Content Management News & Articles

Content management terminology changes with time. The times of the Micro CMS may soon be gone, as now it appears it is the era of the “simple CMS,” — at least as positioned by Bizy, Inc. They have announced the distribution of their “simple CMS” product Bizyweb. Were they joking?

Known as one of the more knowledgeable people on content management, he spends a great deal of his time traveling the globe teaching us about the trials and tribulations of content management and related technologies.

He’s Tony Byrne of CMS Watch and he’s decided to bring his extensive knowledge to the world of online education.

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”.

When you mention Facebook, most people immediately think “social network” (or perhaps “application overload”). Not many people will think “content management system.” Adrian Sutton, CTO at Ephox, spoke at Web Content 2008 today about the marriage of content management and Facebook. While the initial Facebook frenzy has somewhat cooled off these days (Adrian went so far as to call the unending list of invites to join groups and add 1,000 applications “a new form of spam”), there are some things that Facebook has done right, and which content management systems can learn from.

Summer’s getting into full swing…and that means more web awards getting moving as well. With open source being such hot topics lately in tech news, this year promises to be a good one. The 2008 Open Source CMS Awards from PacktPub are coming.

With the amount of information flowing through content management systems these days and the ease at which organizations are now able to upload, scan and otherwise get documents in their CMS, privacy has become a big concern. The last thing an organization needs is to have sensitive information about their customers released to the public.

Most CMS’s see this problem and some have resolved it by partnering with a company that provides redaction technology - Informative Graphics. Today, Informative Graphics have announced the latest release of their Redact-It Enterprise Server Software.

On May 20th, the CODiE’s were awarded at an Awards Gala in San Francisco, California. From the over 1,000 nominations from 600 companies, winners were chosen in a number of categories including software, content, education and corporate.

It should come as no surprise that Clickability won the award for Best Content Management Solution. They still have some work to do though to beat Saleforce.com as the Best Software as a Service Solution…

Piggybacking on news from a few weeks ago, Alfresco has officially launched Alfresco Enterprise 2.2. Featured enhancements seek to support the creation, deployment and update of scalable Web 2.0 sites and are targeted toward the company’s “most advanced, interactive sites in the entertainment, online gaming, sports, telecommunications and publishing industries.”

Curious to know what’s changed and see the new look? Read on.

If you’re running a company that depends on eCommerce, you’re probably familiar with the hassles of working in a commodity dependent businesses where margins are tight, prices volatile, and product supply unpredictable. UK software developer Intoscape has come to the rescue with Total Commerce Management (TCM), a system that will help UK retailers manage their supply chain, monitor competitors, automate pricing and content and optimize procurement and data exchange.

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.