Content Management Matters ™

Ademero has announced the release of Content Central version 4.1, an update that adds many productivity-boosting features to this browser-based document management software application.

Refresh Software has just released an updated version of its proprietary component content management offering.

Woven together by DITA, XML and web publishing experts, SR2 7.1 utilizes an SOA-based J2EE content repository. It installs directly into the IT back-end and sports a simple interface for front-end users.

SR2 also:

• Automates the development of technical documentation
• Makes it easy to author content on a hosted interface, or via Microsoft Word
• Enables XML content publishing across the Web, or on intranets, internet, RSS and portals
• Deploys DITA-based content architecture for topic-related authoring and content repurposing
• Supports any programming language using Web services or SQL, including .NET and Java

The updated offering also supports data migration, hot deploy external triggers, back-end search, and -- for the aesthetes -- customized WYSIWYG buttons.

v5.1 of Open Text's Livelink ECM - Vendor Invoice Management (for use with SAP offerings) now includes out-of-box reporting and analytics.

The souped-up solution boasts 35 new best-practice workflows for exceptions related specifically to invoicing (missing goods receipts, incorrect pricing or tax, etc).

Other enhancements include upgraded Vendor Self Service Portal capabilities and fresh diagnostic tools for faster configuration and deployment.

In.vision and Vasont have just developed a product integration relationship to better address the needs of publishing clients.

In.vision is a software provider for enterprise XML authoring; Vasont builds single-source ECM systems that help manage and store multilingual content.

In particular, the pairing will yield an extension that allows Xpress Author for Microsoft Word users to access, deposit, search for and reuse content kept in Vasont databases. Word users will also be able to build XML documents that include sophisticated data structures (think DITA) for multi-channel publishing.

In London last week, open source ECM provider Alfresco was awarded an InfoWorld "Bossie."

This recognition is part of InfoWorld's commitment to acknowledge the "best and most innovative open source software projects," according to information from the company.

Previous winners have included Apache, MuleSource and SugarCRM.

Infolinx has just announced that its WEB Physical Records Management software has been merged with IBM's FileNet Records Manager.

The integration yields a new solution that taps the strength of both physical and electronic records management solutions - a collaborative first in this sector.

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.

Today at the 45th Annual Aerospace and Defense Contract Management Conference in California, Open Text announced its latest version of Livelink ECM - Contract Lifecycle Management.

The ECM firm built Contract Lifecycle Management to specifically address contact creation, negotiation, fulfillment and renewals issues.

Business Process Management (BPM), while in demand, isn't yet implemented consistently or systematically across organizations -- at least, not by those surveyed by the Enterprise Content Management Association's Industry Watch study.

This was the overriding theme of "BPM: Not Just Workflow Anymore," which was released this week.

ECM provider Open Text has announced the availability of an Office Business Application for accessing, and managing, customer information.

Built on the '07 Microsoft Office system for commercial availability, the Livelink ECM -- Customer Information Management tool provides a complete view of all the information associated with a customer, from any typically-utilized content repository.

OpenCms just released version 7.0.0 of its open source content management solution. Yeah, that last .0 bugged us too.

Major features (per our very to-the-point friend Seth) include WebDAV support, a content relationship engine for dependency management, an undelete feature, and point in time previews.

That last is particularly nifty; it lets you take a glimpse of what the site looked like, or will look like, for a particular date or time. Oh, if only mirrors worked that way.

A new report by Dublin, Ireland-based Research and Markets finds that the enterprise content management market will hit US$3.5 billion by 2012 if it continues to grow the way it has been.

What if you could obtain an electronic version of a book that is currently checked out? What if you could listen to an interview with the author of a book to decide if you want to take it home? What if you could get digital copies of the journals and documents listed in the bibliography of a textbook?

These are just some of the questions to which Open Text hopes to guide the answer with a special version of Livelink, their enterprise content management product, customized for libraries.

After purchasing Stellent and recently playing the tease about what they'd do with it, Oracle finally releases its first ECM offering since the acquisition.