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As you may have heard, governance and content migration vendor Vamosa (news, site) fell into administration, despite the recent investment of £1 million through Glasgow-based Maven Capital Partners. According to our sources in the U.S., Vamosa has been sold.

The tools called WebWorks are partially still in the works, coming from an expected source – Vamosa (news, site) – and designed (as ever so slightly hinted in the name) to make the web work and work better with proper controls by web managers.

Vamosa's (news, site) been a busy little bee this summer. On top of landing a pretty penny (er, pound) from the Capital for Enterprise Fund and a partnership with SchemaLogic, the enterprise content governance specialists have formed a strategic alliance with Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP). The union is expected to further address ECoG by way of a range of technologies for analyzing, migrating, monitoring and maintaining unstructured content types, such as Web and document content.

The partnership will operate under the belief that most companies don't consider content governance challenges until they launch a migration or consolidation project. Logically, the match works because CTP's individual response is to help companies understand and address these challenges beforehand, while Vamosa offers an integrated suite of products to manage the end-to-end process of maintaining content quality.

"The notion of web and enterprise content governance is gaining more attention within the enterprise," said Vijay Srinivasan, CEO of CTP. The challenge many organizations face today is compliance--or lack of it--with internal and external policies and regulatory standards. While enterprise content tends to be driven by content quality and governance principles, many organizations often end up with content that is not accessible, not cost-controlled and impossible to search.”

Word on the street is that together the two companies will begin by focusing on popular platforms like Microsoft SharePoint, Documentum, Oracle UCM, IBM Lotus Notes, and Day Software. To keep up with the developments, hang around here.

1 million British pounds equals 1.6 million U.S. dollars, 1.2 million euros and 21.25 million pesos. Lesson in exchange rates aside it’s obviously a hefty amount of money, making Vamosa’s (news, site) recent negotiation through Glasgow-based Maven Capital Partners no small accomplishment.

The money pot is called the Capital for Enterprise fund, and Vamosa is one of the first two companies to be assisted by it. 

If you've been following Vamosa (news, site), a company that specializes in the analysis and migration of enterprise content, then you know all about their special feelings for governance and compliance. 

Everyday the importance of regulatory standards grows more and more apparent. In accordance with that, Vamosa has been on a beeline path to help companies find their own personal Enterprise Content Governance (ECoG) utopia. This path has recently included Vamosa's Check & Fix feature, a website content monitoring service that automatically fixes errors.

No longer alone in their endeavors, Vamosa recently announced their new partnership with SchemaLogic, an Information Managment software vendor that's certainly no stranger in these parts. Virtual hand in virtual hand, the two companies have founded the ECoG Alliance, and through it will offer a one-stop shop for tools that analyze, cleanse, migrate, monitor and maintain unstructured content types.

As for the motive: “The ability to store, access and share content is integral to the running of an organization but even the best designed content management system can be ruined by poor content quality," said Lowell Anderson, vice president, Marketing, SchemaLogic. "We’ve teamed up with Vamosa to ensure enterprises can obtain a standard of content quality that is built in at the point of creation." And from Nic Archer, senior vice president, Vamosa: "“Partnering with SchemaLogic will allow Vamosa to offer customers improved content governance, thereby improving findability and reducing costs for the enterprise.”