Content Management News & Articles

Back with more advice from Gilbane SF! In case Seth Gottlieb’s talk on how to select a CMS yesterday didn’t leave you feeling brave enough to take on the sea of solutions, we have another option: Let someone else pick it for you.

Today’s onstage tag team for the timid consisted of Tony White, Lead Analyst, Web Content Management, Gilbane Group, and Scott Liewehr, Strategy Practice Lead, Onesta. White began the presentation by explaining in detail his own personal process for matching vendors with clients, and Liewehr held up the end with a discussion about defining needs before solutions, rather than vice versa -- something many of us are guilty of.

It has often been said that you can prove anything with statistics. If that is in fact the case, then the results of a new survey will prove what many people know already -- companies are still throwing money at web content management systems.

What is striking about this survey however, is that many companies this year are spending, or plan to spend, their CMS budgets on implementation rather than licensing.

The CMS Survey Report 2009, published by UK-based Econsultancy in association with Australia-based Squiz.net (news, site) also shows that companies are doing this because they don’t believe they are getting a high-enough ROI from their existing CMS.

Content solutions provider, Mark Logic (news, site) has secured US$ 12.5 million in further venture capital funding to help expand sales and development of its XML server and other products.

A new software product that provides content and visual management for the retail industry has just been released by Arigo as part of its Product Information Management (PIM) suite.

Arigo Collective untangles jumbled content in email, spreadsheet and file servers. Combined with with two other embedded solutions -- Concept and Flow -- that create product records and real-time resource and logistics management respectively, you get an end-to-end PIM solution.

Content may be king, but unless its secure, it will behave like more like the Joker in your Enterprise CMS rather than the King.

And with the number of security threats on the web growing, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) companies like Open Text (news, site) are working hard to see what solution they can develop to close the back-door on their systems.

This week, Open Text has announced the immediate availability of the latest version of their security solution -- Open Text SOCKS Client -- an enterprise-grade SOCKS V4 and V5 client.

Everyone wants to be in the movies – but not everyone has the cash to break in.

With this basic thought in mind, Qumu, a California-based provider of rich-media solutions for enterprises, came up with Qumu Kodiak.

The new suite, which has just been released, provides global enterprises with the ability to create, manage and distribute video communications without straining financial or network resources.

Gartner talks to a lot of organizations about content management and they are finding that in this tough economic climate clients aren't sure where to go with enterprise content management or how to even get started on the road without breaking the piggy bank wide open.

So they have offered a little advice in the form of five tactical considerations that should provide immediate impact and benefits for your organization in 2009. None are surprising, all will have an impact.

With budgets the way they are at the moment, you could not be faulted for a bit of skepticism around Forrester Research’s January report, which said Web Content Management activity remained, and would remain, high for 2009.

But they may have it right because Ektron (news, site), a provider of scalable Web Content Wanagement and authoring solutions, has just reported a 26% growth in year-on-year revenues for the Q1 of this year.

Global Information Management Solution Provider SDL (news,site) has unveiled its Common Enterprise Application Framework (CEAF), a new platform for better managing global content across multinational companies.

The new product is designed to create greater efficiencies and interoperability among Global Information Management Applications (GIM) which manage content throughout the entire global information lifecycle – from authoring through content management to on-line and off-line publishing across world markets.

With software-as-a-service (SaaS) becoming more and more popular in the content management industry, everyone seems to have an opinion on the pros and cons of SaaS as a model.

There's truth. There's fiction. There's gazing at the crystal ball. Let’s have a look at a recent version of the most common misconceptions about SaaS in general, and SaaS Web CMS and Enterprise CMS myths in particular.

Trying to organize and implement Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions is a bit like wrestling a morphing blob of goo. Squeeze one part of the blob to get it under control and another section bulges out and falls on top of you.

For two years, a quartet of industry players has worked on ECM3 -- an ECM Maturity Model created to help organizations tame the mighty blob. Let's take a look at what they came up with.

The CODiE Awards are on our radar again for 2009 and the finalist announcements are expecting to be flooding the internet wires. In this case, web content management vendor Clickability has made the list of finalist again for the Content Management category.

2009 brings about promise, hope and most importantly change. And change comes in the fashion of newly elected leadership for the open source Web Content Management powerhouse, Drupal.

With the New Year not quite two months underway, Drupal has gone through the process of electing new leadership to spearhead their push into the future of content management. 27 applicants, some of whom were existing members reapplying, led to six new permanent members for a total of eight on the board. This brings the number of permanent Drupal members to an impressive 30.

Care to celebrate Friday with a story about eZ Systems, the self-proclaimed content management ecosystem? Either way we leave you no choice. The company recently released a significant update to their eZ Find search plug-in. The latest update enhances relevancy controls and allows you to search multiple eZ websites and non-eZ Publish data sources. Read on, there's more.

After two and a half years of diligently working on what they hope is a unique offering worth your while, search engine optimization (SEO) providers Pixelsilk have released their content management system.

Pixelsilk CMS combines the power of built-in SEO functionality and real-time feedback on your team’s or client’s work. Claiming that this is the Content Management System we’ve all been dreaming about, Pixelsilk offers up their solution with some fancy word work promising the empowerment of SEO, marketing and developmental Web teams.