Ez Find News & Articles

The wired world is jibber-jabbing nearly non-stop about iPhones, iPads and the next generation of publishing. Open source web content management vendor eZ Systems (news, site) aims to keep its customers on the edge with the release of a new iPhone and iPad content delivery product complemented by services designed to facilitate custom application deployment to the Apple application store.

For his presentation at the eZ Conference, Victor Sanchez of Hachette Media presented a quick overview of his company's implementation of eZ Flow and eZ Find for Woman's Day Magazine.

Woman's Day got its start in the 1930's, but the venerable magazine is taking on the digital age with an on-line portal. 90% of the site's content is original, and Sanchez reports that the editorial staff at the magazine are pleased with the flexibilty of eZ Flow.

Using dynamic blocks and by tracking clicks on the main page, the editorial staff can move around their content on the fly taking into account what is, and isn't working on the layout. This, in turn, has freed up Sanchez and his department to work on new projects (such as an upcoming recipe finder iPhone app) rather than tweaking templates for the site.

As for searching, Woman's Day uses eZ Find, and has worked out a way to tag and search content in order to run a promotional campaign against certain types of content.

The site integrates Brightcove for video, DART, Moniture, WordPress, Silver Pop and some Typepad for blog content.

Sanchez and his team are gearing up for a site redesign. With the platform already in place, the redesign is a simple matter of gathering together the development requirements.

Care to celebrate Friday with a story about eZ Systems, the self-proclaimed content management ecosystem? Either way we leave you no choice. The company recently released a significant update to their eZ Find search plug-in. The latest update enhances relevancy controls and allows you to search multiple eZ websites and non-eZ Publish data sources. Read on, there's more.

For those interested in catching up on the latest Enterprise Content Management capabilities in FileNet P8, get yourself over to Moscone West in downtown San Francisco this week.

FileNet will be demonstrating Team Collaboration Manager, P8 and WebLogic integration, and their unique offerings in the financial services vertical.