IHS Markit, similar to many global enterprises, found itself with the challenge of connecting 5,000 analysts, data scientists, financial experts, and industry specialists across the globe. Because the company had grown mostly by acquisitions, it had many different offices using any number of disparate production processes. It was clear the company needed an efficient, uniform way to create content, often across borders.
Posted Jul 24, 2017
Extensis, a provider of digital asset management and font management solutions, announced the availability of Extensis Portfolio 2017, which it describes as the industry's most usable, flexible, and supported digital asset management solution for organizations and workgroups of all sizes.
Posted Jul 20, 2017
DALIM SOFTWARE, makers of efficient, scalable software solutions for the creation, production and management of cross-media content, announces that DALIM ES has received 10 Core Certification by former principals of the DAM Foundation Board.
Posted Jul 18, 2017
Managing badly structured web content is hard. When content authors are stuck with an unusable editorial interface or with content types that don't make sense, they start working around the CMS. At some point, there are so many workarounds that training and documentation become confusing too, resulting in a desperately reactive approach to web content management (WCM). Content modeling—when done right—is meant to prevent this mess from appearing in the first place. It is about organizing content in meaningful ways, so that there's a place for everything in your digital home.
Posted Jul 17, 2017
Provider of media management solutions, Cloudinary announced it has joined forces with WebPagetest to deliver more detailed insights into how images impact a website's load speed. Cloudinary will provide measurable and actionable information about how to go beyond simple compression to optimize web performance.
Posted Jun 22, 2017
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