Ecm News & Articles

You’ll often need to explain the goals of your Enterprise Content Management (ECM) program in more detail than an elevator pitch. Here are the objectives and guiding principles applicable to most ECM programs.

By the second month of your electronic records management (ERM) implementation, the project plan has been curtailed several times. It happens regardless of your industry or the company you work for. Despite the beauty, simplicity and elegance of your critical path, one or more surprises will suddenly appear.

If you use open source enterprise CMS platform Nuxeo and open source portal platform Liferay, we have good news for you. The vendors announced that Nuxeo’s platform is certified as a content source for Liferay.

This year’s AIIM conference is a who’s who of social media geeks, academics, technology wonks, journalists and information technologists. AIIM 2012 will be held in San Francisco starting March 20. Among the well-known keynotes featured are New York Times tech columnist David Pogue, Empowered Forrester Researcher Ted Schadler and author and NYU faculty member Clay Shirky, all of whom will be sharing insights about managing information in the social, local and mobile era.

Nuxeo Connect, the commercial support portal for open source enterprise content management (ECM) platform Nuxeo is looking pretty, errr.. well, pretty. Nuxeo has released its second interface design this year for the support portal, and it’s looking pretty good.

Alfresco and WeWebU announced a global technology partnership that will result in an Open Source alternative for transactional content management. 

Whether you’re fully immersed within a world of content management or you’re just getting acquainted with digital marketing across multiple platforms, Gilbane Boston 2011 may be worth the price of admission.

ECM and BPM giant OpenText will now be able to offer learning and training tools to customers via its latest deal to acquire a fellow Canadian firm.

Previously we’ve addressed how to merge content strategy and enterprise content management. It’s no secret that, as more platforms emerge from which to engage customers, vendors and employees, the more challenging that creating and managing content becomes. But it’s not just content; it’s sentiment and feedback that is also crucial to the process. Enterprise content strategy will always be about the content, but for it to be successful, there must be elements of analysis and reporting, as well.

Social media has become a component of marketing and customer engagement for many organizations. However, many are not managing their social network use as consistently as other forms of enterprise content. London-based Ixxus (news, site) has a solution.

Enterprise content management provider OpenText (news, site) has announced an alliance with digital marketing agency VML, which will allow customers to work with one team to implement their customer experience management (CEM) solution.

This month have been quite productive in the world of a content management standards development. The European Commission sponsored Document Lifecycle Management (DLM) Forum launched the MoReq2010 Technical Committee to address the new European record management (RM) specification and an XML schema for interoperability between RM systems. In addition, the British Standards Institute (BSI) also announced their new standard for enterprise content management best practices was available for public comment.

Education and media-based communication rich-media management provider ShareStream (news, site) has a new integration with the Xythos Platform allowing users to have a single environment for managing document and rich media such as video.

Open source enterprise content management (ECM) provider Nuxeo (news, site) has long focused on supporting its user community with features that make development and implementation easier. The company is continuing the tradition with its latest move to support Ubuntu for its Document Management platform.