Content Management Matters ™

After navigating the murky lands of translation and globalizing content, I attended a panel at Gilbane that was a detailed look at XML and its importance in content management. The overall message I left with at the end was that XML was "tremendous technology" and as one panelist put it, "the most important integration tool in software today".

NewsGator Technologies was one of the nine companies who announced product integrations with Microsoft SharePoint at the Enterprise 2.0 conference last week. For these guys though it wasn’t “breaking” news, as they have been talking about the latest version of Social Sites for a few months now.

Props to Translations.com's flagship software product, GlobalLink Content Director, for receiving the coveted "Designed for EMC Documentum" accreditation. This strived-for accreditation is a mark of quality in the enterprise applications industry that signifies that GlobalLink Content Director has successfully met a set of criteria for solid design and quality integration.

Questys Solutions, an old timer in the ECM industry, announces the release of Questys CMx, Questys’ newest content management product offering, expanding the robust functionality and feature sets of Questys’ current product suite, and creating a dynamic and customizable content management product.

AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, has announced the results of its annual user survey and as the title suggests, overall customer confidence in email archiving ain't what it used to be.

A new feature commeth from CMSWire. It’s our Weekly News Trawl, and the idea is to ensure that we are all up to date on smaller -- but just as important -- news items that touch our cozy little industry.

The collection is gathered by our multi-talented editorial team whose interests vary as widely their basic grammar skills.

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.

According to the analyst firm CMS Watch, enterprise content management vendors are failing to meet the security requirements of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).

They claim that, after evaluating a number of ECM technologies, these products are "lacking key security pre-requisites" and are "ill-equipped to meet the security requirements of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)".

Ouch! say the big boys leaning forward in their leather massage chairs.

Microsoft has quickly created a major presence in the enterprise content management (ECM) market with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007(MOSS). To help IT managers assess SharePoint as an ECM platform, Tisson Mathew, Chief Technology Officer at Aivea, an IT Consulting firm with deep Microsoft technologies experience, provides some insight into the increasingly popular platform.

Hyland Software Inc, has announced the release of version 7 of its OnBase ECM software suite.

They went big on this release, offering an extensive array of new capabilities and features, including MS Office SharePoint Search integration, Expanded Business Process Management (BPM) Functionality, and solutions for hospitals, universities, and even law enforcement agencies.

Open Text announced their data integration tool Genio, adopted after the Hummingbird purchase in '06, will become a key part of incumbent content and data integration strategies.

Enterprise document management firm ColumbiaSoft is rolling out a series of collaboration tools fitted especially for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) firms.

A new study released by Avanade, Inc., a global IT firm, reveals that fewer than half of Stateside and Canadian businesses -- 45 and 49 percent, respectively -- are satisfied with the results of their existing collaborative and communication technologies.

These include intranet solutions, email and video conferencing services.

ECM goliath Open Text has just announced the development of a fledgling integrated solution with Microsoft. The pair hope to build an offering for matter lifecycle management and practice support, targeting global law firms.

To what degree can web 2.0 be applied to the world of enterprise information management? To push its latest whitepaper and collaborative info management solution, Hyperwave begs the question.