help organizations roll with the power of the changing IT landscape, notably, the recent popularity of SOA, by driving new modes of collaboration, and improving productivity and participation.

With compliance issues top of mind for companies today, Identity and Access Management are critical components of any application. Keeping track of many users and their access to many different systems is often difficult and time consuming.

The Dot Net Factory understands this and has released the latest version of its EmpowerID suite. EmpowerID v4 is a Role-based Access Control (RBAC) suite for all enterprise resources.

EmpowerID offers a complete identity lifecycle management suite built on a .Net-based Service Oriented Architecture that utilizes Windows Workflow Foundation. And it’s based on Business Process Management.

Now if that doesn’t peek your interest….

In a move sure to shock no-one at all, RedHat has announced the launch of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.

The new product brings Service Oriented Architecture to the JBoss application platform for the first time, as well as the exemplary integration of applications and processes which we've come to expect. Red Hat calls the new package 'the first comprehensive open source SOA product offering'. Three cheers for Red Hat, then.

According to the analyst firm CMS Watch, enterprise content management vendors are failing to meet the security requirements of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).

They claim that, after evaluating a number of ECM technologies, these products are "lacking key security pre-requisites" and are "ill-equipped to meet the security requirements of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)".

Ouch! say the big boys leaning forward in their leather massage chairs.

According to a recent Enterprise Software report by The 451 Group, iDatix, an emerging technology company out of Tampa Bay, Florida, may be holding the key to the next wave of document management solutions for the enterprise – if they can get recognition outside their home town.

They say iSynergy, iDatix’s document management software platform has the potential to “make a disruptive impact in a staid space”.

WSO2, the open source SOA company has released a new SOA governance registry. True to their Web 2.0 roots, this one combines the required functionality of a traditional SOA registry with Web 2.0 capabilities.

The registry has a web-based interface and a number of Web 2.0 community features like tags, comments, and ratings.

What does all this Web 2.0 functionality really do for the WSO2 registry? Well, it enables non-technical people to easily use the registry along with the usual developers and administrators.

Nstein Technologies Inc, an online publishing solutions vendor for newspapers, magazines and online content providers, has announced the creation of a formal partner program specifically designed for the system integrators and developers community.

The program will first be presented on the company's web site and formally introduced to clients at Nstein's 2008 User Conference in May.

Red Hat has announced the winners of the JBoss Innovation Awards 2008. The Awards, in their second year, highlight the individuals and companies which are judged to be the most innovative and effective in providing JBoss solutions.

JBoss, a division of Red Hat, provides open source middleware solutions for the enterprise, offering a platform for building, integrating and presenting Web applications in a Service-Oriented Architecture.

Nobody should be surprised that with the beginning of a new year comes a whole lotta predictions about how 2008 will role out in the big wide world of the Internet. These ones are all about Enterprise 2.0 and are from Dion Hinchcliffe, the guy with the really nice Enterprise 2.0 graphics. Here's an overview of what he thinks will happen this year

Refresh Software has just released an updated version of its proprietary component content management offering.

Woven together by DITA, XML and web publishing experts, SR2 7.1 utilizes an SOA-based J2EE content repository. It installs directly into the IT back-end and sports a simple interface for front-end users.

SR2 also:

• Automates the development of technical documentation
• Makes it easy to author content on a hosted interface, or via Microsoft Word
• Enables XML content publishing across the Web, or on intranets, internet, RSS and portals
• Deploys DITA-based content architecture for topic-related authoring and content repurposing
• Supports any programming language using Web services or SQL, including .NET and Java

The updated offering also supports data migration, hot deploy external triggers, back-end search, and -- for the aesthetes -- customized WYSIWYG buttons.

EMC Documentum is a leading player in the enterprise content management space. That's not news. What is, is the way the company has, with the release of Documentum v6 (D6), embraced Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a first-class principle in its core architecture.

To buck the trend IT managers face of purchasing (at exorbitant price points) and implementing (unnecessary complexity) service oriented architecture in piecemeal fashion, Microsoft's BizTalk product claims to proffer all enterprise IT needs under the sun, in a single package.

"Innovation is taking ECM out the 1990's"

With these words and the immediate availability of Alfresco Community Edition version 2.1, CTO John Newton hopes to position Alfresco as not just an innovator in the enterprise content management space but also in the enterprise architecture community.

The wait is finally over. After only three short months, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released their report from the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing Workshop.

The recent Corporate Development Issues Survey, courtesy of the steadfast dataphiles at Evans Data Corp, reports bullish attitudes toward SOAs, or service-oriented architecture.