Content Management Matters ™

Last month we reported that Open Text's data integration strategy rested on the shoulders of the Genio product, a technology they bought alongside the Hummingbird takeover in '06.

Now we get to see the finished article with the official release of Genio v7. This 64-bit information management application transforms, cleanses and directs structured and unstructured content from a range of repositories.

Featuring web service support and full content integration capabilities, Genio laughs in the face of incompatible system interfaces and proceeds to process content and digital assets from data marts, ERP systems, mainframe systems, CRM, and so on. (And, of course, from various content management frameworks.)

Open Text has just released Connectivity 2008, out of its Hummingbird Connectivity collection.

This pretty new Hummingbird boasts a suite of ECM solutions poised to integrate heterogeneous systems, like UNIX or Mainframe, to Windows desktops.

Trouble getting your UNIX and Windows to jive? Hummingbird is here to help. The ECM bigwigs at Open Text just announced the availability of Hummingbird Connectivity Suite.

Part of its Hummingbird grab last year, the Suite is now Windows Vista certified.

Open Text answers questions about just what would be done with RedDot, which was acquired as part of the Hummingbird acquisition, by using RedDot CMS to enable a personalized web experience for the Yorkshire Tourist Board.

According to a recent report by the UK-based Butler Group, outdated document collaboration processes are wasting time and posing risks to companies.

"Document management systems have helped organizations improve internal efficiency," said the report. "However, extending these systems to partners and stakeholders has proved much more difficult. Internet connectivity now provides the information worker with incredible reach, but productivity is still constrained by the collaborative range of office productivity tools and ingrained working practices."

After the jump are the not to miss points.

Following their acquisition of Hummingbird this past summer, Open Text has recently announced their latest public intentions for the Hummingbird brand of Enterprise Content Management software and for 2007 as a whole.