Content Management Matters ™

Claromentis has recently made all Linux users much happier by releasing a collaboration and information management platform for Linux.

It includes the brand new Project Manager application, content and document management, as well as process management using e-forms.

As professionals, we are always on the lookout for new resources to provide us valuable information about content management. But where do we look? Just about everywhere actually. Fortunately for us, a new URL crossed our path that might be the answer to all our prayers: ECMHUB.

United Planet, a developer of enterprise portal software, has recently launched Intrexx Xtreme 4.5. The new version offers increased flexibility and interoperability, improved user management, MS Office Business Adapter and integration of the dynamic Groovy scripting language.

Bluenog is a company founded by some ex-BEAers -- guess they didn't want to go to Oracle -- who have developed a new suite that tightly integrates Enterprise Content Management, Portal and Business Intelligence capabilities. Called Bluenog ICE, they claim it's the first of its kind. We aren't so sure its the first, but it certainly caught our attention.

Intranet search is appalling because people don't want their content to get found, and the organization does not value the importance of finding.

The first step in creating a genuinely useful intranet is to ban the intranet team from using the word "information".

BEA, a leader in enterprise infrastructure software, has harnessed the powerful forces of the sea, resulting in the new BEA AquaLogic User Interaction Suite. It promises to help organizations roll with the power of the changing IT landscape, notably, the recent popularity of SOA, by driving new modes of collaboration, and improving productivity and participation.

We all know that SharePoint (MOSS) is being heavily used for basic document management and collaboration services. We also know that the software is often deployed in an environment where it must be integrated with other technologies like content management systems and portals -- why else would so many Enterprise CMS vendors cooking-up nifty connectors and building repository bridges?

The message is clear: Knowledge workers the world over are putting a lot of digital stuff into MOSS and if your tech can't talk MOSS, you're liable to be left out in the cold.

Every week, it seems, there's a big announcement from Alfresco. Last week 2.9 came out, offering integration with iGoogle and Adobe Flex.

A little bit before that, the company released a cheeky Facebook hookup that turned heads. And in between announcements, Alfresco has been boasting to anyone who'll listen about how great the product is, ragging mercilessly on Sharepoint, and generally acting like drunken cowboys in a frontier saloon.

The theory of intranet personalization is wonderful. The practice is generally woeful: hugely expensive implementations that totally fail; massive maintenance overheads and very little employee uptake.

Open source stalwart and Red Hat favorite JBoss officially announces the JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform with the release of an updated version of its foundation application: JBoss Portal 2.6.

Following through on an alliance announced in October, EMC has released two new products to facilitate integration of EMC Documentum with Microsoft SharePoint.

IBM recently announced plans to bring some nifty Google Gadgetry into their rather stodgy sounding commercial portal software. Free to WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Portal Express v6.0+ users, customers will now have the ability to create, customize and use Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with Google Gadgets directly from within Portal framework.

Stellent, Inc. today announced the release of the Stellent Content Portlet Suite. The Content Portlet Suite is designed to enable portal developers to provide access to Stellent Universal Content Management services, such as check-in, workflow and search, via JSR-168 compliant portal servers such as BEA, WebSphere, Plumtree, and Sun Enterprise Server.

"Content Portlet Suite supports content requests from portals in real-time, directly from the content management system, through JSR 168 portlets," said Dan Ryan, executive vice president of marketing and business development for Stellent.