Content Management Matters ™

EMC Corporation has announced a new set of OEM software products that will help developers include rich content management, capture and information rights management into their software solutions. Whether they are developing products or SaaS services, the EMC OEM product portfolio has everything a developer needs to build content rich software.

Webware has announced its top 100 list. Some of the results were shocking…some surprise winners, some surprise non-winners and some that we all knew would make the list -- can you say WordPress?

Enterprise Content Management vendor Vignette has announced it's first quarter financial results and they are a bit lower than originally expected. The lower outlook is primarily a result of a decrease in license revenues which Vignette attributes to the a decrease in spending in the North American market.

With the US economy on a decline, will we see more ECM vendors making the same announcements over the next the year?

Dries Buytaert does not appear to be a man who likes to sit down and rest. He has just announced his newest startup Mollom -- automated content monitoring -- is available free in public beta.

If you are a religious SharePoint follower then you've heard of Andrew Connell -- known best as the expert on Web Content Management with SharePoint 2007.

Well Andrew and a team of other SharePoint experts have been hard at work writing a new book: Professional Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 and it's finally finished and getting ready for publication.

The book is aimed at developers who build publishing sites with SharePoint 2007 -- something many believe is not easy. WCM is considered one of the weakest components of SharePoint. Andrew may argue this as he's spent lots of time working on it, training people on it, talking about it at conferences. So this book should be the answer to many a dream...

A quick scan of the table content reveals much about the information that will be provided in the book. Some of the Chapters include:

• Embarking on Web Content Management Projects
• Minimal Publishing Site Definition
• Site Columns, Content Types and Lists
• Navigation
• Accessibility
• Leveraging Workflow
• Authoring Experience Extensibility
• Authentication and Authorization
• Implementing Sites with Multiple Languages and Devices
• Content Deployment

Definitely sounds like a book I'd like to read. You can preorder on Amazon or sit back and impatiently wait for the June release.

The group over at Day Software has been very busy these days. Not only have they launched their own developer portal -- dev.day.com -- but they have entered into an OEM agreement with Exstream Software to bundle their products to create content-centric interactive applications.

Absoft Group, based in Brisbane Australia, specializes in providing technology solutions for the corporate sectors both down under, and internationally. Their Site-Ezy CMS offers non technical or HTML-savvy users complete control over their websites.

Telerik, a vendor of developer tools and components for .NET, has beefed up its Sitefinity CMS with version 3.2, adding a number of nifty new features to their website, intranet and community portal development platform.

There's a new Joomla tutorial website in town. It's called MyJoomlaCast.com and it's jam-packed with tutorials for Joomla developers of all levels.

Dutch Web CMS provider SDL Tridion has announced the official opening of its newest sales office in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany -- a key move that will help them support their expanding European customer base.

FatWire Software has been making waves in the Web Content Management world, and is now announcing that it's delivered its strongest year ever with record-breaking fourth quarter fiscal year 2007 results. FatWire has achieved an impressive 35 percent growth in total revenue for the quarter ending on December 31st 2007, driven by strong worldwide demand for its products and services -- and all this growth coming from what is already the largest privately held WCM provider in the business.

Continuing in their efforts to revolutionize the global mobile ecosystem, Yahoo! has announced its newest invention – Yahoo! onePlace, a mobile content management system that will let you stay informed about the things you care about (or are required to care about).

Is this an attempt to tie us even tighter to our mobile devices causing an even more continuously connected world that can’t live without the Internet? Shoot, guess it’s time to bring my CrackBerry out of storage – just when my shrink said I was cured.

Think you need a content management system of some kind, but aren't sure exactly? Well you probably aren't alone. And with what seems like hundreds of options available for content management products and services, knowing how to define your requirements and go about selecting a solution is critical.

InfoWorld has released a Test Center Guide for Content Management Systems to help you make that decision an informed one and hopefully the right one for your company.

ADXSTUDIO Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, has released ADXSTUDIO CMS 6.0, the newest version of their web content management system. Built on the .NET Framework, it offers a number of product enhancements ranging from the support of, and integration with, Microsoft's next generation of server products, to new Social Networking functionality and powerful usability improvements for content authors and website administrators.

Bridgeline Software is a provider of web content management software. They are moving in the SaaS arena offering a suite of products referred to as iAPPS. The iAPPS Framework and Product Suite is a combination of Content Management, Analytics, eCommerce and eMarketing.

Their newest release is iAPPS Analytics – the second release of products under the iAPPS Framework. Bridgeline says that this new product “enables a new intelligent form of "analytics-driven" content through the seamless integration of web analytics and content management”.

They also say this integration between analytics and content management is unique to the market. Well we say – uh, no…see Clickability for starters.

But we were still interested, so we went a little deeper.