Content Management News & Articles

Leave it to the Parisians to build and market a CMS tool for designers. The Paris-based company Global Moxie and its Chief Scientist, Josh Clark (okay, so he’s an American in Paris…) announced the release of Big Medium 2, a web content management system aimed squarely at web designers.

Why? Because designers are awesome, that’s why!

It used to be that you weren’t a designer if you didn’t use QuarkXPress - the product that revolutionized the field of desktop publishing. That was before In Design and other Adobe products came to dominate the field and rallied the next generation of designers.

But Quark has been gaining ground during the past year. They launched QuarkXPress7 with incorporated XML capabilities and released Quark Publishing System 7 which helped to streamline the editorial and creative workflow processes while improving production.

Now, they’re partnering with Alfresco Software, Inc. to “develop integrated enterprise-class publishing and content management solutions for professional and corporate publishers.”

SharePoint Solutions has just announced a new add-on for SharePoint Server 2007 and WSS3.0. It’s called Alert Manager 2007 and it provides some improvements to the already popular Alert functionality in SharePoint.

A new version of emagiC CMS.NET is in the works and is slated for a January 2008 release. Highlights of the new release include faster and smarter page caching, new XData capabilities for multilingual support, easier RSS feed integration and event architecture improvements.

emagiC CMS.NET is .NET-based and runs off an all-Microsoft stack of IIS, Windows Server and SQL Server. After all that it then has the cheek to request XP/Vista and Internet Explorer for the administration interface!

It’s officially out. Ooh! Ooh! I’m just dizzy with excitement. Microsoft has released the first SharePoint WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 Service Pack. It’s all over the web — and that’s right, we’ve joined the jabbering masses!

Probably the most talked about Service Pack in history is on the horizon, maybe as soon as this week: SP1 for WSS 3.0 and SharePoint (MOSS) Server 2007.

It’s what SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Services 3.0 administrators, architects and developers have been anxiously anticipating. And it’s jam-packed with goodies.

Well okay, not jam-packed…

In May 2004, the Plone Foundation was formed as a supporting organization for Plone, an open source web content management solution. They have finally achieved one of their key objectives — to have the Plone community at large take ownership of the “Plone” word in nearly all areas of the world.

In doing so, the open source community has set the bar just that much higher for what we all consider “open source”.

It’s always nice when your blood, sweat and tears get recognized by the critics in your field. This is that time for Open Text.

Forrester Research has just named Open Text a global big player in its report, The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Content Management Suites, Q4 2007.

According to Forrester, Open Text was the only pure-play ECM software provider worthy to be called leader amongst the 11 companies researched.

60 criteria served as battering rams to gauge an enterprise content management system’s quality.

Livelink ECM has long been the shining star in Open Text’s suite, and it apparently shined brighter still on paper after the gleam Forrester gave it. “Open Text Livelink ECM shows great breadth and depth, with strong scoring in core ECM capabilities — document imaging, document management, records management, and content archiving — plus good support for web content management and digital asset management,” the report reads.

That’s a lot of bases to cover.

Congrats to Open Text. Being crowned King by the cold, hard analysts of the world has earned you a hat-tip, and maybe a few round of drinks, to boot.

This June 6-8, the Ibsenhuset Conference Center of Skien, Norway will play host to the 5th annual eZ Conference. For some, this is the biggest content management event in Europe.

Join us this week for what red-blooded techies sadistically hope will be the catfight of the year. This Wednesday at the Gilbane Conference in SF, seniors at Microsoft and Google debate enterprise search and information access.

If the prospect of audio-laced content management doesn’t scare you and you yawn with impatience at Open Text’s every innovation, you’re probably a content management pro.

And if you think this means you’re too good for another immersion learning experience, we beg to differ. Because the CM Pros Summit takes place this April 13!

The Rockley Group takes a look back at the year 2006 in review. What happened in market? How is globalization changing the content management landscape? And, what about new communication vehicles like blogs, wikis, podcasts, and RSS feeds? Ann Rockley takes a look back and provides some key insights and observations.

Intranet search performs miserably because most organizations do not properly manage their content.