Building off its legacy digital asset management (DAM) expertise, Northplains, a provider of content lifecycle management solutions for marketers, announced the general availability of NorthplainsNEXT. NorthplainsNEXT is a comprehensive, cloud-based content lifecycle management platform that goes beyond traditional DAM solutions and serves as the new enterprise-wide hub for digital asset creation, workflow design, collaboration, approvals, storage, distribution, compliance, security, and measurement.
Posted Jun 13, 2017
Longwood Software, Inc., developers of the RevBase software-as-a-service (SaaS) marketing asset management (MAM) system and the ForFile large file transfer service, announces that RevBase customers now have new options - including QR Codes and native language zones - for accessing documents managed within RevBase.
Posted May 30, 2017
Cloudwords, a software provider for global content localization, announced the availability of Cloudwords for Drupal 8, which it says is a faster, easier solution for enterprise organizations to create, deliver, and manage multilingual Drupal websites. Cloudwords' integration for Drupal 8 delivers a fully automated workflow to accelerate the process of translating Drupal websites and digital content for global markets.
Posted May 23, 2017
In the beginning, there was the word. It wasn't content managed. There was no HTML. There were no templates, no workflows, and no CMSs. Things were easy. But then there was a paragraph, a heading; there were links, images, and interactive content. Before long, things got complicated. Updating words, webpages, and websites became hard work.
Posted May 22, 2017
Progress announced the release of Progress Sitefinity 10, the latest edition of its web content management system, popular for its ease-of-use and rapid time to delivery. With the release, Progress delivers new user authentication and security capabilities making social authentication on websites a capability available to any organization.
Posted May 09, 2017
According to SiriusDecisions, 63% of sales reps fail to achieve quota due to improper training or the inability to find and use relevant content. Seismic, an enterprise-grade sales enablement solution, and sales readiness solution MindTickle announced a technology partnership that will attack both issues.
Posted May 04, 2017
During its annual customer experience conference C3, Clarabridge, Inc., a provider of Customer Experience Management (CEM) solutions, announced CX Revolution—a vision to empower brands with the necessary tools to integrate data-driven customer experience into the fabric of every business. Driving a CX Revolution ensures a universal focus on customer experience across all levels of the organization.
Posted May 04, 2017
DNN Software announced an assortment of new channels in Liquid Content, the omnichannel publishing system central to its Evoq CMS. With the general availability of Evoq 9.1, Liquid Content says it can seamlessly publish to devices such as Amazon Echo, and applications such as Facebook Messenger, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Posted Apr 27, 2017
Searchmetrics launched an agile content development platform. The Searchmetrics Content Experience is a pathfinding solution that lets writers create content optimized to reach their target group and stand atop search page rankings. Marketers can quickly optimize content production by identifying the right topics to create online content that resonates with current and potential customers.
Posted Apr 27, 2017
Over the last decade, we've seen traditional Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions evolve from simple document management and content storage repositories to more complex business process management and content collection systems - frequently via acquired technologies. This "Jack of all trades" approach, however, leads to a common problem: they do everything okay, but nothing extraordinary.
Posted Apr 19, 2017
Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. (DCL) and the Center for Information Development Management (CIDM), have released the results of the 5th annual "Following the Trends - Is Your Content Ready?" survey, and the results show, among many other insights, that a surprising 51% of those polled responded "No," that their content is not ready - a 21% increase over last year.
Posted Apr 18, 2017
Widen Enterprises unveiled Portals, a new way to share and track content stored in Widen Collective, the company's flagship digital asset management (DAM) system. Portals enable marketers to curate sets of assets for dealers, franchisees, agencies, and other partners who tell their brand stories.
Posted Mar 28, 2017
Many web CMS vendors and open source communities describe their web content management (WCM) systems as enterprise. But what does enterprise mean in this context? Are there web CMSs out there that are not enterprise? Does it even matter? Is it beneficial for organizations to invest in an enterprise web CMS, or is it just a fancy marketing buzzword that carries little meaning?
Posted Mar 27, 2017
According to an announcement on Oracle's website, it had "entered into an agreement to acquire the next generation Infinity big data platform assets from Webtrends and make the solution part of the Oracle Marketing Cloud. The Infinity offering allows businesses to see the complete picture of how customers interact with their brand across any digital channel, at any time, and in one place.
Posted Mar 16, 2017
Xillio, provider of the Content ETL platform, now supports integration with and migration to cloud storage applications with the newly developed connectors for Box and Dropbox, allowing users to access content from the various enterprise content sources via Dropbox or Box.
Posted Mar 02, 2017
Thanks to its unique ability to tell stories, content is every brand's weapon in the battle to deliver differentiated customer experiences that capture and convert. As brands start to recognize the value of content-driven ecommerce experiences, there's never been a greater need for web content management systems and ecommerce solutions to move closer together into a seamless workflow.
Posted Mar 01, 2017
Brainshark, Inc. and Highspot, Inc. announced the availability of their integrated sales enablement solutions to help organizations improve sales productivity. The partnership provides seamless connections between Brainshark's application for rep onboarding and sales training, and Highspot's platform for sales content management, customer engagement and analytics.
Posted Feb 28, 2017
IXIASOFT, a provider in the Component Content Management Systems (CCMS) marketplace, announced the availability of a new web platform which extends the reach of DITA CMS to non-technical writers.
Posted Feb 23, 2017
Rainmaker Digital is introducing what it calls an "innovative hybrid solution." StudioPress Sites includes 20 mobile-optimized HTML5 designs, powered by the Genesis Framework.
Posted Feb 09, 2017
What do you know about the content currently living on your website? Do freelancers create it or is it produced in-house? Who handles its management? Who edits and proofreads the content? A content audit is the answer to all these questions.
Posted Feb 08, 2017
Bynder, a digital asset management solution, announced it has joined the Salesforce Partner Program in support of Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Commerce Cloud enables brands to provide personalized experiences for shoppers that span web, mobile, social, and in-store. And now, as part Salesforce, brands can deliver completely unified experiences for customers that extend beyond commerce to include marketing, customer service and more.
Posted Jan 26, 2017
MadCap Software, Inc., a provider of multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft Visual Studio, announced the launch of MadCap Central, a cloud-based platform for content and project management designed specifically for the documentation industry.
Posted Jan 24, 2017
The dynamics of the web content management (WCM) software market changed in 2016. Experts say that customers are increasingly seeking best-of-breed solutions that play well with the rest of their infrastructure. Additionally, many feel as if they overbought WCM packages that can do a lot, but are complicated to learn and use.
Posted Jan 16, 2017