Jahia News & Articles

Jahia (news, site) has upgraded the enterprise version of its enterprise content integration system to version six, with a new front end, improved editing, JBoss document management and improved portal features.

Jahia (news, site), an enterprise CMS vendor, is boosting its U.S. presence by tying up with a technology consulting firm Quoin (site) to help distribute Jahia's free community edition and paid-for enterprise CMS suite.

The World Wide Web Consortium's OWL (Web Ontology Language) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of the "OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview." Go ahead. Grab a dictionary. We'll wait.

This document is the first in an exciting thirteen volume escapade through the syntaxes, sub-languages, along with other details behind OWL 2 and its differences from OWL 1.

With the amount of sensitive content floating around enterprise content management systems it is hardly surprising that ‘security’ is becoming an increasingly important issue, especially given the number of companies that are beefing up their web presence.

Only last week, US data and email security firm Websense introduced a new Web Gateway appliance that allows companies access Web 2.0 sites without security concerns.

This week, UK-based Sword Group, a provider of high value and hi-tech business applications, has unveiled a new gadget that will allow enterprise content management integration for Google Apps.

And the clincher -- using the gadget can access complex ECM repositories that are firewalled up to the hilt.

Another enterprise class content management system adopts open source GPL licensing. It is no surprise. A platform is only as good as its adopters, and offering an open source version in today's competitive CMS market is one path to deployment growth. Building a committed community of third party developers who daily deploy, interact and tinker with a CMS platform can only enhance both the feature offerings and sustainability of that platform.

When Xobni was formed in 2006 by two graduate students, it sought to improve, enhance and otherwise fix Microsoft Outlook.

Now, it’s taking its efforts even further with a new tool that plugs into Outlook. Their software, free and downloadable, indexes all the e-mail in Outlook and makes those messages easily searchable and readily available.

No matter how you say it, MindTouch has announced the release of MindTouch Deki Wiki “Jay Cooke” v8.05.

Driven in part by the requirements of Mozilla, which selected MindTouch for the upcoming re-launch of their Mozilla Developer Community, the open source enterprise collaboration and integration platform known for its innovations in internationalization/localization, search and user experience, has aimed its sights on revolutionizing multilingual content management.

If you are into BPM, and that’s more and more of you lately, Gartner — the heavyweight amongst the IT research giants — is running their Business Process Management Summit this February 26th through 28th in San Diego, California.

James Robertson of Aussie firm Step Two has published an article entitled Top 10 mistakes when selecting a CMS. His short take is that organizations make the selection process much harder than it needs to be. And we couldn’t agree more …that is, when they do actually take the time to think the details through.

Hot on the heels of Intel’s SuiteTwo announcement, Blogtronix has unveiled an update of their enterprise collaboration and communication platform. This release boasts expanded features for blogging, wikis, document management, extensive personal and corporate profiling, and social networking.

The third Les Blogs conference takes place in Paris on December 11. We wouldn’t miss this one. It boasts such sponsors as Six Apart, TechCrunch, and Orange. Participants include a range of venture capitalists, technology vendors, Web 2.0 players such as NetVibes and MySpace, media partners, and heavy-weights such as Microsoft, France Telecom, Lycos, EMC, Skype, and Yahoo!

Speakers include TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, SocialText’s Ross Mayfield, and (tentatively) Google’s Dr. Brilliant.