Content Management Matters ™

Adobe Systems seems primed to take the Enterprise Content Management business by storm. Their Adobe LiveCycle ES (Enterprise Suite) has just been updated with the content management capabilities of enterprise content management provider Alfresco, helping them deliver to their customers an integrated solution that encompasses data capture, document output, content services and more.

According to Alfresco, this new technology partnership represents a shared vision "for a new class of applications that utilize flexible, open source and Web 2.0 standards that deliver rich and engaging enterprise experiences".

Adobe is at again…illustrating their dedication to the world of design/development and the understanding that if you’re not focusing towards the web in some fashion, you’re going to end up a day late and dollar short in the end. So they bring you Fireworks CS4 Beta. A program that is quickly becoming an all in one design and development application like never seen before.

Betas are always a joy. They give you the opportunity to review new and upcoming products prior to actual release. You get the opportunity to see what new features are available and help work out bugs in programs to ensure proper functioning when they are actually released. We took the opportunity to try out the new Adobe betas released by Adobe Labs last week -- starting with Dreamweaver CS4.

There's a new game in town for online productivity applications. It hails from Adobe and if you like the look and feel of flash, you will like this suite of applications. The suite is called Acrobat.com and contains three applications that are required for almost all business needs. But does it compare to Zoho or Google Docs? We played around a little to see.

Web media is changing and video and interactivity are growing at such a rapid rate many cutting edge companies are following the trend with new product development. Adobe Systems Incorporated has released a sneak peek of three applications in beta stages still. Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, and Adobe Soundbooth are now available for free download in a sneak peek beta version.

Adobe has joined the ranks of the social media product suppliers with the announcement of it's Flash Media Server 3 product line.

Sit tight. For those suffering malware attacks via PDF, Microsoft has informed users that the bug in Windows OS, which makes the attacks possible, hasn't yet been fixed.

And the next scheduled patch release date isn't until November 13. Gotta love that.

An unpatched code execution hole in Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 with IE7, avails apps like Adobe Reader/Acrobat to serve as vectors for attack, reports ZDNet.

The attacks are a combination of Trojan downloaders and rootkits, which steal data from infected computers.

An advisory from Microsoft regarding the attacks was first released on October 10.

Microsoft just can't get any peace. With Google Apps eroding the need to own a copy of Microsoft Office, and Zoho improving where Apps leaves off, the Word/Excel monopoly may be fast seeing sundown.

And the end may be sooner than expected, now that Adobe's announced it's going to purchase Virtual Ubiquity, the company that produces an offering called Buzzword.

Adobe just announced the availability of their Technical Communication Suite. While the offering is broad and appears to be tightly integrated, it’s still just shy of where it needs to be in terms of addressing critical requirements for true enterprise deployment.

Been looking for that quick and easy bridge to take you from a PDF to an InDesign document? Lucky for you, Recosoft Corporation -- the folks who brought you the PDF2Office family of products -- is shipping PDF2ID v1.0 for Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3.

If you're like to build a conversation around your brand and improve management with your online community and website, you might not want to miss out on this discussion.

Adobe Solution Partners, Hot Banana and Fusetalk will be conducting a webinar for marketers seeking to build online communities via ColdFusion MX.

The webinar takes place on September 26th at 1 PM EDT. Register here!

For all the Chocolate Rain lovers out there (YouTube knows who you are), wishing for a higher-quality video experience, the latest beta release of the ubiquitous Adobe Flash Player is your proverbial genie let loose from the bottle.

SiberLogic, a provider of XML content management technology, just released an integration of SiberSafe DITA Edition along with Adobe's FrameMaker 7.2 Application Pack for DITA.

The solution was unveiled last Monday at the Society for Technical Communication's 54th Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN.

If you are looking for an alternative to Adobe Acrobat for PDF creation and manipulation, look no further. Nitro PDF Software follows up the March release of Nitro PDF Express with the release of a new version of Nitro PDF Professional.

In a move expected to garner applause from web developers and skepticism from analysts, Adobe announced they will release portions of the next version of the Flex SDK under the Mozilla Public License (MPL).