Enterprise Cms News & Articles

KnowledgeTree  (news, site) is joining Open Tech and taking their document management software to thousands of resellers worldwide.

Open Tech is a new channel created by Tech Data, an IT products distributor. It is designed to support open source ISVs, like KnowledgeTree, by helping them market and sell their solutions to a worldwide market.

KnowledgeTree sees this an opportunity to reach out to resellers who spend their time with customers -- SMBs, enterprises, government -- who want to use open source solutions.

“Interest in open source will continue to grow as resellers and end users become more aware of open source solutions like KnowledgeTree’s document management software,” said Tech Data Vice President, Software Product Marketing Stacy Nethercoat. “Through Open Tech, Tech Data will work closely with KnowledgeTree to educate resellers and enable them to profitably deliver these solutions to their customers.”

Are the days coming -- or are they already here -- when we don't have to think of open source separate from proprietary? Do we really need to differentiate between the two? Or can a solution be sold simply on the merits of its functionality alone? Maybe it's too late in the day to have this discussion -- what do you think?

Paul Boag wrote an article a while back entitled "The 5 hidden costs of running a CMS" over on Vitamin/Carsonified and I really thought it was a useful item to ponder over as a CMS user. Then I thought, "This totally applies to digital asset management software as well, somebody should write up the same thing for DAM." So here goes (with all due respect to Mr. Boag).

The acquisition by Xerox (news, site) of business process outsourcing giant ACS has been given final approval after a majority of shareholders from both companies gave the go-ahead.

Underlining what it says is its commitment to open source communities and developers, Oracle (news, site) has just announced the release of a new enterprise pack consisting of a number of certified plug-ins that enable developers to build Java EE and Web Services applications for the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform.

The new Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse supports development with technologies including Database, Java SE, Java EE, Web Services, XML and the Spring Framework, and comes with a new feature called AppXRay, which allows Java developers to work in team settings and reduces run time debugging and code quality.

The bottom line, Oracle says, is that this new pack will provide for shorter, faster release cycles that better keep pace with the underlying open source Eclipse platform, or more simply put -- higher quality development in less time.

And the benefits? There are four main ones including:

• Enables WebLogic developers to combine their expertise in Eclipse with the capabilities of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
• It is enterprise ready and includes capabilities that enable the development, assembly, build, deployment, debugging and testing of Java SE, Java EE, Web Service, ORM and Spring applications.
• It plugs into your existing Eclipse app, preserving configuration and customization work.
• Supports multiple platform revisions.

This new enterprise pack is available already, but if you want to find out more you can check out this introductory video, or download it from the Oracle website.

Adobe (news, site) launched LiveCycle ES2, their platform for document-centric business process management in October of last year. At that time, they talked about a cloud ready version of LiveCycle in the works. Today, that cloud version has become available, and here's a look at what it can do for you.

Open Text (news, site) released Q2/F10 (December 2009 quarter) unaudited financial results. Turns out, they are better than expected. Year-over-year (YoY) licensing revenue, for example, is up, in part, thanks to Vignette and the recently released VCM 8.

This week in GRC focuses on the many challenges 2010 poses for companies, in regards to spending, compliance and risk management.

Extending its information management and enterprise content management capabilities once again, IBM (news, site)  has just announced the acquisition of Initiate Systems, a provider of data integrity software for information sharing among healthcare and government organizations.

So, Autonomy (news, site) had a pretty good 2009. No surprise there, considering the company ate up every bit of Interwoven around this time last year.

As promised late last year, and after weeks of public beta, Nuxeo (news, site) has released the GA version of its new Digital Asset Management (DAM) product.

In addition to extensible architecture and a decent feature set, one of the main selling points seems to be Nuxeo DAM’s compliance with the CMIS spec.

IDC (news, site) has a new research report available on growth of worldwide IT spending and while it's improving, it's not by much.

Building on its Application Integration Architecture (AIA) solution, Oracle (news, site)  has just announced the availability of a Process Integration Pack (PIP) between its Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its suite of enterprise planning resource software JD Edwards Enterprise One.

The Gilbane (news, site) San Fransisco conference is a few months away, but things are already starting to take shape. Depending on your area of interest -- web content management, enterprise content management, internet, intranet -- there will be something new for you to learn.

The pre-conference workshops have just been announced, here's a look:

• Insider's Guide to Selecting WCM, Collaboration, and Social Software: Join Tony Byrne of CMS Watch to get a better understanding of the converging marketplace, who the key players are and how to traverse the roadmap to making the right technology/vendor decision for your needs.
• Learn to Develop an Actionable Intranet Strategy: Scott Liewehr, a Gilbane senior analyst, will take you through the steps required to build an actionable intranet strategy
• Managing Smart Content: How to Deploy XML Technologies across Your Organization: In this workshop, Gilbane senior consultant Dale Waldt and other members of the Gilbane practice on XML technologies will talk about their XML experiences and provide practical usage strategies.
• A Methodology for Web Governance: Christine Pierpoint of WelchmanPierpoint, will guide you through the component of a Web governance lifecycle, take a look at the steps to create a Web governance framework and discuss best practices and model.

You can also take a closer look at the conference schedule which is broken down into tracks for Colleagues and Collaboration, Content Publishing, Customers and Engagement, and Content Technology.

The Gilbane San Francisco conference takes place May 18-20, 2010 at the West Market Street Hotel in San Francisco. Registration is open and every Conference Plus Package comes with a free Kindle.

With the release of SharePoint 2010 (news, site) getting closer, people are getting either a) excited, b) nervous or c) all of the above. Whatever your mindset, here are 5 changes coming with SharePoint 2010 which you should take note of.

DigiTech (news, site) and Fujitsu got together to bring, as they say, the simplest possible solution for those small to medium companies trying to wrangle paper documents.