Content Management Matters ™

Five years in the making, the Data Empowerment Group has formally launched to help corporations with the most complex -- and least understood -- aspect of their compliance package: Records and Information Management (RIM).

AIIM has released their 2008 State of the Industry Survey and according to their findings, organizations of all sizes have "crossed the chasm" in their awareness of the importance of solving the document, records, and content problems that are affecting their organization.

March 3-6, 2008 hearlds the annual AIIM International Expo and Conference in Boston, MA. Sponsored by AIIM – The ECM Association, it should be a very enlightening and educational experience for anyone who works in the content and information management field.

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 announced their data integration tool Genio, adopted after the Hummingbird purchase in '06, will become a key part of incumbent content and data integration strategies.

There’s a big playground up the street and Microsoft SharePoint is the kid every other kid wants to play with. SchemaLogic is no different. The company has just announced the availability of SchemaLogic Enterprise Suite for SharePoint (MOSS) 2007.

Autonomy, an enterprise infrastructure software purveyor, has just announced its purchase of ZANTAZ, which specializes in content archiving and e-discovery solutions software.

The pairing is expected to "redefine" information risk management by combining e-discovery, analytics, real-time policy management and consolidated archiving into one system.

Tribal Group, a prominent provider of consulting and professional support services in the UK, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Open Text, a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology.